The latest fashionable fancy about the long gold chain is to wear it hanging down to its fullest length in front, and depending from it are a pencil, pen, or any such useful articles that the wearer may like to have at hand. The watered silk ribbons, with steel buckles or slides, have been more used than metal chains this winter for the muff, and they look far better and more ladylike.
DARK GREEN CLOTH GOWN.
[ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.]
By JESSIE MANSERGH (Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey), Author of “Sisters Three,” etc.
CHAPTER XX.
The next morning, immediately after breakfast, Peggy went up to her own room to pack for her visit to the Larches. The long dress box, which had been stored away ever since its arrival, was brought out and its contents displayed to an admiring audience, consisting of Mrs. Asplin, Esther, Mellicent, and Mary the housemaid.
Everything was there that the heart of girl could desire, and a mother’s forethought provide for her darling’s use when she was far away. A dress of cobweb Indian muslin embroidered in silk, a fan of curling feathers, a dear little satin pocket in which to keep the lace handkerchief, rolls of ribbons, dainty white shoes, with straggly silk stockings rolled into the toes.
Peggy displayed one article after another, while Mellicent groaned and gurgled with delight, Mary exclaimed, “My, Miss Peggy, but you will be smart!” and Mrs. Asplin stifled a sigh at the thought of her own inferior preparations.