The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-17

Dame Fashion permits LeE Iolio"NAS
appear on Fifth avenue on Sunday, anu
that is when the bells are ringing III INC
story of the Easter joy and all the "orlo
saems happv and bright. Then Miss
Fuss-and- Feathers, whose father nuAl'
bers his dollars by the Millions ana
Miss Blue Blood, whose father has
fewer dollars and more ancestors, with
Mrs. Velvet. are seen in the most won
derful procession Of the year. III starts
inst after church. and it is all over about
3 o'clock. In it are all sorts and condi-
tions of gowns. and of it are all sorts and
conditions of souls. Then the avenue
looks like a flower bed. The most digni-
fled old lady is radiant in bonnet COW
cred with violets, while anybody under
seventv-and nowadays seventy is only
counted elderly-wears headdress
whereon the flowers of the field and
those of the conservatory meet III great
masses and reckless abandon.
The gowns are not so gay. There is
a distinct liking among the matrons for
heavy black satin made rich with ruff
fies edged with fine French lace, while
the younger women are in perfectly fit
ted frocks of some soft wool that IS eth
or the new blue. silver gray. a jet
black or one of the popular shades of
purple.
Purple reigns supreme. The mllliner
tells you that there are forty-five differ
ent shades of it, so that it may be 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 as
only New York men do look-smart, not
only to. their finger, but to their boot tips.
Their frock coats are made of Engllsh
clot.., but are cut and fitted SO exactly
that one is certain no English tailor ever
had his scissors in them.
As you are popular man. you have
been to church. A popular man always
goes to church. You are walking up the
avenue with the intention of lunching at
your club. and watching from its window
the parade of living flowers that will
Dass by. Your hand is on your hat ey-
cry minute. First, you bow to a dlgni-
fed, rather fair woman whose face rs
more intellectual than beautiful, whose
costume is decidedly English, and who
has the reputation-and you remind your
self of, it--of being one of the best wo-
man writer's in this country, and belong
ing TO one of its most aristocratic fami-
lies. Mrs. Schuyler Van Resselaer, jolly
Frank Griswold's sister.
a minute later and YOU are bowling to
a stately. richly dressed woman whose
gown hints of Felix in its superb black
satin. with its jet trimmings and queer,
quaint. coarse white lace-a dark haired.
dark-eyed woman with that air of having
heen descended from the few families
who swan around in a special ark or
their own during the flood. Her air is
neculiar to Philadelphia women. You
say peculiar do Philadelphia women!
You mean peculiar to Philadelphia wo-
men of the exclusive set. and surely as
YOU greet with extreme Difference Mrs.
Cadwallader Jones you confess her
charms and her intellect, but most of all,
her blue blood.
PLENTY OF PIIILADELPHIANS.
Another Philadelplian. How Phiia
delphia women do marry New Workers. |
But this is Il younger woman, pretty |
woman though dark woman, a woman
who is beautiful yes-but then you hest |
tate and remember when lovely Marion
Langdon. with her patrician air and her
finely cut features. was the beauty Of
New York, and you look again and think, |
"Yes. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is beau- |
tiful woman, but her beauty is 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 to 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
tie lovely girls who were the bridesmaids
Of theDuchess of Marlborough.
You wonder if in this procession all
the beauties are dark. 1t has only been
little while since the gOlden-haired 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 cblIrcll-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
Fiji Potter should have it? No: it comes
direct In the maternal line Then there
is another fair-haired girl, Miss Ruth
Hoe-fair i'll that delicate way that suc-
gests 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 tho do
sired answer from the dainty maiden
TWO BALTIMORE BRIDES
You raise your hat to a dashing wo-
man-that is the word you use-a wo-
man who looks as if fear were unknown
to her and rs il she had determined ~
get as much enjoyment out of life as nos
sible. With her is Il well-dressed man.
very dark, with hair that suggests its
having been treated to coat of shoe
polish, il shines so. What is there that
is odd about his face? Look again. One.
half of his mustache is black, the other
half is narfnctlr ,x.h;