Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
"BAB'S" TYPE OF WOMEN.
She DIscourses Upon the VanItIes
of Her Sex.

ana Bclaced Pointed Petticoats--Duties
of Men and Women.
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
NEW York, Oct. 16.-I had a surprise
last night. Now. a surprise to ME is
| generally enjoys BILE, but this surprise
went past The enjoyment and became
interesting; went to see Edward Sothern
play in THE Dancing Girl.n had seen
TINS clever man make my heart swell with
joy when. as the Highest Bidder" he
saved his lady love and all her property
from the hands of cruel men; / had seen
him when, as Lord Chumley." he had
given his life for his friend; and surely no
man can do more than this. And, lust of
all, had seen him as the tender-hearted
prodigal, the "Maistcr of Woodbarrow,"
who had spent his substance, ard then,
after all, he'd gone back to the home
\ where they loved him and made much of
him because he was their own.
THE BLAsE MAN ON THE STAGE.
And ! put my fan before my face and
grew SICK at heart when he stepped before
me as the "Duke Of Guisebury,h the blasc
man of the world, the worn-out youth of
to-day, the man who found pleasure in
vice when he could find it at ALL Here he
was to perfection You see few of him
in New York. more of them in Hyde Park.
lie has exhausted everything, and he
doesn't know. whether life is a thing to be
u
1alth IN women. because he can bny them
with diamonds; he has lost faith in men.
because most of them are tiresome and the
| rest are knaves. What does lie believe in
A bit Of girl called Nudge. whom he has
saved from death by dragging her from
| under his horses, and who saves him from
death, moral and physical, by making
him see that it is the good things in Ills
world that are worth doing, and that the
respect of honest men is worth having.
| Now, you can't do this in day, especially
when man is infatuated by so-called
beautiful woman.
THE LADY OF THE nEMI-MoSDE.
But, is a woman beautiful who looks the
adventures? Is Il woman beautiful whose
hard laugh tells Of her greedy, grasping
nature, or whose cold eyes look out de-
lance rather than love? Not to-day, my
friend; the adventures who is marked as
with postage stamp was in vogue some
years age. But, to-day, the lady of the
deml-monde is much quieter than her
sister Of the 400, and vies in dignity with
any OF its leaders. Even in their vices
men look for good form, and woman
with her gown cut almost to her waist and
with that curious voice and laugh, cold
and hard, that you sometimes hear on the
street, would never suit man like the
Duke of Guisebury. II wouldn't have
been in good taste, you know, my dear
fellow. When | was 1T Cambridge, you
know, it would have done, but, after all,
my dear fellow, a man who has seen
deal of the world doesn't put that type of
an adventures in home; he wants some
thing guieter, something more restful, and
something that is going to look like a lady
even If She isn't one. Drusilla Ives claimed
that she could be very like one when
SHE WANTED HER DUKE TO MARRY HER.
but she never could. She would have been
like the stale gingerbread sold cheap in the
shops. where the gilt is badly broken off
and the outer edge is too much crumbled
| 20 deceive any one. The moral of the
dancing Girl seems to me that there
are, women born who are two parts wanton
and the other part devil; who are what
Swinburne calls Glove machines" and
who are capable of making men change
| in trice
From the lilies and langous of virtue
10 tho ioses and raptures of vice.
MEN ARE NOT so EASILY DuPED.
That these women can make men love
them; that these women, brazen and bold,
can make men, who have seen what they
call the world, care for them; who have an
extensive acquaintance with the flesh and
the devil, be fooled by them-is it pos
slbieT Oh, no you are mistaken, Henry
Arthur Jones, it's boys who are attracted
| by such women; not men. 1t is Just posi-
Bile that. after awhile the duke would have
shown Drusilla Ives to her carriage and
babe her adieu. Up 10 this time, when
event followed event, she had not bored
him, but from the day she first asked him
to marry her, and, like the Englishman he
was, he refused, her downfall was as GER
tain as was his uprising. That's where the
little guardian angel comes in; the little
girl who believes in faith and love, and
who always does come in, even in real life,
and take care of the men. Bless her heart,
that's her mission In the world. And if
she happened to be as pretty as the one
who saved the Duke of Guisebury, it's d
bit OF "a miracle to me that dukes are not
running around seeking to be saved.
woMANs SUMMER SHIRT FRONT.
Lovely woman is now "rastlin'" with
the great question of the day. She asks
everybody she meets, who has succeeded
in solving the problem, exactly how and
where it was done. She is not willing to
give up her shirt front with the summer
months. She has determined to wear it
all winter, and she hopes that it shall rival
the fiend man, and make him wither with
envy. Somehow, she don't seem to get the
starch IN III; and whether it's because of
the slight difference in her build, as far as
men are concerned, or not, it has a way of
doing it what the darkies call "hiking up"
She doesn't care to wear braces, because
they make marks on her shoulders; but
she can't keep them down cher shirts, |
mean). by having buttonhoie in a tab
that fastens to u button on her corsets. 1t
Is interesting in a family where young
wife has the shirt vice, and her husband
has, OF course, to wear them. not of course,
because, they. are vicious, but since the fall
OF Adam he has been cncased in one, and
to see the delight with which a Chinaman
Will spread out that wash. Given the room
to himself, he will put one of madame's
BEFRILLED AND BELAcEp POINTED PETTY
COAT
on the chair with the flounces spread out
as II she were ihhabitng it; above this we
will put little silk shirt, and over this the
shirt, with that part of the tail which is
decorated with a monogram brought to
the front with high and mighty air of
governing all things Then comes the
marseilles waistcoat, and over this han-
mel jacket, with its front sloping away,
while just In front will be laid one hand
kerchief. and the rest concealed up the
arm of the jacket. He was asked BY the
happy couple whom he Numbered WHY lie
just pumped the gentleman's clothes
down on one chair and did this artistic
study i'll still life with my lady's belong
ings on every other chair in the room.
By-the-bye, the bed on which the night
gowns reposed, had their arms about each
other IN most loving manner. His ex-
PLANTATION was this: 7'Oh, no likec the
herman, but much lkee the lady-man."
After this announcement he was promptly
discharged, and ever since, when the '.he-
man. passes his shop, a lot of little papers,
supposed to be devils are sent out after
him. But, to return to the shirt. Its stay
Ing power in the way of starch is difficult
to get; they'll starch a shirt for man till
Il looks like mirror, but just as soon as
they recognize that it is woman's, they
seem to make it more water than starch,
which is not desirable in feminine shirt
front any moro Than IL il in n mania -