Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31

Drlet llIS Is go pdlHStlSah' IVAN IA A''
Browns "Spare Hours, IN one of her
condolences wrote that willis the multi
plicatiou table was q vexation seven
times was the ''devilishest thing in ma
ture. Dear little soul, always rePeutinR
of some gigantic want OF conformity as
set forth IN the Westminster catechlsm'
she did not know the csprices OF Dame
Fashion nor the consequent vexauon
that comes TO an am!able writer on
modes.
Only a short time since an assertion
was ventured that the folly height IN
sleeves having been reached, autumn
would bring reduction; not so. says
the latest authority, sleeves are TO con-
tinue long and full and in extension will
threaten the ears, and as velvet IL TO be n
favorIte material just how the wearers OF
these enormities are to avoid appearing
ridiculous and furnishing models for don-
key Bllhouettes is not exactly clear. That
the prominence of the sleeve may be
preserved, new trimmings are fiat and
cl!nging, as il they were hardly allowa-
BILE, but she who has straight skirts may
continue to wear them even though
her ultra-fRshionable sister adopts
the next two months wear her pretty
toques, this summer girl OF simple styles
may tear of the summer flowers that
have done duty and, by substituting O
bunch of fruit and loopings of velvet,
nod her wise little head at others not SO
ingenious and more servile.
At this season thu flower that nature
makes fashionable is the golden rod, and
in regions where 1t abounds 1t is seen on
corners of halls and drawing rooms, dec
Grating dinner table and serving as
foil for beauty at mountain resort end
country retreat. The bright, rich color
of a flower that marks the waning of the
summer months doubtless suggests the
prevailing tones in the costumes that nre
worn at Informal receptions insugurated
by Mrs. Whitney and which, by their
pleasantries, have become extremely
popular. Reception dresses are fire.
quently OF yellow Lauze made with
Josephine bodice and trimmed with vio-
let's, while others who would modify the
glare use yellow silk as an underdress for
black or white lace. Among those who
still Iinger in the ''loug PATH or gather
shells along the shore white
toilets are to be seen. These are
white toilets indeed. white hat, white
dress, white shoes, white everything.
A friend writes of well-matched cou-
pie who in this fashion, unmindful OF
aught except each other, made a pretty
picture of immsculateness. He, with
hat, coat, flannel shirt, trousers and
shoes of white; she, the Decentralization
of maidenlY purity, in suit or whlte
serge. The skirt and jacket of the serge,
the shirt waist white India as was also
the entire jacket lining. The belt was
Ill, rrff n
The jacket fastened with large pearl but
tons. Her shoes were of white canvass,
her hat u white straw, with white ribbon
bands with which she wore a white veil.
White undressed kid gloves covered her
hands in which she held a white sun UNI
brella. That no white doves lowered
there is doubtless owing TO the cries OF the
multitude ana to the shouts of applause
when the mob's favorite racer passed I'M
der the string.
A combination of velvet and crepe de
chine IS among the advance styles. When
used the corsage and skirt are of the vel
vet, cut in one piece princess form end
opens widely at the front over an Infinite
number of narrow rufties of the crepe.
The corsage on either side is held by sill
yer clasps aud the sleeves, half long, are
composed of ruffies of crepe, the top one
Tue lhsulOuhblo bhOuaAOA NAS1N-
The wearer's bare arm Is covered by
mosquetaire glove.
Whatever the influence ut work there is
marked disposition on the part OF wom-
en- of high social caste Ito be un-
derstood in its true sense) TO
have the world see less of
their charms. Women as a. sex may be
or not be better or worse than in pre-
vious times, but certain il Is that women
of sense, whose modesty custom had
lulled have taken alarm and with u con-
seriousness of mate purity no low iibe can
dethrone, feel the necessity TO put away
any cause for Censure or ribald joke.
While God makes women beautiful, sin
makes men and women vile, and good
women are in the main willing to forego
even what seems TO them harmless vani-
ty, that their appearance may not even
be suggestive Of evil in another's
thoughts.
If this season even the most deter
mined cellbate escapes matrimonial
ENHANCEMENT It is not because the gay
colors that an old rhyme declares will
catch him are not worn. Red is seen
everywhere; girls wear red costumes in
afternoon drives; hat and gown of the
same material, butterfly the sole orna-
ment upon the headGear. Young mat
rons appear charming in the eyes of
husbands Mt state dinner arrayed in
gowns of red bengaline, the sleeves of
red mousseline de sole, pulled and thick
" studded with jet nail heads. The
gown of this Americsnized begun must
by fitness be cut in princesse shape, aud
IS fastened invisibly on the left side,
much wrinkled across the front; the
neck and sleeves are finished with black
lace. Should the chill of an autumn day
penetrate, there Is no more appropriate
light wrap than the popular cape style,
consisting of fiounces Of black lace, fas-
tened TO a narrow, deep yoke, the points
reaching the waist, back and front.
The style of dressing the neck low that
has been the joy of those who have pretty
throats and the baue of the scrawny is to
be succeeded by ruffs5ot Crepe lisse aud
crepe de chine. In this as in all things
pertaining to dress q woman should study
becomingness. II her beauty Is IN the
poise of her head she does not wish to
muffie her throat TO the ears, and FASH
iol, often kind, allows her to cut out the
corsage in a tiny heart shape that the
uracefnl swell of the throat may be an