The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-11
AT FASHIONABLE LEN0X.
"BAB" FINDS MILuoNAIREs GALORE.
Wealthy Children's Dressing-shOwy Moth
ers-Sfiniature Equipages-Mr. Westing-
house ut the Opera-Fred Nell
sons Pretty Widow.

LENox, Mass, Sept Especial. up
here in the Berkshire hills, where the very
air seems full of spiciness, where the sun
sets in a wondrous glory as it goes behind
the great masses of foliage, one seems
more than ever conscious that there is re-
pose to be found on every hight. One
thinks out all sorts of big thoughts to be
clothed in ones best language as the sun
is sinking in its golden splendor, and then
one has all the bigness taken out by the
receipt of an invitation 70 an informal
dance, to a supper or to moonlight drive.
There are inns at Lenox. but nobody
who makes any pretensions to being FASH
ionable, unless the bodies are bachelors,
stops at them. IL is true there are "meal-
ers" at Curtis, and many pretty woman
is driven over in a veritable blackboard 10
get her bit of melon IN the morning with
its accompaniment of bracing coffee. The
| women are exquisitely English in the
morning and French in the evening Tho
daytime finds them in printed cottons
that ripple with ribbons and laces, cottons
such M delight the princess OF Wales,
while the evening looks down upon them
attired in daintily colored tules and soft
silks that make joyful the heart OF the
French modste.
Lenox can, like Cordola, lay claim TO
wonderful jewels in the shape of children.
| II may be doubted II anywhere there are
such lot OF little tots 80 perfectly, which
means so comfortably, dressed. Bright
hued ginghams are shocked 10 fit the little
figures, and great big straw hats, that give
them quaint look, shade the eyes and
protect the hair. There isaregular morning
parade Of tubs in which the children and
their friends are packed, each one driven
| by the eldest 0f the family or II they are
very small tiny groom holds tho reins OF
! honor. Out they go into tho country; n
search Is made for wild flowers, the lunch
is eaten and the tub comes home gorge
ously decorated with golden rod and full
OF children who have grown decidedly
muesed and dirty looking, but who have
had n really good time. You see, that's
the beauty OF tho kind of frocks they
wear-a good time don't hurt them, and
yet they are, most OF them, the children
OF millionaires.
II one happens 20 DO the child OF some
| Woodworking clerk, the chances arc 10
would DO arrayod IN u silk gown elaborate
ly trimmed with lace and ribbons, n hat
gorgeous with flowers or plumes, and,
poor little soul, life would hold no pleas.
ure for IL because It's best gown was In
continual danger, and 10 ait up and look
nice was all that was possible. ! wish
all mothers were brave enough TO
dress their children simply. wish all
OF them knew that II was not only better
sense, but more fashionable, and ! am
sure that every little heart would beat
with greater glee under gingham gown
than II does under a nonsensical mass OF
lace and silk which Mary has 20 work 80
hard 10 achieve and which Is not only un-
suitable for Johns child, but gives 10 no
pleasure and makes il look like wax doll
Party frocks2 CeTtainly-but they are
made in the same simple way, though
they are made OF the finest null, and it's
just possible that a great big blue sash
with an enormous bow is tied at the back.
Children and the golden rod flourish
alike here Lenox is essentially exclusive,
and as the fashionable matron considers il
the proper thing 10 be a mother, there is
no trouble whatever in borrowing n baby
at any hour OF the day. Unlike most of
the watering places, here these small peo-
pie get up early and say good night some
times before the sun does, which is the
right way TO do with them If you want
them healthy and wise.
Who is here people fashionable, peo-
pie who are quiet, and people who are
rich. Riches cover a multitude of sins in
most places. but as yet Lenox is demand
ing a little more than mere money to
make it possible TO enter the charmed
circle. You see millionaires are as
plentiful as daisies, and consequently
they are not valued as highly as in most
other places TO have bit of box here to
which you can ask your friends TO stay over
Sunday, even if some of them do have
TO sleep in a hammock swung in the hall,
to have the bit of box quantity fur
nished and decorated, and to be bit in
dividual yourself from the cachet on
the letter of introduction to the inner
circle, to ride well, TO know how to
drive, TO play tennis, and to understand
the art of dress, all add to your popularity.
Almost everybody rides, and, although
there are many handsome turnouts, YOU
can feel quite swell in the baby's tub,
provided your riding horse is above re-
proach.
You 60 out to drive and somebody
points out to you Mrs. Westinghouse, the
wife of the inventor who is so rich that it
| SttluS as IL kClllliR ClOSc W ulill OnC lllkuJ
catch the fever of wealth. She is rather
remarkable looking, and suddenly you re-
member what somebody at the house
said, and true or untrue, it is repeated
Last winter at the opera she used to
come in her box in white gown, white
shoes, gloves, large white felt hat trim
med with white plumes. and her blonde
hair was so white that really think she
must have had dash of powder on it,
After she was seated the maid would bring
in her boy-the child is perfect beauty
with his long, light curls and soft eyes he
: looks just like little cherub-auickly mis-
white fur coat is taken off, and there be
was in gown of white satin, a white felt
hat and get-up exactly in harmony with
mammals. This, of course, was at the matt.
nee, and wicked girl, who would talk even
when Wagners music was being played
insisted that they eat white cocoanutcakes
between the acts so that the harmony Of
their costumes might not be broken.
At other times Mrs. West
inghouse was in bright scarlet, then the
powder was left off her hair and it showed
beautiful blonde; she looked much more
: chic and Frenchy in the red than in the
white"
! There goes by another carriage and it il
, another pretty woman who goes, however,
| in q different set and whose charm is