Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-19
ROSE RED,
Heavy Weight Society Men, Whose
Specially is Chair Wrecking.
ouo,stioo Parties..-The Bunting Ball.
The Fashionable Color to be Green'--
The Shakespeare Carnival---As
to chirography---A
Coming Wedding.

Mr.. REGISTER, you know everything.
Can You tell me why the largest people Gu
entering a room invariably select the small
est chair therein? i don't know why tins
is tbusly, but it is. A young lady recently
thought a dynamite explosion had occurred
in her parlor, but it was only a chair giving
xsy beneath a fragile south whose weight
II You wished TO be complimentary you
would pu, at $50 pounds. Another lady
some time ago entered her psrlor to receive
a fashionable and, well-stout visltor-Jast
in time 10 see a frail chair collapse with
that visitor who seemed to have a distrust
for the rest of the hostess furniture nom
that time forth. Several ladies IN town
boast that in their psrlors are no two chairs
alike, how then would it be to register on
each the number of pounds OF hesh IL
could carry in safety?
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The latest SOC ety wrinkle is called the
Quotation Party" and is said to be very
amusing. Each guest is expected to come
provided with three quotations, being gwen
The range from Shakespeare to Mother
Goose. The quotations are then recited IN
| turn and each one in the company Is al
| lowed one guess as to the authorship OF the
lines, a favor being provided for the lady
and the gentleman most successful IN
| guessing. Quite a novel and pleasant
method of passing an evening, but I'm
| afraid most of US would be like a yivacious
| society girl who thinks she would win q prize
for not being able to guess any at all.
~
The social world here as elsewhere is
reading the Bunting Ball" So if you have
not read It, do so at once lest your friends
| think YOU an i%gnoramus. or worse yet, be-
| hind the times. This little book has Gre
ated more OF q sensation in social circles
| than any thing since the famous Little Tin
| Gods on Wheels" Probably neither one
| deals with a phase Of society Of very familiar
hue, but after all society is wonderfully alike
| the world over,
The chameleon when pleased is said to
turn green, and on festive occasions during
the coming season we are able to resemble
that small animal, for green is to be the
~
most fashionable color in feminine adorn.
ments. Some Of us in the midst Of our
| PLEASURE will appear to be stricken with a
lind of green and yellow melancholy for
he hue Of the unripe apple is very trying to
most compilations; but as | previously re-
marked, it is better to be ugly than unfash-
| ionable-or words to that effect.
The Shakespeare carnival at the Capitol
rink promises to be quite a society affair.
lie characters OF three plays, "Othello,"
Hamlet" and LAS You Like II" are to be
represented. The costumes will be ordered
rom Baltimore and the whole thing put on
in fine style. Only | am sorry for the per-
son who arranges the cast, as it may be
necessary in order to prevent bloodshed, to
provide Hamlet" and "Othello'' with a
Twin brother apiece, and initiate an enter
prising Uncle Toms Cabin" manager by
I advertising two Ophelias and a pair Of
Rosalinds.
Miss Nellie Vass leaves for her home in
Mobile, to day, after a pleasant visit of sew
eral months in the family of Colonel White.
Miss Vass has made herself universally pop
ular and her departure will be regretted by
| all her friends, while one or two young gen.
tlemen in this vicinity will probably soon be
ordered south for the sake Of their health.
~
A new game called Panocle, has recently
been introduced into Washington society
by President Cleveland. 1t is somewhat
complicated ard resembles the old fash.
toned game of Bezique. And now the
truly good Wheeling boy will sit up an hour
longer at night and get his or his
| older sister to teach him the different cards
in order that he may follow the example
Of the master Of the White House in at
least one respect.
In my last | spoke of the fine Italian
hand of the Wheeling society girl, andi has
brought to mind several specimens Of
feminine penmanship which would seem to
require the services of a translator of
robust health and excellent eyesight. One
we'll known young lady keeps two styles Of
handwriting, one for use in the school where
she rules over tow-headed urchins, and
another for society use, Society folks be-
ing supposed to have some time to devote to
tuc icduipR vi tuciI COIEcbpOHuCuCc' huOtucI
young lady has some peculiarities OF
penmanship which induce a friend Of mine
o insist on reading her missives upside
down, while a third damsel laments that so
many Of her juvenile years were spent in a
struggle with the spelling book, since she
now writes so badly that no one would be
aware of the fact that che can spell Con-
stan.ti.no pie correctly.
~
Mrs. Grundy is already Whispering Of a
wedding in high life which will take place
some time next month and will be cele-
brated in great style and with the assist
ance Of O number of bridesmaids and
groomsmen. Both bride and groom are
well known and popular, and this will doubt
less be the event of the season. BY the
way it will doubtless be a pleasant relief to
expectsnt bridegrooms to know that orange
blossoms are going out Of style for brides.
Some Of the recent ones here followed the
German custom of fastening the veil with q
chaplet of ivy, and others have preferred
long gold or rhinestone pins and a boquet of
roses, lilies of the valley or jonquils, flowers
much les expensive and easier to obtain
than the orange blossoms SO long demanded
by fashion. RosE Red.
TIE Grand Hat Carnival which takes
place at the. Chapline Street Rink this even
ing promises to be the mos. novel and en-