The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-15

n Cup Girl set OF underwear for this kind
OF skirt. Every Cup Girl knows what 1t
Is and how IL u.s. She knows the tightness
OF the wool, the dancing girl sugges-
ton OF its lower portions and the boned
shapeliness OF it's upper parts. She knows.
too, that IL costs a great deal
The dress waist with this sea captalness
skirt Is a Jersey without shoulder puffs.
1t Is the little plain old Jersey which
English girls wore to death. IL fits like
n flannel shirt. 1t is pulled on over the
head. and II clings 10 tho waist and hips
like a sweater only 1t Is fine and light.
and trimmed with small bralds like a
dress waist.
The regular loose Cup Girl cloak is
slipped on over this and the Cup Girl is
telling the actual truth when she says
she is neither hot nor cold. just comfort
able. for never was there n rig better fit
ted to the weather than this one.
The Cup Girl is not New Woman.
but she leaves off corsets. She is actually
Obliged TO do this because. with those
bony things on she could not initiate the
seaman's roll as she walks across deck
when the sea is high, nor could she stoop
for the rope nor jump for the sheet, or
bend across the wheel when pressure must
be put on. She Is a shapcly girl, OF
course, and looks trim for a that; for
well she knows that her own bones. Offset
with the boned under-rigging, will sup
port her figure into nineteenth century
IDEAS OF beauty.
The Dunraven sisters wear queer cup
gowns Their habitual dress for they
dress as alike as peas in the same pod
IS "A black serge shirt. n white yachting
coat. loose and big sleeved and hanging
almost TO the knees, and a big muller
for casting around the throat. ley
stand upon the valkyrie deck side by
side and clasp hands agonizedly when
the big cup boat falls back. When she
points ahead and shows her gait they
stand apart and look az though clapping
their hands, so fantastcally do the ends
of the neck mufilers dash together in the
brisk wind.
Mrs. Iselin clngs to her conventional
dress. She IS too busy and too tired 10
look up new ways Of becoming n Cup
Girl. but Mrs. George Gould has all the
very latest agonIes in dress. In the Nor
wegian fiords she picked up n gown OF
deep red wool II looks heavy as several
boards and woolly as the back Of a sheep.
Crisp days she gets herself up in this,
and warmer DAYS she wears a very trig
gish dress that looks like "A Worth. But
she, too has succumbed 10 the long, loose
Yachting cloak. She slips il on and off
and spectators notice that to-day IL is
navy blue. tomorrow light blue. and next
day white or drab. Its sleeves are al
WAYS immense and Of contrasting color
except I'm the light blue material. when tho
whole cloak Is ike the heavens on
winning race day.
The Dunraven girls have just one kind
Of a hat. II is light felt. To-day you see
IL fat and trimmed with black feathers
OF stiff variety that somehow keep their
shane Tomorrow you notice that II is
white alpine. like Helen Gould's yachting
hat. and another time they have discard
Cd these for a small white turban. "a
white hat on the ocean always" is the
rule for yachtswomcn.
.'The ither craft ken see we and shout
Boat ahoyr the livelcr." said an old
cracked-head salt Of Sailors Snug Har-
bor I'm childish approval OF the pretty
crew he can no longer pilot through the
waters. "WP sight o. the pretty, sweet
faces o. We many a puir boy'l get STAYED
on the TOP like mesel, " he says. rubbing
the poor head that was made a-silly'
by a falling mast.
The Cup Girl is the sequel 10 the sum
mer girl. and bachelors who were not
CONQUERED by the seashore goddess are
auailing before her autumn kin. She rs
so neat IN dress. so comfortable in APP
pearancc. so contcnted, so useful and so
charming that the summer cargo of brok-
en- hears Is twice the heavier for her adj
vent. HELEN WARD.