Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-30
RANDOM NOTES.
The Maidsns Of To-Day Compared With
Those Of Four Generations Ago.
FHESUNHER'S YELLOW SHOE CRAZE
Doings in Wheeling Social Circles the Pas
Week.
INTERESTING SOCIAL CHAT,

In Hn6pllNu WV In ShnA'
Beneath the blended heaven bright and blue
There is no bliss
Compares, however strange. or sweet OF new
With loves first kiss.
When two souls meet and join, as bright flames
Ofholy fire
Above an altar meet and as one gain
To heaven higher;
And earth is lost, and Time stands still space,
Bereft Of power
To mark the moments on the dial's face
One heavenly hour
Then might the heavens ope, and earth below
Soup in smoke,
And all go with it, none would ever know
Or hear the stroke.
Beneath the Bonded heaven, bright and blue,
There is no bliss
Compares, however strange, or sweet, or new,
-Galpes.on Net0s.
What an immense contrast there is be-
tween the maidens of to-day and those OF
three or four generations ago! Where one
dies of too much study twenty died day
before yesterday, so to say, oft'o thin
slippers. The girls of to-day have es-
chewed those slippers, and with them the
infantile short sleeves and low necks ofthe
old daily wear; their walking shoes are as
thick solsd as mems brogaus; they nee
them vigorously, too, for they have learned
that life and health are of more cohse-
ausnce than tbs admiration of chance men
for slender foot daintily shod; they do
not allow their skirts to become dragged
about the ankles, aad they would as soon
think of melting pearls in their drinking
cups, il they had them, as sitting with wet
feet. They wear tiannals, too, at whose
thickness their graudmothers and great
prandmothers would have shuddered, and
withou. which they themselves would go
shudderiug. Tuey battle seven times, not TO
say 1856 times, more frequently and thor
oughly than the departed damsels did, and
they eat what they want, and not what
some male individual, adoring the ethereal,
thinks is about enough for the n to eat and
remain delicate. The dear departed ones
believed that pallor and interesting peaked
ness and pipe stem belts were the chief
requirements of personal appearance;
modern girls bslieve that muscle, deep
chest, free motion and ruddy color are the
correct wear.
Although it is now about over, nothing
during the Summer has quite equaled the
yellow shoe crazs. For several years the
wearing of undressei or tan col pred shoes
has been quite common at some Of the for
eign watering places and mountain resorts
especially in the Alps. Starting with the
men it very quickly extened to the women.
The ultra-fashionable women of the Co att
nent weie quick to seizs the idea and
adopt shoes of tan kid for carriage aud
general wear. Last yesr it struck this
country, and at Newport shoes of alligator
skin and uuiressed leather were generally
worn by the swells, and their utility re-
CONNIE aided them for mountain wear, and
many of the Mount Desert girls adopted
them During the past summer, however,
thousands wore yellow shoes where only
scores had them before Men wore them on
the street, and so general were yellow
shoes at the resorts that few wore anything
else. Big manufacturers turned them out
cheap, 80 that everybo ly could get them,
and the belle with $l2 undressed leather
Oxford ties, daintily finished, found them
duplicated in the 50 article worn by the
factory girl on an excursion. Yellow shoes
are run into the ground, and it remains
to be seen what fashion will bring out
next.
It is we'll to know that there is an ETH
quette in regard to sofas and divans They
are primarily for ladies and no gentlemen
should occupy one while ladies are seated
in chairs Neither should a gentleman
take a seat beside lady on sofa unless
asked to do so. The polite thing for a
man to do ia to take chair near the sofa
or stand while talking to the ladies who
occupy it.
At several English weddings this season
the bridesmaids have worn plain white
muslin dresses and have carried white kid
prayer books. given them by the bride
groom. This is style that could be fol-
lowed by Americans very appropriately,
aud people would not be chattering "Ifs
English, you know"
The season of afternoon teas is at hand,
and number of them were given in the
city the past week.
A novel lottery scheme has been pro-
posed in Russia. The chief conditions are
these: A Young woman of excellent moral
character and noble birth is the chief
prize; her name Is to remain secret until
after the drawing; the total receipts from
the sale of tickets, amounting to 5000 rou-
bles, are to form her marriage portion;
the holder of the lucky ticket is to marry
tie young woman and then receive the
dowry; but if she won't marry him she
must pay $500 roubles. This is quite a
good scheme and if it were English it
might catch on" in this country. There
are lots of young men who would take
chances in such q lottery, then it saves
the bother of hunting up a girl who viii
say ives"
The following little bit of romance
comes from an anonymous source but it is
worth printing, as it shows how love long
delayed sometime, proves true. On May 20,
1887, q young man in this city, aged
twenty years, wrote a letter to s
Young lsdy of fourteen, and then the
correspondence ceased. But on September
6. 1888, he WAS surprised TO receive =
letter from the young lady. He answered
the lstte: Immediately and called on her
several dsys la!e., and as the story goes,
HE found one of old Belmont county's
prettiest and sweetest little girls, and he
would not swap with shyone. He says it
pays to wait, and his letter 20 there just
the same"
There was nothing of especial moment
in social circles the past week, although
several pleasant affairs occurred. and those
who were fortunate to participate in them
enjoyed the occasions very thoroughly.
There were several weddings, as usual,