OUR PARIS LETTER. This is the time of the year when all fashions seem to be at a stand still, that is, there is no question of novel. ties but the stylesalready well known are used to the be:t advantage, Their original characteristics are slightly modified and then presented as “‘new;” be content. all interest for Fashion's devotees who have gone to the sea-shore or monun- taine to spend the warm season. At these places, Fashion does not mle utilize the few months of liberty al- lowed to them to wear any costume which may suit their fancy, quietly ig- noring the dictates of the arbiter. While the majority do as they please in the matter of Jress at these resorts, the more conservative party will be found following with exact minuteness Fash. jon’s latest decrees. Sometimes they rather overdo this and as a result one exclusive property of the room, sweeping the Trouville or Honfleur, es are generally or light a 0h is observed. The Ol while Or gray serge with o; en 1 ise a dres beige, IRCKCY link butte at the coll: The collar often 1! pins, place dd one chemisette i a yell stoned AVEeTral Jev he other. leather silk band, tight, or els waistband. This noon, unle s it 18 necessary to it for a lawn-ten ing dress. The bl ment that it costume is ior 3 chaange #444 pt 8 wm os costume 1 wi ite 6 gare and a deep belt 1m of surah with le knotted in front at the sleeves, close the wrist, wer broidered to m teh skirt, model conld be varied according the purpose for which it n sired, cloth being substitut sau de soic and simple soutache or | gilk embroidery for the jet. It should always be remembered that the “art” | of all fashion how to Appro- yriate that which is pretty, and then to | se able to change and simplify iis ehar- | acter so as to meet the needed require- | ments. { og Re ends whist line. at the s dle 4 to Know Ferice Ligstae, No, 1185, 1s a pnncesse gown of | figured wool in heliotrope shade, and opens on a plastron and skirt front of faille #ilk of the same shade, It has a fs FN Be B5 Jeating of the where thd ond model : part of the A parrow panel nserted in the skirt, and he cont bas fs drawn {or i get on the fronts are trimmed wi dery headed I'he oc o 119) No. 1191. Six This gown is and GOWN, wm orown AND Lace made of light Aline tes-colored lace, bodice is lace exe pt the my idle of the back, and siso a sime- ’ | rows of fanoy stitching { broidery silk. The dress goods mounted in gathers over a plain the folds at the neck fastencd fancy stitches and drawp in heading, The skirt is also the armhole with a small heading, Ti sleeves and shirt are embroidered match the bodice which the back by hooks and eyes. light blue broidery. | with a strip of embroidery mounted in gathers on a Land. figured ecambrie and chiffon and trim- The skirt and a front with gathered brown fall back Ince. The pointed apron-like as 18 also No 11%, Ko. 1187. Forranp Smmr Waste | Our model shows a blouse made of | flowered bine foulard, the pattern of which is equally suitable for any of the soft cottons, outing flannels, ete. The fronts and back have ayoke shaped lining to which the outside material is shirred at the top. Fquere pointed, rolling collar and sle¢ves shirred at the wrist, The lower adgé of the basque is sewed to a belt three inches wide, the right end of which is pointed and extends rix inches beyond the front edge of the waist, where it is hooked under a rosette on the left mde. . 1188, Exner or Tarrera.—The erial of this skirt is gray taffeta striped with white. The lower edge is trimmed with three bins hox-pleated flonnces having the edges pinked and beaded with a narrow basd ornsmented with feather stitching in y sill The top of the skirt is finished with a yoke band and draw strings, No. 1180, Commwa Sacqur.~The material for this combing sseque is white eambric trimmed with Hamburg insertion apd edgirg. The fronts are tueked on either side of a band of ine portion, and on the right front is set a double band of edging, eonnected a narrow festher-stitched band, whic rovers the fly fastening, Pookels ar No. 1192, Cmeonex's CosroMps,— The little dress on the left is made of crepe ornamented with No. 1181. rroxt view, No. 11685 Cnr Six Yuans Onn. o cloak pale blae wool and deep blue bengaline are used, with trimmings ot silk embroid- erv. The back has three seams with sides forming two pleats and the cen- tre of the back bengaline. The fronts open on a broad pleal of beng- saline, esoh side of which is a narrower pleat of the wor 1 goods, A pointed voke of bengaline is plac d on the open fronts and looses itself under the edge of the wool rlea's Straight collar in bengaline and flat pointed eollar in wool. Bleeves fall on the shoulder, trimmed with a bias band of bepgaline and a pointed belt of bepgaline, em- Croag ron A For this litt] mn the yoke, snd the tinming on the | front, FANCY WORK. A new iden is that of executing can. vas embroidery with the mater al stretehed tightly in a frame, frames are the ordinary frame, but a gqueire and of varions sizes, coarse wire and bonnd with ribbon, These frames make the embroidery very easy, for itis almost impossible to draw the threads of the canvas ont of place or work unevenly. Any connt- ing of threads that may be nedessary is far more (nsily mansged when the t material is thas tightly stretched. 1In- experienced workers will do well to in- vest in a picee of work that is com- | menced as a model, for from this they | enn similar designs for them- selves more or less elaborate as they h OORe, . Most of the new sideboard cloths, teacloths, and articles of this kind are sold with the drawn thread work fin- | ished, the embroidery between this . alone being left for the purchaser to finish, "The reason for this is 1 i Indies have GeOme aceustomed to w i satin, butt { Other Tanoy of made devise and var lithe ining hols outline con ile bine or i01E be remembar be igo TT LY, htt Gehl de + - Liree rov v a few length- m an edge. begin with 0 chain a loop with a slip stiteh. ging'e crochet aronnd the p stitch on the first single, chain, 17 doable crochet, 184 TOS For once 2nd row.—4 3d and the 4th chain at the beginoing. 9d row.—A sincle around the first chain in the last row, 17 times 4 chain and a single around the next chain, then 4 chain, a slip on the first single in the row, 4th row.—2 slip stitches on the first 2 chain, then 18 times 5 pt ehain and a single into the next4 chain scallop; this completes a rosette; when ach succeeding one connect the midd . ebain of each of the last 2 scallops to he eorresponding chain A the 9th and 8th seallops of the preced- | ing rosette: in the remsinine 2 rows of | scallops connect rosettes to on® another, and also connect them to those of the preceding row in the manner illustrated in Fig. 2: the rosetfes of each succeeding row alternate as there ! shown: where this leaves & gap at the ends of the 24 row put a oar] rosette for which work the first three rows of the larger one on a circle of 12 gingles, In the model the yoke is 52 rosettes long. For the edging of the lace work proeced as foliows: 1st row. —2 double erochet on the stiteh by which one roscite is connected to the next, 1 chain, a single sround the following b chain, 6 times 5 chain and a single around the succeeding 5 chain, then 1 chain: repeat. 2d row.—A on the 24 of the 2 donble, 3 chain, a single und the { llowing wv er) ne single uy x # ® EYRN SEERA for side tidies or : and Lika, y Lhe wok es 0 : {esple of that town in U ing their teeth. For fourteen Years a Marshes" in Scotland h $0 get a sioht of a wi act of guarding its young He trampe hat purpose, but of the trying in the 1 time of i dav aller without suc- “Son as been Pima: danger. has lay for Prayer books, bound In ivory, thal sell at 13 apiece, are among the {a vors in demand at shops that carry specially PAINTED WALL POCKET,
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