Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-08-17
SOCIETY CHT-CHAT.

WI youuk Iuultb VI SDhuOcISNlllc, Sus
wear each belt made from the skin Of Q
rattlesnake.
In London little sons of Ham are nov
coming into use as pages for the ladies
of the upper social circles.
A LADY at Saratoga has created sen.
sation by appearing with bird Of Para
disc mounted on her sunshade.
The cornet fever is raging in London,
Ont, SO savagely that eleven Young
ladies have formed cornet band.
THE "Elberon walk is the latest. 1t
is something between the "Grecian
bend" and the" Lady Longsdale limp" +"
EVE did not experience any of the tor
lures endured by the modern ladies' Of
f'shion, and yet, like the latter, she had
nothing 10 wear.
A GIRL who sets out to look graceful
in hammock has as much work on hand
as the man who tries to be languid with
q saw-log following him down hill.
A RUNAWAY couple passed through
Somerset, KY, few days ago, en- route
to Tennessee to be married, accompanied
by four armed men, who han been hired
to prevent paternal interference.
They tell Of lady at q Cape May
ball who wore a " robe Of garnet colored
velvet buttoned up to the neck with real
gold buttons" How awfully hot she
must have been!-N Y. Mail and Err
press.
BBDEGRooMs who fail to attend the
wedding have been numerous of late in
the northwest. Whenever stranger is
seen with "steer-caught-in-t the corn
expression he may be set down as a
northwestern escaped bridegroom.
Louisville COurier-JOurndi.
LITTLE music boxes playing very
family one tune are now worn at the
waist belt dangling from bit of ribbon.
They are OF Swiss make, and hold hair
pins and glove-buttoners. Rings on
her finger and bells on her toes, she
shall have music wherever she goes"
A YOUNG Englishman telegraphed to
the object of his hearts devotion and ar
ranged for q clandestine meeting. The
telegraph operator addressed the mes
sage to Mrs." instead of "Miss," aud
loves your dream was thus nipped in
the bud. There was no nonsense in the
old woman.
SOMEBODY complains that there will be
no fun at weddings after a while. An
aristocratic wedding lately came off in
London in which there were no brides
maids. Only page in fancy dress fol-
lowed the bride, but as her costume was
short-another novelty-his office was a
sinecure. 1t is hardly to be expected
that young ladies will take kindly to
these ideas-no bridesmaids, no trained
skirt; next no favors, no cake, "no moth.
ing" Yes, there will he honeymoon
and a mother-in-law.
LIE BAL DEs CANoTIERs takes place at
st. Germain on Sunday evening in
July or August. Nobody is paid to
dance at it. The can-can is performed
in fast and furious manner. 1t used to
be allowable for the ladies' TO go to the
ball in the dresses in which they bathed.
III they were overheated, they asked
their partners to plunge with them into
the river, which they did, in their nau-
tical attire. The bathing costume was
smart bloomer arrangement. The
Stockings might or might not be worn.
Much fancy was displayed IN the trim
ming Of the oilskin cap. - London
Truth.
Ny grandmother maintains that it Is
vulgar for a woman to cross her kness.
She we'll remembers a week spent in the
same house with Nine. Jerome Bona
parte in Baltimore, than whom she be-
ieves no more ladylike person ever lived,
and she recalls that Madame always sat
with her knees two inches apart-no
more and no less. She declares that no
girl with pretentions to delicacy should
SIT cross-legged. l suppose that the
sticklers will pretty soon object to wom-
en- crossing one foot over the other.
Even that feminine habit of sitting on
one foot, TO the peril of getting it caught
in the hustle and making the owner go
hop-scotch on rising, will next be as-
sailed. Cincinnati Enquirer.
PROF. JAMES P. WRLoH, who runs q
dancing school in Philadelphia, is about
to begin q crusade against the waltz as
at present danced, which he pronounces
to be immodest, vulgar, and generally
demoralizing. "Ten or fifteen years
ago." says the professor, "the waltz
was not 80 Objectionable as at present.
Dancers of to-day come in altogether too
close contact. In the old time gentle.
man merely touched lady's waist, at
the same time holding her right hand 10
his left. Now he throws his arm clean
around her form, pulls her closely to
him, as if fearful of losing her, brings
his face into actual contact with her soft
cheek, and, in a word, hugs her." This
Philadelphia reformer thinks that ga
new dance will be invented that will
have all the gliding grace and the glori-
GUS exhilaration Of the waltz without its
delirious voluptuousness." His own in
tention is TO substitute the 'Minuet de
Ia Cour, dance introduced by Louis
WV, of France, which kept its place in
public esteem for centuries, but has of
late years gone completely out of use.