St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-15

chews gum and smokes cigarets in private.
/ don't think 1 ever wished l was a man
half SO strongly as L did the other night at
Congress hall when | saw girl from Rich
mond in her ball dress waiting for the
music to strike up, with her great eyes
drinking in the beauty of the gay scene
around her. She had tall, wilowy figure,
done up in one of those new English cor
sets that bring your waist down even with
your hips and your bust up under your
chin. Her uncovered neck was
NOT LIKE ALABASTER,
as any male poet would have said, but it was
far prettler than alabaster, for it h ad faint
chocolate tlnge upon it. and her arms, barred
and as shapey as models. were also just
trifle smoked by the Virginia sun that had
bazed fercely upon so many generations of
her ancestors. Her dress was plain suit of
pink cashmere. unrelieved except by knife
plating round the bottom of her skirt below
her overdress. She had brilliants in her ears
and narrow band of black velvet around
her throat. l would have gone for her'
as Cousin Bob says, if | were man, with
out ever stopping to see whether she was
wise or witty OF as stupid as a hreside cat.
Indeed, in such case would not have de-
sisted If heard she was engaged. But
the men nearly all stood off because it was
rGmored that she was wealthy, and they
were afraid of being rebuffed.
Here are few desultory, but practical,
notes of seaShore fashions: Cream and
ecru tintS are as fashionable as ever, or
more so. Full waist-coats are almost in
varably of lace and thin goods of finer as
well as lighter texture than the material of
the dress. None but the very wide lace
flounces are used by the most fashionable
dressmakers. Then they are put on very
scant, forming the entire front breadth, and
sometimes the whole skirt from the hips
down, over and under-skirt # Surah, satin
rhadames, crepe de chine ply or plain
surfaced yelling, or canva woven stuff.
Even the cheap crazy cloth goods
ARE SOMETIMES MADE UP
In combination with these wide lace f1ounc-
iugS to form front breadths. tabIiers and
back draperieS The best protection for the
feet in bathing is provided for in the cork
soled Jersey cloth bathing stockings, that
are long and wide. and may be either CART
cred or fastened with clasps from the shout
ders. The stuff for tennis suit is more
frequently selected to please Individual
tase than with regard to the following of
any fashions. White stutfs. serges, fan
nels. canvas aud crazy cloths look pretty,
but they are SO easily solled that fashion
uulO Jouh3 ieediOo, anu pdi tlCuldlly tllOSO
who are expert at the game, prefer soft
grays. blues. and the light cheviot mixtures
that are at once pleasant to wear, becoming
and will retain their tidy appearance
through the season. Crepe de chine real
Canton Grape. India silk and light semi
diaphanous- silken stuffs are used for the
most fashionable and elegant garden party
dresses, but yelling, combined with piece
and flounce laces and made more effective
with panels of open-work embroidery, lace
edgings in cascades, jabols and frills, bows
knots and fots of ribbons are
IN HIGH FAVOR.
Crapy wool fabrics as light as yelling are
popular for the same use, and are similarly
made up Ribbons are used on all dressv
frockS wherever room can be found to place
them. White is most popular, or rather
cream white but delicate and even bright
shades of roses, shell pink carnatlon, blue
in many shades pale greens and heliotropes
and host Of medium tints are chosen for
garden party toilets A fashion in great
favor for girls suits is that of short,
jaunty, tailor-made basque of striped,
barred or dotted summer WOODEN goods of