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1 2 OLD STYLE PROPOSALS, According to Clara Belle, Are Very Distasteful to the Modern Young Woman of Ftwhion. Artful Ingenuousness of a Debutante Who Startled a Young Man With Her Ideas on Dresa. Stylos Designed Particularly for Those Who Have l'usued tho Line. Woman's Kullna: Passion Shared by Even Charity Qlrta. New York Letter: When I entered my confidential friend Stella's boudoir this morning she had an awfully dejected look.

I couldn't at the instant see, auy good K-a-son for her to be cast down, because she was positively lovely in a mauve gown trimmed dark blue velvet, a simple yet stylikh tiling, smooth all over her shapely arms ami corsage, but full and lluil'yas to Mowing Blurts. bad stopped her hair-dressing with her abundant ready to be coiled, but that was becoming, too, and 1 baid: "It Dolph could only get a sight of you now, in your aspect of cozy home-life, he'd pop the Question in a "Tina's what he has done, the wretch," thepoorKirl sobbed, and motioned with au open letter that she held in her hands. "But 1 thought you expected it. and would be delighted when it came. Are you displeased because, he didn't tpeak iastaad of writing?" 1 don't so much mind his potting it on paper, though I would hme liked to see him on his knees and hear him siainmer, but the sadness is that he writes it in such a dreadful old fashioned way.

Just look at this. The envelope and sheet of paper are perfectly plain and white not rongh-SurfaOPd or ragged-edged or anything stylish about them. The whole epistle might have come from Ituralborough. bo far as any get-up-and-get is concerned. Why, ii it had bean delayed months in the mails it couldn't be a more pronounced back-number.

Now. Clan Belle, and fell on my bosom to weep, "what CashlonableneM can I expect from a man who is half year behind hand in the style of his pop letter. I like Dolph. but I fear I shall have to gi ve bin up. lioo-00-oo." AT A KECKI'TIoV, the other evening.

I sat where I couldn't help hearing one of this season's debutantes a sweet sort of girl In the simplest attire convening with a chappie. Well, she just flattered him right out. Her style of talk was childish and frank. Looking purely into his eyes with her blue orbs wide open, and no more than appropriate, babyish tint of pink in her cheeks, she rattled on: "You admire my plain style of dress? Tea? Well, I can't bear any artificiality. 1 in for health lirst.

don't you? and only seek much modishness as can be got without any sacrifice of comfort. hatr bangs loose, you spe, and so no hairpins are pulling at it. My cor- sace is cvi out only just so far as it can be without exposing the upper lobes of my lunirs that saves me from consumption and pueumonia. My have French heels, but high enough to throw a strain on muscles not intended to bear it so my legs will not become distorted. is the height of English modesty to call legs by their light names.

Another tiling is that 1 never draw my corset any nagger than 1 could net belt together without it. That's my rule against tiirht Then the music started for a waltz, and heaven only knows what disclosures were cut off. THE DEBIGXEBB OF BTTUK iire growing Mora and more thoughtful of the wants of elderly wonien. Kven ten yean ago it was thought proper that all women on the siiacly side of should wear black or may on all occasions. Now the domain of color is open to them, and all the fashionable dark tints, such as seal brown.

golden brown, plum color, moss green and sapphire or navy blue arc becomingly worn by them for out-of-door toilets, while for home and morning dresses they wear heliotrope or pansy shades, and even pale blue and cardinal colors are found becoming to blonde" hair. The prevalent taste lor color now permits the dresses of cashmere and cauiel's hair, which are used for their outdoor frocks in preference to the siiii Herges and roqgh cloth that English fashions have popularized, to be of the colors above mentioned; but their basques are out round and plain, and their skirt draperies an: long, simple, and less bouffant than those of young women, if they wear hustles at all they are of moderate size, but as a rule the back breaths of their dresses are not made at all protuberant, or only as much as an underskirt would make them, having Bounces from the waist to the bottom on tlio back breadth only. Old ladies look regal in trained dresses tor evening wear. Black velvet is tho first choice; but they are also permitted now to make! their trained robes of combinations of velvet and bengaline. Cashmere and camel's hair, black or colored, are frequently combined with watered silk, and are made dp with demi-polonaise lor old The fronts of the cashmere polonaise form flat panels lioating away from the underskirt, of watered silk or rather to the front of the skirt of watered silk while the back breadths are partly cashmere and partly Bilk-gathered instead of being plaited.

