The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-13

frills Of gray batiste falling over frills o.
lavender baiiste about the slightly point d
neck and the elbow sleeves. You coul'.
have the bottom OF the skirt finished IA
the same way with narrow ruffles OF lay.
ender under gray, and you could wear, III
you felt equal TO carrying out the scheme
with great eNactness; lavender sash ana
lavender ribbon in your hair"
This pussy wouldn't commit herself any
more than the other one, aud j should
have given up my task il / could have
found more speculative audience. But
the family had gone 20 n private open
ing" for the milliners and the dressmak-
ers are following the example OF the New
York Democrats and forcing early con
yentions. so ! considered the case OF n
pussy IN a particularly glossy brown
macintosh pulled completely over her
head and hiding her absolutely. AS you
are an utter stranger, reasoned, don
have 10 play you are pretty You can
be an ordinary, commonplace, everyday
sort OF individual, who will look well or
i'll according TO the sense or lack OF IL you
show In picking out your clothes. Let me
see; don't know your complexion, but on
q venture / will put you into navy bluc
chambray; that color is safe for almost
anybody. 1t shall be this bit almost lost
under the gayer ones, with large ylolets
and ivy leaves flecking IL No intervals. III
fer IL you'll get very simple little dress,
with full waist and a peasant bodice
belt of velvet, with velvet braces over
your shoulders.
It's nuisance planning fetching toilets
now then this Is the ninth time ! have
sworn never to say fetching again-for
such an irrcsponsive household, but the
samples compelled IL, and there was a pale
pink bingham barred with white that ]
had not yet disposed Of. IL lay beside
very delicate blue barred with white-for
a single color with white marking is the
most popular and not always the least
pretty design of the spring L appropri-
ated the two Of them TO two twin pusses
out on a small twig by themselves, and
advised the pink pussy TO think well of a
skirt composed of three scanty fiounces
reaching TO the waist, and n round waist
draped and held by velvet ribbon girdle.
The best / could do for the blue pussy
was a round-waisted yoke bodice with full
sleeves and n skirt with plated ribbon
ruches at the bottom.
With the coming of the sun blue it the
color that prevails. The blue of sky, such
sky rs we imagine we are going TO get In
April with the wind whisking the white
clouds across the face of il and the tree
buds thrusting themselves in silhouette
against it, looks out from all the new
materials. There are blue chiilons, too.
delicate in their beauty even to look at
and blue India silks dotted with butter
flies and rosebuds, and whitley blue cloths
with blue velvet ribbons laid against
them, and blue muslins with gnarly
brown twigs inlacing their borders, and
blue batistes checked with silvery gray
and blue chambrays crossed with yellow
giving the very essence OF imagined spring
not always the real article-in sky ano
a flood of sunshine,
Violet and heliotrope shades are going
| TO be more fashionable even than last sea
son. Iwouldn't write il down if the fact
were not too obvious long TO escape obser
vation, for the wrong women always. put
them on and spoil the colors and them
selves. Green and white rank high anC
will rank higher. The combination pre-
sents designs enough, but less serious ones
than the heliotrope probably.
The early efforts in spring millinery
make gardens of the windows. Womer
VINO are off 10 ST. Augustine are in {
hurry TO buy, and so the Southern exodus