Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-05-26

Gown That Was Fetching and Mad,
Other Women Nasty to the wearer.
Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
New York, May 20.-One must bt
rutfied or counted out of fashion, anC
then one might as well be out OF tn,
world. Skirts are rufflsd up to an Il
inch whist, sometimes up 10 4S inch
one, and then the effect is that of {
pillow with string tied around it.
But the woman who has not sufficient
number OF ducats to have ruffled skirt
turns up her piquant little nose, declare.
That RULED skirts are common and
rutfles her sash. This can be dono more
oheaply, but il is equally effective. For
long time sashes were in disrepute.
They were given over, as il were, ia
haoes and stockings, but just now the
trimmed sash, with itsinnocent looking
little belt hugging the place that YOU
would ike to put your arm around, ia
the thing" Lots OF pretty belongings
are the thing" with the tiny little
article slurred over, but when il comes
to emphasizing the aforesaid article
then, II you are feminine, you have 1t
or from social standpoint you die,
Years ago, when you and we're in :
nocent little tots and knew nothing of
the troubles OF this world, we wriggled
and twisted while our fond mothers
tisd US up as far as our healthily big
waists permitted in broad blue sashes
with two loops and two ends. Such
sash is not recognized nowadays.
The fashionable sash when it is not
ruffled, and everybody knows what a
Tuffied sash is. has its end TRAINED with
fringe or lace, and it's bow must be
made being feminine, you know there
10 differences between a made bow and
tied bowl after one of four fashions
The first is gauze ribbon, with stiff,
double Topped bow and knotted silk
fringe at each end. The second is a
lovely brocads ribbon, With two loors
backed by shot forked ends with a
strass buckle in the center and long
ends that ars forked and tipped with
pearl fringe. The third one has two
loops up and two loups down and knot
across the middle, with q fsncifnl fringe
having a heading as it's finish. The
other one received in polite society has
rosette such as your mother used to
make, with slipping ends finished with
heavy knotted silk fringe. Those
sashes are the Kind that the Asturs and
vanderbilts, who are not affected by
the rise and fall of coffee, wear, and
they are shown by French dressmaker
who ia small and saucy, who can make
wonderfully chic frock and can
charge, 0 ye gods and little fishes!
cannot understand why, since wa
are hghtlng the Spanish or at lsast
Elaying with them and giving them a
little taste of what our new navy can
40, that Scotch plaids should lie in
fashion, and yet-and yet the gentle.
man who rides that ungraceful machine
known as the bike, " whose legs lack
curve, but are strong in muscle, wears
nose OF the plaid of some special clan
to which be has no personal right, while
the delivery wagons OF a well known
snup are glorious in the plaid of another
clan because the second member Of the
nrm happens to bear the name that be-
longs to the-oh, what do the Scotch
GAL the head OF clan? Is it duke or
laird or master or whatY
naver think of the Scotch witbont
remembering that rather unpleasant
story Of the time when ali Scotland vas
attacked with the hives and a great
uuke, having put many rost to uphold
grounds, used to hear the ordinary folks
saying: God bless the Duke of
Argyll!'' as they rubbed their much
troubled backs against these pranits
posts. There is something attractive
about the Scotch, hut m ust say I do
not approve of plaid stockings, and
must add that l cannot imagine apv
woman who has sense of the beautiful
incasing what the rigidly proper cali
he lower limbs" in them. Nothing
suits woman 10 the stocking line 81
well as those OF black silk, for they suc-
ceeu IN bringing out every curve and
making the ankle and foot look smaller
anu the instep higher. OF cuurss,
there are times when TO match certain
slippers one has to assume cploretl silk |
atocklngs, and then l cry, GIVE me
neIiotrope or give me death - and I'm |
TO date death has not appeared.
,by.tne.by, l must be growing very
GU, Tor l am dropping into my anec.
cottage. DO you remember the story OF |
the French girl whose life had been
full OF joy, but who was told nv n |
fortune teller that she would die within
three months and who had bean worried |
by dreaming, first OF all, of a black cat.
next of wedding and, thirdly, Of two
white doves, all proofs that death was
near her? Although joyous, this young |
woman was inclined to be careful. So |
she thought to herself: "At present I |
am wealthy. That is for me. And
how. unpleasant it would be to have
my body, which has been SO greatly |
ADMIRED, for l am good figure.
tnrowh into pauper's grave! That |
snail not be. Having wealth, 1 will |
go at once to an undertaken and make |
al arrangements to pay 10 advance for
my funeral" So she trotted off to the
most fashionable undertaken in Paris.
saw the head of the establishment and
salu 10 MIN after iDquiring about the
carriages, hearses and all the mere
ordinary particulars of funeral,
What is most fashionable in
sbrouds?'' With the usual Dood ron
nsrs of 40 undertaken, who alwavs
washes his hands in impHlpabIe water
with invisible soap, he bowsd and
entered into Rn explanation: "For
young ladies, those who ara nm
married. We make pure white reeting
rooe For widows, for married ladies
or for those ladies whose lives hav.
been full of gayety we make an
eternal dress of delicate mauye. willis
Tor elderly ladies, elderly widows, and
spinsters who have passed 10, we
arrange gown of black velvet. .
Mademoisells hesitated for a Inn,
time. Then she said: MAKE ma e
white shroud trimmed with the finsst |
lace. will pay for it in advance !;
Tbs gentleman who undertookn was
suhservient lie seldom had anch
customers. After giving her the chance
ne bade bis fair client good mornine
and she walked slowly to the door win
her finger on her lip Looking back at
him from under the rim Of no. n. -