The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14

takes her TO dinner dances the cotilion
with her after, and in fact is her cavalier
Tor the entire evening. The rainbow din
ner means the getting OF a cluster of nib
bons OF peculiar shade of mauve: this
you pin to the right shoulder OF your
gown, and the man whose rosette matches
your streamers is 10 be your devoted slave
for the evening. Now this sounds very
easy, but did you ever send man TO get
piece of mauye ribbon? Adopts in tints
say there are 100 different shades. and
matching the pretty ribbons gives oppor-
tunlty for many pretty compliment TO
be paid, and good bit of other kind of
matching takes takes place beside that OF
the rainbow hue.
L don't know whether blackbirds are
supposed to be specially stylish, but here
the girl who hasn't a hat on which an
audacious blackbird is perched counts her
wardrobe incomplete. Mother Goose a
long time ago baked four and twenty
blackbirds in a pie that was before king;
but the smart girl doesn't want quite that
many perched on her box turban. 1t may
be white or black-it is smoothly faced
with velvet, worn well over her bang. and
Just In the middle on top are a SELECT
group of blackbirds, with wings and tails
all pointing heavenward, and in such re-
markable positions that no self-respecting
blackbird who vas anFe1rSuld acknowl-
edge them as kindred TIE plume of the
ostrich NAV be more elegant, but the damp
air takes it out OF curl. The blackbird
begins with no curl, and so he has nothing
to lose
The girls? Well, unlike those over at
Narragansett, their intentions are serious
they mean marry, and they can dis
tingulsh as well as mamma between de-
slrable and one who is not. They do not
propose, even for the cachet he may give
them, to have an old beau, who will keep
the marrying men away from them, hang
ing about, nor will they permit school
BOYS to be in attendance-that is, unless
the school bows should be millionaires'
sons and then it is wonderful with what
amiability their rudenesses are borne. At
tention without intention is permitted at
the Pier, but at Newport mamma means
that her daughter shall he established.
To point moral and adorn a tale there
is shown to the blushing buds handsome
woman who drives in solitary state every
day; she was a beauty when Louis Ma
poleon was emperor of France-she
laughed at the rich men who proposed to
her, and she was referred TO as the Won
derful American beauty at the opening OF
the Suez canal She is still handsome
woman, she has seen the men who pro-
posed to her marry less beautiful women,
become fathers and grandfathers, and she
is alone. They called her Baby" thirty
five years ago and the name clings to her
still, and when ii is spoken seems almost
a term of derision.
Do think she ought to have married
Certainly L agree in a way with the
matchmaking mammas. Marriage, even
as failure, is more TO be desired than
single blessedness as a success. 1t is al
ways negative SUGGESTIVE being single.
Its woes, Its worries, its troubles, its grieis
are intensified because they are borne
alone; and can tell you there's great
deal of truth in remark made by young
matron that she had rather have Jack
drunk to cry out her woes to than have to
take them out on a maid with hair-brusb.
Jack, drunk, may not be thing of beauty
or of grace, but he's your own. Jack,
cross, may be hard 10 persuade into amia-
biIity, but when you're cross he under
takes the same task. Jack, happy, makes
sunshine for you, and nine times out of
ten, Jack being drunk, Jack being cross,
or Jack being happy, depends on you.
You see, l am little bit inclined to take
the mans side. l know so many women.
L am violent opponent OF sunrage--
fond of novels and chocolate cocoanut-
have liking for soda water and an ear
nest affection for babies, and am an ardent
advocate of marriage, good, bad or indif-
ferent. And / think the making of it,
good, bad or indifferent, is largely in the
hand that wears the wedding ring. The
marriage question at Newport is of so
much importance that / stand on the
lawn and saw 'Hrhe men of our country
manage the laws, design the stamps and
govern the treasury, but let the women
govern the men through sickness and
through health until death do them par"
Do you wonder that among the mammas
there is a popularity accorded to the opin-
ions of Bah?