The times., 1897-07-04
PROFITABLE BUYING.
Tempting Bargains Offered Women
Who shop Cut of Season.

New YORK, july o. he hctlAoh Loi ncAi''''
tions is over, but there is no less moolSh
enterprise displayed than formerly ana
woman who shOpin season and out are Just
now looking for bargains Il It's lOsslpie
to possess ones soul in patience and
forbear engaging in the early scramble Tor
spring novelties, this is the appointed time
for shreyvd and profitable buying. Marked
down S the legend on all the shopkeepe9s
banners. and a clever woman can just how
fit herself out completely for the summer at
one-half the price she would have been
obliged to pay six weeks 10 since every
thing. from a bicycle suit 10 wedding COS
tune, is offering for reduced price.
For So or $S smart little wheeling dresses
are going, made in two coiors Of linen
The skirt and The jacket are brown, for
instance, but all the buttoned pocket
flaps, cuffs, Ievers, straps and collar are
oak green or butchers blue There are
green linen and brown straw hats TO 90
with these, and as u last invention of The
bicycle genius, really pretty little brown
and green pongee parasols, for clamping
on the back OF ones seat, or on the center
of the handle-bar, are selling. Where
these have come from ii is difficult TO
find out, but they are here, and the fair
cyclists at the famous watering places
are using them thankfully. 1t must be
understood that they are not large, AMI
are only useful on days when there is 10
breeze but much hot sunshine, warranted
to tan and freckle.
Beside the paIasol innovation, another
device Of the pseudo countrywoman is
that of wearing the gayest OF GinGham
suits awheel. This need not be at all
bicycle suits, but any gingham gown
YOU elect to wear, its fuh skirt caught
up in series OF plaits, and the whole
drawn up and pinned TO the Eelt at he
right side by means Of big strong pm
with safety catch. This pin comes
in the form of a big silver wheel, and,
at the shop, where you buy the pm, they
show you how to use your new bit Of
iewelry 50 that any sort OF a sk''t lie
comes perfectly comfortable for riding
OF course this pinning up skirt 10
fan in pretty, safe folds about the frame
and saddle is a vast IN pIOvement in eN-
pense on the purchase Of a hot, hand
some, costly new cycling ballt, which
many q woman SIX weeks aGofelt she must
simply have. Then, moreover, to prove
the advancing economy in fashion, Dne's
wheel pin, when not serving 20 hohl Up
ones dress, can be utilized as a belt huckle,
for a silver wheel is the buckle now seen
everywhere.
The aeItit holds need not be a hard strap
OF leather, like a section OF harness, which
was, whenthe season opened, considered the
belt OF belts, but d broad strip Of the
softest docskin, either white, pale tan,
prarI gray. scarlet OF lizard greel, charm
ingly workediu steel or c0!Ured beads. This
latest giriIe Is N cant for wear with any
ana all gowns 1t draws, Ike bias piece
Of silk, In folds about the waist and In
front either Plus together, letting fall point
ed beaded ends, or draws into a knot.
Itis nun bercd among the perqIistes of
the belated shopper, vino is also indulging
her taste for tewelry, such pretty summer
ornaments as they are. First and foremost
ranks the souvenir bangle. They say
bracelets viii be worn almost eNtravagant-
Iy next wiuteI, and that this bangle is its
forernncr Just a thread Of silver encir-
Cles the aims, and on it Is strung IN as
sortment Of queer little silver figures.
Cocks, pigs, golf balls, dice, meTmaids,
Champagne bottles, fat beetles; a any rate
al least eight small, roughly made solid
silver ii cures are threaded On every bangle,
and the dea Of this collection Is that ad-
Mining young men can add other quarter
inch long figures 10 it, or certain figures
can he given away as souvenirs Of mo
ments that viii be epochsin summerlife
Besides the bangles, there is a fuzzy in
enameled Venetian ornaments for use
these next few months. Venetian jew
elry j. lovely, all the STICK pins, brooches,
studs and cuff buttons being enamelcd in
bright harmonious CUloTs, ana 50 Cheapiy
does il sell Just now that one can affonl
to buy a set Of studs and buttons TO suit
every shirt waist, and brooches to hal
Iuonize with every Organdie gown.
After al mature consideration, follow
ing Oh active impulse il has been decided
that Jrgandiein a solid tint is far smarter.
especially for morning wear, than tfe fig
ured goods, that if you wish to buy \
perfectly serviceanle forenoon dress SILK
nohair is the Ces rable goods and that
the most taking mourning wrap is a fichu
OF sn& rufflcs with long sash ends.
Eight weeks ago these and their com
pauiou frocks We're snugly closeted II
those holy of hoies in the importing de
partn.ents, for show only To the srea
ones of tie earth, who keep carriages, &C
counts and have a taste for paying vas
prices. Here they are down ~ reasonable
rates, ready to fall into the clutches o
the woman who knows how to wait 3nt
who recognizes a genuine bargain whel
she sees 1t Being a person who know
what j. the very recent thing In Paris, sh
takes naturally TO the little brown line
gowT with the frills. It is a lovely, fin
linen, and the frills are all the narrowes
possible plaitings, of spring green taffeti
silk. headed, every rrill, by band D greer
gimp. a fourth of an inch wide. Or
skirt and bolero they are just alike. In
sleeve has two loops of green ribbon oI
the shoulder and there frilIs out, be
tween the bolero fronts vest male O
pyes tapping plating of green chiffon.
If the rear of the gown was shown
would be seen that all the gimp and friI
inES ran horizontally across the back {
the bolero, for Paris says ii is Just as irr
pCrtaut now to Trim tile back of you
waist as the front. This, of course, is
chance not to be lost by dressnakers, VIII
either run baby plating or ruf1les eithe
across or up and down every waist the
have. Another popular idea with them
20 make sunbuTst back. This is, with Ht
hons or beading, to run ray-like lines, {
varying lengths, from the waist line up a
high as the shoulder blades.
But remember that these wee frills ar
first in the hrarfs OF onr cnnntrywnrnt