The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-25


especially well suited for adaptation
with washable materials. It combines
wen with short boiero, which may be
OF lace or embroidery, according to
taste. Dresses for the summer are
plain and close fitting. especially the
bodices and upper parts of the skirts.
All costumes are long and full around
the lower parts. Simplicity is to be the
keynote OF the seasons modes.
The prominence of lace as a trimming
brings to ones attention the fact that
all the different kinds known to the
modern world are being. beautifully re-
produced by machinery for those whose
purses will not stand the price Of real
ones. Not only the plain weayes, but
those shot with gold Or silver and IN
terspersed with flowers of chiffon or net
or frightened with dehcately painted
tracings, are used. A very faint ecru
and cream-a deeper shade than that
to which we have been accustomed and
verging well on to that of the tea rose
is popular. Some lace has insertions Of
gauze or tissue decorated with painted
flowers. Entire lace dresses, while
quite au fat, are not to be so much ex-
plotted as those made only partially of
it and combined with some heavier fab
rio
I went out shopping the other after
noon with the mother of my small
friend Babette. The child Is to visit her
grandma. who has a charming country
place in Picardy. There the little girl
will be able to obtain fresh country
milk and eggs and, above all, the fresh
air which the sisters at the convent
think their little charge much needs,
for she has been dropping lately over
her books At the Bon Marche they
showed us some very pretty frocks in
washable materials that the obliging
shopwoman assured US were quite as
durable as they were pretty.
It want something which Babette can
wear when she goes roaming over the
park with Jeanne and will not look the
worse even for a romp in the meadows
One of the garments selected consist
ed of pale blue striped cambria trimmed
around the skirt with three narrow
frilIs. The slightly bloused bodice was
made of alternate bands of insertion
and cambria. The deep. rounded collar
f1ared out into two narrow frills headed
by a band Of insertion
For afternoon wear or to don when
Babette was allowed the privilege of
dining with the grown folks her mother
selected a fine white nuns yelling trim
med with guip6re insertion. Bands of
the insertion threaded with narrow
black velvet ribbon outlined a yoke and
in double row formed the girdle, the
skirt being unpretentiously trimmed
with a single ruffie.
While we were shopping for Babette
we stopped to get one of those new me-
dallion trinl1ets for the chatelaine of
madame. This was the daintiest affair
in blue and gold, finished with a small
clasp by which it could be attached to
or detached from the chain at viii. All
kinds of ornaments are added to
chain nowadays. and no sort of harmo-
ny in form is observed in their seIec-
ton 1 could not for the life of me i'm
agine why madame was so particular
that her medallion should be of blue,
but she told me a little later. She
wears it with other blue ornaments
when she dons her blue or white frock.
She has a different and a harmonizing
set of trinkets for each gown of a diff
ferent color. Verify these are the days
of fastfdiousness in dress
After we had completed the purchase
we went into a little tearoom, where
fashionable shoppers refresh the inner
woman. OF course, I had my favorite
cup of souchong and some biscuit. but
you will never guess what madame or
dered. A pint of wateri You see she
is a victim to a new fad-the water cure
which is the latest panacea of the