Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-24

spray of velvet heartsease between
| crown and brim in front and another at
the back.
"And you listened to this descrip-
tion?" inquired Mrs. Brown, calmly.
eyes, - said Brown, meekly.
| ''Well, how is it, inquired Mrs. B.
"that when attempt to describe bon
net of mine you cry out, ooh, fiddle fod-
die; I've no time to talk about woman 8
| toggery?' -
Gwen, I don't KNOW replied
Brown, "unless It be that a man gets
tired of the same heading. Try me on
| beretta. -
Brown was in earnest. He would have
been delighted to see the matronlv Mis-.
Brown in a crimson velvet beretta. Not
| one man in ten thousand can help his
wife on her toilettes. Reason? Simply
because he doesn't give the subject
thought. Let the young wife teach her
husband how to appreciate handsome
things, and he IL take more interest in
them.
Milan braids Will continue to be popu-
lar for hats and comets intended to do
service for every day. The spring toques
have crowns in drapery of plaided velvet
with the brims of straw, lace or plain
velvet. Narrow velvet ribbons continue
in use. Those for strings must be an
inch to an inch and a quarter in width,
while ribbon half an inch wide is fash
toned into bow of numerous loops to
hold in place bunch of flowers or some
other article of garniture.
Now here, the last il the row
of specimen headgear, is the picture
of a young lady with a wide brlmmed
hat. The shape is very styl-
ish. The only trimming consists of q
large bow Of loops made of bright eolored
ribbon aud perohed high up on the
crown, giving the hat a somewhat
audacious, but altogether taking air.
She looks competent to be a
ohaperone to her mamma, telling where
she must go, what she must say and how
she must act.
cit was really pity mamma, " said
Miss Fleurette Finks, "that 1 didn't
have an opportunity of meeting you
earlier IN life. I could have improved
you so much.
Garden hats are to be dark-hued,
rather coarse straw, ornamented with
plaid ribbon arranged in loops in front
of the crown and draped around the
back. Some of the more dashing garden
hats have strings which are worn
knotted loosely and carelessly around
the throat. For instance, a very dressy
hat in fine beige colored straw is trimmed
with satin ribbon of a somewhat deeper
shade and furnished with strings of the
same. Among the bows of ribbon in
front nestle two sprays of roses, yellow
and pink, some buds and foliage peep
out at the back where the strings are Sc
cured. Large hats with brims bent into
capriclous and fantastic shapes will be
popular for seaside and summer resort IN
general. Crepe lisse will be a favorite
trimming with Persian embroidery and
delicate pink roses. Curling black
ostrich tips will be used to encircle hats
of black Brussels with a monture of
longer tips at the left of the front; and
over the crown set at the back and
fronting forward a monturs of JAG
queminot roses and foliage.
All these and thousand other beauti-
full things have been thought out for the
advancement of woman, so that she may
fulfill her high destiny Of softening the
exile Of man until the gates of Paradise
open once more. Let no creature of
more susceptibility than discernment
scorn to decorate herself on the plea that
rich apparel is the mark of the demie
mondalne. Nothing could be wider from
the truth. The only danger is in the
abuse of the taste for elegant and re-
fined dress. and no more glaring abuse
of this taste can be imagined than
wearing bonnet or hat too rich and
elegant to correspond with the rest of
the costume The well dressed woman
is rarely or never striking to the ordina-
~ eye, so harmonious, so artistic, 80 well
blended are the colors textures and con-
tour of her toilet. But suppose 1 have no
talent for adjoining myself? Then choose
a safe counsellor, and accept he- Judg-
menI. 1t requires no more time to put
on stylish bonnet than II does an IN
becoming one; so the excuse sometimes
made that 81 am too busy a woman to
dress fashionably" has no force.