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RER. THE PHILADELPHIA INQI TWELVE PAGES. PHILi A DELPHI SUNDAY MORNING, JULY JS90. NINE TO TWELVE. COLUMBIA AVENUE BOARD OP TEADE.

WHAT FLAVOR? 1 FASHIONS FOR MEN. From the Clnthter and Furnislier. go bowling along the driveway, look as it they had been caught in a jungle of greenery or were posiug beneath a rustic bower. Their big hats and small bonnets are bios-somed-laden, and that misnomer, the fashionable sun shade, is ivy thatched to the summer jaunt Juveniles are as gay as their elders if one may judge anything by the tiny invitations tbat are this season being showered upon the pretty little misses not yet in their teens. One miniature dancing toilette of baby blue Surah has the skirt daylight bodices fashioned in a style to make the natives stare.

Some of them look as if purposeiy prepared to give society a shock. Can it be done? that is the question. Unbound femininity has long ago ceased to ruffle the equanimity of the fashionable world, more'i the pity. Frankly, DRESS FOR CHILDREN A Host of Dainty Styles Brought Out by the Warm Weather. NEWPORT NOVELTIES Odd Costumes and Odd Doings at the Queen Resort A DRESS SEf WITH GLOWWORMS I mm An Informal Conference to Prepare for a Bis Mass Meetluc.

Messrs. Wood, Bristow. Pegley, Chestnut and Campbell, the committee appointed by the merchants of Columbia avenue at their meeting on Wednesday to prepare articles of association for the Columbia Avenue Board of Trade, held an informal meeting at 1630 Columbia avenue yesterday and agreed upon articles of incorporation which they will present to the mass meeting of the Columbia avenue merchants to be held at the Grand Opera House on Thursday afternoon next The committee on organization reported that nearly every merchant on the avenue had made application for membership. T. Henry Martin is temporary president of the new Board of Trade and will in all probability be elected to fill the office perma nently.

The Board of Trade Is the outcome of the Business Improvement Association, and by it the merchants hope to secure numerous reforms in business methods. Tbey hope to regulate the closing hours of all the stores and also to stop the practice of cutting the prices of merchandise below a living profit The board will also make a demand for improvements to the avenue and adjacent streets and propose to act promptly in making these demands. At the meeting at the Grand Opera House speeches will be made by a number of prominent gentlemen who nave accepted invitation to be present. A L03G HORSEBACK BIDE. A Toons Man on Ills Way from Chicago to Georgia.

A voung man whose bronzed face clearly indicated unusual exposure to the sun and rain drove up on horseback to Bush's stables, Broad street and Columbia avenue, yesterday morning, and, throwing the bridle rein to an awaiting hostler, said: "Give this horse the best you have; it has carried me all the way from Chicago, and I expect it to take me still further before the journey is over. Tbe young man. whose name is Bobert Tully, when seen later, talked freely about his long journey. "You see, it was in this way," said Mr. Tully.

"I went from my father's plantation near Gainesville. to Chicago to accept a position that had been offered me in a bank there, the president of which was an old friend ot my father s. The change from active outdoor life to that ot a sedentary occupation soon told on me and I was forced to take all the outdoor exercise I could. Being very fond of horses, I naturally took to horseback riding. A month ago I applied for and obtained a two months' leave of absence.

I determined to spend the most of this time on horseback and at once left for my home on tbe horse you saw this morning, nave bad a splendid time so far, but it bas been entirely devoid of sensational incidents. I shall leave this atternoon on my way to Gainesville and expect to reach that place in about two weeRS, as am taking my time." The Beagle, the Bonny, and the Barr- Bash or, the Success of DUgaUe. Judge. ft BUNNY "This bunch-grass just hits my palate this morning." dog, by all that's vexing 1" "I've eaten so much crass I can't run. Wonder If I can't fool him?" "They don't feel over comfortable but it's better than sprinting when you don't feel like It." The Be a ole "1 must be getting nearsighted.

I'd bet my teeth I taw a rabbit over here." All of the leading men's furnishers will, from this time forth, keep upon their shelves from three to a half dozen of the new turn down styles of collars as part of the staple stock ot the line. The new styles are not--as is the mistaken idea ot some in any measure within the pale of the freak collar influence that struck the realm of fixings like a humorous cyclone last year. They are sensible, comfortable, unobtrusive add becoming. The judgment of the world of lashioa will sanction tbem. This is a detail that should be noted in the purchase of a neglige shirt A skimpy collar on a neglige shirt, one that is not cut so as to snow well above tne outing coat will produce a very sorry and inadequate euect.

