The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
ASTOR DIAMONDS
Mrs. AstOr VIII Wear All Her
Diamonds
And a Venetian Costume at the
Bradley Martin Ball.
DRESS DINNERS
Are Being Arranged By Many
Of the Guests
To Be Given Immediately Be
fore the Great Event.

New York Feb Announcements for
the Bradley Martin ball are going for
ward regardless of the criticism that
has been engendered.
The floral decorations will be quite
lavish in the Boldt home, from which
the invitations are issued and where
the guests will be first received before
crossing the bridge to the Waldorf.
Wild smilax, Gala lilies, evergreens
and American Beauty roses will be used
principally.
The passageway will be a bower of
flowers and the small ball room will be
most profusely decorated The music,
iment band and two Hungarian orches-
tras, will be supplemented by one of
reed instruments, which will play the
minuets and pavannes for the Louis
XIV. quadrilles.
Another feature of the evening will
be the many costume dinners which the
guests will attend before going to the
ball. The ladies who are organizing the
quadrilles will give dinners of this kind.
The arrangements being made by Mrs.
AStor give rise to a report that she in
tended to give a bal costume to rival
that of Mrs. Bradley Martin. Mrs. AS
tor sails for Europe on February II.
It would be impossible to get up ball
in that short space of time.
The supper menu has not yet been
submitted to Mrs Bradley Martin. The
walters as well as the servants in Mr..
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costumes, with powdered hair and knee
breecheS.
Mrs. Astor's gown will be modelled
after the one in which she made such
Design. 1t will be Venetian of the 18th
century, and as Mrs. Aston will wear
all her diamonds, it will be one of the
most notable at the ball
There have been many changes in the
arrangement of the quadrilles. Mrs.
Ogden Mills will not have one OF
strictly IncrOyables and Mrs. August
Belmont has concluded not to under
take the arrangement of another, al
though she will be at the ball. Mrs.
Baylies also changed some of the orig
inal plans made for that which she is
to undertake.
This week will also see other changes.
Rehearsals are being daily held at Mrs.
Henry L. Sloane's, at Mrs. John Jacob
Astor's, at Mrs. Frederick Bronson's,
and at Mrs. Burial Hoffman's. A num-
Der of women are having their gowns
made at home, and some of the mar
ried men are taking advantage of this
and are also having their costumes fixed
and completed by the family dress
| maker.
1t has been decided that Peter Marie
! and Richard Peters will both follow
Harry Sands example and go as
princes of the church in scarlet robes.
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont has kept almost
a secret the nature of her costume, al
| though it is very generally known that
! it is to be that of a French duchess.
! Mrs. Belmont may be asked to dance in
! one of the Quadrilles, though so far her
/ name has not been given by any of the
| ladies who have organized them.
An error crept into the reports that
! there must be no American costumes.
This is a mistake. George Blagden, Jr.,
/ will wear a Colonial costume of the 1776
period, and Miss Gushing will be Pur-
| itan maiden.
One young man from the Calumet
| club is to go as his own grandfather,
| and several are to wear New Amster-
dam dresses, Washington and Lafay-
cite, to say nothing of the old knicker-
! bockers and the Colonial governors of
Louisiana, Columbus, and the explorers
/ generally, seem to have been neglected.
Cortez and Pizarro are also forgotten,
| and the red Indian will not be seen at
| Mrs. Bradley Martins ball.