The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-03
THEY DRESS FOR A TUMBLE.


WlVUTN, TWWWW9, IOTOWWTH,
Bostonians. and oil such folk, down to the
grade OF the Gentleman Usher Of the Black
Rod, had the Senate chamber to themselves,
while the honest folk next door stuck TO their
Tho Aberdeens commended themselves to
American esteem before the ball was halt
over They walked and stood about between
the dances. went out Into the hall and nag
most sfscIoub" ss the special report in Ne
steel mn. Important colony to the mother coun.
try Moreover these great folk remain at
etiuuotto required - EN- to remain only long
enough to lead the march TO the supper room
] ord Ava. son of Lord Dufrefin and SONS
fellows Of high English stock, but Cupid got
hold OF thea IN what seemed true AMERICAN ,San
got the prettiest girls with the prettiest bare
arms and tho most pink and expansive bare
necks into the most Qut-oi.the way corners;
aud spark ed them to what an American would
call the Queens taste. SO IL came that one
ran across lovely girls seated on tables and on
Legislative desks. In storerooms and the ends
and angles OF un,reQuented halls-ench girl all
by herself saving the presence 3f o e1.and,
very PrettiSs, ones at the ball, And they wery
"Ahpm | must really so and look for mamma"
whenever laundering man or woman came
There are only two cities In Canada that can
assemble such beautiful women as greeted the
nobility on that night They are Montreal and
Quebec. and the reason is that those cities are
largely French There is no use denying that
the Frerch Canadians arc prettler than he
English. Irish. and scotch canadians. The
british girls have cheeks that are as rosy and
they have voices that are musical beyond
descrintion; scarcely in heaven will We hear
such melody rs the carOling OF tho English
women in their soft liquid tones. But the
TRENCH girls are not big hoped and over tall
sparkling and full cheek ed and light eyed and
H.. 49, a ,4f.. atN h., xNI haaN
them? They tell the reporter of rHE SuN that
they think the American women very pretty
tod that our ieiies T use lite IT,, rouge %ES and
sometimes paint their lips and eyebrows.
Heaven knows how such u scandal should have
arisen. IL is the worst sin in the Canadian
calendar. The Canadian girls are 40 we'll
painted by nature that they cannot understand
folly OF painting herself.
Alter . O'Clock in tho morning when the
Governor Generals party had gone away. and
renewed the yiGor of the dancers, tho tall
changed It's character entirely. 1t had been
atfr and English. hut now II became gay and
Gallo. The French took control and began
to sing ns we'll a. to dance. Many lively old.
fashioned French cotilons were executed ami
every man and woman sang merrily. n one
Of these dances all the persons in the larger
ormsd Se 0Sd the sra. corr
doris OF the Parliament House a photographer
caught the detached couples and Photographers
them at dollar pair until he made up n gal
lery that might be called Cupid's Canadian
Court.
Tho women at tho Quebec carnival deserve
q chapter nll to themselves. and shall have it,
loston woman who looked, the Astor party
those are provincial folks from Nova Scotia or
somewhere" to the pretty bride who cleared
crowd at the skating rinklby saying. oh, dear,
! am sure | am going o faint; the men crowd
me So" one 81 the things the women love
to sk them 'na e to r
store on the continent. IL Is n fur palace
rather than a fur, store. 1t may not hayo
kind in New York. but it is SO bedizrned with
mirrors and SO crowded with mounted ami
stands and ornaments, made OF bears and
MONKEYS and antlers and such things. that it
store. The CLERKS show > OF u few floors OF it.
tor II is enormous in its size. and then they
take hold Of the mirrors and open them Ike
and fur CAPS and boas and sealskin coats and
carriage rohes. There seems to be incalcula-
whisper that the proprietor began life with a
hundred dollars twenty years ago. while his
principal rival once peddled milk in the streets
One couple of New York women, we'll known
and and yo 5G and pretty Got their husbands to
After that the queerest thing about hem was
to see them walking to their rooms in the hotel
swellcd out as big As ginntesses In heavy iurs.
only to rcappear in an hour dressed for dinner
in low necks and bare arms. AS petite and deli
cato as they had been big and robust in their
furs. There at" plenty Of elaborate gowns in
the dining room Of the principal hotel every
night. but apparently they are only worn ty
these women happen TO he mothers in the bar
g9ip, they nearly AL wear little white lace caps
on the very tops Of their heads The elderly
Canadian women go to the extreme OF imitat-
ing the Queen by wearing big linen CAPS puffed
Young married women are given to wearing
plain cloth skirts and brilliant silk waists
orr or waists Of one brilliant color. led or royal
purple having the preference. At dinner to-
Ing. wore a black skirt and u !. ast as white
ami soft ~ " mound OF snow, TO accsntuate
her mourning she wore black silk bow tied
above her elbow on her right arm.
To see a woman out of doors in n hat or a
bonnet is to make sure she has 'ust arrived.
On the second day here she puts on fur cap
crown krO"ked IN and the sides an inch thick. |
The Canadian girls wear these caps, which are
also precisely tho same that the men wear.
and, when only the upper parts OF their bodies |
are secn, In the windows or in the streets 1t is
the prettiest. most fetchin. headgear il seen
In the, very swell French and English girls |
are made OF beaver. and are shared like Alpine |
hats with the sides Pressed Hat against the |
sSTe I" be- te stir ea yf ns o ,neGs
ribbor. one NJ those caps, set u little Rslant |
On q Canndtenne. with brilliant cheeks ana |
pt every bachelor from the States for an In |
lellnite period.
At the skating rink this afternoon some OF |
.Eeso pretty natives were walt2ing on skates |
10 tho music ~ the army land from the eta |
lei, They can skate like fairies. They sweep |
e and fTo Ike yachts Of mnFical swiitness; |
hey dart over the ice like birds in the air aud |
hey spin and whirl and pirouette aud trace |
Hncy patterns on the Ice. 30 that no onlooker |
IAN perceive particle of eXertion or explana- |
ion of the mystery how they manage TO he |
30 airy, So sEtlful, OF so graceful. But IL il |
when they waltz that they become most be-
Eitching. Tho backward whirl and the cross
step, and the constant repetition OF the inner.
md the outer roll give such melodious swing
70 thel skirts that no English now at hand |
n Quebec is ~ to convey the effect; Their bottles
glide now this side aud now that and their
iresses move with that ,liquefacton" when
lie poet herrirk Inscribed TO his Julia's gown |
when she tTiPped along the road. Hardly has
me Of their skirts determined which way it
shall foat when the move meat is changed and |
he drapery contradiets itself and tloats the
)ther waY.
Seldom is so much MS an ankle displayed by
he pretty skaters. only the rhythmic dresses
md tho iGshH. skate blades are Y0uchsafed
o the vision OF the heholdeT But each time |
he girls din. IN the swing and poetry ~ the
eatherllke dance. some nart OF each skirt edge
Ouches the ice and picks up an ed.:tng ~ |
now, so that. presently. every musi al silently |
nelodtous skirt seems trimmed with crmins !
Z is the men who display the only hosiery
ma M he carnival no p,puInr IIopL.,t !