The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-04
PRETTY SOUTHERN GIRLS.
"sAs" SAW THEMAT WHITE SULPHUR.
How They Dress and Act-Dinerent From
Other Girls-The Typical Southern Girl
-Rivol Beues-Beauty's Toast
Bright Letter.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va, Aug. %.
Especial. 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 losses her rs to the
winds, who forgets her gs in the prettiest
way possible, and who thinks. but is not
quite "shuah," that she's fond OF him. In
the meantime he, poor soul, is in agony
until she discovers absolutely whether
she is or not, but he will go back to his
home fettered with rose chains and swear
ing that when a man wants wife this is
the only place to 60 and get the right
kind.
These springs are unlike any other wa
tering places. 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 darkey outriders,
that he might present his compliments to
her when she was counted the belle of the
season. 4 history Of generations can be
counted, and Betty-pTetty, 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
companion at the smart german which
she Will give and where she will wear her
wedding dress As the seasons progress
Betty's party will grow larger and larger,
and almost before you realize how the
time has flown somebody viii be asking
yoa If Won have seen Nancy, the belle OF
the year, and who is Betsy Pages
daughter.
There are three things which the girl of
the White Sulphur Springs must do-she
must dance well, she must be even-tem-
peTed, and she must understand the CO.
quetry oil the thi1nble After the morning
german she comes ont on the yeranda
with her work-basket, a dainty little affair
OF straw lined with blue silk, and having
tat, funny little pin-cushion covered over
with white lace; the thimble, little gold
one, with band OF turquoise about 1t, Is
put on, and she begins tO-no-not en-
broider doylies, nor do fancy stitches on
silk intended for yacht pillows, but So
berry, demurely and meekly mend her
gloves. The man who cannot be fetched
by dance, who doesn't care for pictur-
esque gown, who isn't interested IN books
or music, falls a victim to this house
yifely 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 grand
mamml the art of fine sewing, and they
realize the value OF IL. No man need 90
with his gloves unmended, and some of
the unfortunates in the cottages known as
Bachelors Row" have been known to
submit torn coats to these same nimble
fingers, although this mending it must be
confessed, is done up in the sanctum.
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 a
woman. She is happy girl she expects
to be married some day, and she expects
10 be a mother some day. She doesn't
think all this out, but still Il the question
were TO be put 10 her she would tell you
that 1t was the truth. She does not wear
tailor-made gown with the chic of the
New York girl, but she is wonderfully be-
vitching in the white one that she dons
in an evening. and in which, Just
now, she looks a bit like a picture
taken from one OF the old beauty books.
She wears a full, plain skirt, bodice that
Is cut round at the neck, showing the
white firm flesh, and the sleeves are the
veritable babv-sleeves that are so exqui-
sitely modest, and yet which show the en-
tire arm. About her waist Is a white rib
Don belt, and just in front is buckle set
with briiliants that grandmamma wore in
her dancing days. Her hair is knotted
low on her neck, and Just on one side is
placed a great creamy white rose. She
viii tell YOU that she heard that the beau
tiful girl who married the duke OF Port
land inclined to wearing a flower in this
wav, and then she remembered that there
was picture home of some aunt who was
famous IN her time, who had her rose
placed Just so, and from it she learned the
proper method of arrangement. Now,
this Is pen and ink photograph OF a real
living girl who is going TO marry a New
York millionaire.
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 read;
she doesn't care for George Eliot because
mamma said there was something very
queer in her behavior, but she adores
Thackerav, and she thinks il she ever
had a 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
great DEAL but when they tell her of wo-
men who have to earn their own living.
gentlewomen, she wonders with wide
eyed establishment where the men OF their
family are. She doesn't realize that in
this world there are men who only look
after themselves, and she can't under
stand why ties OF blood do not from the
honorable standpoint make all men anx-
ious 10 protect in every way the women
OF their blood She is not given to rose
oolored stories. She seldom hears them,
either as maid or wife, and she has the
courage 20 very quickly suppress any
thing she thinks she ought not to hear.
grant you she is a coquette but it is clean,
sweet coquetry, as different from broad
Irritation as il sweet milk from creme dc
Dasnlhs. At no other place is the custom
of belleship SO decided.
Every season mus. have its special IA
vorite, and no girl who has ever been
belle at the "Old White" ever cares to be
anything else there except that or a
matron. Occasionally her reign will last
over one season, but this is only when
she is exceptionally beautiful and witty
besides. Matte OuId was supreme tor
four seasons, and so was Miss Triplett. OF