Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-30


MS with gold thread and edged with a wide
poruer or ermine. The collar is fiaring and
Is OF the finest lace
win the Marquise de Pompadour. who was
Y Sne ieaoer OF fashion in the reign of Louis
Az, the style grows more fancy The f,Il
pear. f ~P
Marie Antoinette represents the year 17S5
- atured In costume Of dark blue
Velvet edged with sable, opening over a
VINE satln skirt Her hair hangs about her
n ne IN snort curls, and is powdered; and
sne wears blue velvet can with a long
white ostrich plume in one side with tbis
is worn white lace fichu The dress is
executed from portrait painted bv Nine
Versailles ~ "eeh a.
Inc two figures that follow one looks at
long ana attentively. Josephine de i;eal-
narnals, with her pretty dark nair worn in
the creek style her high-waiste.l dress ana
fluffy sleeves, her garnet satin train bss,,,-
y embroidered in pearls and gold thread.
represents the early part OF the nineteentb
century.
Marie Louise, the second wife Of No,o-
leon, follows and occupies case to herself
She is attired in the robe worn at her core
nation, copied from Girard's painting The
train is of crimson velvet, bordered and
lined throughout with ermne. 1t Is also
bordered with heavy embroidery, and DOTTED
all over with gold embroidered fleur de lis
The bodice and skirt are Of white sa tin en-
broidered with gold thread; the sleeves are
puHed, and the jewels are diamonds and
pearls.
The collection is complete with the ad-
oltion OF few modern toileItes. 1t is won
derfuliy interesting and attracts hosts Of
people.
The exhibition Of fancy dress goods, dress
patterns and trousseaux must ne seen to be
appreciated. One linen tea gown Is so fine
mat the whole thing can he drawn throush
niger ring, and is so shown in the case
with the ring encircling the gown. half
way up.
Royal Art Work.
L suppose the first things 20 mention in
Great Britain are the queens paintings.
Inere are eight sketches by her majesty's
royal hand, five water colors and three
pencil drawings. One Of the water colors is
a portrait of Munshi Hapiz Abdul Karin,
the queens Indian secretary; and In spite
Vi MS name she has made a very fair pic
tufe. mis- Is her latest work, and shows a |
vast improvement over the Others
her nrst water color was painted in 1873
ana Is view from her sitting room at
Balmoral. Later she painted a view from
another window, in November of the same
year. Ihere are two others-one a winter
scene at Balmoral in 1880 and the other a
view at Aix-les-Bains, from Tresserve
The pencil sketch Of the queens fox ter
rier, Spot" taken in the railway carriage
January %, 1891, is crude; better is the
drawing OF a pug belonging to Prince Henry
OF Battenburg, 1856.
In close vicinity to the queens paintings
are number Of royaltys crude Efforts.
There is sea view in oil by the Princess
Beatrice. view of a wheat field by H. r. Ii.
Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holstein
princess Of Great Britain and Ireland, and
portrait by Princess Louise, the best Of
all. This is all. The group Of pictures is
draped with the British colors. They adorn
the wall of the west gallery.
On the main floor in the British section
are samples of the work of II. X. H. Prin-
cess Mary Adelaide, duchess of Teck. There
are two handsome slumber robes crocheted
of Iceland wool and lined with heavy white
silk, a pretty red petticoat crocheted OF
scarlet zephyr and vest, a gentleman's
vest crocheted of white zephyr in Afghan
stitch. This is lined with white broadcloth
and the edges are bound with white silk
braid; the pockets are beautifully bound
and the buttonholes closely worked
From Russia there is a superb display of
embroideries, some fine paintings on porce-
lain and rare collection of real laces One
piece of lace several yards long and not
more than three inches wide is made en-
tireiy of silver thread. 1t is still bright and
lustrous, though IL was made in the seven
teenth century. and ii holds within its
meshes the secret of its creation, for in ali
these 200 years since IL was fashioned no
one has been able to unravel the secret of
Its manufacture, and so IL remains the
only piece of its kind in the world, priceless
and precious.
Some Court Costumes
1 turn from the rare old laces to a large
glass case containing several court CO.'S
tunes displayed on lay figures, the trains
laid out to their full length in richest folds.
There is an old couple from the country
standing by gazing at the magnificent robes.
The old man says slowly: Wall, III be
Jigged, Mira, IL them amt the finest things
l ever see;" and truly they are handsome.
They were designed by her imperial high
ness, the Duchess Elizabeth Feodorowna
one is white and yellow, in princess shape
ught-ntting, sleeveless and very low neck
back and front: il is made of heavy white
satln, with fringe of silver beads across
the bottom and heading of deep embroid-
cry in silver thread. The fringe Is a half
yard deep in the center and only three
inches deep at the sides, The bodice Is
entirely covered with silver embroidery
The train, which is of lemon-color watered
SILK, falls from the shoulders; il is border
ed with silver thread embroidery 10 the
depth of a half yard.
A royal purple gown is so covered with
silver and gold embroidery thai II Is DIM
cult to see the texture OF the material
and grapes, and is very rich The train
falls from the shoulders and is four wards
long, mass of silver and gold embroidery
ms dress is three hundred years old, and
is valued at $4,000
A third robe is scarlet and white the
bodice and skirt of white silk covered with
a mass OF gold embroidery: the train which
rams from the shoulders being made OF a
and gold thread; this is heavily boriered
with gold embroidery, and was made in the
Convent of the Holy Virgin at Moscow In
Is not possible to convey any idea OF the
erect OF these beautiful robes: they must be
seen to be appreciated. Russia has also a
handsome collection of altar hangings and
ves;ments. SURPRISING anything of the Kind
In the whole exposition.
speaking of altar hangings reminds me
mat ireland has some very handsome ones
her linens are especially fine and datntily
embroidered. The vestments prepared for
cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop RYAN are
particularly noticeable One set is OF green
SILK poplin, embroidered with shamrocks
Another set is of white watered silk. heavily
embroidered in gold. Cardinal Gibbons has
selected set of brocaded silk with cross
or white poplin embroidered in gold. There
are two other sets. one Of white corded
SILK. embroidered in colors for Archbishop
Ireland; another of red silk and gold en-
broidery for Archbishop Fehan. All this
work Is done by Door orphans, under care
of the Sisters of Charity
beginning the Program.
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