The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-29

Newport is waking up now, and one
iinner follows another, and new arrivals
are making things brilliant. Mrs Cor
nelius Vanderbilt got up a splendid
picnic in honor, OF, as one clever woman
put it, sin grateful remembrance" of Mr..
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who is soon to start
on his trip around the world. The lunch
con was served on small tables under the
big trees in a large grove. There were
40 or so persons. The day before Mrs.
Vanderbilt had invited quite a large
party to go on an excursion to Nara
gansett Pier, and it was amusing to see
the unconventional manner in which
they started for that place. The fun
consisted in getting the most ~incongruous
means Of ioeomorion. Some went on
horses, some in buckboards, some in
automobiles and others in their own or
friends carriages. Mrs. Vanderbilt led
the van. One lady said that she wore
ls.just a plain calico gown but that was
a mistake. She wore a beautiful foulard
with q vide Struggling design of dark
blue ON a cream ground. The skirt was
cut with a spring houRce about ten
inches deep There we're three bows of
exquisite black thread luce appiiques all
around the skirt. The bodice was point
ed and trimmed with the same lace. The
front was open TO show d shirred vest OF
white china Grape. The high stock was
of the same. She lMrs. Vanderbilt wore
a cream coicred bclero hat, with draper
les of cream Grape and blue velvet closely
mingled. With her she had a cape of
blue liberty silk covered with half a hun
bred overlapping rufies of white silk
null. A full feather boa of white os-
frich fues encircled the neck. Not much
warmth, but lots Of comfort.
Mrs. Eibridge Z. Gerry is one of those
sweet motheriy young women who de-
light in giving their daughters and their
friends JUST the best kind Of a time.
after the party with MRS. Cornelius"
as her friends call her, had return
ed from Narragansett they all went
on board the Electra, where Mr..
Robert L. Gerry gave a dinner in honor
of Mr.. Alfred G.. Vanderbilt. Mrs.
Gerry and the Misses Gerry received the
guests. The dressing on this occasion
was not so sumptuous or SO festive as it
NOEiU AdfG DEEA AdQ ~ eel 04 4aAts
but the dinner was good and the appetite
better.
Mrs. Gerry as a general rule dresses in
the most exquisite taste, very rarely
turning away from her own well marked
plan Of dress after strange gods In new
and u~nbecoming fancies. The girls
wear the jaantiest of all yachting cos
tunes and what is more, wear them
like the good sailors they are. Their
dresses are always of solid stuff thai will
stand lots Of wind and spray and come
out like new after every washing. One
time l asked what the material was in
a yachting rig being made for the eldest
Miss Gerry. Imagine my surprise on
being told that it was bolting cloth.
Verify woman owns the earth and all
that is In it when boiling cloth, burlaps
and horse blankets are put together for
dresses. Crash, both Russian and or
binary d~ishtoweling, is one of the ma
teriais used as gowns to deck beauty
1t is all in the way they are made, the
style Of the cut and the way the one
who wears It treats it. Al woman must
respect her dress.
Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago has
Beaulieu cottage this season and it is
expected that she will entertain at a
lavish rate on account mostly Of the en-
gagement OF Miss Julia Dent Grant to a
prince. When these festivities com
mence there will be some stunning toilets
shown, as Mrs. Palmer is said to have
spent a barrel of nioney for handsome
costumes while in Paris.
Golfng is the rage at Newport and
indeed the malady has spread away up
as far as Bennington, In the Green noun
tains of Vermont There the goIfy girls
wear felt hats, tight and uncomfortable,
while at Newport almost every one
wears the dainty and picturesque little
sunbonnets. These began their life last
summer. but instead Of dying ont they
have ~serenely appeared again this season
prettier than ever. The sunbonnets are
of colored or white null, shifred and
rufaed, and trimmed with bows of rib
bon and ribbon strings. They certainly
are pretty In themselves and very becom-
Ing to every one. The front part takes
very nearly the shape of the poke hat,
with a pulled crown and full cape. There
are some of madras and ginghams, and
In fact almost any washable material is
considered suitable.
For goling about Newport the skirts
are nearly all of linen or piaue or some
light but strong cotton stuff like cheyiot.
The shirt waist almost without excep
ton matches the skirt. The neckwear is
usually OF the durable kind, such as pi1ue
and silk stocks, sometimes linen collars
with the curious Iumehunda ties These