Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09

the ''Marie." It is made of crepe lisse
Over satin of same color gathered very
full under a fiat knob at the top and
again at the edge of the perasol, from
which hangs a soft ruff1e one and a
quarter inches deep. A large bow and
ends of striped satin finishes the top and
q silken cord and tassel decorate the
handle.
Toques aud capotes are shown with
very slightly curved oval crowns in
melon v~olutes, shelving up from the
back to the front, made of the lightest
lace braids, with the brims Of the braid
bands with puri edge; and capotes are
shown of lace braid gathered in a bunch
at the base Of the crown and stretched
out to form the headplece, somewhat
after the idea of a scallop shell.
Although a princesse or ~redingote
effect Is still given to a large portion of
the new spring costumes, very many of
them, instead of reaching in one con-
tinuous length from neck to hem, have
fiat skirt fronts, and very often full
straight back breadths fastened to a
slightly rounded or pointed bodice.
Costumes of this description are made
with full bishop sleeves and a Medici
collar.
HOUSEHOLD.
"sing a song of china. a closet deep and wide
Rows and rows of dishes, setting side by side;
When the door is open, It's goodly TO behold
Dainty, shining crystalline tea-set white and
Grandma's blue-sprigged china on the upper
shelf
(Grandma used to wash it and dry each piece
herself),
Hoping, poor old lady, if living not to see,
That future generations might from the cups
drink tea,p
The grandma who prided herself on
her china white and blue had the same
honest pride in the whiteness and fineuess
of her Dapery. 9 trousseau, as the word
o goes, gave her much less anxiety
than did the weaving and bleaching of
the seventeen-hundred linen hat was a
part Of the dover she brought her guide
man. Every piece was interviewer with
thoughts Of the new home, and tender
futters were in her heart as she blush
ingly wrought the initial that was
10 be hers. It was an honest pride,
n when in after years her trembling
fingers opened the cedar chest to give to
the granddaughter going out from the
old hallowed home some Of its long
stored treasures sweet with lavender, she
felt she was bestowing richer gifts than
the glittering array of o%stentatious we'd
O@~7 49, AtSH ~ IA NSA 6HN W &C
and her homely advice to the ineXperi-
enced young wife to keep good beds, q
well swept hearth and a neat table was
most wholesome counsel. The dear old
lady never dreamed of scarfs of silk,
satin and velvet. of cloths of richest
silk, hand painted and embroidered of
pillows of silk of delicate hue massed in
the center and caught here and there
with roses. Such folly was beyond her,
and 20 fashion grown sick of such ex-
-travaganzas, adopts the neatness she en-
joyed.
The first requisite of honest, refined
housekeeping is neatness, and the young
housekeeper will find that requirement
in the dining-room well met by good
Irish and German linen, white and
smooth. French damask is more glossy
but has not the wearing qualities of the
other two. Economy in table linen is to
purchase the best; it is better TO start
with a few cloths of good quality than
with dozens of fiimsy things that have q
look of oheapness. No matter how heavy
the cloth the appearance is always i'm
proved by a white felt or double faced
cotton flannel underneath A cloth of this
sort gives a s~oftness to fine damask and
lends q fictitious richness to an inferior
quality of linen. What is of still more
Importance in the comfort of a meal, it
completely obviates the otherwise I'M
pleasant clatter Of dishes against the
table which is heard when the table is
only covered with even a heavy linen
cloth.
Both cloths aud napkins Dug ht to be of
generous size, a cloth narrow or short
and understood napkins. are too sug ges-
tive of skimped boarding house economy.
To be fashionable, of course these must
all be hemstitched, and are the more ele-
CANT if finished with drawn work or
white embroidery, the latter are. how c
ever, to be classed among the non-essen-
tialS. To follow grandma IS counsel, the
hemming must be neatly done. Look at
the stitches in her treasured heir-looms,
how dainty are they! She was taught to
count the threads when she took up stitch
by stitch, and TO her as any lady a napkin
run through the machine, the start of the
hem crooked, and the ends of the broken
thread left hanging is not a mark of
neatncss. IN the first year of the young
wife IS home lite, if not in the engage
ment days, there are long evenings when
sitting with Chin in the mellow lamp
light. the tiny fingers as they draw the
shining needle in and out will make q
pretty domestic tableau.
An experienced housekeeper says:
''Say to the young wife, fringed napkins
are a delusion and a snare. You do not
desire to laundry your table linen, and
if you do not, fringes are a tangle for
temper, to unravel which, after they
being starched and ironed, is not condu-
Give to a%miability. Then the bluing?'
and there her hands went up. "No,
no fringes; a tidy hem; that Is best"
Having attained the first requisite of
n%eatness, if purse and inclination agree,
elegance and beauty may be added.
The simplest decoration, and a very
desirable one it is, is a monogram or
initial in one corner of the table cloth,
with q smaller one similar in design
IN each napkin. 1t may he elaborate
or sim ple, but q sine u non is that
the work shall be of exquisite quality,
in order that 1t shall be ornamental.
Whatever stitch or style of embroidery
is employed-satin, ~Kensington, Rus
sian Sorrento or darning-use only white
thread. The white linen flo floss is safer
than any other. A further extravaganza
I'm the uSo nf IaOp is farthar affuinad hv