The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-25

mortify the flesh and cause tears OF
penitence to dow. it is TO have dress
maker in the house So lovely woman
has. as usual mana ged to kill two birds
with one stone.
The new silks are mostly satin finish
foulards and soft finish satins, These
are printed. and they are almost
equally divided into two large and
small designs. There are perhaps
twenty-five different designs in blue,
and the blue runs through several
shades, the ma jority of indigo shades
being In rather subdued tints The
designs are especially quaint. like
those seen in some old forgotten rag
bag in farmhouse attic. One pat
tern has a close ground in shades OF
blue. and over this is a larger pattern
in white stars or arabesques or clus-
tiers of dots, as the case may be. Others
have dark blue ground with white
creseents and arabesque designs or geo
tnetricaI figures But there is none
where the pattern is as large as it was
season ago All the figures are neat
and close, and the smooth satiny finish
adds to their beauty. Few of the silks
of this class are crisp, but are instead
soft and pliable and clinging
II there are many navy and indigo
blues in these pretty silks, there are
quite as many more in black and white.
for all the designs are duplicated. The
slack and white summer silks are real
ly beautiful. and some few gowns al
ready made as samples show deep
f1ounces or double skirt effects quite as
often as plain skirts. But skirts seem
to be much wider around the waist and
are often shirred down two or three
inches Lace, both black and white
and often in combination. is used to
trim them. Insets. insertions, border
ings and separate pieces as applique are
put on as before wherever lace seems
called for.
There appear among the new cottons
and other washable materials musiins
with wavy stripes. dotted gauze, plaf1
organdie. satin striped mulis. printed
batistes. grenadines IN silk and cotton,
very soft and dainty; batistes with lace
stripes and with jacquard Weayes OF
flowers IN various colors and an i'm
mense line Of linen. both plain and en-
broidered. These grass linens are ex-
pected to be very popular. and they GER
tainly deserve it The most of them
are embroidered m silk. which gives
them rich appearance There is also
q long list of beautiful designs in st
Gall embroidered swisses. That these
are lovely may be inferred from the
fact that it took cur great lawmakers
long time to decide whether these EN-
broideries should be entered through
the custom house as lace or e,nbroid.
cry. The. are so much like lace thai
one hesitates to call them embroidery,
but. whatever they are. they are beau
tifuL
All the 5AS going are the thin fabrics
but there are many really handsome
printed dfinities. homespun linen and
cotton suitings. thick in appearance
ret light; all corts Of fancy bourrettes
with their rough tufts: canvas, mercer
iZeu DUCK NuhlHs IKE sin, Ieps. s# cla
| mines. crash in all weights and an IN
finite number of percales and ginghams
of every variety striped and checked.
Al MODEL OF an evening dress of white
satin striped null is shown here. Tit
stripes are arranged to go around. ans
the whole dress IS trimmed with lresEsls
Of lace insertion he dress Is wort
over a pink sisk Slip and has ninl
belt and 4 breloaae Of pearis at eaei
shoulder With this are seen the new
| lace glove mitts. The glove proper
breaches above the wrist and the laes
lHrises to the shoulder
HENRIETTE RoJ=ss EAU.