The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-12-29


Rockefeller's money. / would break up
and die No. No. AS long as these
old hands can work they will continue
doing things for the dear little kid
dies. 1 owe them my good health and
everything / hold precious. When I
quit i will be ready for the cemetery.
I do not want a fOrtune-willl it MAKE
me any happier than ] now am? l
don't think so and L don't care one
whit for it..
The Baroness Bazus, better known
as Mrs. Frank Leslie, the name under
which years ago she won fame as a
publisher of national magazines, has
joined the growing army Of New York
women who are resenting the arbt-
trary dictums of the Partisan purvey-
ors of fashion. The Baroness, who Is
a great favorite in society, says: THE
modern bride, who bows to the fash
ion mentor, is less pretty than her
sisters of other years and in some re-
spects looks "a fright
1--WE have always expected a woman
to look lovlier on her wedding day
so she has until of late. But, friend
as I am of woman In all her phases
and believing her the lovliest Of Gods
works / can't shut my eyes to the fact
that the brides of the last year have
seldom been pretty and sometimes pos
1LlNeiy pldiH.
There's reason for everything.
The bride doesn't look so well because
her veil is unbecomfngly worn, and
her veil is unbecomingly worn because
it is the fashion. The ven
is the most important and typical
part of the costume. 1t should not be
dispensed with, but it should be worn
in a becoming way. Formerly 1T was
caught up on the crown of the head by
cluster of orange blossoms or held
there by q wreath. Now 1t is held In
place by a cap, like those worn by
maids VIII. open the doors for us or
who remove our cloaks when we go to
| a party. These caps completely hide
the hair and give the face hard
look.
1.-THE fashion dictators do not know
as much as Nature about becoming
ness Nature arranged that the face
should be surrounded and softened by
| a frame of hair. Fancy how the low
lest woman would look if she were
bald. Yet these caps, surrounding the
bridal veil, give exactly that effect"
The Baroness smiled as the various
wedding professions she had witness
ed in the waning 1911 passed in mem
tai review before her.
But what the bride has lost in looks
through a sacrifice to fashion she has
gained in self-possession. At every
one of the many ceremonies ] have at
tended the brides voice has been clear
and strong as a bell when she made
her responses. And the bridegroom,
besides looking foohsh-for man al
ways looks his worst when he is being
married-stammers his vows and
can scarcely be heard.
eff one listens attentively you can
hear a slight noise emanating from
him. but you cannot tell whether he
is strangling a cough or clearing his
throat. But. strain my ears as l
r n
do or L WILL and I've never failed
to hear the bride say it,
Among the 500 600 visitors to New
York over the Christmas and New
Years holidays. James Simpson, a Ne
yada sheep herder, seventy-fve years
of age, has been a picturesque and pa
| thetic figure. 1t is his first visit to
I this city and in looking over its won-
| ders, he says he is gratifying the am
| bition of his life.
II thought it all over them said the
| old man today, land decided I was go
| ing to spend this Christmas in New
| York # / never spent another one on
| earth. I had just 5000 in the world
J and with it and what clothes l could
use in civilized parts I went to Reno
| 81 was always interested in New
York from the time I was a young
fellow" said Simpson. 81 always read
everything about it I could get hold
| of. Then when they opened the
Brooklyn Bridge it seemed the eighth
| wonder of the world. That and the
Statute of Liberty. 1 had pictures OF
| them on my cabin wall. Each year ]
! read about New York's growing and
| growing-Grant's tomb, the Aquarium
| and all the rest of it, And chen the
Flatiron building. the Trinity building
| and the Metropolitan tower.
Simpson wasn't extravagant wher
he got to this city. He paid s150 a day
! for his room at a hotel and took al
| the sightseeing trips in the city
| Seated on the front seat of the big
| touring cars, he hung GREATNESS or
the words of the megaphone man, who
| gave him the inside history of the
| wonders he had read and thought OF
| so long. Simpson was so interested in
| everything he was seeing that he
| didn't pay any attention to the rapid
| decrease in the size of his pocketbook
| and he awoke one morning to find
| that his total funds amounted 20 s
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