Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-16
FASHION NOTES.

GOLDEN-BRowN cloth is pretty for a
child's or infants cloak lined with old
pink.
PEACH color with pistache is favorite
combination among well-kept and we'll
groomed women.
This is the sort of weather that brings
the girl in the white muslin or the daln-
ty Bingham frock to the front.
THE midsummer hats show relief in
that beautiful and costly ostrich tips
take the place of spring flowers.
WHITE birch is favorite for bedroom
furniture. Against mating of yellow
and pink it is exceedingly pleasing.
SOME of the new bassinets are made
of gilded, silvered and frosted willows,
similar to the baskets in the flower
shops.
BLACK mourning handkerchiefs of
pongee, embroidered with white silk,
are new and fashionable, if gruesome,
accessories Of the toilet.
CREPE DE CHINE of lustreless black is
the favorite mourning dress, This may
be had in crinkled, striped, spotted or
Powered surface.
AT the summer hops now in oper-
alton dancing toilets have no neck, but
the black and colored kid gloves reach
to the shoulder, where they are fast
ened with ribbon
JERSEYS are worn considerably in the
country, in the house and any place but
the public street. Silk sleeves are
added and the neck finished with a
rundown collar.
MOTHERS who care to make baby
clothes can buy the yokes for long and
short dresses. They vary in price from
40 cents to S., according to the amount
and quality of work on them.
STANDING frills of lace are substituted
for high collars and there are finger
deep ruff1es Of mousseline de sole to be
sewed in the dress and turned back
to display the entire throat.
REGULAR ballroom toilets, cut walking
length and made with long sleeves and
high corsage, are seen daily at the races.
The effect in the grand-stand is gay
enough, but taste. suffers.
If woman only knows how to sew
she can buy dresses by the dozen at a
dollar apiece. This means a cheese
cloth. tennis cloth, Bingham, barred
muslin, challie or cambria, the very
thing for the hot weather.
SOME mousquetaire gloves in twelve
button lengths have been brought out
in impossible colors, embroidered
along the back and vandyked at the
edge. They are likely to be worn by
the million, but not by the exclusive.
The bridal robe worn by the Princess
de Caraman Chimay, nee Ella Ward, was
of white satin fOurreau covered with
point lace About the hem was a fringe
of orange blossoms, over which fell a
founce of lace. Being very slender,
she wore scarf of white China Grape
knotted at the waist and long veil en-
veloped the whole trousseau.
SOME city houses have windows large
enough for a church. A clever and ar
tistic idea for draping them is to place a
grill half the depth and from this open
woodwork hang the curtain. If de-
sired this grill need be but foot deep,
and to balance the effect others may be
put in the doorway and finished with
bamboo portieres.
ALL along the top of bookcases,
lamps, china fower-holder, and pieces
of pottery, bronze and marble are ar
ranged; prints hung Immediately oppo-
the door being frequently used for their
display, wide sofa or couch Of BAN
boo, stained red, placed across corner
and piled up with big silken cushions
make library a comfortable and captl-
waiting place to be ln.i 49,
BAMBOO racks to hold magazines,
books, papers or pictures come in vari-
Gus sizes and designs, and are stained
in natural wood colors or treated with
metal paint These are convenient
and pretty for decoration of country
houses and seaside cottages, for, like
the beech chair, they can be left any
place 1t is common to hang them on a
portico or piazza as recepticle for the
numerous papers and current periodi-
calls.