The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1896, Page 23

é; ¢ ! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1896 R — T P R DY ST T THF dances and hops given | \ during the past few days the A\ gowns have been notably pretty, | A J\but I heard the excellent criti- | cism which was made by a bright Kastern woman. She remarked that our | g matrons and debutantes do not take | sdvantage of their youthful beauty and b of the lovely frocks evolved | y, ethereal fabrics. They | ve the superb velvets, satins and s to older women and stately | As I wrote weeks ago, gowns of | r eri in Paris and New | so new and wonderful organdi tely embroidered or hand-painted zes, such as we were taught in child- | d to believe were worn by fairies now beautify the fairest of maids and matrons. To be sure all are made over silk or satin and are far more costly in the end | than the gowns worn by their elders, for e lovely ethereal materials iook like in an inconceivably short space of ¥o As actresses, and especially French | ones, W bably for years to! come set the f ons in many ways, I‘ quote the descript cently by a cel wore a of a gown worn re- in Pa 3 was covered from w tulle, slightly overlapping each other, to the | number of thirty. The bodice was decoliet carre, or square with tulle drapery en bebe back and front, and broad p: the decolletage. The elbow mante. Two or three thi formed a large pufi draped up well on the shoulders and then gathered again into a sep- arate puff, which was attached to a black vel- vet bracelet encircling the arm above the seen under the voluminous shoulder a floral branch gauze poppies draped dine in graceful buds the face. A golden phire _resting on_the ir, a revival of the 1ed some months rn. Wide-jeweled re a young girl was fairly owish satin, fitting perfection. Around her | draped & film of pale blue | v ruffle along the edge. A t the dress was that it e wearer admirab her toilet worth, nt was of a s nore than pass- ¢ crepe texture, | . stripes of light e and white over | k The skixt was without orna- entation and the bodica of blue chiffon th sleeves matching the skirt. A few in 1ibbon were on the waist. iis description sounds simple enongh, | one of our best women here made this n understand why it had r, and besides it was 10 is not only stylish from Paris is cut en lack velvet, the decolletage | finished with three scallops back front. The bvalloon sleeves are of | ivory satin, beautifully embroidered in oriental designs with buttercup yellow | The lining is of the same shade in | ce taffeta. | That the princess gown isito be much worn is an established fact; and if you | possess one, such as was ‘‘the thing” about | years ago, do not rip it up, for as the | sleeves probably to be different from | ly as not panels will be | carrect m the sleeves, so de patient | and next f; ou can probably have your | modiste do ders with a garment which, | at best, would only ms ir | of sleeves if util Great sleeves | are to collapse soon is predicted. Two gowns were noteworthy ferent teas, and were worn by trons who assisted in receiving. sted of One con- rfectly charming waist in d %’een oriental figures | t had a lovely high | lace and two dear little | te satin. On either side two | enamecled buttons completed waist. The sleeves were very long had frills of the lace. Around the | st was a soft crinkiy band of white | handsome ir_ waved and parted, and | | mizht give advice in some c: | ugly nor clumsy, for 1 have not found it | neighborhood of that bonnet ail had an | dently from Paris, was of v | with gold crowns—indeed, with almost a bali clad in rich ivory satin, the rieck of | red shade; the sleeves were of a greenish which was outlined with sable, which also | shade, changing to crimson, evidently the formed a girdle. No other trimming ap- | creation oi a superior dressmaker. peared on the gown which was considered [ 1 noted two Louis X VI coats, one of black one of the most beautiful worn. velyet with vest and revers of plain white Another excellent dress was made like | satin. The other of gray cloth with a the illustration, and was also of brocade, | green silk vest covered with sprigs of a the ground of a grayish green, the rosesin | darker color. many shades of pink. Thelining was of | Miss Wainwright, in the first act, looked rose silk; as you see only a small amount | well in a toilette of pink Dresden silk, cov- of lace trims the waist. It is most difficuit | ered with little flowers; a fichu of tulle to convey any fldeiflnte idea of the beaaty | of the fabric asthe truly wonderful bro- | cadeiol to-day must be seen to be avpre- ciated. A pretty girl *‘poured tea’’ one afternoon | last week, attired in one of the newest | silks, which recailed those worn by our | grandmothers, for it had stripes of green and pink that shaded into gold and violet | tones. It was made with a plain, flaring | skirt and a full, quaint bodice. There was | She next appeared in a frock of soft white crepon trimymed simply with cream satin ribbons. 1t was satisfactory, but not so becoming as the pink In the ballroom scene the creation is donned by Rhc of whitesatin, the flaring sk ¥ plain and the bodice plain also, but re- lieved by the sieeves of a deep shade of cream 1. The hodice laces up the back |'mo collar and the gown opened in V-shape | and between the shoulders wh the for an inch or two at the throat. A fichu | lacing ends was & fluffy ¢ themum of the finest chiffon, frilled with lace, was | exactly matching the eves. xtending knotted at the bust line, the long ends ex- | from the waist line were two long broad tending to within a few inches of the bot- | strings of pearls. [ did not at all care tom of the skirt. At the throat the fichu | the blagk gown in the t.but wh was fastened with a brooch of pale pink | Rose made her last appearance her coral, set in green enamel. | large black one, was b . A pretty woman quite spoiled the effec-| trace Reckford was tiveness of her tailor gown the other day, by wearing with it a little French bonnet and high-heeled shoes. Things should be | in keeping, and with a tailor gown one sociates sensible walking-shoes, heavy | gloves and a proper walking-hat. The stylish voung matron from Baltimore | when attired in tailor gown is a model | which many might copy to their advan- | tage. In the evening she is no less “the | mold of fashion and the glass of form,” | but at present I am speaking of tailor- | made things, which are worthy of our | consideration, for most of us find one such | £own, at least, a necessity every winter, as only when so clad can we face the wind or rain without loss of style. I cannot but wonder that more women are not helpless invalids or in their graves | when [ see the number who insist, at all ing ' paper- Such soles do not even pro- | tect the feet from the cold ground, much less from dampness. However, physicians and all the sensible people in the world without a particle of effect. I only know this much, that at one time I wore the thinnest o1 soles and had delightful colds and neuralgia; | now I have neither, but my shoesare never | & hat, necessary to wear hideous shoes in order | to have proper sol | This week I give illustrations of two | waists. The low cut one is, as you ob- serve, made very simple, as it depends on the beautiful trimming for its air of nov- elty. The trimmingconsists of a mingling, | apparently, of pink pearls and emeralds, | strung on a thread of gold. Of course | they are imitations, but very satisfactc ones indeed, and are vers ing as they do over the w i he satin and ab: The other is of pearl gray s 1a deep collar effest of red velvet, over which is appliqued costiy lace, making a reaily chic waist and a very usefnl one as well. The wearer is a bright-faced demi-blonde, with dancing brown eyes, so the red isa welcome touch of color, which reminds me that on Monday evening I went to the Baldwin Theater and saw Marie Wain- wright. There were any number of women present attired in light waists, the usual skirts, and the bonnets and s were of all kinds—good, bad and indiffer- ent. One of the swellest bonnets was worn by a striking brunette, and was of a rich red | velyvet. A narrow band of the velvet stud- | ded with fine rhinestones rested on her hair; about an inch and a half further back was the soft velvet crown. In front arose an admirable white fluffv aigrette. The pink and pinky-pink hats in the old faded look. A handsome bonnet, e: Ty unusuaily fine jet, quite the best I have ever seen. A | few choux of lace and two or three exqui- | site yellowish roses prevented it from A BRAIDED trimmed with a full frill was becoming. | | | which foliowed the Defender to victory | late_date will be heard