Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-01

Thirty years ago, says Paris cores
pondent, the great Of Paris,
were named Paln1yre and Gregelin aud
De Bolsieur. At the first Paris expOsi-
ton it was the second named house that
took the first prize for dressmaking. The
article exhibited was robe of white silk
wrought with gold. So nov i and so ar
tistic was the design that the dress was
afterwards purchased for the South
Kensington Museum, and may be seen
there to this very day. 1t was young
Englishinan in the employ Of the Mai
son Gagelin, to whose creative brain
had been owing the pattern of that Won
derful toilet. Some years later the
Princess de Metternich, then in the
dawn of her social celebrity, recognized
the remarkable talent of the young En-
glishman, and advised him to set up
for himself. But he demurred; he was
very we'll off where he was, and if his
employers would grant him increase of
salary he would not care to move. But
NJ Opigez, then the head of Maison
Gagelin, was pig-headed narrow
minded old Franchman, who could
neither recognize the great gifts Of his
subordinate, nor yet his right to al i'll
creased salary. The result was a curt
l. nr+ ut la IL
ploy and set up for himself The Mai
son Gagelin tumhled to pieces a. few
years later from its own dryrot, having
existed from the days Of Marie Antoin-
cite, and the place that once knew it
now knows it no more. The Princess
de Metternich did not fail to aid and
recommend her protege, and Worth
speedily became power in the world
of fashion, and this is the result, this |
vast establishment on the Rue de Ia !
Paix, up whose stone staircase have |
come half the feminine notabilitieS of
the world Queens have come here,
and princesses, and famous singers, and
queens of fashion, thirsting for new
and dressmakers in quest of
new models, and wives Of American
and the daughter Of an
hundred kings. The coronation robe
of Mercedes of Spain destined, alas
never to be worn), and the bridal dress
1f Iar fpf 10 hn
Austrian Christine, have adorned the
spacious show-rooms. Hither came
Christine Nilsson to learn what she
should wear as Ophelia, and the gentle
AIbani in quest of the court dress Of
Linda and the splendid costumes of
'sLa Traviata." Strong women
md sternly-practical men have come
acre to view the establishment as one
If the sights of Paris, and to such it
seems almost incredible that the stout,
elderly, dark-eyed man, with his lam
yuid voice and nonchalant manner, his
fingers loaded with gem of price, and
With two little King Charles spaniels
parking at his heels, should be the soul
nd handspring of this vast establish
nent that numbers among its employees
10 less number than one thousand
ouls. Yet he most certainly is. Now
trapping 4 skirt in his own private room,
low pinning on lace in that graceful
urve that the fingers of no sewing-girl +
5 able to originate, now blending the
ilks and satins Of varied tints for some
ostly toilet, now correcting the fit Of =
ONE rebelIious corsage or the sewing Of
ONE recalcitrant skirt, he is every
,here at one and the same moment,
he all-pervading genius of this palace
fashion.-ChicagO Times.
Those diamonds worn by Mrs. O.
t the late Inaugural Ball were bought
f Uncle Harris, 22l Kearny street,