Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-26
ROSE RED.
The Accepted Time for "Showing
Off" at Fancy Dress Parties.
The Fashion of Banging the Hair an Old
One---SampIes Of Hams---A Re-
cipe for Red Lips---Per-
sonaI--The Latest
Social Wrinkle.

Is there any one in these United States be,
he or she foreign or American born, who
does not like to show Off when opportuni-
ty offers2 If there be any such persons let
them now speak or forever after hold
their peace, for this year of our Lord 1855
is the accepted time for showing of. Fancy
dress parties are the rage everywhere and
the city society girl is Queen Elizabeth one
night and Joan of Are the next, while
Romeo is metamorphosed as often into
Charles the First-or a Doge of Venice.
And now the latest fancy dress affair is
The historical dinner, or tea. at which all the
guests appear in the costume of a certain
period which is selected by the hostess,
who also srranges the characters and
adds to her note If invitation
IF you accept please come as Marie De
Medecis," or Priscilla, the Puritan Maid
en-" according to the period selected. The
effect Of one OF these parties, when all the
guests are assembled, is said to be charm
ing, q tea representing the Wsltian period
being particularly beautiful and appropri'
ate.
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blTlS, let 3 put DhCh our DduRb. L VIC
made a horrible discovery. Some abomina-
bic man in poking through some old Flem-
tsh prints Of the date OF 1877, has discoy-
cred a number Of pictures of young women
with their hair banged Just as ours is. Dear
me, l thought bangs were a much more re-
cent method Of adding to our charms and
now it seems We have only been initiating
the girls of over a century ago. But hold,
maybe that benighted man does not ad.
mire bangs and wants to fiighten US into
dispensing with ours, like that other bar
barian, on whom | hope some
woman has avenged the rest of
US, who announced that in China girls only
bang their hair when they want to be mar
ried. Well keep our bangs, and let US
burn those two men in eliigy and use their
writings for curl papers.
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A wellknown gentleman of this place re.
Gently making a Southern trip with O Jolly
party, decided while in the city to attend
the opera. In order to fit himself for that
fsstivity be decided that he must have a
pair of gloves. The story runs that he was
at first unable to find a pair large enough,
and was finally obliged to invest in q pair
of pale yellow ones. The result was that
it is said to have been whispered through
the audience that he was q Cincinnati
drummer displaying a sample lot of canvas
covered hams. So one of his companions
Gays, at any rate.
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1t is the correct thing for poets to write
about dewy lips, and it has happened that
young men have quoted these beautiful
verses to their best girlG. Maybe you've
done it yourself, or fnot, some other fellow
of your acquaintance has, and you would
ike to know how at lsast some Of the girls
happen to have such red lips. You won't
give ME sSay if / tell you? Well, then, |
you've only to press your teeth gently
against your lips to bring the blood to them,
then moisten them with your tongue and
your lips look red and dewy enough to have
an original poem made about them, let
alone quotations, which are common prop
erty. There is just one drawback to this
method of enhancing your beauty, and that
is, that it is apt to result in a dark line
showing the print Of a couple of teeth, but
cold cream or vaseline can soon do away
with that, and, by the way, it is a wonder
that the mice don't nibble some Of the girls,
they 60 to bed go covered with these beau.
filters. Mind | don't say that
all the girls bite thrir lips to make them
red, but you could not count the girls who
do it on the fingers OF one hand. A knot
OF them were talking about it not long ago
and all confessed to it save one who was
properly shocked at the idea-the rest of
the girls would have been rather abashed
bad they not noticed the suspicious line on
her own lips, go they smiled and went their
way and at least one of'em caught her red
dening them during the svening.
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. Miss Laura Bruce, who made so MANY
friends here during her recent visit to her
sister, Mrs. Albert Harden, is ENJOYING a
delightful visit among Washington friends.
She wa a guest at the recent diplomatic re-
ception at the White House, and describes
it as a delightful affair, and the toilets of .
the guests magnificent, even for that city Of
handsome dressing.
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Mrs. Dewey recently introduced a very
amusing game, which will probably soon be-
come popular In Wheeling parlors. II is
called Gold Turkey" just why, no one has
ever succeeded in finding out, and its chief
feature is the effort TO lose, instead of gain.
ing, as many tickets as possible. The win.
ner of several tickets might readily be
dubbed Cupid" since everybody tries to
throw away all the hearts he or she DOS
sesses, being as anxious to get nd of them
as we used TO be to part with the queen
when we played "0ld Maid" in our childish
days.
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The next social wrinkle will probably be
the establishment Of a young mems encour-
agement association, the object of which win
be to provide deserving young men with a
place to spend the evenings. A tender youth
informed me the other day that this would
6ll not exactly a long felt" want but a
comparatively new one, though l can't i'm
sgine what he meant BY that. l can't give
you much information concerning this club.
but one thing is certain, that when the as.
sembly room is fitted up there will be no
poker among the furniture.
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