The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-22
THE GRANT BALL
How the Prominent Ladies' Were
Dressed I'm " exfcO's Capital.

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Dressed I'm HexicO's Capital.
New York World Mexico Letter,
Ay de mi! Now comes the momentous
spbject-dress-from which l naturally
shrink. because, as lovely American ell
onist once told me: "You are the nestest
butcher l ever met; you put the trimmings
of our dresses upside down, wrong side GU,
and hind side BEFORE" That was u cruel
thrust, because If did make blunder yery
natural to mere man, changed her simple
white alpaca dress, trimmed with ordinary
lace, into one of white satin garni, with point
d'Alencon. Such is gratitude!
Well, Mrs. Morgan was elegantly but
plainly dressed in black silk, with white silk
illusion about her neck and wrists.
Mrs. Gen. Grant wore light blue silk, tie
corssge, sleeves and front breadth of which
were covered with bouquets and gsrlands of
daisies and green leaves embroidered with
floss
Young Mrs Ulysses Grant, being slightly
indisposed, was not able to accent Mrs. Nor.
CANS invitation TO the legation, nor was Col.
Ulysses, j., present.
Miss Sharpe, neice of Mrs. Grant, and
charming young lady with expressive ewes
and pearly teeth, wore white damss:ee silk,
with an overskirt of white Spanish lace loon
ed up with white roses. The color and
sleeves were embroidered with seed pearls
her parure was composed of topazes and was
quite unique.
Mrs. lgnscio Mariscsl was more than
neutrality-suspicious. a black velvet
dress, the jupe sAj trimmings of the sleeves
being OF ciel bleu silk and white lace.
Mrs. Mstias Romero looked lovely in
dress of blue and white satin trimmed with
rich lace. Her mother, Mrs. Allen, wore an
"sshes,of-roses" silk.
Mrs. Strother, wife of the American con.
sul general, was dressed in a rich gross.
grain black silk, with fimy, beautiful lace
about her throat and wrists, and attached to
her corssge bouquet OF pink roses. Mrs.
Strother's genial manners always render her
attractive. Several newcomers asked your
CORRESPONDENT, "Whois that pleasant looking
American
Mis-, Beatrice Morgan wore dress of
tarletan over white silk, gracefully looped up
with knots of blue ribbon. Her younger
sisters were becomingly dressed in some
plain white filmy texture and wore the most
appropriate ornaments foryoung girls white
and pink rose-buds.
Miss Matte Trowbridge, daughter of the
American consul at Vera Cruz-Dr. Trow
bridge, who with his family is spending
few days in this city-wore a colored lsyen.
der silk over white satin iupe, 'aounced
with Valenciennes lace
Miss Hattie Trowbrdgs's costume was of
white silk and tarletan, and the Younger Miss
Trowbridge looked well in simple white null.
Sonora Msnuels Juarez de Tuntscils, wore
a deicatey>tinted pink silk, trimmed with
fringe and lsce-parure, pearls and dia.
monds.
Sonora Felicitss Juarez de Sanchez look
ed unusually we'll in heavy lavender colored
silk, trimmed with costly lace, ard her dsrl,
hair adorned with diamond ornaments; her
necklace WAS Of rarely beautiful pearls.
Senorta Soledad Juarez wore rose
colored silk garni with white roses and lace.
Her jewels we're diamonds and pearls,
oenorita Oar"s-".. ..aoio, the accomplished
daughter the ex Cabinet Minister Romero
kubio, looAl ovely in corn-colored silk with
white roses in her beautiful dark hair.
Miss S. Frisbie wore white silk with
scarlet satin bodice admirably fitted to her
petite form.
Miss Minnie Frisbie wore lavender silk
with ornaments of pearl.
Senorta Elena Garay looked charming in
rose colortd satin.
The Senoritss Teruel were both dressed in
viii To Damssee silk, their overskirts being
white Spanish lace looped up with flowers.
their jewelry was quite antique 10 design and
extremely beautiful.
There were many Mexican ladies in dark
silks and ss.ins, with costly parures of
diamonds, some attired as for an ordinary
reception and few young marion, in bah
costume. The United States Consul Gem
eral Strother was absent, having gone 10
Anganguo last week.