The revival ot the cravat is one of the surprises ot the season. With the colored shirts a quiet solid color is most effective But there is a great multiplicity of patterns and colorings to choose from. They are not to oe worn witn tne neglige sniru The unexpected acceptation of the cravat is but another indication of the growing de mand for tieable goods. The cravats hare indeed quite superseded the buckle made goods. J.

he reigning widths are from lyi to i4 inches. The Windsor tie has not yet experienced riencc the boom that was predicted for iL Whin the outing season, however, is fairly at Its height, the Windsor tie will have its iwoy. The craze for black in men's furnishings seems to continue. The effort to introduce the wide black silk and satin cravats with evening dress goes wrongfully and abort ively on. The advocates of gloom have even cone so tar as to bring about an impor tation of black lawc to be made up into full dress bows.

The black straw hat has many devotees, and now the black bathing suit is the latest wrinkle ot the sombre-minded coterie. There are a number of so-called made-up sashes bidding for public favor. A number ot these when adjusted assume the trusslike aspect of veritable bellybands, and are, of course, to be avoided. The Stanley sash is a cleverly conceived effect, avoiding all abdominal amplitude. Very tew of tne russet shoe nave been sen in town as yet This is as it should be.

The outing youth in his mildest fabrics will be seen later on upon the pave of Gotham. But only the highest temperature will warrant him and he must be, in all his details, quiet and unobtrusive. "Sleeping suits for gentlemen," is the nomenclature by which modernized pajamas are described in London. All the slumber gowns and dream robes of the present century since Thanatopsis "wrapped about him the drapery of his couch." sink into oblivion in the comparison to some of these truly latest adjuncts of masculine apparel. An Anglomaniae American dude had recently made at one of the Strand shops a sleeping suit of which the trousers were made of red silk, and the blouse ot blue, with stripes of white and red.

When he got into a retiring mood his perspective resembled the British flag. And the bind played "God Save the Queen!" The black straw bat has already undergone the penalty tbat often occurs to the thoroughbred in the race. It made 'the running too strong at the start, with the! result of being soon done for. From all the indications at the close of last season, it seemed that the black straw hat was trf; be the swell summer but the view was "too generally taken by the manufacturers, with the result tbat it bas been made less in tbe cheaper grades, and has already become so popular as to have lost the quality of being fashionable. Tbe wide-brimmed straw hat that is just now the -rage in swaggerdom is made of braid closely and solidly woven in the form of little diamond-shaped segments.

The edge of the brim is finished in these points. The technical name of the straw is Sennit. which is a corruption of the phrase seven- knit, LOYELI CATS FfiOM PERSIA. Baal Angora. Bis, Silky.

Know-White, with Lars: Blue Kyea. From the Jfett York Sun. Two beautiful natives of Persia hsve lately landed on these shores. They boast the best blood of all tbeir race, and have improved their naturally gentle manners by travel in Europe. They are cats, and are the property of Arthur Bitter, a breeder of fancy animals at Bavenswood, L.

I. Mr. Bitter claims that he has in these animals the only pure Angora catflesh in America. The pure Angora cats are as white as snow, with long, silken fur and tails like comets. They have ia rare instances been imported from Persia into Europe, where they have been used to improve the native breeds of KOMKO ASD JULIE.

cats, and it is only the resulting mixtures, so Mr. Bitter says, that have hitherto been in troduced into the United States. Most of tbe so-called Angoras in this country are partially or wholly Neither are they of full size. The two eats in Mr. Bitter's possession weigh together a fraction more than seventy-five pounds.

Their silken hair is pure white, four and one-half inches in length. Their eyes, which are large, are of a beautiful blue color. "Borneo" aud "Julie," as they have been named, were sent from their native Teheran to a Herr Diekmann, a dealer in such merchandise, at Hamburg. They created some excitement, and were visited by thousands. They took first prizes wherever they were exhibited, notably at the Paris Exhibition, and afterward at the International Cat Show at Amsterdam.

