Crêpe Lisse Tie. A SCARF of ficelle-colored crêpe lisse a yard and a quarter long and six inches deep is used for this tie. The ends are deeply embroidered with colored silks. Antique Lace Squares. THESE netted guipure squares, which form pretty toilette cushion covers, or can be used in combination with linen or silk squares for other purposes, have a ground that is netted with cream flax thread, into which the pattern is darned with colored silks and gold thread. Standing Collar with THE very deep standing collar is covered with close folds of crêpe lisse. The short full jabot at the front consists of two strips of crêpe lisse sixteen inches wide and five deep, which are bordered with lace across the lower edge; the upper edges of the two are connected by a narrow lace beading inserted between them, drawn. together by a ribbon run through the beading, and fastened on the front of the collar. Corsage Trimming. THIS trimming for brightening the front of a dark corsage is of light-colored feather-edged ribbon and white lace. A high straight standing collar is made, covered with folded ribbon veiled with a flat band of lace, and fastened under a bow of the ribbon at the back. Attached to the front of the collar are two revers made of the ribbon folded in shape, connected by a flat band of guipure lace down the middle of the front, and terminating under a ribbon bow. At the side of each revers is a folded scarf of white fish-net, consisting of a piece of net eight inches long by sixteen wide, which is pleated underneath the collar at the top, and gathered at the lower end to the back of the revers. Late Summer Toilettes. THE toilette shown in Fig. 1 is of mousseline de laine with a cream ground dotted with red, with which some plain cream wool is used in combination. The full straight skirt is of dotted wool, with a pleated panel of plain wool in the right side, and draped by upturned pleats on the left. The CORSAGE TRIMMING. CRÊPE LISSE TIE. belted basque has a pleated vest and revers of plain wool, and full sleeves gathered to a wristband of plain wool. A narrow belt is around the waist, and a deep linen collar is worn at the neck. The long morning or travelling cloak shown in Fig. 2 is of Suède and brown crossbarred wool. It has loose fronts, an adjusted back with full pleats in the skirt, and pointed cape sleeves that reach to the bottom of the cloak, where they terminate in a fringe. The cloak is trimmed with brown open mohair braid that is underlaid with brown silk. Fan Photograph Frame. See illustration on page 653. THE card-board fan which forms the basis of this photograph frame is faced with light brown leather on which a spray of Kensington embroidery is executed in colored silks. The oval opening for the picture is rimmed with brass. A narrow roll of bronze plush surrounds the edge. A similar fan covered with satteen is fastened against the back, and this is provided with a brass wire stand to support the frame. Basket Stand with Embroidered Cover.-Figs. 1 and 2. See illustrations on page 653. THE COver thrown over the open top of this pretty basket stand consists of a square of plush, one diagonal half of which is peacock blue and the other olive. The two colors are separated by a band of embroidery. The embroidery is worked in a Venetian point pattern on an olive cloth ground in colored silks and gold. The details of the work are shown in Fig. 2. The outlines are defined with laid gold cord sewed down with invisible stitches of fine silk. The filling in of the figures is worked in a variety of embroidery stitches, which are accurately represented in Fig. 2. The colors comprise several shades of olive, blue, brown, fraise, and terracotta. The cloth ground is cut away from around the outlines of the design, and various parts of the pattern are connected by brides. or bars which are worked in buttonhole stitch with silk. This open embroidery is underlaid with oldgold satin, and then fastened on the plush square, which is lined with satteen, finished with cord at the edges, and has acorn tassels at the corners. A plush scarf is draped around the centre of the stand, and the handles are trimmed with tassels, THE MOST PALATABLE FOOD! THE MOST NUTRITIOUS FOOD! THE MOST DIGESTIBLE FOOD! THE MOST ECONOMICAL FOOD! 25c., 50c., $1.-At Druggists.-Ill'd Pamphlet free. Wells & Richardson Co., Burlington, Vt. FELT BRUSH ADJUSTABLE CLEANSER AND POLISHER. Fancy Dyeing Establishment. BARRETT, NEPHEWS, & CO., 5 AND 7 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK. DYE, CLEAN, and REFINISH DRESS GOODS and Garments without ripping. Send for Circular and Price-list. IT was Lord Byron who declared nothing more distinctive of gentle birth than the hand, and that it is almost the only sign of blood which aristocracy can generate; although the poet's prejudices may have been strengthened by the assurance that Ali Pacha would have known him anywhere for a great personage by the smallness of his hands. But it is not small size alone that gives the hand beauty; shape, color, and texture are points of even greater moment: