The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25

time prove great disadvantage. Most of
the other beauties are ''divinely tall, and
last year it was sometimes very funny TO
see one of these goddesses whirling about
with a man who did not come up to her
shoulder.
You come in from fishing and somebody
says: Dear boy, come in and have cup
OF tea" In you 90 and find all the pretty
women enjoying the hospitality OF the
club, the air heavy with the odor OF the
tea, violets, and slight flavor OF some
thing that suggests rum or sherry, and
which really is the ultra-fashionable
girl taking little bit of it in the teacup
that shows neither sugar nor cream.
Somebody gives YOU a cup of tea-you
lean bank IN an easy chair and SIP IL ana
listen. A young woman who is extremely
pretty and who is blessed with what the
darkeys call 1.-THE gift of CAB" has, met
aphorically the floor, she expressing her
opinion of the awkwardness of men. "She
says: Ibid you ever get in Broadway
car and not have the conductor wipe his
shoes on your skirts BY not walking in
the middle he can manage to muddy all
the skirts on one side as he goes up, and
all on another as he comes down. The
peaceful looking young man who sits next
to you shows that he is nihlllst In dis
guise and wants a division OF property by
jerking over your parasol with the tails OF
his coat as he vanishes. You are showed,
you are stared at. and the only way you
can retaliate is to set your eyes on mans
boots and stare him up and down until he
is certain that something is the matter,
wriggles and twists. gets nervous and
eventually leaves. Cruelty to animals?
Certainly not. It's the proper treatment
of brutes" But just here there's break,
the eyes light up, and the fierce speaker
saws, ooh, CHARLIE when did you get in
from shooting?" And then she goes off in
a corner and has milder flow of language
for this her own special brute.
The next young woman doesn't take the
floor-she leans back instead in her chair,
and, looking as if she hadn't the moral or
physical strength to be anything more
than perfect picture, tells that Eyes, they
wore the monoce last year in London.
Now they are making it great deal more
popular since women viii be such donkeys
as TO wear shirts and cloth coats cut just
like mans. For my own part If the
monocle reaches here it will very quickly
be assumed by women one wouldn't care
to know. because il doesn't cost as much
as does a handsome pair of lorgnettes, and
thew require certain amount OF expert
ence to manage. Experience. my dear,
that must have come from ones grand
mamma.
Just now there's trouble in the camp
andagain the floor is taken, literally, by
a young woman who knew the South as
her birthplace, and whose great delight is
the theater and amateur acting. She is
tapping her small foot most Indignantly,
and she says with an emphasis that con-
gresham might covet: al confess that
we were beaten; think that now, as the
war is over, we ought to be good friends,
but must say that l do think it's mean
every time war drama is put on that the
wretched spy or villain is made southern
soldier, and if there Is one presented
who has even the decency of tough,
the actor chosen to represent him is
thin and starved-looking and dressed
well, | don't think ] have ever seen
anything to equal the way theS>are
gotten up. Yes, l went to see 'Shen-
andoah.' and was so enthusiastic about
it that | cheered Gen. Sheridan on his
beautiful horse, cried when the Union
soldier died, and if the boys in the gallery
| hadn't saved me the trouble, would have
| Missed the southern ones. No, / don't
mean ANYTHING about whether we were
good fighters, or whether Robert Lee was
a good commander, but what l do mean
| is that the South does produce some good
looking men. big, well-fed and well-man-
| nered and when you are going in for a
realistic drama YOU needn't keep all the
| good looks for the northern armv." Just
| then somebody plays the ''Star-SL anged
| Banner" and the enthusiastic young
woman goes over and sings it in a wav
! that would call whole regiment to the
| fore in her defense il she wanted them.
/ She has the most wonderful of voices-a
| rich, pure, contralto, and every word of
her patriotic song is distinctly heard.
The engaged girls are bound by letters
/ of gold set either with sapphire and dia-
monds, turquoise and diamonds, or else
having on them one glowing ruby. The
/ girl who protested against the sallowness
/ of the southern men as represented in the
! average play is, as far as chains are con-
| cerned, very much engaged. She wears
/ on her finger beautiful pink pearl. set
/ about with diamonds; around her white
throat is very thin gold chain, very little
/ thicker than a strand of silk, and on this
| is hung aheart of diamonds. Diamonds on
/ both sides, and with huge one in the CEN
/ ter of each. OF course this opens,a and inside.
/ well, there is the usual photograph and
! bit of hair. On her wrist is a chain brace
let set with small rubies and engraved
about it in curious fashion. is this wise
warming, Fool, not to know that love en-
dures no tie" In return for these she
| letters her sweetheart, a we'll known
yachtsman, with heavy chain bracelet
fastened on the upper part of the arm and
sufficiently tight not to fall below the ell
/ bow With cunning taste she has chosen
that it shall be without a jewel except
this decoration, 'My love is as deep as the
sea and as pure as its foam"
Can any man want more than that, and
ought not every man appreciate and care
for it, this love that makes the world &C
round as it deserves? BAB.
! Effects of Whisky.
! Arkansaw Traveller
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