The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-07
Clara Calls on Male Dress.Maker and Finds
Him Smoking Nasty Pipe, and Comes
Away with Feeling of Deep Disgust.
She Furnishes Opinions in Reference to
Ancient and Modern ChiValry.
Wonderful Surgery in New York City Hes
pital-A Mans Intestines Removed and
Subsequently Replaced in His Abdomen.
CLARA BELLE.

CLARA BELLE.
Bellies and Beaux, and Their Hobby-Horses
Men Dress s-Makers-MOdern Chivalry.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The beaux and bellies of this
city have been mounted on hobby horses all this week
for horse has indeed been their hobby. What with
the odd combination of racehorses and afternoon
ball atJerome Park election day. the steeplechase
horses at the Hunt Club meetings the horse show at
the Madisonsquare Garden. and the usual amount of
equestrianism in Central Park. have had great
equine time altogether Horseback exercise is ultra
fashionable this season. anyhow and under the extra
stimulus it has become mania The matinee dance at
jerome Park curious affair, and couldn't make
It that daylight festivity of that sort was
admirable Of course. the girls didn't wear evening
Dress with barred and arms and their attire was
such as they would have worn on an afternoon round
| of calls; but in respects they were
| nonpussed in making up their toilets.
For instance, their ears How? will tell
YOU new trick, learned from the actresses. is to
tint the ears for evening occasions. The feminine
mind has taken the notion that, long speak
admringly of pink ears, an auricuar deep blush may
| as well be put to stay while desired Therefore
| when adorning themselves for ball, opera or other
place of personal display they rouge their ears inside
and out AS the portions of their necks and
heads white either naturally or from powdering
the contrast is rather startling Well, some of the
girls at Jerome Park had painted on their frivo
lous heads. Leonard Jerome, a boss committeeman,
gazed for moment at one of them, and then caught
her in his arms, held her tight and kissed her. She
was distant relative and he a veteran but she got
| angry just the same and asked him how he dared.
An old custom of the huskng bees" he said;
whenv rad Tho r;,1 ,1xrbo
| shows it."
| The riding academies favored by Fifth-avenue
damses clustered close to the southern entrances
of Central Park and three are right alongside of the
corner groggery which John L. Sullivan runs It is
considered perfectly proper for belle to walk in her
saddle costume to the stable where her horse is kept
and the sight of shapely, graceful creature thus
costumed Is familiar in that neighborhood. Have
you ever thought of the succession of herones whom
Dion Boucicault has put the stage in equestrian
dress lie realizes how distinguishedly striking they
| are as dramatic figures and SO he repeats them in
nearly all his plays. Somebody told me last evening
as we sat in theater looking at the two whom he in.
PRODUCES in his current piece that he complained at
rehearsal of the gait and mien of certain actress.
'This is a dress rehearsal" he said, land yet You
appear without the trousers that quite as much as
| skirts, belong to riding habit"
The actress started nervously and looked down to
that the heavy cloth of her garment reached
| the floor.
so know that the trousers are not on you," con.
tnued the old actor. '1f they you would have
| a certain pride OF carriage that you now lack A
woman in trousers invariably assumes commanding
air that she cannot possibly counterfeit in their alb
sence."
us that surely so!' the actress asked.
Never doubt" he retorted.
"Mr. Bouccault" and she pursed up her mouth
quizically, 'have you seen DR.. Mary Walker9r
But began to write that the dainty bellies of the
saddle had to pass under the gaze of the pugsts
and loafers in going to the equestrian establishments
and they do tell of awfully nice girl who, after
ten-mile gallop in that sided opfooted position
which the fair sex has to assume on horseback was
so cramped and rudderess that she veered sideways
grotesquely when she walked off, She looked exactly
as though one foot bound to step thirty inches
every time that the other did twenty The rrepular
ity of the gait comical But slugger seeing her
from Sullivans doorway, construed her difficulty as
alcoholic and going quickly to her, he said: "Brace
up, miss; take long breath pull yourself together;
you'll feel all right in a minute" But in much
shorter space of time she convinced him. by an angry
exclamation and scornful look, that his sympathy
was misplaced.
o.
day visited aledressmaker 1t was out of business
hours, and found that in unprofessional moments
he was not Miss Nancy. Let us call him Blanc He
was in ugly carpet slippers his hair dsordered his
face unshaven, yawning, glum. sliding and slipping
slowly along in order not to wake the nannikns
those sphinxes of fashion.
Good day; hope you're WE'LL what can I do for
you!"
"Winter approaches, and come to learn what will
be the new fashions"
Every well, am at your service but let me extin-
guish my pipe"
Ali my fine lady. could you but see that filthy,
burntbrown pipe that had lately been in the lips of
Mr.. Blanc, him whose exquisite taste you love so
much whose slender, pink fingers touch your shoul-
ders when he drapes them in soft snksl All, my fine
lady, what Sdisenchantment!
'You know" said our friend nothing is finally de.
cded at this te are cropping about the battle of
toilets is making ready but the troops not yet in
line. Our arstocrats have not yet returned from the
country This is the state of things to-day; we sug
gest new FORMS our customers drop in and examine
them and we make note of their comments. Then we
present to the world those forms that make the great
est hit. 1t is thus that fashions are decreed. Our
toilets are elected by universal suffrage Here how.
ever. are the stuffs that will be used"
And Mr.. Blanc led me through long hall crossed
by immense counter; samples, labeled and num-
bered arranged thereon in high piles Little silk
will be worn this winter. Fashion is returning to
wooens, and woolens viii predominate everywhere
during the coming season. Blanc showed me cloth
made froIh the wool of the Llama Palestine drugget
thick packing cloth, Bengaline wooens, popins,
Pekns with and without stripes, and stuff from the
hair of the wild boar. The shades already chosen
plum, blue garnet. tobacco brown; and sapphr
and cabbage green will be all the rage.
| Under Blancs nimble fingers dress after dress
sprung from it's case and folded itself about mani
kin, and it into its proper place ii seemed
little by little to become endued with life a. it took