The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-16

operations with q striped refreshment tent
and plenty of benches-one caught, as one
was meant to catch, a glimpse of red stock
ings and low shoes.
won't rake, but | will smile upon your
labors, said this fin de steele Maud Muller,
whose led spotted frock was low at the
throat, showing a neck of just the creamy
BROWNIES thought appropriate at this sea
son. The dress turned back in a heart
shaped collar Of guipure lace, and the trim
little casaque bodice, with its narrow edg-
lngs of red velvet opened upon a full
chemisette of fine cream colored linen,
which was gathered under a broad belt of
deep cream colored leather, laced with red
cords. 1t is not so appropriate, as any wo-
man, knows. in such a dress to rake as to
smile. In her hand the smiling one swung
by it's long ribbons a flat hat of yellow
openwork straw, with wheat, poppies and a
scarf Of yellow chiffon for its trimmings.
Mrs Adolph Ludenberg was another who
found it more to her taste to smile upon the
harvesters than to harvest smiling. She
held her court under Il walnut tree which
lorded it quite in the middle of the field,
and there gathered about her young men
in tennis suits, warm, flushed, leaning on
rake handles and clad in striped caps and
long striped stockings. Her own costume
was picturesque enough for the picturesque
occasion. 1t WAS a gray sateen printed with
a feathery design in pink, brought out by
touches of black velvet. Her wide-brim-
med hat was gay with garlands Of pink
roses.
But there were girls who really used their
rakes for other purposes 81 an to lean upon
or tie Up with ribbons. They wore pink
and white and blue and white striped ging-
ham dresses, with sailor hats or large white
hats trimmed with flowers. Girls who were
tall enough to look we'll IN them, and girls
vino were not. wore large red, blue and
III ohaoLo -, THAR rlotl kofictn1 unrv
cool looking, and, when trimmed with
wide falling collar, deep cuffs and wide
bnsques of a sort of coarse guipure, not in
effective. A blue-eyed blithesome girl.
tanned with two months of life in the open
air, wore one of these plaid dresses, but
instead of the lace ~adornments it had q
dark blue velvet ~corselet, and in the front
of the basque a jabot of pinkish white
gauze. The coarse white straw hat was
trimmed with navy blue velvet and meadow
flowers.
The pretence of working seemed to afford
the p%retenders pleasure, though why it did
it would be hard saying, for everybody
fully understood there was no work done.
There could be indeed nothing accom-
plished in French dresses, be they ever so
rustic and worn by damsels ever SO rural.
1t is the proper thing to talk about Miss
Sallie Haruous in the month before her
marriage when, if ever, a young woman
ought to be interesting. She did not pre-
sent herself IN the thick of the raking and
the wagon loading, but at the harvest sup
per, which came afterward. She wore a
pale green foulard with large pink flowers
setting off admirably her clear dark skin.
Thu skirt of her frock Ind a deep lace
tiounce about it arranged in fest ons and
headed with n ruche of pale green silk. A
sash of the same color was tied in long
wide ends at one side. The bodice was
slightly open and edged at the neck with a
lace frill caught here and there with little
bows of green ribbon.
The hat this much mentioned bride-elect
wore with this toilet was a cream-colored
straw with a rose wreath tied with green
ribbons. A broad ribbon was thrown over
the top, brnding it down on tho side. Her
green gloves were so pale as to be white very
nearly.
At the garden fetes which follow one
another in rapid succession the mousseline
gowns are very dainty. One wo-na few days
ago showed flaming meadow lilies strewn
over Il white ground. The skirt, which rested
a few inches on the ground at the back, was
bordered with three narrow ruflles. A vest
of white chiffon was let into the bodice,
and was edged with full ruGhes. The hat
that completed this bright toilet WAS of fine
white straw with a whisp of reddish brown
plated through it. The brim turned up ut
loops of reddish-brown velvet ribbon.
Resting on the straight front brim were two
or three long stems OF spotted lilies.
A second dress which walked up and
down among the bush hollyhocks and tho
hedges of sweet psaa is SHOWN in the first il
lustration. 1t WINS OF pale blue India silk
fiecked with purple v~iolets, following the
novel combination of colors now beginning
to 20 SO much in vogue. Broad bands of