the clicking of to bave a coat-of-arms made to order, thus laying themssives open to ridicule, as jt is a very easy matter to ascertain whether or no_one has the right “to bear arms,’” and 1t is no longer in the least necessary to send East to have en- graving or die-cutting done, as I have found the work ‘done here equally good and very considerably less expensive. A crest alone may be used alone, but arms and crest should go together, or the shield of arms may be so used alone. The motio 1s not a part of the coat-of-arms, but it may be used when de- sired, and any one can adopt a new one. | Of course many families have had the same for hundreds of years, while in other cases it has Leen cbnuged almost every generagion. g All of us blessed with sweethearts or wives will be kept well supplied with golf stockings, as the knitting of them is the very latest fad of the “smart set,” and amusing as it may seem ‘‘at the polo matzhes and race meetings, the fair specta- tors, while they cheered their husbands and sweethearts on fo victory, are busily engaged in knitting them “golf stock- ings'" at least such 1s the state of affairs at Hempstead, Long Island, and on all the steam yachts and club steamboats there were numbers of charming women who knitted, knitted all the time, so at no needles at Burlingame. It 1s correct at the present moment to wear brown underwear, the most brilliant of ties, preferably red. In the shape of ties and scarfs there is but little change, bowever, now that men tie them them- selves. There is welcome air of originality and many men select their ties from sam- | a soft vicuna of a bluish-black. | and looser than last winter, the principal EVENING ples and have them made to order, but the best dressed are conservative and select dark grounds with raised but inconspicu- ous figures. In Eugland the newest and one of the favorite overcoats is & paletot, which is . of It reaches a little below the knees. It has a velvet collar, is double-breasted, is loose apd does not fit closely upon the hips and is not intended for afternoon wear. A Chesterfield should then be donned. They are only a little bit shorter difference being that the collar is now of the same material as the coat. Perhaps one of the smartest-looking and most use- fui of overcoats is ihe covert one. The short little ones worn some years ago are agoin fashionable. They must be an inch | | | | | | | | GOWN. being in the least stiff. There were bonnets with silver crowns, every kind of crown you can think of; but very many of them were far from new. | One refreshingly dainty hat was of white | was lined with an artistic shade of silk. Frenchy conception, the skirt being of ond act in a pale grayish crepon with a | longer than the lounge coat worn under- blue satin stock. The frock hung well and | neath. as it is now considered in the worst | The lines themselves are most wonderful ; Mlle. Marina Martin appearad 1n a really | trude. possible s »style to have the under coat pro- These coats are loose and single- breasted. Numerous poc are out of | good long bres | might read “Hear Tommy Atkins Sing tin, of which material the skirt wascom- | chenille with three or four short black os posed. | trich plumes. Another, worn by a girl in be other had a long-tailed basque of | a sweet little waist of fluffy blue chiffon, the lightest gray brocade, covered with a | looked Jike the wings of some large brown black figure. It was cut square in front | bird. They were perched on a pretty only, and had avest of gray crepe and | brown head with excellent effect. vers of white satin. At the back of the| As for the waists, well, several of them | < was a large bow of black satin and | merited the adjectives frumpy and dowd Lace also fell over the bands. The | About those I have nothing to say, except- irt was enormously full and of the most ’ ing that I trust they may soon be con- deiicate shade of gray crepe. The ripples | signed to the ragbag; but there were sev- round the basque were lined with white | eral fresh and fashionable. One of corded eatin, and three small black ostrich plumes | white silk was well embroidered in jet; were perched on the right shoulder. | another had the body of pompadour siik of A statuesque girl was lately observed at |2 greenish hue covered with roses in a duli yellow satin and the waist of the same, cut | fashion, as