The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-26

mssible will be the white ones tied with pale
green ribbons. Flowers never went out of
fashion, but they are being used now more than
ever before.
FLOWERS FOR YOUR FAvoRITE.
Instead of the huge corsage bouquets long
stemmed rose or posy made of carnations
very fine orchid or bunch of violets is counted
the last touch to an evening costume This
makes it possible for man to do courteous
thing in the way of sending the woman he likes
some flowers without his having to go into
bankruptcy at the end of the season. Men
who estimate things by quantity rather than
quality gave full range to their vulgarity when
they sent woman a corsage bouquet nearly as
big as herself, but nowadays to choose single
fine flower that comes from the smartest florist,
and to send it and ask as a courtesy that it may
be worn, is undoubtedly the correct thing, and
certainly the more sentimental.
SENTIMENTS IN SONGS OF YoRE.
Apropos of sentimentality the young woman
who sings inclines rather to the ballads of ten
years ago than to the wild songs that have been
her favorites for some time past. In preference
to "Razzle-dazzle" or the announcement that
"Jones, he pays the freight" she is warblng in
a tender tone the exquisite "Good-bye'' of
Tosti; that dear old song, "She wore wreath
of roses,n and that most lovely of ballads
"SallY in our Alley" She has gained by adopt
ting this role, for in dim religious light, with
an accompaniment that sounds like the music
of sweet waters, and voice that tells of love
and JOY and devotion, even the nineteenth
century young man can be overcome. He often
shows slight inclination to weep. Sometimes
this is the result of the words, sometimes of the
fact that he had little too much dinner, and
the digestion and appreciation of music are
difficult combination.
WOMEN AND THE STRAP.
One of the leading dressmakers showed me
irock trimmed heavily with leather, and wish
you could have seen her face of astonishment
when l said thoughtit better suited for horse
than a woman. The only way L would ever
apply leather to woman would be in the form
of a strap. English law, l think, allows YOU to
use one as thick as your little finger and
really, you know, considerable influence could
be expressed with that. There are number of
women l should like to beat or have beaten,
and the delicious little leather whip so effective
on fox terrier is the thing that should be used
upon them. 1t makes the fox terrier smart and
dance, but he knows what he is getting it for,
and he also knows that it's not going to break
his legs or affect his brain, or do anything ex-
cept take him through what the darkies call
"a course of sprouts" Whether the women
would be as amenable afterward as is the fox
terrier and would realize that they had only
been whipped because they had done what's
wrong, l don't know; but l should like to see a
few of them undergo the treatment.
WOMEN WHO NEED A sTRAPP1NG.
Who are the women who deserve a quiet
strapping?
The women who always tell you the disagree
able rather than the agreeable words spoken
about you.
The women who have so little consideration
that they never hesitate to speak of Affections
or defects that exist in those you love.
The women who think little children abomi-
nable pests, well-behaved dogs nuisances, and
men horrid bothers.
The women who wear their frocks so tight
they much better have on trousers.
The women who chew gum, smoke cigarettes,
and who gamble.
The women who read nasty books because
they are nasty, who enjoy talking on so-called
erotic subjects, and who wonder why men have
no respect for them.
The women who never keep an engagem ent
who never count time as of any value, and who
borrow money and never return it.
The women who are walking interrogation
marks, who will ask you the most impertinent
questions, and wonder that you dislike to au-
swer them.
The women who are not womanly, who are
not gentlewomen either by instinct or breed
ing.
These are the women l should like to see
have touch of the leather whip, touch that
stings, and every other honest-hearted woman
would agree as to this with BAB.