The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-07
CLARA BELLE.
The Flowers of Fashion That
Are Blooming This
Spring.
Tra-La Girls Who Have Some
thing 10 do With the
Case.


anticipation OF high links broke out
over the town this week along with
the leaflets on the trees. The perfect
girl whom We have met in the plum
colored frock came out of her summer
chrysalis and burst upon the sunny
air like a pink and gid butterfly,
with sweet suspicion of her actual
neck cleaning through mist of white
lace. Every Ioafer in town came out
onto Broadway to see her GO by.
Here is a jaunty specimen, in
spreading hat, light waist, contrast
ing!y dark gloves, and everything cal.
culated Ia command attention. 1
rode very slowly along in coupe.
WATCHING HER MARCH.
There was picture of busting excite
ment on the hotel steps and in the bar
room windows as she swept onward,
like Lovely, perfumed vision. There
wasa
SUPPRESSED EMOTION
In the cafe Windows, and a bulging-
eyed appreciation was sent over from
the clubs. Down III the street they
cali this SYSTEM of idle spectatorsnip
the spring fever. 1t was the winter
fever two mouths ago. 1t changes its
name with the seasons, the mott of
It's victims being: Drink, wink and
don't think"
The hot weather can always be
counted on to perform one good Ser
vice to New York. 1t will thin out
the theatrical district OF Broadway,
where there is more lOafing to the
square inch and more impudent gsz
lug than can be found i'll any other To-
caiity i'm this country.
The first faint traces of the summer
metamorphsis are already discernible.
You don't have to wait for table at
fashionable restaurant now after a
play. For an outsider these eating
emporiums are a good pulse of Meal
listers small wad of swells. You can
get the temperature of the social fever
by noting the quality of attention paid
by the walters to their customers
They are fine discriminators in fact,
Delmonico walters and McAllister
himself are equal authorities on caste
in this town. The crafty attendants
have already begun to be careless over
the raw fux of provincial people no y
crowding the city. the soothing, vel
vety, winter-time touch is not nearly
so caressiug as it Was six weeks ago.
Spring costumes OF an outright
summary aspect are little by little
making their bow t. society. They
are still somewhat like angels visits -
"few and far between" but We are
able To note that embroidered and
braided cashmeres in the lighter tones
beige, tan, gray and terra Gotta. are
precedence dnring the first season of
the year. New dresses have plain
skirts, broad border or edge of pas
sementerie, branding or ostrich feather
trimming placed around the hem.
Cut-out or pinked-Out ruchings, very
full, are also seen at the edge of the
plain jupes. These skirts are glove
fitting, and gored over the hips; then
from the center of the band at the
back come two broad box plaits-one
ON either side-so arranged as to grad
ually broaden as they reach the ground.
Three or four plaits of material are
fixed in beneath the top box plat,
giving the fullness required to the
back of the skirt that the movement
of walking opens slightly like fan.
THE WAVE OF BITTERNESS
Which seems to have swept over Eng
lish feminine society at the matriTo on
ial success achieved by us in the midst
One London newspaper article de-
clares in plain terms that American
girls have no charm or attraction
whatever, except their dollars (; and
further attributes much that is object
ionabIe in the manners of the present
day to their bad example, vulgar
copy of vulgar conduct" Other writ
ers sharpen their pens with horror at
customs somewhat different to the
British, which the Yankee Mrs. Grun-
dy readily permits, but which are to
her British namesake even as red
rags to q bull. One feels really
ashamed of these narrow and malig-
nant deliverances of spite. Sanguine
people, / believe, have hoped that
progress and education on broader
scale might develop in the feminine
character such virtues as generosity,
magnanimity and temperate judg.
ment; but clearly the old Adam, or
rather the old Eve, is still virulently
% tho fore In I.ondon and of tha uar