Minor Fashion Notes

None of the imported dreoses are made to be worn with bustles. The coat sleeves are very close fitting, j and havo small ciiffa, if any. The aprons or overskirts of striped goods siüts areprettier when cut bias. Bright ribbon bows again appoar among the braidR and pnffs of the hair. Baw silk Algerine suiting is appropriate and pretty for little children's costumes. Silks of dark colors, checked with white hair lines, are much in vogue this spring. Iceland wool-erotcheted lace is tho proper thing with wbioh to trim flannel skirts. The pretty capotes or cap bonnets this spring are furnished with strings; which may bo either of lace oe ribbon. Parasols for mourning are made of black silk, lined with thinner silk, and edged with a eidepleating of black crape. Tho newest lace neckties are smalV scarfs of large nieshed cashmere net, edgo with a deep border of cashmere lace. For girls from four to ten, kilt pleated j skirts, very short, with the sailor blonse waists or waistcoat and jacket, are shown. The brocades of this season are in small leaf and vine patterns, showing two shades . of one color, or hannonizing coior. Ties are seeu among the latest importations of brocaded silk, with buaches of flowers embroidered artisticaJly in the ends. Silk or thread stockings, to be fashionable, must be dark brown, pnrple, or blue, profusely embroidered in gay colors. Wliite silk handkerchiefs, witli delicate colored borders, have entirely taken the place of linen ones among the ! able. The fashion of vailing silk dresses with laces, cream or black, grows in favor. The sacque and point are the pieces used i for the purpose.