Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-25

things, its meanings and sentiments.
There was reason in the quaker choosing
gray; it is quiet and subdued, hence the
woman whose locks old Time has tOyed
with wears it becomingly. She finds it
consonant with the feelings that attend
later life, ana when fashion DEGREES it to
be the color for all, the light-hearted
young girl feels that she must give to
her toilette flash of red or pink to
tighten the sweet gravity it induces.
Red is gorgeous and carries with it an
expression of Joy. II seems emblematic
of triumph, of magniiicence, and one
would as soon expect Ii redbird to cease
his glad paeans and coo i'll the soft minor
of the gray clad dove as to see a woman
bright in this gayest Of coIors wear the
softened look of a sanity maiden.
The OrientaIs love yellow. The warm
tones of their rich OrOCades seem i'm
prisoned sunbeams. They speak OF a
glowing nature of people of passion
who find in this color reflex from the
fires that are burning within, a color
that alike gives softer hue to the cheek
of the brunette and lends glints of gold
to the entangling curls of the blonde.
Blue is the color of purity, borrowed
from the skies, It lends itself to refine
ture's own, is suggestive of GOODNESS and
chasteness. One feels that Dian herself
was arrayed in garments that caught
their tint from the tender buds, the
opening leaf and the springing moss
that her sandaled feet so lightly pressed.
Black, somber as m-lighted chapel
where requiemS are chanted, like sOr-
row, associates itself with all ages and
seasons, but feminine taste has learned
to brighten it with red, white and with
gold, and maid and matrOn feel
that as the somber hue
only forms background for
these bright accessories, it can be worn
with unquestioned appropriateness.
The new colOrs for autumn as an
nounced, are said to be very handsome.
OF course, the primary seven form a
basis, but each season the dealers see to
it that there is change enough to render
the shades of the year before passe.
Green and gray shades are to remain an
other season; emerald green is to be used
in combination with poppy red, and our
fair readers need not be startled if they
should see fashionable woman arrayed
i'll a black silk dress, an emerald green
velvet cloak and . bonnet trimmed with
red Brunettes will favor red tones rs
the variety extends from the vivid poppy
to the dull Bordeaux.
IODIsEEs DIFFER.
Learned professors of the art of heal
ing have become proverbial for their diff
ferences in opinion, and there
is ample justification for those
who strive to cater to woman 5
caprices, or indulging in contrary opin-
ions and endeavoring to enstamp their
individual preferences upon prevailing
costumes; hence, there is show of rea
son for the reported war to the knife be-
tween two leading modistes in New York
One has risen in rebellion against the
straight skirts, short waists and full
sleeves, and announced her determine
ton to return to the ample skirt, with
its voluminous draperies, its elaborate
frilling, putting and general furbelOw-
ing. The other, with equal firmness,
declares her intention to continue
sending out through the fall and winter
what her rival is pleased to term
the servant girl costume. AS these
two dressmakers have sole charge of the
wardrobes of some of New York IS most
stylish women, the contest is Interesting
to fashionable circles. Much can be said
on both sides, While 1t cannot be denied
that the elaborate draperies are extreme
" becoming on many figures on which