The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-13
A JOURNEY TO LENOX.
The Women One Meets and the Gowns One
Sees at This Delightful Resort.

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and cream colored ribbons. Look at these
things and then at waving hair and the
! dancing light of lips and eyes, and you
have seen the queen of Lenox, as Lenox
is queen of the Berkshires.
have said there is but one hotel at
Lenox the life is all Of the cottages"
fair and stately and standing in broad
grounds from whose porte cocheSe the golf
break starts in the morning, and on whose
lawns is room for the harvest dance of an
afternoon. The earliest autumn fashions
display themselves at LenoX At 4 o'clock
when the brilliant hued bamboo curtains
are drawn about the veranda, and the tea
tables with their delicate burdens Of flow-
ers and china are brought forth; when the
runabouts and traps from neighboring
cottages come driving up with their loads,
and the devotees of solf or tennis or cro-
quet consent to rest, then may one see
the dazzling small-igured silks, the soft,
satin striped nuns veilings, the gorgeous
brocades and the butterfly tinted patterns
on sheer. silky woods that Paris Is al
ready conflicting for early autumn, but
that few except those who buy directly
from Paris have yet beheld.
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These new fabrics, harbingers OF the
modes, trail across lawn and piazza, as
later they will trail across drawing rooms,
in all the glories of founced skirts and
draped overskirts, their bodices trimmed
with much guipure lace in black or ecru,
their collars and girdles in rich, warm,
October hued velvets.
The coats of the first tailor gowns seen
at LenoX are longer than the tailor coats
Of spring, longer not by inches but by
ellis, and with a sureness and decision Of
cut not to be mistaken for freak or
frenzy of between seasons
There are princess dresses in these
afternoon exhibitions and dresses that
reach out after the Empire. Their sleeves
as a rule fit very tightly, and are often
deeply slashed at the top and set with
tule or lace insertions that form small,
crescent-s shaped puffs, mitigating the
length and lankness of the prevailing
arm.
Deep crimson and pale silver green and
shades of flaming orange shine out among
the colors.
Glance at the two girls who walk the
length of the veranda to greet their host
ess, the one with a splendidly set head
and long throat, the other a lighter fig
ure. symphony in tans. The first girl
trails delicate gray cloth dress, whose
ford embroidery in green. rose color and
gold makes the shortest of tunics about
the hips, and is thrown around the skirt
at the bottom to make a huge, bowknot
effect in front. Her trim. rose colored
silk waist, drawn down by an antique
gold clasp fastening a narrow green velvet
girdle, is worn under green cloth Elton
jacket with rounded corners, whose gray
silk revers are daintily decked with rose
and green.
The slighter figure also wears novel |
cloth suit in which one might find a hint |
of autumn. OF a soft tan, scarcely more |
than ecru, the skirt is embroidered in silk |
and ribbons forming scrolls fantastic de-
signs and dotted effects, and ranging
through the most delicate and delightful |
shades of ecru. tan and golden brown.
The white taffeta waist is marked with |
lines of rose color, and is worn with |
a short, close-fitting, rounded jacket OF
plaided ecru and golden brown, with SER
pentine, waving edging of brown of a
deeper gold.
AS they accept their cups Of tea and
crumbe a biscuit, it may be whispered
hat each drives her own break with four
orancing horses, and that it is a mooted
question which is the better hand with
whip and lines.
Lenox has had no such novel dinners
is those given at Newport where profess
'ors were called in to amuse the guests
with experiments with liquid air; but
some very beautiful dinners have been
given, notably one by Mrs W. D. Sloane,
1t Elm Court, at which the decorations,
instead of flowers, were exclusively of
ruits--purple and red and yellow plums,
md warm checked peaches and branches
If ruby-tinted currants, with masses of
oliage
Miss Lila Sloane has worn one of the
most beautiful dinner dresses seen this
eason, a white satin foulard over whose
urface float bewildering cameo tnts lost
1t times in the glow of the roses with