Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-04-02
MORNING-GLORY GIRLS,

has a morning call always comes trip
ping into the parlor, dressed in a soft,
fieecy gown of white, or rose colored
cashmere with a girdle of bright rib
bons, or neat house dress of some
shimmering gray fabric. She puts
away her soft brown hair from her I'M
troubled face, and her eyes have the
rested brightness of immortal youth,
and much more of the same sort ad in
finitum This is a book. Now take
the young lady of real life. She has
breakfasted and is amusing herself with
a book when a caller is announced If
it is gentleman, and she does not eX-
pect him, she sends word she will be
down immediately Then she tears
a bandage from her brow, which
looks as if it had been cemented to-
gether, and picks out the bandoline
bangs Then hurried toilet abutions,
white Mother Hubbard with a pink
satin bow and shoulder knots, takes
the place of the waist and skirt which
were good enough for home The old
slip-shod slippers are replaced by pink
hose and opera ties. There is a hasty
skirmish with the powder puff, chris,
tening dash of cologne, and with an
embroidered mouchoir in her hand the
young lady descends to the parlor and
finds her younger brother on intimate
terms with the caller, who is no other
than her escort of the previous even
ing when she was arrayed in purple
and fine lace. He does not realize that
she is en- masquerade just now as much
as she was then; that he is the hero of
a scene in real life, and that if he had
met her in the ball as she appears in
the bosom of her family he would prob
ably have mistaken her for her own
maid. He could scarcely, with this
vision before him, be brought to under
stand that her young ladyship is so
completely a matter of personal adorn-
ment.
1t would be almost a safe thing to as
sert that of but fifteen ladies of leisure
only five could be seen at a morning
call without the required wait of half
an hour. In many families where the
daughter is a social belle there is as
much preliminary hurrying and sour
rying to get her into presentable shape
for an unexpected call as if it was an
emergency oftire. And this is not due
to any poverty of wearing apparel.
The young lady can have anything she
desires to wear-has, indeed quantities
of beautiful clothing-but what is the
use of making an elaborate toilet if
there isn't anybody to see it? In this
case father and mother, sisters and
brother are all nobodies
A waist of one dress and a skirt of
another, both shabby and soiIed, dilap-
idated tischu, hair en- papillotte, last
nights powder still visible in streaks.
and general yaw-aw- yaw-aw-y -yaw-aw,
OF WEAKNESS. What is this a descrip-
tlon ola farmers scarecrow? No. A
modern belle, who begins life at the
wrong end of the day
A judicious mother who brought up
alone and nnaided family of daugh-
ters, all of whom fill honored places in
society, never allowed her girls to ap-
pear at the breakfast table in a social
undress. They must be fresh, clean
and with a finish of collar and coiffure.
or back they went to their rooms.
There was no running away when the
doorbell of that house rung. The
young ladies were always fit to be seen
in their nicely laundried ruff1ed ging-
ham and breakfast sets, and there was
no appalling contrast between their
evening and morning toilet Each was
suited to themselves and the occasion
on which it was worn. In the rose gar
den of girls she who blossoms the long
est begins the day as morning-glory