The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-16
waits for the Ladies'.

"A lover has been pithily described
as a man who, i'll his anxiety to obtain
possession of another, has lost possess
sion of himself
The Summers are the worshipped
society in Washington. at an elegant
party lately, she is described as wear
ing an elegant black corded silk dress,
with Pompadour waist, and a heavy
black lace mantle, and golden wreath
of antique mould, and half like a
crown, curiOusly interviewer with her
hair, helped to create an illusion "be-
fore which men instinctively rendered
homage" -r..
The South has some novel social
features which impress US of the North
as unique in the extreme. At a we'd
ding in Raleigh, N. C., few evenings
since, the invited guests, after the cere-
mony, We're requested to pay ten dol
lars each to the bride, who was in such
INDECENT circumstances that she had
not the means TO complete her ward
robe. Each person present promptly
responded, and the sum raised amount
ed 10 about five hundred dollars. The
bride thanked her friends for their gem
erosity, kissed them all, and went
home with her husband in the best OF
spirits.
"A queer story is afIoat in social cir
cles respecting party given last week
by lady whose husband occupies a
front rank among New York men OF
science. The principal invited gaest
was-well, a star in the musical firma-
ment; and everybody went in hope of
hearing the rich notes of the songstress.
AT the appropriate moment the hostess
began persuasively: won't you sing
to us, Mademoiselle ?" by no means,
dear Mrs. -" was the response, II
came to be entertained, not to enter
TAIN. Whereupon there was a flutter-
ing, blank looks, much whispering, and
world of gossip since.
This is the savage way that an ac-
tress in London pitches into one of her
sister actresses with whom she had a
quarrel: ''I have never reproached
you with your age, nor with your large
fortune so laboriously amassed. ~
frankness that she may sometimes
have lost her temper, and have "shown
her teeth, (" ''it is not your fault" she
adds, "if you have not done the same -
-Baldness is popular and fashionable
in Paris, and conseq uently in New
York. and a lady, was overheard to say
at Fifth Avenue party: 81 like Mr..
- 5O uluCu ne Is very interesting,
he has beautiful eyes, and as little hair
as If he were eighty, and he is not
thirty yet,"
The Duchess de Persigny has been
sued by man-dressmaker, in Paris,
named Maugas-a rival of the ceIebra-
ted Werth-upon a bill of 3,OOOfr. for
fancy and other dresses supplied at the
beginning of the last year. The Ouch
ess's man of business held the bill too
high, and offered $500 fr. The hearing
of the case brought to light very hot
correspondence between the tradesman
and the Duchess. NJ. de Maugas stands
upon his dignity as dressmaker for
the highest aristocracy. The Duchess
de Persigny, he says, gave him an order
for the very best things without making
any stipulations as to price, and in now
attempting to tax his bill, she treats him
as rogue. He goes so far as to accuse
her of systematically availing herself
of her rank to obtain goods under the
market price. The court, before decid-
ing, has commissioned Madame Later
riere, fashionable dressmaker, to
make a report as an expert, in order to
enable the Court to form an opinion as
to the reasOnableness of the PLAINTIFFS
charge.