The National tribune., 1896-05-21

OF colors, and in lowered silks. are among the
new ones for this summer. The quiet. demure
linen, with a bright violet ard green lining is
quite surprising combination.
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Chiffon waists. lavender yellow. pink. or
green, seem no whit less fashionable this year
than they were last and tho girl with black
satin skirt and one or two dainty waists is az
well fixed as ever for Normal dress affairs.
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Coat-waists, or fancifu round waists, OF black
silk lowered in color, are made to wear with
the black satin skirts.
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There is talk Of starting the artificial silk
making industry in Lincolnshire England
In France. tine factories have made good profits
from the wood silk" 1t is made from wood
pulp, which Is carried through series Of in
teresting processes and produces a thread and
cloth more lustrous than silk-worm silk itself
but not so durable. Only experts. however,
can tell it from the true material. and it is
sold In the shops abroad the same as ordinary
silk.
II seems that the Queen of England has 60
grandchildren, or more.
1t is said by those who stand afar of and
lock over the world of fashion that the color is
and shall be green this year, even as it was
cerise in eighteen hundred and ninety-fve.
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A delicious cake is made with pineapple
filling. To make the cake cream together
half cup of butter and one cup of sugar add
half cup of sweet milk and the whites of four
eggs beaten light. sift a heaping teaspoonful
of baking powder into one and one-half cups of
flour and add to the other ingredients Bake
the cake in three round layers. Make a filing
by putting in a bowl the whites Of two eggs
one tablespoonful of the juice from the chopped
pineapple and one cup of confectionery sugar
Beat until it is light and white; continue beat
ing and adding little more sugar until the
mixture is thick enough to be easily spread
and yet will not run off the cake. Put on one
side icing enough for the top of the cake, and
with the remainder stir in very finely-chopped
pineapple, putting in as much of the fruit as
the icing will hold and stick together. When
the cakes are cold put thick layer of this
iSiHe btbHeoH buoui anu COVER tHo top IdybE
with the plain icing.-SHH.
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Now that the strawberry is again with rs, il
is well TO remember the extraordinary possi-
bilitiss of goodness in the fruit; besides Just
strawberries and strawberries and cream, or
big strawberries with their green caps left on
and served with powdered sugar, one may
have strawberries with orange juice, straw
berry shortcake-which all the children love,
strawberry cottage pudding, and strawberry ice
cream.
The theater-hat agitation really seems to be
booming. The Brooklyn "Woman's Health
Protective Association has resolved to ask
theater managers to require women to remove
their hats while witnessing plays
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Bicycle girls are extending their short-skirt
privileges gradually, so not to raise a storm.
They go shopping in rainy weather in short
skirts, and go tramping over the country in
short attire, though trnmping is almost an OBJ
solete pastime these bicycle days Whenever
Il woman is seen in the shops in short skirts,
her bicycle is presumably at the door; but as
a fact it is not always there.
ELSIE PoMERoY McELRoY.