are also large flaps, | low with a V-shaped vestteffect embroid- | London tatlors seem to ered in torquoise-colored beads. Great bat- | to make some change in our evening £0ats, like bows stood out from each shoulder of | 80 they are trying to reintroduoe a fashion black satin, and long gioves of black suede | in vogue there during the sixties, that of reached her sleeves. | lining such coats_with cotored 'silks. A Virot has been sending to America | New Yorker just from London has one of many bonnets for evening wear, and | cashmere melton lined inwhite sk, ehoy almost without exception they are of | fad will, I predict, not last long. tulle, in combination with gold and jewel | The latest nmbrellas are of the finest embroideries and feathers. - Beautiful | silk possible and the steel stem wonder- | aigrettes are seen on most of them as they | fully slender, so that when rolled they | seem especially suitable with talle. | look like walking-sticks. Their handles One of the most beautiful and youthful | are absolutelv plain, of nataral woods. of firnndmothers to be found anywhere | Crooked handles are preferred. looked unusually handsome to-day in a | George Curzon, the member of Parliu- Paris bonnet.of green velvet and black jet. | ment who has just married Miss Leiter, is A fanciful border of jet rested on Ler described by one who knows him well as determined | | Thought": 77 = o577 % ‘A GRACEFUL WAIST FOR A YOUNG LADY. masses of white hair. Next came crown of jet. At the left side was a bushy aigrette, which rose from a knot of velvet. The green emphasized the beauty of a | compfexiou many girls might envy. I am delighted to be able to inform you that the newest veil is of plain black tuile | illusion, “with a border, all around the | four sides, of two rows of narrow white | lace.” s | Hats for mourning wear arz usnally small, with a small brim. Veilsare always worn with them. Those among us who enjoyed “The Amazons,” recently given by the Lyceum at the Baldwin Theater, will remember | how much “Tommy” was praised for his | cleveracting. I always thinkof the manly | manner in which she jumped the fence | and smoked her cigarettes and wore her | jaunty coats, indeed in every play given | by that company Miss Tyee gave promise | of better things, so I am pleased to be | able to chronicle the fact that as the up-to- date society woman in the “Home Secre- tary’’ she has made a decided hit, and as a natural resuit is being much interviewed, but more about her anon. She is a bonny Southern girl and is surprising all by her rapid advancement. The Presidio hop was a success. Many bright stunning girls in dainty fresh frocks were present. As a natural result that rosy little urchin with his feather-tipped darts played sad havoc with the sons of Mars. = Many congratulations have been offered ever since the announcement of the H. H. engagement, and aithough B. H. is not a rince he is a representative of one of the gest families to be found anywhere. MaxcELLA. RESE A TR FOR MEN. Those who pay attention to social ethics must now all be aware that letters must be sealed, not gummed. Those who have the right to use coats-of-arms usually doso, and others who have inherited no such privilege should use their monograms, There have been some amusing in- i the |a frank-faced young man with delightful green velvet, slightly puffed, and then the | manners, which make him very popular | with the women. His strong point lies in | years. | descendants living—seven children, thirty- { stances where persons have paid being able to convey an impression of Possessing a discretion far beyond his C. C. Victoria's Descendants. A laborious ger.ealogist announces, as the result of years of minute labor, that the Queen has had nine children, of whom she has lost two; forty-one grandchildren, of whom eignt have died: and twenty-three great-grandchildren, all of whom are living. She has, therefore, sixty-three three grandchildren and twenty-three of the next generation. Her next eldest xgreat-grandchild, the Princess Feodore of | Saxe-Meiningen, is now nearly 17, so | that in all probability her Majesty 'will | live to see her grandchildren’s grand- chilaren., Few English sovereigns before Queen Victoria bave seen grandchildren grow out of infancy; and none ever saw a great-grandchild. "Hence, her Majesty had 10 determine the question of