Katrina's Dress
/ silk, cotton, lace / Gift of Syrethe Seldon
Among
the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week,
to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel,
the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was
a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and
melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally
famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations......
