Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-29

Newport. r. l.. July 25.-The shirt waist
Is a sensitive plant. Or a chameleon.
In the spring, when the trees budded
and the first delicate wild flowers shook
out their petals it was a soft pink or an
ethereal blue. With the hot days OF June
It became white. misty and cloudlike,
suggestive of all breezy and cool. Now
that summer has deepened and ripened,
it takes to itself broad bars n splashes
of color tina foretell the goldenrod and
the cardinal flower and the rich hues Of
harvest.
Deep green. almost the black green of
hemlocks, is barred broadly with white;
reds as rich as the hues of the Jack roses
tina linger IN Newport lawns and striped
with cream color warming to the gold OF
sunshine. Blue as clear as the sky is
blended with the green Of water and the
white of surf until the summer girl seems
to reflect or to become an integral part
of her surroundings.
With these brilliant waists go parasols
Of the same materials n patterns. as
well as skirts of dazzling white, calling
for all the sparkle of eye and lip and
smile to keep the woman from being dom-
mated by her apparel.
Social rivalries and the strife of con-
bending hostesSes stimulate the excite
ment in the air until the uuietest and
most Quaker-like of maidens finds herself
fetching out scarlet waist belts and stocks
and hatbands. setting the most parti-
colOred ribbons against her snowy robes,
drawing the most brilliant of fichus about
her sloping shoulders and emulating the
gayest of the butterflies.
OF course all Newport is afloat in these
piping times of yacht races. and 1t is TO
the screaming of gulls and the swash of
dancing waters and the tune of whole
sail winds that many of the most daring
toilettes are composed. Green and biue
and white pique skirts, long and clinginS
as the robes of a mermaid. sweep the
decks. while f1uttering scarves of the finn
siest of tissues are wound about yachting
caps or allowed to stream in rainbow
hued confusion from waist or shoulders.
The cobwebby drapery. half shawl, half
fichu. adopted by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
at the beginning of the season. has been
picked up by every feminine creature ca
pable Of welding it, and afloat or ashore
its waving folds are maneoeuvered with
the sinuous grace of a skirt dancer.
The clinging skirt is nowhere carried
to such extremes as at Newport. Its
swathing folds. filmy as summer clouds
give an eerie, Wraith-like effect to slim
white creatures fitting about in the
moonlight on broad green lawn OF
through the shadows of duSky veranda,
though when wrapped about matrons OF
more ample proportions. the bosses OF
flesh disclosed are more than substantial.
In the riot of midsummer extrava-
gance the part played by the hat is
among the most fantastic. Towering TO
heaven and sprouting with peeks and
~pinnacles, from which wave many-hued
banners, it becomes a structure which
dwarfs a short person and alarmingly in
creases the stature Of any one tall. From
the walls of this castellated h~eadgeal
grow flowers of giant size, and thai
sometimes wind themselves about thg
throat and sometimes flutter free. II
toilettes for morning, afternoon or even
ing there is no lack Of color, a black sill
muslin covered all over with large, climb,
ing roses painted in bold tones of red ant
saffron yellow being scarcely more thar