Mr. Bitter got them for breeding purposes, and will not sell them at any price. He paid 1,200 marks for the pair. Over a hundred visitors, among them several maiden ladies, have called at the Hitter ranch to see these jMirlncitio Mr. "Rerf mftnn.

oil Citv Heights, has offered 550 apiece.lbr a pair of tbeir kittens when they may have any. Mr. Bitter is primarily araiser of St Bernard dogs, and he has imported three mag- ROMEO IS A BIO CAT, AS THIS CUT SHOWS nifiuent animals one of them a most intelligent short-haired St Bernard. He has also a cock and hen from Japan that: are covered with a growth ot silky white hair instead of leathers. Hew York Sun, Something About the Drinks at Soda Fountains.

THEY ARE A MINE OF WEALTH Regular Pharmacists Wbo Sneer at the Modern Innovations How the Milk Shake Rose and Fell. SPECIAL COKttlSrOXDEXCE OF THE INQUIRES. New Yoek, July "How many dollars are spent daily in New York for cooling drinks outside of bar-rooms and similar resorts?" The question was asked of one of the best-known druggists on Broadway, over whose counter more money is passed for soda water and such like drinks than over any other cash desk in the like business. "Ask me something much easier," was his laughing response, "for that question could not be answered even approximately without extended investigation." He was right The question is a difficult one to answer and yet it can be reached within a very reasonable certainty. A casual investigation shows that there are between the Battery and Forty-second street more than one hundred soda fountains, all doing a profitable business.

The number on the crowded avenues of the East and West sides is certainly up in the thousands. The average fashionable Broadway fountain, combining the sale of mineral water with soda and other drinks, will take over its counter from $75 to $150 a day, at least three-fourths of which is absolute profit Of course, at this season the soda-water merchant is in his glory. At the first sign of warm weather every drug store mac with a "fountain," as it is termed, as an adjunct to his establishment sets to work furbishing it up and laying in a store of various syrups and waters which constitute a great part of his summer stock-in-trade. The' soda-water fountain at the corner drug store is in summer a standard resort THE DBIXKS. All the soda fountains in the city, the milk shake apparatus, the street stands and restaurants with their pop, lemonade and various sorts of cider, beguile tbe overheated victims of summer into leaving a portion of their hard-earned cash.

Summer drinks sell by spells. First one is fashionable and then another. Just now the plain phosphates are in the lead. Drinks which cost more than a nickel are, of course, in limited demand. Ice cream soda and sherbets, fancy phosphates and such compounds catch those who can afford to pay for them, but the average human being male especially-taking the whole city into consideration, will pay a nickel for a drink and no more, except on special occasions.

Milk shakes, which were so popular last season, are in limited demand this. A milk shake was one ot the ten cent drinks which caught the general public, but the publio is fickle and won be hem in bonds very long. However, there is one thing may save the milk shake the price has been reduced. even in aristocratic neighborhoods, to five cents a glass, and this may hold the drink in favor for some time yet This again brings up another question aa to the soda fountains in drug stores. Many ot the old-time chemists and druggists have a horror ot the trade in mineral waters and cool drinks in connection with their business and consider it entirely unprofessional.

One of these gray-bearded philosophers ia his little shop oa the East side, said the other day: "One of the first things for a conscientious pharmacist to learn is that it does not pay to indiscriminately mix up tne preparing of prescriptions and the legitimate sale of drugs with dispensing soda water, cigars, toilet creams, bair brushes, face powers, pocket knives, jewsharps, mouth organs and a thousand and one other articles which have no business whatever in a first-class drug store. Why, my dear sir, pharmacy is a legitimate protession which should, and properly does, rank along with the practice ot medicine. It requires years of arduous and watchful study to become proficient in the business, and it has always been a matter of regret to me thai in so many instances nowadays drug Btores are a sort ot cross between a restaurant and a country general store. It would be just as becoming for a physician to carry with him on his professional rounds a grip-sack filled with fine-tooth combs and a miscellaneous assortment of Yankee notions to sell to his patients as tor a first-class prescription drug store to devote its most conspicuous and most available space to the sale otsuch articles. Physicians are rapidly recognizing this tact their patronage is now going to a large extent to tne druggists who do not allow their attention to be distracted by outside matters.

