The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-12-25

fashionable woman has all OF her petticoats
made to order. and they are fitted Just as care
fully as her dress skirts are. 1t Is quite the
thing to have ones dress petticoats made Of
liberty silk. which hugs The figure closely.
These liberty silk skirts are dreams OF beauty,
and they are as perishable as beautiful. A
number of fluffy plated ruflos. embellished
with lace, gives the necessary flare to the bot
tom. Notwithstanding the great beauty Of
these skirts, the average woman would miss
in them the Swish-swish of the skirts Of sitter
materials a sound soothing to feminine ears.
A riding crop is a useless enough thing at
best, unless one does a deal of cross-country
riding where gates are plentiful. but the av-
erage horseback, rider, man or woman, feels
crops are exceedingly handsome, though by no
made d Of = fine e'S wood and Sf the handles sf iinished
with some fine leather or skin and mounted in
gold or silver. An especially attractive one has
a handle of gray snake skin and is tipped with
silver. finished, in gray: Another has a handle
of elephants skin and is mounted with gold.
Woman has very erroneous ideas about a
few things" said a mar, surveying his Christ
in my family know my weakness for cigarettes.
cigars, and pipes. and every one OF 'em. from
f f9g T Of the hSS soot ffs q M Meea9n Iik Eest to q aka man II T IN the is
most elaborate manner, imaginable. On the
other hand. the man who. really understands
ing. Just as YOU, choose to put 1t. likes to enjoy
bis smoke with the leaSt possible fuss and
ing paraphernaliaf Let me look them over.
Here are three Of those new-fangled pipes
nicotine to keep it from running into the
mouth; No pipe of this sort was ever known
to work and nobody bqt a tender mouth would
swinging alcohol lamp. set up on ivory legs.
prongs. Is 'beeautifuiftto look at. but q man who
realizes that a good cigar Is smoke, prefers
purposes NJ What I am TO do With Il ssS seyeG
cut glass and silver cigarette holders do not
n n~TM' have SS Button but one eH left 4i it sse Slsa to me. and Hhy so
small use | have fol, receptacles in which to
preserve my Gigs. Yes. wSSmen have queer
said
4 womnn is only a woman.
But a good cigars a smoke.
1T seems to me that by the end of the nine
much intuition might have learned that only
amateurs in smoking like to smoke with a
Is this man alone In his opinion this Christ
mas Day in 1888?
Perhaps. after all. a few Of the pearl neck
lIaccs TO be seen AT the opera are not priceless.
here now that are calculated to make the real
Oriental article doubt its own genuineness.
that almost defes the detection OF experts and
arc exactly as the real gems are. They
At the, neck - CLOSELY, While e others + "4R hang
down almost to the knees. Women should
be careful how they adorn their necIs
when in evening dress II the neck
lacks plumpness and Wilderness no ornament
should be worn about 1t that will attract at
tention to these defects. Indeed. she who is
wise will wear. a brilliant ornament at her
waist or elsewhere that will tend to draw at
tention from her bare neck. Only the women
with beautiful necks and shoulders can Afford
To attract attention to them by means OF gems
and other
Gun metal chatelaines have superseded all
others. The most elaborate ones have as many
as ten ilngling gimcraeks dangling from an
elaborate ornament which hooks In the belt.
Tho palmer the chatelaine and its ornaments
the more stylish. it is cons'3, rod. and those
no engraving or applied work are really the
most desirable.
Now that the excitement OF buying, giving
and receiving Christmas presents is over, the
sex which feeds on excitement. as some mere
man has put 1t, Is looking forward to the mid
winter sales. These usually begin the first
week in January, and. no matter how much
milady has decrled the bargain counter at
home, in society and in her clubs during the
old year, she simply cannot resist the rare
Temptations offered upon II while the new year
islstill young. Every conceivable feminine
article, from stockings to hats, can be pur-
chased at very small cost at these midWinter
sales. and the person who has strength OF wal
enough TO buy only such things as are needed
derives great BENEFIT from them,