Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-23

DALI 1O"NS fOk YUM ladies.
arate table or counter has it's eager buyers
n its wornout or supercilious s%alesladies.
What I wish to infer by this preamble is.
that just now it seems that everything is in,
There is a show window that is arranged
like a picture. The background is formed
Of two beautiful green plush curtains,
heavily ornamented with magnificent point
applique. These are open, slightly showing
a tapestry picture of a young girl in a pink
dress reading a letter while she mounts a
stairway. The bottom of this window is
covered with green Grape, punched up in
little hillocks all over it. Set about in this
restful spot are great vases full of white and
purple lilacs, while punches of violets and
crocuses and primroses cuddle down among
the puffs Of green as if that was all a new
sort of garden. Then here and there, not
too many, but just enough for each to stand
up and be admired by itself, are new spring
hats.
One is a round hat with a low, round
crown. Brim and crown are of rich vene-
tian print drawn over the frame smoothly.
Around the brim is a roll of moss green
velvet, and a roll of the same velvet encir-
cles the crown. In front, q little to one
side, are three or four pale pinkish purple
orchids. This hat costs SIS, and the lace
is real. There is a tiny CONTINUANCE made
like a bent horseshoe of tortoise shell, and
attached to the inner side of this is a tiny
jet and gold butterfly. All round the outer
edge is a fringe of disks Of Il jet. In the
back there is a double bow of gold faced
velvet ribbon one inch wide, and the ends
stream down the back.
There is a cottage bonnet, which would
come quite close to the face and cover the
ears. This is OF white lace stretched over
a magenta lining, and inside the brim is Il
double putting of magenta net. A dread
full magenta rose, with vivid green leaves,
drOops on.one side, with a white tuft of os-
trich tips on the other. / long to see the
young lady who will dare to appear in this
bonnet.
Lace hats and hpnnets, with the most
daring innovations in colors, seem to be
shown as if they were to be the very choic-
est of all the headgear. I must mention,
though, q Quaker drab satin shirred poke,
with whole handfuls Of pink INT white
sweet peas sewed upon it wherever they
would hold on. This is a dainty bonnet.
The 1ilacs are as perfect as though freshly
d gathered, and l am not sure that the violets
are not real. Surely these are the proper
flowers for spring. They carry with them
breaths of the moist woods and old, weedy
gardens, where the dampness gives birth to
a wealth of blossom undreamed of by poor,
flower starved city folks. There are trail
ing arbutus blossoms and tiny chickweed
stars and pink pimpernel and-dear me!
must stop, or I shall grow homesick for the
old Pennsylvania farm, where ribbon grass
and spicy pinks fought with the wild flow
ers for possession of the beds along by the
fence near the swamp. But 1 must say
the blue cornflower has come back, and, !
think, will prove very popular %again-prob.
ably more so than before, as now the MILL.
ners have learned it's possibilities.
The next great show window is filled with
the dull and somber habiliments of woe
and shows what fashion can do with such a
noncompromising material as c~ourtauld
Grape, fanked by the French and Italian
grapes as trimming. One dress had a skirt
cut circular, and the GLOVER part was entire
ly covered with courtauld. About Is inches
below the waist there was q, succession Of
rnf1es of Italian Grape, with rolled hens
and sewed in such a manner as to form 8
full ruching about 5 inches deep. The cor