St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-18

mauve tlnts; others cream and pure white,
and still others in black and gold and black
ana silver. These are much admired for
elderly ladies. To return to the scarfS.
Some are plain, simply fringed at the ends,
others are embroidered at the lower edge,
and some all over the surfaces.
The materials for these scarfs are
plain cashmere or Grape, woven
woods Of light texture with silk, embroider-
les or none; others for more dressY people
OF real China Grape or the French Grape,
almost as pretty, more effective. and not
| quite SO costly, while the colors vary to
suit every taste and age. Elderly ladies
and those who prefer black, even if still
young, are provided for with black ones,
plain or embroidered Poppy red, rose,
| blue, cherry, copper, bright yellow or Mi
kado, and dark red and. blue India shades.
and white and cream shades are chosen by
the young and those who love color.
whether old, middleaged or youthful. The
variety and beauty Of these exquisite pro-
auctions of our own and the foreign looms
Of France. England, Germany and China
are seen to perfection.
IT WAS JUST A WEE BIT FUNNY,
I'll admit Ito return to my bar-room esca-
pade), finding ourselves in big saloon in
front of that remarkable Constant picture,
and [ notice the girls said it was time to go
two minutes after we had slipped in. You
know the tale that the picture illustrates:
An Oriental prince has ordered the assaSsi-
nation of the four women of his harem.
and their pink corpses are strewn upon the
marble floor, while the EthiOpeS who have
murdered them and the january who has
seen the deed done stand by, waiting for
the dead wagon, or the arrival of their
master, or something. Ugh! | don't like
it at all, and l can't help looking at it. I'll
say this for it, though. that no one can say
it is demOraliZing to the young, OF any other
branch of that so-called stronger sex that
seems to be always getting demOraliZed and
in need of police interference to keep its
morality intact. Looking at dead bodies.
however feminine, cannot possibly harm
even that sex that is so eager for self dam
age.
We girls took to chattering of July mil
linery. In the trimming of the picturesque
shade and garden hat flowers new fancieS
have come out in artificial flowers, and the
manner in which they are used is novel. A
rope, or a great torsade or twist of artificial
grass of cord-like fiber now supplies that
place of the drapery or the ribbon band
around the crowns of many of the most
pleasing of the summer hats for watering
places and the country. the ends of the grass
forming stiff, pompous-like tufts in fsont,
or at the left of the front, supplemented by
a cluster of fine, many-petaled roses. most
frequently without foliage. One girl said
that she had model garden-hat of white
| rough braid, the broad, caprcious brim
faced with plated point d'esprit net, tor
SADIE of succulent looking grass and large,
| full, fresh pink roses, shading to red in the
center. forming the outside trimming. Arti-
fetal ribbon-grass,
FOLLOWING IN IDEA.
The ribbons of striped grass design, made
up in great punches of almost innumerable
loops, is a freak of the moment in artificial
| flowers, Another girl had imported from
Paris for a racingtoilet wide-brimmed hat
with high crown. These are of many
kinds. First of all there are the Rembrandt
hats, with brim sweeping over in a curve
Oh one side Then there are the Pamela
hats, slightly depressed at the ears, and
standing around the face in halo; these
are cut very short off at the back. Others
have straight, broad brim in front, which
narrows off on one side and grows very
wide at the other, ending in an angle which
is turned UP against the crown.
- CLARA BELLE.