Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — QUEEN OF THE CARNIVAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QUEEN OF THE CARNIVAL.

Miw Arthemise Baldwin-One of th* Sweetest Maida of New Orleans. . One of the sweetest maids of New Orleans is Miss Arthemise Baldwin, who was crowned queen of the recent Mardl Gras in the city near the delta. She 1* the daughter of Albert Baldwin, preaident of the New Orleans National Bank. Miss Baldwin looked a real queen and certainly never did a real queen wear a more gorgeous coronation robe, a pretty picture of which was made by Illustrated American. This gorgeous robe was of the richest white satin embroidered with gold thread and jewels. Around the bottom of the skirt were five large coronets, wrought out of seed pearls and jewels. Above them was a rich appliqueof palest green velvet couched in gold thread and with the design picked out in. amethysts, sapphires, emeralds and other glittering jewels. The corsage was cut round in the neck and the entire front was covered with the same exquisite jeweled embroidery. Huge puffs of satin-

formed the sleeves and on them the rich design of the skirt was repeated. About the neck was a costly medici collar, thickly studded with jewels on both sides until it formed a glittering mass of gems. From the shoulders, fastened by gem*, hung the court train of royal purple velvet, deeply bordered with ermine, and lined with heavy white satin. The train, three yards long, was richly embroidered with fleur delis, wrought in the same jewels as those used in embroidering the gown. About her white throat she wore a superb necklace of diamonds, a jeweled girdle spanned her waist, on her head she wore a crown and in her hand she bore * scepter.

MISS ARTHEMISE BALDWIN.