The times., 1898-05-15

skirt is made of brown grass linen with
sixteen TO twenty-five little founces
crimping It's surface and set on with the
Spanish slope. Turning over the simple
practical and inexpensive Summer night
dresses one finds them made chiefly of
striped, fiowered and figured lawn
Every one has girdle of gray ribbon and
the corset covers are made of lawns in
soldid colors, TO harmonic with the silk
or muslin waist beneath which they are
worn. 1T is no wonder that the little
knitted undervests have gone the way of
all underclothing and blossom out in the
grassieSt greens. poppy red, burnt orange
yellow and sharpest purples. A great
many of these cheerful little shirts are
offered for Summer wear in Shetland wool
of the natural fleece cream color. the
pure white bleach, or in a number of clear
odd colors that the North Scotland dye
them. hand knitted Shetland under
skirt, if ii Is the pure wool and has come
from the Shetland isles, viii run through
a woman's wedding ring far more easily
than a pair of silk hose. The charm of
this wool is that ii wears remarkably, is
both cool and warm as the weather re-
quires and simply laughs at the wicked
devices Of the washwoman.
/ Straw goods are getting to the fore.
/ This does not imply furry in hats or
that womanldnd IS cutting Japanese
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and golf skirts. The announcement.
{ however, does imply that not to her
head alone is femininty now confining
a practical use of straw fabrics. On her
+ feet she is wearing, of the morning and
about her house, the daintiest little straw
slippers that come from Switzerland. Sole
and yamp. all are made of fiat elastic
straw. dyed any clear pale color desired
Their exceeding GOODNESS is one of their
great attractions and some damsels,
whose feet are 80 delicate as to afford the
7 experiment. wear about their rooms gay
little straw sabots A bright yellow straw
parasol made to exactly resemble ths
roof of a japanese tea pagoda, is one of
the novelties that the Summer girl is
counting among her WEAPONS of sea side
I warfare. Such a parasol is mounted on
a large rough bamboo stick, which is hol-
I lowed out and is fitted with a series of
/ lenses, thus producing a species of spy
glass, also of great value to the Summer
/ girl Last on the list of straw oddities
are the belts made of an elastic grass,
/ which serve as very pretty girdles with
/ gingham and pique gowns. Little wraps
are not what they used TO be, and there
is every sign that the red golf jacket with
its garniSh green collar and cuffs and it's
metal buttons. else that sober standby
the covert coat will be chiefly used to
! temper the cool Summer breezes to the
muSlln cldu iaGnDS. IMeN are dOWdy,
frowsy characterless little shoulder capes
that the importers show and our home
designers and manufacturers have failed
TO rush into the breech All this prove,
that nothing now can save the cape from
a long period of oblivion. Perhaps the
golfers friend will survive for a space
but the cape as an element in the femin-
Inc wardrobe has run absolutely 10 seed
and is about TO be cast into outer dark
ness. II has. from a flowing wrap OF
4 large dimensions and voluptuous fold.
shrunk into poor little frizz of shoulder
ruffies, while the coat IS once more reg
. nant
A good deal of interest is displayed in
the black silk coat that promises TO have
. place in Summer modes Faile Fran
calse. heavy Armure, bengaiine, and OF
toman silk are all being cut up into
handsome belted jackets with fun front
ruches of black and cream lace. The bod
les of the more expensive ones are chaste-
ly adorned with delicate jet appliques and
good many women are wearing erena-
dine coats, made over colored silk Innings.
These, Of course are the indulgenCes of
the rich, but handsome simple black
silk coat promises TO be a very sensible
investment. OF course they are belted in
with bands OF jewels. though a heavy
and unique silver belt is much more to the
fashionable notion these days.
A new pattern in combing Jackets has
Just been adopted by some shTewd wo-
man who IS not above catching a a good
idea in church. To copy in finest lawn
a chorister boys Gotta and adapt it to