Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-05

Embroidered or painted or embossed
leather Jackets are worn with oil kinds of
dresses, These leather roundabouts are
open in front and extend down the back
only lust below the shoulder-blades. Tho
edges of the imported ones have delicate
tracing Of golden leaves around the entire
edge.
Have YOU bought fur cape yetp If you
haven't you must get one right away, Tor
capes are fashionable now, and soon the
naughty winds will blow and bring with
them. perhaps. anew style that will make
the handy little cape sink into insignlti-
canoe.
OF course You will get Astrachan, unless
You get sealskin, or Persian lamb. If you
do get sealskin be sure TO have Persian
lamb collar. Maybe you prefer velvet
cape with an Astrachan yoke. Whatever
you get be sure to have cape of some
sort.
1t is really pitiful to see Mrs. Grant as
she is wheeled daily out on Riverside drive
to Claremont to visit the tomb of the late
General Not that Mrs. Grant is poor, not
that she lacks family, funds, or friends,
but she is to be pitied because she is old
and seems in distress. Her grief for her
husband is deep, lastlng. and sincere. And
then. too, her eyesight is failing and her
memoirs are written with difficulty. And
.
Surely, if love levels ranks death can be
/ said to do so none the less.
! The misty, mostly weather has made
! womans necessity the mother OF her IN
yention. To keep her precious ankles dry
/ and her divided skirts unsullied she has
/ invented new facing for her dress. 1t is
| made of oil-cloth OF macintosh cloth. and
! it is so smooth ard glossy that 1t can be
put outside the skirt as we'll as inside. A
,f, 80 otft .h
! bottom of the skirt, which IL of walking
/ length to show the ankles. This can. of
| course, be worn through mud and mlre.
/ and vet be Just as good as new after it has
| been spunged of. With such skirt tho
petticoat can be worn very short, as the
oil-cloth prevents disagreeable clineing.
The pointed hang, like the traditional
| dog, has had its day. The fashionable girl
parts her hair in the middle over her
throws divine expanse." and combs it
down on each side of her forehead in big
| swooping curve that makes her face a
| lovely oval If her face is very. broad she
| draws down another curying fold OF the
/ hair, and drags it back to be fastened Just
| behind the ears with iewelled halrpln.
There is none of the mathematical pre-.
| cision OF the water-waye about this style OF
as when curly. The back hair is done
up" in loose knot, from which the ring
/ lets fall "low adown. low adown."
Men, that is men who would be adorned
| of the fair sex, must not wear black silk
underwear. The girls say that black silk
shirts look dirty, even if they are not. and
that the boys must patronlze white. boiled
shirts, and yellow, pig-tailed Cinnamon II
they want to stand well IN the affections
of the fair maids Of Perth and other cities.
II isn't wrong, and it isn't cheeky to con-
fscate scarf-pIns. Every one does 1T now
adays, and the girl who doesn't take pos
session Of at least one jewelled stick-pin q
week is dreadfully lacking in the qualities
that make ginger"
Marian Harland & Co. have been
editing q bright home magazine for a
couple of years with great success, but
alackl for the ways of business managers,
business managers are so perverse - some
fault was found with her son-in-law, who
was thought TO be too young for the place
he was filling, they say, and Marian Har-
land resigned; so did her husband and
daughter.
Jennie June, whose work every one has
read and who belongs TO more committees
than any other woman in the world, is at
present holding the fort.
Mrs. Henrietta Crane Russell is said 10
have more gowns, and more artistic gowns
at that, than any other woman going.
One of her lecture toilets is of shading.
changeable. buff silk, heavily corded and
figured with roses, plnks, and every
other flower that ought by right
of bloom to keep them company.