precedency in the case of the Duchess of Fife's children, and she wisely decided that they should rank only us daugbters of a Duke. This decision was in accordance with a House law decreed earlier in the reign, by which the title of Prince and Royal %igh- ness is limited to the children of the sovereign, and the children of the sover- eign’s sons, the children of the sovereign’s daughters taking precedence only in accordance to the rank of their fathers. Thus the Princess Helena’s children rank as children of Prince Christian only, while the Duke of Connaught’s are Royal High- nesses, and Prince Arthur of Connaught's son and successor, if he has one, will be the Duke of Connaught, as an ordinary Duke, taking precedence merely by dafe of the creation of his dukedom. This is now the case of the Duke of Cumberland on the roll of the House of Lords, though | only of the earth below, but the heaven he is styled Royal Highness asa son of a King of) Hanover.—Th: Gentlewoman. —_— e ALMA E. Kerrs, leading milliner. Specialty, fine mourning bonnets and toques., 24 Kearny street, 808 Murket street. . BAB TALKS ON HIGH AAT, The Observing Woman Writer Admires Its Develop- ment, SEEN ON THEATRICAL POSTERS. The Unhappy Lot of Those Children Who Live in Boarding- Houses. NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 189. — No- body ever accused me of being de- voted to high art. A study that showed a mauve lawn, a green, sky, a bright scar- let rock and two yellow ladies with white hair—I say ladies because they both had petticoats on—was once displayed to me, and I'was told it was called “Love and Death.” You could take your choice as | to which was love and which was death, but each of the yeliow ladies looked sea- sick: the result probably of gazing too long on that purple grass. The young man who showed me this picture said it was one of the finest examples of high art that had ever been painted. Then I was convinced that high art and I were two. Hence my liking for art which is ordinary and common. Some years ago, longer than I like to remember, I used to stand on the street and admire art as developed on the fences and also on the ash barrels. It is true it was crude. The first appearance of the realistic poster was made about two years ago, | when an enormous fence was covered by | a procession of perfect ladies, whose shapes | were exquisite, whose faces were fair, and who were, evidently, believers in health 1 costume. They told by exampie that the greatest health was gained by the least amount of clothing. But this was a fine picture. Up to the time the aver- age ballet girl had been represented with enormous calves, a twelve-inch waist and forty-two inch shoulders. The result was artling, not pleasing, and the looker-on might have called the pictured person any- thing but a woman. However, the new school painted a magnificently shaped woman. Itistrue she was Juno and not Venus, but her foot was in proportion to the size of her body, and, while she rounded in at the waist, she did not pre- sent an unhealthy look or impress you with the idea that she could not take a L. That affiche measured, I sbould think, at least five yards by four. | The consequence was it could not join | my collection, but I used to go and look at it, and one day when I was gazing a man, also a gazer, told me all about it. He said: “This is tpe finest picture of women in a group that has ever been done, and | the reason it's good the women are real women, real women in more sense than one. Not only real in appearance, but these women exist, and ‘each one was hosen a little slenderer than the o1 before ber so that the proces- sion might be effective in contrast. After the women were grouped the artist had models of them made in wax, and | from these wax models the poster was painted.” From that time on I had more respect for them, but soon I noticed there was a change in the poster. The afliche began to represent a young | Jady with a thin face, green eyes, burning red hair, clothes that were fired “on her | with a pitclifork. and sihe caressed either a | rabbit, or a bunch of lilies or a red u 1 breila. Nobody knew what it meant. This | Titian-haired young female might have written under ber “Go and See the Gay English Girls . Po-Night,” or the sign the Patriotic Songs of His Native Land,” or her only explanation might be, *‘Buy the