The Saint Paul globe., March 19, 1899, Page 21, Image 21

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CHILDREN'S
EASTER FASHIONS.
They Will Be Very Dainty and Will
include the Short., Saucy
Little Jacket.
Children's pnrtUrn ami children's fetes
will be distinguishing features of Baster
week. Little fashion? are invented for
the little ones and are so made that they
wear them very becomingly.
The reefer for the child >>f 'our is only
to the hips. II ii were open, you would
call it a bolero jacket; but it is closed.
with braid and buttons, and is a warm.
comfortable little coat. It has very broad
revues, with other reveres that turn
back over the broad ones.
This little reefer may be of fine flannel
or inexpensive broadcloth in tan or stone
gray. The reveres arc of a deeper shade
of the same color, with white reverts
ever iht'iu. „_
Little coats are made in many uiiurmi
styles all of them short. For Laater
■vo'u will see vorv les»- of the ulstcre and
the Empire cloaks. Many of the coats
are not quite as long as the hips, *>"* )iro
intended for a protection for the arms
Md KA»TBR PARTY DRESSES.
It is not only the grown people who
have Easier parties, bin the children in
dulge in them as well. This is specially
true in Washington, where children are
very much like grown-up people and
where they follow the customs of their
elders in a most: surprising way. A little
Washington i,'irl told the writer that she
had afternoon tea dresses "just like mam
ma's." and that she owned ten "evening
dresses " She added that she was get
ting a thin d.-ess made for an Easter
party.
This information sifted down and care
fully traced revealed the fact that the
little maid was invited tp afternoon teas
by the children of Senators and Repre
sentatives, nntl that she actually wore
evening dresses. Her evening occasions
were limited to 8 o'clock, anil her teas
took place at 4 Jn the afternoon, after
lessons were over, go that they were not
♦o hurt fill afier a!!.
It is difficult to conceive how, in a city
Ukt> Washington, where nil is precedence
slid diplomacy, a child can help aping
the ways of her elders. Nellie Grant
was the first Washington child to wear
nice dresses and give formal parties;
snd she has been none the worse for it
'v her giown -up years. Nellie Arthur
•vas also a ceremon'ous little maid, and
*he children of the White House to-day—
Mrs. MeKinley's little friends — have
their own good t'mes and arc- enjoying
che prospect of Knster egg rolling the
Monday after Easter, to be followed by
leveral Easter parties.
party dkesses.
Hero are some of thn little gowns
which are to be worn Easter Monday
evening by three little maids of Balti
more, who will entertain twenty of Balti
more's fashionable children at a 5 to 8.
One will dress in a figured mull gown
over a lining of china silk. The mull is
n deep cream, and the figures and lining
tre of shell pink. The skirt is full and
gathered evenly around the waistband,
with as much fullness at the sides and
front as at the back. Around the bot
tom of the skht is a deep ruffle of the
figured mull, and this ruffle has a pointed
THK LITTLE ONES WILL. BE VERY GAY THIS YEAR AND WILI, BE ATTIRED AT THEIR PARTIES IS
•THIN FIGURED DRESSES OVER BRIGHT SILK. MATERIALS. *" E ' 1K i-ak*i^» IH
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trimming at the top, formed in soft lace
insertion.
The waist is a blouse, with low neck
and short sleeves. The neck is finished
with a deep ruffle, nnd a band of inser
tion is set over the band that finishes the
puffed sleeves. Under the waist is a
pretty guimpe of soft, cream-color mull,
with tucked yoke, alternated with Inser
tion ami henistUchiug. The sleeves are
finished with n small ruffle edged with
lace.
The eldest of those little hostesses will
be gowned In oxpensive India silk. Her
skirt will consist of two deep ruffles
trimmed around the edge with two rows
of narrow ribbon. This gown is red,
traced in dull gwn design, and the belt
will be formed of crushed Roman striped
ribbon.
The waist will also be low necked and
short sleeved, with a guimpe underneath.
THE SHORT RKEKER . JVILl .BE i WORN A GREAT DEAL BY CHILDREN
INDEH SIX \ EARS OF AGE-IT Iff MADE OX'V OF VARIOUS
MATERIALS AJ»{.»fiBHAUY OK TWO CON
TRASTING COLORS.
