The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-15

shoes and stockings, and perhap
clothes. TO each one.
The sunny Hour il a sixteen pag,
paper with "a pretty yellow cover anC
about = 100 paying subscribers, thoUgl
Tello soineumas prints as many as 10,
700 COPIES to send 10 people TO interes
them In hunting up sho es and stock
ings- His mother thinks IL will grow
TO be great magazine ana Tello Gays
with much gravity. that the charity j
represents viii be his =, life work
The other day | heard newspaper
man say. II / controlled "A New IoIl
daily would open a youths depart
ment. and get TellO TO edit If, and II
would be bigger success than Mrs
Francis Hodgson Burnett's syndicat,
columns.
There IS pushing and an elbowiDi
I FOR invitations To the McAilister bali
With twelve tickets TO each of the 4,
subscribers, the NcAllister has eater
his own words about 400. and yet witt
! /. $50 chances 10 be disposed of the envy
and heartburDings are something un
precedented. The invitations will mol
be out before the middle OF the month,
but there are people who would give
! five Yeas out Of their lives to be SURE
of dancing IN the METROPOLITAN Oper4
House on the night of the 2d OF JaUu-
any at the biggest pr ate bali New
York has ever seen.
The Sir Roger de Co7erly will be the
spectacle OF the dancing. and with five
sets OF twelve couples OF The best known
New York people to set the quadrIIle
a bOhneur of the centennial ball ought
TO be thrown, as the McAllister means
II shall be, quito into the shade. Two
Yeas ago NJ New Year ball at Del
monicO's there was a Sir Roger dc
COyerly. which McAliister led with
Mrs. William Aston, ard which was
very pretty with the stately measured
PAGES OF men and women no longer
young. This year the dance will be on
much grander scale. and the pictur-
sequences of the winters fashions will
lend IT grace aud dignity. The ladies
of one set are 10 wear. / understand, old
English costumes of the period OF the
Vicar of Wakefield. and with their long
lengths e thick. yet soft. brOcade, re-
calling the gowns which Ellen Terry
wore as Olivia. One Of these gowns.
which has lust been completed, Is of a
new and wonderfully beautiful shade
of hellotrope. brocaded with English
hedge roses. and opening over a full
SHIRT of plain silk of the same shade.
The sleeves flow at the elbow, showing
wide ruilles of costly lace. aud a lace
'kerchief IS folded partially across the
bosom.
The jewellers have their hands full
with the resetting OF gems Tor the oc-
caslOn. and the diamond shoe Is eX-
pected to be beyond comparison. The
third necklace Of strung diamonds has
lust been heard from. and this one is to
be worn by rich Chicago widow, wlo
sas brought II from London, and will
wear IL Tor the first time at the Nc
Allister ball. Her stones are said to be
enormous ones. and TO be strung. not
like tue two already famous, IN The
manner of pearls or Old fashioned gold
beads. but each revOlves on a little
golden axis aId is surrounded by a cir
Gle of gold wire which, however, does
not touch the stone. Each golden circle
Is linked to It's neighbor, and each , one
swings full, flashing out raip as it lurns
over and over on the white neck like
a blazing miniature sun.
Only "A small proportion of the gowns
have vet been completed. but one OF the
ladies under the immediate chaperOnage
of Mrs.AstOr Will wear, SO dress-makiDg
gossip has tia superb gown ofpale green
crepe de chine. embroidered with mag
nihcent scarlet aud golden lilies. With
this costume is to be carried a large fan
of delicate green gauze painted. in de-
sign of the Louis XIV. period and with
carved sticks of mother of pearl lnlald
with gold. Mrs. G. .. ID. lsollne Is
coming out in cream brocade With great
bows of satin ribbop, and as for the de-
but antex, Miss Tretm0re, who is ex-
pected TO be as much OF success as
ANYBODY. is known 10 be treasuIing a
white gauze, with skirt upon skirt, bal
let fashion, "A gold bodice and tiney Int
tie sleeves like CURED leaves. A young
married lady. VINO prldcs herself on
ner exquisite complexion. - planning
To set 1t oil by symphony of silver
grey crepe with silver fringe. \ very
slight blonde debutante Will wear pale
green with gaIlands of sweet peas, and
two pretty sisters from Brooklyn have
already received tom Paris their PINK
aud blue striped brOcades with skirts
of gauze.
About the smirtest toilet l have yet
n ard of Is TO be worn by rich aud
regal dame whose costumes are noted
for sumptu1U.Dess that Is far from un-
becoming. The matoria! j. "a superb
golden bIOcade that has in 1t hint Of
the PINK of the morning ky. This IS
cut IN PrIncesse style, very decollete.
and is to be worn with the family herr
loo ms of lace and fortBue IN diamonds.
The ball viii make very evident The
completeness Of the conquest achieved
by costly faus. OLe Of point lace.
painted by Bsllancour, and another
painted by prince and given to tue
Grandmother Of its present owner III
Venice. are TWO of which ] have heard
that will BE- there.
At the Woman's Press Club of a sun
day afternoon. if you susceed in getting
admitted to Mrs. Croly's plriOrs, YOU
will meet not uninteresung group 81
women. fhat IS Florence Fiucn Kelly
in the archway. under the curtain.
slight and dark, aud thinking Of the
husband who was out IN the woods 81
the Southwest all summer trying 10
catch o grizzly bear for young Hurst,
the irrepressiblc of San Francisco J'ur-
nalism. Such are the "assig
of reporter. Mrs. Kelly used 20 be on
the Boston Globe, aud iias written for
the sun and for Golden Gate papers.
Sine published novel last spring aud
will have another out in month OF two.
The stroBg, sweet-facsd young wo-
man on hassock beside her. talking
bicycle. is Mrs. Josephine hsdSas Il
The Art amateur, who Is one Of the
most successful editors and most en-
thusiastic wheei~omen Of the city.
Quiet. IN bonnet and sell, but you
know how merriy she can Gasn
though, sits Dab. who has no equal
in her own bright vein.
Not far of Is Mrs. Frank Leslie. ia
black silk and jet, who delights to call
herself a newspaper woman. and SAYS
she Is &C busy that she writes her syn
dicate letters Setween midnight and >
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