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Utterly Useless In Some Cases, but Vocal
Exercise, -q ever.
The newspapers are continually publish-
ing jokes at the expense of the unmusical
young woman or girl who persists in prac-
ticing upon the piano and going through
singing exercises. There is no more rea-
son to find fault with the latter custom
' than with any other sort of gymnastics,
for even if a girl can never learn to sing
proper vocal exercises properly practiced
strengthen the throat and lungs and there-
by improve the general health. But piano
practice to one who has no taste for it is
utterly useless. The confinement and
cramped position are irksomc in the ex~
treme when there is no compensating in-
tellectual pleasure, and the feeling that
too often accompanies faithful practice,
the feeling that the pupil is constitutional-
ly unable to achieve a musical result, no
matter how laboriously shc perseveres, has
a. depressing and unwholcsomo efl'cet.
Yet thousands of parents persist in set-
ting their daughters to learn to play the
piano in spite of natural aversion and in-
capacity, and thousands of gir is throw
away years of their youth' 1n attempting to
accomplish what is to them impossible.
, How much better it would be if fathers
and mothers would have their children
taught those things which they are capa-
GIRL 3 Cl iEPON GOWN.
bio of learning and which will be useful
to them! If a girl has musical talent, by
all means cultivate it, but if she has not
let her learn millinery, dressmaking, hair-
dressing, something that is available for
everyday use. She is not obliged to make
it her profession if she does learn it, and
she will be amply repaid for the small
outlay of time and money by the ability
to assist herself and her particular friends.
Nobody, man or woman, no matter how
intellectual, should be entirely helpless
and ignorant as to handicrafts. There is
nothing degrading in a practical knowl-
edge of any trade, and in these days of fluc-
tuating fortune such knowledge may on
occasion stand between a girl and desti-
tution. So, if you care for your daughter’s
welfare, teach her a trade as well as ac
complishments.
A sketch is given of a young girl’s gown
of rose colored crepon trimmed with bands
of white lace insertion. The skirt is plain,
but the corsage is crossed in front over a
full plastron. The tight sleeves have a
puff to the elbow, and the collar and belt
are covered with insertion. The light
brown straw hat is trimmed with rose col—
ored ostrich tips and ribbon.
J UDIC CHOLLET.
N EW ETON JACKETS.
Styles to Suit 1111 Tastes and For A11 Occa-
sions.
Bodices differing from the skirt are
more worn than over. Silk lawn and mus-
lin are all employed for these garments,
and every degree of elaboration is seen,
from the plain shirt waist to the compli-
cated affair made of lace, moire and span-
gles. There are styles to suit every occa-
sion, but the prettiest bodices are not nec-
essarily the most expensive. Blouses of
milled lawn are often more becoming than
those of richer materials. Some pleasing
ones are shown made of soft silk or crape
with a wide collar, Garibaldi front and
folded belt, but the yoke effect is usually
employed and is accentuated by a trim-
ming of double or even triple ruflies
around the shoulders. Sometimes bretelles
extend from shoulder to waist back and
front, the bodice being full between them.
The new Eton jackets are tighter and
longer than those of last season and show
a tendency to close in front in either sin-
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ETON JACKET.
319 or double breasted style with large but—
tons. They all have More more or; less
‘conspicuous, usually faced with digerent
goods, and are worn over a vest or plastron
preferably of a brilliant color. A stlfiiy
starphed shirt bosom of white or tintodiigr-
en may be worn beneath the jacket, brlgh
ened by a gay silk scarf, or the triad ,
space over the chest may be filled ii. iii:
ohiflon rufiies. When the jacket has i '
fronts, they generally display a neetsidckr
61: cloth tailor made vest or a ruffled
blouse
The standing collar still prevails, ini
spite of t weather and is often sup
mented on be outside by another :hmngi
one still higher. It is as uncomfortabl
and. therefore silly a fashion as we
invented for this season of the year
All illustration is given of a sort otEton
jacket, double breaswd and havingdouble
revcfi of contrasting colors. The
ends of the gigot sleeves are also doublg;
The jacket closes with two rows of three
large buttons each, and the V at the threat
show a plain linen band collar and a silk
leer? olding a scarfpin.
J UDIC CBOLLET.
lets or Pine Needles.
