The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-06
THE SEASON At NEWPORT
Stately Dinners and Dainty
LunCheons Bring Forth
Dazzling Autumnal
Gowns.
COUNTRY GIRL.
Princesses Who Married Young
PATHS Diamonds-StorY of
ltaly's Queen.

tent of lunches. But Of very little else
Fortunately, the dinners have been good.
Mrs. Theodore A. Havemeyer has started
the fashion of out-of-door dinners. SO far,
that is, as curtained balcony or broad
piazza can be construed as belonging to
the outer rather than the inner air. and
her example has been followed by az
many people as felt their courage and
their verandas equal to the innovation.
If other summer folk care for the sug-
gestion before the golden rod dims and
the locust ceases its long, consehtful
z-e-e-e, it may be said that at q very
pretty affair last night guests had the il
choice between piazza and dining
room. One table was spread in the great
dining hall and @ second beyond
the folding window doors upon a wide
balcony. hung with silk striped in GRIM
son and cream and strewn with rugs,
bringing out the same oolors. Golden
rod and the flaming cardinal flower nlled
tall blue and yellow porcelain jugs, that
stood about in all the corners, II the
tables were decked with trails of the wild
white clematis, with feathery golden rod
sprays in slim crystal vases. The lights
were from electric globes with crimson
shades.
In the middle of each table was q bowl,
without relief OF leaves, dense and dark
| with cardinal flowers. The orchestra was
| stationed in a clump of cedars on the
lawn. The elder people sat indoors
though in the $50 nobody Is 'elder'-tne
younger people sat out; the dinner toilets
were as notable as the dinner itself, and
of a few of the better remembered you, in
| or6ar 70 cot on uGanuufo niafnYa Of q
| Newport festlvity, must know.
the amount of white was noteworthy
for this Is a white season; and the amount
of velvet, TO: this Is a velvet season. The
tall, dark-hued hostess wore u soft, cream
white silk in lowered stripes with ribbon
widths of pale Spanish yellow between:
| Her bodice was cut low and square and
sleeveless. but, for there's a chill off the
water when summer is waning, Il full
| chemisette of tul1e was FLIED in at the
throat n there were flying sleeves Of
the same fillny material. There was
| also a folded bodice belt of green velvet
with a handful of white pond lilies
drawn through it as to their long green
stems.
Another striking costume was an IVORY
white velveteen worn by a very slim
blcnGe; she had an effect of exceeding
t~allness as she stepped through the Win
doWs to her place under the piano drar-
| cries, anu LICK StrdlGuG princess EOOe WAS
outlined against the ~blackness Of the sky
and trees at the one uucurtained end OF
the long veranda. 1t wa gathered In at
the waist with dark pulpit velvet and
was plated at the back y la Vatican.
The neck was cut slightly round ard
edged with a fall of lace. aud from each
shoulder fell straight, narrow draperies
of the dark velvet almost to the floor.
The sleeves were pulled and ruched w 18th
the lace and the entire costume, Yves
quantity attractive.
The richest gown, perhaps, was Mira.
Paran Stevens daffodil yellow silk,
striped with golden brown, with its deep
1ounce of Point de Paris lace In front
n its three-cornered drapery caught
with a bow of brown velvet. The train
was finished with lace and the low round
bodice had drapery of lace falling in twt
points over the bosom and held by q
rosette in the middle. There were balloon
sleeves with deep lace ruffies and a golden
velvet belt with clasps of metal gold.
The most picturesque costume maybe
was worn by a young woman with Mrs.
Stevens. 1t was a pale silvery green EN-
pire silk that in some lights was almosI
white and in others took on a color thai
showed off tine wild. roses scattered oveI
its breadths bravely. 1t had a low puffec
front Of rose chiffon. with adraped f1ounc,
and a gold Girdle, and on each side were
| O1dPOo e vi ~ Wh4S 4CLA ONCl
the back oddly. The silk was cut off tt
make a girdle behind, the pulled sleeves
were lace flushed and the whole attir,
was cool aud flower like and shimmerins
and fit for wear in the full of the moon.
There have been q number of pretty
garden fetes, some of the best Of them al
Whitney cottage. Young Whitney is
WHO'S hearted, athletic college chap ant
helps out his mother in her social under
takingS with a zeal that goes far and Ii
valued. A novelty introduced at "a lawn
tea one day this week was y little fooI
ball by some of the Yale boys, whose team
is here getting into practice befure TIN
university year opens. They wouidn'
have called it football, for they've no
buckled down to work as yet, ant
wouldn't let anybody see them work il
Il case, but merely q short demonstra
ton lesson v~ouchsafed out of the good
ness of a select few Of the college heart
TO the uninitiated as to how foot bal
begins.
It was a fine Old garden with ire
boughs coming down, as IN an English
close, to the very ground. The tea table
were spread in the natural arbors thu
walled aud rooted, and pretty girls, ii
white frocks and. broad white hats, pre-
sided over them.
Idon't know that I've seen a grea
many pretty garden dresses this summer
but a mignonette green organdle was Ger
tainly one of them. tt suited the slight
brown-eyed, rather fragile girl who wore
it with its tull straight skirt finished with
a deep embroidered lounce edged with
darker ribbon ruching; it had IA full wais
with a dark green surah girdle, fastened
with a silver buckle behind; it had Goa
sleeves with open ones of lace to the ell
bow, aud 1t had. to set it off %piquantly,
fiat green straw hat with loops of gteel
ribbon.
Another fete gown that must be reck
oned with was Mrs. Eugene Kelly. Jr. =
of sheer royal blue yelling, figured il
ecru and with a palm Leaf border; it
skirt was caught up to show a paler blu,
velvet petticoat, and il hal a full bodlc
with a blue velvet grid. Q cut n thre
sharp vandykes behind; the pulled elbow
sleeves had pointed velvet cuffs and Mrs
Kelly wore a big Directory hat of blacl
straw with royal blue ribbons and blacl
plumes.
The coaching toilets are about the mos
elaborate one sees, for as things are thi
summer they really give women thei
best opportunities. So many people ar,
in mourning that elaborate entertain.
ments are few aud far between. aud. ex
cept at the above mentioned dinners, III,
woman who wants an excuse to show OF