Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-02

supposed to be bafled and forced to return
to his original place
The leader. therefore, is selected Tor his
stony heart, his eagle eye, his searchlight
lantern and his love OF discipline About
the summer resorts the moonlight wheel
ing parties are far more popular than dances,
while q picnic is regarded as poor sort OF
fun compared to a progressive drive,
Given in orthodox fashion a progressive
drive at LenoX, Bar Harbor or Milbrook be-
gins with a meet Of young men in dog carts.
break carts, runabouts, white chapels or any
traps that carry just two persons each.
Tue meets are held on the driveways OF the
Sloan, Stokes or Thorne cauntrv places;
every young man takes up a damscl beside
him and down the road will string as many
as fifteen vehicles captained by leader, and
the rear brought up by a taller. The first
official chooses the route and keeps the time
the second sees to it that no man cuts them
when a charming companion and a lovelike
crossToad tempt him to venture tete-a-tete.
At intervals of fifty yards the procession
strings out the leader sets the pace, and
regularly every twenty minutes his horn is
blown. This is a warning for all the dam
sells to progress. Down everv one in her
short golf skirt must climb and mount to
the seat of the vehicle just before her, and
so the game goes, the leader skillfully bring
ing his followers to halt before some fine
view, and so timing the drive and changing
the girls that when turning into the gate
where the start was made every man has
beside him the same woman he set out with.
A luncheon of tea on the lawn waits the
progressive travellers, and. simple as the
progress seems, it is invariably attended
with great sport and merriment
The BnI Mnsuuc.
Tho feature of the summer dances is the
continued pleasure in not only the fancy
dress, but the bal masque Last winter in
New York at least thirty superb fancy balls
were given by such prominent hostesses as
Mrs. Abram Hewitt, Mrs Stuyvesant Fish,
Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Benedict, Mrs. Stanford
White and others, and, finding how enthusi-
astically and ornamentally the men as well
as women adapted themselves to the cos
tunes of thenadays, the social leaders in
| their summer homes will even go so far In
| many instances as to bring out their debu-
tapte daughters at fancy dress balls.
For this whimsical fancy the dressmakere
and dealers in theatrical properties have
reason to be deeply grateful and no class
more so than the makers Of masks. At the
| more brilliant of the fancy dress balls the
| women all prefer to go masked until supper
and the acme of fashionable ambition al
this writing is to discover new and becom.
| ing facial disguise.
| From Paris have been ordered some won.
derfully beautiful examples of last century
masks of black, white and pink satin will
rare point lace frills falling to the chin ant
wax masks completely covering the face ant
in coloring and feature copied from pictures
of Nine. Recamier. Thane de Poictiers o'
| Marie Antoinette. Women with very fin,
eyes use gauze wells embroidered in gold ant
arranged as tue Turkish yashmak, and thel
a charming mask of purely American inven
tion is red silk handkerchief tied over thu
face with holes cut for mouth and nose anc
eyes and flaming zuni stripes painted OIL
just as an Indian warrior decorates hi
countenance. The fancy dress party all las
winter represented in the costuming th
fashions of past days, but with the summe
has come in the balls to which guests COM
dressed to represent insects or birds o
fish.