Daily inter mountain. [volume], January 06, 1900, Page 12, Image 12

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THE
BEATRICE
FASHION
LETTER
The girl of 1900.
She is the debutante of course.
You will know her this season by her
wide open eyes, for it is not the fashion
to be fat and the thin faced girl is alwajs
the girl with big eyes. |
You will know her by her shiny hair for,
having just emerged from the nursery,
speaking figuratively, she has had time
to groom and brush and brush again, un
til her hair shines in her'first season ^s it
will never shine again.
You will know her, too, by that trails- '
parent red in her cheeks. Kouge is never
transparent. It has a thick look put on
ever so artistically.
You will know her by her manner, for
the debutante is not nervous, and she is
woman of the world enough to keep her 1
poise. She has been drilled for years
for just this one supreme moment. i
In a crowded room you will know her,
by her gown. The regulation first sea
son dress, this early part of 1900, is round
ing in the neck with shoulder straps, '
brought up broadly over the arm ami;
fastened on top with a buckle, or with
windmill bows. The bodice is straight
and long as for a beanpole woman; the
skirt is straight but it stands out with a
fullness of its own created by that which
is underneath, by the ruffles, the many
skirts falling over each other, and the rip- 1
pling petticoat.
Her sleeves-may be long the debutatne's
and if it is her first evening out they will !
probably be so. Miss Wilson, one of,
those famously pretty Wilson girls of,
London wore a diaphanous dress of tulle j
and mousseline de soie. The corsage was!
draped. The skirt trimmed with draped!
ruffles. From the shoulders to the !
thumbs the sleeves swept down in one
long beautiful unbroken line of taffeta
over which was gathered the tulle.
Around her pretty, neck hung a string of
pearls. Tears for a debutante. Strang*
choice!
Miss Rothschild who was to have come
out in London In a magnificent way made
her debut in a plain little derss of blue
crepe de chine, that soft material they
are always trying to supersede with their
newer ones. It was of turquoise blue with
a decorous little ruffle of white chiffon at
the neck. The sleeves were knuckle long
and pointed at the thumbs, inside the
wrists there showed tiny ruches of chif
fon. She wore no jewels for she has
brothers'-in-law and cousins in' the Boer
war and the Rothschilds are patriotic.
Siie wore not even piarls so that ihe time
honored custom of presenting each girl
of the family with a pearl upon each of
lier birthdays, in order that she may have
a string to wear at her coming out, was
violated.
. At the debut of Miss Parsons, one of the
new beauties of New York's new season,
one of the guests, herself a debutante,
wore a bodice of snow-white Liberty sat
in. The skirt was of mouss: line de soie.
Around the foot of the skirt was a deep
ruffle of white lace with roses set In.
This s ttirig In of flowers in lace Is a
proiess which is not as difficult as it
sounds, but which produces an effect that
is wholly beautiful. The flowers! are made
of silk and slightly stuffed t > make them
in relief. It red .1res some art to make
a' siik rose f 'om plain silk.
This can t done in a very simple way!
by choosing lace with roses in pattern.
Piters of silk, in pink and red are «-t
under the lace ms ■*. making wem stand
out apparently in relief.
There is another way to sew roses in a
gown. Ruses of velv.-t are slightly sta -
led ar.d arc sewed fast to the silk or vel
vet after which th material is cut away
underneath making the rests a part of,
the fabric. ' !
Wherever you see the debutante she
will look like a flower. Goethe's exquis
ite "Thou art like unto a flower" is ex
emplified in real life for the fair new girl!
of 1900 looks exactly as though she were!
picked off a bush. It may be a rose, or!
it may lie a gladiolus or it may be a vine'
of which she reminds you, but you will;
surely sec the flower in her.
The pretty fashion ef sowing colored silk!
under the flowers in a lace pattern is saidi
to be entirely new. New York dress- i
makers, who know so much, declare that!
it is new to them. It would be interest
ing to know if it has ever been done be
fore. If you wish to experiment buy a
piece of lace with big roses in the pat
tern. cut out pink satin, exactly the size
and shape of the lace roses, tack it un
derneath in an invisible way, and the
flowers will look exactly like natural ones.
At Miss Crocker's debut one of her as
sistants chose a very charming way of
raising a neck which, to ner mi no. unac
customed, might have seemed too low.
Her gown was of pale gtwan satin crepe,
with long sleeves but low cut corsage.
