Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-08
A New York Letter.

We have been blessed with an uu-
usual spell Of clear weather and have
been enjoying ourselves accordingly.
Spring shopping has been occupying
the feminine, mind and the masculine
too, if one can Judge from the display
of goods in the stores on lower Broad
way. The men have monopoly Of
that section of town, from the Battery
to Canal street. Cloth is artistically
arranged in every other window, and
show cases with material folded into
trouser legs inform the passer-by that
you can get "pantsn nnde to order for
50 so and Il spring overcoat for SIS 90.
Very fire checks and heavy corded
looking stripes rule the day, with light
brown derbey and white cravats.
The four in hand is the proper thing
and you must tie it yourself; this is a
delicate operation for the clumsy man,
as the risk of soling the delicate cripes
and silks is great. But when the task
is finally accomplished, and the ends
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round cut vest, the effect repays the eff
fort.
Women are affecting the shirt and
four in hand also, and not a few hand
some girls are on Broadway with stiff
striped shirts and white ties, cut-a-wav
coats and shiny hats. 1t is, of course,
rather startling and the girls look
alarmingly like their brothers, but it
is ''chic" and that is conclusive.
The milder tempered young woman
wears very light tan dress, made
long and plain in the skirt, and a cape
of three rows of material one a above the
other Of the same color. Sometimes
the cape fastens at the neck like q
jacket, somtimes one end is caught up
on the left shoulder. The hat is no hat
at all hut wreath Of small flowers
with band Of velvet across the top,
which becomes two bands at the back:
these are brought forward and fastened
together four or five inches below the
chin with small pin. The effect is
very pretty and in most instances be-
coming.
Other bats are very large. the brims
five and six inches wide, throwing the
most graceful shadows on the wearer's
face. who is generally OF the tall will
lowy type. Then, there is, too, the
tailor-made girl, who appears in long
light ulster with very large cape and
turban hat. She is English and very
attractive.
The matinees are still well patrot.-
lied. although it is late in the season,
and Broadway after 4:30 on Saturday
afternoon is jam. The men are COM
ing up town and the women pouring
out of the theatres. Between % street
and 33 street are five theatres, a II good
houses to which one can go with per-
feet safety; girls aud children fill them
on Saturdays and the boys hurry from
th cir offices to meet them, just as tho'
the next day were not Sunday and
they would not 60 through the same
performance again!
A few years ago the correct young
lady could not go to a matinee at all
without chapetone, and even then,
not often. Now the theatres are SO
well managed and the plays so good
that one is perfectly safe 10 first-class
house, and even in one or two of the
places that are considered second-class.
or these, the Grand Opera House at
% street and s avenue is the most i'm,
portant. 1t is big building, well
made and comfortable, but the locality
IS against it. Too far on the West Side
and the only theatre in the neighbor-
hood, it was not convenien,; of late
years, since that part of the city has be-
come so densely populated with very
'espectable labJring class the house
makes money, but is still unpopular
With Murry Hill. The Lyceum on
avenue is the swell resort, and it well
deserves its fame. for prettier, cosier
little theatre don't exist. ELLIS.