The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-05-26


arate table or counter has its eager buyers
and its wornout or superclious salesladies.
What wish to infer by this preamble is,
that just now It seems that everything IL in.
There is show window that is arranged
like picture. The background is formed
OF two beautiful green plush curtains,
heavily ornamented with magnificent point
applique. These are open, slightly showing
tapestry picture OF young girl in pink
dress reading a letter while she mounts
stairway. The bottom of this window is
covered with green Grape, punched up in
little hillocks all over IL. Set about i'm this
restful spot are great vases full of white and
purple lilacs while punches Of violets aud
crocuses and primroses cuddle down among
the puffs Of green az II 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 roll Of moss green
velvet, and a roll Of the same velvet encir-
Giles the crown. In front, little to one
side, are three or four pale pinkish purple
orchids. This hat costs $40, and the lace
is real. There is n tiny contrivance made
like bent horseshoe of tortoise shell, and
attached TO the inner side of this is tiny
jet and gold butterfly. All round the outer
edge is a fringe of disks of cut 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 oyer
magenta lining, and inside the brim is
double pulling Of magenta net. A dread
full magenta rose, with vivid green leaves,
droops on one side, with white tuft Of os-
trch tips on the other. | long to see the
young lady who will dare to appear in tins
bonnet
Lace hats and bonnets, with the most
daring innovations In colors, seem to be
shown as II they were to be the very choic-
est OF all the headgear. / must mention,
though, a Quaker drab satin shirred poke,
with whole handfuls of pink and white
sweet peas sewed upon IL wherever they
would hold ON. This is a dainty bonnet.
The lilacs are as perfect as though freshly
gathered, and | am not sure that the yiolets
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 mel |
must stop, or 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 l must say
the blue cornhower has come back, and, /
think, will prove very popular again-prob-
ably more so than before, as now the milli-
ners have learned its possibilities
The next great show window is filled with
the duh and somber habiliments of woe
and shows what fashion can do with such a
noncompromising material as courtauld
Grape, thanked by the French and Italian
grapes as trimming. One dress had a skirt
cut circular. and the lower part was entire
ly covered with courtauld. About 10 inches
below the waist there was n succession of
RIFLES Of Italian Grape, with rolled hens,
and sewed In such manner as to form a
full ruching about inches deep. The cor