The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-23
berry tangle. crossed here and there by
mountain streams.

berry tangle. crossed here and there by
mountain streams.
| A DAINTY GOWN
Traversing this forest highway camo
/ a delicate. a delicious blue silk dress. cut
| TO lie with the most graceful sweep, about
elk inches on the ground. The under
| skirt Of this dainty. summary creation
was finished with a deep, accordion pleat-
! ed bounce Of black lace, above which
hung the long, narrow blue SILK tunic
scalloped at the bottom and edged with
black silk cord laid IN fantastic designs
| The slightly fun bodice, with the same
! spidery. black decoration showed n yoke
| OF white satin covered with Renaissance
lace applique. Above n mass of fuzzy
light hair was perched a big hat Of burnt
straw piled high with giant roses.
As this figure like q bit Of French
bisque tripped uncertainty from root to
root, holding up It's draperies over a frag-
lie white lace petticoat, and followed by
maid carrying a dog and a parasol,
nothing more homogeneous with the time
! and place could be imagined. SO APP
parently thought an Adirondack guide
as he passed with the long. Looping step
that takes a woodsman over the ground
at such a wonderful pace. shouldering his
huge back basket.
evening hops are az much the rule as
II within a few hundred yards a deer
might not be browsing. and yet IN spite
OF these inroads OF civilization, or per-
haps because Of them the mountain maid
with her morning face IS a pleasant spec
tacle Whether she elects TO climb White
face or to 80 fishing, her course Is 10 the
lakeside.
Past the Devils Pulpit a mass OF
crags damp with fern and ivy, past
Bishop Potter's summer palace in In
teresting proximity. past woods and is
lands move the boats, and now one
is beached at the opening OF the White
face trail. There land q guide a young
man in summer tweeds and two girls
I'm short skirts very different from the
blue silk lady's.
The taller and slyhter IS wearing the
real old-fashioned blue serge. her skirt
plainly made with a finish Of machine
stitching at the bottom. her coat having
cherry coloTed pique revers spotted with
white and her blouse being in cherry
colored in linen. Her soft dark blue felt
hat has no trimming but an eagles quill
A CLIMBING DRESS.
Picking raspberries at the waters edge.
she waits for her shorter and DlumDer
mate who IS gathering the weird white
stems OF Indian pipe from among the
pine needle OF soft gray wool is the
second climbing dress, showing as II
catches on bramble or tho breeze takes
II, a hint OF pale blue and white plaid
on the reversible undersIdc. The full
blouse Of narrow, thread-like stripes OF
pink and white gingham. Is
fastened at waist and throat by a stock
and wide. crush belt Of soft. bright red
silk, scarf Of the same color decking
the grey felt hat Both girls wear broad
soled. flexible climbing shoes.
They'll do very wen tn they yet
10 the slide" says the guide Of a fishing
party, whose boat, with trolling spoons
asten drifts slowly by. lIe points rs
he speaks 70 the white scar Just below
the summit that marks the path of a
landslide up the bare rock worn smooth
by whose descent every ascent must be
made.
I've known n girl, though" he adds.
"to climb Whitefare twice In a Gas, and
dance rs lively as anybody in the evening.
She started at o'clock I'm the morning.
got down by u. and started uD again |
with another party az half after Five
feet tall she was and weighed eighty
four pounds Takes your little ones 20 be
lively"
IHtTe arc girls VINO nsh with some Sc
robustness. over at Lake NIeacham they
tell tale Of a girl who, with her father
and brother fshcd the trout streams i'm
dustriously the last week in June and
tho first in July. wading with her high
rubber boots I'm the cold water the fsh
love wet at times almost TO the waist.
casting love Of dress. everything but love
Of fish overheard. When her party left
the woods every male member Of 10
shouldered n creel Of trout weighing for
ty pounds. but at the midday halt Il was |
found that an the fish had soured.
FAIR ANGLERS.
But this is not the mountain maids