The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04
FURS AND LACES.

A combination of fur and lace, if right ly handled, is the most effective form of dressy winter street costume.
 But to be really artistic and becoming there must be some little thought put into the arrangement. Delicate lace must not be combined with coarse, long nap fur. nor pure white lace with black fur, nor small patches of lace on long coats and deep capes.
 And the use of lace at all should be re- stricted to furs to be worn for paying calls, for theatre, for afternoon recep- tion and teas. For morning wear for church. for shopping, the palmer the furs are the better style.
 The prettiest dressy furs, and fairly durable if treated with proper respect and kindness, are ermine, chlnchilla, Jap anese mink, fine baby lamb. soft-dressed broadtafl and baby calf dyed black; and all these furs are really much more beautiful with the addition of creamy lace to neck, sleeves or in some beauti- fully designed applique form.
 To actually trim furs with lace that Is to put ruffles or insertion of lace flat on the fur, is ineffective and inartistic To get a good effect, the lace must be used merely as a finish A Cavalier frill for the sleeves, knotted about the neck with ends the full length of coat or stole, a colonial jabot at the front of an eton, with rich applques embroidered on in elaborate Oriental colors-these are the smart effects shown for this season in the uses of lace garniture.
 With long-nap furs like sable, bear, deer, mink and squirrel, the most fash ionable laces are the Irish wool crochet point d Arabe silk cluny, guipure, and imitation old Italian designs
 With the most delicate furs like er- mine, caracul baby calf or chinchilla the finer point laces are used, and if you have fine real Spanish lace, creamy with age or Honiton necktie or even a bit of Duchess in ivory tint, you will need no other garniture to make the simplest fur coat very much grande mode. And fur hats to match coats or tippet are more fashionable than ever. The most popular shapes are the Yirot and torpedo turban; the Virot round and flat, and the torpedo, as one might suppose, with sharp aggressive peak at the front and decidedly narrow sides.
 There are three ways of trimming these fur turbans, with a single spray of flow CTS, with a ruching of maline or with lace scarf knotted at the back in two bows and short ends. The lace decora-
 
 tulle the newest and flowers the most practicable.
 If a fur hat Is carefully selected as to its becomingness to hair and complexion and few women realize the importance of trying on fur-and is adorned with the shade of lace or the tone of flowers that suit the wearer, there is really no millin- cry creation that can compare with it for richness and artistic effect. The fur
 
 other texture possibly can. It has no angles, no sharp edges but is what the French call "carressing"
 Pure white lace is not used at all on black fur or with ermine. With white hair-fur or fox or chinchilla it is not in- effective. but for all fur decoration the ivory or cream tones in lace are pre- ferred.
 On the other hand, old lace, if actually soiled, Is very bad form indeed. And it is a bit of a puzzle to some women, who have not professional cleaners conven- lent, to know just what to do with their beautiful faces that are streaked or Drowned. Ordinary washing with soap and warm water is of no avail. Rubbing Is out of the question and real laces should never be boiled.
 The best and simplest plan, and the least expensive, because 1t cannot injure the lace. is to use warm borax water. First soak your laces for an hour in a bowl of warm water softened by a tea spoonful of borax. Then transfer them to a bowl of water that has just boiled with the same amount of horax and little shaved castillo soap, ru' them very lightly in the hands, squeeze them up and down in the suds, wrinse in clear warm water, and then in clear cold wa ter made ivory color with coffee.
 Squeeze the lace as dry as possible and At l.. ..IA stick pulling the lace out into perfect shape as you roll. When dry, it will look as though it had been in cabinet all it's life.