Widnes Examiner. — 1898-11-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

LADIES' LETTER.  MY Dzen  Richly embroidered crowns are to continue to decorate hats and toques, and some of these surpass all previous efforts of elaboration. Gold and silver sequins are thickly sewn on satin in white or cream colour, yellow, orange, or some pale tone of green, blue, mauve, and pink. Or perhaps the foundation material may be velvet in any of the above-named colours, or in black or dark blue. Both hats and toques are often raised extremely high at the left side, a style that has its advantages on the score of picturesqueness. But the Trelawny hats is the reigning favourite in headgear. It is found much too becoming to part with.  A long feather is upon on either side, the stems being hidden at their point of part. fog by a large buckle in silver, Steel, pr jet, and the ends of the feathers fall over the hair. It is more often seen in black than in colours, though in white, with a mother-o'-pearl buckle, it is worn at weddings, and is invariably pronounced success: ful. As to toques, they are large—comparatively speaking—and are made for the most part of quilled velvet as to the brim, and the same material, embroidered and arranged in full loose folds, for the crown. Fur brims and velvet crowns are often seen, as are velvet brims and crowns composed of closelY.massed ostrich ferthere, The tricorn hat—it is also known as the tiappho—is only becoming to the few, as its sharp turn up. wards from the face is trying, but it is decidedly smart and looks its best in black or dark-coloured velvet, with a narrow fur or jet edging and full plumes of feathers.  Many ...nter garments, and more especially those in the fashionable cloth of neutral tint and dull as to surface, are now adorned with grouped lines of narrow braid, or with many rows of waved or straight stitching, which not only form outlines for edging the garment, but also define the curves and seams. Backs are, indeed, just now most characteristic, and this is particularly noticeable in the short coats which accompany skirts. A necessary and fashionable cape is of black crepon, with a frill at the edge, which is continued up the front tojortu a watertall jabot. It is lined through with gaiit.fd silk, and nas a pinked-out frill of silk inside the edge, which also forms ruffle at the throat, taL!.sed collar.  The appallingly tight aspect which every selfrespecting skirt must wear is another feature of the moment. The flounced shirt has died the death, but in its place is the eel skin sheath of twenty years ago, fitting the hips without a wrinkle, sometimes plain at the back, with the placket hole in front, a little to the left, or with a row of buttons clown the centre seam, but guiltless of pleat or gather. From below the knee it widens out into voluminous clinging folds, necessitating as much attention to one's steps when walking as at a dancing class; so that the beholder is in ,doubt whether infirm old age has suddenly descended on the victim to fashion, or whether she is practising an improvement on the careless deportment of the present day. There are several styles of coat which promise to be equally in vogue this winter. First, there is the tight, swallow-tailed type, cut on the lines of a gentlemen's morning coat with rounded fronts, and a single row of buttons. At present this is' oftenest seen in tweed and cloth coat-and-skirt costumes, but some of the newest sealskin and astrachan jackets are of this shape, which is, it must be confessed, neither pretty nor becoming. The sleeves of jackets are quit' devoid of fulness at the shoulder, and the revers are " stepped" like the lapels of a masculine coat. Aother stylish shape has an extremely short basque and four rows of very small buttons down the front. Your loving JTSNIL • Tuesda:  • At a coroner's inquest, held at Liverliool on _ Ay, it transpired that the deceased, a middle.aged man, named Barnes, committed suicide whilst insane. He suffered from religious mania, and, remarking that he would never be for-. given fot praying for himself and not also brothers, rushed out of the house and jumped into the canal.  f.v_-,__„ ,---‘ % r.--1:-:-A ...1..., ii:., p I 7 lII'-'vv%o 4q; -14 , ~..4 11 t .•L- . A. :,, / z„ 4,...,.. ..,.,.-// is laid ----- the brim on r:  4.: -5:414!;".,/::: ,z"--,--, '7.4-) f -111b1 " ' A ' Jr \ '• ....-Jo\ 1, \\ \ • .•,„_ -.. :fo. A• ~__ A \\ .\.., \\.. 1 K -... "- d.lk. to off winS  '4,.....4 1.., , fre,it' 1 .... T ‘ ' ..f.4;; / \ A \ • , A / / rfi / / : /