New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-24

saucepan. Peas. asparagus. caufowers ana
new potatoes should, however. be gently boiled
1t is not necessary TO have wealth In order 70
furnish a house tsstefuy. but 1t does require bo'h
time and ingenuity. A bare room Is very unat-
tractive. and 1t Is quite astonishing now some
simple inexpensive contrvance Will tighten up and
adorn a bank-looking wall. The smallest picture
has its' attractions, and there are many pretty ways
of making homemade frames. the cost Of which Is
practically nothing A frame cut out Of pasteooard
and neatly covered with chntz gummed on 10 the
wrong side may be very pretty; and straw frames
which consist of evenly cut lengths Of straw. tied
together with bows OF ribbon at the four corners.
are dainty and fresh-ooking. From summer out
ings at the seashore and mountains any number OF
materials for frames may be brought home.
To be well dressed in these days Is no easy mat
ter for pretty gown is only the beginning Petit
coats. stockings hat must all either match or must
carry out In some way the scheme OF color A gray
crepon gown. for instance. has the skirt lined with
blue silk and the petcoat is also of blue silk with
silk stockings of the cerulean tint the note OF
blue being repeated in the collar and trimmings OF
the bodice. Another pretty frock belonging to
trousseau is of black. with yellow sleeves covered
with black chiffon. and touch of manve In collar
and petticoat with block silk stockings striped with
mauve To own silk pettcOats and stockings 10 so
with every dress Is very expensive, and therein lies
the difficulty of being really we'll dressed Many a
woman signs for the days of the clean starched
skirts that were put into the tub and scrubbed The
present fashion of using the or two silk petit
coats week in and week cut is certainly not COM
mendabe
The rich-lookng moires that have been 50 popular
are being fairly driven off the field by the display
OF cheap goods which flooding the market under
that name. These gowns loaded and look
fairly well first, but anything more depressed and
misunderstanding than tumbled. crushed ana
dlngy MORE sleeve made Of the cheaper quality 1t
is impossible to imagine.
A pretty creature is the summer girl OF 1894 In
the first place she is so distinctly feminine even
her "tailor-mades' being delightfully."- eccentric
with picturesquely draped sleeves and artisticany
arranged revers recently imported English tailor
gown is IN a new shade OF covert cloth. light
graylsh blue which is extremely becoming to
blondes The skirt is plain. without trimming but
is curiously cut. that from the side seam on the
right there is a continuation. as !; were, or the
skirt which. cut 10 a point is faced with white
MORE and is caught up the left side as an over
skirt showing the MORE as 1t turns over ana end
ing with a fold OF blue. The cloth Is cut away from
the blue silk lining underneath TO prevent double
thickness. The perfectly cut Eton Jacket has tre-
mendousy large reveys OF white MORE, with ends
turning showing the blue cloth
new French idea is basque waist Of light
figured silk. worn with black skirt over petu-
coat to match the waist. In the example quoted
the skirt of black satin-striped faille was slightly
raised in scolops at the bottom the point Of each
scoop being finished with satin bow. and show
ing rufie Of the chene brocaded patterned SILK
petticoat underneath.
A great many OF the new dresses would be regu-
lar Harnquinades It not for the French
taste that puts such seemingly ncongruous ma
terials and colors together. Imagine. for instance
a dark blue accordion pl eated chiffon body. short
full accordion -peated sleeves and literally halt
OF a founced skirt. the other half being OF draped
pale mauve crepon, caught up on the side OF me
chiffon hounces with a velvet bow OF salmon PINK,
the drapery OF the crepon being continued over the
body where IL is crossed. surplice fashion and Is
ga thered in folds the shoulders together with
the under part Of the sleeves which meet at the
elbow leaving the accordion plcated hounces or
the dark blue chiffon standing well out and then
continuing in a perfectly straight tight sleeve TO
the wrist The stock" which. by-the-way. Is
the latest word for the high folded collar. Is OF
salmon pink velvet. with a bow at the back ana an
other bow OF the on the left side OF the
draped bodice.