Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — FOR THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LADIES.

A Con* Receiver--A Lac* Bertha--Fashion Not**. A CONE RECEIVER. A pretty and useful hair receiver may be made by following instructions here given. It is necessary to use some heavy, stiff material for the foundation, so as to retain the shape. This may be covered with lighter material, if desired. Take a piece of heavy canvas and roll it into the shape of a cone. Sew the seam joining the sides very securely, and make as small a seam as possible. Red plush and red ribbon may be used. When preparing your plush to cover the canvas, make it also into a cone shape, about one-eighth of an inch larger than the canvas cone. In making the seam, turn the goods so as to make the seam come on the outside. Press this down flat, turn the material out on the right side and draw the plush over the canvas, bringing the seam to the back. Finish off the top with silk cord or a binding of ribbon. Take a piece of ribbon one-half yard long and sew an end to each side of the receiver, finishing off the joinings with bows of the ribbon. A silk tassel to match the color of the material used should be placed on the pointed end of the cone. This looks very nice when hung up near the dressing case, and will be found extremely useful. A LACE BERTHA. Lace may be arranged after the accompanying pattern to form a waist

decoration that is transferable to a number of gowns. It may be belted at the waist-line. The shoulder flounce is after the prevailing mode. FASHION NOTES. Shepherd’s-check costumes are in high vogue both here and abroad. Light alligator belts are made to wear with tan and white check ginghams. Very dainty kerchiefs for the summer are of ecru and flax-blue linen, embroidered with tiny white dots, flowers, etc. Odd handkerchiefs have tinted borders and centers embroidered with a design of black dots, fleurs-de-lis or interlaced rings. Pink linen shirt waists with trimmings of white linen lace insertion on the collarette, sleeves and belt, are stylish and becoming. Black dotted gauze or silk crepon made up over watered silk forms a beautiful toilet for evening wear for young ladies in mourning. Shot fabrics still find favor and deserve to do so. Timid women who eschew bright colors, but like a little color-relief, find it to their great satisfaction among the shot materials of the season. A circular handkerchief of white cambric has, instead of a border, a Van Dyked edge festooned in black silk. So it seems that the black and white craze has extended even to the dainty mouchoir. Dotted Swiss muslin with laee and ribbon trimmings makes an ideal graduation dress. A more elaborate gown is one of white crepon or Fayette., with moire sash and bodice trimmings of moire. A pretty fancy for evening is the wearing with a checked silk toilet a wide sash bow and ends of black tulle with a spreading bow without ends, added to the bodice and put on a few inches below the throat where the V opening terminates.

The inevitable fleur-de-lis is seen either embroidered in white or printed in tints on white linen and cambric handkerchiefs. Butterflies, ferns and various floral patterns also give good effects. The tinted designs are outlined with very fine needlework. Many handsome tints in mousquetaire gloves are offered for dressy yrear this summer. Russets, pale browns and tans always look well in either suede or glace kid, four-button or mousquetaire length, and they are always in good taste whatever be the color of the costume they complete. The latest wedding invitations is a very large note sheet, the engravings in delicate script and in wMßi# termed “paragraph style,” wffich means written in full lines, as one would write a note without leaving spaces and putting the names by themselves, with the preposition before, as heretofore. Umbrellas are more needle-like and thin than ever. Changeable taffeta is most popular as covering, red, dark hlue, brown and tan being good colors. The casings of these umbrellas come in plain shades of red, blue and brown, and they make a neat and pretty effect when carried by a tailor-made girl. A pretty border decoration for walls represents a cornice or frieze upon which pigeons are sitting—as real pigeons do on such places. The birds may be in various position, and so colored and shaded as to look like bas-relief work. If you can draw a “little bit” you might paint them in water color on the white wall. A curious fashion in scarf and hat pins consists in having as the pin head a large pearl, either pink, gray, white or black, with a tihy diamond snake curled slantingly around it. The lilliputian serpent may be replaced by a fly resting on a miniature sprig of flowers. A turquoise may be used instead of a pearl. The chatelaine bags will be worn

mon this summer than ever before. They come fastened to bits to be worn with the blouse waists, and very handsome ones are in the shops, with thin, flat hooks, that will go under the tight waist and fasten on the skirt belt without making the belt bulge out through the waist. The importers and merahants are offering an unusually large assortment of fancy silks this season, and most of them attach the French title to the various patterns. The fa Conne variety in plain English means figured; carre signifies blocks; travers, crossed lines; quadrelle, checks; pointelie, tiny dots; cannelle, fluted; and petit pois (small pea) dots. Sailor hats with medium wide brims appear in all the fashionable shades of the season to match the summer Eton costumes, this shape being considered almost universally as part of the suit. They are made of chip, rice straw, Neapolitan braid and of coarse and fine braids of every description. They are now often trimmed on each side of the crown with a plain band front and back. Among the inexpensive novelties in summer textiles are the “swivel silks,” which show a mixture of silk and fine tinted or white cotton, the ground plainly woven and sprinkled with dots and dashes of Japanese silk. These fabrics are warranted to wash well, and to wear nearly as long as French gingham. They come in cream, pink, ecru, and all the delicate summer colorings, and are sold at about fifty cents a yard.