The Indianapolis journal., 1890-02-02
GOSSIP FROM CLARA BELLE
A Fair and Fashionable Equestrienne
In an Unpleasant Predicament.
TIE Hand. Bag, with Mention Of It's Usefulness
and It's AnnOyances-Delicacy and Refine
ment in an Unexpected Quarter.
Of ir,s Ineianapo,I. Journal.

have become common elgnt IN new 4oAA
city. and they are to be seen in their vari-
ations of the conventional horseback cos
tune, walking to and from the stables
around Central Park. They look like those
heroines which old-fashioned novelists and
dramatists used to put into their romances,
and who were ever being saved from
deadly perils by the opportune heroes
But these New York maidens of the saddle
are more utilitarian. One of them was on
fractions horse. and the beast pranced,
shied. reared. plunged and seemed deter
mined to throw her of. She kept her seat
in a fnost determined manner. At length
the beast gave unmistakaple evidence that
he was going to lie down and roll over.
Help. help" the girl cried. showing for
the first time any fright.
IL was no pale and poetic young man who
responded, but q burly park policeman.
who said, as he seized the now sQuatted
horse by the rein: "Get off. miss Why
don't you get otff'
She seemed strongly fixed IN the saddle.
and even when she and the horse both lay
fat, she was inseparable from her seat.
"Are you glued fasts" the officer asked as
he tugged at her arms.
No - not glued" she gssped. "only
buttoned ou."
And indeed she was Determined not to
be thrown by her spirited steed, she had
devised a scheme of fastening herself to the
saddle. But hereafter she viii use it only
on horse that cavorts without lying
down. -.
On the anniversary of your natal day
some one gives you handbag. You never
have carried one. and you always thought
that you never would. 1t is weak fem
inine failing. this being always tied to q
bag. Still. since this one has been given TO
you, you think you will try it;
it will hold your handkerchief-one's
and in these days of the grip it Is good
thing TO have ones handkerchief promptly
available. Then the bag comes handy for
car fare. IT is embarrassing to poke, and
pry. and struggle, and exclaim over trying
to get at ones purse. usually stranded IN
the bottom of the hole your dress-maker
calls a pocket. Besides. change is bother
in a pocket-book. 1t is easier just TO mako
in the hand bag so that you
will have it handy and can generally be
sure eff finding stray 6-cent piece
or a penny there. Presently the advantages
of the bag for holding an extra hapdker-
chief and another PAIR of gloves occur to
you. 1t is so handy, If you make MP your
mind suddenly to go to a matinee TO have
decent gloves ready, and nice. clean hand
kerchief. 1t will really be a great idea to
make habit of keeping an extra pair of
gloves in the handbag. BY and by you
get in the way of dropping small bundles
into the bag. The few yards or ruching
that you feel so mean about having
sent" you can really take without in
convenience to yourself by Just dropping it
into the bag; likewise the little book you
would not have bought. except that your
bag is $50 handy for small things" and
really holds SO much without getting full:
Dear me, you don't know what you would
do without it-though you must get over
the habit OF putting your haf-pound OF
candy in it; it spoils ones gloves SO to go
fishing around a bag for stray cent. and
getting ones fingers all over candy.
Then, too, it is so easy to lay the bag down
and go away and forget 1t, by which you
lose every thing at one fell swoop. Though
you are so used to the bag. still 1t Is SO
easily left behind, and, OF course. having
every thing in ii, it is horribly inconvenient
If you do leave 1t or lose 1t. All your
money, your car tickets, your little puff
and box of powder, the address OF the per-
son you are going to see your solitaires.
which you mean to leave TO be reset; your
gloves, which you intend 10 put on as you
go down in the cars; the lace handkerchief
aud thousand and one other things
disappear with the bag. Oh, deari
If you only were not slave to that
bag-and to think. with all the experience
cod-liver oil IN it with all the other things,
and then getting up in the horse-car and
letting the bag fail off your knee. and car.
rying it full of cod-liver oil for block or
so before you discovered the trightful stuff
the bag ruined, of coursei WeiI that set
ties il; you will never carry bag again.
though you don't see how you can get slong
without one. they are SO handy tiiVyou
get used to them.
For really gentle. girlish grace and re-
finement would you be apt to look in the
neighborhood of the notoriously rough and
tough Five Pointsi Hardly. Yet here Is q
curiously contradictory case. A profession
al gambler groggery-keeper and ward pol
itician, "a man of " 1ooence" In that quar-
ter had n pretty daughter. She was literal
ly reared in the Sums, and, although she
went away for education, her social con-
nections were with people congenial to her
reprehensible sire. A year ago she made
her debut as an actress. Her father
had long been butt for printed
ridicule, and so. when she was an
nounced to act at a Bowery theater matinee
fun was anticipated But she acquitted
herself so respectfully that nobody laughed
at her. and the affair was not noticed by
the press. Well. went last evening TO see
beautiful and elaborate production OF q
Shakspearean comedy IN a fashionable
Broadway theater, and there was the Five
Points girl enacting dainty and difficult
character in the incest, neatest manner I'm,
aginable Every word that she uttered
and every motion that she made was an ex-
preston of ideal gentility. She gas just
the sort of girl of whom you would say,
IN case YOU believed any of the nonsense
about Righ-born estheticism. here is q
daughter of well-bred generations. But
am afraid we shall have to give up that
sort of theory about exquisite inheritance
of gentleness and grace
-.
Here is an equally exact portraiture. A
tall and particularly willowS literary girl.
who published a romance of passion about
six months ago. and whose Tuesdays" are
events of considerable interest in Bohemi-
An circles. has adopted daring plan TO ex-
cite admiration ia masculine eyes It is
not apt to become general Tor obvious rea-
sons. When she permits a gentleman caller
| to follow his card mp TO her luxurious par
| lors it is her custom TO receive him while
reclining on q low couch, over which a
black bear robe in flung. After observing
| that this ingenious background forms a
! most ingenious contrast for he exposure OF
nearly arm and neck, the caller must per
force be struck with the unusual nature
of the Young lady's toilet. it NAV
be of white red. pink yellow. in
| fact. any color. but 1t IL invariable of one
material This is soft clinging India silk.
| / have said that she Is tall and wiilowy.
Stretched out on black bear skin In one
| of her usual dresses, she Is snaky. She has
| n habit OF producing series of sinuous
writhes throughout her frame while con-
| yersing. aud At intervals she shimmers TO
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