St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-27
STYLES FOR ST. PAUL.
The Season When Feminine
Fancy Is Very Indeed
Alert.
How Women With Short
Purses Succeed With the
Merchant.
Shades and StuffS That Will
Be Popular This Time in
st. Paul.
Practical Hints to Our Wives
and Daughters in
Buying.

the burnished.d dove.
In the spring. young mans fancy lightly
turns TO thoughts of love, -s4
remarks the poetical broken-hearted
young man II "Locksley Hail." IFS
statement that has gained wide credit,
and is generally believed. 1t is I'M
doubtedly true about young men, but
the fancy Of the young woman. lightly
and not so very lightly, either, from the
standpoint of papa, who footS the bills
turns to thoughts of spring gowns and
Easter bonnets. She doesn't wait to
consult the robins breast.or the crest of
the Wanton lapwing, or the dove, or any
thing else in the poultry line. There's
certain intangible and ineXplicable
instinct in the heart of every woman
that tells her with unerring accuracy
when a man loves her, and it's time for
spring shopping. Her purse may con-
tain nothing but sample of lavender
ribbon and two stamps, gummed to-
gether back to back, but the minds of
the shopper is above all such minor con-
siderationS, and with this capital she
can shop all day.
Personally, l am fond of men. They
usually wear unbecoming neckties and
have glazing faults, but they mean well.
It's time-hOnored custom among them
to laugh at the woman who shops, but
really, how ever on earth is woman to
know what she wants without looking
to see
what There is to Buys
Inasmuch as none of us possess the
fairy purse which always contains
pound and penny, it behooyes us to
nj H nh
What is there new? Dear me, what
isn't there new The shops are simply
fairy palaces of delight. In the first
place you must have crepe gown
wool crepe. cotton crepe, silk crepe,
what you will, so long as it is crepe in
effect. And trim it with lace. Lace
this year is distinct fad. Irish point,
point degin and ragged" laces are the
things my lady smiles on. They must
be fiounced and cascaded on the cOrsage
and on the petticoat applied in fiat
bands, laid Oh over broadcloth of con-
trastIng color. Broadeloth has super
seeded velvet, they say, as trimming,
and wins popular favor, with
French challies are to be the strictly
correct thing ia summer gowns. They
are really more Serviceable than India
silks, for they do not wrinkle, spot or
run. Skirts, thank the immortal gods,
are draped, if you please, la Marguer
lite, and for street gowns-hear me all
We women of senSe-do not trail.
Your goWn-Or at least one of your
gowns-proyided the color doesn't make
you look like badly put together salad.
ought to be green-any kind of green
that is pre.Raphaelitish, weird and
CHASTITY. Old rose in combination
with green tends to make life
more worth living. Your gloves,
dictated. must be light. Gauntlets
are shown for street wear, and some of
the gloves, with their Aaring embroid-
cred wrists, are strikingly like the ones
whichcoyered the royal fists of Good
Queen Bess Of yore. There is nothing
so absolutely unpleasant to contemplate
as dirty white glove. Nothing could
be more unladyhke, so unless your
bank account is something tremendous,
content yourself with the dainty white
wash leather gloves, and wash them
every other day.
But bonnets, which are commonly
hats! You must buy you round fiat
piece of lace straw, three or four rib
bonS thai aren't even
On Speaking Terms
with each other, some flowers. little
| lace and some fancy pins. Then in
fine frenzy jam the things together, pin
| some streamers to the back, run hat
pin through the whole and-welI, there's
| your bonnet. OF course. there's an end
| less variety IN chapeaux, but, in gen.
! eral, hats are round and fiat, with the
| trimming masSed over the middle of the
| place where the crown would be if
there were any. Long ribbon streamers
| ore distinctly the thing, though not deS-
| tined to be popular with women of
conservative tastes. There are violets
in shoals. and other flowers Of no known
genus. Some of the imported hats,
which her highness, the milliner, keeps
hidden for favored customers, have
squares of lace straw sewn OH for
crowns. A great many Of the hats are
lined with pulled crepe, which has a
wonderfully soft and pretty effect. Some
| are edged with fringe, and have feath-
ers hanging disconsolately behind.
One hat which | saw in my travels
| yesterday, and which madame said was
exquisite, but which shouldn't care to
live in the house with, was of brown
lace straw, with a square of straw for a
crown. The lining was of ecru crepe.
| The bow of ribbon on top was of brown
and vivid green. The flowers were
light orange and heliotrope, Another
hat was lined with yellow crepe, with a
small bow of yellow velvet ribbon,
and flo bunch of English Violets with
a red, red rose. Not all the hats are so
surprising. Far from it. Some of them
are exquisite modest, womanly
creations, beneath which one can al
ready see in fancy the sweet faces of
the women who will wear them after
Lent. The decidedly fashionable hats
are undeniably hideous, but there are
plenty of hats, stylish enough, too, that
| are delightful-hats that somebody will
be sure to think make you look like an
angel straight from paradise-and when
you order your Easter bonnet don't let
the milliner make anything else out of
thing in life worth living for.