Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-08-24
Gotham Gossip.

cured the Affections Of a Young Western
Widoc.-Netc Tenor and Love Among
the Roses.-.Nr, Bonner and his TrotterS.
Special Correspondence to the DEMOCRAT.
New YORK, Aug. 21, 1882.
The first harbingers of the coming
cooler season are making their appear
ance. Every incoming train brings
back thousands of New Workers who
have spent the summer days away
from the city, and expressmen and
hack drivers are kept busy from early
morn until late at night in removing
them and their luggage. AS yet the
returning contingent comprises mainly
those who have been 10 the mountains.
These worthless come back with Won
derful tales of how cold it was where
they have been. Overcoats it seems
were the rule by day and three or four
blankets with bone obligato, played
by chattering teeth, the correct thing
at night. As result of their men
dacity, or to give it milder term,
wealth of Imagination, the heat is
again growing intense within Gotham's
precincts, and the presence of cool
wave is looked forward to with all the
eagerness of the ancient mariner look
ing for cloud. Of course the season
is not yet ended, and most of the peo-
pie who have returned thus far, that
is those who have wealth and leasure
sufficient to make time their own, will
round it off with a brief sojourn at
Long Branch, Coney Island or other
seaside resorts which are never more
attractive than at this season of the
year. But how close we are to the
end of the term of enjoyment is best
seen by the fact that the boarding
house keepers have commenced to
raise their prices nearer to the winter
schedule, and as a result the young
man who intends to own a sky parlor
in Fifth Avenue during the winter
must needs be quick if he wishes to
make at all favorable arrangements
for the next ten months. 1t is really
remarkable how this eagerness to live
in fashionable quarters has spread
among those whose means are limited.
Not only single men but small families
forego comfort and real economy in
order to be able to have their letters
addressed or their friends call at No.
Fifth Avenue. A small room
under the roof of five or six story
house in noisy street and an absence
of all homelike enjoyment, brings a
fancy price to satisfy the occupants
vanity. As population increases thus
on the Avenue, the wealthier residents
are beginning to move further uptown,
and in less than year we will see the
fashionable and classic precincts of
Murray Hill transformed into region
of boarding houses.
The modistes are naturally busy
putting the finishing touches to their
designs for the new fall and winter
fashions. AS yet of course it is bit
too early to peep into the sanctum
sdnctOr,m where La Mode reigns and
imparts to her menials those cum
ming devices which cost husbands and
fathers such oceans of money, but chic
will require this winter that in the
matter of full dress, ladies will have
to follow the English fashion. At the
summer resorts this year, high necked
dresses were all the go at evening re-
unions, and very comfortable they
were to ladies whom nature has not
endowed with Elasticity Of shoulder
and arm, or the contour of whose neck
does not show the true lines of art.
In fashionable London however dec0t
teteisns is growing more and more pro-
nounced. The amount of material for
the corsage is growing less and less;
sleeves are giving way almost entirely
to invisible shoulder straps, and even
the old fashioned bit of lace is getting
too much for the ultra fashionable
wearer. Of course such ladies who
have very little divinity in the forms
which nature has given them will find
such attirement very trying, but fash
ion like death, makes all alike in her
presence, and thus they will have to
put up with the inevitable, while those
gifted by nature will have every rea-
son to rejoice in the fact that the same
dictatorial goddess of fashion, which
has frowned upon them so long, will
no longer sternly forbid them to hide
their resplendence under bushel. At
the same time the length of the skirt
in front is increasing while that of the
waist is decreasing. Thus it seems we
are again reviving the bizarre fashions
of the Directory days in France, when
the waists of ladies began almost un-
der the arms. Perhaps this is intend
ed as a compromise with the mandates
of estheticism, which has held
limited sway ever since its apostle
Oscar Wilde commenced the crusade
in its behalf. BY the way Oscar
Wilde in this conntrv IL ahouk 1Dnese