The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-31

have been reproduced in the interests
of new and gorgeous hosiery.
These exquisite importations come in
all grades, the finest quality and most
brilliant colors running as high as
$3.50 in price; very lovely ones, how
ever, may be had for $3.50, while the
same schemes are carried out in Isle
thread and very fine cotton for an
average price Of $1.75 Indeed one may
find very pretty effects in cotton for
IS cents. There is also a large line of
Scotch markings for young girls, suit
able to wear with their plaid frocks,
and many of them have been manu-
featured with a particular view to
matching the new spring ginghams. In
fact, it is expected that the earliest
spring styles will be marked by a rage
for plaid hosiery.
BRIGHT EVENING HOSIERY.
Holding only a second place to these
fascinating novelties are brilliant eff
fects in Roman stripes. Not time nor
fashion have ever been able to long
Danish from out ken this charming
design in one form or another, and it's
temperance in new and lovely hosiery
has met with an enthusiastic welcome.
Stripes in the one solid color turning
up and down are also among the recent
impOrtatiOns, and find ready sale among
the more conservative, who, however,
desire some change from the somewhat
hackneyed black.
1t is at the afternoon reception, tea,
iat cba
and slipper, that these charming color
effects are most in evidence. Had the
pretty Mrs. Ladinberg but thrust out
the tip of her dainty toe in your pres
ence at her reception the other after
noon in New York city you would not
but have noted the gay and fetching
plaid over the high-arched instep. And
above the patent-leather tie of Mrs
Jack Astor might be seen, as she
stepped into her carriage, the rich but
scmbre blues and greens.
Of course when it comes to evening
wear the pale tints in silk deliberately
oren worked are de rigeur; and if one
wants to go to the uttermost limits Of
splendOr there are those with real lace
let in over the instep and finished with
exquisitely fine embroidery. Such a
combination in white silk, with valen-
clennes lace, costing about $40, are a
part of a recently imported bridal
trousseau. If one will wear black there
are beautiful creations in silk and real
lace, as well as novelties in black silk
heavily embroidered over the instep
with iridescent beads.
MODEL STOCKING CASES.
For shopping, however, black still
holds its own, and comes suited to all
grades of fastidiousness. There are
many women who can amply afford
to wear silk to whom it is exceedingly
disagreeable, causing a constant irri-
tation Of the skin, and who also find
Isle unpleasant. For these there is a
highly refined grade Of cotton selling
at $2.75 and So pair, and, though they
wear no better than the most ordinary
25-cent stockings, they make up the
difference in softness and agreeable
ness OF touch, and are in steady de-
nIand.
There is indeed no part Of her ward
robe about which the dainty woman
is more fastidiOus than her hose and
the charming perfumed cases now used
by a select few for their more perfect
care, should commend themselves to
every wearer Of hose This case NAV
or even beautiful cretonne, and NAV
be decorated to suit ones fancy, those
Of embroidered white being especially
pretty. No such latitude in taste. how.
ever is allowed for the perfume. Orrls
root ii is, orris root it must be-so
saith the prophet. These cases may be
made to hold four, eight or twelve
pairs of hose, as one may wish. In
deed, it. is an advantage to have them
Of different sizes. To make such q
case you have only to take an oblong
piece Of material and crossways it's
length fasten four pockets of a size
to exactly accommodate the stockings
when rolled. There may be two or
even three such rows of pockets, &C
oording to the width of material. The
back OF each is a sachet of orris root.
ST ckirgs when clean should be rolled
not folded-and slipped into these
deHea4ely perfumed receptacles.
t is well to leave at the bottom space
enough for little darning outfit. Two
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