Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-14
RUSSIAN EMBRorDERIEs.

VA AAAS esAAN PesoSAoA" SSsSA e>y oho sAAAeS' HELEN HUNT JACKSON RUSSIAN EMBRorDERIEs.
 The popular fancy for Russian fashions brings about the adoption of gay Russian embroideries for trimmings. These any needlewomsn may make for herself if she does not consider her life too short to be spent in cross stitching. The imported embroideries are in strips two or three inches wide. The foundation is cotton fabric, canvas or batiste, embroidered in quaint designs in old-fashioned, cross stitch, with red and blue or red and black These stripes are alternated with insertions of open-patterned Russian lace, wrought in the same colors. E.
 Sleeveless blouses to be worn with coat waists that have open jacket fronts, blouse waists and aprons, are trimmed with these showy bands, with or without the lace in- sertions. "Santuzza aprons" in imitation of the little apron worn by Santuxza in the opera "Cavalleria Rusticsna," are made of bands of canvas embroidered in gay and foundation of any desired shade. The edges of the embroidered stripes are cov- cred with narrow gold braid.
 For a sleeveless blouse to wear with a jacket or blazer, use strips of surah, three inches wide and of three colors, red, dull blue and green or ecru. Baste soft can vas over the silk and work design in cross stitch over it, pulling out the canvas threads when the work is completed, and joining the strips with straight row of cross stitches. The embroidery is done with black silk and the pattern should be broad enough to nearly cover the surah. These strips from the front of the blouse which is fitted only at the neck and shoulders, the belt drawing the fulness into shape at the waist. Below the waist line the strips are not sewed together, but are finished separately. These tabs hang about three inches below the belt, making 8 very pretty effect below the short jacket. For blouse waist make the back and front of the em- broidered strips, and the sleeves of one of the plain colors. These are made full to the elbow, falling over a deep close cuff made of the embroidered strips.
 These embroideries, imported or home made, are used to trim entire Russian cos tunes. The same work is done on cotton for the decoration of plain gingham dresses that are made up in Russian fashion with the long blouse and round skirt.
 THOSE GOOD D-FoR-NoTH1Na LITTLE BoNNETs.
 Men have of late years brought many railing accusations against women because of their Aimsy and absued little bonnets, which, while manifestly inadequate to protect the head from summer heat and wintry winds, hardly succeed in covering a small portion of it. Numberless ills and pains, and even death itself, they predicted would follow the exposure caused by this foolish fashion. They are now informed upon the authority of those who have in vestigated the matter that it is partly to the insufficiency of these very bonnets that women owe the preservation and the beau ty of the hair. Air and sunshine promote it's growth, and as the artists tell us that of a verity woman's hair is growing more abundant and more beautiful in color and texture it must be that the little himsy, worthless, ridiculous bonnet should be credited with it's share in bringing about the happy result.
 The men who read this paragraph-very few of them will-will do so with fine scorn for the assertion and the inference. And then they will crowd the stiff, unven- tilated cylinders, to which they cling for the greater part of the day and night with devotion amazing to witness, still closer down over those arid and shining wastes for which this continual hot -potting is largely responsible and proceed to invent further criticisms anent "wimmin's bun nits." HILARY.