Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-04

substantially alike in the interior.
 Mr. Fenn is aleo having . handsome French bsy window addition put on tie upper stories of the house he recently pur- chased in St. John's block, Church street.
 Novelties as Homo and Abroad.
 From ths New York Sun.1
 Yokes and guimpes of velvet go with vel vet sleeves.
 Jewelry, real and imitation, is moro warn than ever.
 Large-fowered and email pompadour lowered brocades are among the now silks. Feather boas and stoles and triple cspes of cloth will be much worn with wool gowns.
 Many of the new silk petticoats are trimmed with aots of ribbon and cascades and rufies of lace.
 Small bonnets are worn on dressy 0cca- sions and in the evening, larges ones and hats for street wear.
 Tartans, Scotch colors in broad stripes, and bordered robes are the pronounced nov. elites in woolen stuffs. Hsliotrope velvet slippers, with pink silk stockings, are a new fancy of those who like that eort of thing.
 Marrow side panels of silk are sometimes introduced in the pleated or plain skirts of wool, tartan, or striped gowns.
 Yellow jonquils and purple violets are fa- vorite flowers for combination ln corsage bouquets just at the moment. Homo gowns for the early spring are made very simply, without bustles or loopings, and ] with slight train in the back.
 Spanish colors, Spanish styles, Torreador hats, and red, black, and yellow millinery stuffs are features in spring fashions. hI~ 1r. hnf thn al, gowns have very small cushions of hair un- der the p!eats in the back of the skirts. White cloth gowns, made in dressy styles, and braided with gold and silver, are now in favor for ball dresses here and abroad.
 Birds, bees, butterflies, and other insects 1 in tho act of flight are embroidered in jet and tinsel all across the bodices and skirts ol new ball Rowns.
 Orange velvet borders, cuffs, collars, and waistcoats applique. with gold cord and thread embroideries, are favorite trim mings on white cloth and dinner and evsnino gowns.
 | Triple capes matching the dress, or of darl blue or green or black cloth, or white or scar let for evening wear. or of drab or gray fol the street, are the favorite light wraps fol informal occasions.
 The fronts of many gowns of tartan cheviot and velveteen are made of silk te
 
 between the sides of the outer skirt of or' or the other aforementioned materials.
 Now silk petticoats, founced with lac and pinked-out ruf1es, are the lates fad in underwear. They come in glacs plaited and barred, striped and plain silks and are ''taking" at once with the girls c the "400."
 A clasp or slide of jet or jewelled metal two and half or three inches long. is al ot ikv 1Eo 1n1p o1a Eoot at present. It is used to fasten the broa, soft sash, belt, or surplioe draperies of lady's bodice, being placed in a perpsn dicular line directly in front under tn bosom.
 Inc fashionable finger nail for men, a we'll as women, is extremely long sut pointed, forming almost vandyke. has clawlike effect, which is not very re assuring to the opposite sex, but, then, it Euglish, quite Engiisb, although it came frs from Paris to London, and now it ha reached New York.
 The ball season for Catholic and Episcops girls is over, but they will keep their hol on gayety at afternoon teas and receptions and their gowns for these functions will b ball gowns, with high or halfhigh bodice and half-loDg sleeves, and will be of Chin silk, broche and crepe de chimes instead o tulle and mousseline de soie.
 Tho borders of robes take wider rang of designs than ever. They arc broche woven in vandykes, turrets, blocks, tar tans, horizontal and perpendicular stripes and palm leaf and other Oriental design in Greek, Roman, and Egyptian figures f medieval and renaissance, conventions forms, in lace patterns and leaf and Howe forms
 Fine linen cambric sets of underwear sheer as null muslin, are shown for brida wear. These are elaborately embroidered il old point lace and point coupe stitches, rul with bebe ribbons, trimmed with nne res faces and decorated with inch-wide gro grain ribbons, run also into tho work and forming the flats and bows among tn laces.
 The most exquisite underwear comes | trousseau sets of white and tinted crepe d chino, the gowns having the entire fronts c open work in carre effects run with bob ribbons to match the color of the crepe chine, or white, blue, mauve, or rose pin when the gown Is white. The chemisel camisoles, drawers. and corset covers t match are trimmed in the same style an with the finest patterns of real Valencienns laces. Then there are wider ribbons t form the bows, fots and bands that deco, ate the embroidery, and lace ruflss and oal cades.