San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-09
FASHION NOTES.

A new and very rich material I'M
ported this autumn is fancy velvet
plaided orstriped upongrounds of lus-
trous and very elegant corded silk or
armure. This fabric appears in love-
ly evening tints Of lilac and cameo
pink, violet, and deep apricot yellow,
Nile green, and primrose, ETC., and
also in superb dark shades for dinner
and carriage gowns, to be combined
with plain faille or armure silk, moss
green and gold, dahlia and amber,
two distinct shades of terracotta cross
ed with bronze brown, peach color,
| and heliotrope, etc. Another hand
some novelty is India broche with
| Chine designs in velvet upon its mag
nificent surface, the patterns being
borrowed from ancient Oriental It's
sues.
Furriers say that beaver is to be
one of the very fashionable furs next
winter. 1t is a becoming fur, and
very amenable as a trimming for
gowns and wraps. The new fur pele-
rines are invariably made with a
high standing collar. Some of these
have ostrich feather trimmings in
side. The duchess of Fife in her 60
| q
long travelling cloak with band of
| feather trimming inside the collar.
This fluffy garniture is very light and
becoming around the face, being SOFT
er than either plush or fur. Some of
the stylish seal coats, modelled after
| the fashion of the natty theater jack
cts, have added to them, for evening
uses, wide band of pink ostrich
| feathers, to 90 around the neck in
side and down each of the fronts of
the coat, the lovely color just show
| ing at the edges, Stimulating feather
| lining.
The jacket of this autumn is not of
any fixed variety, for there are jackets
and jackets. French, Russian, Moor
ish, Spanish and italian, the latter
Of black velvet over vivid red silk
shirt waist embroidered in black silk
They are buttoned to the throat, or
open all the way down, they are plain
and severe in English tailor fashion,
or displaying many Partisan coque-
tries. They are long or short, single
or double brested, in fact, they are
anything that the wearer may fancy
from Roman red or deep blue "Reef-
err" or Polish neglige of striped
pilot cloth, to long, sombre "Carme-
lite" of gray or black, enveloping the
wearer from head to foot.
4 good way to freshen a favorite
round hat whose straw and ribbon
trimmings have become somewhat
faded by their exposure to the sum-
mer sunshine is to sponge the hat
with borax water and bit of CASTLE
soap to cleanse it thoroughly. When
dry, cover the brim with sprigged
net, either black or white. Shirr
this close to the crown, leaving the
ing, but not hiding, the straw be
when shirr again and secure. A
and a cluster of bright flowers will
ly new hat that will answer for rough.
and-ready wear until cold weather
headcovering is needed.
From Lewistown, Me-, comes the
intelligence that two young ladies
from Pennsylvania have rented an
old log cabin on the Cupsuptic lake
and have settled down to spend two
months alone in the wilderness
"They chop their own wood, catch
and eat their own fish, row their own
boat for miles and miles over the lakes
and seem as happy and cOntented as
can be-"
In the Grand View cemetary, oppo-
site Johnstown, Pa, is a row of six
graves, at the head of which is a
white bench bearing this inscription
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| WELCOME,