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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1904)
1(5 THE ILLUSTRATED DEE- Ma I90t A Child's Letters from a Castle on the Sea ...... . .. ........ s r ...... .......... r-rr-T 1 : ! . . - 1 , i I 1 i , ai , if ' ; . A K .: ..v-t:.- V--. . . m: 1- - A " . ..:v." .: jL.CJ WE OALIX)PED AND I C'C JT': V r 'l 1 "TITRT SAID THKT LOVED rLATINO 11 lAuncclot: Today even Jack ay Lw..!'.i"" , v P' M :vL' i . ..... ... - - . . ... i ir I .... , ' T - . - -v , j , . I I and Trrua KACED." TITRD 5ay out. My Dnar Sir Iiuncnlot: Today even Jack aaya thn kfnff miifit ho a. ffnod klnir. h. . 1 I.UUAU UtS I'LL'IHU til C nu BU CklllU MM Thn klndoMt nf nil la railed tha elewardem. Wo are going to call her Queen CJuenever because we like her best. Bhe always looks after the feasts for th kntghu and she gives us three feasts every day. That Is more than the real Queen Ouonover used to give King- Arthur's knights, I am sure. Mother says she Is very glad thl.i Gucn ver looks after the children's table, be cause (the has bom In thl caatle so Ions' that she knows just what Is bust for them to have. Thon, thero Is the barber. I think we hail play he Is Merlin,; he has so many queer things In his room all sorts of bot tles and perfumery and candy and yacht ing caps and a funny sharp knife that he can slide right over a man's face und never let it Bllr and cut him, no mfctter how the castle tosses and shakes. I like the stewards, too, and sometimes they play with us. They have beautiful suits with lots of nhlnjng buttons and the king's flag on their caps. We play they are pages and squires, because they are al ways doing something for somebody and are always ready to take any one any where in the castle, and are always so polite and respectful. Today we had more fun than we had yosterday, even. One of the stewards gave us some pasteboard and string, and we got some pencils and scissors, and two little girls had some paint boxes, and we each made ourselves some armor. We worked out on the dock and while we were work- WB SHOWED THEM THE TICTURES cry IN OUR BOOKS' I World of Fashions (Continued from Tage Ten.) raincoats of the day do not advertise them selves as such. Since the subject of traveling has been Introduced a word may as well be said on the subject of gowns. Only materials which shed the dust are, of course, strictly speak ing, regarded as correct traveling textures. But among the brllllantlnes and alpacas, and eollonnes long used, one now comes across silk traveling frocks of a delightful elegance. In tiny checks of many effective color combinations, these silks, which aro on the slippery taffeta order, are made even gayer with contrasting pipings. A bewitching little frock In block and white check had pipings of red and black. A short skirt, finely side pleated, and a bolero shirred at the round yoke and sloeva tops, was the model of this. The little jacket fell over a blouse of scarlet batiste, and under the back of the black chip sailor hat appeared most of the trimming. The hat brim itself turning up smartly at the rear over quite a deep crown band, the un derspace hung with festoons Of soft loulslne ribbon In a vivid red. the ends of the underdecklng shortening toward the front and finishing In two bows over the ears. Countless are the shades of brown shown by traveling gowns, hats, etc, and the newest tint, unpoetle as It may seem, Is called "mud brown." Pale blue contrasts stylishly with this and relieves the unbe comlngness of the shade, brown, whatever nuance It takes, requiring always some contrast. A splendid carriage toilette In mud brown chiffon la put over pale blue loulslne and trimmed with small rosettes of the same. A, blouse of ochre-colored muslin, very bouffant and insot with rare lace, accom panied this. Ecallle, tortotse shell brown, Is another shade In this fashionable color, which con tinues to be vastly liked and shows Itself In hats, gloves, laoe veils snd even silk petticoats. Tfce effect of this on the pretty girl who ing wo decided that the king Is a good king who sends this castle to America to take any children who want to come to be his knights on the voyago to see King Arthur's land. And we are going to call ourselves the Knights of the White Star. We made our armor like the pictures wo found In the books in the library castle. Wo had such a good time that we did not want to stop to cat. But we didn't want, to disappoint Ouenever after she had the feast all ready and besides we ore all starving hungry always, on this floating castle. Oh, yes, and the sick children were well enough to help. They got well soon, didn't they? If children pet well so soon as that on board a ship I wish Tom and Isobel had been sick and then perhaps they would have had to come. I told Aunt Caroline so and she smiled and then her eyes began to cry nnd she said sho almost wished sov too, only she did hope they were very well . now. So do I. I am sorry I made her vd the headpiece was coquetlsn in k the extreme. Numbers of other sailor hats show a fetching under-treatment, but for the most part it is confined to the back, wlure the trimming that falls Is taking on a new lease. The smartest shirt waist suits which are not blue or black, seem Invariably to be brown. But touches of white, and white under blouses, relieve the majority of them; and a good point Is always made by having white In the petticoat and hat. In Paris, especially with black dresses, the hat and the underskirt strike the same color note. If the petticoat Is purple the headpiece Is purple and the same with all other shades. MARY DEAN. I am, Sir Launcelot, , Faithfully yours, RICHARD WORTHTNQTON, Knight of the White Star. FOURTH DAY OUT My Dear Sir Launcelot: We have better times every day. Today we had a real tournament on deck and wore our armor wo made yester day, and used canes and unbrellas for lances, and handkerchiefs for banners. All the boys and some of the girls were knights, and some of the girls were ladles and sewed and read and played with their dolls. They said they loved playing that way. I am glad now that Isobel is Joan of Arc instead of Guenever. . We played we were on horseback and had a parade on' deck and then we gal loped and raced and played hurdling horses all morning and caught the ring-toss rings on our lances. . When the ship's band played we made our horses keep time to the music high-stepping and galloping and trotting. It must have been fine to have really been a knight. Only If I were. I am sure I should want a castle-on-the-sea to live In mot of the time. Good night. 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