Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-08-16

which Japanese artists render SO perfectly;
or suppose again it is one of the new wash
silks, with a commercial design. Buy
porcelain buttons and tint the ground of
them to correspond with the stuff they are
going on. Then copy a spray of the
flower or a whorl of the scroll for the pat
tern, and you match as slnartly as
it silk and buttons had been made
to order at great cost from
your own drawings. Or if you
are quite ttadvancedn you may take q
silk or thin wool fabric of subdued rather
than q pronounced pattern and give it
character by painting porcelain buttons
for it-you can buy them at any shop
which sells artists materials-in different
but haruonizing patterns. On one Shout
der a gallant in knee breeches and rutties
may bend before far lady, while on the
other ripple of water slips past an old
ruin. The pictured face Of Josephine or
Marie Antoinette may look out from the
pocket, while your monogram holds the
post Of honor on the other side. Odd but
tons, bizarre, mismated, are quite the
fashion, the more motley the merrier, pro-
vlded they are the same size and shape and
do not wrangle in colors.
Large pearl buttons meet some favor
and those of flashing jet also. Some of
the finest sets seen in tho stores are in imi-
tation of pastel or miniature painting, the
large oval buttons set in gold or silver rims
showing the sweet, shadowy faces with
pink cheeks and smiling eyes, of the dead
beauties of the court of Napoleon rising
out of gray mists. For the green silks
and brocades which everybody wears come
hcquered buttons, showing vividly emer-
aid landscapes, red castles, and blue skies,
such as never bent above the earth out of
Already.
The yachting buttons are the biggest of
all. Red and blue veined onyx set in sill
YER make sauoers from two to three and
e.half inches Ia diameter for the water
gown. It looks rs If the button manufac-
turers would make their fortunes but
with all their ingenuity nothing will be
devised prettier and new things more ex-
pensive than the diamonds set in silver
with which handsome black satin which
walked up Fifth avenue was buttoned yes
terday afternoon.
summer, Oscar Wilde's Woman's World
uondon) contains the following:
In the outdoor dress in illustration the style
of the gown is we'll adapted for copying III any
cotton or light material the model from which
it was sketched had plain pink zephyr skirt,
tone, with white sp,igs There is q band about
the waist, and the polonaIse is cleverly caught
up at the side. The hat is white, with soft
pongee silk crown, encircled by a spray OF wild
white roses. 1t is becoming aud at the same
time picturesque. bent as it is into three van-
dykes above the face.
summer life. and it is essential that young
women shoala be provided with dresses appro-
pirate to the exigencies OF the game. l think
the one in QUE illustration is exactly suited for
such q purpose The material is striped fan
mel and there are number OF new and charn-
ing colorinss i'll the one selected The halfinc h
with a slight drapery on one side, sufficiently
short not to break the lines which are so be
coming to GRACEFUL figure. The bodice is a fnll
made very high and it is supplemented by q
Jacket with open front to be worn when it is need,
ed. 1t can be arranged in the same striped