April Tuner! It Is Just Out.” You never knew what she meant; she had to expiain Lerself always, and the explana- tory letters were very (ueer in shape and very odd in color. When the magazines began to send around these deligntful and most artistic posters, then there was joy, because one could always bully one's news- | man into giving them away. By the by, isn’t it curious how the inter- est in Robert Louis Stevenson has con- tinued? To be quite honest, I care for only one of his books, but there seems to Lave been something more than charming about the man, for women who have never .seen him shed tears, hitter tears for him. He fought so hard against death; he seemed to have found so much | in lite that was good that it wasa pity he could not have had more of the life which he drank as eagerly asif it were the finest Burgundy. But the beok? It is none of the learned ones, it's none of | the tales of adventure, and yet it is the one Ilike. It is called “A Child's Gar- | den of Verses,” and it is quite as good for grown-up children as for little people. | the pictures are joys, and, well, if you want to know exactly how good it is, T will quote you one whole poem called “A | Tt 18 very nice to think Tne world is foll of meat and drink, With Jittle children saying grace In every kind of Christian place. Then here’s another. Short and sweet. t is called “The Whole Duty of Children,’’ and if more children were raised on it there would be more better behaved ones in the world : A child should elways say what's true And speak when he Is spoken (0, Ai:d behave mannerly at table, At Jeast as far as be is able. These verses are so much better than those Lorrid bocks about the angel chil- dren who trot around and say impudent things to their elders under the guise of religion. There’s Fauntieroy. He was | lovely in a book, but I should like to bo reserved from living with children who now such an awful lot, and who are so beautiful, so meek and mild, and so very ready and willing to run the affairs, not above. Speaking of children brings to my mind G BA e T boarding-houses. I often wonder why there hasn’t been an addition m———————————————— N’EW TO-DAY. @’ PERRPVIRIRIRERRRY PEUPRF PR RORF BAEEEBESEEAEE 0B ERL LT & Whose loss of beauty is the despair of their lives, and a torture to their souls. T offer special ®FOR ONE WEEK '5fr 2zecisl @ for personal office treatment on wrinkles, @ freckles and facial blemishes. Impover- & ished skin restored toits ‘vonthml freehneu o @ and the plain face made beuntiful oncd @ @ more. My best tostimonial is my own face. 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There are boarding-houses that are worse; but what I cannot understand is why women who kept homes of their own comiortably seem to lose all knowledge of how to live when they keep boarding-houses, They seem to think that everybody is to be treated with suspicion, and that children and dogs are to pe regarded as cumberers of the earth. and glad to share it with a If he happens to be living, she to him except in a scornful vhen you first know her you y for her as she talksabout her lazy men are, d hints that she would be in the poorhouse if it wasn’t for herself, and then she advises you, with a quiver in her voice, never to marry. After a while you discover that the little man the one she promised to obey, that he has a good ion and is so steady that the town It hasalways appeared to me as if there set by him, bwt that she keeps was money to be made in keepitg a board- | boarders because she likes what she ing-house proverly; that is, giving good | calls a lively house. If vou happen to rooms, neatly cared for; good food, prop- | have a large mail, she utilizes her hus- erly cooked and served, with an additional | band by getting him to inquire at the post- treatment of human beings as if they were men and women, and not merely boarders. The better a house is kepf, the more money a woman can make through it; but the average boarding- house keeper does mnot look at it in that light. If the unfortunate boarder happens to be a woman, &he is credited with a desire to do some- thing wrong from the moment of her ar- rival. 