Ladies' Colume.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 407, 25 February 1904, Page 2

Ladies' Colume.

iASHIONvAND MlMfc i I f**% FEMININE ; *fl ' Bx < MISS ADA MELLBB *[Au* Rights Rbsibvbd,' COSTUME WITH CAPUCHIN CAPE. JKERBE skirt with a yoke has evidently ijJPIb come to stay, and finds particular £&Ls favour with those who object .to uneoessary fulness over the Bips but yet admire a pleated skirt. ' The, special'convenience of the yoke is that it relieves the waist from pleats and keeps the figure as Blim as possible, It is only the slender woman who can carry off with any grace a thick serge material pleated over the hips. The short walking ekirt is sometimes bound with leather, a plan that golf, players like very muoh to adopt and that saves the edge of the skirt from wear, for even the short walking-skirt somehow manages to wear-through at the edge even

though it be protected by a velvet or chenille bind. The outdoor dress sketched in this column is distinguished bv a ~~ Capuchin cape, which. gives a rather dignified touch to the design. The skirt h&s» hip-yoke, and the pleats below are strapped across with glaoe silk or velvet ribbon, in harmony with the.style of the coatee. Blue serge, black cloth, or brown hopsack, would be suitable for the dress, and the cuffs and lining to the Capuchin cape might be of deep red or tan-coloured Sarah silk or bengaline, trimmed "with mixed braid, the ends of the cape being embroidered or inlet with floral guipure. .A? TRANSFORM ATION BLOUSE. When one's wardrobe is necessarily i small, or one is travelling about a good deal, it is useful to have by one a ~ blouse that adapts itself to various occasions. I am giving a sketch this week of an adaptable blouse that suits itself to the purpose of an everybody simple shirt or a rather more dressy, affair. The] two pictures represent one and the same blouse in its dual character. Soft, washing silk, in emerald green or olive green, proves useful as a material wherewith to make the blouse, or of course it could be of black or turquoise glace Bilk if a stiff er substance be preferred. The blouse is made like a shirt, with three stitched boxpleats beneath the centre front pleat, which is either pierced and the slits bound with eyelit stitching, or provided with coid rings, the openings in any case being

for the purpose of threading through them the ends of the neck.tie. In its transformed aspect the blouse. is merely tnrned in afrtha neck and finished with a cape-collar of' string-coloured lace, bordered with "black . velvet ribbon, an independent chemisette of spotted net or laca filling in the hiatus at the neck. Thus you have a complete change is the style of the bodice. The modish lace oape does woniera.ln, improving a simple blouse. A slip of washing si'k, fastening at the back and set with a few tucks into 8 square of lace-insertion may be rendered decorative by means of a lace cape hung over the shoulders and parting in front to show the small tucks which fall from the square of insertion to the bust Line. The tucks are graduated in ; length and set quite, close together,

TOILiST HINTS. , The metallic instruments,' hair-pins, and sojforth, t&at'mariy people itaaert in the ears to clear away obstructions, are, it is said, a certain means of hastening deafness; instead of metal, the corner or a towel, rolled up to a point and dipped into tepid, soapy water should be used, 'For the immediate .removal of matters that distress the eye, a camel-hair pencil, dipped in luke-warm water, ia effeotual. Bubbing the eyes on waking is to be avoided. ; It is a baneful habit. Warts may be cured by the application of caustic.-' Cut off the upper or dry akin of the wart, wet the latter, and then apply tbecaußtio. In a day or two remove ther: blackened part, and repeat the application, and so on, until the cure is effected. - 1% After the teeth have been cleaned, the - tongue should be carefully scraped with V an ivory or tortoiseshell aoraper, every - : morning. ■,--.'. : ' '•',.''