A Y-shape of silk extends dowu the front aud back of the waist. ALL WOMEN" LIKE TO KNOW about dress; and in Witting of fashions for old women. 1 am merely doing what one of them has requested. She accuses me of devoting my letters too exclusively to girls. She reminds me that no aue or condition deprives a woman of caring for clothes.

Now my cousin Bob often teases me when we are together in the streets or stores by saying: "Clara, I'll wafer you a pair of gloves those two women are talking about clothes," or. "Come ahead, and let's hoar what those girls are talking about. I'll bet it's about somebody masculine." The old torment is so often right that in my innermost heart I often think him not far out of the way when he says those two are the ouly subjects ladies talk about wheu they are and clothes. Yet I am not proud of my sex's alleged scarcity of ideas and interests, and for that am especially proud of those women friends of in lie. who talk on otter topics, even of the like Mrs.

Lilly Deven aux Blake, who devote their time to our ungrateful sex. Imagine my chagrin, then. at what happened to me in a Hudson Hiver train In the next seat behind mo I overheard two women They were talking about dress, dress, dress. Their dialogue began upon the beauties of a wedding dress that some young girl acquaintance had worn very recently. They had not seen her at the but had helped to dross her for it; and they dwelt upon the lace, tlio pearls and the flounces as if they were so many sweet morsels of confectionery they were rolling beneath their tongues.

Presently there was a pause. "Ah sighed one presently. "How 1 should enjoy being rich and dressing in the height of each succeeding fashion 1 It's lucky for some man's purse that this delight is forbidden hip." "Some man's? Ilave you any idea what man's purse it might have been?" the other You could hear roguery iv her voice. "Not the faintest," Raid the other; "I have no 'little story' I know no other world than yours and mine." "Nor 1, BMIC Angele." the second answered "but to return to dress, I often have one wicked thought. I would like pretty to have laco aud ornament there where it would not scandalize our order; where only 1 might thus exercise the taste that now lies idle.

But, no. lam not serious; please do not think me so weak 1 turned squarely around and there sat whom do you think? Two Sisters of Mercy or Charity by the way, when their eyes met mine, as DKMIKi: AND ISXOCKXT of all that 1 had heard as ever the Ix-st of facial artists could have looked. "So," I thought to myself, "even consecrated women are women after all! And not to Hnjff But 1 sincerely trust that cousin Hob may never hear of this or anything akin to it. He would indeed haw cause to persist in his mean insinuations. lint to return to old ladies' dress.

They do not wear jackets, newmarkets or any tight-fitting wraps. Graceful long and medium length mantles and dolmans are the correct wear for them on dressy occasions. lieu in demi-toilet they wear a shawl folded square, and worn to produce the effect of a mantle. Some very iuexpensive and square shawls of cashmere and chudda are shown for this kind of wear this kpring. They are embroidered sometimes on one side not all around thus plainly indicating their use as mantle shawls.

Real Indian cashmere shawls are ulso worn by elderiv ladies, as weil as by the younger; but these shawls are always worn us shawls, and folded on the bias, old ladies' caps not forgotten either in the Category of fashions this spring. Soft mull is the fabric chosen for these, or for crowns, and frilis or jabots ot lace border them. Color is given by bows that match the toilet. Very old ladies' fancy caps are made on a foundation of stiff net, covered with purls of tulle, lace, mull crepe de chine, and sometimes with black or colored velvet, and made decorative with jet beads. These are really small house bounets in the shape of fauchons, with small or large crowns, according to fancy.

