The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-26

If any man has a "gad-about" wife
let him buy her tea jackets galore. She
will stay at home, if only to wear the
dainty, picturesque affairs which the
dealers in women's goods have designed
for her to don in the seclusion of her
own four walls.
The styles are as numerous as the ma
terials. Sometimes the bod1ces are
shirred on to a lace yoke. Sometimes
they are finished in Marie Antoinette
fichu fashion, and sometimes the quaint
surplice folds, fashionable a few years
ago, cross over the loose front. An I'M
usually pretty example of this last style
is made in soft, Powered silk in pale
green and pink In the back a double
box plat gives a semblance Of shapel1-
ness to the fullness which in front is
merely gathered. A turned-down col
lar of plain green silk, edged with wide,
soft lace, widens in front to broad sur
plice effect, crossing over the chest.
Another dainty affair is of blue SILK,
with an accordeon-plaitedc chiffon front
and a collar which is the admiration OF
all beholders. 1t consists OF many nut
ings and puffings Of lace, and among
the fittings little rosettes of blue satin
nestle contentedly.
Still another jacket is of pink batiste,
dotted in white. A square yoke, out
lined with a band of lace, is its most
conspicuous feature. The jacket proper
is simply gathered on the yoke. The
loose, modified angel sleeves are slit UP
the center to the shoulder, showing an
undersleeve of white silk muslin.
Pale blue batiste in a small, checker
board pattern, made by hair lines OF
white, makes another fetching tea
jacket 1t is simply gathered about the
neck beneath a very broad sailor collar,
which is trimmed with a deep lace frill
The Jacket is fastened with ribbon
bows.
Mrs. Clio Hinton Huneker, who made
the equestrian statue of General FIRE.
mont last summer, for which she re-
ceived $4,000, is at present in Paris.
She has taken a studio in the Latin
Quarter, where her time, except that
absorbed by her baby boy, will be given
to study.
She has already begun her work in
drawing with MacMonnies. Twice a
week she will receive criticism in mod
cling from the great French master of
sculpture, Rodin.
Mrs Huneker is not yet "a, and had
accomplished some excellent work in
modelling Of portrait busts and bas re-
liefs before leaving America. Her bust
of Mrs. James Brown Potter was ex-
hibited at the Atlanta Exposition, and
her design for the Fremont statue was
accepted in a competition with the best
known sculptors of America.
A bust of Anton Seidl and small
statuette of Jean de Reszke are num-
bered among her earlier studies.
Mrs. Huneker belongs to an artistic
family. Both her mother and sister are
artists, and as an evidence of her early
tendencies, when a child her favorite
dolls We're those of clay that she mod
eled for herself.
In speaking last summer of her in
atiatory steps in art, Mrs. Huneker said:
so soon as 1 became really interested
in any object began at once to feel a
desire to model it, but never went seri-
ously at work to accomplish anything
until about six years ago, when 1 began
to study regularly with St Gaudens /
think no one could fail with such a man
for an instructor. He believes thor
oughly in an art future for women In
deed, I have heard him say that the
trueSt artists in his class were women.
and that his principal object in forming
the class was to afford women an OPP
portunity of proving their genius
Speaking Of the development of art
among American women, Mrs Huneker
said at the same time:
Il am not in sympathy with the love
or ugliness for technique's sake that
remarkable cult that is springing up
among our young artists. / am always
touched by the beautiful and pict-
Cresque, even in dress. I could never
wear the ugly blouses, too long on the
shoulders, plain at the neck and shape
less at the waist. which some of the girls
affect and actually seem to enjoy. /
prefer curves and lines, and beauty In
al things"
Since the beginning of her art work.
MRS. Huneker has made a special study
Of the various national types of beauty
The calm, stately beauty of the Greek
women, she believes to be due to their
placid, domestic lives, the serenity OF
the face being also typical of the stately,
dignified spirit of the Greek nation.
American women, on the contrary, she
holds, reveal the activity of a new
civilization in their more spirited
beauty and vivacious manner.
Mrs. Huneker has in appearance
rather the Greek type OF face, combined
with a manner that is distinctly modern
and American. Mrs. Huneker has ex-
hibited at various times at the Archi-
tectural League, the Academy of Design
and at the American Art Gallery She
considers her profile of Paderewski the
hest bas-relief she has ever done. She
Is now at work on a bust of En,ma
Eames.
Miss Alice Rothschild has passion
for-not money, but flowers. Her col
lection Of roses alone is said to be worth
$4,000.
Miss Wrede is the Elizabeth Fry of
Finland. For the past twelve years
she has visited every prison in Finland
at least once year, and many of the
most hardened criminals have been re-
claimed to useful lives through her eff
forts.
When the late M. Pasteur was inves-
tigating the siik-worm epidemic, more
than forty years ago, his wife and
daughter were his devoted helpers, CIV
ing up almost all their social pleasures
for two years to watch the growth of
the insect and examine the condition OF
the tiny eggs. 1t was work never before
undertaken by women, as the greatest
patience and care We're required to Sc