The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-25
FASHIONS FADs.
Bright Street Costumes, Tight Collars,
and Other FemininIties.


and Other FemininIties.
After period of quiet dress for street
wear, there is a sudden Eruption of
brilliant and startling walking costumes.
The fayorite colors for these brilliant
gowns are variations of purple. There
are no end of names for these new
shades, prune,- mauve, violet, dahlia,
lilac, ashes of lilac, mulberry, noun
tain purple, heliotrope. petunia, amethyst
and aubergine The Wearer of gown of
these colors should have care as to
what other tints she wears with it; while
purple, if it receives proper and artistic
treatment, will give a pleasing effect, yet
this is easily destroyed, because it har-
monies with few other tints.
A fashionable visiting card in Berlin is
an African importation. 1t is q leaf of
the silver poplar, which keeps its color
when dried, and can be easily written
upon. 1t delights fashionable Berlin I'M
der the name OF 'Emin Pasha's visiting
card -
DR.. Forster, director Of the Ophthalmic
University at Breslau, has figured out a
connection between tight collars and
shortsightedness. He alleges that in 800
cases that have come under his attention
the eyesight had been affected by the
pressure of such collars upon the muscles
of the neck. disturbing the circulation Of
blood to the head.
Ladies who desire graceful outlines for
their draperies find the divided petticoat
of the greatest advantage
An inventory of the wardrobe of Queen
Elizabeth, made in the year 1900, recent
~ published. shows that the queen then
had 90 robes, 1876 kirtles, 269 gowns, 1876
'foreparts.' 1875 petticoats. "a fans, 90
cioaks, SO safeguards, s. doublets and IS
lap mantles. The gowns appear all to
have been of the richest materials.
An after dinner coffee set for a wealthy
gentleman in Charleston had httle square
cups and saucers with margins in yellow
and gold berries scattered over the white
ground.
Mr., G. p. Huntington, wife of the many
times millionaire, and railroad king, is
said to constantly wear the yellow good
luck" garter hers being fastened by
means of a beautiful buckle set with q
fine topaz enclrcled with diamonds.
One of the indispensables when travel
ling is the sponge bag, as a wet sponge is
an inconvenienr thing 10 pack without
one. A pretty bag is made of butchers
linen embroidered in raw silk or linen
floss, gathered on draw strings of white
braid and lined with rubber sheeting or
oiled silk.
The trimmings upon the new princesse
toilets for evening wear differ consider
ably, some being made up with GreCian
draperies of crepe lisse caught up on the
skirt and left shoulder; with costly
buckles of gold or silver Others have
short sleeves, with Corday folds over the
breast. of superb real lace or pearl-dotted
silk tulle. art models are decorated
with fraises, pulled sleeves and slashed
skirts, or garnetured with vests, shoulder
pieces and chatelaines that are formed of
q rich network of silk and beads.
Mrs Power O'Donoghue, a horse
woman familiar with the steeple chase
courses of Ireland, pronounced distinctly
against the proposed innovation of ladies
riding astride and declares that woman
who knows how to ride, and who adopts
a well made saddle, short, properly cut
skirt, without hem or footstraps, and a
plain, light. racing stirrup, without any
padding to catch the instep or imbed the
foot. is quite as safe, and even safer, in
her side position, with the pommels to
give her purchase, than a man Is with
his leg pressure and even seat,
Some lsse fans have sticks of carved
wood, colored shade of the hsse, and a
fringe Of pendant metallic beads along
each fold; others have very full, narrow
ruchings of finely plated lisse along the
folds, giving Il very feathery and dainty
effect
The Vatican fans might pass for heir
looms, they are SO similar to those car
ried by our grandmothers; of lace in
antique pattern, with inserted nedallions
hand painted in Vatican effects ahe
colors.
Mourning Jewelry Is much more varied
and is prettier than it used to be. One of
the newest designs il in the round, open
worked brooch enamelled with black,
showing but the tiniest edge of gold,
and is enriched by setting diamonds at
the points of intersection. In dead black
iewelry nothing compares with the lustre-
less pansy with a single diamond In the
centre. -Jetuelers' Cfrctt'dr.
Absent Minded.
Prof. zweiber Of tho University Of Bonn