The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-26

spring styles, and now for the enhancing
little details. To begin with everything
that can be possibly trimmed with yards
upon yards of narrow gathered ribbon is
trimmed with IT, II comes all prepared
in narrow lutte string width, with a cord
ing down the center. A pull on one of the
ribbon turns the cord into a drawstring.
though the ribbon can be quite as pretdly
put to very orthodox uses.
So exceedingly lovely are some of the
Morris patterns for ribbons this spring that
9hey retail at a dollar and seventy-five
kents per yard, and this is for ribbons
only three and a half inches wide. Their
commanding beauty of color and unusual
charm OF decoration have inspired some
thoughtful soul to set the fashion of hav-
ing shirt waists made of lengths of rib
bon laid together. The ribbon edges are
united by a beading on very narrow lace
inserting or a piping of some satin in a
solid color.
Ribbon Shirt Waists.
Such shirt waists are made with the
ribbon running lengthwise or crosswise
of the figure, and are the result of the
strenuous effort to find something new
In fancy bodioes that threaten to be lone
to death. Another species of ribbon, very
much used for this purpose, is the rich
white or mauve satin article striped with
black velvet, A richer fabric than this
it is impossible 10 find, and the ribbon par
excellence for the hordes of muslin frocks
soon to be Undertaking. about us, is
very much grained taffeta that is soft with
al and edged with a narrow chined floral
hand that finishes in fringe. The fringe
is merely the raveled edge of the ribbon,
and is stamped with the floral pattern, too
The new way of using a ribbon round
the neck is to buy one three or four inches
wide, pass it twice round the throat, tie
a bow under the chin, carry the ends
down to the waist, knot smaller bow
there and then let two sliced tabs fail
three inches below this second bow, which
is made fast to the dress or shirt waist
nv means of an ornamental pin. Pretty
fronts are made of colored tulle powdered
with large silk dots and worn as above
described, while cut white crystal buttons,
some of them as big as the tops of decanter
shoppers, and some of them with little pic
lures in their depths, have made every
other species of button look eminently
passe
walking and Travelling Hats.
If YOU drop in for a half hours talk
your spring walking hat must be of felt
or straw. with a rather tall alpine or
sugar loaf crown and a perfectly fiat jut-
ting brim This goes by the name of the
Tyrolese. for it appears that this is an
adaptation of the headgear popular in the
Tyrol
A. Tyrolese hat has a roll of straw trim
ming cast about the crown. a knot of il
on one side and then the proudest, long
est red and green tail feather from
naughty barnyard lord stuck into the knot.
Very often a roll of some colored silk s
laid inside the straw trimming to lend
tone, and the top of the crown is woven
well open to give the head plenty of vea-
tilation.
1t is strange but true that the prettiest
! flowers that have appeared at the milln-
ers, so far, are sheafs of hyacnths
Stranger and truer is that they are goina
to be very much worn because they are
so artfu.ly put together and so deliciously
colored that they produce a most graceful
| decoration. A black tulle hat, With fun
wreath of what they call market hya.
| cnths chat echoing every graduation In
| tones of PURPLE. bound about the crown
and nothing more is about the prettiest
half mourning millinery any woman can
wear.
Bridesmaids hats are the only wide
brimmed ones seen, and when made OF
white tuile the underside OF the brim Is
| ornamented with rows on rows of narrow
white gathered ribbon All this wedding
maguifcence is expected to be tied under
the chin by enormous tule strings Talk
ing of things bridal the low-necked mar