The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-28

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Some We're even heard to 60 SO far as "a
say that it was a pity nature should have
been 30 cruel to an otherwise highly at
tractive duchess, ana advised a resort Ia
any device in hopes or obscuring the pa
thetic deformity. >.s>,% - II -
Not so, thought the little 1s-year-o,d
wife of a duke, for beng an American
woman. and therefore full of invention.
tact and originality, she ordered her Jew
eler to make, of her largest pearls, a collar
containing exactly seven ~trings, to fit as
throat and button at the back with seven
very big diamonds set on band of gold
exactly four inches and one-fOurth long.
Or course this tale flew about London
in no time, and if any of the other wom-
en- were inclined to jeer at the fact of one
of their sex being able to wear seven
stringed collar of pearls AZ inches deep,
their ugly speeches We're quelled by the
loud shout Of joy, set up by the leading
portrait and miniature painters. Long
and fervently they dwelt upon the rare
beauty of long neck; the advantage of
it in grace and aristocratic bearing, the
decadence in necks since the time of Josh
ua Reynolds, and a consequent falling off
in feminine loveliess, until suddenly the
law >Ao SAS Sou1u wear d SefcIl-SLEluScU
pearl collar made the duchess the most
enyied and admired woman in London,
and eventually brought long necks, "swan
throats," they are called, into remarkable
favor.
It is n fashion now penetrating to this
side the water, and to such an extent,
both in England and America, that she
VINO sits even before a camera demands
that her neck shall be made the most by
devices that smack of tricks of the Eigh-
teenth century. The photographer knows
an these secrets, and when patron tells
him she must have long throat and
must secure picturesque likeness.
though the distance between her chin
and her shoulders is only a matter of one
inch, he does not gainsay her.
instead, he picks up an album and
SIDE do it. and how, according to their
photographs and portraits. at least nearly
every smart lady in London possesses a
throat that the famous Miss Annie Lau-
RE would not blush to own. The decep-
ton is simple enough, for the English
women have found that by making their
mead look very tall the throat will elon-
gate remarkably, and that, moreover, if
ora tons and draperies about it cunningly
adjusted, an ordinary, commonplace face
can De painted or photographed into
something truly lovely. This the artist
or photographer will prove by turning
over his album leaves and showing a
score of titled danes taken in their new
neaddresses, each one, you would swear,
the possessor of a throat half an ell in
length.
One of the most attractive among the
new photographs is an American woman
Lady Gray Egerton and her nearest rival
IS the leader of this new fashion, the
Marchioness of CRANKY, not bit of a
beauty, like Lady Egerton, not very long
throated, either, but with yard of fine
ola lace, few Jewels and proper poise
OF head, she would pass anywhere for a
woman painted by Romney or Reynolds.
Inc is young Duchess of Marlborough has
mad herself photographed in the exact
headdress the great Sarah of Marlbor-
ough used to wear, and beautiful Mrs.
Curzon, who was Miss Mary Letter of
Chicago, has been photographed wearing
headdress very like that in the Duchess
OF Devonshire's famous portrait.
Seeing these lovely pictures, it isn't
long that the American woman can resist
an attempt at the charming results Sc
she consents to have herself photographed
III the new fashion big mirror is dragged
before her chair, and an expert couture
takes her head in his hands.
On table beside him are heaped an
amazing variety of materials: tulle and
liberty silk scarfs, ostrich plumes, widths
of rare old lace. box of jeweled pins,
strings of pearls, wreaths of artificial
flowers and huge powder box with dou-
ole puffs, not to speak of a great pile of
felt and straw hats, trimmed and I'M
trimmed, that he has at hand With all
this paraphernalia hours are spent in ex-
perimenting with effects. Towering head
dress after head-dress is erected with the
utmost care, simply to be demolished Is
make way for another effort until just the
desired result is attained.
Among the women themselves the deco
ration most preferred is the little Sarah
Siddons band of black velvet passed tight
" under the chin and pinned with a
lovely, snowy brooch just under the right
ear. That is, if the ear is particularly
small and we'll shaped, else this decora-
ton is a grave mistake, and it is neces-
sary to fall back on the use of enshroud-
ing, gauzy scarfs on the Lady Hamilton
order. These are especially affected by
fashionable matrons. who see the first
tiny signs of approaching age in the fine
wrinkles under the chin. but whatever
the head decoration may be one solemn
charge the sitter makes before resigning
her head to the couture, "Let the throat
be long."-New York Press.