The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-03
Ut Interest TO Lady Readers

Tor December will appear in these col
urlhs as soon as they are published in
New York" Truly we are progress
nS when the Paris papers quote us.
The five o'clock tea is not the crude
thlng 1t was. Though, for that matter,
II has not been crude for long time,
But 1t has made such progress the last
year that you now recognize it as a
social function, not a haphazard one.
! To quote an American girl living in
! Parls-Paris again-"we have our set
/ of friends; and though we cannot en-
tertaln deliberately or lavishly, we give
a O'Clock tea three days a week"
( Mrs. O. II. p Belmont. who is one
of the finest ladies in society, if you
count the ability and the means to do
things in the right way, gave a very
pretty o'clock tea just before she
/ took her sudden and unexpected de-
] parture for London recently. Mrs. Bel
mont had invited a large company to
, her house to a reception, on Sunday
evening. Suddenly, without the slight
est warning, she recalled all invita-
tons, and instead, gave d very quiet
tea; next day she sailed for London.
At the tea it was whispered that she
went to cheer her daughter, the
duchess, whose husband, the Duke of
Marlborough, had suddenly yolln-
teered for the Transvaal.
Be that as it may and be the gloom
deep as it was, it did not prevent the
guestS-and the hostess, for that mat
ter-from wearing some very pretty
clothes.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor wore a lovely
suit IN tobacco brown cloth. Her toque
was OF sable with the crown of fur.
Around the edge were ACCORDION plait-
% A r-;yl
a DOW Of pink velvet caught down by
a buckle Of steel. 1t was a very neat
affair. Next day Mrs. Astor herself
sailed Tor the other side to take her
little invalid son to the Mediterranean
TO spend the winter. But that evening
all We're gay enough.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.. who is
out again, wore a very pretty costume
OF pale Lavender satin faced cloth
trimmed with the narrowest bands Of
black fur put on in irregular rows,
curving upward in the black. The skirt
mad box plat in the back and was
quite plain. The bodice was a basque,
pointed in front and edged with the
narrow row of black fur. It was quite
old fashioned, this basque, or would
nave been but for the very elaborate
yoke of paillettes of cut steel. Under
meath the paillettes was handsome lace
upon which the steel shone like frozen
rain drops in the snow. Very glistening
are these gowEs with their little bril-
liant pieces suggesting armor and a
coat of mail.
The hostess herself wore a foulard
Not an expensive fabric for a lady who
boasts cloth-Of-gOld at $50 per yard.
Yet the foulards hold their own very
Well. They are adapted to all stations,
being always genteel and ladylike,
sometimes even dressy. Mrs. BelmOnt's
gown was deep shade of blue with |
a Princess tunic falling over a skirt on
the foot of which were deep flounces
of the foulard.
The bodice was trimmed with a lace |
which in modern par
lance Isl called a Marie Antoinette |
hchu. 1t was fully five yards long; |
and when off must have been an awk- |
ward thing TO handle. Made of the |
ightest. finest chiffon in a shade of |
pearl white, it was edged with a chif- |
fOn ruching Of white, tipped with pink !
and black velvet put on in the tiniest |
rows. The whole affair was brought |
around the shoulders, draping them
we'll. and tying in front, below the
Dust Here II was caught with a hand
some diamond arrow. 1t fell from the |
arrow point to the floor, Quite an ele-
saDt article to wear. But easily dupli-
,ated, L should say, in cheaper and
simpler materials.
My seamstress, who calls herself a
nodiste, says that there are cheap |
grades of chiffon which are very ser
,iceable. They wear until they be-
,ome soiled and no chiffon can be eX-
)ected to do more than that. This
heap grade, she says, differs from the
Dther only in that it may be slightly
;treaked or cloudy, where a coarser or
larker weave interrupts the crystal
Wilderness of the better material. But
his does not injure the ornamental
Qualities of the thin goods which in
is five years Of rulership has had no
ival The slight, delicate edge to be
ound upon the more expensive chif-
on ruff1ing can be placed upon the
heaper grades by running the ruff1es
through the sewing machine threaded