The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-28


little longer, with a cluster of stones.
and this is made after the fashion Of A
safety pin It's uses? To hold the very
hlSh stock Of chiffon or lace or whatever
the gauzy material may be close to the
hair Undoubtedly the light fingered
gentry will find no trouble in removing
THESE pins, although they are supposed
10 be perfectly safe, and for that rea-
son l imagine that those on which semi
precious, or imitation stones are used
VIII be in greater demand than those
showing the real gems. Because. Won
wear rhinestone pin you must not
imagine that you are achieving vulgarity
by assuming an imitation, for you are
not. You claim for your pin nothing
but that it is good rhinestone. or
good old English paste. and it is liked
for its beauty, while the artistic effect
1t produces is applauded. If all the
clasps and buckles of paste or rhine
stone were diamonds, fear there would
| be no gold left in the Klondyke. since
1t would be needed to pay for real Jewels
worn
ABOUT JEWELS AND HATS.
! Last year the fashionable woman.
wearing very decollete bodice, ar
ranged all the brooches she possessed
right along the line Of her corsage and
made herself look very magnificent. The
same disposition of jewels will be seen
this season, for it gave her who pos
sesed these handsome belongings such
a good opportunity to display them thar
she is not willing to lose it,
As a matter of history, pretty Nell
Gwynne won a king as she looked from
under her cart wheel hat, and certainly
it is the hat of the saucy beauty that is
displayed this season for the girl of to-
day to wear. 1t is broad of brim, conf
cal of crown, and of the softest felt.
About the crown is twist Of silk cord,
and on the left side is one huge long
feather pinned to position with a rhine
stone clasp. 1t is so soft that the brim
bends here and there to suit the style
of the face under it. And if is so big
that it will certainly protect its wearer
I from sun and dust. cold and rain. 1t
is pretty, and it should be approved of,
provided it is worn at the proper time
and has a cloak in harmony with it. The
proper time is the daytime. on the
street, and the proper cloak is a long
cloak which win give height to the
wearer, since she who is small would
look as if she had assumed an extin-
ted the picturesque cloak. Only in
black? Yes, the cart wheel hat should
he only in black and only trimmed by
its one huge feather and its glittering
clasp. With it when the day is very
cold, is put on with the greatest care
the long full empire veil, which is
drawn softly around it, tied at the back,
brought forward and looped in huge
bows and ends just to one side of the
chin. The whole arrangement is CO.
quettish beyond description. This veil,
with its soft fullnes, its artistic dra-
peries, is so much more effective than
the veil drawn tight over the face
through which eyelashes come out, and
which, too often, suddenly tear and per-
mits a lip or a nose to protude where
it should not.
DEVICES OF THE VEIL.
The girl who always looks we'll is the
girl who has many wells and wears them
to suit her appearance. She is the one
who knows that the mesh adapted to
her skin one day will not suit her the
next. To-day feeling particularly well
and having a bright color she assumes
a thin, delicate veil, with big black dots
set far apart, that only brings out her
morrow, when she feels wretchedly,
when she realizes that her skin is sal
low, her eyes dull, she carefully draws
her thickly-dotted veil over her face, and
then she can dare the keenest criticism,
since she knows that it has acted in the
most charitable way, hiding her defects
and by its slIillful concealment remind
ing the looker-on only of her beauties.
The artist in the manipulation of a
veil never puts it on in such a way it is
necessary to remove it when she wishes
to arrange it. She has learned the art
of the Frenchwoman. Watch, her. She
goes in to luncheon at some famous
restaurant; her bodice is as close fitting
as possible, but, no matter how tight it
is, she raises first one hand and then
the other, loosens her veil, and by few
deft touches she has it carefully lifted.
She does not have huge knot in the
front of her veil to give the desired full
ness, but instead, with needle and silk,
she has carefully gathered it so that the
pouch arrangement, suited to her face is
possible. She allows sufficient, in buy
ing her veil, to tie it in the back and,
tying it, carefully conceals the loops and
ends under pretty pins and does not
leave them sticking out, bobbing around
and suggesting the clipped tail of fox
terrier. The woman who understands
the kind of veil she needs is the woman
who need never fear that the world at
large will know her age or prove itself
capable of deciding whether she is look
ing well or not. A very young girl
should never wear a veil unless, indeed,
she puts on thick veil, to protect her
face from cold or sun. The most un.
becoming veil and one of the most ex-
pensiye is the black Brussels net veil,
embroidered in white, the design being
one of large flowers. It looks like a cur
tain on woman and tends to cut of
her chin, so that she has semi-idiotic
look. The veil that is, generalizing, be-
coming to all is the fine Brussels net
with small, but not too small, chenille
dots upon it at intervals that are not too
close. The great, sprawling dot an
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