Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-22
BAB'S BRIGHT BABBLE.
Fads and Foibles of New York's
Gay and Pretty Women.

ming to--The Latest Bracelet Fad
Feminine Fashions in Jewelry--yYhen
Women Trod on Men--Have the Times
Changed Our Men ?--Is the Modern Man
Obliging?
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
NEW York, Jan. 12.-If you saw the
smart girl of the period on the street
just at present in New York, you would
say that she had cut her hair, and You
would be properly indignant with her
for doing this, but she hasn't. She is
simply like the children, she is making
believe. Instead of that she has taken
her back hair, curled the ends of it, tied
1t with ribbon, and has it pinned up in
such way, such an insidious way, that
abe has managed to fool you just as she
has good many other people. If there
Is one thing in this world that man
objects to it is woman having short
hair, and l must confess that l agree
with him about this, but when she can
gain the rather youthful effect without
having her locks, like Samson's, sacri-
feed, then she is to he applauded The
woman who can gain the effect without
breaking any Of the bylaws of feminin-
ity is the woman who is going TO get
along in the world.
THE LATEST BRACELET FAD.
No end of fashionable girls are hav-
ing their band bracelets taken apart
and the jewels set in gold fillets for the
head. But the other girl, who doesn't
propose to sacrifice her ieweled bands
TO popular fancy, is calmly and com
placently enough wearing those of imi-
tations. In reality, paste is always to be
deplored, but when it comes to setting
real diamonds, real rubies, or emeralds
in fiat band Of gold that is in vogue
to-day and may be forgotten tomorrow,
nobody can deny that the woman who
wears the imitation is for once in her
life wise.
FEMININE FASHIONS IN JEwELRY.
To be thoroughly in the fashion, as
far as jewelry is concerned, you must
cover the third and little fingers of each
hand with as many gems as you possess
or as will reach up to the knuckle. We
are nothing if not Egyptian, and as the
gentle Cleopatra and her numerous girl
friends, who are now interesting mum
mics in the British Museum, had their
hands decorated in this fashion, it be-
comes necessary that we should do like
wise. The butterfly with which Cleo
patra's drapery was fastened is being
initiated in many colors and made 10
form broad girdle. The effect is really
extremely picturesque
WHERE EVE AND CLEOPATRA DIFFERED.
Did it ever occur to you that while
they wore the sacred bird and the sacred
flower on their heads in Egypt, there
seems to be no record Of hats Did they
go out in the burning sun and never
wear any hats, or did they stay at home
all the time, and have everything come
TO them? And will you please tell me
how Cleopatra's could have been joy
Gus life, unless she had new Easter
bonnetg To be sure, Easter wasn't in
vogue then, but there must have been
something that corresponded to it. ! am
sure Eve made bonnet Of violets, and
tied it on with ribbon grass that was in
perfect harmony with her fig leaves and
the delicate ferns that formed the fringe
on the edge of them. 1t has ALWAYS
seemed TO me that Eve must have been
woman of more or less good taste, else
she wouldn't have chosen the fig leaf
shade for her first gown, unless she had
been sure it was suited 10 her skin and
eyes. The study of Egyptology is like
the measles, you never know how it il
going to end. 1t has forced me back
through centuries Of women to Eve,
and at present | am looking for the
most accurate account Of the woman
before Eve, Lilith.
WHEN WOMEN TRoD ON MEN.
II would seem as if in the glorious
days of the past Il believe that is the
proper way to speak Of them) that
womankind was given to expressing
itself; repression was an unknown
thing. If you dislike anybody, you
had them thrown in the river, or poi
soned, or stabbed: and if you liked any
body, you adorned them with the wealth
Of the world. People about whom YOU
didn'tcarea sou You simply let getalong
as best they could and political economy
and the labor question were things that
troubled nobody. | think that would
have been the most comfortable time to
have lived. Women, good, bad or in
different, seemed to run everything,
and CAESARS and Mark Antonys were
lying around loose, waiting to be trod
upon,
Is THE MODERN MAN oBLIGINGg
We have changed all that now: the
average man goes to an evening affair,
gobbles up all the terrapin and cham
payne he can reach, brings a woman a
piece of pink ice cream and glass Of
claret cup that tastes like castor oil and
shoe polish and lemons mixed together,
and then he wonders that she isn't salts
fed, and he says American women de-
mand too much. / would like to see
him help an English girl TO her supper.
She would eat right straight through the
menu, never let him get a mouthful,
force him to cut up her bird for her, and
then, if he mopped his fevcred brow,
she would say she was afraid young
Jones had been drinking little too
much, when perhaps the truth of it was
young Jones had been working too hard.
The average man here has gotten ali
idea that the average woman doesn't
want anything to eat, that her delicate
appetite is one of her charms; but the
sooner he gets that notion out of his
head, the most certain will he be to see
good-looking women, healthy women,
and happy women.
WOMEN AND HIGH LIVING.
So-called high living agrees with
women much better than it does with
men. 1t makes women beautiful, and
it makes men beasts That sounds a
little harsh, but regret TO say 1t is true,
for man who is slave to his stomach,
who il Incorporate in what he eats, is
much less agreeable than the man who
is Incorporate in what he drinks. For
the last takes various phases, and the
first takes but one, Dyspepsia, If you
have ever hal man about you who has
had dyspepsia, You will moi only believe
in personal devil, but in fire and sui
phur and everything that the Presby-
terrain church teaches. Only minister
ing angels can satisfy him, and the only