Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-22
FASHIONS AT SARATOGA.

FASHIONS AT SARATOGA
How they Dress at the famous Wa
,E tering Place.
Clara Louisa Kellogg Preaches on
C6lors and M,tsic-We Primo
M Donna Astonishes Ell PERKINS,
ID Msrcd Toilets.
\ sxnxxoe4. Aug, a. =Lass4evenine
/ I had a long talk with the belle Of the
States about good clothes. AS the
young lady is pretty we'll known in
America, I suppose it is not lndelicate
to tell you her name is Miss Clara
Louisa Kellogg. Miss kellogg is ia
nous for being one Of the most COR
rectly dressed young ladies in Ameri-
ca. Soas the thousands of young ladies
promenaded in their ceaseleSs tramp
up and down the balcony and through
the broad halls, we held a running
talk on the subject OF ladies dresses.
The first young lady to pass Vas
Miss--of Philadelphia, a short,
blonde young lady, dressed in a black
dress with low neck and short sleeves.
There, Miss kellogg. how about
that toilet?' l asked, pointing to the
short, thin, pale young lady in black.
THAT toilet is all wrong replied
Miss Kellogg. "In the first place a
shortyoung lady should never wear a
low neck, especially with IA black dress.
The low neck only cuts the body in
pieces. 1t breaks the line. Now
look at her there" continued Miss
Kellogg, "as she stands away across
the room against the white wall. You
can see the dress, but no neck or arms.
lu fact the effect is an empty dress
hung up against the wall. Now, if
she stood against dark wall you
would see what looked like a big dolls
head and arms hung on II nail. llhe
dress would disappear. If q person
wears II low neck, she should have her
dress nearly. the color of the neck,
d,ains with this terrible contrast. and
the the neck. fiT fiTbsas sif fls s'frnk fnrsnek Should be
filled in with white illusion or pale
g,.,,ze to soften the line between the
skin and the dress. Gauze or lace
shades the white of the neck and the
brown of the dress and makes an ac
cord, not u harsh note
but we are talking about colors,
Miss kellogg, not music" suggested.
Yes, but the relations between
colors and music-between the eight
notes Of the scale and the eight colors
Of the rainbow { c.ll white u coor>
are wonderful. We havs the eight
aotes arranged in oc ayes above aad
below. We have the eight colors
arrangel in octaves above and below.
White in color corresponds to the
highest note in music, and black to
the low bass. We raise an octave in
music by putting ia more VIBRATION
by diiuting the sound. We raise an
octave IN color bv putting in more
white (that is by dilatiny) aud when
we have raised several octaves the red
becomes pink. the yellow straw color,
and the dark green becoms pea-sreen.
THE SYMPHONIES.
"But how about the symphonies in
music and color?' | asked.
"Ah! there we have my idea beauti-
fully illustrated" exclaimed Miss
Kellogg enthusiastically. "When |
mix several crude notes from differ.
ent octaves l proIuce "a symphony OF
harmony. When you mix several
crude colors you have Il symphony ,oI
one color. Mix blue and red and you
have a symphony-you have maroon;
mix blue and yellow and you have a
SYMPHONY green; mix red and white
and you, have symphony-pink."
Just then young lady from Louis.
vile, Ky, passed by all dressed in
red and blue AMI yellow and white
The Louisville young ladies all run te
bright colors.
There" continued Miss Kellogg
that yonng lady is wearing the crude
notes OF the natural scale. No sym.
phony mo harmony - not even q
chord. How much more agreeable te
the cultivated eye al these color,
would be if they were mixed together
Mix the red and yellow an blue and
white in proper proportions and she
could have the lovely pongee or slate
or dove color, or Bismarck brown o,
sage green-all lovely symphonies
A little child now struck IL few notes
on the piano.
See! that child is playing red and
Blue and Yellow exclaimed the pri.
ma donna, children and savage>
like the crude eight notes and the
crude eight colors unmixed ana dis
tinct. Educate them, and they iik
symphonies in music and colo.'. Sharl
lines disappear rs they do in the rain
bow. or as they do in the coloriug OF
the marble, each melting into the
other, and steIlias Little Of the other
| Tree. .rrow tlin at the euce and melt