Those elderly ladies who rejoice in the possession of a good suit of silvery white hair, and have the roses of health and the fullness of mature ripe years, are permitted to wear their hair uncovered, a crown of glory, dressed in puffs, braids, curls, frizzes, bangs, or waved Madonnalike over their foreheads, and blended with a pale blue, rose, green mauve or black velvet ribbon. For breakfast they may wear the daintiest bit of old lace or sheer muslin decorated with a black or colored ribbon bow, forming what a French woman would call a capeline and the American a head-dress. 1 saw a paragraph in a country paper the other day to the effect that it is fashionable for young women to PKETKXI) TO GO CRAZY over actresses and to shower affectionate billets upon them, deluge them with bonbons and Mowers and call upon them, and Hatter and make love to them, each dudiae selecting a sweetheart of her own sex on the stage and devoting herself to her. That was in Milwaukee, or some such queer town, and it may be true or bat it reminded me of something a dear girl friend told me of college the other day that seemed to me far more shocking not merely but awfully discouraging to one who loves her sex as I do. It seems that some enterprising German-American gills introduced a purely fatherland custom by which the girls select sweethearts from a mom: their number and pny them court from one end of their schooling tv the other.

In its simplicity the thins may be endurable, although even in Its mildest form the attentions of a masculine lover are mimicked with a fidelity that is too utterly ridiculous lor anything. Sometimes I very pretty or a dashing girl, or one who is considered extra "stylish" is chosen for iiiiKMi ot her class and all the other members vie with one another in showing their devotion through the form of sweetmeats, caudies, cake, jewelry, books, love letters and sighing poems. They even give her private dinners at night, after hours, in one of their rooms. Tins is the custom in its original and bare lonn. 15ut it has grown, lam informed.

until to-day all that goes on among these monkey-like young girls will not bear recital in print. The queen selects a favorite, who plays the part of a beau to no end of exactness, writing ardent letters, inviting her fair one out bungy-riding, and all that sort of tiling each keeping up, without a break, the part she is playing, one as a girl and the other as a young mau. A betrothal ring is given in many cases, and solemn pIMUW not to many are made on either side, but that sort of thing is very mild to what my friend says the strange custom has developed into. My friend said she was the chosen sweetheart of a little set while she was in the gTeat school, She was sickened at the outlet, but she retired from the position when her principal suitor presented her with a pair of trailers set with rubies, accompanied with a burning letter requesting permission to put them on the lirst time. 1 could not help thinking, when my friend a dear, modest girl had finished her story, that after all that has been said against it, co-education of the sexes could hardly prove as deleterious as the system of shutting hundreds of school girls up together, where the good and bad have equal chances to spread their inlkiences.

li.aiußkllk. The Good Memory. Washington Critic. It was at a street residence and the young man had been going often aud staying late until the girl felt the monotony. One night about 11 o'clock the conversation dragged and for a minute or two he sat in a cogitative mood with his hand to his forehead.

"I had something pleasant to tell you," he said, linally. "Yes. 1 she responded, inquiringly, "what was it?" urn me see," rubbing his head; "I can't just think what it "May be it was 'good she suggested. He looked at her for a minute, but never flinched; then he went away, and up to date has not been back. WHY I LIKE IT.

I her play ttic violin. And every motion of her arm, Bencutti her little dimpled obin, Has to my mind a varied charm. To see her draw the resinod how Brings to mr check a happy plow; But theu I think I like It bebt Because It glvet her chin a rest. ST. PAUL.

DAILY GLOBE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 188 a PAGES. THE WOMAN'S GLOBE. Sprightly Bab Relates the Way Some Women Entertain Their Own Sex During Lent Fashions for the Present Spring and Coming Summer Both at Home and Over the Sea. Curious Hage for the Sweet- Sounding Mandolin Which Possesses Society Girls. Dainty Inventions In Xovcl Headgear Gowns for the Little IVople--Frncnients.

voir ncn-BE. It stands before me now a sacred Into Mm soft brown eyes 1 gaze and feel For your dear sake bow easy 'ttvero to Uing Away ambition: to end this useless strife For fame, this endless tolling that can never Such joy as your dear lave. The praise of nations would be naught. Sweetheart, to one fond smile of yours. The highest honors to be sought Or trained would fade at your caress.

