Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-11
HER TRoUSSEAU MADE HERE
"Teddy," Jr.'s, Bride-tO-Be Would
Not Go Abroad to Obtain Her
Wedding Finery.

True little American that she is, Miss
Eleanor Butler Alexander. who, on June
20, becomes the bride of Theodore Roose-
welt, jr., is having her wedding gown made
here in New York, not many miles from
the WaldorfAstoria,b by one of our most
fashionable modlstes Her entire trousseau
is being prepared in this country, although
many ideas have, of course, been procured
abroad and her bridesmaids frocks were
painted in Paris.
Miss Alexander's wedding dress natur-
ally is of white satin Of the softest variety
mot the old-fashioned kind brides once
affected, but more like what the French
now call satin souple" The dress is to
be very simple and girlsh and will depend
on it's long graceful lines for much of its
charm, although some wonderful old family
point lace, which her mother, Mrs. Henry
Addison Alexander, treasures highly be-
cause of associations and traditions, will
adorn it. The lace will be used on the
bodice and sleeves.
Following the fashion OF English brides,
Miss Alexander will wear a tulle veil, which
will be fastened with the usual orange
blossoms, but nothing stiff or conventional
will be attempted with the flowers-just
few sprays will be used in the most art
less and natural manner.
Miss Alexander has some old-fashioned
ideas regarding her "Corbeile de noces,"
and no French bride who prides herself
on her linen could have a more generous
supply than she has. Months ago Mrs.
Alexander ordered all her daughters house
hold linen at the Grand Maison de Blanc,
on Fifth avenue, and ever since the most
expert needlewomen in this city have been
employed embroidring 1t.
There are dozens and dozens of every
thing. table and tea cloths, luncheon cloths
and dollies TO use on the polished mahog-
any. Some hand-embroidered cloths with
inserts of French cluny and fillet lace cost
about $3.50 each; less elaborate ones S75,
and rich damask cloths for breakfast and
simple dinners figured up about $50 apiece
without the embroidery, which. of course,
is very elaborate and beautiful and CORE
spondingly costly. Some of the simpler
damasks are in striped designs. and have
napkins to match. while many are like bits
Of gorgeous satin brocade. showing elabo-
rate floral patterns.
The bed linen is quite as beautiful as
that procured by Mrs. Alexander for her
daughters table. These are piles OF snowy
sheets of sheerest linen, woven and en-
broldered in France, TO which the brides
monogram was added here Some OF the
sheets have a scalloped edge with a sort
OF embroidered beading about two inches
below, while others show a sort of vine
edge, with a foliated border underneath.
ThSrpillow slips match, and. like the nap
kins and table cloths. are all embroidered
with the brides monogram. a curious cy-
pher, composed OF her three initials,
=. b. A., set in a circle. This circle is
divided into three sections. one for each
letter, which. in a clever sort OF a way,
squares the circle. perhaps not mathema-
tically, but that Is about the only way the
design can be even vaguely described. The
round medallion containing the brides cy-
! pher is small for the napkins and is
wrought In the center OF these. while for
the table cloths It is much larger. and for
the sheets still larger, and placed on the
latter IN the center on the turnover on