Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-02-02

Such a gown as this is comfort to the
wearer, who knows she looks well dr. * Ca
and she knows. too, that this gown will b.
a mainstay for at least two seasons for "A
best street gown.
notice with pleasure that there is a t,nd
ency to return to the combination of red
ana blue in gowns both for LONE aud street.
These two colors are natural compliments,
and they 20 well toward making cheap
gown look handsome | noticed recent
ly dark blue serge made for young lady.
The skirt was plain in form, with five cores,
and handsomely braided with wide black
soutache. The front breadth was left open
on each side to admit of narrow panel of
cherry satin. The waist opened over a vest
of the same, and there was sprung founce
to the waist, lined with the satin. At the
neck there was a wide jabot of the satin,
which spread nearly to the points of the rev
ers. The high collar was also red.
The young lady whose duty 1t is to try on
costumes in this particular establishment
looked weary and tired of the vanities of
new gowns until she put this gown on 1t
took five years off her age and all tile weari-
ness out of her face, whereupon | made
note of the fact that blue and cherry make
a good combination for those who have lost
they are.
At this same place they make speciality
of mourning garments, and sat and
watched another young girl try on dresses,
coats, wraps, bonnets and wells, and | was
struck by the somber depression that
seemed to fall over her young head by AS.
ISOLATION with so much funeral black
But also noted very handsome gown
for young widow who has let CLEAN of
comfort creep into her sorrow enough to nj
low her to take off the bonnet with it's tell
tale row of white Grape and put on dainty
little affair made of the material of her
gown and bordered with fiat, dull let
beads and ornamented with a couple of
black fancy wings. The Grape veil in many
instances is gathered or plated to close
bunch and fastened to the back of the bon
net and left to fall straight down the back
This is as great a physical torture as could
be invented and how women bear it j. past
finding out and proves them to be the
stronger sex instead of the weaker
For elderly women there are little close
bonnets that tie with strings under the
chin, and over these are thrown the veils
and then they are fastened to the bonnet by
lusterless pins and left to fall over the
shoulders and down the back. They are
terrible. They pull aud drag and give head
aches and backaches. Something ought to
be devised TO make the wearing of "A mourn
ing veil little less of penance.
The double silk warp henrietta shawls
are preferred by ladies who have passed
their meridian or whose means are such as
to preclude changes of style. Others have
mantles bordered with Grape or with that
ugly crinkled tape fringe that some like
Others, and these are the great majority,
prefer a three-quarter black melton coat
without trimming. Others have entire
suits made of silk warp henrietta faced and
bordered with courtaud Grape, and some
have costumes of the beautiful new eudora
cloth. One of this kind had a plain skirt
with several heavy plaits in the back.
Around the bottom was a deep facing of
Grape, cut in scallops and reaching up to a