St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-31
MIDWINTER MUFFLING
Devices in Garments Both Warm and Beau
tiful for Cold Weather Described
by Clara Belle.
Unpleasant Misbap Which Befell Young
Man Who Tried to Steal Kiss
During aSleigh Ride.
Furs From All Sorts of Animals FASH
toned Into All Kinds of Wraps
of Beauty and Utility.
Exasperating Experience of the
Maiden Who Was Ambitious to
Learn Snowslrocing.

Maiden Who Was Ambitious to
Learn Snowslrocing.
New York Letter: What difference
the cold weather does make in the looks
of the girls, to be sure! Sometimes
it is Improvement, and then again it
is a frightful detriment | have seen
a dear creature on whom chill can
make no bad visible impression. She was
wrapped in a semblance of warmth, no
matter what the cold fact may have been
as to the shivers running down her spinal
column. There was fur on her hat and
around her neck. Her cloak had rough
surface and furry edges. Her hair matched
her low forehead amply. Besides, for
some unexplained reason, the redness in
her face suggested the glow Of heat rather
than the GOODNESS that actually caused 1t.
When / met her in the street looking that
way we kissed each other. for she is a
friend of mine, and l jumped back as her
rosy nose touched my face. just as though
an unexpected toad had hoped onto me.
1T SEEMED so STRANGE
that any thing about her should have such
a low temperature. Half an hour later L
encountered the other sort of wintry girl.
a
as tailor-made garments could render them.
She carried a light umbrella, so closely
rolled that it looked like sword, and her
carriage was stiff as frozen grenadier.
Her almost white blonde hair was like over
hanging snow. Her face was just about
the same color as the first One's-no redder
at the point of the nose, and yet her visage
looked forty below zero, while the other
had suggested tOIridity. We kissed, and,
truly, l was prepared to feel as though a
little chunk of ice had nipped me, but she
was hardly as cold as my apparently warm
friend. Even if she had not worn the plain,
mannish, untrimmed suit-fashionable, too
there was something naturally about her
indicative of discomfort on account of the
weather.
We fifth avenue girls have been scatter
ing in all directions to make the most of
snow by sleighlng, tObogganing and snow
shoeing. The most amusing moment have
enjoyed during it all was one night when
we were out on a straw sleigh-ride. There
was loving couple abos I'd, in closer quar-
tiers than even the size of the vehicle and
the number of the party necessitated. The
moonlight was bright, and they had to do
their loving mostly with their eyes, until
we struck
INTO A DEEP GORGE,
where it became suddenly as pitch dark as a
cave. Then there was slight cOmmotion,
and curious CALCULATIONS, all accredited by
the rest of us to hasty kiss OH the part of
the sweetheartS. / looked at them as soon
as 1 could, and was surprised to see piece
of skin gone from the chaps lips. He had
to hold handkerchief to it for awhile, in
order to hide the blood that started.
''What on earth was the matter with
him?" l afterward asked the girl. ''Did
you bite him?"
mo, no." she frankly replied, ST had
kept my mouth open good deal, you see,
of my false teeth. When he smacked me
impulsively his lip came into accidental
contact with the frosty plate and stuck to
it just as the bOys's tongue does to the cold
lamp-post when he lets his playfellows
work the old trick on him. OF course, Jim
had to get loose somehow before we got
back into the moonlight, If he lost his
whole lip"
Well, fashionable women were never
more warmly clad. The use of fur as trim
mings and as wraps was never so general.
Even at recent fashionable wedding the
bridesmaids dresses of white brocaded satin
had deep bands of Russian sable on the
skirts, satin fchus passed high around the
neck and crossed to the left of the bodice,
and their small bonnets of white velvet had
borders of the rich fur on the brim and
have a tall, slightly tapering, square
crown, covered with Astrakhan or
Persian lambskin, and a medium wide,
closely turned up brim, covered with fur
or velvet; and less
COSTLY HATS
of the same shape have the smooth felt
crown, with the brim of imitation Astra-
khan fur in wool. Elegant bonnets of me-
dinm size have the brim and facing of seal
skin, natural plucked otter and beaver furs;
while seal skin, black and gray Astrakhan
and Persian chinchilla and other suitable
furS are made up in combination with red
velvet, and the gray and the black furs are
much used on the fashionable lead and
SphynX grays. Sealskin hats appear in the
Russian and Hungarian turbans English
walking hats of medium size and other
available shapes, and in the small bonnets;
and sagacious ladies are utilizing the least
damaged portions of old jackets. muffs and
capes for the making of the fur hat or bon
net. Sealskin turbanS are generally
untrimmed, or at the most the trim
ming is very simple, consisting of a
split bird, several wings or a fancy
feather monture. The trimming of the hats
of other shapes conforms to the prevailing
style of felt and stockinet hats, an upright
monture of fancy feathers being massed in
front, or little to the left of the front, and
fne crown with or without surrounding of
drapery, as may best be suited to the shape.
A fancy in trimming is to lay a band or
drapery of the fur around the crown of the
turban and supplement it with the head of
the animal from which the fur comes. A
black Astrakhan hat has drapery of the fur
wound around the crown, with lambs
head posed little to the left of the front
Although sealskin turbans are generally of
the standard plain round Hungarian shape,
wholly destitute of trimming, seal-skin is
made up in all the styles that
FANCY MAY SUGGEST.
The fur bonnets are of the shapes of the
larger sizes, though there are tiny creations
of which the fur has part One for a
matron has the Charlotte Corday cap-crown
of boucle plush, with a small pointed poke
brim of natural plucked otter. The head of
sable sustaining monture of several
soft, short, nOdding ostrich tips is posed on
the top, and there are no strings. A small
PrincesSe bonnet has the crown of poppy
red plush, a bow of Satin-lined black velvet
ribbon on the top and RIBBON strings ana a
small bonnet, with muff and collar to match,
has draped crown of black velvet. with
the brim of black astrakhan, trimmed with
bow on the top, and strings of rich purl-
edged satin ribbon. The fur bonnets and
the fur-trimmed bonnets are intended
particularly for street wear. Fur is seldom
seen on bonnets worn at fashionable private
receptions or in toilets worn at places of
amusement.
Long fur bods are revived suddenly, and
are seen in all the dark long-heeced furs.
such as black fox. black marten, silver fox.