The morning times., 1897-01-24

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Winter shirt waists are different. They
cost more IN the first piece, and are not
dainty ana fresh and bewitching- The
new ones are mere Irresistible titan ever
bclo-c Inrlacc of the stripes and checks
and self o:orinfs, We have white grounds
with brilliant Goral designs. Brown and
IaGe and green 2! o Inls with fcrnsand leaves
in lovely contrasts, and black efouids with
white and Co.ortd blossoms. SCch I'M
liant tcwildcring, too omine array IL is
10 sliively wicked To tempt rour women IN
tins way / am ashamed 10 confess IL,
but 1 Iogcht SIX of them, and ! LGG al
ready ~ Cozrn. Ia aodiuon 10 me dis
play OF shirt waists The Tow store keep
t.r'' Offers as summer materials that are
POSITIVE dreams.
We are oIE hack To our erandmother's
, time A sllk-warp "harcEe'' is, without
doubt, 10 be the thing Of the season.
The texture, a. OF course you krow, is that
O. a clusciy woven Brussels net, and while
thiS has uot changed at all. the modern de
signs are very much pretticr than the
samples or the nld-time material which
I have seen, q o tliat We have slight adj
vantage over our grandmotheTs in that
respect The prcttiest patterns are tiose
with dark ground, strcwn with quaint
figures ia the real Old broChc colorings.
There arc many with ight grounds, tinted
with new and delicate shades OF pink ana
tIue. and one. ntcrwuven with "A figuring
o. deep purple, really must he seen TO be
appreciated
satin striped French challes are also
shown. They are. FOR the most part COW
cred with large floral designs, with the
stripes abou. one quarter Of an inch wide
and about three inches apart The colors
incline toward shades Of blue, with the de-
signs OF q darker shade.
Challies in foulard designs are also sure
TO be fashionable, some OF them having
white grounds thrown into relief by designs
of different colorS aud shades.
Dainty little summer maids who aspire to
the fluffy in winter and the airy, fairy
Lillian style in warm weather viii find
comfort and delight in the new figure dotted
Swiss, which is inteTlaced with colGred
stripes, alternating various kinds with
flowers and leaves There are so many Of
-the new things that l am a. a loss to
SnOw which VIII please yoa best. The new
crgandies are intcTlaced with flowers OF
tinls 50 natural that one wanders why the
fragrance is not there and it is a notice
able fact that the designers this year have
seemed to realize that the beauty in floral
patterns 5 bot dependent upon the amount
Of flowers, but rather upon their artistic
distributor Most Of the designs seen this
coming summer viii be more delicate in
treatment, and instead OF seeing mass Of
roses in "A bunch we shall see themin grace
ful clusters, with leaves and buds trailing
from the stem.
7 suppose ! must say a word about the
striped nainsooks, which, woven with
stripes of almost imperccpuble fincnesS are
certainly very pleasing 10 the eye. And
chen there is new fabric-mousselinc de
rInde-a kind of filmy net that will
not crush out of shape. This is sure TO be
used extensively.
II is needless TO say that at present all
these fabrics are 'deliciOusly expensive" 9"
ami thatif you hope to keep in the fashion
and have not an unlimited purse, you had
better wait while before starting out to
shop" This reminds me Of what ! in
tended u sa : regarding women and money.
II seems as II they are deadly enemies. for
under u0 circumstances can they stay to-
gether very long.
What brought this 10 my attention was
the crowd II women ] saw the other day
around a bargain counter. Two Of the
shoppers ! knew. They had spent 70 my
knowledge. over 81 III car fares and lunch,
IN order tnat they could get garment for
SD which was marked 81 800 at store
situated within half a minutes walk OF
wuere they lived. Is il wonderful that men
laugh az w. : talked To gentleman friend
OF mine q few days ago On this question,
and really his remarks were most intelIi-
gent. even for a man. ] say this because
I do not think the male sex is likely to see
it. But ! viii tell you what he said. and let
sou Judge for yourself Woman he ex-
plained, never keep any account Of what
they spend, or, if they do, il is such a
Jumbled-up affair that il would puzzle
a Chinese lawyer to understand it, Then
they 90 not earn the money"
"Everyl ody KNOWS how women buy end
less numbers of articles because they are
cheap, where a man would have the money
placed out at interest. Then the great
tIOgbe is that women cannot see that
there is difference between 81 80 and
81. The stoTekceper know this, and plays
ms cards accordingly. Perhaps the most
curious part of the whole thing is that
women try to be more saving than men.
They are certainly more stingy-this is his
idea-and think the whole trouble springs
from the factthat women, when they 20 out
lever know how much money they intend
10 spend''
Now between ourselves, there is more
than little truth in these remarks, though
efcourse it would never do to acknowledge
tito the men. ] know several women who
have j private inc ONE, and whoare allowed
a certain sum Of money to run their house
o. and they are perfectly satisfied if they
can make 10th ends meet by transferring
their N oncy from one account to the other
And now. while 1 am on the subject, OF
rathernthe vein oflecturing, there is some
thing else I Want TO call attention to, and
incidentally it, also, is becoming very fash.
ionatle. This is the ''tea tray" l have
long been convinced that women do not
take sufficient food, and the other day I
noticed that Mrs. Lynn Linton was pos
sessed with exactly the same idea, and had
begun a crusade against starving for
comfort
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