The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-20
A NEW FASHION
Set For the Four Hundred, by
Mrs. Geo. Gould.
She Now Uses Her Husband
Yacht ATLANTA
AS A FLOATING HOME
And EntertainS Her Guests In
Magnificent Style.
Has Rare Jewels and Elegant
Gowns Aboard.
Is A FLOATING HOME

4Ork 'Four hundred.
She is using her husbands yacht, the
Atalanta, as a floating country house.
The Atlanta is her summer establish
ment and home this year. The fact that
it is movable gives it a unique advan-
tage over every other country house.
She can drop anchor and entertain
wherever she wishes and she does.
Mrs. Gould has house parties aboard
her yacht, and she gives breakfast par
ties, luncheons, dances and dinners in
her country house on the water She
is entertaining all her friends this seas
on in the most lavish manner.
During the last few weeks she has
been the most sOught-after woman at
Westminster, where the polo games
have attracted society. The Atalanta
has been anchored in the sound off the
Country Club. The entertainments on
board have been delectable.
One corner of Mrs. Gould's yacht is
a regular safe deposit vault. Here she
keeps under lock and key number of
her famous jewels.
At the largest of the yacht dinners
she has given this summer Mrs. Gould
wore her wonderful diamond tiara 1t
is composed of diamonds of unusual
size, and is valued at $4,000.
She has also aboard her yacht her
dOg-collar of pearIs-a long chain of
alternate pearls and diamonds.
SUMPTUOUS ENTERTAINMENT
Her entertainments have rivaled
Mrs. Stuyyesant F'ish's in originality
One of her recent girls luncheons was
a strictly nautical affair. The favors
were curious shining little fishes, with
ribbons tied to their tails. The tails
came off, and the fishes were found to
be stuffed with the choicest bonbOns.
All this summer Mrs. Gould has been
practically the leader of the Westches
ter set. From the deck of her yacht she
has held sway over the seasons gave
ties.
Now arises the question whether she
can from her seat in the saddle of her
i - I'll
over the exclusive and hard-riding set
which has it's headquarters at Hemp
stead, L. I. Mrs. Gould has planned to
take a house at Hampstead for the
fall hunting season. And everybody is
asking: rs she to be one of the COM
ing leaders of the Four Hundred?"
Mrs. Gould has every room aboard
her yacht fitted up as artistically as
if she were in a Newport villa.
She has eight servants. besides the
crew. She has also two nurses, in ad-
dition to her own maid, for she has her
children with her. Her dinners aboard
the yacht have been a feature of the
June Westchester season They have
been planned and carried out on the
most elaborate scale. As the chatelaine
of her yacht, Mrs. Gould has every mo-
ment of her time filed. She is mother,
society woman and housekeeper. all
in one. The daily routine of her life is
carried out in just the same way as if
she were living on shore.
Every day the hair dresser comes
from the town to arrange her coiffure
and both a manicure and pedicure
come twice a week.
A MODEL HOUSEHOLDER.
Mrs. Gould does not breakfast until
II o'clock. But she arises much earlier
has her coffee and rolls, and then maps
out the labOriOus society plans for the
day. She is a model housekeeper as
well as a devoted mother During
morning, unless she goes to town with
Mr. Gould on a little shopping tour,
Sha wit IA
She reads out loud to them and heartily
joins in their games. And it is her
intention not to have her morning with
her children interrupted. The rest of
the day she gives up to society and all
the hard work that implies.
During the polo games the ATLANTA
of delightful festivities. The aristocratic
Westchester set have daily enjoyed the
hospitality of Mrs. Gould. There have
been dinners and luncheons and break
fasts and imprOmptu cruises up the
sound, and Mrs. oliver Iselin and Mrs
Ellis Hoffman have been happy in as
sisting Mrs. Gould to entertain her
friends.
novatiOn this Westchester season. Among
her girl guests have been Miss Nora
and Miss Fanny Iselin, Miss HelOise
Hatch and Mrs. Elizabeth Emmett. AT
each one of these luncheons Mrs Gould
has introduced some novel and decided
ly picturesque features. She has also
entertained her girl guests with a
glimpse of the gorgeous gowns which
compose her summer wardrobe Mrs
Gould has never worn the same gown
twice since the Atalanta has been
anchored off the WeStCheSter Country
club this month.
Just where she keeps all these Won
derful gowns is a question which is
puzzling the feminine heads of the
Westminster colony. Among her many
costumes Mrs. Gould has a number of
imported empire gowns. One which is
regally beautiful is made of perishabIe
white mousseline de sole, over white
liberty silk. The gown has a quaint and
decOllete and clings to the figure over
the corsage and for a few inches be-
low the hips and then falls in graceful
bilIowy folds.
SOME ELEGANT GOWNS
The mousseline de sole is embroidered
in real gold threads, forming clusters
of grapes, leaves and a trailing vine.
The very short corsage is covered en-
tirely with the grapes and a cluster of
the grapes embroidered much heavier
than those on the gown falls over the
arm at the shoulders. This gold and
white gowncost a small fortune It is
all hand embroidered, and it is wonder
fully beautiful 1t is very becoming to
Mrs. George Gould's dark beauty, and
with it she wears stockings of gold
color silk and white kid slippers, en-
broidered with threads of real gold. If
she were to select a gown for the big
geSt evening of the Newport season,
Mrs. Gould could hardly have had Gre
ated for her costume more magnificent
than this dinner gown, which she has
been wearing about her yacht up the
sound.
One of her Little going-ashore
gowns though simple in effect, is dis
t1ngufshed in style 1t is a black and