The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

young fresh faces bedeck themselves
like fuzZy-wuZzyS on the warpath, and
pile a very mountain of strong-colored
ornamentation on the top of their
heads the milllner insists on it that
the faded carnations and iron-gray
locks OF the woman past so shall be
surmounted in the same style.
If she pleads for something less
outrageous, she is met with the
smile of superior wisdom, should
she go to really fashionable
and "up-to-date' establishment; and
her modest request IS either loftily
ignored or answered by connection so
dowdy, so ungraceful as to be in es-
sential part a rebuke in ribbons and
an act of vindictiveness in lace and
straw. She has TO make her choice be-
tween something wholly unsuitable to
her age or something wholly unbecom-
ing to her face and figure. To be sure
if she have a friend in her milliner,
and has been wise enough to be as
constant in her custom as she has been
well served as a customer, that mill
liner will rack her brains to combine
the two seemingly irreconcila-
bic as they are-conformity with the
present fashion, so as TO escape the
charge of eccentricty, with due re-
gard to those faded carnations and
iron-gray locks, which will not bear
violent colors nor exaggerated forms.
If this be so, however, then past 90
has no cause for the bitter cry in re
bonnets and caps. But as women are
VIGOROUSLY inconStant as customers,
and go to the right and the left when
ever they see what takes their fancy,
it is not always, nor indeed often, that
this friendship exists between the
head that wears and the hand that
a lrnc n n
each alike.
Having held supreme sway all sum-
mer the signal has been given for the
departure of the ribbons that made the
heated days CHEEKY and sultry evenings
full of light, airy costumes. Never
were ribbons more laViShly used than
during the past season, and from the
broad sash to the tiny bow the sum-
mer girl was decked out in as brilliant
an array as the bird of paradise itself.
But coats and capes and wraps of any
kind will not harmonic with airy
finery and so the ribbons must go.
But it does not follow that if they
are banished from street costumes for
a time that they need to be exiled al
together. An ideal house gown is al
ways one with a touch Of daintiness
about it and even a sober street dress
may be made to blossom as the rose
if its dull coloring is relieved by a
neck or belt ribbon Of some bright lie.
A woman who understands how to
use ribbons artistically-estheti
will always appear we'll dressed, and
one gown in her possession is worth
at least three or four in the wardrobe
Of one who fails to understand the
| infinite variety that lies hidden in a
few yards Of warm cOlOring in the
shape Of ties, bows or belts.
Poets and artists are fond Of draw
| ing close analogieS between rich cOlorS
and certain states of mind, and that
they are right in their main conclu-
sions is easily proven by the effect that
q bit of ribbon can have upon wo-
mans tout ensemble.
Clad in tailor-made gown and muf-
fled up in her wraps she is ready for
the outside world; ready for the hurry
and stress of shopping or the fOrmah-
ties of calling and those who meet
her see the fair, somewhat cold out
side, take her as she presents herself
and are strangers, or at best, acquaint-
ances.
But let this staid damsel cross the
threshold of her home. and in an hour
or two appear in her drawing room
with some warm, rich color at throat
and waist and the whole atmosphere
is changed.
Ease and relaxation and comfort and
beauty Irvine themselves subtly in the
folds of her fluffy bows and to the for
tunate ones who find her then she is
the friend in whom they trust, the hos
tess who is their delight. Let us hope
then that the reign of the ribbons is
not over, that it is only narrowed a
bit in its scope, and that indoors it will
continue the beautiful sway it held so
securely through the summer. After
the dull dreariness of a rainy, busy
| day a flash of bright ribbon on the
woman who waits at home is like a
warm cordial to chilled veins, and tired
! eyes will bless with fervent gratitude
I the one who never forgets to use it and