Her Dress Was Conspicuous

You would not suppose that a eostume entirely of black relieved by a few violets wouldbe conspicuous, yet itattracted inore attention than any other toilet seen in the conrse of a long moming's outing f or this season. Tlie young woman who wore it was dressed in widow's weeds, heavily draped in crape from head to foot. Her bonnet, from which depended a long crape veil, was adorned with two bomiets of bright purple violets, one over each temple, and her neck was enciroled by one of the deep bands known as flower collars, of the sanie blossorus. The effect was fairly garish, and every woman in the car and most of the men looked at her with "wonder iind amaze, ' ' which, it is to be feared,