It is now the fad to have a beauty pil-
low, as it is called, which is a euphemism
for something very hard and uncomforta-
ble for the head to rest upon at night. The
soft reposeful feather pillows which have
hitherto been the confldants of our mid:
night meditations are to be cast aside as
deleterious—too sympathetic possibly—I
and their place is to be taken by a stony
hearted article distended with rose leaves,
violets, pine needles or some other stuffing
poetically suggestive, theoretically health-
ful and practically so hard that that pro-
verbial head that wears a crown could rest
no more uneasily than does that of the
simple republican faddist.
Vegetation is not the only filling recom-
mended for these new beautifiers. Some-
SILK COSTUME.
body has lately advised the use of paper
torn into tiny fragments. But it would
seem that discrimination should be exer-
cised in the selection of material for this
sort of staffing. A pillow full of unpaid
bills, rejected manuscripts or outgrown
love letters might be a fruitful source of
restlessness and nightmare, while, on the
other hand, one with an agreeable and
soothing table of contents would be calcu-
lated to allay mental disturbance and in-
duce slumber. A woman inclined to mel-
ancholia might be cured by sleeping on a
cushion stuffed with the best jokes that
can be cut from the newspapers and fun-
ny publications; insomnia might be ward-
ed off by old sermons torn very small in-
deed; a too volatile and, frivolous spirit
could be curbed by a pillowful of death and
funeral notices—in fact, there is no limit
to psychological possibilities in this direc-
tion, and the experiment is certain'Q]
worth trying. While we are making up
our minds just what sort of a pillow is
best suited to our particular case we can
use one stuffed with curled hair if feathers
and down are too warm.
The sketch given shows a moire and
taffeta gown. The first skirt of moire has
an application of pointed guipure around
the bottom. The second skirt is of taffeta
draped at the side. The full pointed bod-
ice of taffeta has moire rovers covered
with guipure and decorated with pendent
epds 9f moire. The balloon sleeves; also
tafleta, have guipure cufi‘s.
J UDIC CHOLLET.
GRANDMOTHER’S TRUNK.
If It Contains a Brocade Gown, You Have
3 Treasure.
Some women are fortunate enough to
have a grandmother’s trunk in the garret.
Perhaps it is covered with hide and deco~
rated with brass headed nails, or it maybe
a stout wooden chest made when worlf
was done to last. But, whatever the out-
side may be, the inside is .surc to be rich
with the treasures of a. past generation, so
old fashioned that they are now new fash-
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BLUE 'i‘AFFETA fiOWN.
ioned and may be brought forth and re-
modeled to fit the dainty lady of today,
who cannot realize that the woman who
originally wore them was then as fresh
prod blooming as her granddaughter now
5.
The flowered nainsooks and muslins of
50 years ago are considered. eminently
fashionable this season. They are almost
sure to be fine in texture, and although
tender with age, if they are made up over
a silk foundation, which will bear 'the
brunt of Wear, they will be found still
serviceable. ' Panniersare quite permissi-
ble this year.
l’erhaps grandmother’ 3 trunk contains
an old brocade gown. If so, it is a
are iudeed, fer it will. make: a beautiful
court coat full skirted and with wide'rev-
ers opening over arufled vest. If there
is not enough of the brocade/to. make
both body and sleeves 13 the coat in
these days ofr inordinate arm drapery,
let the sleeves be. of plaiqgaods harmoniz-
lngwlth the color cf thebrooade.
latter has a black .background ,wi
flowers, the sleeves may be of 131.1%
oozgazedwl .-_la°e- d
trill ht the wrist are theapproprme
e: prlbow and ’are flni
The whitdstrowhet is trimmed
with lack moire and forgetmenots.
Jame Cactus. -,.
, wpather wear.
Lawn \Vith Lace.
If on have any old fashioned wide lace
col. .5, now is the accepted time to bring
them forth and w car them. The greater
the number the better, for instead of mak-
ing one collar do for several gowns, as was
formerly the rule, as many as can be ob-
tained are used for the trimming of one
costume. They form epaulets, cufls,
basques and yokes and are ruthlessly cut
to better adapt them to the particular pur&
pose for which they are used.
