Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-02
BRINGING OUT A BUD.
COST OF HER OUTFIT, WITH ITS
DRESSES AND ORNAMENTS.

Man Is Prepared for the Trying Ordeal
Of Meeting ''society"-she Has to Have
Almost Innumerable Gowns.
Some years ago wrote about the man
ner in which a Fifth avenue family of my
acquaintance kept its oldest daughter what
you might call satin lined and cotton bat
tinged with luxury, like a bit Of exceed
tngly delicate jewelry in its case. Now
want to tell little, just the veriest trifie,
that ! have happened to hear about the
manner in which that young lady's sister
Is being got ready for what is called her
debut" in society As l remember the
story of the surroundings Of her sister,
whose marriage made u great stir about
two years ago and who is now wrapped up
In little baby Of her own, there was moth
ing more extraordinary than that she lived
In great comfort and had nearly everything
that she wanted-a French maid, l remem-
Der, and great closets full Of dresses and
bureaus full Of linen, and a very pretty
bedroom which, by nm odd chance, hap
pened to be called into for moment when
she was away.
The most striking things in that room, AZ
remember it, were the great cheval glass
In which she viewed the effects of her dra~
peries and the "set" of her skirts, and a
pretty rosewood "priedieu," with an ivory
and silver covered prayer book ON its shelf,
on which she knelt TO say her probably
commonplace prayers every night and
morning. IL strikes me now, though did
not think of il then, that perhaps not so
many persons would slight their prayers il
they had "A pretty rosewood contraptiOn,
with cushioned shelf for their knees, star
ing them in the face and getting in the way
Of their feet every time they dressed and
undressed-robed and disrobed, | mean, Of
course.
But now she considers herself an old mar
ried woman, and may even have French
novels TO read and To hide when the younger
one visits her. And she and her mother are
just now very busy in preparing to usher
the younger girl into the gddy whirl of so
ciety, In which all the older ones spend their
ornamental lives had never thought of
It before, and | wonder how many of my
readers have ever considered what it means
TO bring out" such girl OF course |
knew that some one gave u party-a mother
CT aunt or sister-and that the bud" or
debutante had TO be well dressed for the oc-
casion, hut gracious sakesl IA any fashion
able woman would say who reads this, the
dress for that one night il nothing at all.
Well, not exactly nothing at all either, for
i have heard that IL cost more than 500,
and the ten dollar handkerchief that she
will wear that night is now having seven
dollars worth Of lace sewed on it,
The shoes, the silk stockings, the orna-
ments for her hair, the stickpins for her
corsage and the exquisite linen which will
intervene between her dress and her person
are all Of the finest, and cost lump sum Of
hundreds of dollars. SO it does cost some
thing, after all-that and the order at Sher-
rysfora supper for sixty, and Mt the florists
for literal banks Of flowers. And her little
cousin, who lives with her and il to be
present Mt the installation of the BELLE is TO
be dressed, it seems, within what | would
call an inch of her life.
But that coming out night figures very
lightly in the cost of the occasion This
young lady has been in the hands OF sew
eral dressmakers for more than month,
and has nearly two dozen new dresses I'M
der way When heard that | remarked
that had not remembered that she was in
short dresses and needed "A new vet. l was
laughed ut for that BLESS you" said her
father, who was my informant, "she wears
dresses az long as her mothers and has
done so for a long time" What she is
having now, IL seems, are dresses OF kind
she never needed before-dresses for public
and social functions, from which she used
TO be barred when she was merely a girl.
Among these new gowns are theater
dresses, opera dresses and cloaks, tea
gowns, dinner dresses and dancing and re-
ception dresses.
AS a rule she has TO have bonnet to
match every dress and shoes and stockings
that accord with the evening dresses A
half "A dozen new wraps, some of them
from Paris, like one or two OF the dresses,
are in the list that this irreverent father
ratified off to me when he found that was
Interested. And even these are but the big
ger things.
The number Of fans, and the abundance
OF gloves, and the cost and delicacy Of two
score Of the handkerchefs, and the hairpins
and pocketbooks and purses. the slippers
and the umbrellas that he mentioned
seemed to me beyond all reason and beyond
the calculation Of IA man of modest figures.
The father did not pretend to know much
about the matter, and said he guessed he
had not told me Of some Of the important
things. well, i" said !, "it sounds to me az
II you had adopted IA Hottentot girl with a
palm leaf for trousseau and were trying to
dress her for season at Newport" And
that IL how it does seem.
This young woman is also to enjoy the
dignity Of NADIA real French one, who
was engaged in Paris by u New York lady
OF her acquaintance, who thus would have
caused two continents to feel interested in
the great event had not the purchase Of
dresses in Paris disturbed that side Of the
globe beforehand. She is also 10 have
carriage and horses that she Is to call her
own and order sent around whenever she
wants them, instead Of asking her mamma
for the loan Of that lady's equpage once in
awhile Mt the most inopportune times, as ]
am informed she has been doing Of late.
1t is all very strange TO me, but ! must
say il seems equally natural to my rich
friends. Poor Richard gave the advice,
Associate with the wealthy, for a man is
often mistaken for the company he keeps"
or words of that import. | do not either
follow or like his advice. | have rich
friends aud some that / like and admire
very much but not all such are cOmfOrtar