Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-09
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New York, Aug. 3-New York is not
bad summer resort, Beth, if you but
know it. You know we are not so far
from the cool, soft breezes but that We
get Whit of them some hour during
| the "a. Then there is the park life
| and the life of the roof gardens, and it
is so much better, my dear, unless one
can have ons's own home at CON-
| Portable seaside resort or In the noun
| tains, to stay right here in New York
| than to go to those wretched summer
hotels or those over Sunday resorts. /
| know what they mean SO well. A hot
room, usually measuring four by six;
then one must be dressed Up all the
| time and rush about over an 1S-hole
! golf link, full .dress for dinner, which
| is badly cooked; to bed late, and such
bed evidently built for the. hills
| and hollows of deformed PERSONS
| ribs; up early IN the morning or you
miss decent breakfast, and on the
! same way through the day. No, l pre-
| fer New York.
Then, think of the bargains. These
| summer bargains, a womans paradise.
Think Of the short lengths of fine and
expensive silks, almost given away and
what onn they be used for? Pillows,
negliges and fancy waists, though they
are quite out of the fashion with the
haut de monde, yet we who cannot en-
ploy Felix and Redfern yot use them.
l like to be in New York in August.
1t gives one such start for the fall
season. / have been visiting the
modistes who have arrived early from
the other side, and the secrets they tell
me are quite worth the little Elensuie
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They tell me. these modistes, not to go
headlong and follow all fashion maya
| zines, as is woman's wont, for this
year they are most uncertain. There is
| to be decided change In the skirts.
What it is to be the gods of fashion
only know. One must have heavy
clothes in the fall. Certes. But be
careful. Wait. The manufacturers say,
this and Dame Fashion oftimes says
that. What she chooses is often some-
thing that the manufacturers, silk
weavers, cloth weavers and lace makers
have not thought of, and yet this
year, with the Paris Exposition in full
blast, my ladies of fortune will return
with fashions far beyond those of us
who have remained here over the sum
mer. IL
l will tell you one cachet that has
caught their eye. Ills the plaid skirt
and the plain skirt and waistcoat for
fall use; and yet don't you know, Beth,
it takes certain style to carry it we'll?
The petite maiden cannot even look at
it, and the dumpy girl had better
pass it by; tits only the tall, slender
maiden, the 1900 creation Of the
imagination of Gibson who can assume
this combination with impunity.
AT the exposition the plaid skirt, the
gayest kind of plaid, heavy, rough,
gay cloth, with q plain coat and a
waistcoat, If the girl is at all of the
horsey style, is the chic thing. Nothing
can surpass 1T; hut beware, my dear
Beth. Of the style you assume.
Next to that. for all wear Oxford
cloth with the long hair is chic. 1t is
best to have for this a plain gray or
black waist, though this next winter
predcIs a waist to match the skirt If
one will be- in Madam Fashions realm.
Every dog has his day, and the silk
waist with black skirt has said good
bye to fashionables; but that the
separate waist will yet cling to the
tailor made suit is q foregone con-
elusiun, but it must in every way
resemble the shirt waist and be worn
only for business, shopping and most
informal occasions. This coming winter
will see waists the same material of
the skirt, or at least suggesting in
color and style their relationship.
Have you golf suit Beth? Whether
you play or not you must be the happy
possessor of one of this sort. A plaid
skirt with plain coat, with brass
buttons The brass must be very much
in evidence. You must know, my dear,
by this time that gilt of some kind
must play part in your fall costume.
and even If you do not play golf you
must make showing of golfsh cos
tune to be ''in it," The girls who
play the most now have begun to recog-
nize the forco of "a laced boot rather
than low shoe, which has done much
to ruin the ankle of the American
woman, and all she can do now after
two or three years of letting the ankle
loose six months out of the year is to
tie 1t up as tight as she can in leather,
and try tc see what this will do to
bring it hack TO its proper shape.
If you have any idea, my dear, of Sc
Letting from the summer bargains silk,
or tul!e for evening wear this winter
buy at least one yellow gown in your
list. yellow is to he the color par eX-
oellence next winter. 1t is u color be
coming more and more dominant in
decorations, and for ezsning wear you
can readily understand its popularity.
1t reflects more light than any other
color and who can forget the reading of
Mr.. Dudley Hardy $ Wonderful Yellow
Girl" the pretty advance guard CT
today? Till one comes to think OF 1t
seriously, one hardly realizes how i'm
portant and pleasant things in life are
! yellow. The sun is yellow, and surely
the next most important object In the
world, money, Is yellow. yellow gold"
is favorite phrase in certain forms of
poetry. The bravest men and the fair
est women have had golden hair, and
hair at the present time is doing its
best Co conform to its normal condition
of color. Numerous incidents might
he added of it's changing from black
! to gold in obedience to chemical laws
Peroxide of hydrogen, hear you
! say. Nonsense, say, beauty it is. The
flowers we love best are yellow.-the
early flowers, the cowslip, the daffodil,
the crocus, the buttercup, half of the
daisy, the honeysuckle and the rose.
Yellow has it's turn with the leaves,
and the poet takes time to sing of
|, theIn. And the letters we love best, are
! they not yellow, too-the old, old
letters, letters Of the nast, letters that
have at one time made our heart beat
, faster, made the blood come to our
faces and our eyes swim with delight?
The sacred robe of the greatest religion
in the world is yellow, ''the yellow