Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-01
FEMININE FANClES.
The FoIIies OF Costume and Freaks or
ROsuanee I'm Real Life.

The FoIIfes OF Costume and Freaks Of
Romance I'm Real Life.
ANNA DICKINsoN's HAMLET AND LEGS
Cara Belle, the Wicked.
Anna Dickinson Is not one OF your
conventional strong-minded women In
the matter of dress. She wears fashlon-
able and costly clothing. In Broadway,
the other day, she had on one OF the
new and stylish Newmarket jackets, OF
dark green broadcloth, with handsome
buttons and silk bindings trimming It;
ansunexaggerated poke bonnet, when
was quite becoming to her face; ana q
dress of black satin and velvet. She
had an air of well dressed elegance, and
was in no way queer. Thatsame even
inp saw her at the Fifth Avenue
T6eater as Hamlet" Her costume
on this occasion was hardly model for
my sex, yet l will describe it. The I'M
usual color of the "Hamlet's" clothes Is
black, with purple trimmings. Anna
was clad in wool shades of purple, with
trimmings of black. On her head was
a jaunty cap, with an ostrich plume IN
il. Her dOublet was q medium shade
of purple velvet with Sits down the
backs of the elbows, through which
feminine little frills protruded. Her
legs were incased snugly in plain silk
tights of darker purple than the other.
Some staid admirers of the former lee
turess and Quakeress may be panied TO
know that she made no attempt TO
mitigate the disclosure. There was no
drapery of any kind. The legs were In
view their entire length, and more too.
They were a shapely, solid, and alto
gether presentable pair, but, oh! how
badly managed. They sprawled and
straddled, and were scarcely for
moment relieved of contortion from the
beginning to the end ofthe performance.
After some forty years of strict sec'usloD.
they were undoubtedly embarrassed by
sudden and entire publicity. Their con-
spicuousness was wonderful. They OBJ
scured everything else on the stage.
They seemed to be in half dozen
corners at once. 1t was difficult to be-
lieve that there were only two of them,
and the fact about it could not be set
tied except by reasoning from the other
data, because they never stood still long
enough to he counted. On the feet were
a neat pair of sandal CATERS. Take her
althgether, she looked more in rig like
a burlesquer than tragedian. Her act
ing is not within my province, and so L
will not critizise, though I'd like to get
even with it for the suffering it caused
me. / will simply say that she was
woman all the time. There was not
a bit of illusion on that point. Her
grummest tones and swaggeringest gait
hnp1-
work here and there on the costume
was quite sufficient to mark her sex.
Still, she did well in the way of shaping
her body, about which there was moth
ing in swell or depression uncomfortable
with "Hamlet" She has naturally no
great breadth of hips nor fullness of
breast, and she had padded her waist in
front and at the sides, so there was no
characteristic curves. But enough of
Anna.
OPENING 4 CAR WINDOW FOR APRErTI
GIRL.
Darlington HdWkepc.
Maybe man feels happy and proud
and tiattered and envied and blessed
among men when he sees pretty girl
trying to raise window on railway
car, and he jumps up and gets in ahead
of the other boys and says, ALLOW me-"
oh, 80 cOurteOusly, and she says, "Oh,
if you please; | would be so glad" and
the other male passengers turn green
with envy, and he leans over the back
of the seat and tackles the window in q
knowing way with one hand, if perad-
venture, but it kind of holds on, and he
takes hold with both hands, but it sort
of doesn't let 60 to any alarming ex-
tent, and then he pounds it with his fist,
but it only seems to settle "leetle
closer into place." and then he comes
around and she gets out of the seat to
give him fair chance, and he grapples
that window, and bows up his back and
tugs and pulls and sweats and gruntsand
strains, and his hat falls off and his sus-
pender buttons fetch loose and his vest
buckle parts, and his face gets red and
his feet slip, and people laugh, and ir-
reverent young men in remote seats
grunt and grOan every time he lifts, and
cry out, "Now, then, all together" rs
if in mockery, and bursts his collar at
the afterward button, and the pretty
young lady, veXed at having been
made so conspicuous, says, in her nichest
manner, "Oh, never mind, thank you
it doesn't make any difference" and
calmly goes away and sits down in an
other seat, and that wearied man
gathers himself together and reads q
book upside down-Oh, doesn't he feel
good, just then? Maybe he isn't happy,
but if you think he isn't, don't be fool
enough to extend any OfyOursympathy.
He doesn't want it.
TRAFFIC IN CHINESE WOMEN.
North China Herald.
An Australian Chinaman, when anx-
ious to have a wife of his own nation,
sends letter to an agent in Hong Kong.
The following is a condensed translation
al one of these epistleS: 81 want "A
wife, She must bea maiden under ~
years Of age, and must not have left her
fathers house. She must have never
read book, and her eyelasheS must he
half an inch in length. Her teeth must
be as sparkling as the pearls of CeylOn.
Her breath must be like unto the scents
of the magnificent OdOrOus groves of
Java, and her attire must be from the
silkcn wcavCrS of the ka-Ia-C Ching,
which are on the bands of the greatest
river in the wOrld-the everflowing
Iang-tse- Ching" The price ola Chi
nese woman delivered in Sydney is E3S;
but two Chinese women only cost ESD;
therefore the heather Chinese import
the women in couples. The importer
never sees his women before they arrive,
and then he generally selects the best
looking one. The other is shown
around to a number of well-to-do Chin
amen, and after they have inspected
her, she is submitted to what may be
called public auction. At recent sale
at Sydney young girl, aged about 10,
was offered, and, after some spirited
bidding, she waSpurchased by awealthy
Chinese storekeeper, whose place of
business is on one of the leading towns
If New South Wales, for Gl2O. The
Melancholy aspect of the Celestial girl,
g she went away in company with the
ian who purchased her, was deplorable
'the last degree.
| 4 AN EXPENSIVE LADY FRIEND.
| IuriS Letter.
When Napoleon assembled the throne,
NEVER, very little money was made |
lnrance unless by himself or with his