The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-02-17
are only a few Of the REQUISITES of the

dressing room.
The smart woman can scarcely dc
with fewer than sixty hats year
thirty for each season. When Miss
May Goelet married the Duke of Rox-
burghe her outfit included seventy
hats, and this, her friends declared,
was none too many.
A satisfactory automobiling hat
may he had for SIS; but the splendid
carriage structure of sable and lace
may demand an expenditure of from
5000 to $500.
Opera cloaks? Yes, there must be
from three to FIVE or more of these.
Some, of light-colored brocades and
silk, dainty lined with silk, will come
to, say, ST, 900. Finer ones, of sable
and ermine, call for SIS, 900 check.
The sable muff and boa, costing
$1,000, and the sealskin and sable
| jacket, ranging from $500 to 81, 200,
are necessary adjuncts.
A year or two ago, woman who
is we'll known in Washington's fash
ionable circles aroused considerable
comment by returning from Europe
with an outfit of gowns and hats that
cost her, it was stated, 500, 900.
This lavishness was eclipsed by a
young American woman who was pre-
sented at English court not long since.
HER 500, 900 GOWN.
It was declared that her gown alone
must have cost 500, 900, while the
entire outfit, including the many mag
ni6cent Jewels that dazzled the eyes
of beholders, represented at least half
a million dollars.
OF course, the amount of money in
vested in jewels-those delights Of
every woman's hearts determined
solely by financial ability. A New
York social leader possesses stom-
acher valued at $I5o,o 900. Upon
opera nights several million dollars
worth of beautiful gems may be seen
glittering in only few boxes.
So much, then, for the adornment
of one wealthy woman of fashion.
She may have daughters in society,
and these must be equally we'll dressed.
From $1,000 to $4,000 will COM
fortably clothe the average man in the
smart social whirl. Cost of dress is
a small part of his annual expense.
He may spend from $40, 900 year
upward to maintain his house in New
York and Newport indeed, the cost
of help alone in some expensive es-
tablishments runs, it is stated, to
$40, 900 annually.
A Newport dealer asserts that $500
a month is not an exaggerated esti-
mate of the meat bill alone of veal
thy household.
He mentioned one family whose
meat bill reached $4,000 month,
while the grocery account was one
third that amount.
Expenses of the steam yacht range
usually from So 900 to $50, 900 a
month; while the stables and green
house call for $50, 1000 year.
AS popular as automobiles have
become, no fashionable family can do
without its horses. Alfred Wander
bilt keeps nearly 100 horses at his va
rious establishments, and none is of
ordinary value.
OF course, there must be automo-
biles, too. Some families have six or
eight-John Jacob Astor has rejoiced
in the possession of seventeen at one
time. Four is considered about the
right number, their aggregate cost
being $25,o or $50, 900.
For the automobiles there must be
chaufeurs just as there must be
grooms, drivers and stablemen for
the horses, chefs for the kitchen and
a butler for the dining rooms.
Some families are not content un-
less they have imported chauffeurs,
who command high salaries, just as
they must employ French chefs at an
annual wage of IS, 900 or $6,ooo
$1oo,ooo FOR A STONE WALL.
Journeying to Newport for the sum-
mer, the millionaire who does not own
property there rents. The rent of a
satisfactory house in the fashionable
section will range from S., 900 to SIS,
600 for the season.
Those who buy land and build al
low no expense to stand between
them and the accomplishment of
their desire. One owner surrounded
his home with stone wall at an ex-
penditure of 500, 900.
Another, building on an open plain,
decided that an abundance of trees
about his place would set it off to bet
ter advantage. Within few weeks
the old shade trees were there.
Splendid veterans of the forest, thai
had stood guard for nearly century
over some faraway spot, were literally
picked up bodily and transplanted to
the Newport yard.
| One horsechestnut was brought
distance of thirty miles, and rare ole
tulip tree over fifty miles.
1t required six weeks to move the
tulip tree, and the cost of that work
alone was 5000.
Smaller naples were tarnsplanteo
at cost of $500 or $500 each, until
finally, a splendid grove surrounded
the house.
The owner wished an effective nat
ural setting for his home picture, ane
his money procured it.
Perhaps the family of leisure ane
wealth prefers apartments in a fash
ionable hotel to the worries of house
keeping. There are many such apart
ments in New York-in other cities
too, for that matter-for just suct
people.
One bachelor maid," daughtel
of a deceased Wall Street broker, pay:
SIS, 900 a year for her apartments
opposite an exclusive club.
Not far away man and his wife
enjoy the possession of nine rooms a
a similar rental, and they recently
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