The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-26
HER POSTAGE STAMP COSTUME. Thirty Thousand Stamps of Various
 Kinds Used in Making It.

Kinds Used in Making It.
 T used about thirty thousand can- celled postage stamps in making my dress, and I would not make another like 1t for one hundred dollars" said Miss Antoinette Warlitz yesterday She was the winner of the first prize at the Harmonic masked ball.
 The idea of the postage stamp dress was suggested to Miss Warlitz by friend who had seen one at masked ball in Vienna. Miss Warlitz thought it worth repeating, and appealed to her friends for aid in collecting stamps stamps of all countries-United States ordinary stamps, revenue or special delivery, Spanish, French, Swiss, Ital- ian, Dutch, German, even Chinese any old thing was acceptable, just so it was a stamp. A few of the thirty thousand were bought from stamp col lectors.- The most valuable, so far as face value goes, were a fifteen cent United States stamp and a twenty five-cent Mexican one, but some of the foreign stamps were quite rare and could not be replaced for anything like their face value.
 Five weeks were spent in stamp col lecting and three in making the dress, which consisted of short, full skirt and round waist with long, full sleeves. The foundation of the dress was mus lin On this the stamps were pasted and not an inch of the muslin was left uncovered. The skirt was cut by a cir cular pattern, and after it was fitted the design on the front was drawn upon it in pencil. Every detail of the design was carried out accurately.
 In the center of the front breadth was an eagle, made of brown Colum- blan stamps. Suspended from the tal- ons was a globe made of very old two- cent blue revenue stamps, the meridi- ans being outlined by the narrow title borders cut from Columbia stamps. On either side the globe was an Ameri- can flag, the stripes of blue one-cent stamps and red two-cent stamps, the stars of the blue stamps.
 Except where it was taken up by de- sign the skirt was striped-not up and down, but around. It was finished at the bottom by border of brown Co., lumbian stamps, one hundred in num- ber Above this were three rows of the red two-cent stamps, then another row of the Columbian, then more of the red. and so on to the top.
 | Blue instead of brown Columbian stamps were used in one of the rows; in another the large green medallions cut out of the stamped envelopes, and | in another a series of stamps of all values, from one up to fifteen cents. The foreign stamps were pasted on | the bodice in the form of a shield, the
 center of which was made up of DOT traits of Washington cut from revenue stamps. The full sleeves were made of blue and red stamps and were finished | at the hand with a cuff of foreign ! stamps. | The bodice was fastened in the back and after it was on a strip of stamps had to be pasted on to hide the fasten- ings.
 A large Leghorn hat covered entirely
 with red and blue stamps was worn with the costume, and a pink mask
 and a round fan covered with the red | stamps, was carried. Over the shoul- tdcI Weto olullS et tllly lCd illeill OOA, WILL the letters U. s. M. in gilt on it.
 l The wearer of this unique costume i. a daughter of Dr. Gustav Warlitz, ot 27 North High street. Miss Warlit, | has big brown eyes and dark hair, bu l to complete her disguise she wore z
 blond wig, and even her best friend: were amazed when she unmasked.
 Miss Warlitz's mother and sistel helped her to make the dress. but tn, plan was kept a close secret, ant
 whenever visitors would come in tn, l dress would be hustled out of sight
 After everything was finished i seemed as though the trouble had beer
 for nothing, for the paste used hat
 stiffened the skirt so that it stood ou
 like a balloon. A kindly disposed
 rainy day took out the superfiuou
 stiffness, however, and reduced the re
 fractory gown to something like sub
 mission.-Baltimore Sun.