Evening star., 1916-10-08
Picked Up Here and There.

The other night when l went to a
premiere at the Adelphi, says Lady
Mary in writ
Titled Americans at ing her Lon
London Playhouse. the ~ pittsburgh
Gazette Times, the Duchess of Marl-
borough was seated between her two
young soldier sons in the stage box,
while in the next loge was Lady De-
scies. who was Miss Vivien Gould of
New York. The Duchess of Marlbor-
ough has allowed her hair to grow
gray and. as she wears it short and
bound close to her head by a narrow
velvet ribbon, the effect is quaint and
rather becoming to her Japanese type.
When l saw her the other evening, her
velvet snood was a bright, cherry color,
and she was wearing a black gown of
some flmy material with long sleeves
held at the wrists with jet bands. The
great Vanderbilt pearls hung round
her long. slim throat. and a big emer-
aid brooch clasped the lace on her cor
sage. Otherwise she was wearing no
ornaments. and even her hands were
ringlesS, except for the necessary slim
gold band on her wedding finger. Both
the Marquis of Bandford and his
younger brother were in mufti: They
are good-looking young fellows, who
have the height and elegant outline of
their mother. and the fair coloring and
rather heavy features of their du-
cal pa.
His grace of Manchester was also at
the theater that evening. He was in
the stalls and his hair. which is now
much more gray than the Duchess of
Marlborough's, was plastered well back
from his sunburned brow. He was ac-
companied by a black-haired damsel
wearing a cloak of rose pink silk with
an enormously high collar, in the shad-
oW of which her features were almost
lost to view.
The bride is selecting her linens now,
and quite as fascinating is the task
as the selection-already
The Dover made-of lingerie and
n, frocks For weeks and
oeS'' months before her we'd
ding day the bride of hundred years
ago piled her needle busily, adding bit
by bit to the snowy store in her bridal
chest; but the modern bride makes her
selection from beautiful things en-
broidered and wrought by others-less
fortunate women whose needlecraft is
their source of income; and perhaps
the old method was not so very much
better than the new, says the Brook
lyn Eagle.
House linens are very ornate at the
moment, and all this decoration has
meant hours of patient aeedlework, so
handsome linens are not modestly
priced. the October bride is discovering
OF course. there are everyday use
linens, sheets. pillowslips and towels.
h1yf nc of OF 10
ket prices; but the special linens, the
guestroom sheets and pi1lowslips, the
best" towels, excessive in size and
trimmed with hand-scalloping, crochet
luncheon and tea doilies, the handsome
luncheon and dinner tablecloths-all
these will be substantial possessions.
once purchased and added to the brides
linen chest.
Crochet edging is much in vogue
now for house linens and is used very
daintily on pillowslips, towels. doilies
and small lunch or tea napkins. Table
and lunch cloths have wide. handsome
patterns in crochet work. Tatting is
another favored trimming and is used
on towels, lunch napkins and sideboard
scarfs with good effect There should
be at least one lunch cloth of filet lace
and fine linen, and one or two bridge
with crochet or tatting edge and gay
little flower baskets or teapots in
cross stitch at the corners. Several
pairs of linen sheets, hemstitched and
with crochet work along the
upper hem, will be great addition to
the supply. These will, of course, be
with pillowca ses
The brides linens are marked with
the initial or initials of her own name.
A single script letter, handsomely en-
broidered, is in good taste, though it
is very smart now to have an indi-
vidual monogram, the three letters
forming a circle or a rectangular fig
ure.