The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-12-19
FOR THE GENTLE SEX.
MATTERS OF SPECIAL INTER
EST TO THE WOMEN.
What to Wear--Red Spreads are q
Fad Now--What a Singer Can
Eat--A Curious italian Gus
tom.
What to Wear.

or theater is ofplain cloth. Itrequires
from five to eight yards to make one,
and the price ranges from 81 so to SD
q yard. These cloth dresses are an
especial feature this year, and no ward
robe is complete without one. 1t must
be made with bell skirt, very scant
about the hips and full at the bottom;
a round waist which passes under
the skirt, or else ends a little below
the waist line in a straight point; the
sleeve may be mutton leg, coat or full
to the elbow, with a close cuff from
thence down. In the ultra gown OF
this sort there ia not q particle Of
trimming, but its beauty is made to
consist in it's easy and graceful fitting.
And it's ideal is not the mannish but
the demure and quakerish. See that
your dressmaker does not make the
skirt draw in front about the feet. 1t
should be round at the top and have
ample spring ut the feet, like the bell
from which it is named. A skirt that
hoops round the feet has no beauty.
A black silk dinner gown should
have the waist cut bias, and be 10 in
ches longer behind than in front. A
good choice of silk is royale. Benga-
line is popular also. You may put
any quantity of jet on the skirt, long
pieces depending from the belt and
put also round the bottom. The waist
should be- short, and may have a gilet
of light MORE antique embroidered
with Jewels. You can buy these jewels
by the string or dozen for small out
lay and sew them on yourself. The
waist is high, but there is no collar,
but piece of collar chiffon is laid in
side and pulled up in a knot in front,
and fastened. The sleeves are of the
leg mutton order, long and ending at
the waist without any trimming. This
gown should have sash belt of black
velvet, fastened behind with velvet
rosette.
A tea-gown is a very becoming arti-
Gle Of female attire, and may be made
stately, piquant, jaunty, or aesthetic,
according to the taste of the wearer.
1t is garment with all sorts OF be-
coming possibilities, and may be
shaped SO as to display a charm with
excusable frankness, or to cover, like
charity, multitude of sins-anatom-
ical sins. For a scraggy neck, the
Medici offers itself, for a plump one,
still glorying in it's round beauty, low
cut necks or falling laces are permissi-
BILE.
Redfern's tea gowns are not as well
known as his tight gowns and re-
nowned coats. but though he is not q
modiste in himsiness, when he at
tempts anything of this description he
is apt to ''get there" 1t is way he
has got. The gown in question is
made OF striped silk OF a salmon and
green mixture, with a salmon lining.
The high collar is green velvet on the
outside and lace inside. Profuse pas
sementerie decorates the shoulders,
and the tight sleeves to the elbow are
covered with the same material. The
inside robe is composed of pale willow
colored silk, with golden girdle and
gold bordering at the neck, which is
cut very low. At the hem of this in
side gown there is another band OF
passementerie. The sleeves are made
in large, puffy form above the elbow.
The gown is fashioned in ample folds
ut the back with lengthy train.
Bed Spreads are a Fad Now.
There is great rage for pretty orna-
mental quilts at present, and they
make very desirable gifts for Christ
mas. The old white counterpaned
surfaces are superseded by lowered
cretonnes edged with founce OF lace
or by embroidered spreads.
Here is an easy way to make a
spread from coarse linen sheet:
Have large diamonds stamped all
over it and work them in outline
stitch with dark blue Scotch linen
floss. In every other diamond work
one flower with leaves with the blue
floss. Finish off the edges with q
crocheted edging.
Another way is to fringe out the
linen sheet all round; make a knotted
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three rows OF drawn ribbon, through
which is run light blue satin ribbon,
large bows Of wider ribbon of the
same color being put at each cor
ner. The coverlet part is then en-
broidered with sprays of apple bios
SONS in pink linen fosses, with dark
olive leaves, outlined.
The most elegant quilts are those OF
Bargarren art cloth, embroidered with
real Scotch rope linen, which comes in
such exquisite shades. The Bargarren
art cloth now comes in colors as well
as white. In the white there are the
four different weaves, which are dupli-
Gated in the cream-white and also in
some OF the colors. In the weave one
of these is the honeycomb design; the
others are notifications of the same
weave. There are shades of blue, OLD
gold, green and mahogany.
Most of the cloths, both the white
and colored, are fiity-two inches wide.
1t will readily be seen from the width
what charming quilts may be made.
Bargarren art fringe may be bought
already made in all colors.
A Curious italian Custom.
Ye Western maidens who receive