Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-15

rived, and fad is the heart of the en-
tire feminine W rid in consequence.
Nothing that has ever been made or
invented is so universally becoming
to every girl and woman. no matter
what her style or character Of build
carriage. complexion-yes and even
expression--may be, as are furs
There is something SO luxurious
about them, a something s that chafac-
terizes even the least expensive of
them, that mankind generally, and
womankind in particular long ago de
cided that just as soon as the rigors
of the weather would permit, fIlrs it
should be, and these in as becoming
pelt as purse, ingenuity and her per
sonal possibilities of wearing could Sc
cure.
Well. once more the calendar has
rolled around to the time when furs
do not look out of place.
Here on this side of the Atlantic
we wait until furS are quite lin the
picture" as our artist friends say
but in France the home and birthplace
of all that is fashion and fashionable,
they do not hesitate to wear furs on
summer evenings. or even afternoons,
with chiffon and gauze and airy IA
brics.
At all of the watering places, where
the grand monde loves to eongregate
and air its costumes and jewels and
furs, it is no uncommon thing for the
possessOr If a set of the famous i'm
peral Russian sable to take her furs
out for promenade when the August
sun is shining tiercey, and very odd it
looks to our eyes to see the leaders of
the modes SO appareled.
However. it is the old story-what-
ever looks exceptionally well upon a
woman, that thing she will wear. and
sometimes regardless of time, race
and opportunity.
However. to return to our own furs
and the manner of wearing them
just about this time every feminine
member of socety-no matter what
her creed purse or social station may
be-has furs on the brain, if MT al
ready in her wardrobe
And such furs 1t really would
seem as though every pelt in the cate
CORY were represented i'll the seasons
fur fashions.
Of course. to take up the novelties
first, there is msleskin.
This is SO old a fur that il is practi-
cally new to the girl who is now
studying fashions and her own possi-
blities therein, but it is just the same
moleskin that our "granddies" thought
such very swell and fashionable ma
terial for wastcoats.
1t was all right for mems waistcoats:
they didn't require much material:
but for woman's coat it is quite an
other thing
Hundreds of the title skins are need
ed to make one even medium-sized gar
ment and therefore the fashionable
girl will readily recognize that mole
skin is a good investment, for its
price will keep it from becoming too
popular
And then there is ermine, that ex-
quisite fur which used 10 be the
privilege and prerogative OF royalty
and royalty alone.
In olden times no mere subject was
permitted TO sport even the tiniest
little bit Of ermine. but nowadays our
American royalty the fashionable
girls-gets herself up whole coats and
wraps and opera cloaks entirely fash
ioned from this beautiful petit.
This season the really smart girl
uses ermine. not only as a trimming
fur upon her really exquisite coats and
wraps OF lamb, breitschwanz. baby
lamb or moire astrakhan, upon the
black rich background CT which the
soft white and gian yellow tones of
the ermine with its piquant touch OF
black in the little tails. shows up
with such good effect, but she likewise
uses it in those fetching little four-in-