For I would have no other thought Save that of your true love. Wealth, honor, fame, all Have lost tbelr glamour since I looked on And loved. The world's cold praise on me would fall As rain drops on tho sea unseen, unfelt. And nil Mriagi else desired would pall Before your smile ot love. Asraln I look Into my darling's face.

Tue laughing eyes a shade more thoughtful seem. And on the lips I plainly trace Such thoughts a- these "Xay, nay, not so I pray weak, aimless lines cau have no place In purest dreams of love. But rather for ray sake go bravely through The path your hopes murk out. and give ma That I a guiding star have brcn to you. I would not, dear, a Circe prove To lure you from the good aud true By artlul snare of love." And I once more grow strong.

For her dear take 1' ll stem the strongest t.d? That bars the way. No road will be too long Or rough, no suffering too bard to bear That me worthy of her song Of fair and sweetest love. AT A DOVE IK. How Women While the Te- diuui of the Lenten Season. My Dear Dorothy: This Lent convinced me of one thing, and that is if women want to have a good time together they can.

But you must choose your women. Any woman cannot make this possible for herself or other people, but with due care in the selection, and all surroundings in harmony, a party composed solely of what the darkeys call "the fair sect" can be very larky. All this knowledge has come to me because of a dioner party of the most charming kind and all women. The hostess was wise and held out as au inducement with the afterdinner coffee a prospect of the men. but truly when the time came there was not any gieat yearning for them, because they nipped in the bud a MOST CLEVEB LITTLE STOBY decidedly rose colored.

(A story is never off color when a woman tells it: it always just verges on the pink.) You are wondering whether this was a formal affair. Indeed, it a party of twenty and all in full dress. Most of the women looked particularly well, for they fully realized that their most severe critics would meet them, and so were gowned with that in view. The dinner was a yellow one. The Mowers and the little shades over the candles were of the real sunshine tint, and accorded charmingly with all the frocks.

Your Mead, Mrs. Lesse. wore violet velvet, very little bodice to speak of. and pearls that rivaled her neck in whiteness. She is awfully vain of that black mole ou her neck, but it certainly is singularly fascinating, making you conscious again and again of the BEAUTIFUL WHITE FLESH all about it You know she tells her husband everything, so I made it a point to say that because of her get-up she must keep all she heard inviolate.

They pelted me with bonbons for this, but it might have been worse. We talked of the men, their goodness, their badness, and thowtxl a decided tendency to linger iv a loving way over their vices. One bright woman, telling of her dinner cards, said that entertaining a lot of doctors, she had tuushroom-bhaped cards, because they spring up in the nigut! Clever, wasn't it. Only two of the women were unmarried, and they had reached an age when they were appreciative, for truly and ingenue or a prude at such a party is a perfect bucket of cold water. It was fun to see them when they did come; they were awfully curious to know what bad hap peued.

You see, we ail looked as if we had been enjoying ourselves. Jack cornered me. but. Doily, I told him everything except the truth. He asked me what we talked about.

1 said we DISCI RKED LENTEN WORKS and ate our dinner, but 1 did not tell him that we talked more about the sins that only go out by fasting and than anyother, and yet you know it was quite proper that we should realize the power of evil. If we saw the tunny side of it, that wu our misfortune, not our fault Mrs. Lisse told this: A well-known man (I think Lenoir. the banker), is very iealous. and though he does not know it there is good cause.

