St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-04

a new kind of nipper. something
like paper clip cut out In renaissance
scroll. Ozark. appropriate toilettes" are
requested on invitations sent out by certain
fastidious members Of the New Y DIRK coach
Ing club. The name given to new-fangled
cloth bag which girls now carry slung over
their shoulders is the Ragpicker. 1t is all
very well in itself and holds quantities Of
traps, but it gives the dear creatures lop-
sided look that is detrimental to their pert
spring costumes. Besides. one expects
to see the chiffoniers hook stick
Ing out somewhere. Very quaint
colors are contrasted in the India silk
drefses arranged for the summer, such as
blue-gray over cardinal red surah. or fawn
color over peacock blue, or ecru over scar
let or poppy red. The figured silk is used
Tor the basque and drapery; thus lawn
colored silk with three intertwined part Of
leaves in chiniz colors is arranged on a
loosely plated skirt Of the peacock blue
India silk. Coffee beans are the latest
novelty for decorations on all sorts of sill
verWare and bijouterie. If you see spoon
with circular bowl and straight handle,
ana rest for thumb and finger in the form
OF coffee bean in ebony, you will under
derstand it is the
MOST APPROVED COFFEE SPOON
admitted to good society. Tulle bonnets
are the choice for summer dress bonnets.
Black. white and scarlet are the colors
most used, and there is special fashion
for brown tulle bonnets because this color
goes well with many others that are used
in the season. l hear threats OF revival
| OF Bloomerism by fashionable girls in the
| mountains this summer. The Bloomer
costume was invented about forty years
ago. 1t consisted of short skirt Just
reaching below the knees jacket and
1ull Turkish trousers or long trousers
like mans. 1t was never in fashion,
though adopted by few advanced thinkers
among the advocates OF woman's suffrage
lGwas considered indicate but,English and
european people wear much more mascu-
line and less modest costume now in the
popular hunting suit adopted by Russian
and English women when pursuing field
sports with gentlemen on foot. The sea-
SIDE bathing suit is another instance
OF masculine. costume made correct
by plalds and checks of English cloth-are
most used for ulSters that may be worn over
| any dress and thus transform it into trav-
cling toilet. These listers are very close
| lifted single breasted, with fullness plated
IN at the Walstline in the back, and are
long enough to conceal the entire dress A
shoulder-cape reaching nearly to the elbows.
or else silk-lined hood, completes
this useful wrap. A man who
| wishes to give girl some token
OF appreciation for small favor may
like to know what gift is suitable under the
circumstances, both parties being rich.
Flowers always and ever. as they carry no
sense OF obligation with them, are the only
| social currency permissible. Let them
cost whatever your taste and reason dictate,
but If something very choice is required, a
bouquet of select orchids will get away
with as much hard cash as a silver service
! Or pair of Sevres vases. Such posy
would be received with pleasure by the
most fastidiOuS of her sex.
IF THE PRESIDENT KNEW
All the possibilities of marriage, I wonder
whether he would not have remained sim
gle. [ keep discovering, by exterior or OBJ
servation. startling consequences of wed
lock, until begin to wonder where they
will end. or if they will ever end. For in
stance, there is my friend Mrs. Bronson
Jones. who. as CIothilde NJ, used to be one
OF the sweetest and daintest and modestest
OF young girls. l called on her in the Bron-
SOMEONE'S mansion, in Forty-second street,
and took luncheon with her. AS we sat
together in her sewing room late in the day,
| asked her what the sealnstress was MAX
ing for her.
"a bathing dress" said she.
ga bathing-what?" I exclaimed, think
ing she might have meant to say a towel; a
waist, or any other little thing connected
with the bath.
''Dress-a bathing-dres for this summer
at Narragansett Pier" she said, in an
awfully matter-of-fact way. can assure
you.
"Oh, yes, 1 see,' said I, sits for a
child"
How cutely cutting you are" said
Clothlde. archly; but you shan't moralize
over me in that fashion. This is bathing
dress thatI am going to wear, and very
pretty it is, in my opinion" Then she
held it up and l saw through it. Of
course. l don't mean that it was thin or
transparent enough to see through, but
saw through the scheme of it, the idea on
which it was based. 1t looked like an alb
brevation of the famous chemloon that
the reformers are always trying to intro
duce. only there was almost no ''chemi" to
it and precious little LOON" The neck
band was meant to cross the body at the
shoulders, but was made with heavy sag
toward the middle so that it almost reached
to the waistband which in turn was so high
as to come just below the armpirs. The
rest Of
TIE REMARKABLE INsTITIoN
was the loon" part. It was made of
navy-bue flannel, with pretty little light
blue bow-knOts at the arm-holes and aper-
lures for the legs If huttOnad at the hoo-