As a conse quence soda fountains and shot7 cases filled with toilet articles and hardware are being gradually relegated to the class of stores where tbey belong. No man can stop in the middle of the preparation of an important prescription and waltz down to the front ot the store to draw a glass ot soda water or fumble about in a box of cigars without running the risk of losing his pharmaceutical text, and getting himself, and perhaps somebody who is critically sick, into serious trouble. A DISGUSTED PHARMACIST. "I was myself in tbe drug business on Eighth avenue for several years, and I know just how important a figure the sale of soda water, cigars and other articles to which 1 have alluded cut in the daily sales. They help a fellow out wonderfully in a financial sense, yet I protest that tbey have no proper place in connection with the business.

There are a number of drug stores on the avenue which could not remain in existence were it not for this feature of their trade. I know that one ot these stores cleared $4,000 on its soda fountain alone last year. In some instances, of course, intoxicating liquors are run in tbe fountains, in which cases the profits accumulate rapidly. I am aware that the general public is somewhat inclined to regard the alleged sale of intoxicants from fountain faucets as a huge joke perpetrated by the funny men on the newspapers, but I say to you in all candor that. I know from personal observation right here in New York that there is much truth in it It is regarded aa a great convenience by persons who like their toady, hut would not go into a saloon to get it To return for a moment to the sale of miscellaneous articles in drug stores, there is no more consistency in dispensing soda water than there would be in serving customers with oyster stews and other restaurant products.

One comes just as near belonging to the drug business as do the others and no nearer." But despite the old pharmacist's criticisms, the drug stores will go on dispensing their soda and mineral waters at a couple of hundred per cent, profit and the hurrying and heated population of big cities and small towns will crowd around and drink and pay for tbem despite all the medical advice to the contrary that ever was written. Kentucky's Congratulations. From the Chicago Herald. Kentucky, of course, is enthusiastically drinking to the health of its famous daughter, Mary Anderson. It is not less proud of Mary than of the really excellent beverage with which it performs that pleasing courtesy.

1 St. John's Great Work. '1 from the Omaha Bee. A Kansas paper thus pictures the painful situation: "St. John gave us Grover Cleveland as President Grover Cleveland gave us Lamar and Fuller for United States supreme judsres.

Lamar and Fuller gave us the original package decision." accordion anted throughout tne blouse bodice low cut exposing the dimpled shoul ders and a small kilt tailing about the neck. Short kilted bell-shaped sleeves finish the dear little frock. Sleeves, by tbe way. are as novel in their construction as those, which belong to mamma's Parisian costumes. Coat sleeves ribbon laced the entire length ot the arm over a contrasting shade come in for a full quota of admiration, while the ever-popular leg-o'-mutton is twisted into all sorts of fantastic shapes or demurely buttoned upon the inside seam of the arm.

For the fancy or character dance all kinds of gauzy things are extremely popular, silk muslins, crepes, tulles and lace being called upon to furnish the dainty creations. Character parties, as one miss expresses it, are just too lovely for anything." Firefly poppies, buttercups, butterflies and other fairy-like characters are es -pecial favorites. The smaller the girl the larger the hat at least it looks that way just now. Big sisters top their heads with all sorts of novelties in cloth. Tbe variety is almost inexhaustible, Alpine and skull dividing favor with tbe wide-spreading cliapeau ot straw.

Children's shoes are again this summer tor rough and tumble of soft russet leather, which does not chafe the foot in any way and is a great comfort to the restless spirits who are running around all day long. Laced boots are most frequently selected for ordinary wear and buttoned boots reserved for full dress occasions. The pelisse is the popular garment for an outside covering. A fairy like affair is ot soft cream woolen with a deep flounce of point de Venice covering the skirt cape pointed back and front and two rows ot a narrow width making the double collar. The result is that the little wrap appears to be a mass of exquisite lace.

The best pelisses are made on silk foundations, in order that they may hang as correctly as possible. Embroidery in silk worked directly on the cashmere is the favorite mode of trimming these garments, tbe skirt, cape and collar being edgedfwith one or two rows of fine lace headed with the embroidery. When the cashmere is the material used the skirt is frequently shirred on to the bodice and the round cape gauged at the throat and tied with ribbon. EOW OJAJirAGNE IS HADE. A Monk Invented th Secret ot the Sparkling Liquid la 1688.

