The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-31

Invariably refers 10 IOcul as ndI-DrePQS.
and says that if the queens daughter had
married somebody with a touch of the tar
brush it wouldn't have been a bit worse.
The royal family are not greatly in favor,
though there is a queer sort of loyalty paid
the queen, rot because she is who she is.
but because she is the ruler of England.
Don't you remember the story of the wo-
man who had found fault with all OF so
called blue blood and traced il TO off-color
ladies, the washerwomen, or to daughters
of the regiment, to a man who at last los
ing patience said: "Why, you have only
left the queen and the royal family ?"
well, )" she answered quickly, "what are
they but a lot Of Germans; they're not
really English Unless the princess has
improved in her appearance since | last
saw her, the earl of Fife will certainly not
get very beautiful bride, but probably
she will get a much better husband than
If she had been given to some illegitimate
German prince whose principally con-
sisted of a ruined castle.
Novels are read here by the score,
French and English. The young Amer
lean girl who, understanding French, de-
lights the soul of her parents by contin-
ually reading French books to keep up
her knowledge of the language, and who
makes a round of the watering places, is
not the girl that You or / would want our
sons TO marry. TO be bit Frenchy, the
orange flowers would not sit straight on
her head-they'd incline a little to one
side in rakish fashion. l look every day
at young girl, pretty after the delicate
American style, well dressed, and evil
IDENTITY adored by her own people. / Won
der if she might not be counted among
the peaches that are sold at fifteen sous;
they were apparently just as fine and just
as large as those that brought fifteen
francs-but take one up, examine it with
a magnifying glass, and on the peach at
fifteen sous you see tiny speck that
doesn't 90 in far, but 1t mars the perfec-
ton of the peach and it grows each day.
Now, the girl that / see has done nothing
wrong; that | am sure of, but she is ia
miliar with wrong-doing, for she has lis
tened to tales that ought not to be told
before her, she thinks nothing of growing
very intimate first with this man and then
with that one, and she enjoys with the
air of a gourmand the champagne that she
takes with her dinner. She has been
three seasons at the seaside, she is nine
teen years old, and If she were put in a
fruit shop, metamorphosed into a blush
ing peach, she would only bring fifteen
sous. Whose fault is it? Her mothers.
l think when the great day of judgment
comes there will be before the bench tor
reprimand more prodigal fathers and
mothers than sons and daughters, for after
all if you do not try TO keep your daugh-
ter sweet and womanly, innocent and
pure, she has no one to blame but you.
Do women ever think all that it means
This caring for girl child. | am afraid
not.
Here comes the special woman. What
is she? She is deliciously slangy, she is
about twenty-six, smart, rather than beau
/ tiful and she will tell YOU in a way that
convinces you that she never pottered
after Johnnie in her life, but that the
boys will hang around her, and that Ned
doesn't mind and that she thinks it's be-
| cause the boys know she don't want TO
marry them and won't run away with
| them. Her get-up is the very latest she
wears a dark blue broadcloth skirt, made
quite plain and not too full; veritable
| shirt OF scarlet and a white striped percale
with high collar, broken Just in front, and
deep cuffs. Over this is dark blue coat
| that fits closely in the back and flares
away in front so that full view Of the
shirt and the soft silk sash without ends
that conceals the skirt band is gained.
Her scarf is white silk, tied just Ned's,
and she has a pink pearl pin stuck
through it. The deep cuffs are fastened
| with plain gold links, and on her head IS a
sailor hat that inside bears the English
stamp OF Higgins She will tell YOU what
| lot of fun there is about the wash, that
! the laundress cannot understand why Ned
should have two sizes OF shirts, one so
much smaller than the other, and she will
| proudly announce that his shrtmaker
gives her a good fit, but, OF course, her
| cuffs and collars are on the shirt and that
| it buttons in the received fashion all the
way down the front. Ned generally has
| his yacht over at Sandy Hook, and Mad.
anne Ned is there much more than ut the
| hotel. Her special chum, nine times out
of ten, is some delicate, very womanly
woman who thinks that Leila's get-up is
awful, who is feminine 10 her finger-tips,
but who will tell you that Leila is the
kindest girl in all the world, desperately
| in love with her own husband. and never
let's the boys around her get into any
| trouble. For myself like Leila think
she is healthy in her tastes, aud she is GER
tain 10 be adored by her small fry, who are
good babies tumbling up TO the age when
| they can speak Leila doesn't neglect
them-she sees they are well cared for,
but she believes the proper place for chill
| dren is either tumbling on the sand under
the direction OF their nurses, or else APP
preciating the poetical figures OF Noah and
| his family in tho nursery. Like Leila, /
have always appreciated the virtues OF St
| llerOd.
The blonde the clear white blonde, who
never freckles or burns, who is rs languid
as tigress half asleep, is given up TO
costumes OF black satin; she doesn't APP
pear in the morning, but in the afternoon
you SEQ her out driving. She has on n
satin gown, and shawl OF black net with
deep plated frills is about her shoulders,
so that she seems buried in a nest OF lace
Her bonnet is lace and ribbon, and her
parasol Is covered with deep irills OF lace.
| She wears satin shoes and black silk stock
ings, black gloves, and black lawn hand
lSerchief with her monographs in black
embroidered upon H. In mourning? Not
at all-she never was so happy, and she
knows she Is looking her best. In the
evening she is In black satin again, but
this time il is so heavy il seems 20 stand
alone. II Is made after the fashion OF the
gown worn by Madame Rccamier, so that
| no Oraat amount of material ia reouired