A LITTLE GIRL IN HER EASTER SUIT.
The guimpe will be of tucked silk. The
neck will be bordered with a frill of silk
trimmed with rows of ribbon. Striped
silk stockings will be worn with red kid
slippers.
Tne third little maid will be very
grown up in a. gown of striped organdie.
Her dress is of fine French organdie,
white, striped with a beautiful deep
shade of violet. The skirt has a gradu
ated ruffle around the foot, which extends
tip the front in overskirt effect, and th«
GALA SUITS FOR A CHILD'S BASTBR PARTY.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1899.
ruffle Is connected with the skirt by a
band of real net. Under this gown is a
•lip of the most brilliant turquoise Bilk,
which harmorlizes beautifully with the
purple and rids it of any suspicion of
elderlynees.
The waist has a full front, but is tight
fitting at the back and sides. The vest
is made of striped organdie and trimmed
With bands of insertion running diagon<
ally across each other and forming dia
monds. Falling from over the vest are
plain reveres, put on to give the appear
ance of largo box plaits. The neck of
this little dress is finished with a stock
of lace over turquoise silk, and the
sleeves are gathered in at the wrist upon
a plain cuff.
Purple silk stockings and satin slippers
of the same color will complete this cos
tume.
A little lad who expects to share the
honors of the afternoon will wear a sailor
suit of cream flannel. His trousers will
button around the knees in Turkish fash
lon and he will wear silk socks and pat
ent leather shoes.
The jacket of this little sailor suit will
have lapels of aavy blue flannel and a
broad collar of white flannel, with nauti
cal emblems embroidered in the corners.
The little lad will wear a white flannel
cap and his watch will hang suspended
from a blue silk chain.
THE QUEEN'S LAST DRAWINQROOJW
After This June She Will Gve All Social
Dutie? Over to Her Daughter.
In June Queen Victoria will hold the
Just drawingroom of the season, and
probably of her life, for in May she will
Complete her eightieth year, and after
eighty a woman does not hold many
levees or appear much in society.
The drawingroorn before the days of
Queen victoria was a different function.
ft was given up in the time of George
IV. to revelry, and it was in the days of
Elizabeth and her successors a function
levoid of dignity and devoted to political
aims.
The young Queen on her accession,
lixty-two years ago, decided to make the
drawingroom a formal function, and or
dered it upon such a scale that it should
be a model for English society and Eng
lish society manners.
She changed the style of dress, for
malised the manner of presentation, set
certain regulations upon the applicants
and appointed a court chamberlain who
should enforce these "rules. In this way
she made the drawingrooni the great so
cial force which it i 3 to-day. A woman
who has been presented to the Queen is
denied admittance to no society in the
world.
THE CANDIDATES.
As only three drawingrooms are held
each year by her Majesty, the number of
presentations is limited, and only a few
of the many applicants can be accepted.
To be eligible to the society of the
Queen of England a woman must be un
divorced. She can be married or single,
but if divorced she fiinnot be presented!
This fact has kept many dames of high
standing away from the much coveted
drawingroom.
The applicant must be known personal
' ly or by reputation to the Court Cham
berlain, who will investigate her ante
cedents and life, to ascertain if she is
fitted by birth, education, training and
associations to meet and touch the hand
of the Queen of England.
Finally she must be presented person
ally by some lady who has been pre
viously presented at court and who is re
sponsible in a way for her.
When all these details have been ar
ranged the candidate is visited by the
Court Chamberlain, who gives her a set
of rules which she is to follow. She must
wear court dress with a prescribed length
of train. Her hair must be decorated with
court plumes. She must carry a bouquet
and her arms and neck must be bare ex
cept for gloves and jewels.
The Court Chamberlain furnishes the
THE FASHIONABLE COURT DRESS AS SEEN IN THE DRAWIKGROOH
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A GROUP OF. BEAtITIFI'L. AMERICAN GIRLS WHO WIIJL, BE PRESENT.
ED TO H. sft. H. Q.UEEN VICTORIA AT HER NEXT DRAWIXUROOM.
