La Cieca apologizes for her tardiness in saluting dear Mary this week, but she thinks you will agree it’s worth the wait: “Miss Garden’s costume differs in a marked degree from those her predecessors have worn.  When she first enters she wears a manteau of bright orange silk embroidered with startling green and blue flowers and sparkling with spangles.  Later she removes this mantle, under which appears a tight-fitting garment of netted gold, with designs in rubies and rhinestones, which falls from somewhere above the waist line to her ankles. For the dance itself, this also is removed, and Mary appears in a small piece of nearly transparent flesh-colored silk. Her feet are bare, her arms are bare and—really it is impossible to describe this costume.” [New York Times]