The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-03
NEW FASHIONS ARE WRAPS OR TIGHTS  Dresses of the Winter Will Not
 Be Dresses FASHION OF REVEALING The Most Parisian Of All Americans Is a Mysterious and Patronlzns
 MT. Hyde Who spends
 Money Freely.
FASHION OF REVEALING
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

Paris, November 2.--(Speeia1 CableJ- November Is the month when the new fashions assert themselves. This year it seems as if there are not going to be any fashions at all--at any rate, in the French sense of modes" The dresses of next winter are not going to be dresses, but simply wraps. one might almost say tights.
 Entering by chance the other day Into the establishment of the great dress maker, Redfern, vino is the author of this new fashion-this fashion of rcyca'- ing-I found that the new idea Is to out line all the contours of tine body, simply placing here and there to emphasize the fact in careful manner q few tucks.
 Not only will the dresses Of 1888 con- ceal nothing at all, but they will seem to say, as it were, Have you noticed7 What do you think of it?'' Unfortunately for their future, these dresses are not quite as comfortable as q dressing gown,
 A lady customer of the lady dress maker, who was at first highly enthusas- tic at the sight Of one of talese pretty models when on the back of a maDnikr, exclaimed: Standing np iG is delightful; now will you please sit down. 1naGemoI- selle?' The girl tried to do sine was asked, but. as 1t is impossible to bend the legs in these dresses. she had 10 give it up.
 So the client, who, although passlO1ateiy attached to the fashion, is a lady Of wit, ordered several models, exclaining; "Oh, well, 1 shall have nothing but lounges in my house in fntnre-"
 The most Parisian of all Americans is MT. Hyde-handsome Hyde, as he is I'm xyvyba tainly fine man, with his tall figure and his physiognomy like that of an Indian chief Why he has abandoned his native country? We do not know this. but what is certain is that he has struck his roots deeper in Paris than perhaps any other of his compatriots. and that he is daily spending his large fortunes like some French Maecenas.
 His dinners have become famous, as much by their elegance as by the guests he assembles.round him. Mir. Hyde brings together at the same table Cardinal Mat thieu and Mile. Granier, M. Loubet and Mile. Sorel. Now he is patronizing lit- erature in founding and finding funds for the Alliance Franchise, whose object is to spread French culture and French literature all over the world.
 Not satisfied with sending our most fa- nous lecturers about, he has undertaken
 
 France has induced him to take with him always with the same object of making propaganda of French culture-one of the members of the Coinedse Francaise. Bon voyage, Mr Hyde.
 Pope Plus X has just appointed to the Archbishopric of Vignon a provencal, who is a man of great merit. Mgr. Latty. the former bishop of Chalons, will be suc- cessful in the ancient city of the popes, for he has become one of the prominent of the reactionaries.
 He was at the beginning Of his career one of the bishops of liberal tendencies who were hostile to the monks. but the separation law has converted him. Also Mgr. Latty is one of the rare bishops who write their. pastorals in French. He has this originality, too. that he does not al- ways write these documents on religious questions, but latterly penned a very fine pastoral against alcoholism Margherita, "the pearl of Savoy is one of the most pathetic figures among the royalties of today. Since the tragic mur- der of her husband, King Humbert l.. she seems to have known no rest; she wanders restlessly over the face of the