The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-20
r,.rn x.ouise KELLOGG ON Cosofs "''1
Music.

,oMr talk with the belle Of the s,ratcs about
q GOOD NOD clothes. As the young lady Is pretty
coli known in America, .suppose 1t is not
;nde,,rate to tell you tbGt he.. name Is Miss
ci,ra Louise Kellogg. Mis- kellogg Is Ia
mons for being one of tie most correctly
dressed young ladies in america. SO, as tue
,housands of young kafIies promenadrd 10
,he;r careless trampup and down the baeony
and through The ,3roSd halls. we held run
uioc talk ON the subject of ladies' dresses.
The first young lady to pass was MISS -,
Of Philadelphia, a short, blonde young lady,
dressed IN a black dress with low neck anu
short sleeves.
There, Miss Kellogg, how about that
toilet" asked, pointing tothe short, thin,
pale young lady in black.
"That toilet IS all wreng,' replied MISS
Kellogg ssIp the first place, short young
ilady should never wear allow neck, especially
with 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
| dre,s but no neck or arms. In fact, the
effect is an empty dress hung up against Tue
wall Now. if she stood against dirk wall
rn,, wo,,,d see what would look like big
dol,s head and arms hung en- nail. Ihe
dress would disappear. II person wears o
INV neck. she should have her dress nearly
thc color of the neck. doing away with TINS
| terrible contrast, and preventing the sharp
line around the neck. Then the neck shouid
br filed in with white illusion or pale gauze
| TO soften the line between the skin ana tne
dress. GauZe or lace shades the white OF the
| neck and the brown of the dress, ana makes
| an accord, not harsh note"
"But we are talking about coiors, Miss
Kellogg, not music" suggested.
ayes, but the relations between coiors
| and m,,S:c-beiween The eight notes OF the
sc,Ie and the eight coors Of the rainbow Il
call white colon are wonderful. We have
the eight notes arranged in oc'aves above
and below. We have the eight colors ar
ranged in ocf:yeS above and below. White
in color corresponds to the highest note i'll
music. and black to the low bass. We raise
an octave in music by putting in more vbra-
ton by dlluting the sound. We raise an
octave in color by putting in more white
that is, BY diIuting), and when we have
raised several octaye> The red becomes pink,
the yellow straw.coor, and the dark green
becomes pca.grecn."
THE SYMPHONIES.
"But how about the symphonies in music
and color Z" a>keJ.
"Ah! there we have my idea beautifully
illustrated" exclaimed Miss Kellogg, enthu.
siastically. "When l mix several crude
notes from different octAvcs | produce a
symphony or harmony. When you mix
several crude colors you have symphony
OF one color. Mix blue ard red and you
\ hYv
blue and yellow and you have a symphony
green; mix red and white and you have a
symphony
just then young lady from Louisville,
ky., passed by, all dressed in red aud blue
and yellow and white. The Louisville
Young ladies all run to bright coors.
There |" continued Miss Kellogg, I" that
Young lady is wearing the crude notes of the
natural scale. No symphony, no harmony,
not even chord. How much more agree.
able to the cultivated eye all these colors
would be if they were mixed together. Mix
the red aud yellow and blue and white in
proper proportions, and she could have the
lovely pongee, or slate, or dove color, or
Bismarck brown or sage green--all lovely
symphonies"
A tall lady from Portland now pressed by
with little short man from Boston.
A DGsCoRD.
"Tbat is discord," continued Miss KEEL.
logg, fixing her eyes on the ill.mated pair.
4" Why will tall women forever get with lit.
tie men, like Parepa and Rosa? Why will q
yellow. haired girl wear blue dress? Why
will IL sandy old man dye his mousache
black? Why will the ashy pale woman wear
red? Why will the red-faced woman wear
wbite2 Why-why why!! Mr.. Perkips?'
81 will give it up, Miss Kellogg" l said
"I never could answer conundrum."
81 know" continued the prima donna, ait
is because they have no eyes or ears. The
golden.baired girl should wear golden
comb, she of the raven hair black, and she
OF the silver hair white. Let there be no
discord; and If there is bony neck, like a
| few bady.written notes in piece of music,
! cover it up. Cover up the bones; and il
! YOU weigh ton don't wear low.neck dress
and look us if you weighed a ton and u
| half"
"Well, what shall tell all the young Ia.
dies for you, Miss Kellogg5" L asked.
| "Tell them to wear symphonies in color.
If they are pale, wear white symphony d;
if they ale rudy, wear dark symphony
but always let the symphony in the dress
harmonic with the symphony which Ged
| has made in her of the lily face aud the
golden hair, in her OF the ashy, sandy face
and the gray hair, and in her of the dark
| brunette face and the black hair"
Then went right up to my room, washed
the dye out of my mustache, took OFT my
blue necktie and buff vest and checked
trousers, and when came down all dressed
hat, coat, vest and trouSers-in dark mul
berry, Miss Kellogg said was the best look.
iug man in Saratoga, barring Henry Bergh,
ELI PERKINS.