The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-21

with pink silk covered with black embroid.
cry. and the skirt in front edged
with narrow pink frills. There wal
a jeune dame from st. Petersburg
in dress of dark bronze and white striped
surah, with deep hounce about the skirt
showing bands of white roses embroidered
on bronze; her bonnet was bronze velvet
with diadem of ivy leaves and two cocks
feathers behind. There were English girls
in light dainty dresses with which their
stiff sailor hats refused point blank to bar
monize; their was an all varied panorama
of a Watering place which is at its gayest in
September.
The Saturday night ball in the grand sa-
loon was masquerade, majority of the
ladies appearing in Swiss or German peas
ant costumes. Many of these were very eff
fective, notably the black skirts, black vel
vet bodices and white chemises with silver
chains worn in the Bernese Overland, the
Strasburg, and the short-waisted green
bodices, black petticoats and broad
brimmed straw hats with black and red
rosettes of the Black Forest region.
But to return to our muttons. Paris ia
fitting it's head on one side and debating
combine fur trimmings with loose, bright
colored silk vests in manner original and
at first view startling. There is good deal
of trimming with white fur, even on dark
colored wraps not intended for evening.
The long wraps have reached a weight and
gorgeousness of decorations which
it does not seem possible they
almost needing support to walk in one
of them to her carriage. The narrow mil
linery ribbons give place to very wide and
gayly striped ard plaided ones which make
rainbows of the large felt hats shown for
early autumn. The brims of these hats are
straight and in front of each fiat bow ID
placed or a bird perched just above the eyes.
Bronze and green, both for millinery and
| for dress wear, will be one of the favorite
| winter combinations.
1t is is one of the mysteries of Paris why
the Princesse de Sagan, bourgeoise by
birth and with no pretentions to beauty,
| frail, thin nervous, cynical, practical body
quarter of century to sway the social
scepter over the naughty Faubourg st. Ger
main and to set the fashions. A few years
ago she appeared at Trouville dressed in
red from ton to toe, and forthwith the
beach bloomed crimson like Il wheat field
who set Patti tho example of color
ing her hair like the daughters of Titan.
and now the same lady's penchant for but
terfiies bids fair to deck cut all womankind
with the gauzy- winged creatures on their
dresses, in their hair, all over their giddy
persons. her natb are famous ana one III
which she appeared Yesterday afternoon
driving in the Bots de BouloRne may inter-
est here and there a reader. 1t was large
pale gray felt, with wide brim in front and
an odd, almost a liver-shaped, indentation
behind. Under the brm, curling across the
forehead was a long ostrich plume shaded
from deep violet to palest lilac. Other
feathers in the same colorincs softened the
outline of the crown and dropped low, al
most touching the shoulders. Chez les
grands couturiers the orders of the princess
are not always altogether welcome for she
has the reputation of being more than conf
monty "fussy,' esq ecially when the idea to
be carried out is one of her own and meant
to offer to ennuied Paris new sensation.
Two toilets, however, have been completed
within few days. One of these was of
pale gray cloth dotted with pale green,
edged with deep border of large blue
bache ors' button with their silvery green
foliage This border was SO arranged that
the flowers radiated from deep pale green
edge of silk about the hem. The corsage
had tuft of bachelors buttons rising
from tbs waist and spreading over the bust
up toward the pale green collar band. A
small bonnet of twisted bands of green
silk was trimmed back and front with tufts
of bachelors buttons to accompany this
autumn carriage gown.