St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15

Spring costuming will dawn gradually
and will not burst forth suddenly. re-
CARELESS of the weather; but as the
fashion of wearing new costumes at
Easter loses favor, the custom OF SEND
ing Easter souvenirs to ones friends
grows. The plain Qld-fashioned Easter
egg, layed by the time-honored Easter
rabbit, is out OF date. Its aniline reds
and onion skin yellows are too gaudy,
If the souvenir is an egg at all, it must
be painted artlstically; or, perhaps, the
contents are blown out and the shell
filled with Sachet powder, which is all
lowed to silt ont through Il kind of
pa per pepper-b0x, top pasted on one
end. Your particular friend who is a
dainty SeamStress must be given an
emory egg. covered with channels skin
and mounted with silver. One of the
jewelry novelties is book mark. 1t is
made of three ribbons suspended from a
tiny silver bar. At the end Of each
ribbon hangs silver charm, emblematic
of the season. One book mark OF purple
ribbon has Faith, Hope and Charity,
typitied by a cross, an anchor and a
star. On another mark of white rib
bOnS the star was replaced by a tiny
silver heart. Some of the ribbons are
delicately painted with Easter lilies.
Collectors of coffee spoons. the popular
collection fad just now, will add to their
cabinets Easter spoons of silver, on
which appropriate designs are engraved
or enameled.
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Hearts are trumps this season. The
girl who has not a silver or gold heart,
beside the pure gold one nature be-
slows on every woman, is as much left
out in the cold as the girl who had no
fri endship ring last year. Small lockets
of heart shape, with dear Jacks picture,
are to be worn day and night. The
instead of the much-abused coin.
Brooches are made of entWined hearts,
and the omnipreSent friendship ring Is
this year developed in silver, with a
turquOis heart. The combination is
unpleasant and crude. the silver setting
quite destroys the dclicacy of the tur-
qu0iS coloring, but similar ring with a
colOred enamel heart is very desirable
There is really nothing prettier or more
refined IN jewelry than the delicate
enameled flowers. They are now APP
piled to the ends of long bonnet pins.
Other gold and silver bonnet pins are
topped with ball and link designs. For
the wO man who objects to the circular
shown q straight supporter, precisely
like the ordinary nickel-plated affair,
but made of silk and finished with gold
Or silver faSteningS and satin bows,
FilletS of gold or of silver filagree will
be worn with the pretty Greek couture,
and lOrgnetteS-lt'S a secret between a
jeweler and me-but more than half
one sees are just plain glass or the very
weakest of lenses. It's very pardon
able deception, for a lorgnette quite dis
counts Calling gun as remover of
socially Objectionable people.
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The greatest trouble with the plain
skirt in the hands of the amateur dress
maker has been that 1t invariably
''cupped'' in at the bottom. The skirt
was easily fitted to the Wearer, pleated
artiSticaily and made to hang well. be-
traying its maker only in the ''cuppy"
bottom. Professional dreSsmakers Oh
viate this difficulty by slashing the
foundation skirt at the bottom i'll three
places for about the length of a lead
pencil or long finger. The whole skirt
IS then bound with a narrow strip Of
bias velveteen, which is found at the
stores already cut for this purpose. The
edges of the slaSheS are bound i'll the
same manner, and the slight fullnesS
thus given makes the outer skirt hang
without cupping. The ultra plain skirt,
the kind that its with not the fainteSt
hint of a wrinkle, is often cut longer
i'll front than in the back, as the
drawing back of the material at both
sides almost invariably makes the outer
skirt seem shorter than the foundation.
The amateur dressmaker will succeed
with the ''tailor-made" gown only if she
be the possessor of a large iron, with
which TO press every seam into ObIiy-
ion. The places in gown which are
especially apt to wrinkle should be
lined with stiff canvas. Buttons and
button holes, or hooks and eyes, should