Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-25
DEMAND FOR BRIGHT COLORS
Bah Says Red is to be All the
Rage Next Summer.
WONDERFUL SHADES OF VIOLET
Parasols Made of Purple and
Green Moire. =
Umbrella Sticks Finished With the Heads
of Cockatoos, Swans and Other Graceful
Birds, All Highly Colored, and with kit
tens. Strawberries, Grapes and Currants,
Which Look Like Nature. q.

Which Look Like Nature. Is.
Special Corresponds nce OF Gazette and Journal
New York, March 19-It would seem
as if the fashionable importers had said,
as did the country girl of old: Give
me any color. SO it's red.o Always, of
course, allowing the wonderful shades
of violet. that IL they were less modest,
might be called the rage. If you ask
for neat parasol, one for general wear,
you arc shown a purple moire, lined
with green and decorated on the end
of it's white wood stick by ball of
green Jade! IL you don't fancy this,
the salesman proudly brings forth
fiery-red umbrella, with stick orna.
mented in what he calls: Cleopatra.
like. /" And by this he means that the
lotus flower in the fat Egyptian draw
ing, is the chosen decoration. The
handles Of parasols are decidedly gaudy.
Sticks of natural wood are finished
with the heads of cockatoos. OF swans
and Of other graceful birds, all highly
colored, while in contrast one finds on
other sticks tiny dogs. funny little kit
tens, not to mention enormous straw
berries, gooseberries, grapes and cur
rants. And all made to look like
nature. l wonder If these sticks repre-
sent the realistic school? Still. 10
reality, we wouldn't tie pets or punches
of fruit to our parasol handles But
as ! said, the cry seems to have gone
out and over the earth: Amy color,
so long as it's red. "
Of course. you have seen the red shirt
waists with their staring white collars
and glossy black satin stocks. 1t seems
strange to have such absolute contrast
in the favorite colors as there is be.
tween red and violet. for who can ever
think of the violet as being anything
but quiet and in good taste; aud who
can think OF bright red as being any.
thing but rather exciting for summer
wear? People who study the effect Of
color say that one reason the English
soldiers fight SO we'll is becsuse of their
| red coats, the color being an incentive
to bloodshed. wonder If that's true?
We all know how easily one can he in
| huepced by certain costume; 50 why
shouldn't it be true? Could pale blue
stand for anything but arbitration? If
you wore the costume of QuaKeress
| wouldn't you be rather ashamed to let
your angry passions rise? Could you
be severe and say ugly words if you
wore white frock, daintily trimmed
with ribbon and lace? But wouldn't
it be easy to be stubborn and angry and
to quarrel il you wore a black skirt
with red silk bodice and carried red
silk parasol? Some day we'll all know
every thing about the. real strength and
influence Of inanimate things, thee
we'll understand why we are effected
as We are by certain colors, by certain
| h,, To- H.,
certain atmospheric changes. Who
doesn't know that day when it's dark.
the air is heavy, and every sorrow you
have ever had, or ever expect to have
comes up before you and makes you feel
yourself a much abused person. Who
hasn't joyed in the day when the air
seemed full of tonic, very wine OF
| life, when ope almost tried to drink it,,
and life seemed so we'll worth living
that one wanted to live forever? You
and / are perfectly weak. poor
creatures; we're affected morally and
mentally. not only by what we wear.
1 and what we see but by the weather.
1t is great deal easier to be saint
on bright clear day. than it is to be
even a balf.sa when everything goes
wrong, including the methods adopted
by the raindrops.
It's a good thing for us that the
weather changes, but it's curious how
often our ideas change, especially our
ideas of beauty. How long is il since
the lank,, thin. gaunt looking girl.
with thick bang, fried way down on
| her forehead, her general get-up decid.
edly dowdy, was in fashion? Follow.
ing hor, there came the extremely trig
tailor made girl; she parted her hair
exactly in tho middle, and arranged il
with such smoothness that you felt il
must hurt her head. Every button on
her frock had a duty to perform, and
every one did it. She gave no thought
to the beautiful in her toilet, but con
contracted all her mind on the useful.
She was a comfortable girl to walk
With, and To travel with, but good
housekeeper always felt that she was
out of place when she seated herself on
rose colored satin chair. Then, came
the girl who was all things to all hour.
of the day. She was charming because
she was adaptable, but in the evening
she had way of looking too long upon
the rouge pot, and it was whispered
that she understood perfectly how to
make powder stay in place. Now we
have changed again. Our beauty In usi
roll her hair off her forehead. and ar
range a couture as nearly like thai
worn by the unfortunate Princess dc
Lamballe as Is possible. And she must
be black and white. or course, she
can't be black and white il she has
golden hair naturally. Under those cir.
cumstances she must regret her ina.
hility, but never even smile at bottle
of dye. Bleach and henna and dye
have absolutely bsen thrown to the
dogs, but the dogs are wise in their
generation, and do not touch them. For
they conclude seneibly enough, that a
time will come when woman will again
no foolish and take this rubbish unto
herself again.
1t would seem as If the ideal beauty
was the one told about in the old fairy
tails. You remember it? If you don't,
I'll tell it to you. "There was onco q
beautiful queen, kind, gentle, and
loved by all her subjects. She always
set them good example. One day she
was sitting at her embroidery frame
and, as sne sewed she pricked hei
finger, pricked it SO badly that a drop
of bright red blood fell on tho linen
she was working. Oh, she said, ]
wish had daughter as white as that
linen, as red as that blood, and az
black as my ebony embroidery frame.
And her special fairy being in attend
ance, Immediately arranged that all
should happen rs she wished. And
she did have n beautiful daughter, q