The Forrest City times., 1891-05-01
Tailor Gowns For Spring.


 co brown and gray shades, with cross bars and checks, are used for tailor gowns for the demi-season. Home spuns of rough surface in self-colors also remain in favor. More fanciful French stuffs have raised cord-like designs of diamonds and bars, and others have flower and leaf patterns of one color nearly covering the cream white ground.
 Checked tweed gowns for morning or travelling are made with deep coat and plain skirt simply finished with stitching. The coat has the usual darts and side forms, with also hip seams pointed in front, arched on the sides, and sloped thence to meet the continuous middle forms of the back. The fronts turn back in revers from a narrow vest of faced cloth fas- tened by small horn buttons The revers are wide at the top--reaching almost to the armholes-and gradu- ate to a point at the waist line, where they are trimmed with three buttons larger than those on the vest. Wide pocket flaps are set in the hip seams. The sleeves are bias They are full at the top. and tapered to the wrist, to fast en by two buttons with button-holes; two rows of stitching are around the wrists, and several rows further up outline cuff. The stan1 ling collar is covered in front with faced cloth next the vest. The skirt is bias to match the sleeves, It iscut of ofwalkinc length, that is to clear the ground all around, unless the tailor is distinctly directed IS too often happens, to lengthen the back to lie four inches on the ground The front of the skirt hangs straight without clinging closely, it is fitted smoothly around the top by short darts; all the fitness is gathered in the front in a space of four or five inches The hem is finished by two rows of stitching. The foundation skirt is widely faced with tweed set on smooth ly. without pleatings that add to the weight
 Smarter gowns of French woollens, Angora or homespun, have the coat bodice more dressily finished with a vest and revers of thickly repped silk, such as the Muscovite silk, decorated with cords of silver, steel. or gold in an intricate braiding pattern. A kind of ceinture of the silk IS set in the hip seams to give apparent length, and IS decorated in its pointed fronts with corner designs of the cording The silk cuffs are i'll gauntlet shape, wider than the sleeves. Such a gown is very handsome i'll pearl-colored wool with deeper bluegray reppel silk trimmed with steel and oxodized silver cord.
 X novelty this season Is broadcloth on which are printed designs of flowers and leaves in natural colors, as tan, gray. or cream grounds strewn with forget violets. or other elus- ters like those seen in challies and India silks. This printed clothis used for house dresses, as it is too showy for street gowns. It Is usually com b:ned with beugaline or other repped silk. A Paris gown for afternoons at home has a bodice of light tan silk, with sleeves and skirt of printed cloth with tan ground. The high bodice Is smoothly fitted like cuirass. and is laced behind. It extends low over the hips in eleven square tabs that are braided with gold in a straight design like galloon. Ayoke-like pattern with tabbed edges is braided below the col lar. The cloth sleeves are very full with close silk cutfs. The straight skirt fans outward at the back in graceful French fashion. HousSgowns for the spring, and even for the sum- mer, are being made in Paris of light colored faced cloths trimmed with founces of black lace, and q girdle and collar of let.-Harpers Bazar.
 Things That Deter Women from
 Marrying.
 There are three general causes which bring marriage into disiavor with women philanthropy, higher educa- tion and selfanalysis. The first has been a powerful factor inits subtitle in- finenee against marriage. The mental atmosphere ispermeated with the idea of responsibility for another's happi- ness. Woman now feels herself ac- countahle for the welfare ofhumanity and through the exercise of that re- sponsibllity has found occupation for mind and heart which has prevented absorption in her own affairs.
 Higher education has affected mar riage Tn as much as 1t has opened new avenues of employment for women, has fortified them for life as whole and has led them to regard marriage as an incident. 1t has given girls a communistic feeling which makes them prefer to teach where there are other teachers rather than live on a hilltop and read alone to their parents or to retire to farm or n tenement and bake and brew for their husbands. The higher education has separated marriage and motherhood. Almost all women love children, and would gladly use their knowledge for the de- light and profit of family, but they do not want the intervening marriage.
 Analysis has advanced from being a method in text books to the study of one's self. The age is analytic. Once work was so constant that married women did not realize their loneliness or the want of appreciation which be- fell them, Now society and the mid de class have leisure to examine their states of mental solitude and to see just where husbands are wanting.-- North American Review.
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