Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-08-24
NEW YORK, August Is, 1882.

. 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 to the noun.
tains. These worthless come back with
wonderful 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 re-
suit of their mendacity. or to give it q
milder term, wealth of imagination, the
heat is again growing intense within
Gotham's precincts. and the presence of a
cool wave is looked forward to with all the
eagerness of the ancient mariner looking
for cloud. OF course the season is not
yet ended, and most of the people who
have returned thus far, that is those who
have wealth and leasure sufficient to make
time their own will round it off with
brief sojourn at Long Branch, Concy Is
land or other seaside resorts which are
never more attractive than at this time of
the year. But how close we are to the end
ofthe term of enjoyment is best seen by
the fact that the boarding house keepers
have commenced to raise their prices
near to a winter schedule, and as aresult
the young man who intends to own sky
parlor in Fifth avenue during the winter
must needs be quick if he wishes to make
ut all favorable arrangements for the next
ten months. 1t is really remarkable how
this eagerness to live in fashionable quar-.
tiers has spread among those whose means
are limited. Not only single men but
oil
economy in order to be able to have their
letters addressed or their friends call at
No. Fifth avenue. A small room un-
der the roof of five or six story house in
noisy street and an absence of all home
like enjoyment. brings fancy price to
satisfy the occupants vanity. AS popula
ton increases thus OH the avenue, the
Weather residents are beginning to move
further up town, and in less than year
we will see the fashionable and classic
precincts of Murray Hill transformed into
aregion of boarding houses.
The modistes are naturally busy putting
the finishing touches to their new designs
for the new fall and winter fashions. AS
yet of course it is bit too early TO peep
into the sanctum s0nctorum where La
Node reigns and imparts to her mepials
those cunning tlevises which cost husbands
chic will require this winter that in the
matter of full dress, ladies viii! have to
follow the English fashion. At the sum-
mer resorts this year high necked dresses
were all the 60 ut evening reunions, 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 decoHe'
tisna is growing more and more pro
nounced. The amount of material for
the corsage is growing less and less;
sleeves are giving away 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 retirement very
trying, but fashion, 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 resplen-
dence under a bushel. At the same time
the length of the skirt in front is increas
ing while that of the waist is decreasing.
Thus it seems we are again reviving the
bizarre fashions of tho directory days of
France, when the waists of ladies began
almost under the arms. Perhaps this is
Intended as a compromise with the Man
dates of astheticism, which has held a
limited sway ever since its apostle Oscar
Wilde commenced the crusade in its be
half. BY the way Oscar Wilde in this
country is about passe, or to use Il more ex-
pressive Americanism, ''plaYed out!' He
has made the round of fashionable water
ing places and failed to arouse the interest
which lie anticipated. ..e .... s.. +
The plaza in Union Square, wherein the
theatrical people of the country walk, live,
hope and make engagements, and Which
is to the mimic world what Wall Street is
to financial men, is alive again. Theatri
cal managers and agents fit about in
search OF material, and there is every pros
pect that the coming season will be an IN
usually brilliant one! For while las,
year it looked as if we were coming back
70 the days of stock companies and that
preaching its close Mr.. Abbey however
has stepped in, and this year the reign OF
Atars will he even more pronounced than
formerly. Patti! Nilsson Langtry
what constellation! Abbey is indeed
the coming manager, and his enterprise
deserves to be rewarded. Nilsson is max
ing the same mistake which cost Patti SC
dear last year, that of appearing in thu
concert room instead of on the stage. Blu
Nilsson has always been SO dear to thu
American public, and her presence ant
voice is perhaps more Independent of stag
accessories, that under Abbey's skillfu
management she is more likely to- score {
financial success than her distinguished
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