The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-22
copyright. 1881


everywhere for the last eight weeks
had daughter who wished to enter thu
holy bonds of matrimony / would fetcl
her to Newport. Here everything /!
dignified and rich; nobody frivols ant
nobody enjoys herself very much un'
less she happens to be richer and more
stupid than all the rest. and then she
Is spoken OF with approval, and every
body says she possesses $50 much re-
pose" They may call II "repose."
insist that il Is inanity. Here you must
dress and dress and dress. Your clothes
must bear the stamp OF Worth. Red
fern and Paquin, while virot must COW
er your head.
However. each has his own time and
display for his own special smartness.
Paquin fits you out In some delicious
cotton thing that was to cost $3.50. or
Perhaps madame would allow a very
little more" and "the very little more"
means $50. but as the artist In dress
assures madame that she would not have
herself appear as anything but perfec-
ton when 1t is a question OF a few
dollars and madame Is fiattered. she
pays her bill and is gladly fooled. Pa
quin dresses her for the morning, when
she stands out on the smooth green
lawn with a wonderful mass of color
before her. great parterres Of flowers,
gorgeous tulips, bright roses and rich,
red geraniums all seeming to bow a
stately good morning to her.
A little later in the day and famous
French tailor whose name the We're de
We're set do not whisper permits my
lady to be dressed in a wonderful white
serge of bis creation, and then she goes
on the yacht built on the Clyde.
The afternoon finds my lady dressed
by Worth. She is in some sort of a
sheeny looking silk. which seems cover
ed with roses. while on her head is a
small hat made entirely OF rosebuds.
In her hands, covered with white kid.
is parasol made Of white fluffy stun.
a handle of pink coral and gold, hav-
ing cost enough to really keep a well
to do family In bread and butter and
beef for the year. My lady rides In her
victoria. large and hung on c springs,
SO that the motion is as easy as IL one
were being rocked veritably on the bill
lows OF the ocean. with no inclination
to be mot quite WE'LL
UP and down. up and down the car
riages parade. while the pretty rider has
a cool bow for this one. stately incli-
nation OF her head for another and an
almost imperceptible bow for that other
person whom she barely knows.
Familiarity is not the thing at New
port. You are well acquainted with this
or that man or this or that woman, who
went to the same dancing school with
you, who went to the same parties with |
you and who has been educated in the |
same artificial way you have. Oh, I |
don't mean that the very fashionable |
women never do kindnesses. for they do |
many of them. When so much time is |
given to dress. when so much thought |
must be given to having ones Jewels |
reset and when one must entertain and |
must visit, really. after all, how can
one have time to go among the poor
and suffer agonies afterward through |
seeing how unpleasantly they are sit
lated?
But we had little romance here for
III. The most dignifed lady in the land
he one who traced her blue. blue blood
,ack to the beginning of the blue skies.
The woman to get into whose house
meant the entree TO real society. con-
,luded this year to fetch one OF her
cousins from away down near New Or
cans to visit her. The lady-we will
all her Nine. Grandame-was I'm reality
lady, though, as she was an old one.
low could you or know that her heart
vas frozen the day two small boy fir-
Tres were brought In cold i'm death
Irowned while at their play. and she
vas left childless? All, IL we could read
ach others hearts. how few would we
cunt as entirely selfish!
SO Nine. Grandame. writing 70 ber
ousin. said: Send me on the prettiest
ma brightest OF your daughters. pro-
'ose TO make her the success of the
cason. Don't trouble yourself about
Ter having a large wardrobe. as one
viii come oyer from Paris for her"
his letter brought delight to the
nother-a perplexity for the three af-
ectionatc girls. The youngest ana
rcttiest said she didn't want the old
,adame to condescend to her. she
'ouldn't wear her old truck. and. being
he Oldest, IL was Madeline's place IN
o. But Madeline whispered OF the man
} whom she was engaged and how i'm ,
osslblc IL would be for her 20 leave .
I'm Then said she OF the quick tenn !
cr. Marion must go. for she's the !
ext Oldest and Marion whispered in /,
or mothers ear with much impressive 2
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