The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1902, Page 11

o crop of Baster brides is as plen- ul as ever this spring. They al- ways spring up like the crocuses end the violets—in such sudden profusion that you wonder where on earth they all can have come from. Some of these weddings are to take place on Baster day itself. Mary Virginia Bhields is to be one of the Easter day brides. Ehe is that charming daughter of the lste Corporal Bhields—she is the €aughter of an army man and is to be the wife of another. Frank Hutter of An- gel Island is the groom and the wedding will be & truly military one. Belle Newman is another Easter day bride. J. Lewis Abrams will come down from his home in Stockton and béar her away from her grandparents’ home, where the wedding will take place. Mr. and Mre. Redlick sre the grandparents. Still another wedding to take place on the thirtieth is thet of Flora Cohen and Albert Baer. It will be a home affair, and the fioral decorations planned will look like & spring flower-bed growing indoors. Baster Monday, the Zist, will see & besutiful church wedding in the Church of the New Jerusalem in Brooklyn. This interests San Francisco, inasmuch as the groom is Dr. William Redwood Price Clark of this city, who will bring the bride back here to make her new home samong us. The invitations read: *Mrs. James Frederick Goddard requests your presence at the marriage of her daughter, Baith Langdon.” The second day of April will see some weddings in the southern part of town. At the Mission Dolores Church, close to the old Mission, which no doubt witnessed maeny similar ceremonies in early Califor- nia days, Sallle Lennon and Frederick Ruddock will be married. On the same @ay St. John's Episcopal Church will wit- ness the marriage of Flora King-and Per- cy Clay Black. Besides these, Matie Hart and Charles Buss will be married, as well as Marie Robbins and Christian Hilbert, The Easter Wednesday wedding is estab. lished by long custom. The following day, April 3, will see two gallant officers wedded. Major John Hull, judge advocate of the local army head- quarters, will marry Greta Chase of Des Moines. Captain Ormond Lissak of the ordnance department will marry Alice Warrington in Philadelphia. On the Sth of April comes the famous Preston-Drown wedding that has bee keeping San Francisco interested for a long time. Miss Edith Preston and Wil- lard Drown will have a swell church wed. ding that promises to be as elaborate an affair as anybody can anticipate. Other bridef of the early part of April will be Lulu Kuhls, who marries H. L. Detjen, and Lottie Sharpe, who marries Sidney Cayill, the popular swimmer of the Olympie Club. Later in the month come some more weddings. Isabel Van Winkle's is one of these. She will be married at her parents’ home on Howard street and Wil- llam H. Thompson will be the person who plays second fiddle on the occasion, as the groom always must do for at least one day in his career. The Passavant-Szontagh wedding will also be in late April. Mrs. Annie Passa- vant and Oscar Szontagh, the famous mining expert, will be married then. They are going north to lHve in Washington. The last day of April will see the clos- ing of these weddings when Miss Clara Huntington becomes the bride of the young Southerner, Gilbert Brooks Per- kins. The home on Jackson street will be gorgeous with spring decorations and the affair will be a grand finale. i S, HERE are trousseaus and trous- seaus. Miss Georgle Hopkins, now Mrs. Fred McNear, pald five hundred dollars for the lingerie alone of her trousseau. That needn't discourage you, however. You can get up a whole trous- seau, from hat to boots, for seventy dol- lars, and perhaps you will be just as hap- pily married as the several thousand dol- lar girls. Your chances are even, any- way. From the lingdrie outward, quality al- ways pays better than quantity. In the inexpensive trousseau you will notice that the underwear is placed at a very small cost, but if you can do any hand embroidery you can fit yourself out like the smartest bride of the Easter season. The trousseau of lingerie pictured on this page is a seventy-five dollar set from the White House. It is extremely simple In TROUSSEAL FRroM THE e TI0NE ) THY PHOTOS @&y AN\ ™ design, havimg very few frills and fur belows; and fine handwork is what costs. 1f you have a skillful needle you can im- itate this for yourself to a large extent. The set consists of four pieces, which, priced separately, run in thiswise: Night Drawers - Chenise . Corset cover . i This is a fair sample of the sets that our swellest brides have bought. You will notice little trimming. The lace is not very wide nor is it put on in great quan- tities. It is of the finest valenclennes, which edges the dainty battlements that trim the muslin. The French petticoat shown in the pic- ture is a fluffy dream. The sheerest muslin forms the basis of this. /The up- per part is tight, as fashion demands; over the hips it’fits like a glove. All the fullness Is in-the deep flounce which flares just above the ankles, and is edged with a deep lace at the bottom. Hand-sewing again—and more hand-embroidery. This design is the very newest thing that ever was conceived. It is in accord with the present fad for pearls. Festooned ropes of them, that is their embroidered like- nesses, are looped with embroidered bow- knots—all, of course, in pure white. The skirt can be had for §25. The rose corset is another characteris- tically Parisian part of the swell wedding outfit. It has a long front and two sets of garters are attached—one pair in front, one at the sides, helping to hold the cor— set down in place. These points are the essentials that should go with every up- to-date corset. But the beauty of this one! It is of the most delicate brocaded silk, white in ground, with sprinkled pink rosebuds lying on it in brocaded reltgef. The tinlest of ribbon ruffles—white #nd pink and green—decorate the top of the corset. They carry out the tints of the roses and thelr foilage. ¥ A bewitching gown which can be had for the neat little sum of $250 is shown