The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-13
Fashionable Gossip.

lie UlaIlGt lOE MCuuiuSo tHio yCa
bids fair to take of the grown up gene
RI ton of young folks, and leave the field
clear to the debutantes of the present
winter. Rather an amusing little stir
was occasioned by Misrepresentation Of
the hours of recent fashionable we'd
ding reception. The cards read, from
half-past II A. NJ. to half-past II P. NJ"
and many of the innocent recipients
supposed that the bride would receive
her friends from noon until midnight.
That interchange of opinion and FEM
mime chatter, which is not unusual
among the ladies, finally corrected the
error, however, and every one under
stood that the reception included only
one hour at noon.
At marriage of a gentleman who has
for some time held prominent Office
connected with one of our great rail-
roads, he received the following note :
'To Mr.. and Mrs. -: 1 wish you God
speed on your lifelong journey. Having
started promptly on card time, may
you travel happily together in coaches
of ease and comfort; may your
train never uncouple; may you
never meet with collision may you
never run off or be thrown from the
track may you be 'on time at every
Station and finally, at ripe, good old
age, after n pleasant and prosperous
round trip over the straight and mar
row (gauge) way that leadeth unto
life,' may You have been so conducted
rs to insure safe run into the Great
Union Depot of Everlasting Bliss
house not made with hands, eternal il
the heavens"
From files Of late French papers We
learn that the fashionable season al
Compeigne, where the French Empress
holds court at this season Of the year
has commenced, and the first batch O.
visitors have been comfortably housed
in the Palace. The female portion o.
them have gone accompanied by huge
boxes filled with dresses, which, like
those of Miss Biddy Fudge, when she
was in Paris, are
- 30 divine there's no language expresses
Except just the two words 'superbe," mag
nihque.'
The greater part of them have beer
made by Worth, the male milliner o
the Rue de la Paix, who was introduced
to Paris some years back by the Prin
cess Metternich, and is now all the rag'
among the ladies. The expense of then
must make poor husbands groan in as
ony of spirit for, in the first place
Worth charges enormously high, ant
in the next they are expensive mate
rails, and are many in lumber. As t.
the number, the rule of the Palace i:
that no lady shall appear twice in thu
same custom, and that she shall have
one in the early part of the morning.
a0OVneT III tue ttttTitOOu-a tulTu iot
dinner and the evening-saying moth
ing of special dresses for special occa
sions. A visit of week, therefore
necessitates the consumption of not {
fewer than twenty-one dresses as q
minimum, And then all the innumer
able etceteras Of lady's toilet! To b
sure, bonnets are not now
.bish mn and potine
Like things that are put up to keep chimney
from smoking!
LAS they were in Miss Judges time
On the contrary, they are remarKabl!
small and as fat as pancake. But the
economy that has been made in theil
dimensions has not extended to theil
cost. Altogether, then, o visit to Com
peigne makes fearful void in . conju'
gal budget, and not few of the visit.
lors, we may be sure, ask themselves i
the honor Of it 10 worth the expense.