The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-06
Special Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.
NRw YORK, April 4, 1890.

Special Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.
NBw YORK, April 4, 1890.
People write articles and make speeches about
1.-The salon AMI its possibilities The salon as
we read about it is as dead as the proverbial
door-nai The salon or, as 1t Is too often spoken
of in New York, "saloon," is very much to the
fore. The woman with social aspirations sud
denly makes up her mind that she is going 10 be
Recamier or De Stasl, that she is going to
improve the tone of the world at large, and so
she sets about 1t in her own special way, Usu-
ally she is the proud possessor Of small fiat
and the budding geniuses who make the ''ssloon''
very often walk into the kitchen, the bathroom,
or the linen closet in looking for the parlor door,
being geniuses this doesn't embarrass them.
You get into stuffy hole of room rich in
doubtful artistic treasures and permeated with
equally doubtful intellectual strength. The
minute you shake hands with your hostess you
are requested to keep quiet, because Mr.. Some
body, from dear only knows where, is going to
recite something written by the hostess, or a
little thing the hostess has written about him.
He is already crowned with long locks and
vaseline, but somebody tosses laurel wreath
on his head because of his great achievements
and he looks like goat
1SFLIcTIoNs OF MODERN SOCIETY.
Later on Mademoselle Small Patti sings a
song, the words of which she doesn't understand
and neither do you, and the music of which
you are told was composed especially for her.
You are glad to hear this, and you hope nobody
else will ever suffer from 1t. After this the
hostess reads poem that makes you wish you
had never been born, aud then some poetess
whom she has discovered "speaks piece in
very squeaky voice. which, as she is a very tall
girl makes you wonder her voice began at her
feet and grew weaker as it went up.
Then you are asked If you won't have glass
of punch. If you have any idea of what punch
in "saloons" is you will refuse; but If you
haven't you take it and realize for the first time
in your life what combination Of lemon-jui
tea, and hair-oil tastes like You go home q
sadder and wiser man, usually stopping at the
saloon at the corner, which is real one, and
getting something to kill the taste of that dread
full punch Now, that's one kind of q salon.
It's wonderful mutual admiration society that
has nothing to recommend 1t, but still is not
vicious.
HoT-HoUsE OF SOCIAL SCANDAL.
There is another kind of a salon in New York.
It's the salon where the man is literary and the
woman isn't; where there is a tolerably good
supper, which has as its sauce all the scandalous
talk in New York City; where the hostess who
was probably cook before she married literary
man, assails every woman who is cleverer
brighter, or younger than she is, and who is SO
dreadfully afraid of being immoral that, when
she goes to heaven, if she ever does, she will
make as a special request that she may not be
put too near Mary Magdalene. If any scandal
Gus thing is said about woman who writes il
of teD h,
traced to this salon, and the consequence is thai
half the guests go because they are afraid Of
the hostess and the other half because they
don't know about her malicious propensties
The salon cannot be counted success. The
art of entertaining is to let people meet togethe
who are interested in each other, whose thought
and sympathies are In common, and then le
them alone. If you give them anything to ca
or drink no matter how simple 1t is, let it be o
the very best. If it's an ice, let 1t be COLI
enough to suggest that 1t comes from Green
lands icy mountain; If it's a cup Of tea, let i
to be SO hot that it hints at Indias coral strand
if it's glass Of punch, let it be as strong a
love.
THE HEART IN JEwELRY.
The Queen of Hearts is monarch Of all sh
surveys, and the jewelry shops have all thei
designers busy bringing out new ideas in hearts
The most expensive have either an opal, moor
stone sapphire, or a turquoise in the centre
with framing of diamonds; but the one
most general use is of gold or silver with
little inscription on it; very thin gold chat
suspends the heart about the neck. 1t is SUI
posed to be very lucky to keep it on all tn
time. On the tiny gold ones some very amusin
inscriptions done in fine letters. One thi
l saw the other day had on it "To good girl;
the jeweler said, 'When that order was give
to me knew exactly who it was for. 1t WI
for woman to give another woman, and 81
is the only one in New York that believe woul
get such complimentary inscription, and d
serve 1t. Good? Yes will tell you how 81
is good She never interferes with her friend
love affairs; she never makes trouble by repea
ing dsagreeable things and she is quick to te
the agreeable ones. She doesn't ask question
and she thinks woman to woman should be
honest and honorable as man to man That
the reason know the little heart was meal
for her.
DRBUTANTh's HEART DINNER.
debutante had heart dinner given to h
the other day. The tables were heart-shapC
and covered with pale-pink satn overlaid wi
drawn linen cloth, At each place was
heart-shaped pink satin bonbonniere, and Il
menu had stuck through it heart scarf-pins