The corsage was bordered with pale silk
fringe. Around her neck the preity de
butante had drawn a scarf of chiffon
edged with fringe and had knotted it at
the bust front, allowing the ends to fall
almost to the floor. As her figure was
tall and slender the long hanging ends
added to her h .ght and style.
Tulle is striped with baby ribbon for the
debutante. The beautiful shade of yel
low tulle which is made up over white
taffeta is striped by running the narrow
est bands of white baby ribbon through
the tulle, in clusters of three rows each.
The bodice is trimmed in this way, and
the skirt. You would declare it to be a
new and beautiful kind of satin striped
diaphanous material.
Ribbon, too long neglected, plays an
Important part in all evening dresses. You
see it gathered on both edges and sewed
in pattern-shape upon dresses of panne
velvet.. Stuffed rosis make a ponderous
and impressive, but becoming trimming
for panne. The roses are appliqued to
the material and are stuffed to make them
set out in relief. They are caught down
slightly in the center to make them look
more natural.
You picture the debutante us always
dressed in a ball gown, ever wearing a
conventional smile, ever at her mother's
side, with the eternal bouquet in her
hand. Yet she has other guises.
There are times when, her pretty neck,
or » all curves. becomes very long and
rigid. Encased In the armor of fashion
cf 1900 it is a different neck from the one
you had scarcely dared to admire on that
evening when, fresh from pinafores, it
was adornahle.
The neck of the girl of 1900 is cloth
ed with a stiff stock, which, if she be a
tailor-made girl, exfend right to the
ear*. It is a great concession to softness
If It roll a little at the top.
The stock of the tailor-made dress does
not have the ear points of the house
dress. It is high and tall and straight
and it fastens Invisibly. The very new
est ones curl slightly at the top and are
edged with a stitching or trimming almost
as severe as the stock itself.
Her neck is made longer by the style
of cutting the neck of the dress low, thus
making the collar as deep as possible.
They are aitnching these stocks to
gowns of a contrasting color and are
making many stocks to wear with one
gown.
The stocks are fastened on by hooks
which are invisible.
At the root of her throat the girl wears
that very latest of neck ornaments, as it
is the oldest, a brooch pin. How she gets
it. now one knows, unless she has been
down into grand-mother's chest in the at
tic or has been permitted to take her
choice from the family jewel cabinet; but
she wears it.
They are s. fling these miniature
brooches at very low cost but there is
something about them which seems lack
ing. Sentimentality and all those things
that go with a miniature can not be
bought so cheap.
There is a pretty custom in some fami
lies of allowing the debutante, on the day
of her debut, to take her choice of one
jewel from the family jewel chest. Fori
months before, the girl studies her selec
tion. Which shall it be. that bangle of
old silver with the turquoise set so cun
ningly in a pendant to dangle over the
fingers and afford a study at an embar
rassing moment. Or shall it be that quaint
old brooch, with its three rows of semi
precious gems, around that odd old agate.
She will probobly decide in favor of the;
bangle.
I know a woman who each season looks'
over her finery, selects the trinkets she no
longer wants, cleans them carefully and
lays them snugly away in her jewel cabi-1
net for the next generation. That which;
they lack in intrinsic value she is sure
they will gain In interest, by the time!
they are wanted.
Among the new tilings which the girl
will wear there may be mentioned fringe, i
No Indian squaw ever gloried in the fringe 1
which will be worn by the girl of 1900. i
And she will wear ruffles: many and |
many of them will twist and curl around;
her feet and upwards to her knees. j
Her latest diess for day or evening will i
be petticoatcd. The tunic will part in j
front and the petticoat p°ep out. But!
such a petticoat! The Miss TVilson of -
whom I spoke has one of white satin, j
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The Princess tunic Is of black satin cov
ered with a tracery of white silk braid
with tiny white snow-flowers stuffed and
appliqued to the material. The tunic Is
sable. This elegant gown Is a reception
dress and the tunic has a train, exactly
one yard long. Ah me, that a debutante
should be so burdened! ■ ;
The glrld of 1900 is getting into the long
cloak as fast ns she can. She calls it
her automobile. It is three-quarters long
it is loose, almost baggy. And they 1
whisper that one girl wears her brother's
tan colored spring overcoat for her auto-j
mobile coat. AH are double-breasted and '
button with big pearl buttons. !
She Is a novelty, the new girl, because !
there are so many new things for her to ;
wear! BEATRICE. I
ÎHE SEASON S SNAKE STORY.