His wife is young, pretty and loving; he is old, ugly and Site has a cousin, the usual handsome, fascinating, poor cousin that Virginia women always have. Lenoir began to 6Uspect something about six months after everybody else had ceased to suspect only and so he offered to get the dear cousin a pnsition in the London banking house. Malame and her admirer had quarreled and so he accepted tiie offer. One thing had to be done, however, and that was to return her letters, as she had written wry compromising ones, and it was only right she should see them destroyed. The cousin was to sail on a certain day, and.

possessed by THK FIKND OF JEALOLSY. Lenoir claimed to have a oold, and never left his wife alone long enough for her to see anybody. However, the letters were given her In a paper novel, but then the worry began she was afraid to leave them anywhere, she could not carry them around with her. aud how should she get rid of them? Weil, she made love to Lenoir. she kissed him and pelted him.

and then induced him to go to the library (where there was an open tire); once there she began to collect papers thet were lying about, circulars, advertisements, and all the dreadful things that come by post to people who are well known. Seated on a stool, just in front of the tire, madame bad all her letters and these pamphlets in her drapery, and she began throwing envelopes in the fire, laughine like a child as they blazed up. calling her husband's attention to the brightness they made; she was men as possible. One after another made a tongue of tire, until the letters were nearly reached, then she feigned weariness, laid her head on her husband's knee, then as if possessed by the spirit of caprice, jumped up quickly, three all the mass of papers from her lap into the fire, just as quickly turned her back to the blaze, threw both arms around her husband's nook, and kissed both "his dear eyes." Wasn't that nuite too awfully smart? All were deatroved, though she had the felicity of seeing one sentence ns it blazed: "How can I live without your love I She probably learned how by this time, but certainly her disposition of tho compromising bits of papaper is quite as good as any in a novel. and and s.m did care a good Bab iv New York bur.

I.O\UO.\ Stem Sympllrii) Hit- Itnle In Inc Novel Style. Some of the new dresses are bo sternly simple that only a practiced eye appreciates their costliness and merit; others so gay and beautiful that a child would clasp his hands in delight at the sight of them, as at the vision of a fairy queen's robe. For Instance, a new mM for a walking dress which 1 saw on Saturday at Mine. Kelly's illustrates the first style to perfection. Its simplicity is something extraordinary.

It is made of black Indian cashmere, having lints in it of black embroidery. The underskirt is perfectly plain and rather narrow, with the tiniest "little plaltiui; showing under its edge. This underskirt is almost entirely hidden by the tunic, which has an opening right from the waist to the bottom. just a little to the left, about a linger from the front. Near the waist, where the tunic closes, then- hi two or three folds, forming a very slight draping; they look as if the material had just been lightly pushed up by a skillful hand and stayed in its place by magic.

The bodice has two points at the back, and under the hand one there are a few more of these tiny folds, a little fuller and more generous. Otherwise the tunic Is perfectly plain, and nearly everywhere almost touches the bottom of the underskirt; the bodice Is plain, but exquisitely shaped. It is practically Impossible to do justice to this dress, which is so profoundly simple, and yet is one of the must beautiful models at present vouchsafed to us. And now for the contrast For its illustration I will describe a dinner dress, so delicate, go serial and fine that the very daylight of this drear climate seems to soil it and it has to be guarded like a precious jewel until the moment comes for its use. It is not a thing of fairyland, as a child would think, for it is real; but it is au exotic, and belongs to au exotic existence to a life in which beauty and exqusite delicacy are possible in the midst of a black atmosphere and an outer world which is never clean.

But it is very nice to wear these things, and never think of the brains or care put into them, or how soon their delicate beauty is gone. This dress, typical of the style 1 am speaking of, has the front of the skirt made of long plaits of cream-colored French lace, of exquisite design and delicate as butterflies' wings. The lace commences quite narrow at the waist, and there is something like a fan shape at the bottom. On each side Is a broad panel of crepe de chine, embroidered in maize silk. Most lovely is this embroidered material, but no more beautiful than itself is the way in which it is shaped to the form.

It looks as if had just been smoothed over the hips and had taken the shape: no seam, no fullness is there; yet the shaping is perfect How this miracle is worked the miracle worker must know, but Ido not It is like looking at the feats of a clever juggler; can only say. of course there must be some way of doing it is not yet it is amazingly like it! The back of the is made of two sets of folds, one of the bliny cream lace, one of rich heavy maize silk, which meet in the middle. These fall away from the waist In the perfect the absolutely right without the faintest suggestion of cushion or steel or any such horror. And just at the waist the material is lightly is much too positive a with that delightful look I have already spoken of. as if the artist had just pushed it up a little to lighten the effect and kept it in its place by a spell or a magic word.

