The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15

comment at our most fashionable water
ing place, where most of the gowns are
maryels of taste and beauty.
At Newport the Misses Blight are spoken
OF as 1.-The lovely sisters" for both have
perfect figures and wear gowns which en-
phaslze their blonde and brunette coloring
to perfection. This winter we will have
TWO sisters In society for whom this de-
scription might have been intended. They
are charming representatives of one of
New York's old families.
Here we have so many devotees of the
wheel that l presume in the near future
we will hear of bicycle lunches and din
ners, such being at present quite the thing.
A well-known society woman in New York
has just given dinner to twenty-five OF
her friends, all of whom were bioyclists.
The table was wide oblong, covered with
snowy damask. The centerpiece was a
large wheel of shaded pink roses. The
ices were served in pink satin boxes, upon
each of which was painted a bicycle, and
several floral bicycles adorned the brackets
and cabinets.
Here, where our summers are almost
rainlesS cycling costumes should be of gray
or dust-color, and a turned-down linen
collar is the most comfortable to wear. The
sailor hat is suitable. One wishes to pro-
duce the effect of absolute simplicity and
trim slimness, and above all first-class
masculine excellence about the cut of the
clothes when cycling. Fancy woman
wearing bonnet on a bicycle. Why, 1t is
almost as absurd as having elbow sleeves;
yet both have been worn.
When the society of Daughters of the
American Revolution was first formed
many regarded it as mutual ancestral
admiration circle. No such ideas are now
entertained, but, although the objects and
aims of the organization are SO uni,
versally mprehended, it experienced
much difficulty in obtaining from one of
our largest and most popular libraries
historical reference books, and l have been
informed by the librarian repeatedly that
he is unable to obtain them, owing to the
fact that the board of management does
not approve of their purchase. Now, l
know nothing concerning the men COM
posing this board, but feel certain that If
they were Americans such volumes would
at once be ordered, even If few less novels
were subscribed for.
In Butterflies" was delighted with the
beautiful toilettes worn by Miss Adams.
In the first act her green gown with chic
little silk cape was delightfully."- artistic.
Then her soft creamy white tea-gown, re-
ieved with rose-pink Dresden ribbon, was
pretty; but in the second act her hand
soonest costume was seen, which was
dinner dress composed of rich white
satin brocaded in lines. and these were
composed of tiny flowers in gold and GRIM
son. The back was cut princess and fell
from the neck most gracefully in two box
pleats. The front showed white satin
petticoat. When we last see Miriam she
is appareled in an airy, fairy organdy. with
Marie Antoinette tichu surrounded with
ruffie. This organdy has the slightest
tinge of gray, which is most becoming to
her, relieved as it is by touch of green.
How women can wear large feather and
ribbon bedecked hats to the theater, after
all that has been said and written on that
subject, is a mystery to me, but rejoice
in being able to state that since fashion has
decreed that only the tiniest bonnets can
be worn, and that a pretty woman is at
her best in a light gown, with her hair
we'll arranged, those fendish chapeaux are
decreasing in number. MARCELLA.