Occasionally a sailing vessel' malJcs a
slow voyage because something gets
wrong with her sails or spars. Then
again she may have adverse . •Winds. or
be for a long time becalmed. Ifr the
strange experience of the brig' Resillta
do, however, lately In port from Port
Spain, neither of these conditions wàs to
blame. From the time she weighed' an
chor on her voyage to Philadelphia 1 the
weather was good, and stèadV trade
winds prevailed from a favorable tjuar
It Is a very lovely part of Trlrftdad
where the Resultado received iher cargo.
A wild coast afforded scarcely h safe'har
bor for the Resultado even during the
few days the weather remained 'good.
Natives stored the coeoanuts in the Jiold
and the crew had little to do.
On October 1, one day before the Re
sultado weighed anchor, the first man on
d:ck in the morning made a singular dis
covery. He hurried back into the cap
tain's cabin and informed him that there
was a snake on the mast. Captain Smith
accused the sailor of being drunk and or
dered him out of the cabin. But the
sailor stuck to his story and the skipper
went on deck to investigate.
He found twined around the main
mast an immense serpent. Captain Smith
thinks that the reptile must have been
about a foot in diameter. The crew
quickly assembled on deck and gazed at
the monster with fear and astonishment.
It was apparent that it must be dis
lodged. ar.d how to do it was a puzzle. It
was suggested that the reptile be shot,
but an Inventory ot the firearms on board
showed thorn to be limited to a thirty
two caliber revolver in the captain's
pocket. He discharged the weapon a
great many times at the snake. Those
manifestations of hostility were greeted
by hisses and the snake clutched tighter
to the spar.
Captain Smith was In a quandary.
Sailing day had come and he had to go.
The crew weighed anchor a,ml started to
get up sail. Then a. new difficulty pre
sented Itself. Sail could be made all
right on the other masts, but not on the
one where the snake reposed. So tightly
had he wound his colls about it that the
rigging refused to run through the
blocks,
The men were afraid to pull too hard
for fear of bringing the reptile down on
their heads, so the novel spectacle was
afforded of the Resultado sailing away
on her homeward voyage without a rag
of canvas set on her mainmast.
The Resultado. unable to get up all
her mainsail, made a slow run. The
captain said that the presence of the
reptile cost him at least ten days' delay.
For two weeks the crew despaired of
ridding themselves of the reptile. Occa
sionally they would pull a rope on which
his body rested and he would respond in
a manner that showed he was very much
alive. His muscular contraction almost
cracked the spar. Deliverance was at
hand, however, and from an unexpected
quarter.
October 19 a tremendous snowstorm
arose. For some days the weather had
been growing colder, and the snake
seemed to be in a torpid condition. When
the cold weather began he weakened, and
when the first flakes fell on him he sud
denly unloosened himself and fell with a
mighty splash into the ocean.
Captain Smith says he had a good op
petunity to observe the snake before it
struck the water. He thinks that its
length couid not have been under thirty
feet. It disappeared instantly and was
seen no more.—Philadelphia Times. v
BOWLDER MONUMENT.
Chicago Chr-nlcl?; An add monument
will be sliipp d from Bar Harbor, Maine,
to this city soon, win re It will be placed
above the grave in Rose Hill of William
B. Howard, who was one of the pioneers
of Chicago and a millionaire.
The memorial is a bowlder taken from
the Mt. Desert Hills. It weighs about
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100 tons. Is conical and will not be dress- !
cd other than to have Mr. Howard's name 1
carved upon it.
The decedent built Mossley Hall, the
finest villa in Bar Harbor, some years ago,
and wa 3 the most lavish entertainer of h s
time. He was a contemporary of the
late John DeKoven, and was one of the
first railroad builders of the west.
PATENTS GRANTED.
Hero of Alexandria, in his "Fenumat
i, s " describes In the third century before
Christ, several applications of steam as
a motive power, some of which have form
ed the subject of patents within the last
100 years. In particular, his "Eeoloplle"
Is on very much the same principle as
the steam turbine, which is the most re
cent development of the marine engine.
for In both the steam acts directly upon
fans, Instead of through a p'inton. In
glass ornamentation several processes
known in Roman times, and subsequently
lost, hvae been revived under patents
within this century particularly the art
of incrustation, rediscovered In France by
a manufacturer who used It in executing
medallions of the first Napoleon. The
method of fixing paintings by an applica
tion of§tlaB8 was also known to the Ro
mans, and has been repatented since 1800.
In excavating the Roman town Calleoa,
in England, recently, an iron screw of
undoubted Roman origin wa* found with
thread and point similar to a well-known
modern patent.
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