and, despite the poet, care can generate these points equally with aristocracy. Antony's friend tells of the silken touches of the flower-soft hands of Cleopatra's gentlewomen. "I take thy hand, this hand, as soft as dove's down, and as white," says the lover of Perdita. And Tennyson paints Aphrodite "with rosy, slender fingers." The Greeks had formulas reducing the hand's outlines to rule; but we recognize loveliness without formula, where the wrist is slender, the shape long and narrow, the skin white and soft, and the finger-tip rosy and taper. Gower sums it all in singing "When she weaved the sleided silk, With fingers long, small, white as milk." Most of this loveliness can be cultivated by daily use of fit toilet appliances, especially of any ointment or delicate soap that quickens the pores and the oilglands, thus securing whiteness and elasticity, and destroying discolorations. The shape of the hand is always characteristic. Lavater told Goethe that passing the velvet bag, during the offertory in church, looking only at the hands, he became convinced of the individuality of each giver. In Titian's portrait of Paul IV., the talon-like fingers could belong to no other than a grasping old man. And from the hand that Vandyke loved to paint, a dreamer might reconstruct the whole nature of the idle court of the Stuarts, as Cuvier or Agassiz could give us the creature from the bone, the fish from the scale. From this idea has risen the science of palmistry, which pronounces the taper finger-end to be the idealist's, and inseparable from high development. The Roman woman, who never wore a glove, knew well the value of the hand as an adjunct of beauty, whether displayed on harp or lute, or in that gesticulation of which Cicero spoke as the subtle devices of the fingers, which Ovid forbade to thick fingers, and which was carried to the extent of making pantomime a language taught by masters. Great actresses use it as a vehicle of expression. Mrs. Siddons, studying the carved Egyptian gods, learned that the arms hung by the side and the hands clinched told intense feeling, and Rachel in Phædra portrayed passionate self-control with the same gesture. If then such capacity slumber in the hand, it is fitting the hand should be kept at its highest excellence. The women in history, famous for beautiful hands, are few; idleness and luxury alone will not produce this beauty, and the medicinal soap that will produce it, by freeing and opening the vessels of the skin, is a modern invention. Yet Anne of Austria, who ruled France for her magnificent son, Louis Quatorze, and led great ministers captive, did it with a hand so white that men were proud to kiss it; and Poppæa held the heart of Nero through the enchantment of her hand, as Vivien with spell of waving hands bound Merlin in his forest sleep. But in poetry the lovely hand is always beckoning. How exquisite is the charm of Iseult of the White Hand, in the Arthurian legends; and how fondly Romeo sighs over the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand! What jewels send their glitter down the ages from these beautiful hands! Who, looking at Darnley's still treasured troth-ring with Mary, Queen of Scots, does not see the ghostly fingers that interchanged it, or at sight of the blue enamel and onyx, which the dying Essex sent Elizabeth, does not shape from its ashes again that long hand of the Virgin Queen, who, when Raleigh wrote with his ring on the window-pane, "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall," answered with her diamond signet, "If thy heart fail thee, climb not at all!" It is ungracious to speak of beautiful hands to those whose hands are disfigured by roughness and vulgar redness, chaps and fissures, thickened and scaly skin, shapeless nails, painful finger-ends, and unsightly stains, unless prepared to suggest relief or prevention. But in days when everything resolves itself into advertisement, one fears the charge of undue preference or gratuitous notice in making such suggestions. Yet among the various nostrums used, none have yet been found satisfactory; for glycerine has proved a positive injury, since, with its affinity for moisture, it dries rather than mollities. Palm-oil, which enters into most French cosmetic soaps, is so easily decomposed as to be dangerous; tar is sufficiently irritating to create cutaneous diseases; the various brans are trivial; cucumber juice is nonsensical as June dew, and almond emulsion has proved a delusion; most if not all known mixtures are either inert or owe their activity to the disguised presence of mercury or other mineral poisons. In fact, the only trustworthy purifier and beautifier of the skin, tested by every resource of science and practice, has proved to be the Cuticura Medicated Toilet Soap. This marvellous skin beautifier, and toilet, bath, and nursery sanative, contains, in a modified form, the medicinal properties of Cuticura, combined with fascinating flower-scents, and is absolutely free from any corrosive or dangerous substance whatsoever. It soothes, whitens and