Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

sets off her smiling face with small para |
sol-not over twenty-inch ribs-almost as
round as a ball. 1t reminds one OF moth
ing so much as an egg cut through the
middle. The ribs are covered with gauze
and over this is a piece of real lace, the
envy of every woman who sees it, held in
place by strips of cream-colored ribbon
running down the middle of each gore and
fiuttering top and bottom with ribbon
ends and bows. The more ribbon one can
put on parasol the better, so the summer
girl appears to think. A properly trimmed
article has big bunch of bows on the
stick just above the hand, another on the
top and nobody knows how many more
perched on the ribs and streaming down
into the lace founce that surrounds the
canopy.
THE JAPANESE AUREoLE.
The summer girl has something of
fancy for the japanese parasol. Not any
modified French or American article, but
the real Oriental thing. She makes an
aureole about her head and her fluffy hair
with It's many radiating spokes and in
vites the youth in blazer to an exchange
| of condolences under its broad, vari. colored
roof Possibly she is attempting a Jap
anese revival. An occasional fancy of
hers is the painted parasol, painted by her
own manicured fingers, often by an artist
of more pretensions sometimes. For this
| purpose she chooses a dark blue or green
! or red transparent silk and flowers it we'll
/ over with buttercups or forget-me-nots or
some fine, bright-hued posy. The most
elaborate article of this description are
striped, the summer girl rejoicing in sun
shade of three bars to each gore, one stripe
cream-colored, the next painted with
myrtle or cypress vines, and the third
scarlet or blue.
Powered parasols are not limited to
those which are painted. The prettiest
girl at Narragansett Pier has parasol of
white crepe with dozen realistic pond
lilies-art flowers-relieved by their great
green pads, twisted about its top Her
chief rival in the favor of the few and far
between young men is brunette, who ap-
peared on the scene of action some DAYS
since armed with black lace parasol
crowned with deep crimson and yellow
meadow lilies. Roses are not an infre-
quent addition to the parasol Of the girls
in Central Park. Yet more whimsical
than the flower parasols are those which
sport birds, these latter being genuine pro-
ducts of the extravagantly faddish mid
summer season. A dark green parasol
with a brilliant paroquet perched on the
very tip top of its stick passed up Broad
way few days ago and everybody turned
to see. Parasols with butterflies and
beetles creeping over them are as much
matters of course as the bandana parasol
THE PARAsoL HAT.
But the crown of summer absurdities i.
the parasol hat. 1t is the outcome of the
walking-stick within. 1t is English to carry
a light, silver-tipped walking-stick on al
ones promenades, and then how shall on,
handle ones parasol? The solution is easy
hat which is once hat and parasol Th,
frame Of silver wire with white null
shirred upon it, The bows of ribbon, tn,
spray of jingling wheat ears-these ar,
hats; the canopy projecting over the fore.
head, the wide flounce of lace hanging
!. about it and dropping over the eyes
these are parasols a sight to be gazeeC
upon is girl in parasol hat, her eye
twinkling through the flowing fringe which
is perhaps veil as well as parasol.
And what do parasols cost? They arr
bargain sales in the land just now at which
you can buy good one for 81 %. Severa
have been sold this season for upwards o
5000. One of these had a cover of rar,
point lace and handle of oxydized silve1
set with watch and jewelled. Its price
was 1858.