HOUSEKEEPING IN THE WHITE HODSE.
Gilts Which the Senate and the House Have Presented to White House Ladies
Mrs. Cleveland Asked for a Conservatory and Got the
Finest One Ever Seen in Washington.
The White House ladies, from the time
the White House was built, over a hun
dred years ago, have received each sea
son from Congress valuable and delight
ful gifts which made housekeeping in
the White House very pleasant.
Each year Congress makes an appro
priation for the White House improve
ment, outside of the regular sum allowed
by the Government, and this is used in
purchasing such things as may be needed.
Before Congress makes the appropria
tion the mistress of the White House is
consulted and her taste is nicely followed
in the selection of the gift.
So when Mrs. McKinley desires a
handsome new set of dishes Congress
thinks nothing of appropriating a large
Bum for them, and when Mrs. Cleveland
asked for a conservatory, the rarest and
loveliest plants were brought from all
over the world. Under Mts. Harrison
the conservatory had been enlarged and
improved, but Mrs. Cleveland made it
still greater. She enlarged the private
gardens, added garden furniture and
made out-door spots for the Executive
by limiting the extent of the public
grounds.
Martha Washington qegan it. When
Congress met she asked, 1 through a fam
ily friend in the Senate, that a nice car
riage road be built around to the South
entrance of the White House. It was
then new, and to reach the south en
trance it was necessary to go through
a small forest. CbngresS willingly built
the road and when it ' was completed
Martha Washington took George for a
walk around the White House, that he
might view it. Their conversation on
this occasion is not recorded, but it must
have been a pleasant one. for three days
later a beautiful team of bays came up
from Virginia, and the President's wife
was able to drive around to the south
entrance of her mansion.
In 1818 the White House was new
again. It had been burnt down by the
British and rebuilt, and Mrs. John Ad
ams was the occupant. When it came
Easter day Mrs. Adams went through
her house and found that only six rooms
were furnished. In the East Room
there was a clothesline, and the Presi
dent's linen hung upon it to dry. When
Congress returned to Washington, after
its holiday, Mrs. Adams requested that
the state bedroom be furnished. This
| wag done at heavy expense, tm no»t of
names of firms and persons who are ac
customed to making presentation gowns,
and afted he has departed the plume
woman calls, who understands the plac
ing of the court plumes. There can be
no deviation from the set form; no
change in style or originality. All must
be absolutely correct.
Despite these strict regulations, so
numerous are the applicants every year
that many have to be turned away, or
recommended to the preliminary or
March drawingrooms which fire presided
over by a daughter of the Queen. The
presentation is in itself a very brief affair
for the ordinary young woman. She en
ters the presence of her sovereign accom
panied by a married woman who has al
ready been presented. On entering tho
door both bow so low that -their knees
nearly touch the floor..
THE PRESENTATION.
They then approach the Queen. The
Lord Chamberlain's representative calls
out the name of the woman who pre
sents and the one presented. The former
bows low again, kisses Her Majesty's
hand and the other follows her exam
ple. Then they back away, with their
faces toward Her Majesty, bow again
before reaching the door and then back
out.
The girl who js presented for the first
time must previously rehearse the pre
sentation with the assistance of some ex
perienced persons. Several rehearsals an;
necessary. No earthly disaster could hi
greater for an EnKlishv\oman than to fal]
down or otherwise deviate from the path
of etiquette at a drawing room.
The court dress must be cut low in thp
neck and have a train ten feet long. Con
siderable practice is necessary before thi?
train can be towed around with ease and
grace. On her way to the Queen's pres
ence the debutante carries the train com
fortably under her arm. but once then
she must let go of it.
Before proceeding to the drawingrooni
the debutante always has herself photo
graphed, and shows herself to crowds oi
friends, admiring or otherwise.
The Queen always wears black. Ai
the last drawingroom her costume waf
as follows: Dress and train of brocade,
gauze, trimmed with lace and sequin jet
headdress and veil of Honiton lace, sur
mounted by a diadem of diamonds: orna
ments, diamonds, the Star and Ribbon oi
the Order of the Garter, the Victoria am;
Albert Order, the Crown of India, th<
Red Cross and the Coburg Family Order
the furniture had to be brought from
England.
