The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-17

spread out, as my lady desires, then the lid is
locked, for my lady knows the ways Of the
society woman and her special friends are
permitted to look upon the gems when they
are red, white, blue, or whatever their color
may be. or course, each must have a history,
and the clever hostess is lacking In cleverness
II she cannot invent one for each jewel. One
woman who prides herself on her emeralds
has them reposing on lavender velvet pad,
and round about them is a rosary OF golden
brown wood, each bead of which Is as large as
hickory nut. This is the one gotten at
Lourdes, and, after detailing the history of
the gems, she funnily enough refers to this
rosary by saying: "That's the favorite
rosary OF the French women; they like to take
It to bed with them, and say their prayers
there as the beads are SO big they do not slip
out OF their hands in the DARK
EMBLEM OF DEvouT SOCIETY.
religious collection of medals, rosaries,
crucifixes, and reliquaries may be displayed in
the same way as are the jewels that is in
jewel table. One collection shows rosaries
made Of pearls, garnets malachtes, aquama-
rine, and curious carved woods, while the
cruciixes are worth much more than their
weight In gold, because they have all been
carved by famous masters. A reliquary that
is very beautiful is q gold one, rocco in style
and thickly set with turquoises and pearls.
Another one is of silver flat in shape and hav-
ing all the emblems of the Passion etched
upon It In gold. These were collected by
woman because of the religious association
but as the years have gone by famous col
lectors have informed her that in willing the
contents of her jewel table there will not only
be question Of sentiment, but large money
value will attach itself to them.
A FASHION FROM PARTISAN MARTs.
The long, thick gold chains that at one
time were SO very fashionable now have a
resurrection in the form of an equally long,
thin gold chain. 1t is fashion that has
come to us from Paris, and there the ladies
of the lake suspend on them monocle with a
narrow gold frame, and this they stick care
lessly in the side pocket of their jackets The
lady of the Faubourg, in place of the monocle,
has on the end of her chain tiny gold purse,
in which she is supposed to carry the aims
which she distributes to the worthy poor
AS the purse is extremely small, it would
seem that the worthy poor do not get all they
deserve. Here a few women are suspending
the gold lorgnettes from the narrow chain,
but these are much out of place, as they
look too heavy for the thin, fine links, and
really only the monocle or the tiny purse is
proper.
WHAT IS A SOCIETY MAN?
Somebody wrote and asked me, ssWhat is a
society man? Can he be compared to a gen
tleman? Won't you, from your world of wis
dom, give this useless creature some advice ?n
The remark is SO complimentary that vanity
forces me to answer 1t. The society man must,
first of all, be gentleman in manner and
speech. or the name is misapplied. He is the
man who knows how to speak properly to all
women, and, no matter what his own private
life may be, he never says anything to young
girl that will cause her to blush, or to an older
one that will make her think less of herself,
or of him. If he talks in q very free way to
woman the chances are ten to one that she has
by word, look, or action invited this freedom
of speech, and so she cannot complain. The
society man is the one who makes life go
smoothly, who does not ask after people who
died six months ago, who does not trot out
family skeletons and think it funny to induce
them to make each separate bone rattle and
cause innocent people to suffer agonies. The
society man should have good memory, a
courteous manner, and should control pleas
ant words. The so-called fast young man is
as far from being society man as nectarine
is from green persimmon. He is inclined to
flaunt his fastness in your face, and he should
be given the liberty to exit from every house
where there are young girls until he has learned
that good manners, like icing, must cover all
kinds of cake offered to society for its appro-
baton.
USES OF THE SOCIETY MAN.
The society man may be stupid he may be
tiresome, but he is not useless; he shows the
beauty of courtesy, and he is living exempli-
fication of the golden rule, always acting to
you as he wishes you to act to him, with un-
swerving respect. The true society man is
found at his best among Southern gentlemen
of the old school. His manner may be stupid,
but it is never failing in politeness. His
speech may seem studied, but the words used
are English and the sentences are such that
they give pleasure to the listener. That type
of the society man make women to respect
themselves, men to respect women, children
to honor and obey their parents, and servants
to respect and give proper duty to their mas
ters. The real society man makes civilization
and we could not afford to lose him
any more than we could give up the flowers
of spring. / like him, don't you? But then,
what like, and what you like may not be
the same
ARE YOUR LIKES LIKE MINE
like warm, sunshiny days, when the chill
dren and the flowers, the dogs and the sun,
all dance with the same joy. You may like
rainy day when everybody is in the dumps
like fresh asparagus, lilaes, Strawberries,