ETE EOI AY CURRENT FASHIONS, A'rady there seems to be a breath of spring in theair,and we have only to lanco at the windows of the leading ry goods houses to be convineed that at least the spring time is not far dis- tant, The fir<t importation of spring wool- ens that are shown are homespun Chev- iots, tweeds, anid fanciful plaids and stripes with rough surfaces. Gowns made of these materials are very stylish and inexpensive. They only roquire a stitching on all edges, or they may be bound with silk or mohair braid, and have light or dark pearl buttons or those matching the braid, the mock bnt- tonhole button being very stylish for this purpose. An idea of simplicity must pervade th dr ss to make it sue- cessful. The skirt is plain acro-s the front and sides or has a few plaits on either side, at the belt, to break the monotony. Lhe back is 'n fan or box plaits, which must be firmly pre sed in shape, as the, object is to see them clearly defined, though not eaught 80 as to show that they are fastened. Beige and tan shades are always pop- nlar in the spring and are now of the lightest mushroom tints. A special fancy this reason will be the use of pale een shades as garnitures of these ight tan dresses. arker green and pale yellow will also be used with gray dresses. The pre- vailing style of bodice for these, seems fo be the deep-skirted coat, either sin- gle or double breasted; if single breast- ed they are o) en on a shirt waist of a sontrasting color, Ladies’ cloth, in light weight, will also be in favor for street, visiting, home, dinner and evening wear, with trimmings of velvet, bands of ostrich feathers, gold and silver galloons, em- broidery and jeweled passementeries. For street costumes, two shades are combined, the lighter being used for the vest, cuffs and under skirt which is often braided with silver or gold eord. . In cotton goods, ginghams remain the popular fabric, and these come in faint tints of blue, tan or gray, with white cross bars, and a second, or even a third color in hair-linés or narrow stripes. Th. plaids are from one to three inche’, and small checks slso form plaids, cross-barred with a thread of contrasting color. The most costly and exquisite of these goods ars copies of Louis Quinze brocades in chine stripes of flowers and vines on while grounds, alternating with solid stripes ol pale rose, sky-blue, mauve or gray. Sateens come in dark colors, snd flowered batistes with lace stripes, while ¢hallies show long-stemmed effects, such 4s are seen in India silks, The most important part of a lady's toilet is Ler bonnet, which if not made fo look attractive, to harmonize with her face and dress, has the power to eomplete'y destroy the effict of the en- tire costume. Atieady mod stes are beginning to display spring styles, and from the models shown toques and éapotes are to be smaller than ever, mere ‘‘cothings” so to speak; a bit of fluffy lace combined with a few flowers #0 natural that they seem as if freshly plucked from their native heath, or gold lace, passementerie or jet orna- ments with narrow rouleanx of velvet, laceand flowers. Tha shapes show bat little change from the winter styles, but the trimmings are brought more to the front. Long ends of bLlack tulle, frosted with gold or silver, brought from the back of the hat and fastened loosely under the chin or st the mde with s fancy pin, are shown by a lead- ing Fifth avenue house, and will be, as the season advances, very stylish and popular for there is nothing which has such a softening and beautifying effect 8n the face as lace. Mere bandelets of flowers, with velvet ribbon ties and bows, are suitable for evening wear, euly. Hats show large fronts coquettishly bent here and there in the ar ough style, and while pretty to look at are becoming to but very Co Straws show odd shapes like shells, leaves and flower-petals also bi coming to but one fa a thousand. A large white straw is almost covered with arbntons while in the back, between iho hat 1nd the hair, is a lilt'c bandean of gold velvet from which: depends a quaint golden? 