The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-17
NEW YORKLSMS.
from Our oSn Correspondent.

coming Man will not drink wine, or with Miss
eusan B. Anthony, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
that the Coming Woman will vote. ] am rather
inclined to the belief unconsciously instgated
by "Jennie June" that that the Coming Woman
will write book bout bonnets which the world
will not willingly let die,-the book, that Is, not
the bonpets, for, as rule, the world Is
only too glad to let the bonnet die
out before IL has accomplished half the
mission 1t might. Culinary artists, of the
Alcide Miribalant type, have found inspiration
IN their sauce-paus, aud incense In their ket-
tles and who Is that cook that became at
once hysterical and historical, in killing himself
because un poisson, on which he had set his
heart, but which he was not successful In
setting on the hob, did not answer his expecta
Hons in coming up to time? II culinary
literature be successful, why not millinery
literature much more so? Much has been
written about hats; why should not much more
be written about bonnets? All that is at
present written about bonne's is the Journalists
paragraph, or the techncally-phrased descrip
tions of mIiners "openiugs,' or the adjectives
expressive of all degrees OF loveliness which
young ladies heap together in their letters to
one another, when one bonnet season has
stepped out and another has stepped in.
Well, to be brief, the creme de Ia creme of the
fashionable bounet-makers of this city, are the
most reticent and disag reeable creatures in the
crinoline world, when they discover that the
object OF your visible you man or Toman-is
merely to group together notes for few para
graphs In letter descriptive Of the various new
styles. They frowu, they look glum, they trife
with their spiteful white cuffs, and look through
you and not at you, whilst they inform you
that it is "against their rules" Even the pros
pect of a newspaper 'pua'-such things do
exist tometimes outside of New York-has
no effect upon them at all, 50 assured are
they OF certain amount of patronage from the
same quarters whence they have been getting
1t for years. If you are a man seeking these
explanations, and the party at whose rooms
you make them be not man-milliner, you are
instantly pounced upon by some savage old
woman in spectacles, spInster, probably, at
whose advent the sylphs OF silk and satin whom
you have been consulting vanish like mist
wreaths, preceding similar vanishing tendencies
manifested involuntarlly on your part. few
fashionable milliners having a personal &C
quaintance with and liking for newspaper
people, take you into their hearts and ateiers at
once, and show you all that has been
done, and is doing, previous to the
the bodies are Of drab velvet, SO trimmed with
Gro wn wreaths of the came material, fronted
with buds of pink and leaves Of green. A be.
coming mourning bonnet, called ''Lotta"
consists of new frame of the Fanchon style, in
heavy corded revere, plated and trimmed with
flowers of jet and purple silk. Milliners, blythe
by, ''create" bonnets just as novelsts create
characters, and tragediennes create roles.
iho of 4,
Grenaud Fanchon, with Sultana body, and rib
bons trimmed with black thread lace, and
coronetted with a humming bird, an aigrette,
and an ostrich pompon. Another creation is
$50 cap a Ia PoLonoise, a gauzy triae of white
Chantilly lace and pale pink satin, bouquetted
with moss rose buds. Numerous ball dresses
are also to be seen at all prices, from 5000 to
$1,000. I am aware that in mentioning these
facts / am touching on awful themes, and the
flesh of my pen creeps, so to speak, like JEANNE
Deans in presence Of Queen Caroline.
The Experimentation case, of which the
accomplished Herald reporter ingenuously
observes that the lady was "nee Mrs. General
Eaton, nee Mrs. Timberlake, nee Miss Margaret
0'Neill has come up again, but nothing further
has transpired, except that public sympathy
with Madame Bouginani is more warmly ex
pressed than ever. The blackguardly theatre
affair, in which Sheriff O'Bren's myrmidons
figure so beautifully, has also come up, but
nothing of consequence has yet been elected.
set of extremely youthful youths have lately
been amusing themselves by pllfering the strong
box In one of the rooms of the Wallstrect
Board of Brokers to the amount OF over 500
the greater portion Of which, but for the arrest
of yesterday, would, by the end of the week,
have been expended in candy, oyster suppers,
theatres, fast teams, and fast temptresses. who
teach the young masculine idea here how to
shoot at an extremely youthful age.
The dark eyes and good, if not beautiful, face
of Clara Louise Kellogg, are beaming gladly at
her rooms at the Westminster, where she ar
rived day or two since accompanied by her pa
and ma. The success abroad Of Miss Kellogg,
who is purely American, Is something for
Americans to be proud OF. Comparatively few
years ago she was poor girl, ignorant of even
the means of beginning to win that fame which,
with the selfknowledge of genius, she felt she
would one day deserve. There are scarcely
halta-dozen other soprani at present enjoying
an equal reputation. When you mention Tie
items, Nilsson, Patti, Lucca, and Parepa-Rosa,
you have mentioned all, whatever treasures
of song may be Gaping out from the
infantile form of sweet Minnie Hanuck, whom
the forlorn Strakosch is represented to have
despairingly snapped up in place of the Marquise
de Caux. / presume political economy would
teach that, there being so few great singers
going, such as these are ought to be over
whelmingly paid; but cannot get over the idea
that $500 or $1,000 per night is too much to pay
any woman for au hours warbling and asting