1f she wishes to retain a particle | as to whether there is anything against you,and she has a pleasant way of conversing with your friends about you pending your arrival in the parlor, and though you never know what she does say vou fear it is not pl at, as you discover that the people she cultivates don’t seem to cultivate you after that. But the children! Poor little wretches! Double p: i dropa ball o complained of. because they are going a1r, they are too noi tice are v happen to lsugh nt into the fresh If they skip once own father, aged 75 she happen to poss to her bedroom. If a number of books she must submit to their being smeared | or twice instead of walking with great by the young woman who pretends to dust | regular they are rough. And if by them, and by having this said to her|any chance they should be taken sick, about them Brown, I knew you | wouldn’'t m I lent a few of your | books to Mr. Robinson, who don’t feel | well.” The few lent are certain to be | first editions that she specially prized, and as weeks go by and they are not returned, then the landiady does give her opinion of them. ‘Bothersome, nasty ibi eat twice as much as anybody else and alw in the v and get sick and gloomy.” The only child ed in a boarding-house is one that is deaf and dumb and unable to wal And yet most of us were children once. e trundled hoops and threw balls and ped rope, and plaved battledore and tiecock, and were experts at jack- and we laughed and we skipped, ometimes we screamed, and screamed v loudly, but we had agood time. And the right of every child. Fancy 1 one room all dey and look < when vou were a boy. Fancy n one room all day learning vhen you are a girl. And twins, baving your Now, darlings, walk she summons up courage and asks the Te- Mr. landlady about them. She doesn’t member ever having touched them. v skip 8 shut fuss about books, cheap as they are.” If she happens to dress well the other boaid- ers are doubtful as to where she gets the money to pay bher biils. If she don’t dress well they feel sure that she is gaving mon and is too stingy to make We cent, and then the landiady hints that she has always had stylish people in her house beiore now. Of her 1t must be said that she is not born a boarding-house keeper, but she as you can, else the lady who drifts intoit. Sne speaks of her husband room below will complaini’* ~ Hor- if he is dead as “one of the b Suppose that had been your child- who wa3 nobod. ¥ hood! 1fit had been mine, the result who if he did would have been terrible. Bas NEW TO-DAY. A THE B. & . 0IL HEATER Is a Stove you can | depend mpon ; mo | _ofor, no smoke ;| handsome and | practical. We sell it for §6. 1t eosts vou no more than the flimsy “‘just- as - good” Kind. | Come and see it in | operation or send | for a cirenlar. | Shipved to any address on e ceipt of price. THAT BIG CHINA STORE— A Quarter of a Block Below Shreve's. WANGENHEIM, STERNHEI & CO., 528 and 530 Market St., 27 and 29 Sutter St., BELOW MONTGOMERY | Sole Agents for the Maggioni Kid Gloves. EHBROIDERIES! EMBROIDERIES! EMBROIDERIES! Are what we are going to talk about THIS: WEEK, and we won’t have to say much, but just ask you to call and inspect _the largest invoice of Em- broideries that we have ever shown. THOUSANDS 0F TEW PATTER That surpass in Style, Qual- ! ! ! Largest Corzet Honse in America. Just received, a large inveoice of Genuine premigin O SNNCCRTEE | ity and Elegance of Design known Corsets in the world. | anything evershown in pre- Ssa | <B vious seasons. They com- -4 | ; | prise: R g | EDGINGS, e, S INSERTINGS, FRE- 13 ALL-OVERS, a3%8 cal FLOUNCINGS, K] S DEMI-FLOUNCINGS ek 5 AND SKI s $SER N o s CAMBRIC, HE2E g4 NAINSOOK, PR ch INDIA LINEN AND B-55 2= SWISS, 3E8% | 53! Al of which we are offer- Bspd 3] ing at the Tae leal BB < £5.4 = LOWEST PRIGES. H w§ ] L7 derme Ty R : E ;,5 2 You can verify this state- Country Orders Promptly and Faithfuily Filled. ment in a moment when A3~ Catalogue sent free upon application. R~ Parcels delivered free 1o Oakland; Alameda and Berkeley. Make No Mis © in Our Address: M. FREUD & SON, 742.744 Market St. and 10-12 Grant Ave. THESUCCESS OF THE SEASON THE LADIES' GRILL ROOM ——OF THE—— PALAGE HOTEL, DIRECT ENTRANCE FROM MARKET ST. OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT, you call at our Embroi- dery Counter and see the greatvaluesthatare being shown. MAIL ORDERS receive our prompt and careful attention. Samples of Embroideries mailed free upon appli- cation. NEWMAN & LEVINSON 125, 127, 129, 131 Kearny Street BRANCH STORE—742 and 744 Market Street.