The morning call., 1891-01-11

wore rubber boots; but had to ask Mrs. -
to give me a private dressing room, for -
here q desperate but only partially success
ful attempt to speak lower" can't take
them off without | take off my corset first,
You know"
One twists ones neck for a glimpse of the
maker of this interesting communication.
She is very tall and very fair, and the cor
set must have been successfully readjusted,
for in mouse-gray crepe de Chine she is
most fashionably gowned. Her simple
bodice and plain skirt are all in long, soft
plaits, gathered in at the waist with a girdle
OF pearl and turquoise-jeweled silver. She
wears her hair in two heavy girlish braids
down her back, each braid ending in loose
curl. Over her forehead it is parted and
waved in soft, natural-ooking tendrils. Her
frOck has long sleeves that hang in full
plated puffs to the elbows, then close in and
reach half way down over her fingers. At
the wrists they are narrow and wrinkle,
then they expand oddly into what one might
call cuffs, or might also call mitts for the
hands. About her throat she wears quaint
and beautiful necklace of old Grecian manu-
facture-of pearls and turquoise strung with
silver beads She is a naive and Innocent
looking creature, but" You're so apt to
snap bone if you stOop ever so little"
Merciful providence! she is beginning again.
Now there comes one of those tidal waves
peculiar to teas which lift one off ones feet
and bear one unressting quite into the next
room. Beside the tea-uTn, where the navi-
gator is deposited helpless, moveless, there
stand slender women i'll straight frOcks, the
very narrow frccks, which make women
look so like exclamation points, or, with
trained gowns, like kites standing on their
small ends. The skirts are drawn down,
tucked in and wrapped about the feet until
you get perpendicular effect that is weirdly
picturesque and pole-like. Just where they
lie on the ground the draperies begin to
fare, suggesting, for ones life one can't
help the smile, the gathering up from the
outlying circle of roots, of the shoots Of hops
and beans. A lady in mauve has accentu-
ated the upness and downness with long
scarf-lke or rOpe-ike trimmings of black
velvet, knotted at intervals with rosettes
aud reaching to TIE floor. Over her hips the
smooth cloth is drawn so closely that at
every motion the swelling and contraction
of the great muscles is visible.
A slight, dark, Southern-lOoking woman
wears prImrose-yellow cloth dress with
80 TO speak-two-storY Figaro jacket Dor
dered all around with the mereSt edge of
sable. The effect of this jacket, though it
cllngS to the figure, is to make its wearer
taper from her chest to her ankles, the mar.
rowing process being there accentuated by
sable band which seems to coil and curl
like black snake in tightening circle.
Below the band the yellow cloth lies in q
scant, gathered fiounce on the carpet like
a fan. The hat worn with this toilet is of
primrose velvet, small, round, fiat as a
plate, edged with sable and turned up
sharply at the back with couple of large
Powered evening prlmroses, over which
hover black lace moths.
1t is g brilliant crowd well-dressed. care
fully coiffe. A fair. pretty woman wears one
of those new frocks, the newest frocks of
all, which are laid as to their skirts, always