The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-29

with YOU whispers, "All the play hinges
on that line" After events prove it.
How does she know? She hasn't your
brain. she hasn't your experience, but she
has n wonderful something God given,
which in dogs we call instinct 1t is bet
fer than all learning, than all the exper-
ience ever gained in great universities or
in travelling over the world.
Pint there. | intended to tell you about
the new linen suits, for, being a smart lit
tie woman. You want to be properly
dressed for the summer. You run in from
Iarchmont or Tuxedo or some other
handy place to 90 to a roof garden with
Jack or Tom or that other dear boy
what is his name? You can't bring Il
dress suit case this time, and you mustn't
be oyerdressed at a roof garden or when
dining at French table dhote. Conse-
ouently You put on the Quickest Of duck
gowns, and when the special man sees
You he thinks. "Was there ever?" and
forgets how old the world Is.
You wear a duck gown which is Of sal
mon pink. The skirt is laid in close
plats, so that MS YOU move every curve
of your beautiful body shows. Each
group of plaits is lined with black braid,
and each braid terminates about one
quarter of a yard above the edge of the
skirt under black gutta percha button
so that there is just enough to make
your properly shod feet dance in and out
in fascinating fashion. Your bodice
has blouse front laid in plaits and
trimmed with braid and buttons. while
a square opening just i'm the center shows
4 cunning little white MARSHES plastron.
About your round waist is a crush belt
Of cardinal velvet, and under your chin
above the high collar flares the usual
French bow, which, in this case is of
red chiffon.
If anybody thinks that this charming
girl went to the roof garden and the
French table d'hote with the dearest fell
low in the world without a chaperon,
he is mistaken. 1t is true that the chap
eron was two years younger than she.
but still her visiting cards had Mrs"
on them. The pretty chaperon wore a
duck gown made of gray pique and
trimmed with narrow rows of black
braid, the front width buttoning on the
side ones in the usual manner The
bodice had a fetching little jacket front
and a smart plastron that buttoned over
it. while the fitted belt was of green
velvet. The hat had a soft crown, and it
seemed Il mixture of ribbon and velvet
all covered by a very thin veil that
brought ont the beauty of the skin and
hid its imperfections. This gown, having
come from Paris. had a flaring collar
and a smart bow, or, rather, the smart
bow. matching the belt, just under the
chin.
There was another girl in the party
whose gown was so absolutely fetching
that for little while the other two wo-
men were rather nasty to her, but after
something to fetch up their appetites
they grew civil. Strangely enough, it
was the simplest gown of the three. IL
had a perfectly plain skirt of eucre linen,
but the skirt had the wonderful French
fit and the wonderful French hang that
can only be got by an artist in dressmak-
ing. She may live in a back street and
charge almost nothing or live in an eX-
pensiye neighborhood and demand more
than your life or liberty, provided she
gets your whole pocketboOk. The plait-
ed blouse had close fitting sleeves tucked
at intervals and was of pale blue taft
feta. Over ii came fitted jacket of the
pique, cut out at the neck to show the
underbody and lacking sleeves. This
jacket was trimmed with black braid
and buttons. while the double Topped bow
under the chin above the high collar was
of black talfeta ribbon. The hat was
of the sort of thing the angels dream Of.
BY the bye did you ever see an angel
wearing a hat? 1t was of black neapoli-
tan decorated with yards upon yards Of
blue silk muslin and cooked mp at one
side in way that made you realize that
first it was necessary to be a genius be-
fore one could become n milliner.
You probably think, If you happen to
be n man, that the dresses of these wo-
men had no effect on the men of the
party. My dear friend. a man knows,
by SEINE curious intuition, when IL wo-
man is well dressed, and he invariably
likes to accompany that one whose gown
is perfectly fitting, whose hat is smart,