The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-11
ITS GREAT SHOW
Hhe Flowers That Bloom IN the
Spring IN Madison Square.
they Are Children and the Square ID
Their Child Garden - Costumes of
Jackets and Points-The Bar
barrie Note In 0ociety.
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Anc spring sun brings the roses "a
4he cheeks Of the bah aud the babie.
10 the light. Every April am sur
prised anew at the number Of them
Some cold, bleak and snowy day 70,
shall see Madison square, New York
!, deserted On the morrow, as if b.
= magic, it blossoms with children. ant
the flowers of the field aren't in it
with them for beauty and grace; ane
grim old Admiral Farragut looks dowr
from his granite pedestal with some
thing like smile on his bronze lips.
The greatest baby show and chile
garden on earth, in proportion to it.
acreage, is Madison square in spring
Picturesque beyond compare are the
costumes of the little ones, and trifie
confusing. ''Are you yourself or you1
sister?"'I gravely asked Of one little
fellow. He was splendid in red cloak
that fell to his heels and a red fe1
cooked coquettishly over one ear, and
IS he fitted and few about the benches
under the trees he looked like trop
Zeal bird come down to hobnob with
the children Of earth.
Il Amt no dirl," he replied, throw
ing his long cloak open and displaying
TO view, with masculine pride, a bolero
Jacket, dainty white waist and legs
completely incased in yellow leggins
The babies have no costume out of
hoors. Nothing shows of them but a
pink nose, with upturned nostrils.
uniting the pure. cool air from beneath
the snowy blankets, while their white
capped nurses chat together. Then
we have them in all stages and all
ages up, from the toddlers to the
trotters and from the trotters to the
runners, the active, why little fellows
of ten or twelve, who play tag when
they can get an inch of space and who
are the terror of the white-capped Sis
terho0d.
Nearly half of them wear yellow
leggins and the girls have mittens or
gloves until long after the last sus-
picion of GOODNESS has passed out of
the air. But no amount of extra ma
ternal solicitude can keep the boy and
girl nature out of these playful little
elves.
Jackets and dangling curls and Tam
o'Shanters mark the little girls; leg
gins and jackets the boys. 1t is
Jacket spring. A jacket renaissance.
"Avec une petite jacquette?" is the
smiling man milliner's first question
to an intending customer. He may be
from Galway an occasional French
phrase. not >, difficult of translation,
h subtle mpliment to the buyers
linguistic ,ilities.
A iac' spring! and a pointed one.
Here u jacket with points Material.
soft gray cloth, cut long wasted and
close fitting; an inner vest front with
square rolling lapels, jacket front
over that with wide Tapping lapels.
considerable fare over the hips ana
two long points depending in front;
balloon sleeves to the elbow, sausage
casing sleeves below. This costume is
worn over a dotted skirt with a wide
iruffle at the bottom, which detail l
mention because it is unusual. Most
of the jacket skirts nowadays are
rather plain.
There are points indoors as well as
out. The prettiest one / have seen
was worn by that matron of full figure
and sumptuors charm, who was just
saying ''Good-by. dear" to the lady in
Jne pointed Jacket as L entered. What
q contrast between the indoor and out
door effect. Outdoors was stiff. cor
ssted, high collared and uncomfort-
able. Indoors was lissome and will
h.
bow under her right ear, probably be-
cause there wasn't room for so much
of it under her chin. Indoors lovely
neck was bare, and exc her plump
arms even to the elbows thereof.
And such a gown!
The loose elbow sleeves were of the
material of the bodice, q soft gray silk
that. by the contrast, was made to
look almost white. The front was
coming quite to the waist in point
whose edges were trimmed with point
ed ornaments Of dull seed pearl, or
something that looked like it. The |
pointed opening at the throat was ac-
centuated with more of the same dull
cleaning ornament, and about the
wide black shoulder flaps there were
lozenges of jet and about the waist a
row of the pearl points again like a
belt of bears claws. And the filmy |
gray silk of the overskirt, if one may
call it so, came down in front quite to |
the hem in two long, sharp points, |
edged all the way with the pearl orna- |
ment. and q slight train behind was |
similarly decorated. The effect of the |
whole was rich, barbarically rich, |
rather than refined, but woman of |
oueenly mold can well bear some little |
display.
For society is barbaric. Always has
been, doubtless, but its barbarism is
more open and unblushing now.
What hos been the fuvorite society di- |
version all winter? Hagenback's /
trained animals. without doubt, and |
darker midnight .revels with some /
oriental dancer of delightful impro-
priety as the central figure. What is
the favorite diversion this week? The
great circus without doubt.
One sees at Madison square garden
the SWEETEST, smartest costumes. All
under that mighty roof are
sacred TO society, but the circus gets
more than its share of the fine after
noon toilets There is much bravery
of silk and fine show of wen-groomed
tailor mades and nodding of plumes
and rustling of rich robes and bows. OF
bows there are many, there is much.
Each by itself is notable: en- masse
they become truly formidable. The bow
tie is of the widest, stitfest, glossiest
ribbon. 1t is worn on one side, gen.