The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-21
LATTER JUNE FASHIONS.
For Days When the Sun Rises
Bright and Round and
Early.
A Piazza Tea and It's Features
in the Way of
Toilets.
Notes About Pretty Millinery-Hair and
Its Adornements-A Few vassar
Costumes Lately Seen.

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT.
New YORK, June ia piazza tea was
ono of the features of suburban gaiety
this week. The veranda where the
pleasant party was assembled was
screened with brown and cream-colored
awnings. Hangings Of the same water
proof canvas covered the walls of the house
under the piazza roof, and rugs of striped
Japanese cotton in brown and scarlet were
flung upon the floor. Reed curtains rolled
up and down like shades to keep out the
sunshine, and there were folding screens of
mating and bamboo to break the wind.
Long boxes of brown and cream-oolored
tiles wero set in rows, upon the broad
piazza ratings and filled with vines and
scarlet Towering geraniums. There was
a low bamboo couch with cushioned
seat covered with cream-colored and
brown chintz and heaped with cushions
in scarlet and brown. Several small bam-
boo tables supported the tea service in
brown and cream china, and there were
comfortable bamboo chairs cushioned in
brown.
The gentle, white-haired hostess poured
tea, with brown spice buds scattered over
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hostess bright-eyed daughter dispensed
chocolate from a stand that was glowing
with geraniums. There were a good many
costumes that were worth describing, or
else the play of light and shade, the rustic
of the leaves of a great elm, whose branches
dropped within reach, the chirping of the
robins and the fragrance Of the climbing
honeysuckle vines gave the sprigged mus
Inns and delaines mi the dainty foulards
and challies an Importance and a charm
that did not rightfully belong to them.
A girl with blue eyes, a smile and light
yellow hair wore a pale creamy brown silk
sprigged with yellow. A chemisette of
white null was gathered full about the
throat, and over this lay the standing ruche
of lace that edged the deep V of the cor
sage. Brown ribbons fastened a great
bunch of buttercups upon the bosom. and
wider ribbons made a hip Rirdle whose ends
hung down in front nearly to the floor.
About the waist and about the bottom of
the skirt hung deep point lace Hounces.
There were pins of gold and amber in the
frizzy hair.
More after tho usual order of frooks for
blondes WAS a pale violet batiste that hung
in long, straight folds about II pale, gentle
girl, simmer and more full Of slow curves
than Kathryn Kidder used to be in the DAYS
when she played in "Nordcck." The skirt
was ARRANGED in broad pleats and tho front
OF the bodice was covered with Madeira
work, through the pattern of which the
hue of the froek was visible. The girl wore
a garden hat of gray straw about which
were twisted pale violet ribbons. She had
two or three old fashioned fragrant pinks
thrust through tho belt OF her gown.
A gray bengnline wcrn by a bride of three
months who 'matronized" quite Il party of
older young women and more digniAed than
she. had a narrow border Of Jet weighing
1t at the bottom. Above this. jst beetles OF
different sizes and stages Of development