The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-03

the reigning tunic, the long tight-ftting
overdress and dress waist in one that
has no rivals in our admiration and al
legiance. The Prineesse coat takes the
body from shoulders to knee with glove
like snugness, flares and ripples in
f1ounce around the bottom and Is always
conspicuously buttoned a trife to one
side and with a series of large wedge
! shaped flaps in which the buttonhole is
worked. 1t Is also characterized by
lofty Kaiserin collar or irregular reverb
faced back with some velvet of a very
cordial tone, An inclination is appa aren't
from foreign sources to top off the au-
tumn's~ coats, whether short or long
skirted, with a series of little shoulder
capes. and, with the box-shaped wraps,
this is almost an essential in order that
the wrap possess any symmetry at all.
Another phase of the slowly crystalliz-
ing coat fashions is that of lending color
and Importance to even the most modest
little short jacket by fitting in the neck
Of it small detachable extra reve-s col
lar like the very serviceable and beauti-
flying admiral collars that Won their
place this summer. Any woman who
understands dress economics will buy
smart Kersey, broadcloth, or satin-fa ED
Melton coat of black or dark brown, and
add to 1t on occasions a rich red velvet,
revers, as her needs and her complexion
counsel, and she will be sure to have
revers collars stitched There Is nothing
smarter than machine stitching and
plenty of it and these revers noted,
whether of ruby velvet or white satin,
are made timely and pretty when they
shine with rows upon rows of those me-
chanically-even lines of silk needle
work.
Even the hats, that is those made of
dress goods or silk, are stitched, and
there is a sort of artistic justice in the
wholesale adoption of grape -garnished
hats for use with the light wool Sep en-
Der toilets. Already there have been
shipped to the fashionable autumn re-
sorts airy bonnets of green, or grey, or
mauve tulle-girded or garnished upon
one side with the prettiest of grapes with
the proper foliage, and from some of
these smart country settlements are COM
Ing few of the minor fashions that we
Will all be adopting a few weeks later
under the complacent impression that we
have a new mode from Paris. For ex-
ample, the young women of our beau
monde no longer wear extensive jawelled
chains. Around the fair necks run yokes
In the form Of thread-like gold links in
terspersed with enamelled extensions
but the chain itself is only long enough
10 hang half way to the waist line IJpon
this is slung the wearer's watch, md a
small locket-like affair it is, enamel!ed
and Jewelled on the back, and the face
turned to its owners breast
Rings, even to the first finger. are the
announcement for the autumn and af or
summer of ringless comfort the women
Will undoubtedly follow the lead of Mrs
Mackay, who is responsible for making
this revival of the light letters ponu
lar. she was one of the first to intro.
duce the fringed ring, now the most con-
spfcuous jewel in Paris 1t is a big cir
clet of gold bearing a high setting of
dark clear cameo stone in which hri1-
llants appear to be sunk. Then. from the
bottom of the setting, fall out 11non tho
knuckles sort of tassel formed of poarls
or a flexible loop of gold on which head
emeralds or topaz are strung On the
fourth finger a finely cut intaglio sur
rounded by jewels is the proper circle
and the index finger should bear but one
stone while the second and third fingers
wear as many as four rings at a time
The time for wearing rings, however
must be chosen and the more exoufsitelv
fashionable woman Is the more care
fully she confines her rings to use AZ
home and in the evening.
One small adjunct of the complete an
tumnal toilet, however, Is for hard use
by day and already purchasable in the
SHOPS. This Is the small red leather
hand bag. 1t is only about as large as a
very large purse, Is not to be attached to
the belt and IS adopted by all the shop
pers, for 1t holds minute stationary ink
bottle, gold telescope pen, pencil.
small sheets of note paper and stamps
and also bottle of perfumed toilet vim
egar. a powder puff end comb and It IS
! considered almost as useful as monav
when a long hard day Of autumn shon.
| ping Is to be got through with