From the Setc Tork Tribune. Champagne, as everybody knows, was invented that is the word to use, for the wine certainly was not a discovery by Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk, in 1088. Being appointed to the post of cellar man at the Abbey ot St Peter, in the village of Hautvillers, on the Marne, some five miles from Epernay and fifteen from Beims, be conceived the idea of "marrying" various wines. The product of one vineyard was noted for its ragrauce, another for its generosity, a third for its color, a fourth for its preservative qualities, and so on. By judicious "blending" Dom Perignon produced a grand wine, a sparkling wine that burst from tbe bottle and overflowed the glass.

Moreover, it was white, though made from black grapes. It so far excelled all other wines that it quickly won the first place and took the name of the province Cbampague. Vast improvements have been made in the manufacture of champagnes since the death of the monk in 1715, but tbe principles he introduced have never been abandoned. The newly expressed juice of the grape, after the first fermentation in casks, is conveyed to the cellars or "caves" in the chalk rock and after a brief period it is racked and ready for making the "cuvee," which consists in mixing the wines of various vineyards together in such proportions as to produce a perfect wine. In order to insure tbe greatest uniformity the mixing is done in gigantic vats, containing from 60,000 to 75,000 bottles.

The wine is then returned into casks and at the proper time in May or June bottled, securely corked and laid away for at least two years and a half in the cellars. Soon after" bottling the second fermentation takes place, which produces the effervescence and forms a sediment. When the wine is ripe tor use it is shaken sharply several times a day for from three to eight weeks by skilled workmen, called "remneurs." Then comes the work of the who carefully loosens the cork, which flies out, carrying the sediment with it and a small quantity of the wine. A USEFUL DOG A Pittsburg Gentleman Wbo Has an Intelligent Cauioe. From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

A well-known resident of Oakland has a large Newfoundland dog that is a wonder in his way and he weighs about 1C0 pounds. The getleman walked into the JJispatck business office yesterday accompanied by his dog and purchased an additional paper to mail to a relative in Illinois. The paper was wrapped up, 'and after placing a 2-cent stamp on the wrapper and addressing it the gentleman gave the paper to the dog. The owner got into his buggy and drove to the postoffice, the dog runniug alongside the horse. At the postoffice the gentleman stopped, but the dog didn't He mounted the steps, trotted down the corridor to the receiving boxes, and taking hold of one end of the paper in his teeth he inserted the other in the opening into the paper box and with his nose pushed it through the hole.

He had no hesitancy about brushing his wet coat up against the light check trousers ot several young men standing near the box, and when one of them wanted to help him push the paper through the opening he growled, as much as to say he knew his business and could get along without outside assistance. Alter depositing the paper in the box the dog bounded out again to bis master, who was waiting for him. It took me two weeks to train him to do that trick, but it paid me for the trouble," said the The Dividing; Line. From the Macon Telegraph. Why do the newspapers refer to Senator Wolcott ot Colorado, as a youngster? He is 42 years of age, and has been old in the ways of this wicked ever since he was 20.

very edge of thegrass fringe which, half masKing the sweet lace beneath, sways ana bobs in the summer breeze, adding one more charm to the picturesque makeup of the summer maiden. I catch here and there glimpses of the Empress of India and Duchess of Davenport, two swell modes that seem to be especial favorites with the fashionable women. It is tiresome to keep up with the parasol of the season and its very capricious-ness renders it as hard to pin down for inspection as a woman beauty. Strolling along this morning I ran across a very pretty picture framed in one corner ot a 1 ri'i 1- I ivnij piazza. cuuiuug wiku uau donned her daintiest white gown for the benefit evidently ot a favored adorer, and it certainly was becoming, which, I must confess, is not the case with the average morning robe of white.

Above the wind-tossed tresses, which curled like grape tendrils about the small head, this damsel artistically balanced a symphony in colors that looked as if stolen from the prettiest corner of a summer rain Dow. A. basket parasol, so called not on account of its shape, but because composed of contrasting tints of ribbon woven OF THK BSU.EB, in and out like the osiers of a basket. The interlaced ribbons furnished just the sweetest canopy imaginable for the little beauty, Bose-petaled pink melting away until lost in the soft ciel blue and creamy white of the delicately shaded ribbons, the edge finished in loops, from which dangled tiny silken grelots. One may be prepared for all sorts of oddities.

