Telegram-herald., 1890-02-02
R0SEBUDS OF SOCIETY.
IN bEld-Season They Begin To
show Their Thorns.
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CoFYsIaHr 1862
About this tine look out for" ths
announcement hat the tebarantes are
tired ana are looking forward 10 the
slowing OF tie wheels of soeisl ealety
that sill come @ith Ash "Wednesday
There = popular belief thag - he
debutante l. q wearing business This
Is = f4uacy TIE debutznte, on tie
whole. has an easy Nue. Compare her
tolls With those Of charming little
woman OF my acquaintance, not much
past the debutAnte age Who goes 70
the ball, en j0ys lts brightness and its
glamour, and then. when the carriages
are rolling home, sits down IN her
hnery and writes two piquantly ehAtty
descriptions OF the nights triumphs 10
appear in two morning papers While
the bud is s.eeping her beauty sleep
my pretty friend is petting an IS
months old baby. Before the bud has
opened her eyes and her mouth for
chocolate my friend is back in newspa-
per row scribblinga special" for Sun
day edition.
Compare the debutante with the so
eiety man. The festivities which are
her work are his play. After he has
danced until sunrise he must eudgel
his brains until sunset 10 find the
wherewithal 20 buy vIolets at $40 a
bunch for her budshiD now. and an
opera-box. a carriage and an establish
IN f. gh a Ck
have concluded that be Is the most de-
sirable partner FOR lifes waltz society
can furnish her at the usual charges.
Compare the debutante with her
mother who has shouldered the re-
sponsibility of the tea and the carpet
dance at which the lovely young daugh-
ter has been presented 10 society, after
debating anxiously the question
whether after all she shoulc not be
kept back another season sntil Madge
and Dolly have had one more opportu-
nifty 10 get themselves transplanted
from that portion OF the social flower
bed allotted 30 the family. Mamma
has curried favor with the disagreeable
Mrs. -, whose daughter is so plain but
who is going to give some of the swell
est dances OF the winter. She has lain
awake nights planning to secure in
vitations and contriving schemes
to make her house agreeable to
young mon. She has arranged for
ffty-one bouquets for the buds first
ball TO top the forty-eight received By
so-le other damsel. When sine sweeps
the battle field with her opera glass
she keeps one eye on the enemy and
the other on the spoils, the genus homo,
which she reckons in three species, the
impossib the possible and tae de-
sirable IL there is anybody who is
justified in pleading fatigue IN the
middle OF the season it is She who sits
out every ball in the wearisome ca
pscity of chaperon.
It's ali mistake to suppose that the
bud bears the brunt OF the social sea-
son. It's another mistake TO suppose
that there's any particular necessity
for the ceremony OF presentati ton.
American young women, even of the
in nternatiOnal, fashionable type, are not
kept in so carefully that when they
come out tho emergence is OF any es-
pecial Significance. The cargo OF
rosebuds before it IS dumped on tho
social market is not an altogether uu-
known crop OF tender blossoms. TO
blush unseen is not a species of redden-
ing popuiar with the least developed
flowers OF this era. The girl who has
not been introduced has not been 20 a
ball, though this rule admits of excep-
tions. She may have danced a New
port or some other watering place, OF
she may even have been a belle for .
season in Washington. The chances
are she has belonged to dancing
class and has there met tho exceed
ingiy youthful men who. during the
whole Of her more public career, will
form OF necessity. even though She
dubs them %little boys. the bulk OF
her dancing partners. Very certainly
she has diped on not too formal occa
sions with the family. and al the dinner
table or lounging OF an of afternoon in
her mothers receiving room or at g
country house has chatted With Tho
well pre- eryed beaux % past genera
tions who form tie opposite extreme q
. tbo cradle in NcAlls-ervilie and t'
social Suburbs She is not taken 90 the
opera 1u first nights. BUTTS gay enolgt
i'm her mothers box ON some other ooca
sion TO confne her as strictly 20 the
uurserv rs is done with tae bread and
butter English girl or tie French ieune
flic IS impossible.
There are people who carry thcl
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