The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-25

A yellow buff, rather bright tint, has
a white satin stripe, narrow and a much
wider stripe of open lace work in white
silk.
Then come the crepons in cotton, the
ginghams in silk, the batistes, the Swiss
muslins and the crinkled varieties, of
which there are many.
The silk ginghams are among the pref
test. There is no cotton thread visible,
unless you turn to the back. On the sur
face all is soft lustre. These wash just
as well as the old-time ginghams, and
make such pretty fancy bodices that
they are often purchased for this pur-
pose alone. The rainb stripes in these
are taking-lavender waving into dull
gold and back into lavender again.
Another variety has the white silk
ground divided off by narrow satin
stripe, between which small sprays of
moss rosebuds are thrown. Another one,
in green again, which promises to be
popular as ever this spring, runs the
gamut of the green tints, in successive
strips, always, however, keeping within
subdued bounds. Over the standings are
dashes of black
Crinkled crepon, 1 soon learned, was
popular novelty. This comes in fine,
candy strips, and in those same bright
shades, so cleverly interviewer, however,
that the effect is very pleasing.
A plain crepon, in new pattern,
has a small white cord over the pink or
green or blue ground, proceeding in
devious and strange ways. forming
squares within squares, and crosses and
"sich like"
1t is not the moderate cost of any of
these materials that recommends them to
US. Those crinkled crepons, thirty inches
wide, cost IS cents yard; the crepons,
pure and simple, 45 cents a yard; while
many of the silk ginghams are So.
Then there were rainbow striped
batlstes, in dull havanas, in blues and
pinks, in violet shades that melted into
yellow. There was a pretty lavender,
with lace insertion between the stripes a
pink and green wasn't so commonplace as
the combination suggests. Tho broad
sage-green stripe was dotted with white
flower sprays; and there were narrow
rows between OF lace work in faint pink
and white
A darker sage alternates with white
stripes. The sage-stripe had an allover
flower pattern in white the white stripe
boasted of dashes in three or four bright
colors.
There were old-fashoined seersuckers in
yellow and white; on the colored stripe,
in every instance, were big dots of
white.
A lavender material had white, basket
weavings between; a pink had in
terlaced white rings over, separat ted
by lace insertions; delicate yellow
batistes las q block pattern in fine silk,
run rather closely, and giving a silvery
effect by its greyish white tint. The
punches of purple and yellow pansies,
that are scattered ovet, looked so pretty
that | almost made up my mind that l
liked that pattern best of all.
But right next to this lay another, and
l hesitated This was altogether differ.
cnt-a pale, dull pink, covered with sprays
Of flowers in red tints, in fine, Marie An
toinette style.
The organizes we're there, in all their
pristine freshness, although more sub
dued in tint. On the creamy grounds
were lovely ferns and palm leaves in
autumn tiuts. between other sprays of
blueies, or nasturtiums, or carnations.
The sprays are very far apart. and often
take the form OF quaint, old-iashioned
country nosegays.
The summer goods, where they have no
lace in their stripe. are made Up with an
embroidery that IL 50 hne and sheer that
one wonders whether II can be lace TIE
new Insertions, too are very pretty. Tor
they have small fancy edge each side
forming much more OF a finish than the
straight edge OF the old Insertion
For those who are impatient 20 see their
gowns made up. there are a few designs
which it will b. pretty safe 70 follow