The morning times., 1895-10-19

metropolis bank and she Is a poor account
ant who cannot keep her checks correctly
numbered and her account straight.
Al this banking table this week there
sits a solemn line of richly dressed wt,,,en
They are figuring and figuring. They
want 10 make both ends meet and Ian
over far enough to leave q pretty sur
Plus for stunning wedding gown. Lit
tie use OF fire gift If the guest has no
wedding garment.
With very large roll in her white
ebaneled nd gold purse. the solemn
faced woman accountant issues frt.m the
private entrance of the hank to .tsbup"
for her wedding gifts. There are the
Whitney and Marlborough wedding pres
ents to be bought, and six others of
lesser import, for weddings are as plen
tiful this autumn as schrysanthemum shows.
For buying q wedding gift a woman
likes to pay cash. This is strange
freak of feminine nature. For useless
things-such as gifts, candies and per
sonal fromperie--sbe pays her money down
The sum does not look well in her book
But for her owb dresses and her house
furnishings she prefers an account. This
is odd, but il is the conse nsus OF opinion
of the dealers.
THE GOWN FOR SHOPPING.
The shopping gown-the wedding shop
ping gowns a crepon. There is a new
kind of this material that differs from
the old as a sunset from rainbow. One
is pretty-the other dazzling The new
crepon has n deep stripe of a different
color. The raised part is black. 1t lies
upon a purple or blue background All
is crinkly, yet very heavy. 1t is n good
autumn ma berial, warm, becoming and
very adaptable to the new sagging sleeves,
Crepon sleeves, deep purple 'front.' a
purple velvet cellarette and a black skirt
with - broad folhad haI nf In oh
satin makes very smart autumn shop
ping mode 1t is much seen. The crt.pon
is used in combination with silk and vel
vet of the hue of the groundwork. and it
takes a place in the hat trimmings. Col
cred stiff galloon of purple, white and
green appears at inconspicuous parts of
the gowns. A rib of the gaIloon may
peep out each side of the folded belt. or
it may glimrner upon the edge OF the
fluffy neck garniture. 1t is very bright
and becoming to nearly all faces.
For these very neat autumn gov ms, which
are quite inexpensive, the crepon is selling
as low as 60 cents yard Women who
are to put a thousand at a crack in wedding
gifts spend W hole mornings lettering along
the shop displays and leaning over the
counters of their fayorite stores dressed
In its blooming stripes.
A very popular gift VIII be, from inquiry,
a bracelet Of precious stones. The bracelet
is either birthstone bracelet or motto
band. A bracelet sent to Miss Pauline
Whitney by Lady Beresford, and given TO
her by the Duke, who acted as his step
mothers emissary, is a narrow strip of
fiery opals- The stones grade from large
at the wrist to tiny at the back. They are
matched TO a grayish tint when looked at
in certain direction. Otherwise they
have the peculiar blue OF the opal II is
very valuable bracelet, and was promised
by Lady Beresford long ago, when Miss
whitney, looking over her ladyship's jew ell
case, much admired the unset opals there
A motto bracelet purchased for the future
Duchess of ofMarlborough b, spells Good Luck"
The stones are a garnet, opal, oliyine, dia-
mond, lapis laZuh, uralian, cat's-eye and
krokydolite. The last is a cheap, but very
beautiful gem
A brooch-ordered presumably for the
same young lady. as 1t is from relative Of
her mother-speIls Dearest" The stones