An eccentricity appearing in the hands of a young woman a lew days ago at first glance seemed to be a miniature snow drift, but a nearer view unraveled the mystery and I discovered that the fair one had encircled her parasol with band after band of swansdown. Some of the shades display from the tip-top of the knob a tempting bunch of crab apples or luscious cherries. The queerly twisted handle is just at present furnishing nookeries for all sorts of feminine ideas. Here is a snuggery for the tiny powder puff and there a place for the lilipu-tian salts or the miniature bonbonniere. In fact the most frivolous ot its kind is this season a thing of beauty and a joy the week around.

The young women who go in for comfort carry a sensible matter-of-tact sun protector that answers when furled the double purpose ot a walking stick. It seems to be a dread- A QUIET HOUR. ful cross, I notice, for the average woman to roll her umbrella into the exact proportions called for by the cover, which to be strictly stylish, must not display the slightest suggestion of slouchiness. It is altogether comical to watch one of the masculine fraternity who bas gotten tne trick well in hand attempt to initiate one of the gentler sex into the secret He begins all right, beaming down upon his pupil with a smile divine, but as the poor little soul makes an ignominious failure her manly instructor growls under his breath, "Just like a woman. I never knew one yet who could furl ao umbrella or read a time table." Dorothy Maddox, Klnety-slz Feat of Snowfall la Colorado.

From the Dillon Enterprise. Did yon ever stop to think and figure up how much loose snow actually falls in the course of an average mountain Colorado winter? If you have, didn't the amount amaze you? At Kokomo, in loS4-3, by actual daily measurements, something like ninety-six feet ot the beautiful fell between November 1 and June 1. Of course, it kept on settling all the time, and when spring opened up there wasn't more than six or seven feet on the ground. The snowfall at Kokomo is generally twice or three times what it is at Dillon, yet the amount that fell here during the past wiuter sounds like a big yarn, but the figures given below were absolutely correct, and were carefully recorded daily by Mr. Pratt at Byan Gulch, just nortb of town.

Amount of snowfall, gauged at a point one mile north of Dillon, between the first day ot November, 1889, and May 10, 1890 November, 38 inct.es. December, 81 Inches. January, 31 inches. February, 41 inches. March.

70 Inches. April, 22 Inches. May, 17 inches. Making a total of 20 feet 10 inches. About eight-tenths of this snow fell during the night time, and nearly one-half of it was very damp, settling rapidly as it fell.

These figures seem preposterous, yet Dillon is not much of a place for snow either, and gets less of the beautiful than any other town ia the country. A rKiaiER LESSON. From Life. Is the son apt The son is up. Up, up, he is.

See, he is no. IshelnT Be is in. WHITE AND CREAM TO THE FORE An Extensive Scope for the Little Maid's Evening Costume The Smaller the GUI the Larger tbe Hat Gauzy Things for the Dance. Juveniles wear their clothes with an artistie abandon which robs them at all times and under all circumstances ot the slightest approach to stiffness. Watch the young people, and I think you will quickly be brought to admit the fact that the aver age mother has grown to be a very sensible woman.

The underwear is constructed upon hygienic principles, giving the growing limbs such perfect freedom of action as to transform the small tots into rollicking crea tures as playful as kittens, while their half- grown sisters, who are presumably at tbe awkward age, blossom out in garments that seem to suit to perfection their undeveloped figures. -1 Children are as a rule happily unconscious of their clothes, a statement which, how ever, seldom holds good respecting their elders, many women being altogether too keenly alive for their happiness and peace of mind to their own and their neighbor's toilette. It is this blissful unconsciousness ot childhood which aids so materially in the charm of the small woman's gowning. Tbe advent of summer has brought forth a host of dainty styles in which white and cream are well to tne fore. Camel hair.

nun's veiling, cashmere and all other wools in this tone are especial favorites, keeping as they do their fresh prettiness so much ioneer than the thinner fabrics. The reefintr jacket of white is much more stylish than the loud-toned stripes, and may be worn effectively with dark skirts of solid color. The soft little blouse of wash silk to be worn with them is very much better liked than the mannish linen and cambric affected by their grown-up sisters. Flannel dresses are an Important feature of the little daughter's summer outing, and after these come the lighter grades of woolens, in which may be found bewitchiug tints, sweet apple green, pale blues and rosy pinks, furnishing robes, which may be finished in the most elaborate manner or simply garnished with stitches in self-colored silks. Certainly the scope for the small maid evening costume is extensive enough to tempt even tbe most prudent ot mothers to indulee in extravagant flights of fancy that are nine times out of decidedly ont of taste.

