Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1892 — Scarlet and Black Run Mad. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Scarlet and Black Run Mad.

Scarlet and black in one of Beelzebub's favorite combinations, and with scarlet and black the city is running over. When you get up into the roof garden at Madison Square or look about you at the theater of an evening you might suppose whole, armies of flame colored imps had been appointed for the torture of the American man who has stayed at home all summer and not misbehaved more than might have been expected in the absence of the restraining forces of his household at the sea shore or in the mountains. The hue of the cardinal flower is copied in the new goods exactly; so is that of the deep red gladiolus and the gladiolus that runs from red into

orange. There are reds which run into magnenta and more acceptable and serviceable reds which shade into rose. Soft Heart of a Dresa Maker. A Fifth avenue dressmaker, who has a soft spot in her heart for the newspapers, showed me yesterday a considerable number of autumn models, designed for the most part for country houso wear in the pleasant September haze and October frosts that make life enjoyable for the house parties now assembling along the Hudson. There was little in the exhibit that was radically new. The skirts were quite as long as they have been for a year back, and the sleeves showed no notewor-

thy change. Tho empire bodice turned up conspicuous, but the chief novelty after all was in the goods and the meeting and blending of colors. There was, for example, what our French friends would call a “chateau dress" of blue black wool, over which were scattered pink spots, the close fitting aleeves being of blue black velvet, with collar and cuffs matching. The bock of the gown was cutTn redingote shape with a plaited shoulder cape, and for excursions among the asters and tree hollyhocks of the gay but soon to be frost-nipped garden there was a particularly clever blue black velvet cap "with pink and blue velvet asters for trimmings. > For Country House Tea Fight. For country' house tea drinking there was fetched for me to look at a gown of dull green doth, whose skirt was trimmed about the bottom with draped liounces slashed at intervals and looped up with scarlet straps. The floupce was edged with scarlet aad the some warm aud bril-

sleeves. A green felt hat- was the millinery accompan ime nt. with a narrow scarlet velvet edge-and a trim mi Dir of black velvet ana Scarlet and jet leavM" • ~~- Brightened by Red Stripe*. Red stripes brighten the brown cloths and the dark blue and the green and. indeed, two-thirds of the entire stock heapednp for exhibition. Red shades or mirror like reflections show in tie quietest and most sobergoing dress lengths, which you never would have suspected of playing you a trick* or of having concealed colors stowed away about them, - Next to red the favorite autumn tint seems to be a clear, pale yellow. You see it by itself in house Presses and combined with brown out of doors. Perhaps you see it more in millinery than you do in dress go Ads. Next to yellow there comes, perhaps, pink and next to pink a bevy of new greens. Beyond green the order of succession gets mixed and the opal whites and the blue and russets Will have to settle the order of precedence among themselves and quarrel it ont if they can’t come to an agreement by more amiable processes.

One and one-quarter yards of white silk tissue veiling, double so that closing seam shall come in center of throw; sew the sides over and over, turn and partly fill both ends with milkweed; fill lightly; gather it closely through the center, and tie a large bow of ribbon —one and a half yards—over the gathers, finish by adding five silk tassels-on each end. I use yellow ribbons ar.d tassels, as it blends well with all colors. One can use down in place of milkweed, if they prefer, but it is not so pretty. It is not expensive, costing a little more than sl. A Shakespeare luncheon is something of a uoveltv. At one recently on the menu cards each dish was appropriately garnished with a quotation from the '‘immortal William;” and the favors were pretty sketches executed by the young hostess, of various well known views about Stratford-on-Avon. In addition each guest was asked to indicate about her toilet in some way the title of one of the bard’s plays. One woman wore on her corsage two small pictures, each of a man, and beue&t'n it a bit of ribbon with a large “A" surmounted with the letters “ V. E. R. ” to be tarnslated ‘‘Two Gentleman of Verona. ” Another, quickly guessed, had a full page periodical illustration of a “Tempest” neatly fitted as a girdle across the front of her waist and belt. A third guest created much merriment with a pen and ink sketch which was attached to her chatelaine. It represented a dog and cat enjoying a meal of bone 3 with great satisfaction. Beneath pussy was the legend, “This is Julia, ” which was all the clue the wearer would give. A clever girl finally shouted, “Romeo and Julia eat, ,r and the mystery was solved.

Spinning is the latest fashionable occupation. A number of women are learning the art, and the antique spinning wheel is no longer a mere ornament. It must be whispered, however, that when the wheel is brought into actual use it is provided with several modern improvements before the fair spinner sets herself to work: A square of linen “which I wove myself’ and decorated with some embroidery is considered quite a proper thing to have about or to use as a gift. Hut Mademoiselle particularly likes to be at her spinning wheel; it is a graceful, womanly pose. One never thinks of a man weaving a web of that sort, and one which shows off a pretty figure and well molded bands and arms to great advantage.

For autumn wear in the suburb as well as iu tho simple toilet, the Russian blouse will prevail. The new fall brics are espially suited to that style of garment and It will undoubtedly be preferred to all other modes A handsome model is of navy blue Paris cord—a material closely resembling the Bedford. The full sleeves and neck are finished with bands of dull red silk, and a diagonal band down the front and a broad belt of tbe same colored silk completes a most striking garment. Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper is the inspiration of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association. In the lost report she states that 6,000 little children have been enrolled in San Francisco since 1880, and SIOO,OOO spent on tbe little ones in whom lies the hope of the world. One of the schools is controlled by Miss Marwodel, whose classes are mode up of tbe stray children and wuifs, between two and ten years, picked entirely out of the gutters and allays of San Francisco. Among the new autumn colors are “Coquelicat,” a bright brick red; “Angellque ” a pale angle green, “Paradise “a bird of Parudise yellow “Diavolo. - ' a bright cinnamon shade; “Pygmalion,” a brownish yellow; “Trianon," a faded crushed i-usp-berr.v, and “Eminence,” a deep red purple 'l’be society girls writes her billet uoux this season In the spruwp.cst kind of fashion. She uses a stub pen. It is emphatic that her struggling words be legible. tJndal garters are alwavswhito dajtlc, with, a so.'-* frill of lace wliici

AN AUTUMN CLOAK.

FOR THE MELANCHOLY SAYS.

PICTURE THROW.