The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-28

ems clubs. sorosis or another which goes
In for smart millinery, might do worse
than to issue an official color scale.
In Paris. where the styles come from,
there Is a syndicate of flower and feather
merchants who have dwelt together for
fifteen years In the agreement of terms
appropriate for colors worn by women.
Indeed, the union includes dealers of
Lyon, st. Etienne, Calais and other cities.
Their conclusions are made known by
means of a card bearing bits of satin,
with the name opposite each piece.
The color card of the French syndicate
for 1900 has arrived. promptly with the
fresh year. And 1t certainly IS instruc-
tive as showing what the prismatic ten
denotes have been during the Paris win
ter, and what III much probability they
will be in the coming spring and sum-
mer.
OF eager interest is the assurance that
the pastel shades certainly will be Of
fered In larger quantity. The Parisienne
has found in these dreamy tones precise
ly what she desires for dressy afternoon
wear. And the woman who fancies arts
c
o'clock The woman who finds 1t desira-
BILE to be all things to all men likes
strong colors for morning and evening,
vague shades in the afternoon. But for
some hours of the day every one Of US
wants gowns in pastel shades. No doubt
these elusive tones, If not long felt, are
at last an imperative, want, and it is
hoped that they have come to stay.
THIRTY -FOUR SHADES.
There are thirty-four distinctly pas
tel shades, or imprcssionistic tones, for
1900 Diluted" one man milliner calls
these hues, and they literally are, being
frequently not lighter in hue than the
tones usually called solid, but thinner
A bit of white yelling over an ordinary
color in, say a pink silk, gives pas
tel shade quickly.
Likely the favored pastel colorings are
the outcome of our much wearing of thin
white draperies over slips of distinct
hues. In such costumes the eye became
accustomed to shrouded colorings.
The amateur painter evolves pas
tel tint easily from her water color
box by overmuch use of water and a
trifle Of pigment. Oil as readily floods
bit Of blue oil paint Into a cerulean
colorins of pastel tendencies. But white
| paint mixed with blue could not give a
mysterious effect; the result simply
would be pale blue. A little less than
half the authorized colorings of the syn
dicate's card are pastel variations.
In these tints are seven approved
green's. Aquarelle is the faintest, and
Stimulates, as its name implies, the light
est greenish coloring seen In flowing
| water. Pastel and fresque are deepenings
of this soft color, not becoming in the
least garish and never developing into a
tone which would be unseemly for dainty
feminine wear, in large quantities.
Detaille, for reasons best known to
the syndicate, is truer light green
and probably by the general public would
be called Nile, though the syndicate has
Nile an iritenser light color.
Trianon Ramboullet and Pierrefond
are diluted olives in three gradations
One would like to combine the three
shades in a stunning visiting gown, and
trick it out with sables. Athos, Porthos
and Aranis attest the current popularity
of the Three Musketeers" In as many
shades of much thinned pansy color. In
deed, Athos, the lghtest tint of the
three, Is much like the beautiful ashes
of roses, which the heroines in eld-fash-
toned novels wore. These three color
names strike one as interesting, rather
than ia the least descriptive, for they
represent refined, gentle tints. not those
in the least venturesome.
Other green favored BY the union Of