The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-24
FROlr NEW Y0RRE

Visit to see RIstOfISs.A Grand CF.nsh
af the Matinee.
The italian opera season has opened
brilliantly, with houses crowded from
floor to ceiling, and close row of pa
tient standees lining the walls. Miss
Kellogg never sang more brilliantly,
Ronconi never was droller, the tenors
are in good voices, and audiences aD-
plauded 70 the echo. Last evening
MISS kellogg actually lost herself in
her character, and that is all she needs
In order to become an actress. In low
comedTS or high tragedy her bird-like
voice and fresh, untired manner, are
usually the same. The audiences were
something wonderful in their diamonds
ermine, velvet, point lace; India shawls,
geld embroidery, moire-antique, and
the hints of bonnets, or flashing fringes
and chainspf glass upon their heads
And the Waterfallsl The whole beard
of Michael Angeles "Moses'' is rolled
into a mass, and balanced on the very
top Of some pretty head, with mounds
Of frizzed hair below, and numberless
glittering CLASSY pendents interspersed.
MODERN BoNNETs AND WHAT COMES OF
THEM.
The2bonnets lessen gradually, and
everything indicates that we shall soon
walk about bareheaded, like the Dutch
peasant girls. have seen in the street,
in these November days, a lady of for
tyehVe, whose bonnet was composed of
a single velvet leaf, with friI1 Of Brus-
sells lace and strings. o, rulers of FASH
ton,2 think of the cold winter that is
coming, with the thermometer at ten
degrees below zero, and take pity upon
usI An eminent aurist tells me that
since the present small bonnets were
In vogue his cases of deafness have in
creased four-fold. He asserts that not
only the ear, but the delicate nerves
which surround it, should be protected.
Among my own acquaintances, find
sufficient confederation of this warn
comparatively young ladies have inter-
fupted me with, "May ask you to
speak little louder I am strangely
troubled with deafness; the, doctor
says 1t Is only yinervousness, and will
pass; but i d6ubt'"9 What will become
Of usi That woman who will lead us
back to the good, deep, shady, becom-
ing, sensible b0nnets of old times shall
deserve a statue on the common. Eyes
suffer as well as ears. 1t is hardly
exaggeration to say that, for the last
few years, a quarter of the young la
dies IN Boston have been under the
medical treatment of some oculist.
Purple speetacles, or a peculiar mark,
as OF cupptng instruments, upon the
temple, are seen at every turn. Ask
DR.. Williams or DR.. Derby the reason,
and their first reply will be, stBonnets,
and turban hats!n The organs of taste
and smell are 50 allied with those of
hearing, that 1t Is evident we shall soon
be red need to the state of Laura Bridg-
SHORT DRESSES AND SMALL HOOPS.
A more sensible, If not tasteful, in-'
noyation of fashion, is the wearing of
short dresses and Very9smRll hoops.
Concerning the latter, there is comi-
cal state of consternation among wo-
mankind. Only one possessed ofadroit-
ness and skill can manage to sit down
In them; In an opera, seat, pew, a car,
they utterly refuse to subside. The
trouble is that the lower hoops are dis
oporttonRtelY large for the upper
ones. But the short-dreRs hoops are
short and pliable. The dress is OF prop;
eElength for walking, and when In
modest colors is very appropriate for
that purpose. Just now these dresses
are made as gay as possible, SO that the
weaters, in their red petticoats, look
like vivandiers. Sometimes the sleeves
and skirt are Of bright blue, and the
waist and oyer-skirt of brown-an un-
becoming and conspicuous combina-
ton. as5 q ~ F8
BEADS AND BUGIEs AD NAUsEAA1:
AS for glass, as for hangers and drop
pers, rings on her fingers and chains on
her head and bells on her toes, and a
making of music wherever she. goes,
there is no end to 1T; rustling aud
rattling and weight of sounding glass
and tinsel. I'VE should think It y pun
ishment worthy of theinquisition, II we
were forced to wear junk bottle on
top ofiour heads. But more than the
weight OF bottle is often distributed
about our bonnets, in glass bugles and
beads! One who has not lifted, would
hardly realize the cumbersomeneEs of
these glass-trimmed garments. A vel
vet or heavy cloth cloak trimmed with
jet is an absolutely cruel weight upon
ones shoulders. Is there any such in
quisitor as fashion i will say nothing
oftEains, for they do not much affect
health or comfort; but TO make one of
the sthrong that pour out from q con-
cert hall or fashionable church is some
thing curious. One ;wades in sea of
silk; or ,Fashly lifting a foot, brushes
beads and bHgleS and NOOK pearls
enough to buyJa Commission in the
army. The only safe method is to
plant ones foot close to the ground,
AT the,last dinner party, a young girl
who made her debut into society wore
a train two yards and half in length,
and on her head aswreath of flowers,
three glass chains, and a waterfall that
reached as far forward as the bump of
reverence. f
WHITTIER ARB WE TENDINa2 -.
Win all this luxury,lastS aud to what