The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-30

the euect on the Wearer ana her FEMININE
observers.
Women who can not quite trust their
appearance to the tender mercies of a
round shawl cape, have found solace In the
cape that is cut in extremely long points
at back and front. Three points is the
usual shape two In front and one be-
hind, sloped from the level of the elbows
down. SPRAYING all over the fawn, grey,
black and brown breadths of these capes
are wondrous braids edged with tiny lines
of fur and with a finish of gilt gimp
beyond the fur Then there is a smart
velvet braid, made almost rigid with EN-
brodery of gold thread and beads, steel
or jet
Novelties for December.
1t Is desirable to recapitulate at inter
walls the lists of dress goods that menace
the dress loving woman with temptation
on every hand, chiefly because reinforce
nlents of novelties are arriving daily and
will continue TO pour in until December.
First Item of fresh importance concerns
the foulard serge that is beautiful beyond
the capacity of any ordinary vocabulary,
and then come the creped cloths, silks
warranted and proven uncrushable, and
finally the spotted goods. You may OBJ
iect or openly war against spots, but you
might as well try to crush out the sun
shine or forbid the flower to bloom. Spots
are regnant and have broken forth every
where. Silks, Velvets satins, cloths, fan
nels chiffons, even bridal wells are spot
ted. Not all spots are round, however;
to alleviate any danger of monotony we
have bird's-eye or oval spots and pastille
spots, these last raised from the surface,
sometimes in the form of tiny cones.
To say the last word as to color is to
ennumerate royal blue, cress green and
fuchsia red as rivaling one another. a
perfectly daring and quite unmistakable
hrfp ,1tTcf rod rfeo aIr Irot
triumphantly worn by blonde woman but
for women of all tints blue still CALAMITY
holds their heart. About four years ago,
from the obscurity of navy blue, arose a
whole flock of tender becoming azure
tlnged tones and to put off blue seems to
be impossible. Cornfower turquoise, gen.
tan, Abbess, Russian violet and royal
are some of the blues that made up, in
cloth. silk. velvet and flowers, a most at
tractive show window in New York and
the women all buzzed about the corner
where a perfectly new and entirely lovely
shade, named Marie Louise blue, was ex-
hibited.
Smart Skating Costumes.
All these gay colors of cloth make a
horid and not ineffective show on the
ponds and in the Kinks, where the whirr
Of steel on ice rises on the frosty air A
plain skirt ankle long, with a vivid fan
mel or velveteeTi bodice, is just about the
most graceful and becoming thing a
skater can assume. CamePs hair serge is
what the skirt Is made of and the most
startling combinations in color prevail I'M
I'll the Kinks resemble carnival gatherings.
The biggest and brightest buttons flash
on upper as well as neither garments and
some of these are huge polished pewter
buttons, such as are made and worn by
Dutch men and women on the frozen ca
nails of Holland.
Pretty skating costumes from Paris are
resplendent with fur or fancy braid and
gay with silver buttons that are in reality
tiny bells. tingling out fairy music at
every motion of the wearer The skirts of
such suits are cut close at the hip and
somewhat full below the knees, enabling
the wearer to move with freedom and
adding greatly to the sum of grace. Tur-
bans of astrakan. broad tail and Persian
lamb are what the smart skaters wear.
These are round cap shaped things with a
tuft of bright feathers like a shaving
brush stuck up in front and held by a
pin of Russian silver.
Every other woman, whether her frock
Is silk or serge, has depending from the
rear of her basque a species of tail which
Is bound TO excite interest if not applause.
1t was fully ten years ago that basques
resigned their rear appendages, but like
| Mary's little lambs they are back in
fashion, every one with its tail behind 1t.
| Sometimes the tail is q mere bunch of rib
| bon ends, scarcely larger than the sort OF
| thing a rabbit wears, again they are bee
tie wing shaped and fan nearly to the
| knee Coatee, habit, position and swal-
| low tails are the species most frequently
| seen at present and whether they are
| pretty or not is another matter; the tail
ors say they have come to stay.
| Velvet Gowns.
| Dressmakers give assurances all along
| the line that velvet dress will command
| as great popularity as last year. touch
or two will bring them quite up to the
mode of the moment, and those who are
having new and very rich gowns made