Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-26
ROSE Red.
Bright Bits Of Gossip Appropriate to
The Season.
Brief lettings Of societys Sayings and
DOings. as Gathered BY Our
Fair Correspondent

cratic maiden, mo. of leather" the worst Is
now over. Each one Of the pretty dears
has pronised never to 90 so any more,
and such promises are, as . cynical da5nsei
re marked, worth several poker CHIPS
apiece"
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You notice that society's pets did not
take kindly to the Murphy ribson; some OF
the girls thought that was because blue was
not becoming But that was evidently o
mistake, as the pretty pets have nearly all
appeared in the sweetest of styles; not only
in tiles. but ties also; and the ties are OF
the hue of Flesren, making one and all
look like SO many Mary's little lambs.
Now that Wheeling is marrying and
giving in marriage, some of the young ladies
NAV be interested in the latest English style
in that ceremonial affair And that ia the
"Dafodil wedding" at which the BRIDE
wears the usual white, but the bridesmaids
appear in daffodil yellow gowns, short wells
also looped with dafodils and. huge
bouquets of that pretty flowers complete a
very pretty picture, am told: This is, or
course, for a spring wedding when dat'ools
are easily obtainsble.
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The SOLITARY horseman" has had many
imitators during the fine weather OF the
past week, a great many young gentlemen
having discovered that their health demands
horseback exercise. This fact ~ be re-
GREETED BY several landlsdies. as, while the
Wheeling youth is generally so fragile that
he scarcely eats enough to keep q BIRD
(that is an ostrich) alive, borrowing stories
are told of the appetites brought back from
such o ride by the aforesaid youths.
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1t is rumored that a Wheeling lady of
we'll known dramatic talent will shortly sp-
pear at an entertainment in series of dra.
matte readings. 1t 10 also said that
she will be assisted by o
number of our well known musicians OF
whom we have lately heard so Little. and
that among other selections the programme
will contain readings from "Msrgaret OF
Arion," play which so well given by home
talent few years ago. 1t is to be hoped
that this entertainment will take place and
give Wheeling an opportunity Of admiring
the talent of these within her gates.
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This is the season when the fancy of the
Wheeling damsel lightly turns to thoughts
Of flowers, and even though the front yard is
no larger than q pocket handkerchief,
she determines TO make it blossom
ito a goodly garden. AS the atmosphere
of Wheeling is not conducive to the lon.
gevity of plants, it will be comfort to
these young ladies to know that the easily
cultivated pansy is the fashionable flower
this season. Entire beds of pansy shape
are filled with these flowers, which. though
common ones, will give much more pleasure
than the rose which refuses to bloom, or
the lily which drsgs out miserable exist.
ance amid the gibes Of passers BY.
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do wonder why almost every man OF
YOUR acquaintance looks and feels so fool
ish when compelled to assume full dress in
broad day light2 Goodness knows they
never look half so nice in any ether garb,
so all the girl agree.
Why, then, do they put away their cheek
with their everyday clothes2 Girls, as
sure you, are never abished by the festivity
of their attire, but it must be that after all,
the lords Of creation are net possessed OF as
much assurance as they are generally given
credit for.
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A number of charming young Island
ladies, who can paint anything from a lily
to landscape, have formed themselves
into Garden Spot Decorative Art Society.
1t is now in order for their gentlemen friends
to abandon all ambition with regard to
painting the town of sanguinary hue and
turn their attention to the cultivation OF
their higher artistic tastes.
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Val Heaton has been in town during the
past week, having come from Philadelphia
to assist at the Glass,List wedding. Val
was always favorite here and the rls are
glad to see that the world has proSpered
with him.
W. .
Old gentlemen who are in the habit Of
thinking and saying that there are mo
times like the old times" and among other
things love to tell the young ladies Of this
day how much Sweeter the girls looked in
by.gone times when one had to peep under
big bonnet to see the pretty face beneath,
will have nothing more to say on
that subject, at least during the present
season. for, oh dear, when girl puts on q
hat which towers nearly foot above her
bargs, and loaded down with perfect gar
den of flowers, one must indeed look close
ly TO gee the small face beneath. Never
mind though, girls, it is not only our hats
which have gone wild, and after a number
of tie flower of Wheeling society have been,
By reason Of their head gear, mistaken for
a company of negro minstrels, we can wear
ours without fear Of ridicule.
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Dear me, the society youths of Wheeling
are disappearing ike The "Ten Little In.
dians" OF nursery fame, and that with
such rapidity that the town promises ere
long TO reach the condition of the village
with one man And az he will doubtless
plead that he is too old to dance" future
entertainments will have 10 be arranged
like boarding school parties some of the
girls wearing white kerchief on one arm
and being addressed IS MI
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me "onlon party" !, the latest style OF
social diversion and is chiefly INDUCED in
~ ~ Young ladies, who repair 10 the kitchen
at the witchiug hour of midnight and there
make havoc with the odorous vegetable. A
few of the girls are bold enough to eat
onions at other hours, one Of them declsr-
ing that John" eats so many OF them him.
sell that he will never detect the oior. An
other one says tha, she has endured the
smell Of 90 much whisky tobacco aud beer
when in the society Of tie sterner sex, that
she is glad Of an opportunity TO pay them
hack in their own coin. But these are bold
spirits and have but few imi;ators.
Now when the weather is once more "a
vorable for pedestrian exercise, comes the
same old CRY, Il vish there was some place
TO walk to" And indeed without one goes
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