The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-06
V0R7H,THED RESSM AKER
Sketch and Work OF the
Man Who in His Art
Knows No Rival.
HOW HE DESIGNS STAGE GOWNS
Mrs. Logan's Beautiful Home
and How She Fur.
nished 1t.


the royal ladies of Europe, but for the
United States. and for the queens OF the
footlights as well. His first royal GUS
toner was Donna Maria da Gloria, Queen
Regnant of Portugal. There is scarcely a
princess married in all Europe-outside of
the ladies of the imperial family of Ger
many, whose principles forbid them from
ever ordering anything to be made in
Paris-that does not have a group of
Worth toilettes included in her trousseau.
The Empress of Russia and the Queens of
Italy and Of Portugal are his constant
customers. One of the rooms in his
beautiful home at Suresues has been
fitted up as a small theatre with
a tiny stage, and there Mesdames
FaVart and Croizette, and others of
the great actresses of France. have come
to go through before him the new roles
that they were about to create. so that he
might design for them dresses suited TO
the attitudes and the gestures required
by the characters they were to i'm
personate. The first to consult him in
| this way was the great Rachel when she
was preparing to appear in the only
modern society play i'll which she ever
acted, namely, Lady Tartuffe. Tire es-
adjustment OF the republic III Franc has
wrought no change III the prosperity OF
| his house. There are always courts TIC
be adorned, and queens aud princesses to
be dressed throughout the rest of Europe.
Poor, commonplace, penurious Madame
Grevy never dreamed, l suppose, of such
an extravaganza as q Worth toilette in all
her life, but the wives of all the other
| Presidents of FrRnce-Mesdames Theirs.
Mucmahon, and Caraot-have all been
numbered amongst his clients.
GREAT DESIGNER
Despite his long career, Mr.. Worth is
now but little past middle age. He is a
stout, genial, pleasant looking gentleman,
with II peculiarly low-toned voice, and
very quiet manners. He has never been
known to lose his patience with even the
most exacting and unreasonable OF Gus
toners; but if pressed too hard by the
c~aprices of any one OF them, he will glide
qnietly away and leave her to find out
what she wants before trying to satisfy
her. He is not only the head of that vast
establishment, but its soul and brain and
siuews us well. He creates the pattern
dresses, riders materials and trimmings
to be manufactured, very often from his
own designs, and superintends i'll person
all the delicate finishing details of u toll
cite. such as the shaping and trimming of
a corsage, the tying OF scarfS or OF rib
bons, II the placing of artificial flowers
on the skirt. He eXcels in combining
colors, sweeping aside piece after
piece of silk till the exact union of hass
that is at once the most effective aud the
most artistic has been reached. He stud
les the portraits of beauties and ceie-
brated female personages OF by-gone ages
to CLEAN ideas for new styles, as he OBJ
serves the blending of colors in the plum
age of birds or the petals of flowers or
the accidental combination of the pale
green Of young grass in the sprfng with
the warm red of the earth in q freshly
ploughed field. The last named union of
tints furnished him with an idea for II
strikingly effective toilet. He 10
his establishment from his home at nine
o'clock in the morning, aud remains
there always until six, seldom leaving
before seven in the height OF the season
He is ably seconded by his younger son,
Mr.. John Worth, who has Inherited much
of his fathers talent. The eldest son,
Mr.. CASTOR Worth, is the business mana
ger of the house.
OF Worth it may be said, as Louis XIII.
remarks of the great Cardinal Minister
in Bulwer's play of "Richelieu:"
:" Round him thrones totter-dYna sties dissolve,
The soil he guards alone escapes the earth
quake"
LONG AND PROSPEROUS REIGN.
The fairy realm or fashion outlasts
vi othkS
the house of Worth was founded, its
chief has seen pass away the Empire that
first brought him renown. the Emperor
that was it's head, the youth destined to
be the heir to the imperial greatness.
The lovely Empress whose charms found
their highest enchantment at his hands
is an aged widow. Half the beauties
that FIRST brought his toilettes into vogue
have become faded old ladies, and the
rest are not living. He has seen one rival
dressmaker after another arise in Paris,
win q fieeting renown, and then disap-
pear, and still the name Of Werth re-
mains a spell to conjure with amid the
entertainments of fashion. He has never
advert, ed, and has never sought pub
licity, But no similar establishruent.in
all the world eau Compel with his own.
not only in the taste and elegance of Its
productions, but in the conscientious care
shown in the quality of the materials
that are used, and in the tnoughtiuiness
evinced for the health and weil-being of
it's countless work women.-Lucu I'll.
Hooper IN Harper's Bdzor.
How Mrs. Logan Furnished Her Home.
Anyone who enters Mrs. Logan's beau
tiful home IL Calumet place, in Washing
ton, instantly recognizes the existence of
a marked personality somewhere that
has brought the surroundings Of the
home into u DeauJlIul fMo anu yet
has secured a distinct individuality
everywhere. Anyone who knows person.
ally the mistress of the house will under
$ tand this at once. Her home is exactly
Ike herself.
II have never had an unlimited purse
to draw upon for my furnishings" said
the mistress of Calumet place re-
Gently to the writer, land while
it may be easier to give an
order and say furnish this room In such
a style and this one in such "a COLOR it
certainly does not develop individuality,
INT that, to my mind, is the
first requisite. Rooms ought first
10 suggest their special uses, and
then the owners tastes. habits and
characteristics. Decoration out OF keep
ing with the rest OF the room should fluid
no place there. Multiplicity of decora-
ton and not simplicity seems TO be the
rule at present aud is Il bad one. Better
u few things OF real worth thar q crowd
of cheap mes without value intrinslcally
or from association. But come and LOOK
at a spot which l think every house
should nave somewhere" We entered
the adjoining room and in one corner Was
a most Injurious looking Eastern uivan
piled high with cushions, aud over it hung
a canopy of cords and tassels Of white
linen woven in an Intricate pattern.
'Thpt surely is not within the compass
of everyone's purseP"
"Oh, yes. it is. and | will give you an
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