Evening star., 1897-05-01


new gold of the sun. A basket with a Goa,
Of arms on its cover had a place of honor
Two or three days ago at Hadrian's villa in
the middle Of a circle of grass shaded by
the nuge piles Of ruins that prove one of
the OH roman emperors to have had q
most sumptuous taste in his choice of a
country home. The circumference of the
circle was formed by a Lady Somebody and
four Honorable Misses. One Honorable
Miss was Lady Somebody's friend, the
other three were her young daughters; pref
ty, curly-headed blondes, rather louder
than American girls OF the same age would
be, because, as Is well known, that which is
rude self assertiveness in a young person
OF any other nationality is nothing but sa-
voir faire in an English girl serenely con-
scious OF birth and breeding
Lady Somebody was pouring tea and
taking scrappily of dress and fashion
1er own costume was a graceful one of red
ana White foulard made in long open robe
over an undergown of slnpieated red lawn
Inc fouiard was turned over upon the
shoulders in round cape of the lawn.
made OF rows of very narrow puffs ani
edged with full narrow ruffle The ruttIs
was carried down the fronts to the ground
L ne lawn robe was gathered to square
yoke at the neck and was confined at the
waist. as also was the foulard, under a
broad sash OF red satin ribbon The lawn
sleeves were made to wrinkle like Bern
hardt gloves upon the arms, and the little
sailor hat was of red canvas, trimmed with
tulie and wings.
A Matter of Dates.
Il like this parasol." she said, twirlng
one of heavy white lace run with red rib
sbons. Sir Frederick, Sir Georges cousin.
7 you know, sent me the stick from India: it's
ivory. That was in 1885, when Nina here
was in a perambuIator"
10 care to be made younger for her NAM
ma beneht, interposed noisily: WHY
mamma, was seven!" and the youngest of
the Honorable Misses, who looked fifteen
or sixteen, seconded her sister with. why,
mamma, even l wasn't in perambulator
in 1857
The Honorable Miss who was not of kin
lnterposed hastily. rs Sir Frederick ap-
her bushy red curls Indignantly. Nina,
who claimed to be nineteen, had a milk
white skin and large light blue eyes under
a wide Leghorn fiat trimmed with rose
in her pretty frock of blue grass lawn of
open lace effect over shot pale blue and
green giace. The overskirt of lawn was
made separate from the under which was
finished with silk frills Down the seams
of the outside dress ran a thread of deli
cate embroidery in gold. Over a full
bodice Of cream lace came a zouave of
the transparent lawn. with glace lining
and edged with embroidery. The sleeves
were more richly braided with gold as
was the shot blue and green silk parasol.
butter hastily to her turbulent daughters
and answered gratefully, Yes up to q
certain point. He is intelligent to that
degree you have to tolerate in a man."
But I don't tolerate it."
''Then fear you must limit your friend
ship to very few"
Intellectual, but Stylish. =
fo ha srfa
as a woman! Does he understand Brown
ing or can he talk nothing but dogs and
horses?' The Honorable Miss spoke con-
temptuously. This critically intellectual
British female had paused long enough in
her own Browning researches to be ex-
tremely well clothed. in the severe tailor
style. She was tall and inclined to be
light brown and very heavy. so that. though
she put 1t back plainly, the mass of it
could not avoid being becoming. She was
thirty or thereabouts and had the brilliant
color of a perfectly healthy woman. Her
dress was of a new material that Is called
on this side of the Atlantic tgrilled CLOTH"
and may be described as thin. light wool.
thickly corded. Lichen green was the
color with the cording in red, combina-
ton so perfectly adapted to her own color
ing that it was hard to avoid suspecting
her cf studying it out purposely. The
skirt was very scant and straight. and
very long, even exageerating her tall ngure
The bodice was a novel kind Of Norfolk,
with considerable basque and with the
pleats opening enough at the neck to show
shirt front and cravat tie. The sleeves
we're almost of the coat shape Of ten years
ago. The bodice fitted the figure closely
and had small. smart-looking revers. With
stiff green straw hat rolled up at the
sides she looked severely handsome and IN
her best pose.
''He showed me wheresto get an awfully
Jolly echo in. st. Peters," volunteered the
youngest girl. and the questioner looked as
II her widest dreams Of the debasement OF
man had been realized. The youngest was
feeding pug from her fork. neglecting her
own tea, as she stretched her slim sixteen
year-old figure in the grass luxuriously.
She was the prettiest Of the girls, with
lcnR light hair loose upon her back and
wearing navy blue canvas dress cut as q
pinafore over yoke Of white lawn trim
med with embroidery. The canvas had
separate lining Of blue silk and was trim
med up the arms, around the folded belt
and about the skirt with blue, red and gold
fancy braid. The fuliness OF the skirt was
put Just at the hips and a little undulating
ruche was added al around.
True Bostonian.
The pug tired presently Of bread and
butter and wandered or through the grass
to where young woman pored over .
book under an olive tree. whose dusty yel-
low blossoms shed pollen ON her page. This
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