Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-16

OF reform, for II isn't divided all salvation in q
dress reform view depending on wearing one 8
clothes In divisions not apparent to sight or
feeling
A RIAL RrFoRM
The real improvement Of late In dresses ID
lining the widths with stiff, light material.
which keeps it out from the limbs and gives
freedom and GOODNESS. The best shops keep
sne Saline skirt with two or three rsttsns run
In castings to wear with lawns and limp bengs-
lines-old fashioned. but very light and COM
Portable, not 70 say becoming
Notning IN the way OF fancy ornaments has
been as satisfactory as the black enamel flowers
Tor brooches. whether the pansy with a diamond
dew drop which one may have for a morning
pin at sS5 or the same design in rhinestone for
%. The idea was too pretty not 20 be experi-
mented on, and this season has the Same de-
signs IN white enamel and briiliants-the daint-
lest OF summer ornaments. Daisy. primrose,
psnsy, starhower and four-leaved clover are a
few designs, cool looking and durable. The
new diamond eardrops are hung by a hinge TO
the wire, giving the most trefnuious light 10
their beauty. Etruscan gold set with small
diamonds Is worn for day ornaments, and 10
more beautiful than costly.
FOR TABLE USE.
Sets OF peach knives with curved, keen
pointed, go!d-plated blades and handles Of
Hungarian porcelain are the last geometry
bowls
and tagons appear in the amber glass, caseSl
in gold hligree. set with sparks of jewelled
glass, IL not real small stones The choicest
dinners, however. for summer arc set ont with
white, satiny linen and abundance OF crystal
in pierced silver setting and only family tinSed
flowers and ferns are allowed in the white. lev
glitter. The plush dinner scarfs and colored
satin underlays are left to hotel and restaurant
or middle class dinners. plush mat with
wine drops or spots Of gravy grows hideous.
I Il 49,
want nothing that will not wash and come out
purity itself. Besides. plush and satin are
smelly" and recall the roast duck and celery
sauce too long.
Linen dsmask, cut work and drawn borders
are the only fabrics allowable near dinner Ia.
BILE and these are elegant enough in all con-
science. The flowers are best OF the scertless
sort, or with subducd perfume Sweet peas
are too much with stewed chicken and mush.
rooms. Scentlcss garden pinks. corn flowers
and black scabious do not force their odor upon
you. Spider lilies. clemgts white aud purple
late spInas are safe table flowers. arranged with
ferns and cyperns In loose feathery SPRAYS as
high ard lightly rs possible. flower and
bud, with a frond or two of fern, is the taste
and as little satin ribbon your feelings will
permit you 70 give US.
BAD TASTE.
The dinner favors lately told Of, with four
yards Of ribbon to the posey, SAVIOR OF the
haberdasher's shop. Why not decorate with
artificial flowers and millinery entirely? Have
the flowers in clear crystal and silver holders.
PLAIN glasses In silver cups, card holders and
pin baskets answering every purpose when cake
baskets and decan.er stands give out. making a
Gordon of small vases border the table, with a
tall. slender centerpiece whose long feathery
trails fall fringe-like to the CLOTH Seeding and
quaking grasses are very graceful among the
flowers, which should be starry and single or
much ruffled and silky leaycG The big hybrid
perpetual roses are too much for graceful
decoration. They look filter for the salad
bowl Between the outer vases arrange oblong
dishes of dessert fruits. the smaller the better
as the Alpine Strawberries, which are in supply
till November if any one takes the trouble TO
grow them, a saucer OF which will perfume a
room. But no crystallZed fruit in summer.
please, although tho gracious English writers
whose ideas We are working over do recomme nd
them for the fruitless dinner tables of London.
Trails OF the edible flowers fashionable at we'd
ding breakfasts will we dispense with. Although
at the Stanley wedding the feature Of the we'd
ding breakfast was the lovely crvstalized edi-
BILE roses, gardenias and orange flowers ar
ranged in sprays along the table, here ID
something prettier and more suitable: Sow
your date stones in small flower pots filed with
rich, peaty soil and sand; water well and keep
warm, and they grow into pretty table palms
with long pinnate leaves. The florists abroad
grow quantities Of them for table an 4 house
decoration Probably we cannot with these
treat ourselves to the guipure tablocloths from
the Vosges, which sell for ducal tables with
their dozen OF serviettes for f2i0 apiece.
Neither do we desire our pillow cases worked
with hunting scenes, towns and landscapes, as
were those of the Austrian archduchess just
married. Slip handful of fresh rose petals
inside your pillow daily and you will envy
neither duke nor kaiser his delights. The bes,
are in reach of US all. SHIRLEY DARE.