' Heavy qualities of lace are preferred,
but a great deal of valenciennes edging
and insertion is employed to trim thin
stufis, such as muslin and lawn, for which
guipure and kindred makes would be too
coarse. Ecru or yellow lace with. white
goods is a fashionable combination and
gives a pleasing effect for a change, espe-
cially if the white material is thin and. is
made up over a lining of the same color
as the lace. White muslins are shown hav-
ing a small embroidered dot of pink, blue,
lavender, yellow or black, and these, too,
are charming over a tinted lining. The
costume maybe so cor: structed that the
lining is separate from the muslin, which
of course simplifies the laundering of the
‘ TAFFEI‘A GOWN.
latter and gives the gown- a wider useful-
ness. Several pretty ways of making mus-
lin costumes are seen. In some cases the
full unlined skirt is fitted to. the hips by
means of a sort of yoke composed of rows
of shirring, the pufls being separated by
bands of lace beading, through which nar-
row fibbons are run. More often a lace
edged flounco is sewed around the lower
part of aplain skirt to simulate a round
or pointed overskirt. The round bodice
is full and is gathered in at the waist un-
der a belt. It is decorated with a bertha,
bretelles or a soarflike trimming, or it
may be made with a yoke or crossed over
serpentine fashion. Elbow sleeves are
often seen, although the unlined gigot
sleeve appears on many transparent gowns.
Of'COurse, when short sleeves are used for
out of door costumes, it is necessary to
wear gloves long enough to meet them.
Silk is greatly favored for summer at-
tire and in the thin varieties is appropri-
ate enough, but moire and pcau do sole
seem rather too thick and firm for warm
However they are worn,
Witness the costume of which a sketch is
given. The first skirt is of pale green
taffeta covered with white lace; the second,
of peau de soie to match, trimmed with
black moire and caught up on the left side
by black moire ribbons. The blouse corsage
is of peau de sole and' 15 mounted on a black
moire yoke. The epaulets, flgaro and belt
are of white lace, the sleceve pufi’s of black
moire and the deep cuffs of peau do soie.
J UDIC CHOLLET.
ROSE HUED REFLECTIONS.
From Festive Scenes Strained
Through Pink Shades.
Decorators and furnishers, persons who
give entertainments and persons who go
to them, have all come to the conclusion
that the light shod upon festive, scenes
must be strained through pink shades in
order to be becoming as well as cheerful.
Blue is out of the question, green is too
melancholy, rod too demoniacal, yellow
too trying to the complexion and white too
cold. Pink is the one and only tint uni-
versally suitable, and the desired rosy tinge
is Obtained by means of numerous- little
devices not necessarily expensive. It is
not needful to discard white and crystal
globes and replace them by others made
of pink glass, for an equally good eflect is
obtained with shades constructed out of
pink cambric or silk. For electric lights
a leaf shaped shield of rose colored paper is
provided, which falls in front of the light
and mellows its rays to the right degree.
A woman who has ever carried a pink par-
asol knows what power lies in light so fil-
tered to brighten and transfigure the com-
Light
' Pm SUMMER GOWN.
plexion, so she will at once appreciate the
delightfulness of a ballroom thus illumi-
eased. But why should such a charming
afoot be left entime to public functions?
- is a pretty color for other things
ks, however. It cannot beworn
ow Person or one with a rough
, but its various tones are becoming
may diflerent types of women if. the
e be carefully selected with regard to
ivlduol characteristics. A sketch
is, given of a costume of rose colored Me-
to and crepon“ The first skirt is of accorc
dion plaited tafleta; the second, of embroid-
ered crepon slightly draped on the left side
under ochoux. The bodice, belt and basque
are of crepon, while the sleeves and bolero
erect tafleta. Jumc Gnonm.
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z‘ers. We have settled our loss of ‘Decomtz'on
day, caused by fire, in our basement and are
giving the public the benefit.
TheGreatest Sale Ever Known.
in Bridgeport.
Everything goes. Store must be remodeled fuly
151‘. Buy your summer goods .
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We estimate that fullv fifty, thousand people
were in our store the first two days of the Fire
Sale. This speaks volumes. Don’t delay!
You’ll miss it if you do.
W. a. Hana. a co-
Bridgeport,ZConnecticut.
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BRIDGEPORT. CONN.
Make .11 Note . of This.
We are selling best all wool extra super
Ingrains.
At 550 a yard.
Floor, 011 Cloth.
At 2'0c, 25c and 380.
Two Hundred HasSocks,
Brussels,
Axminster and Tapestry
At 45c each. 'All wool
Art Squares,
Just the thing for summer floor coverings all sizes at low
prices.
These are reduced prices.
HOT WEATHER DRESS? FABRICS.
Never have shown such an array of summer wash dress goods.
Dotted Swiss muslins attiic, 10c and 12lc.
Organdies and linen lawns at 17c.
French, India Pongee, only 17c.
J aconets, 36 inches wide for 12lc.
Scotch ginghams, reduced to 12lc.
French satteens, new designs at 19c.
French cumbrics, now selling for 15c.
Wool challies, best washables, only 180.:
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