"Our festive ball-gown.

Scores of "simple white muslin" ball-gowns at a hundred dollars apiece are only worn once or twice.

He will say that of a cotton frock made two years agohe never knowsof a silk négligé, or of a ball-gown of the newest make.

Her caskets of jewels were matched by the most wonderful collection of dresses in France, the richest and daintiest confections, from pearl embroidered ball-gowns which cost twenty thousand francs to the mauve and silver in which she went a-hunting in the forest of Fontainebleau.