St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-19

at the rail in a neater, nicer costume than
the one she wore. and my escort scarcely
looked at me. so intent was he with his spy
glass on the race. The race days were oc-
casions of MISREPRESENTATION singulariy
enough. All the crack steam yachts were
out laden with very fashionable people.
There was a great diversity of opinion as
10 appropriate costumes, but, as the
weather was clear at the outset, the women
generally put on their finest new Septem-
Der hats and bOnnetS. They made de-
lghtful sight.
THE FEATHERS
were of about all the plumage OF all the
birds now devoted to millinery garniture,
embracing exquisite conceitS in which
head and wisp of the tail or the wing of
a bird paradise were combined with the
breast of a velvet East Indian rifle bird, or
perhaps with bit of the plumage of the
Impeyan pheasant, the golden pheasant OF
China. or of that of some other bird of
equally brilliant plumage; charming cOnceitS
in which the downy plumage of the owl is
combined with feathers of rich colOrS; mon
lures in which the bronze merle in its
natural Itch dark green metallic hue. or de-
grade. is combined with plumage OF lively
color, gray or ecru, and finished with an
aigrette of heron feathers OF Wisp OF the
plumage of a bird-Of-paradiSe; mod
esty beautiful combinations of the
dark gray gOura. or queens pigeon, With
plumage of pale gray and white, and end
less fancies, combining brown and ecru or
pale straw-colored feathers with notified
brown and gray feathers, made up with a
touch of natural or dyed red feathers, and
mayhap with the head of cardinal bird or
bronze merle. The feather bonnets showed
millinet frames with an outstretched wing
on each side. and small mOnture finished
with an aigrette posed OIL the top, the de-
sign suggesting velvet drapery to extend
from the brim to the base of the crown.
The feather finished bOnnets were frames
with a cleft brim, the brim formed of full
ruche of feathers, shading from dark to
male tone of the color employed. The
tflistle-lille pompons of cut feathers with a
little tip of velvet of the tiueS and rucheS or
bands made in like manner on the DrImS OF
bonnets The ribbons that
FLUTTERED IN THE BREEZE
were varied and unusually interesting.
They comprised gros-grain and faille-Fran-
caise textures, plain velyets and satlns, with
several fancy manufactures. and showed
plain. fringed and scallOp-fringed edges !;
picot edges of single and double cord loops;
feather, tasSeled and purl edges. Notlcea-
bic in the garnitures were the montures of
fancy feathers finished with wisp of bird
of-paradise feathers, while there are mon
lures of all descriptions. birds wings, and
stuffed birds of all varieties admissible upon
bonnets and hatS-large, softly-Stutfed birds
being feature of the hat-trimming. Con-
tinual popularity was assured for jets in
millinery materials, trimmings and orna-
ments of the season. There was charming
assortment of combs. pins with large ball and
nail heads, pins with ball heads covered
with string beads, and other fancies in
yerification of the existing styles. Besides,
there were pins with wooden dogs and
birds hea,s heads Stimulating the feet of
small amir a ! and almost numberless con-
c,its in ornaments of this peculiar kind.
s, nne eccentric hats were made OF the
rough coat of the pine-coneS, and they