Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-07-30
FEMININE FADS
Of TIE MOMENT.
Fashions DEGREES Concerning tho
Small Aids to Woman's Adorn-
ment.

a London postmark and Gladys Iamli-
lar superscription. What budget OF
sense and nonsense it is! The latter
pertains to her newest love AFFAIR,
about which clings all the romance OF
antebellum days. The man OF the mo-
ment has been six months at Manila,
carries bullet in his thigh and scar
across his forehead. But the mater
dreams of a coronet and chateau and
refuses the compromise OF a British
war correspondent, though he be
hero. Gladys says he's Just lovely,
big. brawny and fair, with an appetite
for adventure and would sooner fee the
gardener and climb the rose trellis at
IL D. m. than appear at z to dine by
m,amma's invitation. He is great,
isn't he? What a fellow! To go, do
and not die, but live to dare Gladys
mothers wrath!
Gladys also informs me that Mrs. Pa
gets bazaar has set new pace for
such affairs Hitherto they have been
considered dull and dowdy. Mrs. Pa
gets last malmaison on the closing
night brought a ESQ note! The Amer
lean stall made the best showing OF the
lot. The patriotic state holders wore
white frocks and toques, with nation
al sashes, and Mrs. Mackay had tiny
American flag made especially for the
occasion of ruLbies, sapphires and dia-
monds. Analia Kussner, the minia
ture painter, was much sought after
and was quite resplendent in pale pink,
with dog collar, rings and bracelets of
rubies and diamonds, all royal gifts in
Russia, from which country she has
just returned.
The Aston ball, l Judge, was fail
ure, though, according to accounts,
there were some smartly gowned wo-
men and a list of notable men on
hand.
The Duchess of Marlborough is af-
fecting white this summer and seldom
appears without the famous Vanderbilt
pearl ropes encircling her neck At
Sandown she wore her hair piled high.
with a huge diamond crescent securing
the foremost coil. 1t was here, too,
that the latest expression of extrava-
gance in dress first saw the light of
day. An English beauty wore sleeves
of ostrich feather tips bediamoned
Next in order will be bodice, and
eventually the purse proud will extend
the craze to court trains.
You will be pleased to learn, dear,
that orchids are again in favor. In
their newest form of sedan chairs and
ships they adorn the banquet board.
Gladys spent a morning at the inter-
national women's congress. She con-
fesses to have heard nothing of the
domestic servant" problem, but gazed
at Lady Warwicks beauty and made
a study of the Duchess of Sutherland's
animated face. This, she declares,
was the case with nine-tenths Of the
other women.
AS l surInised, Aunt Hetty did the
avenue trotting act, and no jewelry
shop was left unexplored in looking
for the wedding gifts wanted. A flag
On and glasses of emerald green
framed in gold bands ultimately con-
quered, not, however, until we had
gone the length and breadth of the
town and got back to the original
starting point.
In our wanderings we encountered
group of beautiful fans, than which
there is no more timely topic, for old
Sol is living up to midsummer reputa-
ton. There is a definite plan on foot
to revive the Japanese craze. In early
summer kimonos Haunted their seduc-
tive charms to win the day. Now JAP
anese fans outclass all others, both
from an artistic and service able stand
point. They came round and oval in
shape. The newest ones are of silver
gauze on china silk, tightly stretched
over a bambo frame, with a Japanese
girl photographed in colors. The char
acteristie simplicity of these folk is
preserved in their artistic efforts, and
each fan represents this merit On
some are an upright figure, on others
the Geisha girl poses for admiration,
and the prettiest of them all is Mimosa-
San, seated after the fashion of her
coutrywomen beside her loves-a pot
of tea, cloisonne vase and a dwarf
tree. The lacquered handles are in
keeping with these pretty pictures, as
we'll as the rural ones of reed huts or
pastoral done in gray.
With appreciative cunning the Yam.
kee-Jap gives us a study in peckled
trout mounted in bamboo, not painted,
but embroidered so deity that only at
close range can it be detected. Fans
Oh paper ruffies running diagonallv
seem quite appropriate for ordinary
use, since it is decreed that the elect
must have a fan for every frock. Mer-
maids figure on gauze painted fans
with mother of pearl sticks. while os-