The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD.
New YORK, May S.-You are nothing to-
day if you haven't keen appreciation of
flowers. You must appreciate the redness of
one rose, the dead whiteness of another; you
must be able to discriminate between violets
and know to dot the good points of an
orchid. II you are going to make call on
some woman of whom you are fond you stop
by the way, get bunch of roses, single
orchid, or lily, whatever indeed happens to be
her favorte flower, and then when you go in
you tell her how, long before the material
body got there, she was in your heart, and you
have brought her the flower that she would
have chosen.
\ NEW THING AT WEDDINGS.
If you go to wedding, you carry as beau
tiful bouquet as possible, tied with long
satin ribbons, and in the loops are hidden
your own visiting card with your best wishes
for the bride written upon it. This you leave
as you go out if it is house wedding; if it is
church wedding, with no reception after,
you hold your bouquet while you are in
church, and then as you come out drive
rapidly to the house and have your footman
leave it at the door. It's pretty custom
that works well in two ways-you have the
advantage of the bouquet while you are on
exhibition, so to say, and the bride knows
that you remember her when you leave it be-
hind you. OF course, enormous sums are
spent on those bridal bouquets, for very large
roses, orchids, or gardenias are used for them.
The roses are not made up stitfiy, and are tied
together with broad white ribbon, while
yellow or a curious shade of green are given
over to the other flowers. If your costume
happens to be some peculiar color, with which
none of these shades harmoniZe then it is
permitted you to have any ribbon you please,
there being prejudice, however, against the
dark shades.
THE OAINOUS TURQUOIS.
Apropos of dark colors at a wedding being
unlucky, am reminded of an old superstition
about the turquois and how / saw it verified
last week. A beautiful turquois had been
given to young woman and she had sent it,
with number of other jewels, to the bank
while she was to be bird of passage. She
was taken very i'll, months went by, and the
jewels We're never required. A week ago she
was able to 90 out in the sunshine, and con-
cluded to get some of her rings, That she might
have the pleasure of looking at them When
the turquois was taken out of its box it had
turned the most positive green imaginable.
This would not have seemed strange if it had
been an inferior stone, but it had been bought
at a world-famous shop, and an enormous price
had been given for it, You know the theory
that when the possessor of a turquois is in ill
health it becomes sick too and loses its colors
Now it has been given to woman who is in
perfect health and she is wearing it, while
everybody who knows about it is eagerly
watching to see if the stone goes back to its
heavenly hue.
THE SUPERIOR YOUNG WOMAN.
There are people who are above this sort of
thing, and the superior young woman is one
Tell her story like this and she glares at you
until you wish she could be sentenced to i'm
prisonment and hard labor until she outgrew
her superiority and became an ordinarily infe-
rior person Nothing suits her. If she goes
out for walk with you she refuses to look in
the shop windows at the pretty things, she de-
clines to see the nice babies or agreeable dogs,
but she holds her head high up in the air and
says: ~ am out for rational exercise, and
propose TO get it," Ask her to have some
sweets and glass of soda water, and she says:
''Thank you, no. But if you care for it will
wait while you get it," If you can imagine
woman made of flesh and blood waiting while
you drank soda your imagination is extremely
good Tell her about novel that is immensely
amusing, offer it to her, and she puts up her
lorgnette and calmly freezes you by saying,
THANK you. But after all, from an intellect
ual standpoint, what will | gain from it ?''
You don't like to suggest it is just possible a
certain amount of pleasure may come to her,
for pleasure seems TO her a very frivolous and
undesirable thing.
SHE DOESN'T GO THE THEATRE,
unless she can see something really improving,
and as far as can be discovered the only really
improving things that have come to her are
nasty plays of Ibsen's. The superior young
woman is an absolute incentive to sin, for she
makes everybody hate her. AS young woman
she is insufferable, as a wife she makes her
husband pitiable creature and really the
only time when she is in her proper position
is when she is the chief parsonage in a still
way, at a funeral. Then the world regards
her with complacency. l haven't the
slightest doubt, though that she tells the
spooks all about the examinations she has
passed and how well up she is In Greek and
Latin, and it may be that the future punish
ment OF some people who don't vote the pro
per ticket will be to have close acquaintance
ship with the superior young woman in the
unpleasant future booked for them. Nothing
more dreadful could come.
THE INSIGNIA OF DRY DINNER.
Have you gotten any dinner invitations witt
bit OF blue ribbon tied in one corner? Tha