But the finest appropriation came in
1848, when Mrs. Polk asked for gas.
This was placed in the White House in
that year, apd great crystal chandeliers
were hung in the lower rooms. These
chandeliers still ornament the White
House. When the connections were all
made Mrs. Polk herself lighted the gas
in the East Room.
A very handsome gift for the Presi
dent's wife was received by Mrs. Andrew
Jackson, although it did not come from
Congress. It was a present from her hus
band, and consisted of enough white silk
to make a silk gown, which Mrs. Jack'
son was to wear to the inauguration cere
monies. But alas for the plans of mice
and men — and Presidents' wives! Good
Mrs. Jackson caught a fatal cold, and
died before inaiwiration day, so that the
good people of Washington never saw her
in her white silk gown.
The gifts of late years hnve been, as
the wedding accounts say, both numer
ous and costly. Mrs. Gartield asked for
new furniture. Mrs. McElroy, the sister
of President Arthur, and the lady of the
White House, bought a set of dishes of
sixty covers for a grand state dinner,
about 600 pieces in all. And she also re
placed the billiard tables which Mrs.
Hayes had taken away.
But it was to a White House lady that
the White House owed the billiard tables
in the first place. When Grant went to
the White House there was no room for
a billiard table, and it was owing to Mrs.
Grant's ingenuity that space near
the conservatory was cleared fox a
billiard room. Mrs. Grant also bought
an entire 6et of drawing room furniture
In 1870, most of the pieces of which still
remain. These were made very strong,
as they were intended, to be historical.
Mrs. Harrison had a fancy for plants
and plates. She grew the former and
painted the Jatter. Congress one year
kindly Inclosed a large back Veranda to
be used for an added conservatory an<J
also gave her a very fine set of white
dishes, which she decorated with her
own bands.
Mr*. McKluloy may receive an appro
priation this year ana next, ftod it Is ru
mored that If she gets a generous amount
she will devote it t<j the complete eauip
ment of an Oriental room, whiclj shall {jg
perfect In detail, and carefully carried
out to it* minutest appointment.
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W. D. HOWELLS AND JOAQUIN MILLER IXQtIRE AXXIOVSLY AFTKU
M li . I\ TX*IjIN G*
A HEROINE AT HOME.
An Hour with Mrs* Rudyard Kipling and
Her Precocious Little Ones*
During the past month the eyes of the
whole world have been concentrated upon
those four small rooms in the Grenoble
'Hotel, New York City. where Rudyard
Kipling lay battling with life. There was
little hope, and even those who passed
the door felt it, for the faces of those who
i-\ime and went were very solemn; and a
Jong line of carriages showed that there
;were numerous callers, while a steady
stream of messenger boys carried letters
and telegram*. The postman came each
day laden with messages of sympathy,
and the telephone bell rang from morn
ing till night.
i Up stairs, calm In ike midst of all the
excitement and unterrified by the spec
tre of death, was Mrs. Rudyard Kipling,
the most interested of all those who were
taking part in the great drama of life,
and the least disturbed outwardly,' al
though it meant to her more than lire it
self. Toward the last of the deepest
trouble the messages were all addressed
to Mrs. Kipling and, to the burden of
suffering and care, was added that of
personally replying to everybody. Day
after day she found it necessary to issue
bulletins thanking her friends, and night
and morning, almost to the present, she
has gone down stairs in the hotel and
personally pinned a letter of thanks to
the doctor's bulletin.
The last letter issued was as follows:
"Mrs. Kipling desires to thank her many
friends for their kind messages of sym
pathy and good wishes. She tak.es this
opportunity to do so collectively, as they
are too numerous to answer individual-
Jy." In this brief note is expressed all
the emotion nnd all the thanks which a
woman is capable of feeling for the gift
of a world or sympathy.
One of the recent letters was from the
Princess Louise of Lome; and another
was from the Empress Frederick. The
Lady Mayoress of London wired Mrs.
Kipling, and Lady Randolph Churchill
expressed the wish that the churches of
England would set aside a day of prayer
for her happiness.
