The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-18
a PiNh FUNERAL.

Color Scheme Arranged for the
obscquics of Young Girl.
Pink luncheons, pink dinners and
pink teas are no longer a novelty, but
it has been left to a Minnesota woman
10 introduce the idea OF a pink funeral
and 1t proved great success, il origi-
rality be the chief consideration.
In Mankato, Mimi. there lived a
pretty young girl who had just grad
I uated from the high school with honors,
I f1er tond parents had arranged TO give
4 ner d pink tea" in which She was 10
make her debut in the social world,
Six OF her school girl friends were 10
ASST &C the young debutantes recep-
4 tlon, and they were all TO appear IN
punk gowns Pink roses were 10 dec
crate the nom, pink ices were to be
served and the pretty debutanteNcon-
erary so general custom-wds not 10
appear roped in the traditional white.
OUT IN rose pink brocade.
= week before the day of the recep-
| tion the young woman was suddenly
Sel@eo with dlphther4a, and after a
rev days illness, died. 1t happened
that the day for the funeral was ar
ranged on the date on which her re-
ceptlon would have been held. The day
aiter the girls death her mother had
an inspiration
Adele shall have a pink funeral in
stead of the PINK tea,' she announced
to her husband. and from that mo-
ment her resolution never faltered.
Her husband demonstrated, friends ad-
Vlsed. but she remained firm.
My darling loved pink" she said
and she shall have ii all around her
next Thursday, just as she had
planned"
The order given the florists had been
countermanded, but the mother insist
ed that the decoration of the drawing
room with pink roses and maidenhair
ferns should be carried out exactly as
Adele had planned for her tea. and the
rlom where the corpse lay was convert
ed into veritable bower of roses. The
conn was covered with pink satin,
winch rejected rosy tinge on the
marble face of the dead young girl.
She was dressed in the rose colore6
orocade which was to have been her
coming OUT gown, her dimpled arms
were bare to the elbows, and her hands
clasped huge bouquet of pink rose
puos and maidenhair ferns. Pink roses
were entwined in her dark locks, and
she appeared as beautiful in death as
she had been in life.
rms same color scheme was carried
out in all the arrangements for the
tuneraL The six young girls who were
TO have assisted Adele in receiving
were asked to act as pallbearers. and
requested to wear their prettiest pink
gowns The hearse was drawn by four
white horses with pink rosettes on
their heads while the hearse itself was
covered with a pink cloth and its in
side was lined with flowers of the same
color. During the funeral ceremonies
at the young girls home the mother
stood at the head of the open coffin.
saying to each arrival. in the same
words she would have used in intro
ducing them at the tea:
This is my daughter, Adele"
Ii was strange scene; the flower
decked room, the grief stricken mother
ard the gayiy decBed ahrong that
pressed around the coffin. Notices had
been sent out requesting those invited
to the funeral 10 wear the same gowns
they had arranged to appear in al
the reception. The mother herself wore
a gown Of silver gray MORE. and her
race was so worn and haggard as to be
scarcely recognizable as she stood beside
the remains of her only daughter.-
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.