Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-26

apricot and brown. The prettiest wo-
man of thirty met, and, by the way,
three-quarters of the best-looking wo-
men one sees are about that age, wore a
bonnet or gold embroidered lace with a
brownish pink rose futtering its soft
petals on one side and having the thorny
stem twisted about the open crown.
stood still fifteen seconds in the path Of
All idiotic little swapping terrier won
dering why the thorns didn't catch in
her hair They did probably. The ter
rier wore a ribbon abOnt its neck Of
mignonette green. To the ribbon was
hooked a gold chain. To the chain was
attached a girl. The girl wore a golden
brown gauze hat without any crown and
with long sprays of large lowered mig
nOnette lying across her hair.
Somewhere in the neighbOrhOod of the
reservoir | encountered a woman with
the white bang. 1t has taken us num-
Der of years TO make up our minds to
import the white lock worn by a few fast
women of Paris, but having pinned it
among our love locks cunningly we have
i'm less than n month gone a step further
and blcached the whole bang. That is,
half dozen Of us have done so. for the
eccentricitieS recorded of individuals
who please themselves with sensational
experiments are unknown to the we'll
bred woman. The white bang went of
course with Titan red hair that was
black last season and with black lace
hat looped with gold tinse cords.
A bench at the park entrance is a
good seat when one is tired, though it
always makes me wish | were young
enough to eat peanuts to complete my
beatitude. From such a seat the passing
thrOng presented combinations of health,
beauty and Worth-no pun-that be-
came every minute more interesting.
There was constant procession OF
novelties" leg O. mutton sleeves from
the Harleian MSS. of the time OF Henry
VI, wide collars and high" from the
Coventry pageants, Vandyke and Gothic
points of the sixteenth century, Dutch
gowns with waists rclegated to the arm
pits and skirts short, full, undraped and
fingered of the school of Holbein. There
were long lace ScarfS such as the Span
iSh sonora has worn from time immemo-
rial on birthday festivals and deep
frlngeS that would have delighted dead
and gone bellies. There were Directory
coats buttoned with reproductions of old
Paris guild medals and old coins OF
Henry MI. and Queen Elizabeth, and
one little tot who tumbled against me
was done up in top coat fastened with
Louis Nv. red and bronze buttons. II
was like looking on at carnival OF
ghosts. only the ghosts were very gay,
radiant with flowers on hats and at
bOSOmS and very much alive.
Julia Marlowe passed me in spring
like gown of gray bcngaline, whose soft,
irregular drapcries were caught with
pink ribbons. Her hat was Shirrcd
gray tulle wreathed with green leaves
and she carried a gray tullc paraSol.
A group Of pretty girls, composed Of
Miss HeckScher Miss Bergman, Miss
Post and Miss Winthrop, walked under
a group Of gorgeous paraSolS. One was
yellow point d'eSprit edged with black
lace round the top and with black lace
butterfly ON one gore. 1t was lined with
yellow silk null and seemed to have Il
carved wood handle Another was COW
cred with black lace and velvet ribbons
ln alternate bands. Another was OF