Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-09-01
SOUTHERN GIRLS.
As "BABo SAW THEM AT WEST yIRGINIA'S
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
How Thew Dress, Act and Bshav0-Why They are
Different from Northern Guls-Whersln Lie
hs Charms Of Southern Women-S'Ory
Of Two Rival Lovers.
rsnecial Correspondence.l

OF Two Rfa A''N-S'
rspecial Correspondence
CprENRRIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
W. VA, August 26.-SOmebOdy, inclined
to speak very plainly, said; 1.-THE Lord
made the White Sulphur Springs and then
the Southern girl, and rested, satisfied
with his work"
This somebody was Northern man who
came down here, heart whole and fancy
free, and is now given over to the rule OF a
small woman who tOsses her RS to the
winds who forgets her g's in the prettiest
wsv possible, and who thinks, but Is
mot quite "shuah, =" that she's fond of him.
Tn the meantime, he, poor soul, is in agony
mill she discovers absolutely whether she
ia or not, but he will 20 back to his home
fettered with rose chains and swearing tnat
when man wants wife this is the only
Mace to 20 and get the right kind.
LOVE THAT RUNS THROUGH GENERATIONS.
These springs are unlike any other water
inc Mace. Mamma came here and papa
made love to her. Betty is doing the
same now, and mamma remembers that
grandmamma said that grandpapa came
in a grand coach, with dark out-riders,
that he might present his compliments 10
her when she was counted the belle Of the
season. A history Of generations can be
counted, and Betty-pretty, bright, win
some Betty-who is dancing in the barn
this year in her dainty null frock, will
next year have somebody else for her COM
paniOn at the smart german which she will
give and where che will wear her wed
ding dress. AS the seasons progress Betty's
party will grow larger and larger, and al
most before you realize how the time has
flown somebody will be asking you if you
have seen Nancy, the belle Of the year,
and who is Betty Pages daughter.
THE SOUTHERN GIRL IN SUMNER.
Tire are three things which the girl Of
the White Sulphur Springs must do-ehe
must dance well, she must be eVen-tem-
pered, and she must understand the CO.
quetry of the thimble. After the morning
german she comes out on the veranda with
her work-basket, a dainty little affair Of
straw lined with blue silk, and having a
fat, funny little pin.cushion covered over
with white lace; the thimble, little gold
one, with band of turquOises about 1t,
is put on, and she begins to-no-not en-
brOider dOylies, not to do fancy stitches on
silk intended for yacht pillows,
but soberly, demurely and meek
ly mend her gloves. The man
who cannot be fetched by dance, who
doesn't care for a picturesque gown, who
isn't interested in books or music, falls a
victim to this house-wifely act. There is
nothing quite so pretty as seeing pretty
woman sew-and these girls have small
hands that are white, they have learned
from grandmama the art Of ine sewing,
and they reslizs the value of it. No man
need 90 with his gloves unmended, and
some of the untortunates in the cottages
known as Bachelors Row" have been
known to submit torn coats to these same
nimble fingers, although this mending, II
must be confessed, is done up in the sane
tum.
WHY SOUTHERN WOMEN ARE CHARMING.
The charm of the Southern woman is
not that she knows so much, is not that
her gowns are the very latest style, or that
she aspires to any high degree OF physical
culture, but that she is essentially
woman. She is a happy girl, she expects
to be married some day, and she expects tc
be a mother some day. She doesn't think
all this out. but still if the question were
/ u 4 l. ,t,ar rnu1d fal vn thQf III
was the truth. She does not wear tailor
made gown with the chic Of the New Yors
girl. but she is wonderfully bewitchipg IL
the white one that she dons in an evening
and in which, just now, she looks bit like
a picture taken from one of the old Beauty
Books SIZE wears fall, plain skirt, bcd
| ice that is cut round at the neck, show
inc the white, firm flesh, and the sleeves
are the veritable baby sleeves that are sc
exuuisitely modest and yet which show
the entire arm. About her waist Is
white ribbon belt, and just IN front II
buckle Get with brilliants that grand
mamma wore in her dancing days. Hel
hair is knOtted low on her neck, and just
on one side is placed great creamy white
rose. She will tell you that she heard thai
the beautiful girl who married the Duke
of Portland inclined to wearing flower IN
this way, and then she remembered that
there was picture home of some aunt who
was famous in her time who had her rose
placed lust so. and from it she learned the
proper method of arrangement. Now, this
is a pen and ink photograph of real living
girl who is going to marry New York
millionaire.
THE TYPICAL SOUTHERN GIRL.
She has not the book knowledge Of the
New England girl, for she thinks Brown
ing doesn't compare with Adelaide Proc
tor; she has been told that Swinburne
wasn't proper for young lady to resd
she doesn't care for George ElOt because
mamma said there was something very queer
in her behavior, but she adores Thackeray,
and thinks if she ever had son, and the
thinking makes her blush, she would like
him to resemble Henry EsmOnd. She is
very willing to cOncede that the Northern
girls know q great deal, bat when they
tell her of women who have to earn their
own living, gentlewomen, she wonders