Stitches are inconceivable in connection with this butterfly sort of draping, lor it looks as if a puff of soft air would blow it away as a thistle-down is blown. The bottom of the folds ot the rich maize silk is fringed, so that it looks almost as if this were a sash put on to the airy dress. Bonnets are made in a sort of helmet shape now. and the placed in front rise flame-like from the head. The flowers, which are to be so much worn, stand up on a bonnet as though they grew there, and hold their faces up to the sun as they do in the garden.

No longer is a flower laid upon a bonnet The shapes are very small and lie close at the sides; at the back they are calculated for the hair to be worn high on the head. But a new mode of putting on the strings takes away from the bareness at the back to which they have now become almost accustomed. The strings come from right under the upright bow in front and pass side by side down the back of the crown: then they separate of necessity. and. being taken round behind the ears to meet in front lie smoothly on the upturned hair.

London World. AD BELLES. The Eire-Shaped Instrument That the Uunjo mandolin? it is such a lovely name and such a sweet instrument that no wonder it has taken the place of the guitar and banjo." said an enthusiastic youn- lailv tee other day. have given up my 3 Iv fact 1 cannot bear the sound of twang now that I have become familiar with clear tones of the mand and all the girls in our set are just wild over learning to play The banjo, that instrument of melody which for the last few years has been the treasured companion of almost every fashionable girl, has been relegated to some dark comer of the music-room. Its broken irtTMgS an- mine.

It thrums no longer in fautast melody under the spell of fair fingers, and iv long silken ribbon lies fading and foignUi'ii. It weeps for departed glory like Tara harp. The mandolin, that dainty little instrument the very name of which calls up to memory beautiful maidens of Andalusia with beaming, tender, dark eyes and music in every motion as they strum its strings, ha? become the fashion of the hour. The little egg-shaped mandolin, decked in gay ribbon, lies conspicuously on the piano or a special stand, and is handled with most loving care by the fair owner. The mandolin ia par excellence a Spanish instrument, and is of very aucieut origin.

It was formerly made of all sizes, and had from six to twelve strings, and wa? played like both a guitar and lute. Nowadays it is made about the size of a violin, the bowl being oak. in the form of a half egg-shell, the smaller part nearer the neck, which is arranged similar to a guitar. Four groupes of two strings each nin from the edge over a bridge of ebony to the keys, and a tiny oval of tortoise shell or horn used for playing. 1 Toe beauty of the mandolin lies in its Mike ton.

said a teacher of the in- KtruiuwjL "The strings are all of clear wire, and when touched with the shell give forth a volume of tinkling sounds. Only the treble is played similar to the violin, and the lingering is much the 1 The loudest sounds come when the "pick" touches the string Jost below the soundine circle. and the most flute-like when playsd below the last net "The instrument is not suitable for ac- cmnpanytng the voice." snld a professor of uiiiMc. "but it well on the water and is not at all difficult learn." Tbe prices of these dainty Spanish lutes vary from 815 up to 8200, and although they originated in Spain, the ones are made in Venice, where the tinkle of the mandolin may be constantly heard, for every one in Venice plays it. DAINTY DREkhEN FOR TODDLER Uuinbow-llued -uta for the KUinK Generation.

The quaint old-fashioned gowns, cloaks and bounets worn by little tots during the winter are revived la the new spring costumes, but in all manner of dainty light materials. Hough goods are almost exclusively used for cloaks and jackets, the favorite colors being nuns-gray, "dusty-cream" a purplish-yello chestnut-brown, sea-blue and a new tint of olive. Pure white is extensively worn by little girls of all ages and boys under 4. For girls the favorite way of making the cloaks is to have them reach to the ankles, the skirt being full and box-plaited, with a plain yoke and little friar-hood lined with t'rdit silk. A belt of the material passes about the waist.

