The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-12-14

morse snow. the Hover show. and numerous doll
shows, and all of them mean but one thing; you
probably think that the horse show was to in
cite the breeding of good horses, the flower to
make orchids finer and chrysanthemums bigger,
and the dolls to make popular hand work and
charity-nothing of the sort.
They are all for one cause the encourage
ment Of woman. They simply form horsey, or
fowery, or many-colored backgrounds to bring
out her and her best gowns. She certainly now
adays rules the court, the camp, the grove, most
of the men below, though l rather doubt her
having anything to do with the saints above.
She is the acme of self-possession, and parades
around the tan-bark, or the soft dirt or the linen
cover, and bids all the world look at her Some
times she is worth it, sometimes she isn't.
Sometimes she goes in for being picturesque,
and only achieves dowdiness; sometimes she
goes in for being very elaborate in her get-up,
and instead of looking like gentlewoman sug-
gests lady Of the lake. Sometimes she
achieves her end, and then she is so overfowing
with pride that one wonders she doesn't burst.
1t is funny thing, but there are days in New
York when you see none but pretty women and
days when you could bet, without any fear of
losing it, the silver dollar that contains your
best young mans picture that you wouldn't
meet good-looking woman on the street.
FAMOUS ACTRESSES on BROADWAY.
The other day the beauties were to the fore,
and all down Broadway they came in regular
procession. Looking like lady in picture
book, or one of Boucher's nymphs in Worth
frock, was Lillian Russell. You had Just got
ten over the intoxication of her good looks,
when fascinating Sadie Martinot, in a cloth
frock with some beautiful sables about her,
smiled at you, and you wondered whatyou were
going TO do; and if it wouldn't be wiser to chop
your heart in little bits, and lay small piece at
the feet of each beauty. Then Minnie Palmer
quettish-looking in a scarlet jacket trimmed
in gold braid and fetching little scarlet hat:
and after her Mrs. Ladenberg, typical aristo-
crat, hair dark and glossy, gown simple and
fitting her as if the king of tailors had made it,
feet and hands perfectly shod and gloved and
tiny bonnet very suggestive of the Princess of
Wales OF her head. Rolling by in a carriage
goes the lly-like looking woman, Mrs. Burke
Roche; and walking as if they knew the value
Of exercise and fresh air are Mrs Kendall and
her daughter Daisy, both in cloth gowns and
each wearing rather wide-brmmed felt hat,
under which gleam bright eyes and are visible
the purest and clearest of complexions.
TEE wELL-KNowN MEN OF NEW YORK.
For a change there are some good-looking
men-Herman Oelrchs, big, blonde, and we'll
groomed; Willard, the English actor, pictur-
esque IrVing-like, and utterly unconscious of
the looks that are being given him. Then comes
little chap who poses as the leader of fashion
in New Y York, and who looks as if he hadn't had
good training when he was young; as if there
hadn't been enough of early to bed and a suffi-
nia of haf
the slipper, in the days of his youth. Cause
why? Because he is smiling and leering at
women until their cheeks grow red and they
feel as if they would like somebody to kick him.
He would be shot in some places for this be-
havioT, he would be an ornament attached to
the end Of rope in some others, but In civilized
countries women learn either to ignore such
cads, OF to keep quiet about their bushes.
After him comes healthy, wholesome looking
Mayor Grant, blonde and clean-looking; he is
delightful antidote. Oh, it is the afternoon for
handsome people, and tomorrow it may be the
day for those who haven't the least claim to
good looks.
FOR woMAN's TOILET TABLE.
Have you the proper mania for glass =? Are
you educated up to the kind which should be on
your dining and dressing table? Or do you
still believe that any kind you may like is desr-
able? The glass for your dining-room should
be gold and white, and so should that be which
decorates your toilet table. You thought your
silver appointments were enough, but indeed
they are not. You want puff box, not quite
but nearly as large as the smallest sized bowl
and this must be of gold and white glass, while
the huge puff which is to 90 in it is white with
an ivory sphinx for its handle. Then you want
white and gold glass jar into which you have
split a lot of fpowder, and this holds the other
puff the one with the long ivory handle.
What's That for? Why, my dear girl, to powder
the back Of your neck, to be sure. You can't
reach il with another puff unless you are good
gymnast. Then the tall TASKS that hold eau de
Cologne, white lilac, or whatever your faYorlte
scented water may be, to match the powder box
and jar. Then you want couple of wine
glasses and tiny wine service, in case during
the protractedt toilet you need something TO brace
you up, though, Of course, if you have your face
washed by professional two or three times
week your toilet does not take so long time:
still Il demands some attention beside that given
it by the regular washer.
Professional FACE WASHERS
You don't believe it's done? But it is,
though. You so to place where this made
speciality of, tell what you want, and YOU then
are taken into a charmingly cool and delightful
looking room-a room where everything seems
the very expression Of cleanliness. The floor is
covered with mating, several dressing tables are
draped with white embroidered muslin, and on
small tables also draDed i'm white ORC Iarno