Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-28
TOWN AIRS AND GRACES.
Shirley Dare on Midsummer Fashions
from a BOstOnian Standpoint.
New England Country Life-Poems in New
Midsummer BOnnets-Dainty Blouses.
New Cosmetic Hints.
lCopyrighted.

reach of the cool airs of the New Eng
land coast, away from depressing city
smells and heat, its ceaseiess roar and
sieepIessness. Instead to breathe the
bayberry spice and dew of the sea, to
feel the sunshine without Infection,
after months of weary wakefulness to
feel sleep descend on ones eyelids with
the wings of dusk, and to open them at
daybreak with a smile at the pleasure
of the air, is the beginning of new
life, is the only thing worth calling life.
Before a vacation of travel and sight
seeing it is well TO take such rest. con-
genial and entire, though it might not be
to every one s taste to take it in an empty
house and tangled garden, all sole alone,
as l am doing. 1t is a sort OF ''retreat, -
as the Catholics take it, for the good of
body and spirit, in solitude, silence and
rest. The long country house parlOr,
with the colonial desk and cabinet and
old tables, from the heavy walnut wood
with twisted supports, dating from the
days Of Queen Bess, full as it can
hold with home and foreign journals, the
quaint card table with four large draw
ers which serve so well for slowing away
notes or daily reading and old manu-
script, the large round table, second in
size to but one dining table in New York,
that of Mrs. Bertha Duncan, famous for
its good sheer. This one is now spread
with newspapers and magazines from
London and Paris to St. Louis and San
Francisco. For. if one coffee be soli-
tary, nothing forbids having
review 20 breakfast a Cos
sipy society magazine, or a scien-
tific monthly, as ones taste happens to
ran. The truth is, in people s writings
you get the best of them, without the
dregs. The days pass quicl-footed in
the busy rest OF a writer like the days
spent by Daudet III his house of the wind
mill III the thyme-scented provincial
wilderness. Ny wild nook, however, is
not so far but | could spend yesterday
among the shops and fashions of Boston.
Perhaps you don't know that Boston
pTides itself a trifle on its taste in dress,
that it imports styles direct from
fine makers abroad, and New York i'm
porters have told me that their choicest
things are seized directly by Boston buy
ers without a chance to open them in the
big city. 1t always used to be a treat to
run up from New York and see the fine
taste of things in Boston shops, and |
know you can buy the best millinery for
dollars less than any other city. They
do tell me kid gloves are cheaper in Chi
cagO than anywhere else, but outfits in
the better class of goods are lower in
price in Boston, if you know where to go
for them.
A stylish hat, such as viii cost $40 on
Twenty stress, and a private
modiste would feel disgraced to ask less
than Sl7 for in New York, was offered
for s. at one of the best milliner S on
street, and neither material
nor work could be criticised. Shoes and
fine gloves are cheaper and better III BOs-
ton, and I notice Western ladies find sat
III buying unset gems here and
having them mounted in artistic devices.
They say You get very good taste without
having to pay Union square prices for it.
Get taste? Of course you do. Ism t
It in the air, under the very nose of Park !
street steeple, brought out in q dozen
and anxious COLLEGES,
preached in puIpits and deified at Har- !
yard-that is, LII. d. 'ified.
The midsummer bOnnets by the way,
are mostly hats, sailor hats in white |
straw ana white felt for girls, and the |
new spoon bills or poke hats for women |
French pokes are very low and small in /
the crown with a broad fat brim shadin Q |
-he face perfectly, but cut close to the |
sides, which takes away the cumbrOus |
OOk of a vide round hat, and IS more |
iressy for the watering place pier or the |
casino. Pine MANILA pokes, white, ecru /
II black, are So uutTimmed. The !
Jrim is faced III crepe, net or fish net |
,ver thin silk, the material coming
beyond the edge, or a narrow lace edging
ewed under the bTm finish. The trim
ming is usually . scarf of bOTdered
rape, black, azure or poppy red, or the
lew brilliant aZaIea red, or black net,
With narrow lace edge, or white washing
let of clear, course rush, not fishnet,
which last is much used ia commoner
lats. The scarf or TibbOnIS tied in two
aTge butterfly bows in front, that is
lows standing out a little, not like the
neck Alsatian or Black %Forest peasant
low seen on some small bOnnets and |
opted from one of, the photographs
e last springs Vienna tragedy, where
he jealous court beauty figures in fancy
Tess with this great velvet bow on her
lead. 1t is stylish for small heads with
traiSht features, which require a close
Still, the butterfly or winged
lows are DGtOulluE III most cases ana
most worn. The double standing bow of
auze in front, with one long end of
carf brought round and pinned care
essly on the left shoulder, gives a pleas
ne, summary effect, after the tall,
hats piled with flowers, worn
yer, bare throats, with nursery
Tills by way of collars. It is an
gly. sight, these naked necES, rising
sem ungracefuI frills copied froTh,a most'It
owdy period Of English fashions A /
lir throat rising from the guard of an
standing ruff of lace is
rtistic ana beautiful, and a frock cut
ower'- IN the back of the neck than in
-GRt almost, shows the ugliest line in !
oman kS,Reck, and the ugliest women
re, possessed TO wear If. The high
Il cesSaE win always be favored by I
0npSSt .sEho understand how to dress.
pTOt6ctss n good throat and keeps it T
aiT and fresh late life, 10 be shown
OCCASIONALLY in evening dress. The
nest modistes assert their claim TO be
nCwn rs artists by announcing that they
i'll copy hats from old portraits,
/ any style, and ''picture hats as
icy are called, add greatly to the va
ETY. of fashions abroad. One may see
ne very felt and plumes of q Sir Joshua
eynolds portrait on the head of its own
ceat granddaughter, or the simpering
IepherdeSS in the yellow leghOrn and
ale pink satin ribbons with .streamers n
ara and half long. at garden marty 1 {