CURRENT FASHIONS, The many deteils that belong to a lady's dress, makes it indispensable that the gre atest cere should be taken to chose the various parts 66 as to ob- tain a harmomous whole, 1f one of the parts does not agree with the whee, there is but litte doubt that the eflect will be far frem pleasing and will not repay the care snd expense lavis ed upon it. It is very often the aocessories that mnrke a plain dress look stylish, and while it is only considered an accessory, it 1s none the less an important factor, The blouses which are taking the place of the narrow, tight-fitting waists this summer are very pretty, and give the woorer much more liberty of move- ment. They combine the latter quality with dressiness, simplicity of line and youthfulness of apparel. All sorts of materials even to costly silks are used for these waists. Fancy waists of plain China or wash silk are worn with silk, woolen or lace skirts, If one hasa silk fan-back, plain front, black silk skirt, with gathered flounces on the edge, it will answer for a lavender China-silk waist made with shirrings on the shoul- ders, lapped front, shirt or full coat sleeves, a twelve inch gathered frill on the edge and a belt of ribbon. A second wmst could te of striped blue and white wash silk with a shirt voke, or made like a cost basque, and trimmed with biue, pink cresm chiffon ruffles cn the sleeves, neck and down the front. Elderly ladies can vest moder is, ¢ or blouse Le wear the younger ladies c¢ utilize the The latter place in the 3 11 341 tvies, Ores of 80 10 give r wae waco rathered into same, may be jg rdle or lap over the 1se shirts also have They iff yn's shirts and front, and ¢ ———————————————— and fancy neg! styles, propriate with all dresses. y close with hooks or with a olasp, and are either plain or with holes. In many cases tha blouse is made sufficiently elegant to entitle it to a place at theatres and concerts, where, the lower part of the dress being hardly seen in the sitting posture, an Jegant blouse can bave full Stylish front garniture can in this case be applied, reaching to or below the girdle, in apron fashion. The plain skirt is alread wane. The front length is scope. on the eginning ne border flounces is being reased. A change which meets with much favor has Leen made in the sleeves; although the width and shape do shoulder pufl is ma puffiness being 1 wide port to keep terial falls dos weight. vh 1 his i888 HIRO, sleeve is not The most popular material Boon during black gren every vari and figured, set scattered are made and trimme rapi ily taking the place of mer's lace dresses, dresses [hese iast sam- reyes are fashionable, ounces of fine laces in mechlin terns, or with ruffles of chiffon broidered on the edge. These flounces are often festooned across the edge of pat- these festooned flounces to the skirt, while a touch of gold lace is used on the bodice, which 1s made half ent sleeves, For rich and showy de-Soie and The , or “sheen so much in vogue the but the “paduesoy’ in Martha Washington and delighted to array themselves, ‘The shes and lig materials are used { mid-summer bonnets. They are merely transparent confections of gauze, lace or chiffon, shirred over a frame of ornamental wire, without even dhe remll of a lining. i gre for part models for the lettes, Prau- tol peat e-a0ie which Mistress rd £3 rest ntest y or the Aco f wt € 4411 prepa eq ends chiefly t on. A ony » of th pre 1 is the use v. pearl, white {| and lavender TT wsh-leather gloves, pdresasd without 3 hat it is pu ent sea 801 yell JA | or those of nu kid. { made sac shaped else they Are s two three bultons | Silk gloves come in gowns, and some tors. Black ones are worn with | kinds of costumes, stitching in color relieving their somberness and mateh- ing them with the costume. | Small dainty handkerchiefs in muslin | are pow used, printed in colors all over, or with a tucked border in colors, headed by open-worked hemstitching. Black handkerchiefs with a finely pleated frill of blick or white chiffon are also new; these are at the colors to have embroidered or wrist, and a long monogram in the fourth. Hosiery at the presenttime is jus important a feature of the toilette as the draping of our the ent of our bodices, and tl t of the pretiiost costnme may entirely marred if the embroidered ng de not corre- spond in color. For very light cos ra v/ aad oF Wns or iY ie efile be stock: oR « and are and also of size, phane, transpare i gir, and a vew siraw net of Valencienues lace, green) ap; ears on almost every hat and harmonizes with ali colors, just as the green of foliage does with flowers of every hue. To be well gloved is sald to bea French woman's pride, and the im- portance of thia fivishing touch to the toilette, no well-dressed American will deny; but one point foo many are apt to forget, that the fit of the glove de- , tumes the old fasluoned Balbriggana, ! but much whiter in color, or elie very | fine lisle thread are the favorites, White Oxford ties ure the fash ona | ble summer shoes, They are leced, | white duck or