The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-07
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Graduation Gowns of Muslin.

The sweet simplicity" of white muslin
is insisted upon for graduation gowns
this season IN many of the best schools
in the land. All elaboration of fabric
and trimmings is forbidden by some
teachers, others permit only ribbon
trimmings, and still others allow en-
broidery or lace, provided it is not ex-
travagantly used.
There are now go many fine muslins
of snowy whiteness-not eam-tinted-
that it is difficult to select among them.
Perhaps the first choice is for transpar-
emit null entirely of cotton yet as glossy
as silk muslin, which is sold at 81 a
yard, and second heavier quality at
65 cents; both are forty-five inches wide.
he sheerest organdies. sixty-six inches
wide, are SO to 20 cents, while those half
the width, one entirely without dressing,
are but 80 cents. Pin-dotted Swiss mus
lin is even more popular than it was last
summer, and costs, in thirty one-lnch
widths, from IS to 60 cents yard, de-
pending on the quality. A novelty high
ly commended by merchants of taste for
GQOS0 RlTllSu lIUChS 10 slim &lhSAdlis OlSO
called Swivel silk. a mixture of cotton
and silk, the ground smoothly woven,
and powdered effectively with tiny silk
figures or elongated dashes This is
three fourths of yard wide, and costs
but SIS cents. It is said to wash as well
as other ginghams. is dura BILE. pretty
and inexpensive, needing only ribbons
for trimming.
High waists with long large sleeves
hod of Schools for Conn
mencement dresses, whether for day
or evening. The freshest models have
a belted waist gathered over fitted lin
ing of Victoria lawn that is low IN the
neck, and trimmed there with lace or
beading, with baby ribbon drawn
through it as in corset covers. Some
waists have square yoke of insertions
and puffs, others are entirely OF length
wise puffs between embroidered or lace
insertion and others, full at the neck
as at the belt have cross-rows of lnser-
ton in front and back. Sleeves without
lining have a wide puff to the elbow, or
two or three puffs, or else they are in
mutton-leg shape. Some sleeves have
three epaulettes of embroidery at the
top, and others have insertions length
wise in the puff reaching to the elbow,
and going around the closed lower part,
or else the elbow puff is finished with a
lace ruffie falling toward the hand.
White satin or MORE ribbons two inches
and a half or three inches wide are chos-
en- for these gowns, and are used very
simply. A band of the ribbon is drawn
in folds around the collar band as a
stock and ends in the back in bow with
horizontal loops With this is ribbon
belt with a similar crosswise bow in
front, and dropping bow at the back,
with short ends or long sash ends, as one
chooses. To trim the waist further, the
ribbon starts from the belt in the back,
and corning up as braces, crosses the
shoulders to end in front at the end OF
the yoke in a small roseGte close against
each sleeve. When this trimming is not
used a wider ribbon forms a large bow
across the breast usually at the end OF
the yoke.-Harper's Bazaar.
A Goldfish Dinner.
In recent years it has been difficult to
get~genu;ne Goldfish, strange as this may
seem to those who have believed that
Goldfish is the cheapest fish of the sea.
Such is not the case. There are many
coarse, greasy fish taken in the nets with
the cod that are now generally believed
to be cured along with it. The best cod
is that which is sold entire, when there
is very little, if any nance, owing to
size and general appearance, of substi-
tuting another fish. This is also the
cheapest way to buy cod according to the
New York Tribune. New England