It is much tbe wiser plan to keep for coming years eiegam anu cosuy toiieis, eivinir the young miss to Understand that everything loud or obtrusive is the height of vulgarity, and that a warnroDe limited to simplicity of style may still be picturesque in the extreme. Soft China silk or one of the delicate flouncing in creamy white is the preferred material for the evening fete dress or danc ing gown. That the tiny maiden must have quite a collection of party costumes is well understood by the mother who is off for her Confined Beneath the Net Work ot the Vapory Black Hobe Rum Tea. Progressive Coaching Dinners A Symphony in Colors. jrEClAL COIlHF.SI1.VTKXfB OK TUB INQUlRF.il.

Newport, July 5. To be sure, she has reached the rou nd of the social ladder and in the eye or the sister who is clinging on for dear life a dozen rounds below she appears an object blessed beyond compare, but society's favorite has held her exalted position lone enough to become keenly alive to the fact that she must pay dearly for the privilege. The commonplace individual who has but little if anything at stake may shut up her town bouse, sail away nud anchor in waters so safe and tranquil that rest complete and delightful is her portion a nobody, in fact, bo could not enter the charmed circle if A LKADKR. he would and, if she is a sensible party, vould not if she could. Any woman who is in the swim will tell you that along the summer pathway of her existence the wheels of society revolve as gaily and as continuously as they did during the height of the season in town.

Cards, invitations and three-cornered notes fly aiout like giddy little moths, the white-winged messengers offering all sorts of seductive inducements, to thedevoteeon pleasure intent, to join the restless throng ot merry-makers. Luncheons, however, the spoiled darling dubs a frightlul bore, eveu when rose-cake, ith its layers of baked rose ctals, candied orange blossoms and stewed lilies are to be found upon the dainty menu. The garden fete is but little better while the archery Meet and a dozen other entertainments re looked upon as stupid in the extreme. With a yawn and a sigh the lair one dons her most captivhting smile along with her prettiest warm-weather toilette aud as she steps into her victoria casts envious glances at her less retentious neighbor who seems to be taking ife easy as she curls up in the low swinging hammock which baugs under the big shade tree ot the lawn across the way. Good gracious declares one of the sister- OFV VOB A STEOLL.

hood, if there is so much wretchedness at tached to having a goo'l time why not give up the strucgle? What and be quietly laid upon the shelf? No, iudeed, that would not do at all. Better never rest than pay the penalty of oblivion, and so it is a lawn party maids and matrons are given delicious opportunities ot showing to every advantage a love of a gown and the sweetest of French cliapeaux, and to-morrow au open-air reception, when within the rose shadowed summer house or upon the leaty piazza, surrounded by her dainty assistants. mine hostess extends to her guests a gracious welcome. Certainly this' is the society belle's opportunity, for never is she seen to a better advantage than when she trails her draperies the velvet lawn to the soit strains of Carmen or poses beneath the canopy of vapory lisse, which catches in its misty cascades of tulle the rosy tints ot a declining sun. One bright spirit has imported a New York fad that promises to stamp her five 'clocks ail unique, ft is to this late whim that we are indebted tor an introduction to a rhapsody in drinks which has made its debut inind society under the rather shady title ot Hrum tea." Certaiuly it is a drawing card, the masculine element showing up at a tea drinking in a way to delight the heart of the hostess and her lair guests.

How is it nimle? Well it is simple enough. Alter brewing your Bohea vou have only to tip up your little cut glass decanter and empty a email quantity of this IK TBI SWIM. West India product (be careful you do not spoil the beverage by an over dose) into your silver pot, or better into the egg-shdl cup and there you have it. Delightful, is the general verdict and so I trv to swallow ruiue (making a wry face behind my hostess' back) as I mentally declare in lavor ot tea a la Busse, thin sliced lemon and alL Iater it is proposed to introduce the luatiuee dansaute when, in place of the decidedly fatiguing effort ot treading the fantastic upon the green, a temporary pavilion will be erected. This will, I hardly be a go, although it has had a good semi-oil' in Paris.