heavy ojen-lace cerva i perforated bands with tan-color ther er, ‘ ¥ shoes wil or # OCs § Oo white i ind others having biack patent-leathe ips, and sometimes the entire vamp 0 lack. ARE Street The street 1 dark bine Cheviot with blue and white striped having a shirt front of white crepon in the open front of the jacket. The sk'rt is bell-shaped, nl yut with eambric or silk. skirt med side Traverinag Co ame, No. 1] trimmed x i WOO, AND oo UMESR, - i, in of $ } i + i i #® ana with I'he fa Id + 3 HS bot i, a 1 en wh Or to } Tate . E35 in th art tha the th ini And with Hie way up skirt, wi wi is trim hali aelcu tucked nd pleated at shirt front, wool, with a pipin at the wrist, No, 1119, The neat model shown in No. 1115, is of light water-proof Cheviot made with a removable cape. This capo is fastened to the cloak by means of hooks and eyes which are concealed by the turned over collar. The only trim- mings are a double row of buttons, No. 1118. Brouvse Waisr, — This pretty blonse waist is made of cicada- colored silk and trimmed with narrow cream-colored ribbon embroiderel in feather-stitch with scarlet silk. The at the top and at the wast line, the pleats at the top being ornamented with the embroidered bands of the rib- bon, The blouse ia closed in the con of eream-co'ored silk muslin, pleated at the wrist are also trimmed No. 1117. Lace Waar.—Black cord. draped on tabbed fronts and a back of black silk, thie lace being pleated on the silk back. The lace iso her: aud there with jet pins. The int in the back is connected with 11. fronts by a ribbon belt fastened with jet clasp, he be rimmed w.ii me © and ti fark collar is of lace headed wil. No. 1122 The model shown may be | Lesmox Tow Uneam.—Grate the rind, silk, The skirt is bordered all round | with a shirred flounce ten inches deep, | The front :8 taken up slightly on the | hire, snd the back pleated in two broad | box pleats, ‘the bodie has cul-s-way | jacket fronts with short broad luce cov- ered revers opening on a plented vest, The sides and back are lengihened bya | shirred flonnce eleven inches deep. A velvet ribbon belt crosses the front twice aud hangs in a bow on the left side, -~ i ——————— FANCY WOEK. While on a visit the other day to one { of my friends she displayed for | benefit some of her (treasures, among them I found two such pretty, and at the same time new, handker- ! chief holders that with her permission I will try to describe them for my readers, They are very simple in con- | struction and may be made of other ma- terial than that mentioned. The first one was made of olive green satin rib. bon and brass ring covered with ero chet silk of the same shade. Two strips of ribbon each four inches wide and twenty-four inches long are folded each measures only twelve 6 fre my and | th thie squares hes each way f {at the bot! i surah ben has a ¢ roid ¥ the pink he full crepe bodice surah, with jeweled and a pointe i A ( loop emt collar ¢ stra 5 il giraie * Birip en | pr i color as blue, pin ferred EX¥BROIDERED DORDER, design 1s worked over cauves, and cross stitch, with two shades {| wash silk or broidery cotton. After | the design completed the canvas | threads are pulled out. The pattern is | suitable as a border for a tea-cloth, for { towels or for orna | children’s frocks. Cin in ry m ! i i | canvas forty-six inches long by tw: wide is required for this case. pocket is eleven inches deep; at the sides of it strips eight inches deep are got in, being sewed in along the sides | and at the lower end. of the case is turned down for the flap, No. 1122, No. 1120. We give our readers two of Bedfern’s Summer gowns. The one who is standing, wears a pretity foul. | ard «ilk, a pale wood brown with spots of mimosa vellow. It is made with the new belt and shoulder strap trimming, | which in this case is of brown silk pas | FRONT YIRW, with a monogram and scroll embroider el in brown silk. On the pocket any pretty design may by worked im out line apd knot stiteh with brown sik. The edges are bound with brown braid | and a button and button-hole fastens down the flap. ee ————————— 1CE CREAM AND ICES, with ten ounces of powdered sugar, Now beat vp a quart of scalded eream with a quart of rich fresh cream, and stir in gradually the sugar and lemon; then stir in half a pint of sweet wine, and freeze quickly. Prugarrie axp orsen creams. To make pineapple ice cream, the juice of a large ripe pineapple snould be beaten into one qual t of rich eream, and frozen quickly. The cream should be first sealded and then sllowed to cool, or a good rule is to scald balf of the cream only. jut in no fruit creams shonid the fruit juice be added to the cream until the latter is quite cold, Hequires lor a Sime sugar and water, the expressed juice of ove large pineapple, and the juice and grated peel of a lemon, STRAWBERRY OB RASrprRRY log. ~The juice of one guart of berries added to one pint of sugar sod hall a pint of water and toe juice of a lemon, makes 8 wost satisTactory delicac A Dericior of the most PisearrrLe Ice of Y. w log. One i Can be by putt