The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-15

were made Of cheviot: sometimes in solid
colors, but more often in stripes. There Is
quite bit OF fulness in the front OF the
waists. but the backs are plain except for
a very short pointed yoke. The collars are
very nigh and pointed. but the
points pom come almost together and
square corners. The sleeves are the
most original part of this seasons shirt
waists They are very full and almost
The soft. brOad-brimmed Alpine hats
VIII be the most popular. but there is an
other shape that is becoming to all faces.
II Tits back or veers OFF a bit, as an Alpine
usually does II is always made of the
same goods as the costume.
The brim is round and stin and a trifie
wider than sailor brim. and the crown
IS soft beretta crown, tipped a bit at the
side with some quilts or wing. One sees
every day numbers of French women skirt
ing by on the boulevard in culOttes big
tur capeS, feathered hats and white en-
DrOluered wells. But the incOnEruity doesn't
seem to strike anybody particularly. The
small boys and the truckmen don't seem
70 nave the same keen sense of humor as
they do in America.
on the Rue de Berri there is a very swell
bicychng school. where all the smart set
learn to ride. There was a chance of my
seeing there Lady Randolph Churchill.
MIS- Langtry, Mrs. Eugene Cruger and
numbers OF other prominent American and
French women. Lady Randolph Churchill
IS a most accomplished wheelwoman. Her
costume Is very plain black skirt. with
ratheI long, full-skirted jacket. / did not
see Mrs. Langtry, but her costume was
described to me as being of soft light
brown corduroy, and exceedingly becom-
ing
At one of the houses where the spring
cycling suits are made they informed me
that they had taken an order for a suit
for Mrs. John Jacob Aston of New York
pleted by the time the AstOrs arrive in
Paris, which will be early in April. They
come here to visit the elder Mrs. Astor,
who Will by that time be housekeeping in
her abundant apartments upon the AVen-
ne Champs Elysees.
She left New York. the modiste told me.
for Paris the last day of February. That
is modiste's gossip. but l. a fashionable
chornicler. must repeat it i'm order to set
my fashion notes upon firm and reliable
footing.
The suit which the modiste said had
been ordered for young Mrs. Aston was
not yet begun, but if l would attend the
riding school / would see one exactly sim
liar to it upon Mile. Ferrica, a beautiful
Italian girl visiting this spring in Paris
went and saw Mile. Feriea, She is a
unlike Mrs. Aston; and the dull brown suit
with white silk vest, was most becoming
to her. 1t had braidings of black, showing
that brown and black are to have their
annual reunion this spring, and the lining,
a thing plainly visible in cycling dress
was of old rose. A very delightful combina-
ton. had a suspicion that Nile. Ferrica
wore an old rose chemisette underneath
the white silk vest, for there was a faint
suspicion of color under the white silk
as though 1t were meant to show through
The brilliant thing about this suit was
the belt, a white enamel affair, with a gar
net cats eve for buckle. The gloves were
heavy white kid The hat was an Alpine
of white, with brown and black braidings
There are to be many Americans in Pa
ris this spring and all will cycle. Alas,
what is a poor chronicler to do when all
have new cycling suits, each a little more
becoming, more chic and more original
than the lasti Nina Goodwin