The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-13

Everyone in America that can pos
sibly get there intends to go or has
already sailed for Europe. Paris
means something especial and won
derful to most people. Perhaps Wis
ions of cafe chantants and the girls
cites in their ~coquettish caps float
through the minds of ordinary a
kind, but to a woman it means shop
ping-buying a lot of new things to
astonish her friends with when she
comes back, delightful, Frenchy look
ing articles that one cannot get here.
Then, through every woman's head
comes the thought:-Can l get Worth
to make me a frock?
If she is poor, how miserable it
makes her to think she can't afford to
have him make her even one thing.
But, however, she can buy one at the
Bon Marche or some other place, and
if, when she comes back, her friends
must insist on being so foolish as to
think that Worth made it, it is not her
fault. To satisfy all the women that
a besides wishing, really have him
make some or all their clothes, com
pels Worth now to keep constantly
employed some 1900 people. Several
hundred of these are in his establish
ment in the Rue de la Paix. Worth,
as everybody knows, is an English
man by birth, having been born in
Bourne, Lincolnshire, but he has
lived so many years in Paris-since
1916 in fact-that he really belongs to
a ace apart.
Like a number of other Englishmen
who have lived forever and a day on
the Continent, he is different from
either English or French. If he had
not been what he is, he would have
made a great physician, for like all of
that profession that reach the top. he
has an eye that will take in every de-
tail the instant he enters a room. He
inherits, he says, from his mother, his
appearance and his taste; he is about
six feet, and his head is large, with a
prominent forehead, and his eyes
brown. with a canny Scotch look to
them.
He has been growing more expen-
sive for a number of years, for about
seventeen years ago he would furnish
the silk and make a gown with basque,
skirt, upperskirt and over jacket for
$75. Worth, of course, views his Gus
toners as artists do their s~itters, and
he suffers greatly, it is said, by women
being perfectly unreasonable. When
they go to him they expect some result
which will make them look entirely
different from usual. He believes in
effect, simplicity and outline, and the
average woman who has perhaps been
saving up money for two or three
years to have him make one grand
frock for her, has in her head some IN
usual trimming, and is ready to weep
at the plain article. He is now nearly
seventy years old, and n would think
that with all the money he
has made, he would prefer to
retire to his villa at Suvesne, one of
the Partisan suburbs, instead of stay
ing from early in the morning until
six or seven in the evening at his
dence is well worth seeing. He de-
| signed himself the house and every
| thing in it, as well as the plan of the
garden. 1t is the finest site around
| Paris. 1t lies directly beneath Mount
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a view of the Bots de Boulogne, Paris,
st. Cloud, and for miles around in
every direction. The hangings in his
library are wonderful pieces of EN-
broidery. Even all the large rugs in
the house were made from his own de-
signs. Naturally, all that money.
| thought, time and taste can do has
been accomplished, and besides these,
he knows where to get hold of the
right work people.
1t is said that now, he has so many
more orders than he can possibly fill,
he carries matters with a high hand
with the women, and suits himself,
giving them such materials, cut and
color as he thinks suitable. On the
whole, it is much more sensible for
any one going to him to leave every
thing in his hands, as he not only pes
sesses great natural taste, but it has
been cultivated by years of practice.
Why it has always been noticed that
Worth was a man dressmaker it
would be difficult to say, as for years
before his time it was the custom in
Paris to employ men to draw the de-
| signs for women's dresses.
To be sure the modistes establish
ments were usually called Maison
Fauvet, Maison Gagelin, r some other
Maison, but they were conducted in
the same manner as Worth's now is,
and so are hundreds of other places.
In Java, if a lady wants a frock made,
a couple of dozen men come to the
house, squat around the floor of one
room and attend to it for her. This is
probably a mans proper vocation.
| Worth's own private particular raze
is for rare china and bric-a-brac, and
he has one of the finest collections in
the world.
Undoubtedly quite a large percent
age of the money carried abroad this
summer by the Americans going to
see the exhibition will find its way to
the already OVERLOOKING Golfers of
Monsieur Worth.
Would Not Eclipse Mrs. Harrison.
From the Washington Post.
The fact that Mrs. Cleveland met
with SO cordial a reception when she
quietly passed through the crowd at