Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-12-18
NILSSON'S LEATHER BREECHES.

The Masculine Costume of the Silver
voiced S0ngstress---A Shad-bellied
Coat and No Petticoats. "
Olive Logan's Letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
| , met Christine Nilsson, the silver
voiced songstress, one day last week at
the Langham. She was. calling on her
devoted friend, the. beautiful Mrs.
Brown, of Leeds, certainly one of the
most strikingy handsome women Of
our times, a magnificent pianist and q
worshipper at the shrine Of the peerless
| Swede. Christine and Mrs. Brown
(pity she has not q more romantic
name) spent part Of the summer to-
gether at Scarborough, and then Nilsson
went to Leeds and paid Mrs. Brown a
visit of q week or two Sothern hap
pened to be playing at the theater at
the time Git was just before his illness,)
and they went to see him act. Their
carriage was blockaded by sight-seers on
the way, to such an extent that they
were an hour doing ten minutes
drive The attraction of the beauty of
Leeds, Mrs. Brown, and the great
Swedish singer, was too much for the
curiosity of the people, and the whole
town turned out en- masse to catch q
glimpse of them.
have already written you of the ex-
traordinary fashion in dress Nilsson has
taken up. Her winter costume is even
more masculine. Pray, fancy an exact
coat made Of diagonal cloth by a tailor,
in every respect Except suitability to q
| h
cutaway tails, or, as it is called in old
fashioned parlance, the shad-bellied
coat. 1t buttons across the breast, and
under is seen the WaistcOat to match,
with the usual vest-pockets, across
which the watch-chain is slung. Stand
ing shirt-collar, plain starched linen
shlrt-front, necktie, with horseshoe-pin
stuck In tit only needs the neat little
side-whiskers to make the horsey get
up complete. gs... $50 49,
Naturally, the below part presented a
difficulty in the matter of assimilation
to the masculine model; but Nilsson has
| found her way out to her own satisfac-
tion-and Mrs. Browns. She wears no
petticoats whatever; but buckskin
breeches. And over these is q plain,
untrimmed skirt of plaid or gray goods,
50 tightly drawn backward that her
lower limbs are almost as clearly de-
fined as q mans are in trousers. A
tweed hat, or a beaver, is the headgear
For evening dress the all-black broad
cloth, with white tie, is assumed; for
morning and travelling, a rough pea
jacket and skirt of coarse texture. 49,. -
| Did you ever hear of such a vaeary :?
Christine's excuse is that it is $50 easy"
But only fancy the beautiful Mrs
Brown deliberately following suit in so
unbecOmlng a costume, and rObbing
herself of more than one-half her peer
less charms by wearing these unf1atter-
| ing garments She is brilliant blonde,
! with natural golden hair, and q COM
/ pleXion as White as a bit of porcelain,
while color, only too brilliant, reddens
her rounded cheeks. Her fortunes are
lovely her blue eyes a vision of sweet
beauty IN themselves, while nose,
mouth. brow, and even her shell-like
ears would serve painter for study
Of Venus. ".. '"'%
l saw her last spring at the opera,
dressed in superb black satin (all her
dresses are made for her by Worth cut
squire in the neck, which was encircled
by a splendid collar of diamonds. Up
on her head she wore the scarlet silk
| Turkish fez, in which magnificent dia-
mond star was shining | could scar
cely take my eyes off her. She seemed
too supremacy beautiful to be real, too
good to be true.
Last week saw her again, dressed as
| have described. She seemed differ
ent woman. Both she and Nilsson are
going to join the masons; that is, they
will take the degrees permitted women
Nilsson is to be the chieftainness, and
Mrs. Brown her right-hand masoness.
By the way, the alleged statement of
current gossip (observe my legal eau
tom is to the effect that the Nilsson
Rouzeaud match is another Morris
Harriott match las alleged It appears
that Christine does not love Mr.. Rouze-
aud very much (but perhaps as much
as she can any MAI, and only mar
rled him to have him look after her
business. Goodness gracious! the idea
of a woman who has determination
enough to brave staring every time she
moves by wearing the shad-bellied coat
and horseshoe pin wanting any man
to look after her business for her!
/ Marshal MacMahOn as Hunter.