The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-27

row of delicate Venetian, Austrian, Bo-
hemian and Partisan crystal, is a set of
tiny goblets in the palest shade of leaf
green glass. embossed in clusters of red
currants and their prettily rounded leaves.
The fruit is so perfect hat you try TO
pluck it off while slipping filtered Missis-
sippi from the inside.
Mr.. and Mrs. James c. Chic announce
the engagement of their daughter, olivia,
to Doctor Freeiand ]. Dunn. The wedding
will a place late in the autumn.
Feather hats ave made their appear
ance. They are dreams. They cost sums
of money that will give a nightmare to
the husband who has to pay for it-or
them. They are in all shades and also in
irridescent effects that simply throw one
into raptures, SO odd and so lovely is the
result. The feathers are tiny. overlapping
things, more like down than anything
else. and there is absolutely no trimming
whatever on the hat, which is small-all
the new fall hats are small-somewhat
Colonial in contour, and invariably becom-
ing to every face. A feather hat in the
iridescent blue shades like those in a NAL
lard ducks's wing, on the blonde head of
Mildred Stickney. or one of the new choc-
olate brown-feathered affairs, fecked with
white like a snow bird dhis is not yet
the LIST of November. you know poised
on Grace Finkenbiner's lovely auburn
hair, would be a first rate subject for a
Kroeger symphonic poem.
Mrs. Arthur Dodge, who has day nur-
series for expositions very close to her
brain and heart raD,a on NET uaalr from
New York to arrange the nursery that the
Worlds Fair is to lave. In addition to
knowing all there is about nfants' quar-
tiers she has a full and complete compre-
hension on the subject of dress. Her black
crepe and lace gown, worn with a snlal
black lace toque. and a single jeweled or
nament at the throat-in shape of a coro-
net of diamonds and whole pearls-was
the acme of good taste and style for a
midday luncheon at the Country Club.
Mrs. Blair gave a little function for Mrs.
Dodge, which was the occasion that 1
mention.
Speaking Of the much-lauded lavender, /
saw pretty Agnes Paul at Faust's one
night last week during her ''Tenderfoot"
engagement, in a very fetching frock of
the new shade. 1t was some sort of soft
goods-albatross, probably. fiecked with
white. and had inserts of lovely whit
lace and bits of lacing in narrow black
velvet. done very Frenchily and prettily.
The frock was cut with no collar, in the
English style that is very good for Miss
Paul. who has a plump and round throat.
Did you meet a Memphis man by the
name of Zenas Estes last week? de-
manded a West Belle place girl of me on
the street.
Interesting? oh. very, He is going
to be his old college chum's best man or
something-at the wedding of Stanley
Pearce and Miss Mccarthy in Nashville
next month. He came UP to see Mr..
Pearce and to get familiar with the town
so as to be ready for future visits to the
bride and bridegroom when they go to
housekeeping in st. Louis, 1 suppose. One
always entertains ones best man and
first bridesmaid. before any other guests
you know. But Mr.. Estes; he is a new
type. I never met any Memphis men
before, so l don't know whether he is
indigenous to the Tennessee soil or not,
but he has certainly brand new tactics.
I'm told they play great havoc with the
girls of his W town and that he is the
beau par excellence down there. What
is he up to? Oh, well. a child-like and
bland innocence for one thing. 1 never
met a mar who asked me so many ques-
tons before. Like a debutante. you know
what they did at the st. Louis Club, and
whether st. Louis girls rouged much. and
If we knew how to cook and what we do
on Sundays and whether Mabel westmin-
ster is more of a belle than Gertrude Van
deventer-just fancy my deciding such a
point as that. and wouldn't some one of
US give him a luncheon. that he'd heard
girls luncheons were great fun and as a
visiting man he thought he was entitled
to one. Wasn't that nervy?
Tn told that he is really quite a
bachelor in years, but that his smooth,
round, and somewhat cherubic counte-
nance, coupled with all this ingenious
questioning goes for extreme youth and
that one secret of his great social success
is the hit he mades with little girls. who
try to instruct him in the social way that
he should go. He secretly has a great
deal of sport out of these 'Butter-Scotch
fiitteriirgs from bud toSbud." and is ter