The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-16

the wronged man was dying she was permitted
to sit down and sing some sort of lullaby to
soothe him in his last moments and add to the
anguish Of the audience The mistake in the
play was that they ought to have used the lul--
laby first and the pistol afterward. That sooth
ing song would have Knocked over any wronged
man and the pistol could have been used effect
lively on the young woman. Oh, 1t was night
WHEN WAS THANKFUL WAS A WOMAN.
Felt sorry for anybody? Well, l can't say
did. Either the seeing of many plays has hard
ened my heart, or think that somebody, some
censor of social affairs, ought to be called in to
give glance over the play before the public are
invited to witness it as an exponent Of society
manners. The theatre ought really to be school
of good manners-that is to say, when the So
called society play is to the fore it should pic
ture to the men and women in front just how
the very cream OF good breeding looks and be-
haves.
\ PEN PORTRAIT OF WARD M'ALLIsTER.
No Mr., McAllister is needed to decide this.
And, by the by, did you ever see Mr.. Allister
He is without exception one of the vulgarest-
looking men imaginable. l stood by him the
other afternoon, and his shoes didn't look bit
brighter than his brains have been proven to.
His coat didn't fit well, and he looked like an
Italian from South Fifth Avenue who had made
a good pile in the rag business, and who had
taken to dressing well for that reason. His
book? \ mass OF impudence and ignorance,
not worth the paper it is printed on or the cov-
ers it is bound with If the people among
whom he moves do not cut him for some of the
remarks he has made in it it will be because
they stand on the same level intellectually and
socially with him. 1t is interesting to note that
the book now be gotten for one-half its
original price at the shops where everything
from matches to Worth frocks, and from bird
cages to Manton guns, are sold.
OUR GIRLS WILL BE RUSSIAN.
The winter girl is going to be as Russian as
possible. Her glove-fitting gown will have a
band of fur about it, and she herself will be
wrapped up in furs from out of which her pretty
face will look like the fresh rose that she is.
The girl of to-day has lost the rather dried-up
look that the girl of ten years ago had, and the
reason for it is this: knowing that her home is
kept at summer heat all through the cold days,
she dresses as BELTS that and only when she
goes out does she assume the very heavy furs
and the warm long wraps that she knows are
desirable as we'll as becoming. Walking out in
the fresh air, she gains all that is good from it
and doesn't grow cold and when she comes In
and throws aside her coat she is not too warmly
| gowned for the heated air in which she exists
She has learned that while the room may be
warm it is also desirable to have it well venti-
lated, and the consequence is that her eyes are
brighter and her skin clearer than ever before
THE NEW ROBE DE MUTT.
The modern fashionable woman's liking for
furs has shown itself in the most amusing way.
When she goes to Tuxedo or to some country
house to stay over night her nghtgown is of
| white silk with broad white silk collar piped
all around with Russian sable, and the mandarin
| sleeves have a finish of the same. Her white
Turkish slippers are lined and outlined with fur
to match, and her one hope is the house will
catch on fire, and that without burning down it
will yet necessitate her going out into the halls
in this fascinating get-up and with her hair in
delightful disorder down her back.
A MANS OPINION OF WOMAN.
a mans opinion about a woman is always
curious, so l asked one the other day If a
woman in front of me, whom L had been ad-
miring for an entire block, was not what | call
pretty woman.
He said ''No," and when l asked him why, he
answered me thus:
"She is not pretty, because her hair is in dis
order, and man likes womans hair to look
smooth when she is on the street.
"She is not pretty, because there is line OF
black under her eyes to enlarge them, and a
man likes a woman to have a clean face
"She is not pretty, because she is conscious
that she is attracting attention, and man likes
a woman to be so lady-like on the street that
she passes by unnoticed.
'She is not pretty, because her hat is an ex.
aggeration, her hips are padded, and because a
man likes woman to be real and strongly OBJ
iects to bizarre headgear.
She is not pretty, because she doesn't walk
well, she mnces one moment and trots the
next, and man likes to see woman little
slow and dignifed in her movements.
''She is not pretty, because her mouth is toe
big, and man had rather have woman witt
no mouth at all than with one that seem
adapted solely for electioneering purposes.
"She is not pretty, because she is bad form
and if you were man you would have seer
that at once and would have passed her by a
undesirable" SO much for the opinion of
man.
Again l render thanks that 1 am a woman.
BAB.
Eight Words and All the Letters.
From the Albany Argus.
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