Boys' cloaks are made without plaits for spring wear, and are ornamented with large buttons and a quantity of silk braid. A cap of the same material in the favorite polo shape is worn by boys over 5, and broad-brimmed bats by those younger. It is the fashion to put little boys In trousers at the tender age of 4. Velvet and corduroy are the materials for these tiny suits, and they are worn with embroidered waists and flowing hair, a velvet Tain O'Shanter being perched on the head. Pretty bouse dresses for little boys and girls are made out of brown linen homespun, the edges embroidered in brown or scarlet.

Scarlet and brown silken sashes and little bronze shoes worn with them add to the effect. They are verj serviceable. Plain bangs and loose curls are still the most fashionable for small boys and girls. Check silks in blue and white, brown and white and garnet and white are made up IMPROPER CHARACTERS NOT ADMITTED! SACKETT WIGGINS' Mammoth Amusement Palace funinnh imiKpfiipnt arp I US lull fl I UOU I bill I QbU i 94 to 96 East Seventh Street. 1 of Marcli 29, COMMENCING MONDAY.

THE PREMIER PARADOX I THE CULMINATION OFTHE CURIOUS! THE ACME OF ACCIDENT A Bovine Janus that astonishes and bewilders the beholder. G-entle and kind, docile and meek. THE TWO-HEADED COW Eats, drinks, chews her cud and enjoys the esculent comforts of life just as natural as other creatures who do not possess these dual advantages. Bring the children and see this famous Alderney THE FLEETING FANCY OF THE POET! THE LIMPID LIBATION OF LEGENDARY LOVE GREEK MYTHOLOGY REDIVIVUSI This Beautiful Illusion, the most cunning invention ot the scientific a re resents the Classic Nereid rising I rom ie shimmering wave just as she is i I pictured in the tales of the Hellenic Bard. It is an Art Picture, beautiful I as a young maid's dream and ers ie ec or by the simplicity of 8 the environment.

Multitudes who have seen ie Mermaid have exclaimed "How beautiful!" "How is it done!" "Just like a picture "Is she real "Where was she captured Remember, that in the best tion of wonders presented at our mag- i II cent a ace only a small part is ad- IN THE BIJOU THEATORUM! The Glorious old EaglishlPantoini HUMPTY DUMPTY Fpaduced by the femous English Fantomimists, Messieurs ZELTNER and CHRIS TIE. 12 i FOREIGN PANTOMIMIC ARTISTS. 12 The Children's Delight The Adult's Laughing Festival The Funniest of Clowns The Quaintest of Pantaloons The Merriest of Harlequins The Sprigtliest of Columbines! BRIGHT MUSIC HAPPY HITS ROARING FUN Bring the Children and come early to avoid the crowds. 10 cents admits to all Opera Chairs 5 cents. into tasteful gowns for little girls of 6 and 8.

and are combined with plaiu velvet. Some Summer Millinery. Leighton braids will be worn the coming season in the poke and garden shapes. Summer millinery will be adorned with crepe in brilliant tints. Small bonnets are plentier than for several past.

They are no smaller. for the minimum was reached last year. The crowns, which in mauy are deeper in front, rise to half-Normandy tops, with Hat, horseshoe backs. High nnd extremely high crowns are awn with flat tops, rounded corners or depressed tops, and trom square sides to moderately tapering, full steeple tapers, bell tapers and square bell or Grecian slopes. There are multitudinous varieties of brims, but the prevailing idea of last or narrow still carried on.

Brims cut at the back and rising to concave points to introduce back trimmings are the newest, and high back-rolls in many instances cut off sharp are also among the novelties. A number of face hats are observed, many of them showing beautiful and graceiul lines, with medium and extreme deep fronts. The most fashionable reception bonnets are made en suite with the costumes. Velvet bonnets studded with jet beads or with Hat faceted scales are much worn, serving for both the general and ceremonious toilet. Among the new shapes in bonnets is that with the cap-crown and the close cottage brim of plain English split-straw braid.

