The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-26

her innocent question raised tempest in
IL teapot. just plain euchre party
won't mean anything to anybody, but
make it a rainy day costume euchre party
and every body will be interested.
That's a suggestion for you to con-
slider" said the President.
"Do you consider that eve would go
back on our constitution if it happened
to be "a rainy day ard we did not go to
the party in our short costumes?" asked
Mrs. sSchr ANN.
II move that If it is a rainy day we
wear the costume; if not that we go in
long skirts, said Mrs. krom, Jersey
member.
Before a second could be obtained to
this motion Mrs. Emma Beckwith, the
ex-president of the club, said:
Il for one am not ashamed of our dress.
The Waldorf or the Astoria, or the Wal
dorf-Astoria, is none too good for the
rainy day dress. A sensible woman can
go anywhere in sensible costume, ami
not he criticised. We've been criticised
for not wearing the costume, for not
sticking TO our colors, and justly so.
But it's rainy day dress, " exclaimed
take long skirt with me, if it should be
stormy, and wear our short skirts through
the streets. We could slip on the long
skirts in the dressing room. A rainy day
dress is undress We had just as well
ask man to come to dinner in a bust
ness suit as for US to go to full dress
en- oertainment in undress. This is
question of what is appropriate.
i" This seems a perfectly useless discus
sion," put in Mrs. Fowler Of Mount
Vernon. "Our constitution settles the
question. AZ.
"Will there ever be time when we
will stand by our colorsP' asked Mrs.
sit seems not, even when it rains,
said Mrs III. Hubert Knowles, who wears
her short skirt rain or shine.
81 don't consider this card party q
Rainy Day Club meeting at all, spoke
I'D Mrs. StudswelI II don't think 1t
will be complimentary to our guests, or
to our president for that matter, for us
to appear in short skirts. The room we
aresgoing to have the party In is beautl-
full, and prettily dressed women make
lovely picture in such a room.
That argument was clincher.
81 for one could not and would not 60
into the Waldorf-Astoria in q short
Dress" vehemently declared Miss sara
Palmer. 81 won't if I'm put out Of this
club"
81 could and would" mildly retorted
the President, and she read the extract
pertaining to dress from the constitution
for at least the third time.
sit seems TO me we are WanIln9 TO
make some money" said Mrs Beckwith.
'People are giving vegetable parties ana
all sorts of funny entertainments, so L
don't see why we can't give a rainy day
dress euohre party.
s'We'd look ridiculous in short skirts if
our guests wore long ones," said DIR.
Church, and then and there she conceived
a brilliant idea Things are often put
in the newspapers wrong she went on,
$50 why couldn' we get it in that this is
to be costume party, and then go III our
long skirts. 4"
81 think we can influence the ladies
who are our guests to join the club by
looking our BEST" suggested Miss Gold
friend.
tit is immaterial to me what we wear,
said Mrs Palmer. II will wear what
ever is wisest and best for me to wear.
My rainy day dress is shabby, but shall
wear 1t If the day is rainy, for couldn't
do anything else, having signed our con.
stitution. -
sfSome of the ladies do not seem to I'M
derstand that we can wear any kind of
fancy waist with our short SKIRT ex-
planned Mrs. Schramm sit is not neces-
sary to wear heavy cloth coat or basque
with our short skirt" and then the mem
bers talked lot about how a full.dress
waist would look with a storm skirt.
Constitution or no constitution, it is
safe to say that few daisies will appear in
bob-tailed skirts at the euchre party, even
if an old fashioned trash moving, gully
washing downpour is the order of the
day. Many members took large num-
Der of tickets to sell and they say they are
determined to make their euchre party
bigger success than the euchre prize-fght
ing Brooklynites ever dreamed of in their
philosophy.