AT HOME.
The woman living in the midst of all
this cannot be but Interesting, yet so
little is known of Mrs. Kipling, that the
curiosity of the public has never been
gratified even by a sketch of her. Mr.
iKipling has so bitterly resented public
intrusion of his private life, that he for
bade her to give any interviews, and
Hhe has never up to this time even au
thorized a biography of herseif.
, Small, dark and pathetic in her ead
jiesß, Mrs. Kipling is not a womali who
iWould attract attention anywhere except
for her womanliness. She has a 6woet,
quiet voice, gentle ways and is decidedly
a home woman. There is no trace of
newness about her, and she has never
smoked a cigarette, ridden a wheel, or
belonged to a woman's club.
Brought up in New England, in the
very heart of Yankeedom, she met Rud
yard Kipling through her brother, Wal
cott Balestier, who was a literary man,
and a great friend of Mr. Kipliiig's. They
collaborated for several years, a.nd when,
finally*, Mr. Kipling sued for the hand of
Miss Carolyn Balestier, the delight ojf
ocr brother was unbounded, for he saw
a delight/ul future in store for his favor
ite sister", Another brother, Beatty, was
less, pleasedj for he did riot^ like the
match* bttt as JV|r. Klpliug himself would
taj, "That's another story."
The Kipjings went to live in an old
fashioned farmhouse, gi'tfcen. nUJee from
BrattlebqrOi v£, where tfcey had a most
delightful notoe, |o what Mr. IKipling
called "the great pie belt of Amjrica.
It Is said that ftt that tinje Mr. Kipling
did not like America as a whole, although
he waS Jntensejy fohd of the Brattleboro
people and enjoyed nothing better than
rubbing .flioiilders with his neighbors.
H£ wag .wo*puKt to be sociable, and sel
dofij fyefit fiTit to teas, and never was
known to attend a church sociable. Yet
the people liked him; and Mrs. Kipling
was the most popular woman In Ver
mont.
Then other members of the family be
gan to arrive, and. three little Kiplings—
Josephine, Elsie and John— came along
in quick succession. MfaDwhjle Mr.
Kipling got tired of Vermont arid re
turned to England, taking M> 6 . Kipling
and the fanlily, £nd all the goods pmi
chattels, leaving behind only enough, jn
the Vermont bouse, to make it seem like
home should they ever return.
It is said that when his children began
to arrive Mr. Kipling grew very stern at
hoi&e qjid learned to lay down the pen
In order to properly administer the" slip
per. Mrs. Kipling lived :i quiet, sweet
A SICK HOOM HHHOIMB.
r 1 H
A PEN SKETCH OP RIDVAJII)
life, which greatly influenced her hus
band's writings nud cave him nn oppor
tunity to bring out the beat of h|m4elf.
Those who say that he was gomstimei
"short" at homo add that Mrs. Kipltug
encouraged him in such shortness, br
lieving thnt he could do hin best xvoy'i
when not hampered by the faiuily circlo
When they came, over to this countij
only five weeks ago they brought wltii
them such a quantity of baggage that it
seemed as if they would stay forever,
but Mrs. Kipliug said there was on!\
enough to keep the children supplied fot
a short vigit. The day they landed hero
they all got bronchitis, and when they
were able to bo carried out in tl}e sun
shine of Central Park eight days Inter
they were pale and white, a pathetic llttl.?
group.
Some, idea of the womanly reserve of
Mrs. Kipling's character can be gathered
from the fact that while her husbuud was
lying at death's door with pneumonia, and
one of her children was living only from
hour to hour with bronchitis, she nursed
them all and went through sleepless
nights and awful days without ever once
losing her nerve. When even Mr. Kin-
Hug's publishers broke down, and
Joaquin Miller and William D. Howells
gave iip hope, Mrs. Kipling was cheery
ami determined. As ehe said to the poet.
Stedman, "We cannot hope, but will
keep on hoping just the samo."
Mrs. Kipling is very well educated,
having acted as aianmieosls for her
brother and her husband, and she is said
to know a good story when she hearn one.
The Kiplings will start for England as
boob as possible.