The Portland daily press., 1891-12-24


usual purpose. There is a poor little
cripple over on the east side whose love
for color is fairly tropical She can
never leave her room alive. mean to
set these big gorgeous blossoms where
she can see them always day and
night. She hates the dark and cries out
in it, and they win turn her poor pale
candle light into something splendid and
beautiful"
Telling over the incident to a man
who knows everything, he said smil-
ing: "Ahl That was hers, who is the
most original good angel have ever
known. She does not get up societies
or head subscription papers, or go about
on platforms talking for good causes.
All her eloquence is action. She makes
a business of finding out individual
needs-and relieving them in her own
unobtrusive fashion. She is peculiarly
interested in young women who are
working for themselves here in the city
away from the saving grace of home.
She is making up Christmas boxes for
more than twenty such-not, as you
most likely imagine, of useful, neces-
sary articles, but of frivolous luxuries
that otherwise they would certainly go
without. The contents are as various
as the ecipients-chiffon frills, silk
stockings, kid gloves, dancing shoes,
fine shoes, handkerchiefs, hairpins,
bonnet pins, bangles, ribbon and lace
are some of the things she will give.
''There is one invariable ingredient of
each parcel-a pretty box of the finest
candy to be bought for love and money
combined. This lady bountiful has
theory that while useful gifts may tend
to pauperize the recipients there is
naught but pure pleasure for either
giver or receiver in these delightfully."-
useless ones"
The tailor-made gown, like the poor,
we have always with us. Its present
tendency is to segregation into two dis
tinct styles-both illustrated here. The
really-truly tailor-made was severely
plain. One model keeps almost to that
faith. 1t is of gendarme blue cloth, a
fine light Melton, is glove-fitted, espe-
cially the skirt, and has for trimming
only piping of Astrakhan along all its
seams, both waist and skirt. The hat
worn with it is likewise Astrahkan
trimmed, and is wonderfully smart,
with its perky outstanding loops The 9TH
Ter gown shows what the gardeners would
lcall sport for the true stock. 1t has
gone away from simplicity with VEN
geance. It's stuff is cloth velvet access
series. Both are of the richest pansy
purple. The velvet, which forms the
top of sleeves and corsage and the bot
tom of the skirt, is wrought all over in
describably but most beautifully with a
pattern of silver braid. A bonnet of
pansy velvet, silver wrought, with clus-
tiers of cream yellow tips nodding lit
tie to one side the front, and shoes of
pansy cloth and patent leather with sill
yer buttons up. the side, complete a
wonderfully wide" toilet-one in which
woman may say of her fellow-women:
''Let them look and die"-and one, fur
thermore, suitable for the most swagger
afternoon function, or, indeed, any at
which full dress is not de riguer.
To wear with it in the carriage there
IS long cloak &C violet vAluA+- a1sa
silver wrought upon the long hanging
sleeves, the yoke and the high collar
that is inside all one fluff of many vel
low feathers. The wearer, Spanish
blonde, tall and twenty, wine-dark
eyes and rose-leaf complexion, is mere
ly sent off by the magniicence that
would swamp baby face and accent
into hideous LONELINESS swarthy plain
one. There is nothing very new in foot
gear. New styles, SO called, are mere
variants of well-known old ones. In
evening shoes the Louis XIV. heel is
chosen by the best dressers, who also
have both shoe and stocking to match
the green hue. If there is embroidery
it is in self-color, or very near it, pearl
upon white, and jet upon black, steel
and silver upon various tones of gray,
and gold upon cream and canary. The
fancy for solid metal tips-gold or silver
promises to be no more than fancy,
and short lived at that.
For walking shoes glove calf is COM
ing smartly into fashion. For riding
boots likewise it divides honors with
patent leather. The newest riding
boots sit thought loossr over the in
step than those of last season, besides
having a straight heel considerably
higher.
The wrap of the minute, notwith-
standing it is December, is the three
quarter cape with suggestion of coat
in front. The woman who dares wears
such garment in dull red cloth, braided
all over with heavy pattern in black,
and faced upon the collar and down the
front with long fur. For country or
carriage wear it's mighty pretty fash
ion. On the street it is bit too sug-
gestive of new Wild West. The palmer
cape which may be bought in all colors
is worlds better as a general utility gar
meat. In black, dark gray, navy blue,
hunters green or tan, with mere edge
of fur, it is d most admirable wrap for
the street, church or. shopping. For
evening it is made up in creamy tan,
very light gray, white with tinsel braid
ing. or scarlet with an edging of soft
white feathers, and is fetching world
without end.
If your dearest foe taunts you with a
new fur garment which she tells you is
baltic seal" finger it critically for a