Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-10-19
VANITY FAIR.

sons house at Madrid are unique in their
decorations. Her bedroom is papered
with leaves of music taken from the
operas in which she has sung, and the
dining room with hotel bills she has col
lected in her professional travels. A
room in one of the outlying engine
houses of Boston, says the Transcript,
can beat that. Its walls are entirely
covered with lottery tickets that didn't
draw.
A recent article in the Philadelphia
Press spoke of the fast pace at which
the young Frenchman is travelling who
not long ago came into possession of Miss
Anna Gould's hand, presumably her
heart, and a husbands share in her for
tune.
The count was we'll known in Partisan
society, of course, before his marriage,
and was cordially disliked therein. bis
reputation was of such a character that
a universal feeling of surprise was eX-
pressed when the news of his engage
ment was received at his home, that any
nice girl could be found to marry him.
1t is not at all strange that this gem
eral disgust for his own personality, cou-
pied with the very pronounced and thor
oughly French contempt for raw wealth,
sarcasm and the dupes of hangerson,
while they find it impossible to force a
way into the best circles, with either his
rank or her millions.
There's one comfort about living in
London" remarked the self-exiled Amer
lean; you can dress just as you choose.
English women rig themselves SO dOwdi-
ly-not to say shockingly-th pretty
nearly anything an American puts on APP
pears smart and elegant just in sheer
contrast. 1t isn't that the English don't
have smart and elegant clothes, too; but
they don't know how nor when to wear
them and, most of all, their smartest
and most elegant things almost immedi-
ately acquire an air of slovenlinesS and
ill-grace. There are well-authenticate
traditions to the effect that the clothes Of
the average English woman were once
new; that she didn't buy them originally
at some secondhand shop; but it is hard
to believe it. It's the aptitude of the
American woman that tells so in her
dressing, just as it does in pretty much
everything else she does. Upon her tog-
gerry takes on a grace that, intrinsically,
it knows nothing about. That's why she
can dress as she chooses over here No
matter what she wears she always APP
pears to advantage beside the English
woman. [ tell you, London is the best
place in the. world for wearing out your
old clothes.'
The Princess of Wales, of whom it is
being told i'll London at the moment
that she was very recently taken for the
sister of the daughter with whom she
was walking. is confessedly the young
est looking for her years of all the mem
bers OF European courts, according to
the New York Times. In her mortar
board and gown, which she has the right
to wear as a Mus. Doc, a degree lately
conferred upon her, she might easily
pass for a college girl instead of the
grandmother which she is.
It is pretty generally understood by
women who have achieved choice pearl
rings that while clear, pure water does
not lnJure the gem, soap and water will
soon affect their luster and color, and in
time will cause them to peel or shed an
outer coat. This crumbling, however,
takes place even when the gems are
most carefully treated, and when the
tendency is noted the ring or brooch or
necklace should be promptly taken to a
JeWeler. The course of treatment often
prescribed by that authority is that of
the rest cure. Put it aside in it's box,
carefully closed from light and air, and
a few weeks or possibly a month or two
restore the original beauty and health of
the gem.
The news that the Prince of Wales
has gone in for silk waistcoats has
caused lump to raise in the threats of
the impecunious chappies, for those
things come high. A fashionable tailor
who has just returned from London
brought over bales of the costly new
stuffs from which he proposes to make
vests for his young men before the snow
flies. A vest pattern of white satin.
embroidered with little gold feurs de lis.
will soon decorate the front of one Of
Gotham's sWells: 1t is for evening wear,
and the sartorial artist will receive
about $50 for it. He has in stock ma
terial that runs the price of a vest up
to S75. The fashion set by Albert Ed
ward can hardly become common. even
in the ranks of the Johnnies.
The young Duke of Marlborough has
held political reception at Blenheim
and made a speech.
Less is said in the English papers
about the speech than about the cakes
and ale freely distributed
Your true British voter cannot con-
slider any proposition about the franchise
unless his stomach is we'll filed with
campaign powder"
Rumor was busy at the height of the sea-
son concerning superb reception gown,
said to have been designed by famous
French portrait painter for his beauti-
full sitter, and which she wore regally on
certain day, according to Vogue. When
the portrait arrives we shall expect to be
fascinated. 1t is built in lie style de
Vatican, of glorious brocade. garlanded
in pink. blue and mauve blossoms, with
delicate foliage on a rich cream-white
ground. The Vatican folds fall from a
demi-decolletag en- demi-train, with i'm
mense amplitude of skirt well held out
by japons. At the sides plisse panels
of cream-white mousseline de sole over
white satin. hemmed at the bottom
simply, but having a deep founce of
Alencon falling over. Joined to these
panels for finish are broad stripes of
brocade, purposely woven, which start
from the hem and continue ND the cor
sage en- brettelie. Failing over the plisse
nannlS from tho side of Sfrina from,