quart o mage one 2 juart ol i leminine LEreises a po- cheeks have greatest ! charms, tent EWay : 5 de Stael, nt wit at- youth, a8 Lhe Years ms lose beaut IT i ful wo- ften said the social Perhaps it may st they rule at half owns It would say thats woman very much to understands the others, is the most Clever men adore ¥ thar ‘ 2 OWT a vers gisnce. i who, E] { ak abont | art of | popular of her sex, | her, she is so appreciative, She bangs upon their lips, instead of merely tolerating what they have to say in order to score a conversational suocess herself, She does not use their minds as a platform from which to leap into still higher regions of witand epigram, in which she secretly hopes to leave them well in the rear, but like a sponge sucks in their Jearnipg, with a quiet air of delighted devotion which tends to make them feel ten times more re. markable than they really are. men do so love to feel remarkable. warms them into geniality snd cheer- It makes the 0 il | and the woman who can i sten can al- wavs make purr. she exercises y r man, she ] But if tent sway over I In tupid one. Her wratic as thal of the hittle father ove his Siberian | children, It knows no li For the | uan can always command listen wi cannot, and so he ap- with wild, a pas 18 a charm- listening to 23 7 a fulness, fn PH a Cleve tely don hi ¢ nates a & # ans ampire over mn 8 aut fs wird ais one B preciate & it { Flonase api reciation. ing ht to a woman at a { dinner party listening well $0 a { bore, The bore has perhaps just been | introduced to ler, and knows not of {her talent. Long snubbing slong the | thorny paths of the dining-out world {has rendered him diffi ent. At odd | times he has vague glimmerings of self In the mlent watches of | the night a voice sometimes whispers fo Rig § oo 0 0 | sementerie, set with topazes be J | yellow Neapoletaine braid, very simply {trimmed with brown ribbon, and a | Yellow suede gloves should be worn | knowledge. —— | his heart—‘‘von are a bore,’’ but he Crnocorate Jom Unmasm.—For this | tries not to believe it, yet does not take three pints of new milk and put | quite succeed. The woman who can {over the fire in an oat-mea! boiler. | listen al once sets him at his ease, and While 1t is heating, grate mix ounces of | drives all these terrible fancies from | chocolate into a bowl, beat six eggs | his distracted brain. By the time fish very light, and then stir together the | shocolate and eggs, with one pouad of | granulated sugar. When the milk | boils, stir it into the other ingredients, putting in a little at a time; then put all back into the boiler and stir for ten | minutes, or until 1t thickens; then set it aside to cool, and when quite cold, with this gown, and bronze shoes and stockings. The other girl is in a cool, ) Stigp worming gown of India lawn, of a delightful grayish green tint-like | water under a cloudy sky. The belt, | straps and waist-band are of water- ‘green velvet, with a silver buckle at i . the waist, | until the contents thereof are quite stiff; then open the freezar, scrape down the side , pour in a pint of cream egg beater, close the freezer and turn the crank till the mass is stiff again; ‘then open the freezer, beat the cream ‘and put it into a monld, and pack in ice until time for serving, | Qorrer lon Creas.—Grind the coffee as coarsely ns your mill will let you and { put, with one pint of cream, into an ! oatmeal boiler, and lot it soald for ten | minutes or more over the fire; then lay ' a clean cloth over your sieve and strain all through it: then stir into 1% half a nd of sugar, and when cold, add another pint of oream, and freee it in the usoal manner, As lemon ioe oream is a diffienlt ' eream to make satisfuolorily, the ital | isn recipe, as given by Mrs. Ellet, is a ' good one to use: § ! | has replaced consomme he is growing | expansive; when the joint arrives he is | positively garralous. He hss found | his queen in the woman who can listen. { Her gentle yes—she never says no «falls apon his unaccustomed ear like | the raindrop in a desert pace. His | tiresome mand unfolds like a rose of | n cabbage \atiety—to the san. He is { happy, and a happy bore is surely more | tolerable than a sad one, for joy, even of the vacuous order, 1s more sweet of contemplation than the most learned | and eoultivated sorrow. In fact, the | woman wherever she goes, the woman | who can listen, grapples hearts to hers “with links of steel, and there are many cams extant in which she has actually achieved a reputation of being able to talk well, while the soundest of sound common snes js jnvariably admitted on all hands to be her own special | prerogative. The sense we all thiuvk | soundest is that which ost appreciates cour own folly, or s-ems most to ap- | preciate it The woman who can listen 18, in fact the woman who is beloved, ! partly because real good nature is gon. erally at the root of her kindly action, pany because, ax happened to Mre. rowning's “My Kate” her thinking of , others makes them th nk of lw
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