Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-10
The Manner Of Its Draping
M. Is Important.
BEAUTY OF THE BRIDE
All Depends On the Way It Is Ar
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Who At
tend to This Kind Of Work.

To the u%ninitiated, especially mankind.
the fall OF a bridal veil means nothing.
but to the expectant bride and woman
kind generally it a great deal.
for it is probably more noticed, Inc upon
beauty Of the bride. I accompanied one
of the autumn brides as counselor, friend
and adviser while in New York to make
some of her last and most important pur-
chases for the wonderfully dainty trous-
seau which was to be hers. We went in
quest of bonnets n hats to match the
various toilets. In a secluded and most
aristocratic part Of New York u cab
stopped. Our ring was answered by a
small page In livery, who ushered US
into a beautifully artistic room with rare
bits of carved. Dutch furniture and gobelin
tapestries. About the room were odd
fancies OF brass and rare bits of china.
The. door was presently opened and q
tall, sinuous woman in a long, clinging
black gown enters and informs us: r.
Monsieur lie Blanc is at present en-
gagged in arranging a wing in Nine.
Astorbilt's bonnet. ~
You wait. Your cab watts-at New
York prices. When your patience is al
most exhausted and you feel that Dutch
furniture and old brass are but small
compensation for q waning afternoon.
NJ. LIE Blanc enters-a typical little
F%renchman in very English clothes.
When Monsieur finds mademoiselle wishes
several hats and for a trOusseau his in
terest increases perceptibly. We are con-
Quoted into a little apartment hung with
seductive mirrors and softened lights.
where ever Medusa herself would find
a becoming bonnet. We are soon deep
in the mysteries of deciding and buying
dear to a woman's heart, but still dearer
when we found q small fortune tied in a
delicious little bow. After several Sc
~lections were made, Monsieur, viewing
with an artistic eye every turn Of the
head and droop Of a feather. asked who
would adjust Mademoiselle's veil. Upon
her replying, the modesto who had made
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Ii rather fer
tile;ss' said Monsieur; "what is the height
Of the, gentleman Mademoiselle will wed?"
With a ring Of ~pardonable pride my lit
tie bride replies. "Quite six feet" Mon
sieur throws up his hands with horror,
exclaiming, "Madefnoiselle would 60 up
re aisle looking like m mushroom or
one flying hyena." Appalled, by such a
frightful prediction. my little friend sank
into a chair and implored Monsieur to
save. her from such a fate. She was
placed in front Of a mirror and swathed
in folds of white satin, while Monsieur
studied the effects of lights and shades.
The necessary folds Of white tulle were
then draped by Mofsieur's skilled fingers
around a tiny coronet of orange blossoms
and caught with a white aigrette with the
dexterity born only Of a Frenchman and
a genius.
Let us hope that the merry little price
paid for the same was as satisfactory to
M. LIE Blanc as was the gracefully flow
ing lines Of the little brides veil on the
most important occasion of a woman's
life. for contentment dwell in her heart
and beamed from her face, for she looked
beside her six feet of noble manhood
neither like zone mushroom nor one fly
ing hyena as she came down re aisle"