The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-03

wa ARTS, July 1s.-The gay Partisan
summer social season has al
most terminated, although many
u brilliant functions are an
nounced to take place and con-
tinue until the end of July. AS Provi-
dence has at last vouchsafed to bestow
upon US beautiful and seasonable
weather. the smart clubs in the Bots de
Boulogne have begun to give the din
ners, cotillons and sporting gym
khanas which were to have taken place
earlier in the season. These fetes will
All up the smart sets time until the
Deauville races commence in August,
when the general exodus from the
capital will begin. The sporting con-
tingent will then betake themselves to
this turf gathering, the equity hlgh
f1iers who have lived not wisely, but
too we'll. will have twinges of liver and
conscience which only Carlsbad and the
healing spas can cure. the world OF
femininity will display its chiffons at
the many Normandy seaside resorts,
and so the merry summer world VIII
wag its way along. Automobiling
through Holland is another approved
pastime, and II is quite the thing
among motor owners to get con-
genial little party together and pun
and loot happily off to the land of
Windmllis ana uelIt.
At the dressmaking houses one hears
madame and monsieur bewailing the
fact that they have not had as success
full a season as they contemplated
They attribute this failure to the re-
igious disturbances and the weather.
Ny private opinion is that the trouble
originates and ends in the sartorial
brain alone. For how could women
gown themselves more extensively.
gorgeously and variedly than at the
present moment. even to accommo-
date the couturiere2 No; despite the
bridesmaids usual growl, the season
must be a financial success. Beautiful
examples of sartorial art have been
made and are still being created for the
coming villegiature.
Take for instance the charming COM
binations of batiste and linens which
will certainly figure among the smart
gowns to be worn later at Trouville
and Deauville These batiste froeks
are lovely and have invariably a note
OF color introduced in the high direc-
toire belt fashioned of taffeta or nous
seline. Particularly dainty is a deep
ecru embroidered linen de sole with its
lace incrusted skirt, bolero cape of en-
broidery and prettily shaped bright
green collar of velvet.
Driving in the Avenue des Acacias
the other morning was an exquisitely
turned out beauty arrayed in a most
fascinating and unpretentiOus little
morning frock of white linen. The
skirt. a plated affair was embroidered
at intervals in delicate scrolls around
the bottom. and the pretty bolero had
a collar ornamented in the same man.
ner. Worn with this jaunty costume
was pert straw toque
The dress which at the moment is
interesting pleasure seekers is the cos
tune de balm. The bathing gown OF
yore is scarcely recognizable in this
years productions. Three which will
capture old Neptune when he looks
about at Scheveningen this summer
have the thoroughly French cachet
which he, no doubt, will at once appre
ciate. One is of fine navy blue serge
consisting of a combination undergar-
ment with a detachable skirt achine
TO the knees. A light scroll pattern is
embroidered in white to form a kind OF