Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-07-05

De Neville, ths French painter Of mill
tary scenesI who died recently. carried tis
love forsthe realistic 30 far - 10 smash the
windows Of his studio, tear the doors Old,
and riddle the walls with bullets. Bis
models, most of them soldiers who had
made the campaign, we're often nearly sutio-
Gated by being piled upon one another; the
horses that came to him from the hackers
yard still alive, were shot in the
workshop itself, 80 that they might fall nat
urally. All this was to the great dismay OF
his neighbors, who. in the beginning, mot
knowing what to make of all this noise, fire.
a%uently ran to the police. The guardians
Of the law in their turn invaded the prem.
Uses, in order to prevent what they imagined
to be wholesale slaughter. They only found
De Melville with disheveled locks, pistol In
hand, arranging his scene, and retired with
a handsome p~ourboire to wash down the
smoke of the g~unpowder, with which they
we're almost choked.
Mrs. Horace Helyar, the new English
beauty now at Washington, is described BY
q critic as "a nice, cherryfaced, shiny skin
ned girl, with no features to speak OF, bat
lots to say for herself."
The latest "fad," remarks the Critic, is
that it is not healthful to suspend the weight
of skirts from the shoulders, and the young
ladies will read With glee that
statistics show more consump-
ton and pneumonia in men with chest.
protectors than in bellies with tarletan and
low neck. Results are not always imuedi.
ate, however. God settles his accounts
but not always on Saturday night. In
spite of statistics, the phrase comes to mind
about man that is born of woman" Of
the woman in one generation who wears
thin slippers and low.necked gowns, is born
for the next a man who has to wear . chest
protector and even then dies q pneumonia.
Journalism has Just lost q womsr. Of
practical mind, if not Of business ssact. Mrs.
Lucie M. Bockner, editor of the Rridsn-
town Ola Process, sent tae following
letter u NE owner Of the paper on the I'd OF
May: u was married this morning, and,
! therefore, am compelled to resign my posi-.
ton as editor. / have no further interest
in the Progress, and do not care what you
do with it."
According 10 an eminent Partisan author.
ity, men who wish to be considered in the
height of fashion must wear knee breeches.
They must, perforce, wear finger rings, but
these are limited to two, and must be worn
on the little finger of the right hand. No
watch can be form at dinner; but after that
meal it can be resumed, though with
the greatest secrecy. Those who
cannot contrive to keep il
wholly out OF sight, and even out Of sugges'
ton, must leave it at home. Elaborate Ia.
! structions are given regarding the methods
by which watches may be hidden, and tas'
tened by invisible chains. The highest
fight Of elegance is to have have the shirt
made Of white pique to match the waist.
coat. White ties have resumed their sway;
black are vulgar. The ties are fastened on
either side of the bow with ieweled pins ii
the shape o h,3s ccfescents or other fancyde-
Signs. Shoes must be low cut for the dance;
but on other less exciting occasions the
| Moliere shoe-whatever that may be-must
be worn. These are butt few Of the crucial
points insisted upon. At present there is a
struggle between fnee.breeches and the ION
yentional trousers, but the success of the
| former is assured. From all which, it will be
seen that the current French dandy at an
evening party must be an object no less
wonderful than original.