Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-02

way to remind them that wheeling is a hot
and dusty occunatian Her white duck
skirt, pink shirt waist and broad light gray
SLOUGH hat offers nothing distinctive in the
telling; but add,Muiet eyes, cool skin of
wholesome tints And2a tirm-set chin, not
too square, and you get a personitication of
early summer, bright, breezy, good to look
at and wholly unsen tirnehtal.
Another summer picture is the girl who
is coming up the Rathamong the trees from
the river, the long stems of pond lilies
hanging from her arm. She is a slighter
figure than the other, branch hides her
face, her white WOODEN dress hangs as
straight and close about her as If it were
heavy with water. She has broad soft
green sash at her side, and her fiat, white
sailor hat is. swathed in green. The girl
may be pretty, she may be piquant at close
acquaintance; 1 like her best where she is,
naiad coming up from the stream.
Suggestive of Summer Heat.
There is something in the muslins more
dangerous, more suggestive Of the heats to
come; something that belongs with the
warm, sweet scent of clover and the rattle
of the moving machine. There is a. white,
vaporous cloud overlooking a hammock,
swung just in the edge of the grove; tall
laws against disturbing a person in muslin.
White 'muslin-all white-belongs to the
dolce far niente of the droWsy days; to the
lapse Of personal identity in the sunshine
and the earth hum. For permit to con-
versation some color must be worn, some
sharp accent put into the monotone. 1 have
seen a woman in muslin conducting herself
most energetically,. but she knew how to
make the appearance congruous; how not to
violate the proprieties. Her pale green and
white transparencies subordinated them
selves to the royal blue that ruled at throat
and waist and permitted any sort Of Vivaci-
ty, even dancing. - e-:r..,
Blue and white is merry; pink and white,
gtrlish. Golden yellow and white or lemon
color and white, requires more particular
considerations; neither combination is abso-
lutely inconsistent with action, but they
are more sultry, more suggestive of tropic
heats and thunder storms than white alone.
There is a delicacy about heliotrope and
white or black and white properly handled
"a great deal of white and a very little
black, but used boldly-that fits with va
riety of summer purposes; but the muslins
that chime best with the summer gayeties,
that have the joy of the season without its
droop, are the new-old Vatican patterns,
with their little bouquets or baskets of
flowers thrown upon cream-white surface
and tied together by blue ribbons Next to
these for daintiness, lightness and hints of
airy freedom, / reckon the other floral mus
Inns with indeterminate cloud designs be-
hind the flowers, scarcely visible except in
d
when the fabric is not too much shipped up
in f1ounces
Combinations of Color.
1t is wholesome symptom, however,
that we are not bothering SO much as
usual about color significance or the SUBJ
tleti.s of combinations; rather we dash for
ward as boldly as in the early sixties,
whose fashions we continue to copy, with
any set of tints that nature has set us the
example of approving. At the first largely
attended meet ofat simmer club "a few days
ago the POSITIVE, scoibrs of yellow myrtle
with Its green asaNsS. turquoise blue and
the olf-fashioned ptnks and reds that re-
mind one of thaoaSbeeet Williams" of New
England gardenaboB&ers were more, in evil
dence than any 1tthesrhues.
A blue and 1alitd mt slim, for example,
was made up eyRr ,auseparate foundation of
grass-grean sillrandixrimmed with trellis
work of blacksY Ghantilly insertion. A
shoulder roseteeetodr deep crimson was
added. ID j
A cream-eolor1a lHwn, almost as fine as
muslin, was drspedilover yellow silk and
founced with cIseanp lace run with narrow
yellow and black eribAons. The long sash of
black chiffon was dressed with yellow.
A pale green,eande white muslin had a
foundation of roEeldaf pink silk and many
frills and insertions ref fine cream lace; the
sash of pink chiffon finished with black vel
buckle.
OF India Muslin.
An elaborate costume and one suggestive
of crinoline was a beautiful India muslin
family cream-tinted and made up over
India yellow at once deep and soft. The
skirt was arranged in style familiar
thirty or forty years ago. with six or eight
founces forming sharp point in the front
and back, but rising high on the sides. The
founcss were frilled with lace and headed
with rows OF openwork and insertion. The
waistbapd was of green ribbon The bodice
was arranged with lace and muslin frills
to form a fichu drapery over chemisette
of muslin finely tucked and run with green
and cream-colored ribbons. s
II blue Is the color OF the season green is
almost as popular, and the changes rung
upon the two with each other and with