The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-02-06
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK
Pleasures OF tho Seas0n-Sleightn1
Costumes-Music and Gossip-Ths
Vienna Exposition.
From an Occasional Correspondent
New YORK, February 3, 1873.
Editors OF the Register:
sLEIGHING.
The sleighing still continues to be
excellent We have not had such fine
times for twenty years. The bells are
here from morning until night,
and 1 had almost written from night
until morning. The poor horses and
drivers have a hard time of it. The
old folks take their rides in the day
time; the young people" get up sleigh
rides for the evening; 60 of TO some
suburban village, have supper and a
fen quadrilles and return in the Vet
sma hours. The horses ought to get
up an indignation meeting!
sLEIGHING SUITS.
As every occasion demands separ-
ate costume, we must not forget to de-
scribe the dress which is considered en-
rsgls for sleigh riding. For married
LADY. the sack of Astrachan, seal-skin
or other fur, black velvet bonnet or
round hat, a lace veil and white com
forter to protect the ears, completes the
outfit usually seen. Of course the NUT
ia carried. The dress worn is OF nc
consequence, as it is not seen, being
covered up in the elegant robes with
which each sleigh must be supplied.
FOR YOUNG LADIES.
The young ladies are expected to dress
as gay and attractive as possible. Some
wear scarlet sacks, some white sacks
The latter when trimmed with dark
fur, with a fur cap to match. and q
bright shawl thrown over the shoulders
or across the arm, are very attractive
Dark brown suits and black velvet suits
are also seen, but always with bright
scarf or shawl to relieve the plainness
and add variety to the scene.
THE OTHER oNRs.
By the other ones mean that class Of
women who care nothing at all for
dress, or still a few others who have
not the time and means for dress, pre-
ierring to spend their time in reading
and their money for books; they 60
riding whenever they get a chance, in
any kind OF a fixture on runners, in any
kind of a dress they can seize and fling
on oftener than otherwise it is merely
q waterproof cloak with the hood drawn
up over the head, an old green or brown
veil knotted on carslessly, q blanket
shawl pinned askew, and away they &c
as happily as larks! They certainly
are very picturesque looking, and seem
to enjoy themselves much more heart
iiy than their favored sisters, who are
by all the properties OF an
elegant turnout, liveried driver, fine
dress, etc.
HUsIC.
Theodore Thomas still continues to
delight the lovers Of good music by
giving concerts which excel any other
concerts of the same kind that can be
heard in America. His orchestra is 80
we'll balanced that no class OF instru-
ments preponderates over the others,
the performers are imbued with the
desire to render each part perfectly and
the thoroughness with which they enter
into the spirit of the piece or compost
ton which they are rendering is truly
At the concert to be given
at Steinway Hall, the twenty>sixth OF
April, Mr.. Thomas will produce Bee
thoven's Ninth Symphony, with the as
Stance of five hundred members OF the
Handel and Haydn Society Of Boston.
This is an event to be anxously looked
for by every true lover of art in the
city. The papers say that the Boston
folks are capable of doing their part
magniicently and we all know Mr..
Thomas will not fail to do his.
cANDLEMAs DAY.
Yesterday was Candlenas Day. and,
as usual, it was strictly celebrated in all
the Catholic churches snd in the more
ritualistic Episcopal churches. The
day is OF heather origin; the Romans
were accustomed to burn candles on
this day in honor OF the mother Of
Mars. Pope Sergius turned it to &C
count by ordering the candles to be
burned in honor of the Virgin. The
candles blessed on this day are sup
posed to drive away evil influences, and
are kept to burn around the corpse OF
deceased friends. I cannot speak from
experience as to the potency of the in'
fluence exerted by the csndles so
blessed; one thing l do know: they
burn just as fast. and the spot Of grease
they make is just as hard to rub out as
a spot dropped from an unblessed can
die.
MISS EMILY FAITHFUL.
A large audience greeted Mics Faith
full at Association Hall, Saturday sitter
noon, to listen to her lecture entitled
OF Eminent Men and Wo'
men [ have KNOWN" Her lecture was
listened to with profound attention and
her hearers vent away perfectly salts
fed.
FIRES
We have had about our usual num-
Der Of fires the past week. Unless
fire amounts to an absolute conflsgra-
ton we seem to mind it but little. A
few girls burned. few firemen dlsa-
bled, q few families turned houseless
and homeless into the street! We
read, we exclaim, poor creaturesi and
that is all. The greattide of city life
sweeps on and their CRY for help is los'
in the surging turmoil, and often the