Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-04-22
THE FLEETING Snow.
Some of Its Facts and Fancfes.
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l


Written for the JOURNAL AND CoUR1ER.l
GREENS.
AS often happens, with the returning
Spring, comes the fancy for using tints of
green, Springs own color, in articles of
dress. It's use is not confined this SEASON
to fabrics of silk and wool and velvet for
personal adornment, but green is at pres
ent the most approved celor for interior
decorations, and If used with artistic taste
and judgment is very refreshing to the
eye. The newest carpets, curtains and up
holstery show varied and exquisite shad
ings Of moss green, and for summer
room nothing can be cooler, more dainty,
and more restful to the eye than furnish
ings of soft green with ivory white
This fancy for green affects also the
table, and in the china shops We find the
finest new wares are banded and decorated
with green upon white, the new tint quite
superseding the long favored blue, and
harmonizing satisfactorily with the ''green
food" which it is meet, right, and our
bounden duty to eat at this season.
Spring, which brings with it languor,
debility, btliousness and bad temper, pro-
vides the sufferer from these Ills with
pleasant green remedies to be applied in
ternally. The tonic dandelion, the sopo-
rife lettuce, the bland and soothing aspara-
gus, the wholesome spinach and kale, are
gifts from Springs right hand, whereby it
atones for the those left-handed blows
that produce indigestion and its conse-
quent ''green and yellow melancholy"
| Shades of green have, very properly,
and of the apple, of the olive, of moss and
of asparagus, of the ivy leaf, sage, and
| mignonette, with a dozen others, are to be
had for the asking. You have only to de-
eide which shade of green is the proper
shade for you. One cannot say, in a
general way, as said the independent
and airy milkmaid in Noah Webster's
Spelling Book. "Green becomes my COM
plexion best. and green it shall b." 1t is
| a matter for nice distinction and thought
full, even prayerful, consideration. While
and blooming as poet painters vision of
sweet Spring, another may give dismayed
spectators the impression that Malaria In
human form is stalking abroad.
"Green is forsaken," is an old saying,
now held in disrepute, and as for its being
the hue of jealousy one might think i
rather the color of hope, for are not April
bridesmaids, aye, even the brides them
selves, a wearing of the greene This goes
to prove that the girl of to-day is too sen
sible to take any stock in old superstitions.
kodern fanc!es are all that che can keep
up with, and she doss not propose to ham,
per herself with the burden of antiquated
whims and the moth eaten traditions OF
her elders. Jealousy and deeertion do not
suggest themselves to the gown choosing
bride -about-to be. If green, lettuce OF
sage, or whatever, becomes her complexion
best, green it Is This ought to do much
toward removing the stigma that has beer
| SO long attached to color that is in itsel1
beautiful, cheerful, and restful to the eye
and should bs symbolic of life and vigol
and growth.
And now there are even green wells. II
these, the wrong shade Is worEe than
blunder-it is a crime. The bilious, sharp
faced, sallow-cepplexioned woman, look
ing through green veil, some one ha
said, suggests nothing SO much as quaran
! tine. The purple wells have been bat
, enough, but green ones will be more try
: old-fashioned and spinsterish in the yer,
t sound of the words green veil! But II
choosing veil. one should be guided b,
the colors of the hat and its trimmings. I
? must harmonize with them, and with tn
! tints of the wearer's complexion, and tn
. veil that is sure to agree with both is tn
one of black lace, always In good taste
d and oftentimes real beautifier.
!, Wells.
d The veil, as worn of late, amounts
It little as protection. 1t will howeve
keep locks in place, that in damp CT wind
weather are prone to wander or straights
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