The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-27
FASHIONABLE SILKS.
Varieties Suited for Elegant DemI-seasor
ToIlettes

Varieties Suited for Elegant DemI-seaso1
ToIlettes
Silks are being very largely used for
making mp dressy toiiettes to be worn
at afternoon receptions and when pay
ing formal visits. For the demi-season
the entire dress will be of any of the
repped silks. Bengsline, faille fran
eaise, gros grain or moire. whether of
plain color, or shaded in two or three
tones, or glace, or in stripes partly
plain. partly twiIled or watered, or else
in the plain brocades Of the last CEN
tury. with small woven flowers, or the
more modern designs with velvet vines.
balls, or bars As the season advances
to summer, the simple taffetas of a
generation ago will be revived. with
their plain lustrous surface showing
stripes, or else glace, or in large plaids
of the gayest colors together. or single
color with white. The silk surahs are
also to be worn again in plain colors,
in crossbars. in stripes. and with blocks
or balls strewn over them. Sometimes
a striped silk will be combined with
plain repped silk Of the color in the
stripe, white or Suede tints being most
often alternated with the colored
stripes. The plain silk will be used for
the front and back of the skirt, while
the stripes appear on the sides;
the basque of the plain color will have
bias side forms of stripes in front, or a
girdle giving that effect with a strip I'd
vest, revers and collar. This is prettily
illustrated in myrtle green faille COM
bined with green and Suede-colored
striped faille. The skirt has four plaits
down the front (two each side meeting
in the middle) of plain green faille.
while the back has three straight
breadths of the same. with their sides
faced with the striped silk turned over
in jabot shells. Two striped breadths
of silk form drapery on each side next
the plain front; these are plated in fine
plaits at top TO the belt. falling straight
to the foot and the side is then rounded
up high on the tournure, and caught in
cluster of plaits next the plain green
back breadths. The space left uncov-
cred below the curved part in the sides
OF the skirt has two gathered breadths
falling to the foot from under the curved
part. and these are cut in sharp points
at the edges and faced. This design
may also be prettily carried out in moire
and plain silk, using the moire in front
and back, and the plain repped silk on
the sides. Sometimes the lower part
on the sides of the skirt is drawn on
cords and slightly puffed at the top.
with perhaps the standing ruffle of
doubled silk. For summer taffetas and
checked silks skirts made in this way
will have pinked edges on the sides. or
there may be series of pinked flounces
set there. Hdrper's BGzGr.
1t is somewhat singular fact that
of all the Christian nations the United
States of America are alone repre-
sented by Protestant Christian mis-
sions in Persia
The total number of chapels and
| preaching stations in England and
Wales in connection with the Welsh
Presbyterian church, commonly called
Calvanistic Methodists. is 1, 1874
Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, rector
| of Ashill, Norfolk, is the oldest clergy
man in England He has Just COM
pleted his one hundredth year. and has
been rector Of Ashill seventy-five
| years. 49,