Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-17
2O22 FIRST, AVE,

tails and pink chiffon waistcoat The bonnet that finishes this daring outfit has outspreading bows of black velvet and a bunch of pink roses.
 It's too late and too early for truly novelties" and opera dresses are about as interesting as any on view. Pale mauve trimmed with Nile-green chiffon was one of last nights successes, garnished with punches of pinlxish heliotrope.
 In another box was lovely gown of rose-pink satin, the low, round neck covered with clouds of pink gauge, the huge sleeves sprinkled with jet sequins.
 Pale-amber silk was another effective frocl<, sprinlkled with tiny pink and red tulips.
 Perhaps the natty little capes of plush-blue, black, dark purple, dark bottle green or wine color-with ap- plique patterns in lace upon them are very suitable for spring But there are springs and springs. When the ther- mometer is very low and the wind whistles about the street corners with cicles in it's breath, these theatric capes with applique patterns in lace upon them are undoubtedly modish. But couragel Warm days must come, and in any case the applique mode is quite in order.
 do not see that glace silks, moires and all the iridescent sisterhood of changeables that train with them are to be any less popular than they were last year. A tall and slender lady whom I know has silk dress with glace effect, simply skirted, big sleeves and perfect shape; and as she walks 7 it's soft rustic and with her every move ment it's refecting sheen are indescrib- ably effective Yet, analyze it, and what is it? black silk dress, and that is all. But oh, how different from the picture of respectable frumpiness five years in the bandboxes with brief and infrequent appearance among the daughters of man, which the words call up to memory's surface.
 A black silk dress of the type well preserved in the bandboxes Is a neces- sity. Moire and its glistening sister, hood are a luxury. The fancy for them many not last much longer, but there will be many sigh if they must go into the ragbag by and by. Silks are very feminine.
 There Is no possible combination of furs so swell as sable and ermine. They have held their own for hundreds of years and have now become an in- stitution. in copartnership like lamb and mint sauce, or gold and fattery. Caracule, If that is the way to spell it, is much used in the connection of sweet confections in capes and jackets of less formal type; but like all things mortal it invites limitations, and such limitations as make the judicious grieve. Speaking of grieving, a woman should never cry in an Eton jacket. I speak from observation of woeful woman wearing one of those cute short jackets of fur. Now, that jacket expressed pertness, up-toldateness, liveliness, the saucy air of an English sparrow; and one could not without a shock associate it with tears running forlornly down silly red nose. Why shouldn't won- an have crying costume? She already hns dress for almost every use and occasion, and certainly crying is both. would suggest something soft and long and clinging and not too smart of look. -
 woman cries very well in some of the more languorous of tea-gowns.
 Little round peasant caps are the newest fad for evening headwear, light curls escaping about the forehead and neck. They are pretty for certain sort of pretty woman.
 ELLEN OSBORN.
 Ladies' elegant muslin