The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-16

AOROTHY DEAR-DOnt De ulneC
with this grille. because, as the
postmark indicates, she's in town
and sends a letter instead of betakine
herself to your Hampton house. I'm
here for two days only and the reason
why / shall not give you time to guess
but tell. ran up with Amy, Ruth and
Bess, who have simply gone daft on
the automobile subject, for new coats
hats, gloves, and incidentally a lesson
or two more on guiding the WOODY
things successfully. Just when one
imagines oneself possessed Of clothes in
variety fitted for every occasion under
the sun, moon or starry sky. Lady We're
de We're projects herself speedily from
transatlantic pier to Bailey's Beach,
and a fashion is born with her coming.
She has been to the French capital.
This has happened and we lose interest
in golf and our beloved caddies to daily
with the horseless carriage.
II is woman's chiefest ambition in life
now to run her own electric vehicle,
and be famed for the smartness Of her
auto trappings, personal and otherwise.
So off with the short golting skirts Of
Scotch reversible plaids and on with
the scarlet trailing ones Of filmy
fabrics! It is to spend your morning
on a neat little trap, dexterously
threading your way over stretch OF
asphalt through dummy nursery maids,
wheeling perambulators, stupid old Ia
dies and other auto cars. This idea is
borrowed from Paris, where an acade-
my exists, which is set about by an ex-
tremely dangerous road, where women
only are taught to manipulate the
nd a n
us in the throes Of another fad which
demands a trunk full of new clothes.
Newport doesn't share New York's
prejudice against these swiftly NOV
ing electric contrivances, therefore no
parks or avenues are sacred from their
intrusion. and we are going to have a
fete. Newport walked up one fine morn
ing to discover a bakers dozen of auto
cars on her principal boulevard, and
nobody was more amazed than /, for
Lady We're de We're had been establish
ed in our midst but one short week
with her barn of cylinders, rubber tired
victoria and grotesque hanson, and
this very fact, Dorothy. proves what
you always contended-that the New
port crowd have and hold rep" They
catch on quickest and are the fastest
set beyond the banks of the Seine.
Jimmy Van Aliens conclusions have
disturbed us not a whit, and I can as
sure you that no moral crusade is be-
gun. Cease your lamenting, for the
dear old village city bids fair to out
Herod Herod this season. Indeed, when
once you catch sight of the avenue a
blaze of scarlet upholstered carts, man
ned by girls in scarlet, Haunting scarlet
paEasols. you'll wonder If the fiery
furnace is not out on dress parade.
Dust is the element most calculated
TO annoy fair drivers, and especially is
it true of beginners. OF course you'll
be interested in knowing that we each
bought coats of motor cloth, the new
stun which is a cross between alpaca
and the more pretentious bombazine,
from which grandma's mourning frocks
were always fashioned. One of us
chose tan, the other red, and Ruth a
sad, pensive dove gray. with a liberty
silk lining of that curious but elusive
shade known as flame which one so
often seeks and seldom secures. On
Ruth's is a great collar, so high ii pro-
tects the hair. She's wicked enough to
buy shoes OF gray and wear them with
red stockings SO filmy fine her skin
shows through. What Shoes, did you
say, Amy? Let's open the parcel and
box as well. What think you, Dorothy
II is just as said. Ruth is a caution!
Take an imaginary sip of wine dear,
from an imprOmptu loving cup, and I'll
drink to the moth and the fame" She
will certainly adorn the phrase we'll in
this get up.
Our coats are intended for morning
wear over piques, ducks and such like.
In the afternoon we intend to don our
airiest frocks, and I've one of tulle
which looks like an inverted suede
gauntlet. Hugs me tight TO just below
the knees, where a deep flare cuff cir
Giles the skirt to support a dozen inch
plaitings. 1 don't believe I'm wise in
my selection as regards the cut, for II
the lever should become unmanageable
i fear the consequence of exertion II
would split-the girl and the frock
would surely part company. But Il was
such a dream couldn't withstand the
temptation. Especially when the ba-
leyeuse was composed Of frill upon frill
of lace edged mousseline, the kind l so
like my ankles to be identified with.
Madame observed my wavering, frisk-
ed the frOus-frous over her own dainty
feet and remained speechless. Tactful
woman! I'd taken a trial spin in the