Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-02-13
SATURDAY SALAD.



receiving paper lace affair that informed
us that e were dear in some ones eyes,
why should we now claim that sending
valentines is practice that should be-
come obsolete? st. Valentines day may
be of small importance now but children
and lovers see that it is celebrated royalty.
The valentines of to day are wonderfully
beautiful, but the gilded society youth has
decided that, if his true love does not care
for these bright bits OF satin and lace, to
send her valentine basket OF bonbons, or
rare fruit. So, you see, you are at liberty 10
choose anything for a souvenir on the
day. 1t is a pretty custom-tte sending
of gifts; it meets the approval of the talr
sex-what more need be said Ill Its
favor?
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Speaking of the fair sex reminds me OF
two very pretty gowns in course OF COM
pletion by fashionable modste. One, a
dark blue broad cloth, is made with the
inevitable bell skirt which the width OF
the cloth allowed to be made with only
one seam; it boasts OF no trsin, as the
woman who is to wear it is averse to this
street cleaning process. deep coat OF
the cloth is frightened by a long vest Of
brocaded white satin, fastened with tiny
buttons. The sleeves are made coat style,
with deep cuffs heavily stitched. The
other gown of delicate heliotrope cash.
mere, with skirt elashed around the bot
tom and lined with satin of the same
shade. The basque opens over a full vest
OF white silk confined at the waist, by 6
velvet corselet laced with sllken cord
With this gown is to be worn a cluster Of
the most delicate and lovely artificial
heiotropes it has been my fortune tC
view. How the delicate members of the
feminine gender have appropriated fol
themselves the rather manlsh coat. Even
though it was introduced to them some
two years ago by that capricious dame
Fashion, it is as popular to-day as it was
then, and the early spring gives promise
of coats shaped in many different styles
my dear? No? Why, how is that? Fol-
| corselets are at present the --latest
and most fashionable items o.
woman's wardrobe. And they
are made in all styles, from the tiny prin
ted affair to the one that reaches vel
under the arms in graceful curves. They
are pretty, they freshen up a gown, and
| best OF all, they give a slender effect tC
the waist that is desired by all women
! hygiene cranks-l mean devoted to by
giene-included Do you know, | an
sorry that did not let the word crank &c
as it was? For, between you and me, il
is pretty good name for some women
who practice hygiene-crank is. | an
acquainted with one, who believes that
women should get themselves up in Ger
tain gowns that would make pretty
woman ugly, and an ugly woman-well
you should see all ugly woman in them tC
appreciate her. She says that women
wear their gowns too tight, wear theil
shoes too tight, should run and walk, anC
do all manner Of things, except house
work. She declares that, if all these
things were done, that this would be {
happier, better world in this way WomeI
could push it little nearer heaven. AnC
she holds herself up ~ the result OF hel
ideas, that her sisters who run may lool
at her; they do look and then run in an
other direction. II they have to become
as she is they would rather remain a:
they are, thank you; jest poor, veal
little women who know how to selec
gowns and know how to wear them after
they are made. Do you know that there
is great deal in knowing how to wea
gown after you get it. Some womer
look charming in a new gown, other
look far better in an old print.