Vou cannot convince the average American girl that she can indulge in any such amusement becomingly until the shadows ot evening have closed in and she is privileged to don her low cut grown and make up her complexion, giving it fascinating little touches, which a cruel daylight positively refuses to countenance. To be" sure the belles are wearing their, i'iii a cur or bum tka. thouch, one is bound to give a sly glance of admiration when brought faee to face with a pair ot white shoulders or a soft snowy neck, and after all the crying evil of the low-throated robe is the appalling exhibitions of collar hones that forcibly remind one of a hat rack. The woman who wakes up to the tact that she is deplorably scrawny is sensible enough to wear for the benefit of the low cut sleeveless bodice au imperceptible webbing so thin and copying the flesh tint so perfectly, that it defies detection and, when drawn tightly over neck and arms, looks as if it might be a second skin. Surprises are the order of the day.

Sometimes it is the hostess who is responsible for a t'arisiau caprice that adds materially to the success of her entertainment. A few days ago I attended a luncheon where we were treated to a number of novelties. One in particular attracted the attention of the entire partv. Upon one corner of the table stood a fruit dish that looked altogether commonplace beside the dainty pieces ot cut glass and silver by which it was surrounded. As it was lifted from its position the sweet- A DEC'LARATIOK.

est strains of music were heard. Everybody stared in a polite sort of way, but no one said anything. Each time I noticed that the dish was disturbed the tiukling notes of a gay chanson punctuated the lively chatter ot tlie party. "Clever is it not? I brought it over from Paris about two months ago," said our hostess, as we choronsed our admiration for the ingenuity which had so cunningly furnished the fruit stand with a music box. new under the sun, or rather the moonlight, la the garden fete toilet at least, 1 thought, as I watched the flitting forms about me one evening this week, when all at once 1- was brought face to face with a charming rival to the Parisian toilet.

Evidently tired of the everlasting monotony of other women's gowns, she had determined, this pretty young woman, upon auniqueand tellinifrostuoie, and so she had captured and confined beneath the vapory net work of her inky black robe glow-worms by the dozens. As she came toward me from out the shadowy gloom of a dimly lighted rustic bower she looked, this lovely maiden, like the queen of the fairies. From her enchanted robe flashed and here, there and everywhere, golden sparks in twos and threes and by the dozens. The heart-shaped fichu of rare old lace glowed beneath the mystic light, while from the big, puffed sleeves and the gauzy hat the fairy lights burned with meteoric beauty, A new idea has been developed in the progressive coaching dinner which is served to the partv upon their retnrn, a sufficient time being allowed for rest and a change of COINS TO A BKCKPTIOJT. toilette.

The table is arranged in the shape of a wheel. If red and yellow are the colors employed buttercups form the hub and red ribbons the spokes. At a musical blast from the horn the guests assemble, the same means being employed to give the signal for the progressive part of the entertainment, four chairs being moved to the left each time that the horn is blown. Most of the girls off for a coaching trip look when arrayed as compact and trig as a newly rigged 'yacht. Not a fluttering drapery or flaunting streamer disturbs the serenity ot the stylish one as she settles herself beneath the shade of the two-toned parasol which, to be awfully swell, must be finished at the handle with a big knob of cut crystal which reflects every- hue in the sunlight, every hue of the rainbow.

Speaking of the parasol, it has evidently not taken a lifetime for the wide-awake summer girl to find out that this pretty creation is a woman's movable background, against which she may pose in all the most charming attitudes possible. A cunning twist ot the white wrist, and the plainest and most unpretentious ot its kind is ready to act its part witb a grace as inimitable as the bell-like beauty decked out in the filmy French crepe, mousseline de soie or Empire lace. But beware, my sisters. Bnying a parasol because it bas for the moment captured your fancy, without the slightest regard to its future usefulness, is all well enough it one can afford to be extravagant in this direction, but where a sunshade must be made to do duty upon a dozen different occasions it is all-important to choose a sensible affair, that is not nut of place no matter where it may be found. Trotting around under a lace dome tipped with posies or wreathed with fragile blooms is the worst of bad form unless the dainty thing is to be sent out upon dress parade in Madam's victoria, and even then the wind and weather soon play sad havoc with its delicate lovleiness, which is as fleeting and unsubstantial as a dream.

Host of the'society women here, as they lyes..