1 6b eanght ap, and letting the hair shine through its meshes. A silver gray straw has pendant clusters of pale lay- ender wisterin fulling on the hair. For spring coneerts, is a hoad-dress that looks like a thorny roso-siem, twisted about the head and then allowed to fasten itsell under n cluster 0’ creamy, ellow roscbuds. Black, lavendar, yel- ow, turquoise, pale green and gray, mignonette, hynointh, peach or pearl colors to match walking costumes, are the loading colors in millinery. Another imporiant foature of a lady toilet is her foot wear. The best styles oes are simple and plan, as far as shapo 1 4 concerned; but in place of largo bows, the whole shoe is double lattice work of closely stitched baby ribbon. For dressy occasions the ooze calf, sometimes called velvet calf, is very fashionable. 1t derives its name from the fact that the dyes are oozed through the ealiskin, which is of a very fine quality, It takes readily all colors, which do not easily fade, but remain fast. It is so becoming and so rich in appearance that it is not strange that it increases daily in tavor. It is made up in various colors with satin Leels of a contrasting color: it is also made up in handsome low ties for alternoon wear, Some pretty evening slippers, in tan, gray and black suede, are shown with beaded toes and silver straps, which aro not oniy ornamental but keep the slipper firmly on, they being inclined to fit rather loosely around the ankle, blippers of patent leather have the sharp toe oS a pointed tongmne over the instep under a strap and handsome buckle. Spider web embroidery on the toes of slippers in gold thread, with a red and gold spiderand a bluish fly are among the latest novelties, lack slippers are worked with pink beads lined with pink, and have a fluted bow lined with the same rosy shade. The greatest novelty which has yet appeared for bridesmaids is a cream suede shoe, entirely covered with em. broidered gold stars, No. 905. Lnm«s vor a Gm Tex Yeans Oro. —Material plain wool gooda. The skirt is pleated in the back and plain in front; the front is covered with a square apron of the same length and now decorated, For example, s bronze one which is borlered with a braided design. Round, elose-fitting bodice, the front ornamented with a braided plasiron having three flat folds of the dress goods on each side. I'he bodice is invisibly fastened under the folds on the left side. Btraight collar Full sleeves gathered into deep, braided onfa No. 9040, illustration shows a matelas<c jacket of slack wool with lining of serge. The high collar, and enffs are of black velvet also the plastron which extends the entire lenzth of the The jacket is invisibly elosed on material of velvet, jacket set on the vest, of baitons with cross the fronts No. 907. Unmno 8 Froox. —This little may be made of flannel or mm and other ble materials Ornaments cords k of 1 washal I'a le voke It is a sir slip gathered drawstring. The nar hem are all ornamented with featber-stite'nng The frock sed 1n the back with pearl bat URILDREN OSTUME - No, 90%, first 8 8 dross of pink i over a foundation skirt of sateen of the The silk skirt is finished with a hem two inches deep above which are three tucks each one three-fourths inches wide. The skirt is gathered and fastened to a band an inch wide. The waist is gathered at the top and finished with a band of about an inch wide, which goes wrist-bands the el Ons. gC costams 1 same color. sii K over bottom and fastened to the skirt-band, which is concealed by a broad ribbon sash. Short puffed sleeves and bronze kid slippers The second costume is a dress of dark blue cheviol with netted insertion of Crimson Berlin wool. The skirt is pleated and the front breadth is trim. med with two rows of notte l insertion mounted with a cord piping. The gathered waist has a square yok: com: posed of stripes of ths dress material and netted insertion. The straight collar and waist-bind are made of the netted insortion. Full sleeves gathered into deep enifs formad hike the yoke of stripes of the drew goods aad netted insertion. A sush of the dress material with a row of insertion across the ends the centie of the waist-band in the back. > oH a ~~ A WINTER GARDEN. BY ELIZ ABYTH 0TANSON, “It 1 my faith that every flower Enjoys tho air it breathes.” Not long since | entered a neizhbor’s house which was ro filled with ¢ eanty and fragravee from a low stand of tlow- ers near the window, that JT eould not but wonder at their loveliness, The winds of January were roaring withont, the snow flew in little whirl-winds aginst the window, but the bright flowers litted their faces as cheerily as ever d d rose of June, “How do yon manage?’ IT said, for my friend had no conservatory or any special means of taking care of plants, “Well.” she said, ‘to begin, I do not try to have anv of the rarer hot- house flowers, but only the good, old- fash oned kinds, which are hardy and easily eared for, The geraninms, as you sce, make np most of my winter garden, This beautiful erimson is my fivorite; 1t is a dwarf, and gives an im- mense mass of bloom.” “Lindy Wash- incton” is old end good, This my latest neqmisition, I'he Bridesmaid,” and I am greatly pleased with deli- este blossom. Goraoom slips should he planted in squall pinching them, occasionally to make the plants stocky; the flo er stems must be Lept bck nntil fail, then re-; otting them into larger erocks, they will loom well throngh the winter, Large pots with a good sol, require watering but twice a week apd must be k pt in rather a cool room, with plenty of light, —these are the conditions if you would keep them healthy, “Oeeasionally, I take all my plants, nnd setting them in a large tab give them a good shower bath, washing the leaves gently, and tarning the around as I set it back 1n its place so that the sun can reach every part, “| have flowers of some sort all win. ter, and with the scented lesves of the rose-geraninm are always ready to sap- ply a boutonniers sta moment's notios while my tab’e is never without its bou- quet of lowers. “The Begonias are very desirable | house-plants and are almost entirely | free from the nuisance of i sects. Tea- | TOSS ATE AIDODE MY favorites, both for | their beauty and fragrance. With them, { the question of bloom is only one of { growth, Secure healthy plants and | | make them grow aud you are certain of the flowers,” “Here,” she said, turning to a small | pot over-ran with a spreading vine- like plant, **is my especial favorite; | | never pass it without rubbing my fin- | gers upon it, or pulling one of the hit- | {tle leaves. Bee what am exquis te | | lemon-like taste and fragrance it hss | t is the lemon thyme aud is one of the tiest little plants {magin bl “No, I reidom have any trouble with insects, i know of, 18 its pots, Crock | dat ile The best remedy 1 | for them is tobaeco, either smoking the | plants or using weak solution as a {| Was. | *“lstady ti imy bh a and mana hay en through the 1 & coalalogues thee fants so a8 tO stant succession of {| winter; then, early in { ¢pring 1 be gin with ms len, for flow. Or i i ¥ out-door garden, fi Ors Al'g 8 Lod wilh me ar to lé! my wioter plants rest 1 the summer. “I make HOTS sity 1 like g : srough up my mind early as to wanted; have my carly, and preparing oxes and pans of earth, plant io the { house seeds of the kinds which will | bear transplanting in order to have { early lowers. Among these are pan- Bios, portalacea, petunias, | Drnmmond phlox and nastartiams, all {good and reliable. A later lot may | also be planted out of doors making a succession of blooming for the sum- mer, “Sweet peas can be planted very early, as soon as the ground thaws enough to put in the seed. If the weather turns very cold after plantiag, cover the spot with coarse hay orstraw, miling it off again when the sun shines, Treated in this way they will bloom profusely from June till November, if the flowers are eut with a liberal hand. Cut them continually for bouquets and tables and your plants will blossom brighter and better for the pruning. “Then, too, the children have their “wild lower garden” where the early spring flowers hit their heads before | planting tizne has come. In the shel- | tered corner of the fence is a row of {tall ferns and feathery marsh-grass. | Here “Hepaticas” show their pink and | bine and white blossoms, sometimes before the end of March. “Wake Robins” with their white three-Jeaved lilite and broad three-lobed leaves “Spring beanties” and “Adder’s ton. gues” (don’t ak me to be botanical and scientifie, we call them all by their common names). Blae, and yellow, and white, violets and the waxen man- drake blossoms of which we make ex- quisite flat bouquets wired with green leaves. They scent the whole