Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-02
THE FAIR WOMAN'S WORLD.
SUBJECTS TO INTEREST THE
WOMEN FOLKS.
What to Wear--Thls Is the Girl We
Are Looking For - Very Few
Carry Themselves Correct
ly--ReckiessW With Soda
Water.
What to Wea,


Charming midsummer dresses for
mornings at the Casino orfor country
house wear are made of sheer French
muslin, the white ground strewn with
small colored blossoms, trimmed with
flounces, coat skirt, and bretelles of
the blossoms thickly massed in Dor
der strips. The French fancy is to
make the corsage of these dresses APP
pear to be over an inner corsage of
plain nainsook laid in the smallest
tucks, extending in V almost to the
end of the waist in front and back.
The linen Inning is then cut down low
in the neck, and the tucking is edged
with bretelles made of the vine or
border trimming, beginning very mar
row at the waist, and gradually in
creasing in width to the shoulders,
where they droop over the full sleeves.
Valenciennes lace is laid in folds around
the high collar, and falls in jabot
down the front. The tucked nainsook
reappears as under-sleeves with lace
wrist bands inside full muslin sleeves
that have wide Valenciennes trimming
turned back from the hands. A deep
coat frill of the bordered muslin is
gathered to the end of the slightly
pointed bodice, and a single iounce,
also of the bordering, trims the plain
straight skirt. This design is charm
ingly carried out in white muslin
powdered with bluets, o. border of in
te"twined bluets forming the flounce
and bretelles. A round bow of gros
grain ribbon the shade of the bluets is
set on the front and on the back of
the bodice, where the coat frill is add
ed. Lavender flowers and rosebud
muslins are similarly made, and q
touch of black is added in two bows
OF velvet ribbon on the bodice, all
flowing ribbons being eschewed for the
present.
French gray muslins wrought with
tiny polka dots are new this season.
and are beautifully made with full
bodice shaped by deep corselet or
Swiss girdle of white guipure lace, to
which a narrow coat frill is sometimes
added in the back. For those who
begin to tire of coats these dotted
muslins are made with yoke of gui-
pure lace. to which the muslin is add
ed in full tluting narrowly edged with
guipure, then drawn down to % point
in front and back in fine pleats that
pass into a band of the lace and rib
bon. The sleeves are very full at the
top, and aregathered below the elbow
to a deep cuff of guipure. The full
straight skirt has one or more inser-
tions of guipure above hem. If a
hounce is desired at the foot, it is Dor
dered with guipure insertion, and may
be headed by four or five standing
ruffles of the muslin taken double,
each an inch wide when finished.
HOUSE SACQUEs.
Toilette sacques and breakfast
Jackets for wearing in ones own home
are made of thin French lawns, white
with china blue, or lavender design of
waving ribbons, or else an ecru or
pink ground strewn with Pompadour
tleurettes. The new and comfortable
shape for these garments has q full
oack gathered in the neck-not on the
shoulders-and q drawing string
across the back Of the waist. The
fronts fall open straight from the
neck, and are edged as the whole gar
ment is, with inch-wide guipure, dis
closing q vest of nainsook, laid in
tiniest tucks run by hand, from the
throat to the waist, held there by the
ribbon drawing-string brought from
the back, and tied in q bow in front.
A turned-over collar and cuffs are of
the tucked nainsook edged with gui-
pure. The sleeves are OF ample width,
and in some sacques have merely q
frilfat thewrist made by passingribbon
through button-holes wrought in lawn;
in this case the waist ribbon is also
passed through button-holes in the
back. Imported garments of this
kind are sold for $50, but a clever
amateur can make them at home for
q very small outlay of money, as
their beauty consists in their delicate
coloring, graceful shape, and fine
needle-work. Sheer dimities with cor
ded lines that give them strength and
dots or Greek keys of red, blue, or
lavender, are inexpensive fabrics for
mousse SdCQueS, anu IHelr uurdDle
trimmings are torchon laces of very
fine quality. French nainsook or the
cheaper Victoria lawn is used for en-
tirely white sacques, with open EN-
broidery as lengthwise insertion and
edges for trimming. More dressy than
these are India silk sacques of white
ground, with rosebud stripes or polka
dots of blue or red, made OF inexpen-
sive remnants of four or five yards,
the edges button-holed in scallops by
the clever needle-woman. Striped
wash silks are similarly made, and
cost from 60 cents yard upward
Harper's Bazaar.
Reckless With Soda Water.
1t is very amusing to watch the
women grow reckless and intemper-