St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
The Conventional Manners of Spoiled
Darlings Told About by Clara
Belle.
Fall Styles of Richness and Beauty
Never Equaled in Fashion -
Annals.
Csfft.Fdged Life at Lenox. Where all
is Sunshine and Money
Spending.
A Continual Round of Gayety '" hlch
Allows no Rest-FlirtInS IN
dulged In.


SWEETEST place in this country and am
shocked about half the time at what see
and hear around me. In the first place,
law independence of usage leads the ultra
fashionables 10 be rather too unconVen-
tional. | saw this morning, III riding past
3 certain villa, a young bride and her
Snonse seated most careleSsly on their
veranda. 1t was secluded by means of
lattice and vine, and yet one could clearly
distinguish the man with his feet higher
than his head. and the woman
IN CARELESS HALF DRESS.
Again in the afternoon, on the same YER
anda. l saw maiden with her hair down,
and in a robe intended for her bOudoir, re-
ceiving the courtesieS of beau, who smoked
his cigar in her very face.
This is not merely mOney-bag's coterie.
though of the one hundred hOuSehOlderS in
the place about seventy are milliOnatreS,
but it's a place where your ancestry deter
mines everything for You. and it does not
matter how rich or distinguished you are. if
your grandmother wasn't in society in her
time there's not the slightest earthly use Of
YOUR irving to get in. Yet here Eve heard
the very freest talk and seen the most du-
bious behavior that it ever fell to my prud-
ish lot to run across. The very first young
ladies l encountered were two misses OF an
EXTRAORDINARILY SWELL
Baltimore family. One was in ladylike
posture, but the other had her feet on the
seat of an opposite chair. with her skirts
not exactly as far down her anatomy as
they would have been if she had taken the
trouble to pull them to where they be-
longed. Some dudish young men We're
telling these ladies of their experience i'll
IIoJ lH-hQ God
in a theater of dubious repute in New
York.
You NAV Judge of the tone of the fem
mime half of the conversation when l tell
YOU that one frequent expression the ladies
used was. ''Oh. come off; what are you
giving u.s." Another girl, pretty little
Murray Hill miss, was telling her
Young man of the great amount
of exercise she was taking to get
strong. And l am developing fearful
muscie-a regular Sullivan MUSCLE" said
she. and then she added, But l can't let
you feel it, because-well-bec the
exercise I've been taking has been walking
don't cher know" l must say that the
kind of society in which we hear that sort
of thing in New York is not by any means
the creme de la creme-in fact, I'm not
quite sure that l ever heard of any thing
And then | NAV be mistaken, but up to this
point it seems to Inc that few married
couples are to be seen together. 1t is most
astonishing, but the married women seem
TO me to be forever going about in closed
carriages with
THE HUSBANDS OF OTHER WOMEN
st all hours of the night and in all stages of
after-dinner exhilaratiOn. The cooks are
the presiding angels of the place. and the
stomach is the shrine of devotion here.
Every night in the week two or three din
ners are given. usually by married ladies' to
''bring OUT some new girl or to introduce
some newcomer. or for any one OF dozen
excuses. The houses are scattered all over
a great region and the women travel to and
from them in full evening dress in these
carriages in the manner l describe. You
hear them coming into the hotel at all
hours. and you don't see some of them
again until next afternoon, when they APP
pear again in full dress at dinner there.
But not in the same dress. My sakes! if
there were twenty five cottage dinners to be
attended there would have to be separate
dress for each one.
when 1 get to the end of my dresses l
end the season and go home, one Of these
ultra-fashionables explained to me.
1t is simply impossible to convey in
words that richness, beauty, and finish of
goods of all kinds this fall. COlOringS and
standings were never so artistic; designs, in
spite of the tendency to stripes, bands bars,
piaids and checks. never finer. When
ever brOcaded stripes are seen, the
designs within the broad stripes al
ternating with the plain, are as fine,
original and effective as could be demanded.
But it is impossible to make the reader I'M
10 of bod
ings as applied to the rich colOrs of the sea-
son. Neither can cuts, fashion plates and
illustrations really picture the mysteries OF
dress and fashion nowadays. Perhaps
they never did. but essentially at this day
do we need fine portrait painting, such as
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Vandyke and our
own SulIy gave the world of art to per-
petuate the beauty of costume at the pres
ent day. Dresses are made so full and
elaborate, even
WHEN STIMULATING SIMPLICITY.
Hats and bOnnets are such things of
beauty and fine art-that is, when dresses
and hats and bOnnets are made by first
class artists and adapted to the wearer-
that they deserve more than one seasons
admiration. On the other hand. there
never was a time when bad taste could
so easily make a caricature of a woman.
DarefuI and conscientious study of the prin-
eiples of taste in dress. un-eSs they are care
less of the impressions they make upon
their friends. Short women should have
their street dresses and mantles Of the same
color. as wrap of contrasting color seems
TO cut the figure in two, and takes from
the apparent height. A long, slender wrap,
covering the wearer from head to foot, is
becoming to short figures. They should
have also lengthwise trimmings on their
dresses. Tall figures. on the contrary,
should have bands of trimming around the
figure. such as border of fur or plush
or braiding at the foot of the skirt,
while a panel in front or on one side
NAV be made of crOSSwiSe rows of beaded
passementerie or braid. or bands of velvet
ribbon. Stout people. whether tall or
short. are most Handsomely dressed in plain,
rich clothing. well made and of fine fabrics,
but with very little trimming. The
straight back drapery now in vogue is es-
pecaIIy becoming to- full, large figures.
Slight women look best with a little putting
on the tOurnure, and with some length
wise Matted panierS that give the effect of
larger hiDs than nature may have provided.
Three buttons on the basque at the waist
line. meeting three buttOn-hOles in the belt
of the skirt. make the best and simplest
way of keeping the basque and skirt to-
gether for people who have long waists
with small hips.
N HOUSE-FURNISHING
the same care has to be exercised. for with
the mingIing of the ideas OF the Oscar
Wilde and Burne Jones school interior
decorations, orators and furnShers, and the
still later revival of the eighteenth century
French artists. those who finished, decor
abed and furnished the palaces of the late
Bourbons and the Bonapartes and their
courtiers, there is most bewildering MKT
ure in what furniture dealers will assure
YOU is certainly fashionable furniture.
Nowadays one frequently sees rooms in
which mahogany, teak wood. walnut, Cali
fornia red wood, gilded white woods and
completely plush or tapestry pieces
of furniture are all placed in a manner
which is appropriately called rocco.
When to This is added the excessive