Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-31
MANHATTANISMS.
HOW WOMEN ENDURE THE ANGUISH
OF ENDLESS DRESSING.
Scandalous Lawsuit Threatened Chas.
Oc1nor's Antecsdents Mill
ions Of Church Debt.
NEW YORK, January II. 1880

for wages. very much question if they
would do for money what they are doing for
pleasure, so-called. They are dressing and
going, and undressing and going again,
day after day, and week after week, in the
same weary and monotonous round. But
they do not weary of it, not even the most
delicate women. They dine formally
attend the opera; repair to a ball at mid
night dance until dawn; drive home to
a feverish sleep; rise at noon dawdle
through late breakfast dress for dinner
undress and dress for the evening stay
long and late at German whirl back to
bed, and at noon resume this toilsome gay
ETY.. This
| EXCESS OF SOCIAL EXCITEMENT
Is hard for men to bear. We have all ex.
perienced the WEAKNESS of living in dress
coat-and what it must be to women, we
can only imagine. How can they endure
it? 1t has been often said that women have
more fortitude than we have; and their
capacity for fashionable dissipation proves
the saying to be correct. A man can slip
into black trousers, swallow tail and white
cravat in ten minutes-and then he is
raimentally qualified to 90 into any circle,
whether it be in New York drawing
room, at diplomatic dinner in Paris, or an
imperial bail at st. Petersburg
A woman must, on the contrary, ever
lastingly vary her attire. She must have
morning robes, afternoon robes, evening
robes. She must have one garb for indoor,
another for outdoor she must have walk
ing dress, driving dress, dinner dress,
calling dress, reception dress, party dress,
ball dress.
A popularity of all this DOMINIC and
dotflng of clothes is that, as the day adj
| vances less and less is worn In the
morning, woman of society is plentifully
supplied with vestments-so she is when
she appears on the promenade, and on the
drive. But at dinner she has molted
decidedly, and at the opera or party or ball,
| she has lost more of her fine feathers,
although those that remain are particularly
and notIceably fine Full dress, as it is
termed, is really half dress, sometimes not
more than a quarter dress, and generally
conveys bewildering
SENSATION OF NUDITY.
| The effect of bare arms and bare breast
on the masculine mind is apt to be one of
| clothelessness, and no amount of redundant
drapery below can relieve the impression
Ii woman should dress for dawn, which,
fortunately, she never does, her garb would
be, should her stripping custom continue
in the same ratio, very like Godiva's on a
l. l.. L.
would have no trouble in arraying herself.
! She could step from her bath tub as entire
| ly unequipped for the hour as Aphro6te
when she rose from the foam of the sea-
Any man in the least acquainted with
women knows what tax on their time and
nerves, what draft upon their vitality,
especially for any form of festivity, dressing
always is and, so far as records go,
| always has been. 1t is more than solem-
nifty; it is a trial-yea, an anguish. No
matter how many facilities and maids they
may have, dressing never fails to torment
| while it delights them-to render them
irritable, and, If molested, dangerous. No
man of much feminine experience willingly
puts himself in the way of woman who
is making her toilet. He feels that she is
as fierce then as tigress deprived of her
cubs, and he sedulously keeps out of sight
until her manutan agony is over. Two
hours occupied by her N arraying herself
for party-and this is a brief allowance
wears upon her as much as a week OF
ordinary exertion ought to. Is it
not wonderful, therefore, that she
can go through with so much
dressing as she does at this season, and
yet retain her average health? One might
think that the metropolis would lose thou
sands of its daughters of fashion every
winter. But it does not. The mystery
can be explained only by the fact-it must
be a fact-that women are ten times
tougher than they are thought to be. In
the line of their vanity ana social ambi-
ton, their endurance is well nigh super
human. They may be mere women In a
state of nature they are goddesses when
struggling with clothes.
You have seen that the late Frank
Leslie left his
ENTIRE PROPERTY TO HIS WIDOW,
Formerly the wife of f. G. Squier, giving
not copper to his two sons, Alfred and
Harry, by his first wife, from whom he
obtained divorce. They are, as may be
inferred, very wroth, and intend, under
stand, to employ counsel to break the
will They and their father have not been
harmonious for years Ia suit against one
of them was, you know, pending at the
time of Leslle's death to prevent him
from using the name of Frank Leslie,
Jr J, owing, believe, to the fact that they
naturally sympathized with their mother in
her connubial troubles, and resented what
they regarded as her great wrongs. They
did not like Mrs. Squler either, While their
father adored her, which was another cause
of dissension. Under the circumstances it
was to be expected that the well. known
publisher should do as he has done, and it
is equally to be expected that his sons
should use their utmost endeavor to gain
by law their share OF the inheritance The
property is very valuable. Many persons
have supposed because Leslie had failed
and made an assignment, that he is worth
very little. This is grave mistake. 1t
is believed that his publications will soon
be released from legal complications, that
all his debts will be paid, and that the
business will yield from $50, 900 to $50, 900
annually. The Leslie sons need not
have any money to secure shrewd
counsel to aid them in breaking their
fathers will. Any number of lawyers can
be got to espouse their cause, or any cause,
where there is a prospect of obtaining
recompense from an estate. The case Of
Cornelius j. Vanderbilt against William H.
Vanderbilt demonstrated this. He had no
just claim, in all probability, upon his
fathers property; he had already been
provided for. and had given the Commo-
dore no end of trouble. Still, William H.
Vanderbilt, after seeing that his younger
brother would stop at nothing which would
help him, and would continue to soil the
family fame, compromised the suit for the
sake OF his fathers memory and his own
sensibility. The friends of the late Frank
Leslie regret that he left his whole prop
erty away from his sons, because they
know that suit on their part will create
a most unsavory scandal The entire his
tory of Frank Leslie and his first wife, of
his connection with f. G.. Squier, long in
his employ, and of Mrs. Squier, also
in his service, will of course be brought