The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-11-30

double sense. She is arrayed, il NAV
be. in one of the new overskirts. not
full or draped or looped or caught up
in any way but following closely the
lines of the underel;irt, and decorated,
If "e may use the term, with five
enormous points ranging down like
the points of n great star from the
knee almost TO the hem. The points
are insisted upon, they are made forci.
BILE, they are emphasized by startling
contrasts of color. Perhaps they are
pale green over very dark green. or
yellow over dark brown, or vica versa,
or even white contrasting sharply
with black, favorite combination of
colors this year. With such an over.
skirt are worn the usual puff sleeves
and perky hat,
Or the points may be smaller, and in
this case there may be rufllcs. one
two or three, edged with Dig zirzags
all pointing downward. And then the
yoke will be pointed, too. and the lace
collarette edged with points.
Nature abhors points. In all her
laboratories she seldom fashions one.
II overskirt points are sharp, hats
are flat, wonderfully fiat. Flat beyond
precedent. And yet nobody would
know it from their freallish variety of
finished outline. To have been fiat
and yet not look like it is apparently
the deceitful purpose, the daily end
and aim of hatdom. No hat has or
will have crown more than half an
Inch high many are absolutely fiat
disks of felt with no crowns at all
1et all have their fat estate under the
pale fingers of the STOPPING darll-eyed
milliner, dreaming of France and her
beloved CASTOR or Pierre away beyond
there. Perhaps she turns the broad
brim sharply up at the left and accen-
tuates it with aigrettes of feathers or
ribbon bows. Perhaps she leaves it
nearly fiat but curls plumcs cunningly
over the edge and perks pointed bow
ends straight up into the air. Perhaps
chc flaps it up in front into wide wall
of felt over which one can scarcely see
the big plumes that deck it. Most
often of all she pulls the brim low
over the eyes in front and heaves it
nigh behind against the plumes and
bows and bobbing things on top. And
this last is the least trying estate of
the Eat hat.
For the average woman of to-day has
n forehead of more than Grecian height.
This, indeed, she deftly masks beneath
curls low lying against the
white, but the fiat hat sits too high
above her face for beauty of proper
tion. Particularly is the style trying
to high foreheads when the tiaring hat
brim scars alcft in front
There cannot be such variety in
make as in fabrics To the bewilder-
ing Kaleidoscope of fall cuts and colors
the weaver and dyehouse chemists
have contributed more of charm than
the modiste. Beautiful in extreme are
the shot silks, the bas!lct-woven ef-
fects in every kind of goods, shot
cheviots and coarse drop changeant,
spotted muslins and muslins sprigged
and polka dotted, velvets, taffetas and
foulards, plushes, surahs, of names al
most as bewldcring as their colors,
which gleau and glow and dazzle in |
the mass with glow that seems al |
most inward and peculiar,
The trick of most of these weaves is |
to drop into them, into the most un-
expected patterns and materials here
md there a bit, if it be only thread
or two, of shining silk which catches
the light and irradiates the whole.
You know how roses are holding
their own against and through all the
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'razes and other dangers, of course?
Yellow and very pale pink roses go
best with the light greens and dark
green's of the season, and with many,
perhaps most. OF the browns and
aronzeS .-.... ELLEN OSBORN.