The morning news., 1899-09-03
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5rs If the large hotels and spend their
,tber time in the large shops. This, says
the New York Sun, is the period of the
year in which the trade of Western and
southern visitors sweeps through New
vorl, on its way home. But these days of
,ransition are important for the women
,-itb only a few hours in town. They
,,ont New York fashions to take home
with them. New York frocks and hats
that will remain through the winter
e,onths surviving monuments of their
Eastern journey
Paris models for the ensuing winter are
nat vet in the hands of the New York
dealers. Importations of the best styles
~ New York are not made until these
travellers are comfortably settled In their
distant homes. That is no reason. how
over for disappointing those prospective
huvers who want their Paris styles via
o-ao, York. The tradesmen do not allow
them to return empty-handed when they
have money to spend, and are so anxious
to sDend it. The dealers provide them
with fashions that serve the purpose just
as well as If they were what the Partisan
would call the last cry of smartness. With
such regularity is the early crop of hats
and gowns prepared for the winter that
they have come to be known regularly in
tbe trade as western styles" They are
usDal reproductions of what has been
worn the season before. varied with any
changes that seem likely to the prophe-
t,o eve of the designer. They are quite
as extensive as the models which win
come later from abroad, are made of the
same materials, and are inferior to the
raai fashions of the season only in the
knowledge of persons who happen to be
familiar with the details of such matters
This is a time of rather strange fashions
IN some Of the hotels. Faded fnery that
has done its service at watering places
is on view for the last time during the
period Of waiting for the fall styles that
the dressmakers are preparing Millinery
that has lost its bloom is seen in places
where usually only the spickest and
smartest headgear Is worn. Occasionally
"a brand new winter hat appears obstru-
eivelv Between seasons, infOrmaEty is
everywhere observed, however, and women
for this brief period really contrive to look
Indifferent to what they wear.
Yes" said the summer girl, to the
Washington Post, ''she was a widow and
Young. Her husband had been dead two
years and she was more than beginning
TO take notice. There were only three
men at the hotel barring the Saturdays
TO Mondays whose wives, of course, new
er let them out of their sight once. Three
men and five girls and the widow The
first night she laid US out cold. She went
in for palmistry, the wretch and she put
In all the evening reading those mems
hands. one pair of hands at a time wasn't
enough for her-oh, goodness, no. She
had to have one mans hand TO read, and
the other two men had to stay around 50
that she could compare the hand she was
reading with theirs. Next day she-well
she was one of those horrid women who
always swim out to the float and sit out
there with the men, while the rest of US
who can't swim, hang on to the ropes and
look ike row of Stoughton bottles. It
took all three of the men to teach her to
dive-as if she didn't know how already
She said lovely things about US girls to
the men-horrid, designing thing! And the
men acted as if they thought we were jeal-
GUS The third night we rebelied She
was sitting out on the gallery after din
ner with the men, when l came up, "a
sweet as could be.
Oh Mrs Bangsr I said, your baby
Is just crying himself into spasms
Her baby was a little reptile 8 years
old, and she had a nurse for him. OF
course she knew he was all right, and
she knew I knew IT.; but there were the
men, and the only play for her was the
heavy maternal. She had to leave those
men and dash off to the baby, or they'd
think she wasn't a devoted mother which
she wasn't, and which no man can pardon
a woman for not being. We worked that
cAild-crying-fO g-fOr-its-mother lay for all il
was worth. We never let her rest. Baby
wanted her every time she caught sight
of q man. We talked about how delicate
baby was and what care he must pc.
We asked every morning how baby's
oroupy cough was. We forced tina, odious
widow to devote herself from breakfast
10 bedtime to that reptilian child. We
routed her horse foot and dragons. She
was a widow and we had a hard fight, but
baby was our trump card and we-well,
we mad the three men to ourselves after
week Of it. She never said a word but
III wager anything you like that there
We're times when she'd have delighted In
pounding baby with the back of a hair
husband I think she did 1t once or
twice"
Mexico is becoming Americanized and
modernized but in the interior there are
sun towns and villages not touched by the
mnd of civilization.
Iehuantepec is one of the Oldest of Mex
lean cities, and is so far away from the
'tSl track Oh the tourist ana trader
mat the olden customs and costumes re-
main nearly as they were two OF three
centuries ago.
The women, says the Philadelphia Press,
wear a bodice or "camisa" of white linen,
win insertion around the neck and sleeves
ol the beautiful Mexican drawn work,
"Alch is bordered by embroidery of req
ana green. The skirt is generally bright
5Teen, closely pleated, and with a deep
uordeF Of brilliantly colored cloth or
"hlie drawn work. A broad red sash,
Ieposa" is knotted around the waist, and
lals nearly TO the edge of the skirt The
costume is completed by bright green slip
p.Is Stockings are unknown.
me headdress is remarkable. 1t is call
eH 'huipl" and is made of a broad. stiff
starched lace fiounce, very full. on
narrow yoke. The fiounce extends around
uIe neck, as well as the lower edge OF
1Ae yoke and is drawn over the head and
around the shoulders, framing the face
al a quantity demure fashion