Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-22
FAIR WANDERERS.
Look at the Exhibit of Beautiful
 Gowns by Paris Dressmakers.

e St Louis, Oct. 22.-s'I wonder what would become of all these Paris dress
 makers if every woman in America suddenly made up her mind to live
 the simple life?v said Jane as we wandered through the labyrinth of show cases containing the collective ex- h1bit of the Dressmakers of Paris in the palace of Manufacturers.
 T guess they'd have to pound type writers" said John who has the idea that the sole ambition of wornankind is to manipulate q Typewriter. No
 woman will be dictated to at home z says John, "but she'll let cheap office man dictate to her all day long without protest.''
 But 1t happens that the Paris dress mekers are men, not women, as John imagines. Such a dazzling array Of costly gowns as the exhibit of these. Paris dressmakers am told was
 never shown before in any exposition. not even In the Paris exposition Of 1900.
 The gowns are draped upon Hfe-size models and represent every conceivable combination of costly and fllmy flnerY for the female form. I am told thar no
 man can walk through this section without impulsively clutching at his pocketbook to see if it is safe. The face turns a sickly pallor, there is al quick gasping for breath, feeling Of weakness in the knees and the man sud- denly darts out of the section to look | at something that does not represent such a drain upon the nerve force and the pocketbook. counted as many as
 one hundred and seventy three of these gowns, many of them costing thou sands of dollars, when John threatened to go down the Pike if we didn't got
 out of the section and Hook at some
 So we got out. John has an idea l that the German rooms in the Palace 1 of Varied Industries showing the German arts and crafts furniture and other articles of domestic decoration
 are away ahead of anything that can be done in this line by any nationality | We were told, however, that before l forming any conclusions upon this point we must go through the rooms l of the old English country house of l the early eighteenth century, In the l Palace of Varied Industries. It added I to the interest of this house which is | part of the British exhibit, to know l that the London firm which furnished | it was personally selected by the king 1 of England to decorate his majesty's
 and the queens private apartments at Windsor castle, also the kings l yacht; that the firm decorated palaces 1 for Prince Nicholas of Greece and Priu- | cess Eulalie of Spain, and many Of 1 the finest mansions in England and on l the continent, also the Hotel Cecil of London and many palatial hostelries. l These rooms are intended to ill1ls- l trate the skillful adoption of tho l Elizabethansan and 18th century English styles to the practical necessities of to- I day Refinement and comfort appeor ' 1 to bc their characteristics and yet tho | decor ntions are beautiful and rich be- | yond description. You enter through l Il hall and porch into white room furnished with antique furniture. Il l walnut bureau of the time of William
 ant Mary, a Sheraton inlaid mahog- any serpentine side table, pollard I oak cabinet, an Italian walnut cigar 1 cabinet and copies of Queen Ariie mahogany settee. To the left is the dining room furnished in carved lime
 wood and oak panelings, beautiful
 Boucher tapestry, Chippendale chairs ard gilt side table, taken from Kea-
 s:t gton palace. From this room we
 are passed into the drawing room which Jane declared looked ''more
 Frenchy than English" and sure
 enough most of the furniture is genu-
 inc Louis XVI. It has beautiful
 marble chimney piece and tapestries I copied from old Beauvais panels.
 About this time Jane dropped into Il
 Louis XVI chair upholstered in real Aubusson tapestry and our work for ! the day was finished.
 John is still of the opinion that
 '.the Dutch have them beat"
 T. A D.