Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-24
ROSE RED.
The wheeling Girl Must Uphold Her
Reputation for Style.
Beautiful Costumes---RiYer Excursions in
Season---Dancing Not in GOOD Form"
1.-The Coming Graduate---A De-
mand for Warm Weather.

Girls, now that the flower season is at
hand you must all be stylish and adopt
some special flower as your own. This is
one Of the most fashionable "kinks,
and for mercy's sake don't fail to uphold
the reputation for "style" of the Wheeling
girls. And tell you it is q real nice idea
for one girl always to appear with knot OF
mignionette, while another wears roses, and
third pansies. have even seen, for the
sake of novelty, great clusters of the com.
mon red clover, making very odd and
pretty corsage bouquet. And girls-if you
want to be Siust too stylish for anything"
(which hope you do) you must always use
the same kind of perfume which must hang
about all your belongings, so that Augustus
will never smell heliatrope without thinking
of you, or Reginald in q sentimental BIT
breaks himself up buying white rose to per
fume your kerchieis.
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Apropos of prospective bridegroom,
Young bachelor got off remark the other
day for which the young ladies who heard
it will never, never forgive him. he said,
$50 and so is to be married, is he2 Well,
I'm glad ofit l don't like him" Tsbleau
with red fire!
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Another good story is told Of an East
Wheeling young lady, who came running
up stairs in q great state of excitement q
day or two ago. "0h, mamma, do give me
some money for beggsr down stsirs-the
poor fellow says he is deaf and dumb. She
got the money.
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Several very handsome costumes were
worn on the stage at the entertainment
given by home talent at the Opera House
Friday evening. One Of Miss Meholin's
costumes was singuarly effective and be.
coming. 1t was Of black velvet en- traine
with black lace drsperies and diamond orna-
ments. Mrs. Caldwell sang in cream col.
ored toilet almost covered with oriental
laces. The neck was cut V shaped, with a
white ribbon tied collar fashion at the throat
A corsage bouquet OF pink roses and white
lace mitts completed charming costume.
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Water parties are fashionable now-I
don't use the word water in temperance
sense, but mean river excursions, which,
with lively crowd and band on board,
are Just too nice for anything. The girls do
complain that the river air takes ali the
curl out Of their bangs, but that is a small
matter Happy boys, their bangs do not
ceed to be waved" n. B. This is not a
pun. Oh, indeed it is not.
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You may not believe it, but it is a posi-
tive fact that dancing is going out Of style
Ard what will ever take its place goodness
only knows The girls complain that they
don't want TO give it up, but the boys put all
heir energy into bicycling and other mas
culine sports and then don't care for any
hing 80 energetic as dancing, when with
the girls-but o, let me tell you something
funny! At several Eastern entertainments
old fashioned games were revived with
great success. So it may be that ere long
instead of dancing we may all be playing
Who's got The slipperY or the fascinating
game of gossip about which we know
nothing at all.
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About the busiest girl in town at this
date is the prospective graduate, for what
with her examinations, her essay and her
dress-I have reached the climax, you
see-her life, if happy is not IAN
idle one" heard young man remark
ing the other day that it was special dis
oensstion OF Providence which set COM
mencements for the season when flowers
are plenty and cheap, as otherwise he must
have burglarized green house, or stare
ruin in the face; which means that some of
you girls are sure Of several bouquets.
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For the. benefit Of the unsophisticated
youth wish to state that it is no longer a
sign that 'snes engaged" to see girl wear
ing diamond solitaire, for all the girls are
buying, begging or borrowing all the rings
they can lay fingers on to wear with their
lace mitts. So the ring in question may be
the property Of sister, cousin or aunt. Apro-
pos of lace mitts, the wearing of them will be
a great relief to the mind of one young man
in town who puts in all his spare time in
wondering how we girls do manage to get
into those loose-Wristed gloves We wear.
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Mr.. REGISTER, won't you suggest cold
cream as a cure for sunburn. Some Of the
boys need it badly for without something of
the kind they will surely be mistaken for
some Of Riels half-breed chiefs One young
nan has gone extensively into the garden
ing business and is engaged in making the
grounds of the parental mansion to blossom
ike the rose. So that may account for his
Uttered complexion. But how the rest Of
em get so sunburned is mystery to me.
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Just tell you if the clerk of the weather
bad the slightest regard for femirine feel
iugs he would hurry up and make it res
nice and warm, for the girls have their thin
dresses done now, and want TO wear them
A few bold spirits have already donued
ginghsm or Saline, but may be the others
are like the girl who frankly confessed the
other day tnat she did not want to wear
her new dresses until the rest of the girls
did, for fear they might copy the styles
which had cost her so much time and
thought. And, o my goodness, the horrid
men do have it easy on the dress question,
to be nice they do have to earn their clothes,
but after all that is small matter, for they
do q am told) have only to take them to
a tailor, be measured for them and then
blow up the tailor if they don't fit, while we
have to be fitted two or three times for a
dress, and then if it don't fit, be obliged to
suffer the insinustion that the figure it is
made for is not perfect. We take it meekly
too, for the word of the dressmaker is law
in the land. We have to sew, too, most Of
rs, but this lisa painful subject, letus change
it.
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A Wheeling boy who is sojourning in
New Mexico, is wiling home for recipes with
he information that he is doing good
deal of the cooking for the party, and nov
the o;rls orc in boDss that HE v;an1s will