SUNDAY CALL. in the large picture. it Is worthy belng ] made the piece de resistance of the trous- seau. The lace, which covers it entire- ly with the exception of the gimp, is what makes the gown cost. It is a heavy applique lace, a deep shade of cream. The skirt, of dead white taffeta, is en- tirely covered from waist to-hem by the lace. It Is finished at the bottom over the taffeta flourice in deep points, You can y any amount that you please for a wedding trousseau. You can run your bill up into the hundreds and thousands. You can likewise get a sub- stantial outfit for $70 it you know how to_economize. Take a look at the matter. Perhaps you have an idea that the thing can’t done. It is not easy, and the trousseau must be simple, but there is no reason why you can’t be comfortably and pret- tily dressed for that amount of money. In the first place, let your wedding gown be the tailor suit. is is neces- sary. You cannot have a wedding gown with veil for any such small outlay. But remember that some of the swellest brides have talior-made weddings, any- way. This tailor suit will be appropriate for the trip if you have one, and it will be the all-around, useful costume of your wardrobe. It will do for matinees, call- ing, afternoon teas. It will do for church; it will do for shopping; it can be varied by the bodices worn with it. The skirt can be used with a shirt waist, léaving the jacket off on warm days. This tailor suit, ready made, need cost only $15. Now for the walsts that go with it Have one good one of silk, and pay $5 for it. It Is worth the outlay. Have it of a fairly light color, say turquoise blue or old rose. Get.it ready made unless you have a knack of making such things yourself. Without the knack you will have no stylg.in gaur garments. For $ a good wal n be bought. . . Little Lord Fauntleroy Grown to Womanhood IS8 ELSIE LESLIE, who will always be “Little Lord Faun- tleroy™ to most of our theater- goers, has grown up to & very remarkable womanhood. She is quite the ideal of the successful actress. has beauty, wealth, talent, youth and jal pres Moreover, she is one of the most popular women on the stage. Her career has been one of exceptional refinement and comfort Some ten or twelve v ago the sensation she created ittle child actress in Prances Burnett's masterplece was truly phenomenal. Her talent and charming personality made ber known from one end of the world to the other, while her costumes in the play set the fashions for children for a whole decade. But when, at last the piece was with- drawn from“the stage everybody asked what now for litle Elste. Daniel Froh- man answered the question by withdraw- ing her from the stage and personally superintending her education. It was he who first brought her out as the child in “Edith’s Burglar.” Then she was sent abroad' to travel over the Continent. For a year or more she lived in France, after which she re- turned to New Ycrk and entered Miss Ely's school, where her education was completed. Through these latter years it was decided for her that she should re- main in private life. But the lure of the stage was still strong upon her and two or three seasons ago she returned to the stage as the lead- ing lady for Joseph Jefferson in “The Rivals” and ‘““The Cricket on the Hearth." This second appearance after the lapse of several years, and which, strange as it may seem in the light of her big hit in “'Little Lord Fauntleroy,” she considers her real debut, was watched with eager interest by those who had prophesied that she would be as disappointing as most child actresses are when they grow up. She quickly proved that her acting of a decade ago was something more than mere childish precocity by showing unusual talent and dramatic power in her ma- mrltx. ‘What was even more aurprlaln1 was her heightened beauty and her original taste in gowns. As she had set the fash- ions for boys in “Little Lord Fauntle- roy” she is now showing some stunning creations for women as Glory Quayle in “The Christian.” Moreover, she can afford to “‘dress the part,” to use stage vernacular, with a lavish hand, for she is rich—independ- ently rich—in her own right and only re-" ‘mains on the boards for the pure love of acting. Like Ethel Barrymore and dainty little Maude Adams, she is a great favorite In the best and highest soclety circles in New York, and like tnem she is constante iy being importuned to leave the stage for a society lge, hlut :lltt:‘d i‘f&:’?&‘ uayle - LT Glor{ny the will not give heed to B e e e Totime & breat ma; et i o the Vinatcation that is some persona actress. the mainspring of her new ambiti on. ELSIE LESUE ~ 11 Have a flannel walst. This can be bought for §1 2 Especially in the Saa r co climate this will be useful dur- g a good. deal of :h?l sumn}ex', er":h ¢ that will not soil easily, fo e S '“'1 rl-[ arments i expensive t it done at home. & to_you, a scariet both durable and en your husband comes home tired to death the very sight of your to JUEY him ould be bought st £ ese of light sume mery colors wash out the cuffs your- self occs T c often sofl wh For 312 y something that will tles that you 1 husband. Let which comes with your ¢ challle, Use tucks are lucky v lace on cellent ad- ume more dressy Buy a ready-made wrapper for $2. Have it of flannelette and it will be fairly warm. Your one new hat must be a trimmed one w will do to be married exercise plenty of juds- its color, as it has te t ¥ VD! Black nvenient. A $5 h if your mil- in, and you mu: ment in choosi brings the wh is decidedly I quite as P' that small cost. Two petticoats will do very weill. Have a white one for best and a dark-colored sateen one for e use. These can be bought for a dollar aplece. The corset will cost $1 50, Have & light patr of gloves costing $1 50 and a pair for common wear at $L. Half a dozen pairs of stockings can be had for $150. One dozen handkerchiefs will cost the same. Shoes in any style you desire can be bought for $3 50. Light- weight boots, are the best for all-round wear. This dllows you $18 for little things, such as neck ribbons and belts, and you have spent only §10.