“5" ~- ”Arum-A16 vr N ' Tam: -~- — u" n csr'rme READY. son SUMMER. A. Chapter on Summer Silks, Shirt Waist: and Washable Materials. ’Pubiished by special arrangement with the . New York Sun. The variety in washing materials must be seen to be appreciated, for it surpasses anything ever shown here be- j: fore. The new piques are much finer :and~more pliable than the old- fashioned . ‘ fabric of this kind, and they come in tiny stripes and figures of satin finish ' 7- in all the light and dark shades of every fashionable color, and with open work embroidered patterns scattered here and there. The fancy cotton capes and crepons are very pretty. ”Wash- ing-poplin” ismentioned in the foreign fashion notes as one of our new mate- rials. White lawns with a narrow stripe of black, dainty flowers between, and tiny pinhead dots of black all over them, makepretty' summer gowns, and they are very cheap. Chusan tafiets, which is a cotton material with a printed warp, looks much like fine gingham, comes in patterns which resemble silk, and costs about twenty cents a yard. The colors which seem to head the list this season are blue in all its vary— ing shades, especially turquoise, green, and brown, but there is such a medley of color in the chameleon silks and rib- bons which shades so difierently in dif- ferent lights that all the colors of the rainbow seem to be blended together in one indescribable changing tint. ., . , The close coat sleeve is still promised for the near future, but all styles and sizes of pufis are oflered as a sort of compromise between the large and the small, to win the way for the one which is not contemplated with any pleasure by the majority of women. "Iv-«(-43 _1. r!\, Q” I The shirt waist is made with a nar- row-pointed yoke in the back, and with or withouta yoke in front, and the col- lar and cuffs may be of the same ma- terial or of white linen. Dimities. lawns, and batistes, plain, striped, and patterned all over in Persian designs, make the daintiest shirt waists, and these usually have a soft turn-back cuff of the same, and either a white linen collar or a colored satin.stock with a white piping set in the edges and a nar- row satin tie to match is tied around the Ineck over this. Sleeves of these thin waists sometimes aretuckedZin one cluster at the top, or in two, one being well down toward the waist. Swivel silks, ginghams, and the heavier cotton cheviots are also made up into these: waists, but the batistes seem to be the favorites this season. The light colors slook pretty with white muslin collars , and cufis trimmed with lace. and corn batiste waists are trimmed up and down or across with innumerable frills of narrow Valenciennes lace. Another , . style has a yoke of corn embroidery, i 7 with a trill of embroidery around the edge. 'Very handsome are the dotted 5 _ ,1 Swiss muslin waists, lined with silk if ' and trimmed elaborately with lace and ribbon. These usually ,have elbow _ sleeves and a Wide collar of muslin with. ' yellow 11.08 on the edge. .4 YVIEN- BLEIBT WIEN t”_ .MARCII. By JOHANN SCHRAMMEL. (c Copyright: New York Musical Echo Co., 3893. «- . . FonwsWsI-zr GRADUATES. ~., . . ‘ F . Dainty and Inexpensive Dresses which Any Summer Girl May Copy. The New York Herald ‘ofiered may for the best designs in inexpensive sum- mer dresses, having in view especially the season of gradu ition; but many of those submitted are pretty enough to induce women who are several years past the diploma milestone to crib some of their daintiness for mountain and seaside wear. Accompanying we give three of the illustrations and descriptions published by the Herald. No. 1 costs $9.98. It is made of thin muslin, of a fifty-cent quality, twelve yards being used. Two dollars and fifty cents buys the ten yards of lace inser- tion with which the tap and bottom of the Spanish fiounce on the’skirt and the MUSLIN, COST $9.09. unshirred yoke are outlined. The shir- ring in the yoke and ruflles are made of the muslin. Five yards of ribbon, at twenty-five cents, for the belt and the neck piece; one and a half yards of lin- ing, at ten cents, and a card of hooks and eyes, for eight coats, are included in this estimate. Eight yards of organdie at thirty- eight cents are required for No. 2. The valenciennes lace which trims the baby oaemnm, cos'r 810.04. ' waist in perpendicular rows and fin- ishes the radios in which the pufied‘el- bow sleeves terminate, as well as the Spanish flounce on the waist to which three bands are applied, will cost 62, four pieces being necessary. Eight yards white satin ribbon cost $2. If the work of a seamstress for two days at $1.50 a day is added, the total expendi- ture will be $10.04. The simple girlish dress which is mod- eled in the style of No. 3 will cost $5.60. This provides for nine yards of white wmrn ORGANDIE, COST $5.60. organdie at twenty five cents, of which the entire skirt is made. Two box plaits of insertion laid over the front of the waist and one in the back need one and a half yard», which costs twenty- five cents. The large collar of organdie reaching to the waist in front is edged with three and a half yards of embroid- ery at twenty cents a yard. The sleeve ribbons, sash ends,'stock collar and but- terfly bows at the belt require eight yards of white satin striped taffeta rib- bon at thirty cents a yard. The waist is gathered at neck and belt. ’ Sunday in Holland. What is Scotland coming to? Sun- day driving and picnicing, Sunday cy- cling and golfing—these and similarly frightful backslidings have long filled the devout minds of the unco’ guid with anguish and dismay. Now a worse horror has happened. At their meeting last week the Glasgow Corpo- ration resolved, though only bya nar- row majdrity, to open the public baths for four hours on Sunday mornings! As one of the minority remarked. this - 1 will make Sundaysthe Same as other 1 :2 days Of the week. People will even be .; able to wash themselves. [It is the heaviest blow t. t has yet been dealt ;., at the sanctityot- the Scottish Sabbath. ’ ‘ ' —London Truth. Addicted to Living. 'M. de Boissy, the oldest doctor in France, has just kept his 105th birth- day; He continues in such good health _ . that‘he' hopes to rivalhia father,_».w1i9 filed-to n - ~ . » . ‘\
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