softens, absorbs all poisonous or irritating elements, destroys scales, redness, and tan, and with its own delicious odor imparts a velvety surface and shell-like transparency. Purifying the pores, and invigorating the glands and their tubes, this exquisite agent furnishes outlets for the effete matter which otherwise creates eczema, rashes, and inflammations, and is thus a preventive of all eruptions, blotches, and sores, while its continuous action on the natural lubricators of the skin, aided by occasional use of Cuticura itself, keeps the surface soft, flexible, and in the pure and perfect tint of health. Under its effect the working-girl's hands, or those accustomed to roughening acids, or to the handling of arsenicstained paper, may become and remain smooth and fair, and while its use is a luxury, it is still so potent that one marvels if Lady Macbeth would have cried out, "Not all the perfumes of Arabia will sweeten this little hand," had she known in her day of the virtue and strength and sweetness of Cuticura Medicated Toilet Soap. inches wide: made of fine polished wood, and, with its bright metallic pegs or markers, presents a very attractive appearance. When the daily order for the store is to be made, a glance at the tablet shows just what is required. Price 50 cents, postpaid. H. H. WHITE, 65 Duane St., New York. good taste, &c., without charge. Circular references. Address MISS A. BOND, 280 4th Ave., N. Y. City. PURCHASING AGENCY Established 1875. M. DECKER, 113 East 14th Street, New York. Ladies' and Children's Suits, Wraps, Underwear, Millinery, Boots and Shoes, Hosiery, etc.; Gents' and Boys' Suits, Hats, Caps, Furnishing Goods, Underwear, etc.; Silks, Dress Goods, Cloths, Curtains, Upholstery Goods, Housekeeping Linens, etc.; Laces, Ribbons, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Hair Goods, Leather Goods, Trunks, and thousands of articles too numerous to mention. Every article guaranteed as represented, or will be exchanged or money refunded. Goods delivered Free of Charge (under certain conditions) at any express office in the U. S. Applications for Catalogue, enclosing Six Cents for Postage, should be sent in AT ONCE, as this edition is limited. H. C. F. KOCH & CO., Sixth Ave. and 20th St., N. Y. City. Cuticura A POSITIVE CURE Disease PIMPLES to SCROFULA. KIN TORTURES OF A LIFETIME INSTANTLY SKIN OF Ath With CE real Skin beautifier, and a single application of CUTIOURA, the great Skin Cure. This repeated daily, with two or three doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, the New Blood Purifier, to keep the blood cool, the perspiration pure and unirritating, the bowels open, the liver and kidneys active, will speedily cure Eczema, tetter, ringworm, psoriasis, lichen, pruritus, scall head, dandruff, and every species of torturing, disfiguring, itching, scaly and pimply diseases of the skin and scalp, with loss of hair, when physicians and all known remedies fail. Sold everywhere. Price, CUTIOURA, 50c.; SOAP, 25c.; RESOLVENT, $1. Prepared by the POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., Boston, Mass. Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases." PIMPLES, Blackheads, chapped and oily skin pre vented by CUTICURA MEDICATED SOAP. DRY GOODS FROM NEW YORK, AT Mail Orders promptly and LOWEST PRICES. carefully filled. full the ELECTRO-SILICON ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE. 18 on each box. THE ELECTRO SILICON CO., 72 John St., New York. 1784. BARBOUR'S 1887. Street, FLAX THREADS. NEW YORK. soups "Cerealine Flakes" is infinitely better than Maccaroni, Vermicelli, Italian Paste, Sago, or Barley. It is more convenient also. It needs to be placed only in the tureen and have the hot soup poured over it before serving. The ease with which "Cerealine Flakes" may be prepared in many forms surprises those who use it. The "Cerealine Cook-book," containing over two hundred carefully prepared recipes, and a pamphlet on "Cereal Foods," illustrated with twelve original engravings of "Hiawatha's Fasting," will be sent to any one who will mention where this advertisement was seen, and enclose a two-cent stamp for postage to the Cerealine M'f'g Co., Columbus, Indiana. "Cerealine Flakes" for sale by all grocers at twenty cents a package. HARTSHORN'S SALE ACTING Every Genuine Roller has the name of manufacturer, DRSCHILLINGS Bridal Outfits. Infant Wardrobes. Ladies' Suits and Underwear. LADIES who are unable to examine our stock of these goods personally, would find it to their advantage to correspond with us. The most complete information furnished, and careful attention given to special orders. Lord & Taylor, Broadway and Twentieth St., N. Y. SILKS IN NEW YORK. Black and Colored Gros Grains.....85c. and $1.00 Le Boutillier Bros., "PARTED BANG" Made of natural CURLY Hair, guarnteed 'becoming to ladies who wear their hair parted, $6 up, according to size and color. Beautifying Mask, with prep'n $2; Hair Goods, Cosmetics &c., Osent C.O.D. any where. Send to the m'fr for Illust'd Price-Lists E.Burnham, 71 State-st. (Cent'l Music Hall) Chicago |