Although we are obliged to keep in mind the old saying "Ere May is out ne'erchange clout,"" we nevertheless are thinking of our summer garments. Coloured linens will be very popular both for sluts and coats and skirts, the rerers of the coats are mostly: turned "back with tucked muslin with lace insertions, this carried out with cither duck-egs, gre-n, or butcher-blue linen looks most delightfully fresh, worn with a white muslin shirt, which, by-the-bye, ae most elaborate in design,—in fact iv is hardly truthful to call them "shirts" for they ate all so elaborately tucked and befrilled, The muslins this season are 80 into, with dear little sprigs yy to carry you hack to the di out great-grandmothers, and rumour says it will nol be very long before we shall think it quite comme i fant to have our waists just under our arr musliny are certain!
Skirts are getting The Tyranny of Tears, Mary Moore, who plays the leading role (which is the part of assiily, society person), can hardly walk she is obliged to resort to a little mineing woddie which is far from graceful. It makes your head tired thinking of how they get into the skirt, whether it fastens the front or on either side, for there is no suspicion of an open anywhere but.
of course, on the very fashion is gerated. © Canvas is to be the this summer. A much finer make that which was worn two season in fact, coarse makes of any mater quite démodé: the cloths are very with a beautiful finish, they are made in all pale shades, as we are only to wear very delicate tints—no more hard greens and blues that make your head ache—greys and stones still to be worn; either colour is most useful for coats and skirts as you are able to wear any coloured shirt or hat with them. Have you heard of the wonderful new. material Tronganil" Glystre which has the effect of moire in all colours iva mixture of grenadine wer coloured zephyr, ssu of course needs no lining. It certainly has the most wonderful appearance for 2s. a yard. Muslin ties are asks himself how these things find a place, quite the smartest. kind now worn, and every year the' question romains they are mostly trimmed with. Valen cionnes insertion and lace, but some unanswered. " Someof thecrottes displayed this year are positively ludicrous, but are beautifully embroidered; they are not there is no rival to the extraordinary made very long. The best hare the pointed statue of Balzac exhibited by M. Rodin ends, others are made long enough to go twelve months ago. This statue, it will be round the neck twice and then tied in the remembered,, was generally condemned as small sailor knot which is so much in resembling a polar bear far more than a evidence. A very pretty fashion is now human being, and its perpetrator found it being worn by a few. On large picture hats, necessary to withdraw it into honourable a thick fold of chiffon is fastened to the retirement, the Balzac monument com-hat at the back, rather more to the right mittee declining the responsibility of side; it is then' carried down right round erecting the statue in the place appointed the neck and is brought down to the bodice for it. The commission was handed over to on the right side where it finishes ina large M. Falguidre, the result of whose Inbours rosette. For a young face this mode is most is now visible in the Salon, just at the picturesque and pretty, but let all others time, as it happens, when the preparations Beware and Forbear. for the centenary of the great author's birth are being carried out. M. Falguidre courageously represents Bulzac's great, un-
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