Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-16
SHE HAD THE TOGS

| oeo0yHSs At LIE SedSnOTe, d WOIfIdu pOo-
sessed Of individuality said a Washing
| tonian whose wife claims that he is a great
deal too observant. "A rare thing I call
that. too: for if there is any one thing that
the overwhelming majority Of seashore wo-
| men do not appear to possess. even in an
| fnfinitesimal degree. it's individuality.
she arrived at the same Atlantic City
hotel at which I was registered. early In
| June Her retinue comprised a secretary
ana two maids. She took a suite of six
| rooms. But nobody knew these things until
| she became the hotels main figurante. 1t
was presumed at first-especially by the
women of the hotel-that she probably had
| one little room on the top floor back.
The extreme simplicity of her dressing
Tor the first week or SO after her arrival
was the natural basis for this supposition
| on their part. The women at the hotel
| were extremely swagger dressers. One would
almost be disposed to call them lightning
change artists. so swiftly and SO inces-
sanity did they switch their raiment.
But this woman possessed OF Individual
! fty started out by wearing garments that
seemed almost pitiable In their severe sim
! plicity-by comparison. that is to say. with
the ornate appareling of the other women
| in the house.
"She was a pretty woman of twenty
eight or thirty. of sort of tall and slender
plumpness, with skin of fine healthy
pallor and great bush of bronze hair She
made her appearance on the first morning
after her arrival in the simplest sort OF
lawn dress-a plain wash affair, with
nary a frtll or furbelow. Her tne hair
was cOmbed back severely her shoes were
of the common-sense kind, so-called. and
there wasn't suggestion of jewelry about
ner. AT dinner that day she wore an eX-
tremeiy plain brown dress, and az she
glided into the dining room she was in
queer contrast to the elaborat y-sowned
women who had spent hours on their din
ner toilettes. 1t was the same On the fol-
lowing Gay, and on the next. and on the
| next after that. The pretty woman of the
slender plumpness appeared In the plain
est ana most inexpensive kind CT wash
dresses and inexpensive-looking afternoon
and evening frocks. The women had her
all inquired out as business girl down at
the beach for little vacation of a week
or So Her two maids and her secretary
were stlll kept under cover. and nobody
about them. Neither was anything known
among the guests as to the plainly dressing
woman occupancy Of the finest suite OF
rooms in the hotel She went in bsthng
from the hotel bath houses every dov for
the hrst week. in a hired and not especially
Weil-ntt1ng or becoming bathing suit While
Ine o.her women took their airings on the
Boardwalk in rolling chairs, this woman
walked for hers. So that after about a
week had passed. the women sitting around
the Motel We're beginning to saw ef her "a
women at summer hotel will say things
tnat she was a real nice-Iooking Girl and
that 1t seemed a pity that she had to work
so hard for a livelihood up in The citvN
tney mad unanimously arrived at the con-
s'sssom ny .hls tme. as l say that she
d sIenosrapher or something up In town.
Then came the sensation On the eighth
Jay AFTER her arrival the pretty slender
plump woman with the healthy pallor swept
INTO the dining room superbly diked
out that all the rest of the women had.
to lean back in their chairs and gasp
cant, OF course. attempt to describe what
sfie wore All 1 know is that it was a
mink.
with superb lace from the throat of 1t
to the bottom of the skirt. with a train
as long as am-the kind of a costume that
you see pictures of in foreign fashion ma
pers. but very rarely actually see. drapins
the figure of a living woman. Her sveIte
slnuously plump figure looked superb in it
Her hair had obviously been done UP by
an artiSt-it was a couture as was one
She was Uttered with magnificent rose dia-
monds-in her hair, at her throat on her
hngers-everywhere. She was, to put it in
the prlefest form, picture. and she had
every woman in the dining room up tree
as the saying is, for looks and perfect
grooming and cOStuming
"One of her maids was at the entrance
to the dining room with a wrap for her
sumptuous mistress when she came out
handsome private rolling chair entirely
different in its richness of finish and work
manship from the rolling chairs hired nv
the hour on the Boardwalk. and propelled
by man in livery. awaited her at the
door She went out for airing on the
BOARDWALK, the maid following along in
another chair behind.
Well, that was only the beginning On
the following morning the woman who had
locked the field over before making I'D her
mind to get into the game, as it were.
appeared at the late breakfast with one
OF those lacey morning toilets that you read
about. Her gown at the luncheon was a
CONNECTION and after luncheon a splendid
victoria appeared at the hotel door and
took her and her young woman secretary
out for drive along the Atlantic City
Speedway 1t was her own victoria as her
monogram on the harness and panels at
tested. and the coachman and footman wore
the same sort of livery. with necessary
modifca tons. as the livery of her rolling
chair pusher. Her costume that evening
at dinner was confection. a symphony.
in green-it would take a female society
reporter to describe it-with emeralds and
diamonds for Jewels The other women
began to sniff, of course. and to say
among themselves. in those little porch
groups that 1t seemed mighty peculiar
that she should-and on and so on-you
know that line of summer hotel knocking
Well. during the three weeks that l re-
n:dfned at the hotel after that l would he
willing to make affidavit that that pretty,
slender, plump woman, with the bronze
hair. never wore the same costume twice.
She looked superb in everything she wore.
She appeared even to have different bath
ing suit for every day of the lunar month,
and she looked ravishing in all of them
and 1 want to go on record saying that
taxes a pretty distinctive ana Wel-cOE-
structed woman to look ravishing in any
old kind of a bathing suit. She never ar-
peared even to wear the same jewels twice,
and she was covered with them every even
ing-SetS of diamonds of different hues,
emeralds. rubies. turquoises. sapphires, to-
pazes. the whole list. and all of them gems
of the purest ray serene as number OF
puzzled jewelry men, guests OF the house,
enthusiastically atteSted. She KEEP. to the
society of her secretary, and met nobody.
The finest touring automobile that ever 1
saw. with her monogram on the sides ap-
peared and alternated with the victoria in
giving her and her secretary her afternoon
spins A splendid electric launch, also car
rying her monogram. tied up at one of the
piers for her especial Her morning
and afternoon costumes were all imported
as the other women whispered palpa bly,
awe-inspired. Her hats could never have
been contrived anywhere else than IN Paris.
Her shoes and gloves were faui less.
1T was. in short. the most interesting
case of blossoming Cinderella without the
intervention of any fairy prince, but per-
soEally conducted. that ever saw any
where.
when it all began. of course the women
of the hotel set her down rs a declassee.
They found out differently however It
happens that she Is the remarkably inde-
pendent daughter of a deceased Pennsyl-