The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-04-19

There is only one day i'll the year when
Dame Fashion permits her followers to
appear on Fifth avenue on Sunday, and
that is when the bells are ringing in the
story of the Easter joy and all the world
seems happy and bright. Then Miss
Observation-Disclosures, whose father NUM-
bers his dollars by the millions. and
Miss Blue Blood. whose father has
fewer dollars and more ancestors, with
Mrs. Velvet, are seen in the most won
dcrful procession of the year. 1t starts
lust after church. and it is all over about
:; o'clock In it are all sorts and condl-
tions of gowns. and of it are all sorts and
conditions of souls. Then the avenue
looks like a flower bed. The most dlgnl-
ned old lady is radiant in Il bonnet COW
cred with violets, while anybody under
seventy-and nowadays seventy is only
counted elderly-wears headdress
vhereon the flowers of the field ana
those of the conservatory meet III great
masses and reckless abandon.
The gowns are not so gay. There is
n
heavy black satin made rich with ruff
fes edged with fine French lace, while
the younger women are IN perfectly mt
ted frocks of some soft wool that IS eth
cr the new blue. silver gray, a jet
black or one of the popular shades of
purple.
Purple reigns supreme. The millner
tells you that there are forty-tive dlffer-
ont shades of it, 50 that it may he adapt
ed to any type of woman from an ashen
blond to the darkest brunette.
SEEN ON FIFTH AVENUE.
The men in the Easter parade look rs
only New York men do look-smart, not
only to their finger, but to their boot tips.
Their frock coats are made of English
clut-. but are cut and fitted so exactly
that one is certain 10 English tailor ever
had his scissors in them.
As YOU are Il popular man. yon have
been to church. \ popular man always
goes to church. You are walking up the
avenue with the intention of lunchin@ at
your club. and watching from its window
the parade of living flowers that VIII
pass by. Your hand is on your hat ev-
cry minute. First. you bow to dlSnl-
fed. rather fair woman whose face IS
more intellectual than beautiful. whose
costume is decidedly English, and who
mas the reputation-and YOU remind your
self of it-of being one of the best Wo-
man writer's i'll this country, and belong
iug to one of its most arlStocratc falnI-
lies Mrs. Schuyler Van RtSsclacr, Jolly
Frank Griswold's sister.
\ minute later and you are boWins to
a stately. richly dressed woman whose
gown hints of Felix i'll its superb black
satin, with its jet trimmings and queer,
quaint, coarse white lace-a dark haired,
dark-cycd woman with that air Of having
been descended from the few families
who swan around in Il special ark OF
their own during the flood. Her air is
peculiar 10 Philadelphia women. You
say peculiar to Philadelphia women!
You mean peculiar to Philadelphia wo-
men Of the exclusive set. and surely as
YOU greet with extreme Difference Mrs.
Cadwallaicr Jones YOU confess her
charms and her intellect, but most OF all.
her blue blood.
PLENTY OF PHILADELPHIAN
Another PhiladeIphian. How Phila-
dclphia women do marry New Workers.
But this is It younger woman, pretty
woman. though Il dark woman, Il woman
who is beautiful-ye~- then you hcsl-
tate aud remember when lovely Marion
Langdon. with her patrician air and her
finely cut features, was the beauty oil
New York. and you look again and think,
Yes. Mrs John Jacob Astor is a beau
tiful woman, but her beauty is a little
too intense for perfection" Her hair
and eyes are too black and her color is
too high.
Here's another dark beauty. one who
has gained the catch Of the avenue. the
one 10 whom the greater number of the
Mackay dollars will go-Miss Katherine
Duer-a gay. dashing girl. who IS very
popular Her friends call her KITTY,
and she has been credited with having
had more proposals than any other of
t g lovely girls who were the bridesmaids
Of theDuchcss of Marlborough.
You wonder if in this procession all
the beauties are dark. 1t has only been
little while since the golden-halred girl
did not need to be searched for. but
could be found everywhere. Here IS one
of the beauties of the season, and. OF
course. she has been to church-dark OF
eyes, fair Of skin, and with hair of the
lovely mahogany shade that you see so
often in New Orleans and so seldom in
any other place. Is it strange that Miss
Eff Potter should have it? No: it comes
direct III the maternal line. Then there
Is another fair-haircd girl. Miss Ruth
HOe-fair III that delicate way that suG
@">ts Il German fraulein and which tells
that not very far back there is English
blood. One of this seasons debutantes.
the daughter of an immensely rich man,
society is wondering who will get the de-
sired answer from the dainty maiden.
TWO BALTIMORE BRIDES.
Gou raise your hat to 4 daShing wo-
man-that is the word yOu usc-a Wo-