house with their sweet perfume, “I cannot tell you all the treasures the little ones Lring in from their gar- den from March till June, when the garden flowers sre in bloom and the children's corner begins to be slighted, thongh they have growing many of the native shrubs which will command ad- miration by the side of more preten- tions amd highprneed bashes and plants.” . and kinds hand * Lisa * balsamea, Bread, To some of the tired ones 1 will tell my wav of bread making. First, all that bother of polalo yeast is needless work. In a hollow of your fiour put a compressed yeast-cake and a little milk. With your wooden spoon break aud mit; add more milk and make a thin batter, whieh beat ton minutes, Early in the morniog add more flour and beat ten minutes, It should be ready to mold soon after breakiast. Now don’t double up your fists ones, but stir it thack, and open your hands fiat and roll it without using any strength until smooth. ‘Lhe longer you roll the nioer it will be. Missns Kate andOarrio Mann, recent . the lowa Agriounltural mn FANCY WORK, Trryartsag fon A Cninp’s Dress o Arnos- These hight stitches are easily reproduced in wool, floss, eotton or silk, and ean be made on a band of any ma'erial desired to be used us a trim Vixatouerre, Fax Bas axp Taarx Lavy. —The great va ue of many of ti fans now carried, as well as the perish- sable nature of those which are handed down as heirlooms in families, render necessary these pretty fan bags to pro- vi 'e against their destroction when car- rying them to the opera or ball, Drsiox vor Tray or Tarne Crora, ~—1f this design is used for a Tray (loth, the entire surface of the linen should be covered with the 16 design; | hole stitelies in colored washable eme broidery cotton, The veining is dong in colton of nu hglter rhade, The obs long mat is of while linen momie-cloth, witha drawn work border and d fringe. The embroidered design 18 done in outline stitch with white line floss apd bire thread, The square doiley is of eream linen with red bor- der ines on each side of a band of drawn work; the corner designs sréd worked in red snd white linen thread . - 5 HR ne RE - inppsiekasitabaner ee at ye. RE Bewixe Arvrnox, cream-colored yard wide and — This is made scrim and 13 8 twenty-scven inches ong. Around the edge 15 8&8 cross- stitched border worked in washable i silk, the pattern of which is shown mn No. 000, Eaeh stitch is taken ovef three threads of the canvas, The bors der should be worked two inches from | the edge, and when finished, the mater- | ial beyond, turned down and hemmed under it. The top is pleated in sidé pleats, turned .oward the middle, thus reducing the width to nine inches, of round the eloth and the three ed store in the corner be completed, The corner design should in each corner. The with a color. necting the stars, is a row of drasn work blocks also shaped ficure in the border. Thm drawn work may be omitted and a very pretty result still be obtaine l. talile eloth worked ia cross-stiteh. materisls used may be wash silks " With this shouid be nsed a table scar! worked with the same d.sign, snd edged with Russian lace, Gunovr or Tantz Mars The oval seal oped mat is of whites linen; the de- sgn being outlined with fine white linen toutache sewed down with button Crooner Ear ror Uspun BEIinrs.— This pretty odgo may be made of linen thread or if for a flannel garment, of wool. For a foundation make 9 oh, the pat- tern is worked backward and forward, go forward 3 ch, 34 in the next 2 ch, 1s in the 5th ch, turn; 3 ch, 14 4, round the 6 ch, 2¢h, 1 d, in the 8rd of the 8 ¢h, turn; 3 ch, 34 round the 2 ch, five times 2 ch, snd 1 d, inthe 3rd 4d, 2 ch, 1 4, in the last foundation mesh, * turn: 5 small curves each of 18 84d, and 1 s always round the 2d ch, then round the last 2 ch, a 6th curve only of 18 and 3d, 2ch, 1d, in the last of the 8 oh, turn; 8 ch, 3 d round the 2 ch; Gch, 18 inthe 20d d, of the first fin. ished eurve, turn; 3 eh, 14 d, round the Goh, 2 ch, 1d, in the last of the 8 ch, turn: 3 eh, 83d, roand the 2 ch, five times 2 eh, and 1 d, in the 8rd d, 2 eh, 1 8, in the next small curves and repeat from *. The heading to be crocheted in the length, requires 1 row slternate- ly of 1dand2 eb.
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