Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-20
PREVAILING CRAZES.
Some of the Latest "Fads'' TO be OBJ
served i'm Washington.
PROMISING ''RAGEs" FOR THE COMING SUMNER
THE RUSSIAN MAID NoyELTY-THE LITERARY
CRAZE-MAsCULINE wHIMs-THE NEw-FANGLED
DRESS CoAT-THE RAGE FOR DOGS INCREASING.

| CRAZE-MASCCLINE wHIMS-THE NEw-FANGLED
| DRESS coAT-THE RAGE FOR DOGS INCREASING.
The individual man or woman, who intro
duces a novel idea into the world and into So
clety, particularly one which happens to take"
adds much-to-be-envied feather to his or her
| cap-a bright jewel 10 the crown of social sue
cess. 1t is not at all necessary that the idea
should be OF any practical importance what
ever. 1t must simply be novel. though it may
be absolutely silly, and the originator is at
| once heralded as very CLEVER some
| body and well worth getting acquainted
| with. Hundreds of idle riders. SO
to speak. are impatiently waiting to seize upon
and mount any sort of hobby that offers to
transport them into notorety. In season and
out of season the hurdle race of fashionable
crazes goes continually on, the riders stopping
| only to change to some new and equally start
| ling hobby when the old ones show signs of
| tagging out. As headlong and short-lived a
| craze may be. it Is not lost to sight when dis
| carded at first hands 1t is simply handed over
| to the next set in society who use it and in
| turn pass 1t on until it hobs up in blooming
| senllty IL tony country towns.
| HOW THEY AFFECT wAsHINGToSIANs.
1T is matter of no consequence" as Mr..
| TootS would say. to the ultra-fashiOnable Wash
! ingtonian whether the sun is shining or the rain
pouring. he or she is just the same devotee TO
| the prevailing popular craze, whatever it may
I be. When the warm genial rays of the sun
| beam with effulgence upon our broad avenues
| they come out and glide around summing them
| selves and airing their costumes and pets, and
II slght-seers do not find ont Just what particIl
| lar craze Is the rage it is entirely the sight
seers own fault. On the other hand when
| Jupiter Pluylus takes temporary control of the
weather and shows General Greedy that .'old
| * q rlE al NOT IN hp 1CrDn raI
| and showers some of his humid blessings upon
| TINS particular city. the fadites have indoors all
a gushing heart could wish to satisfy the crav-
| lnSs OF fashions most favored patron saint.
| Letters. essays. and papers upon papers have
been written by the argus-eyed correspondents
VINO inhablt the city and scarcely without
something new and interesting with every effort.
SOME OF THE LATEST CRAzEs.
One OF the latest crazes discovered by the
public has for its object the Introduction of
novelties at spring entertainments. and will
doubtless burst upon society with furore
when the lenton season will have closed and
| subdued pleasure Is again relaxed. The
! ''crushes and Jams which attended the pre-
| tentious affairs of the winter season done
with and gone. At the smaller. and doubtless
! much more social gatherings. which follow il is
| lar easier and more gratifying to exercise ones
| TASTE and engineer TO successful execution
! ingenious designs of arrangement. Thus op-
| portuntles have been afforded hOstesses en-
! lowed with artistic talent to turn their accom-
! pilshmentS to good account in originating
| something novel to be patroniZcd and wor-
shipped. One lady fashioned souvenirs in the
! way of hand painted sachets i'll various odd
shapes, and decorated satin receptacles for
| glace violets and rose leaves.
Another who could not WELD the brush.
! though equally clever in other ways. devised
| novel means OF serving dishes At a late tulip
/ lunch both the salad and ices were served i'll
| tulips. aud the effect was very pleasing. and
| laid foundation for what promises to be an
extremely popular craze.
! At breakfast, not long since, the cards which
marked the places ut the table were numbered,
and there were two of each number one in
| scrlbed with a question and the other its an
swer. The topics thus introduced were taken
! up and discussed with interest The fruit in
! troduced at this breakfast was the shaddock. or
grape fruit cut crosswise. sugared, favored
with wine and served on the richest sevres
plate.
| ANOTHER GASTRoNoMIC NOVELTY
that has amounted to vcritable craze is frozen
egg-nogg. There are but few unacquainted
with the old-fashioned eggs, milk. etcetera. in
its liquid state, but frozen, it takes new place
| and alleged deliciousness not heretofore
| suspected Ii Is is served III tall, narrow glasses
and is nothing if not tempting and promis-
| ing craze.
THE RUssIAN-NAID RAGE.
Another late and promising fad is the Rus
sian-maid rage. and it will go hard with the
| pretty, black-eyed French bonnie and the gen.
| tie. blue-eyed. fair-haired Swede if this craze
gains permanent foothold. She is an impos-
ing creature, this Russian nurse, and presents
an air of veritable novelty. She is all that is
delightfully."- picturesque. She wears a long
loose garment of deep-blue CLOTH bordered
with a broad, telling band of crimson and on
| her head rests a genuine Russian headgear-a
creation Of much-puffed white tulle, from
which flows all the way to the bottom of her
fantastic skAt two wide lengths OF crimson
ribbon. As maid she is Trustworthy and ca
pablo; as novelty she is certainly seIf-evi-
dent fact.
THE LITERARY CRAZE.
The unusually large crop of efforts" gath
cred the past winter by the janitors of news
paper offices from overwhelmed waste-bas-
kets is due doubtless to the burning desires
of an unprecedented number who concluded to
| acquire fortunes and fame by writing-profes-
| sionally. The wild, blood-curdling dime-noyel
| characteristics have been relocated for the
| time, and the prevailing styles are on the order
| of the strange, weird, impossible, and unbe-
lieveable stories of Rider Hagcard, or the cor
| uscatlng efervescent imageries of Mrs Rives-
| Chanler. Mrs. Chanler described a heroine as
| having eyebrows, though shapelv singularly
| thick and broad, looking much like strips of
| fur above her claret-colored eyes" Ewes since
| then have been discovered and described as
! DlcuulllS all TIC COlOTS Oh an artists ingenuity
and more too. And men have been wrecked Mt
sea, gone to the bottom, lived in jolly fellowship
with the inhabitants thereabout escaped
| through hole somewhere and returned to
| their native lands III the most approved Allen
| Quartermain style. Mrs Burnett's charming
| Little Lord Fauntleroy has inspired host of
! imitators who have rushed into the field with
| perfect abandon, and those who do not write
and cannot see it played upon the stage appear
| dressed in the latest whims of Fauntlerov in
ventions, large, small, young and Old
| SOME MASCULINE FADs
There are but few masculine crazes the in
| diligence of which cannot be, or at least are
not, shared by the fashionable man-though
both women and men have vantage grounds
upon which they can respectively and firmly
stand. The average man of social standing
| wears more jewelry than formerly short
| time ago he utterly discarded jewelry, even re-
| fused to wear them In the conventional dress
shirt front and substituted buttons of simulated
| linen instead. Now, again, fashion changes
and for awhile, at least he will cast his VARYING
| eye on pearl shirt buttons-not white, but
shadowy, unique and high priced.
And now the beautiful sheen of the golden
| bleached suit of feminine hair has a rival i'm
| the rage of the bleached masculine blonde
muStache. From some cause, no telling what
| blonde mustaches came into high favor and
now there is on sale a liquid guaranteed to
| change any colored mustache to the ever to-
be-sought-after blonde hue" and it is no un-
common thing to see nobby golden mustache
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