Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-12
ROSE RED.
surinu Costumes Being Held Back
For Fair Weather.
The PecuIiarities Of Ladies in Crossing
Muddy Streets---Presents for Gentle
nen---A Suggestion For Dance
1.-The Girls to Read Up---
School Days.

These cold days are indeed days of grace
n the members of the fair sex who are not
vet prepared to blossom out in all the radl-
ance of spring attire. But, alas! it is
melancholy season for her whose bonnet Is
Incoming and her costume lust too sweet
for ANYTHING" Once in while you see
spring dress peeping from under winter
wrap. but the great majority have gone
back to furs and winter garments. iroo-
ably, however, a bright afternoon IS all that
is needed TO make Main and Mar et streets
perfect Kaleidoscope Of gay colors. By
the way, gentleman said to me not long
ago, Talk of Charles street in Baltimore
on sunny afternoon, why I've seen more
pretty faces in one day on Main and Market
streets than in whole month on that IA
nous thoroughfare." No girls, ] won't tell
YOU who said that for fear he might be killed
with kindness, but be cure to remember the
dear boy in your prayers.
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By the way if you have ever, like the
poet who courted rheumatism by standing
on the bridge at midnight, paused long
enough on the corner of one OF our much
travelled streets to watch the "long pro
cession" passing to and fro, you
must have been amused to observe the way
| in which ladies get over the muddy cross
| ipgs. A nervous one will pause and look
up and down for a stray vehicle, then drop
| her head and with succession OF Jumps
| land on the other side with much Of the re-
heyed look Leander must have worn when
| he reached the other side of the Hellespont.
| The next one will start out with rush, then
pause in the middle au1 at the risk OF being
run over call last adieu TO some one lett
Oh the pavement, then gather up her bundles
and hurry over as if his Satanic Majesty
WAS at her heels. Now comes dainty
damsel who casts shy glance to see
if any one is looking then carefully raising
her skirts steps carefully over selecting the
best spots for her nicely shod feet, which in
this case are generally small. Next comes
a school girl, who secure in rubbers, care
lessly walks straight through mud and mlre,
Then the female who always starts out just
as a street car is stopping to let out passen-
| gers, then looks aggrieyed that she must
| either wait moment or step out IN the
| mire. Now an anxious mamma with tiny
! tot or two, who scolds the whole way over
about mud and wagons and who is indeed
| lucky il none Of her small charges measures
IT'S length on the way. Verify all the world
is stage, and very amusing one.
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TIE girls are often wondering what would
be q nice present to give to masculine
friend q hope the compositor wont make
it fend) who has enough moncholr cases
for hay fever patient, and feet too big to
embroider slippers for The newest thing
TO make for these dear creatures is a blot,
ing pad set either in leather corners, hand
pairted, or plush ones embroidered. They
are very pretty, and, girls-this in your
ear-have not too much work with them,
and can be made useful for yourself in case
of quarrel and your gifts being returned
Somebody has remarked on the fact that
while the Knickerbocker youth is abroad,
the cane-and-eye glass young man Is
| conspicuous by his absence. A great
many reasons have been assigned for this;
one is that the dudish ones are too fragile
to carry a great heavy cane around, and
! that the terrible facial cOntortions neces
sary 10 retain the eyeglass in place has
such an appalling effect on the juvenile
population Of the town that their use has be
come unpopular What is YOU opinion in
| the matter?
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| Amid the general dearth Of amusements
would it not be good idea to take ad
vantage Of some Of the large empty rooms
at the State House and get up a big old
fashioned dance? The German and the
various whist clubs seem to have died ma
tural deaths while everybody is wondering
why somebody else does not entertain. Get
up the dance and perhaps the seed Of invita-
tons soon may result in harvest OF smaller
festivities.
Nv
| | had a fight the other day, not q
knock down Sullivan affair, but desperr'
ate encounter oftongues in which q wretch
OF man said that women never read any
thing but novels, or perhaps the local news
in the paper, and are as Ignorant OF the
world now as their ancestresses IN the
fifteenth century. That man still lives but
he has my word for it, that the ladies OF
Wheeling are as well versed in political
and other public affairs as the
majority Of his own sex. So
girls study your Register for the next
few days, and be prepared to answer any
sudden questions with regard to the wa in
Afrhanistan or the latest developments In
Washington. don't want the wretch to
think tell stories
Possibly the only people in town who
have been really having good time OF late
are the brides elect who are intent on tros
seau or household arrangements, an amuse
ment which is strictly femenine and can
never be fully appreciated even by admirlng
briegrooms. Indeed, the Ignorance ofmost
masculine creatures on matters OF dress is
simply appalling know of one Wheeling
gentleman who describes the most
exquisite toilets, invariably as "polonaise
cut bias with passamentie," style of dress
which might probably be the height of style
among the Fiiee Indians, but would scarcely
meet with the approval Of the disciples OF
Wheeling dressmakers.
The pretty girls of the younger set" have
been enjoying pleasant holiday time with
their collegiate friends, who are, suppose,
valued like other blessings about TO take
Alright. Possibly the other boys will not be
sorry when the time comes for last adieus,
but ] am sure that at least one of the girls
will be inconsolable for at least q week.
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BY the way, don't you think it is time for
older people to stop telling their youthful
friends that their school DAYS are their hap.
piest Ny own opinion is that they are not
to be compared with the first year or two Of
freedom from school books, when ones chief
bugbear, be it chemistry or geometry, French
or Latin,is no longer present in dreams and
a terrible waking thought, the time when
one can look forward to June without a
spectre of examinations in the way, and
wear a long dress and be called Miss
Jones, or earn ones own money and say,
81 voted for soand so, you know"