Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-06
BAB'S BABBLE.
FAMOUS PEOPLE IN NEW YORK FASHION.
ABLE LIFE
Some Wsn-Known People One Meets On Fifth
Aysnus-Ihs Empire Hat Crazs-A Titled
Rllinsr-How Soma Bright
Women Maks Money.
special Corr,spOndence.)
NEW YORK. January 2.

mug uUHu lIOm DziuOllsi " TIC
Fifth Avenue Hotel at about three o'clock
in the afternoon, one is sure to meet pso-
pie who are Interesting. The first one the
other day was Kyle Bellew, insolent-
looking, growing decidedly old, bnt with
an insuferable air Of being a universal
csptivator Of womankind; next, and max.
ing q decided contrast, was John Jacob
Aston, looing like an English squire with
his rosy cheeks, his short muttcn-chop
whiskers, ard his general air of content
with the world at large. Except that
he is younger he might at any time be
mistaken for David Dudley Field, that
man of wonderful intellect and oourtly
manners; here's a pretty picure-John
Drew, his wife, and ths sweetest little
maiden you can imagine. she is dressed
in a long, warm plush coat, and from I'M
der the little bonnet some blonde curls
show. John Drew ia one of the best
dressed men in New York-he wears his
clothes as he were utterly unconscious Of
them; and he has such good, healthy,
clean-looking face that one feels sure
be is % good at heart as he looks. By way
Of contrast there is Edwin BOoth-if any
girl has ever made him her ideal she
Decent want TO see him now-be fat and
cross looking, and walks the street smok-
ing in O way that seems 20 mean disdain
Of all men. Here is Oliver Byron, his face
besming with good nature, his hand out
stretched to wish everybody happy New
Year, and the kinde-t look in the worll
all about him. 1t is the sorl Of look that,
to be slsngy, no! only goes, but permeats.
PEOPLE MET ON FIFTH AVENUE
You see q determined face, one that
means 81 am goipg to succeed in what
ever undertake, whSther's it work or
fun you see twinklng eyes, and you
realize that il is John Hoey, the President
OF the Adams Express Company, who has
never been known to miss first night at
the theatre, and who is as full of wit as
the proverbabial nut is is Of meat. Here
comes Nellie Farren-to gave your soul
you can't help humming tits funny
little way I've got as she passes
you, for there's something about the little
womsn that makes you conscious that she
is exactly rs che sings, "a jolly little chap
all around" Here's Mrs. Brown Potter
who went on the stage 10 save riding on
the street cars-a woman with a beautiful
face and wonderful eyes, but decidedly
dowdy looking. She is the delight Of
photographers, for she can put on her
most perfect smile and keep it in position
for one hour, exactly as an
ordinary woman might assume
her smartest bonnet. Theirs Ward Nc
Allister, the leader of the Four Hundred,
rather fat and vulgar-looking; and near
him is Mabel Wright, the extreme blonde
beauty, gotten, up as she often lie, in a
bright red cloak and bonnet to match.
OF course there are other psople-pretty
women, ugly ones, well and addressed
ones, handsome men, and those who are
not, but five minutes walk from Del's
down TO Twenty third street showed these
Who were we'll known 10 the general world.
THE EMPIRE HAT CRAZE.
The special girl is just now under q
shade. II is oftenest a shade Of sofs fell
and great glossy plumes. II Is perched
sufficiently we'll on her head to show TIE
knot of hair at the back and sufficiently of
her forehead to make the aureOle Of curls
do their duty. What is il? 1t is the eror-
mously large Empire hat, burdehed with
nine plumes, and with its bIim bent 30 is
suits the face OF the wearer; it may be fast
tened down like poke bonnet it may be
flsred up at one side and the long plume
allowed TO touch the cheek on the otheI,
OF it may, in on arrogant manner,
hsve its front uplifted, so that in her
CorporAl Coat mademOiselle looks the pic
ture of the great General himself An
Empire hat is by no means an economical
adjunct 90 ones toilette, because it must
be exactly the same color as the coat, and
usually is made 10 order, so that the brim,
while it is wide enough, does not make the
small woman look as if she were a blessed
taper walking about with an extioguisher
upon her. These are the only hats with
which the Hading wells should be worn,
for they are as much out Of place Ga a
round hat OF bonnet as would be tulle
gown at breakfast.
A TITLED MILLINER.
To add to the Empire effect, the Euglish
women have discarded their lorgnettes,
and have, swung on a long black ribbon,
the monocle so long dedicated to the man
who goes in for bit of swaggsT. The
effect, it must be confessed, is more
unique than picturesque, for somehow
woman with a monoc'e outside of a
barlesqus show, isn't quite as fetching
az she supposes. The small bonnet is
always in good form-mankind respects 1t;
and no matter how charming the Gaines.
borough or Empire chapesux may
be. wien man takes his wife on;
he always wants her 70 wear a
smsll bonnet and a black gown,
the combination that 10 Paris is dedicated
to the bourgeoisie. ApIopos Of bonneis, l
an told that Lady Gordon, who went 10
for millinery, hiss continued to make a deal
of money. She was the daughter of "a
nous Dublin distiller, and so Inherited a
bit of tire mercantile instinct; when the
Scotch tenants didn't come promptly to the
fore with their rents, my lady made mp her
mind that she intended 10 have well-hlled
purse, and so she began to sell bonnets and
MATS. one uhu tLC AtpuAotioh Va NANo1A- =
extremely well herself, but that was OF
worth in a business venture; her bonre.s
were all imported from Paris, and her
hats were all Eoglisa round ones. sac
positively refused to give credit, and con-
seauently found her best customers among
the British middle class, who so dearly
love a lord and who were charmed to pay
oat their gold for bonnet they
thought my lady's hand had
touched. Lady Gordon used her own
name. which was wise. When Lady
Mackenzie went into the millinery bUsi-
ness she called herself Madame Something,
ADD has, hardly think. been as success
full as her rival in trade. She gees in for
veiy smart tea gowns in addition to bon
nets, AID says with smile, 1t is quite
the fashion nowadays 10 be in trade"
Everybody knows that the Princess de
Sagan lets out her name At 60 much a
yesr. and that it is prominent over milii-
merry shops in Paris, London, and New
York.
HOW BRIGHT woMES MAKE MONEY.