Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-30
FASHION NOTES.
From the New York World.

innovation is welcomed that promises
to increase the neatness and comfort OF
the nursery and lessen the quantity of
dust and work The latest improve
ment is cork mat, intended to place in
front of the bath, not to save the carpet,
for no floor coverings are used in the
hygienically equipped nursery, but to
protect the tiny feet from contact with
the bare boards or oilcloth.
s'ANcHoReRAMs' are the finishing
touches out on the yachting and surf
toilets. That the fancy comes from
Paris no one need be told. The design,
consisting of a monogram, or merely
single letter with an anchor for back
ground, is made of bullion and a colored
thread similar to the dress trimming.
In the rooms of the decorative art So
cieties these "anchorgrams" cost 81
letter or Sc each. 1t is the fashion to
have one decoration on the skirt just
left of the foot, another on the blouse or
sash and third on the left sleeve.
AT the races, the seashore and the
coaching club the taste runs to dotted
muslins and dresses of chiffon, vapor
GUS and light, trimmed with lace bre-
telles or braces of velvet outlining the
corsage and forming a girdle at the
waist Full puckered sleeves are still
to the fore, generally of the same ma
terial as the dress, with bands of ribbon
or silk cord to hold the fullness. A
sulphur-yellow chiffon made in this way
is very smart, and to complete it a yell
low straw hat is needed with sulphur
feathers.
Now is the time to buy silk goods
cheap. The remnants in the leading
shops may be had as low as 80 cents
xor1 op6 tho rSQC 70 which fbpv N ha
put are all but innumerable. Innings
aside, they make beautiful coverings
for comfortables, foot-rugs, to throw
over a couch or invalid's bed, and cush-
ions for the sofa or child's carriage.
Just now that silk underwear is SO pop
ular they should be valuable for skirts,
and there is nothing prettier for baby's
wear than the pin checks or plain white
China silks to be had now as cheap as
muslin.
NINE. GAUTHEREAU, who is ackOwl-
edged first among the professional beau
ties of Paris, appeared at the ladies' bal
cony the day Of the Grand Prix in a
white China crepe toilet, magnificently
embroidered with gold. The neck of
the dress was cut in a deep point back
plated white chiffon. A toreador vest
of pale blue crepon knotted across the
front gave short wasted Empire effect
that just suited the lady's style, and
large white crinoline hat, with yellow
feathers and blue velvet torsade, COM
pleted the beauty's outfit.
A NEW field game for ladies destined
to become as popular as lawn tennis has
been invented by Mrs. Constance Amelia
Hartshorne, of Brabourne Hall, Wirks-
worth, England. The new pastime
called "the colors" was given public
trial by some fashionable and progress
sive ladies in Inner Temple Gardens
short time ago. A space thirty by sixty
feet is planted with four sets of five
posted platforms, from each of which
colored hoops are played according to
rule. The once popular Les Graces sug-
gested the colors, which fashion is ready
to adopt.
ALL the bang-up fetes, companies and
receptions on the other side are de-
scribed as fashionable functions"
For instance, the garden party given by
Viscountess Wolseley, the last of June,
''to meet the Prince and Princess of
Wales" was quite one of the most fash
ionable functions of the season. The
gusher to Il. r. H. goes on to say in the
report that "the special train which was
dispatched from Charing Cross was
heavily laden with visitors, and some
of the toilets of the ladies were simply
ravishing, and this despite the threaten
ing weather" AS the private detective
in "Jim the Penman" used to say, cit
was just splendid"
THE air is full of parasols, and they
battle description. Many of the white
and cream netted covers have little
posies woven in the meshes just ready
to drop, apparently. Others of fine silk
have overhanging clusters of grasses and
prove the popularity of blonde beauty.
One of these sulphurous designs, named
the Stanley, has rows of narrow ribbon
run across the cores and tied over the
ribs in butterfly bows. Then there is
the Depew, a compliment to the urbane
railway knight, also of bright buttercup
yellow silk, lightly scattered with black
lace butterflies, each four inches from
tip to tip and shown with open wings.
1t goes without saying that an Ombrelle
of this sort is intended to be handled
with care, worn open as much as posi-
BILE, and represents an outlay of not less
thread-lace flies alone are worth SIS
each, and twenty would barely cover
the cores.
al oIiO AcCoo OII OOP lay tuC L I'LL
cess of Wales was, as she ever is, the
observed of all observers. She looked
very lovely in dress of deep decided
cream-colored silk wrought with small
design Of rosebuds and tender pale
green leaves. The dress was made coat
shape, with the sleeves quite fiat on the
shoulders. 1t opened over a skirt of
cream-colored satin set in wide straight
plaits. Her Royal Highness wore
small bonnet of golden gauze with brim
Of fulled black velvet, and a pink rose
or two at one side. A rose was also
fastened in the narrow black velvet
strings just beneath the royal lady's
chin. The Princess wore long boa of
curled cream-colored ostrich feathers,
and, when leaving the .box for the drive
back to Sunningdale, donned a lovely
cloak of white corded silk, deliberately
embroidered with gold Princesses
Victoria and Maud were gowned exact
ly alike in neat, girlish-looking dresses
of white washing silk, prettily embroid
cred in white. Their toque-shaped hats
were covered with small white field