With the cap-crown there are shapes having the plain MfMl brim cleft in a notch at the top and the brim extending out in an acute point to the right side and curled back. A shape that promises to be popular, which barely escapes the little princess size, has a meloushape crown rising to a point in the center, and the head-piece fitted to this crown. A shape with an ice-cream mold la that of a small bonnet, which rises in the crown to an acute point, with three overlaying pieces placed on each side following the pointed crown in form. and Summer Wraps. All dressy spring wraps are short.

Long wraps will be worn only for traveling and rainy weather this spring. A short wrap in black sicilienne, trimmed with lace and jet shows a loose back, forming sleeves which hang carelessly over a close-titting pointed vest which closes with jet buttons. The back is bordered with deep lace and at the throat is a plaited lace scarf, finished at the ends with jet tassels. This scarf, when carelessly knotted over the bust-, with ends hanging, forms a novel and graceful finish. Some of the mantles are in grenadine with frise figures, and light colored erenadines trimmed with laces same color, lined with self color In silk, form most dainty mantles for dressy occasions during the warm weather.

A real novelty in long wraps that is very effective is made of striped nigger head, in a light fawn shade. The back of the waist very shapely and tight-fighting, finished with two pointed tabs, one of velvet, same shade of the cloth, the other of the cloth. Long straight breadths gathered under these points form the back of the skirt. The front is long and loose, the cloth cut away, showing a velvet strip down the center. Over tins are two seta of bias bands which close over the velvet with large kid buttons the exact shade of the material.

The velvet front closes half way down with small buttons to match. A large turned-down velvet collar with flowing cutfs of velvet finishes the garment. New Fanhtons for Women. Lilac in all shades is to be popular for spring dresses. Broad Chantilly and guipure lace are used lor triumiiug mantles.

Skirts of eilk and wool brocade have draperies of silk or soft cloth. Norfolk jackets have one wide plait at the back and one in front. Silk or mohair braid Is used for finishing the edges of tailor-made suits. Faille Francalse will be much worn for plain as well as elaborate toilets. Ribbon for tennis costumes and hats has bayadere stripes and goldeu tennis bats.

Plain cloth, diagonal and serge for spring tailor made dresses are of light weight. Chenille fringes for mantles have wooden spindles tipped with beads on the strands. Plush bands three Inches in width are used for trimming dresses for spring wear. Moussellne de sole for drapery has pompadour stripes in delicate colors alternating with white. Feather stitching with silk of contr asting color is employed for trimming costumes for early spring.

Iceland serge is a novelty for spring wear. It has a rough surface with shaded stripes of several colors. Plain velvets and those used with plain and illuminated stripes will be used in preference to brocaded velvet. Pekin gauze is shown in tasteful combinations of shades of brown and fawn, sphinx and fawn and pink and olive. Velvet Is used in combination with camel's hair, vicuna, chudda and other soft woolen materials) or with silk.

Sateens, seersuckers and ginghams so closely resemble silk and wool that their cottun origin is only revealed to the touch. Spring jackets of fine straw or checked cheviot are trimmed with cord ornaments, the culfs being of moire antique or velvet Roots, f. loves and Kerchiefs. Shoes and boots are less pointed, but noi square- toed. ill-laced handkerchiefs are again the fashion; it is a pretty fancy to make scne appropriate trimming lor such trifles; a fine crochet with MiKiiardi.se braid makea most charming edging for handkerchiefs.

Silk gloves for evening wear are becoming very fashionable and are worn in England on the most ceremonious occasions. The top of these evening gloves are of lace of the same color as the glove and a ribbon, run through holds the lace in place. Gloves of black suede for evening have the arm dotted with steel or jet beads and an embroidery of them on the outside of the hand. Other gants of black suede have the pattern of the lace arm heavily worked with garnet beads. These may be done to order in any color, but black is the latest for eveuing.

A colored suede glove for the opera has the arm of silk stockinget open worked with silks in cashmere colors and finished with a ruffle of gold lace..