The morning news., 1891-09-20
MADAM ASTOR'S GOWNS.
,.p MS 2UssEs AN ARIsTOCRATiC
1-AnY,s AUCTIONED ROBEs.

Oer1i- MOlde-A recent new YORK
ui,b Lie Story-Brandy, Morphine,
an English Meid and Saean's Clutch.
woman a Free Agent 3ouzed ana
C,aan Washed Mathematician Dis
ukss TO Pant the Lily--d Hair Bleach
,,g Ages Fading Womanhood-Have
uanpv smiles and Discard Rouge
pots-No Scarlet Lady Wanted.
Babs Trying illness and Mothers
Love.
(CopWi0ht)
Nrv YORK, Sept. 19.-If you were Mrs.
William Astor would you lot frocks bought
fryou and presumably fitted on you. be cold
at a public auction when a little over s4O0
would have made them yours One be-
comes the property of a low music hall, the
other is to be exhibited in the window of
shop on Third avenue. labeled, OF course,
As Mrs Astor's gownl viii you kindly tell
ma if all idea of gentleness. of politeness
and Of respect for woman has gone out OF
New Yorka l know it exists in other
nlaces. But l should think either
husband or son would have gotten
hold Of those dresses, even if they
put them at the bottom of the
sea. rather than have such crowds present
to see them as they were the day that the
auctloneer so Rlibly described their beau,
ties. and dilated on the fact that they ought
to be worth more, because they were made
for Mrs. William Astor. If some other
woman had done this, the news papers would
have teemed with her lack of delicacy, and
no matter what the government may have
done in the way of cheating, or what the
dressmaker may have done in adding on to
the price, having danced ever so little, she
would have been willing to have paid the
piper.
When this kind of thing happens it
always makes me wonder what the old, old
generation would have thought of it, What
would the real, original John Jacob Astor
have imagined if his wife's frooks had been
sold at public auction,
WITH SECOND RATE ACTRESSES
ladies whose virtue could not be doubted
and the motley crowd collected around,
just becau they were supposed to have
belonged to a lady. Everything goss by
supposition nowadays, as far as a woman in
the extremely fashionable sets is concarned.
They have gotten so that they think they
can outvle the ladies of the demi-monde,
and that nobody will object to it; because
they are Mrs. We're de We're or
Mrs. Montmorency Rhineland they
think they can smoke. drink and take NOR
pbiue ad libitum; sand when they reach the
last degree, they are usually going to his
Satanic majesty at the rate of sixty miles
an hour. You think this isn't 30? You
think it's what the newspapers write up in
sensational way to amuse the people out
of town! Now, I'm going to tell you a true
story: Four years ago there was a great
wedding in New York, the bride was
rich and beautiful, SO was the
groom, though properly called, one
would have said he was handsome. For a
year everything went merry as q marriage
bell They lived abroad, and when they
came back madame brought with her an
English maid. Soon the husband bt gan to
notice that the wife was always late at din~
ner, and on inquiry, he found out that she
invariably had nap late in the afternoon.
He thought nothing of this for awhile, but,
after a time, when she came in to dinner 1t
seemed to him as If she was dazed, and as if
her tongue thickened.
What was iti Brandy, my friends. The
English maid had taught her to drink ex-
actly as English women do, never realz zing
the difference in constitution and in climate.
And so. from having a small glass of
brandy, she had gotten to have a big wine
glassful. Even the brandy did not satisfy
her. She would come in tired and want to
be braced up; take the brandy and it was
NSSt
him be must give her some morphine. Be
ing good doctor he refused this. She sent
Tor another, who was less scrupulous, and
who have her a large dose.
THIS LULLED HER TO SLEEP,
and the next day she wanted more. Grad
ually she got SO that she took three or four
doses day, the effect ceasing to be a quiet
lng, but rather exciting one, and now, well,
she gives the doses to herself, takes as many
as she wants day, is the color of piece of
white linen, hasn't very much sense of
rlght and wrong, and the best thing that
can happen to her is that death will come
and claim her. Now, that's a true story,
and 1t is told not to show off the wicked-
ness OF anybody, but to make some other
woman stop and think before she allows
herset to get under the influence of the two
tyrants
Please do not believe by this that 1 wear
Whlte ribbon or am member of a pro-
hloltlon society. am not. regard man
as free agent, that is, as free as women
VIII let him be, and woman as an entirely
Iree agent, AID fully believe that woman
can stop doing anything she wants TO, tuat
she can have glass of wine with her din
ner without becoming a fearful example,
anu mat she can teach her children the use
ana abuse of glass of wine. The worst
orunkards have ever known have come
the by word and where the boys crept out
az night to buy glass of ginger ale, later
On on one Of beer and later on one of whisky.
1 ne decent to hades was at once very quick
Dut very sure after this.
FREsCoED AND UNFRESCoED BELLIES.
The girl who rouges has gone out and the
woman whose face is washed clean Is de-
cldedly co the fore. Occasionally a man
naS ADMIRED a woman who puts a dab rouge
on her face, cleverly and skillfullY, in the
evening But the average man who can de-
tect rouge Oh a woman's face in the day-
.ltne is very certain to object to It, no mat
yer now much prettier il may make her
look. A man has good taste. He doesn't
wan. 70 paint the lily. He knows that the
orlgot pink is not in harmony with her
eyes and hair, and if some day she would
appear before him with golden blonde hair
ne is certain, if he is engaged to
De married TO her, to insish on
her staying in the house until her
nalr gets back to It's natural color. and n
ne Is married TO her, to wonder whetber
pieached hair is not cause for divorce. Nv
Gear woman, when will you understand
suae just as soon as you are beginning To
taoe oleached hair makes you look about
zen years older, and face makeup adds
aoout a. eight more, consequently if Won are
oO, you look 4S, whereas, by brushing YOUR
~ Own halr well. washing your face clean.
osa osea3Iang nappy smile, you may look only
S'' Inc fact that rouge is no longer
tasnlonable viii, it lis hoped induce young
SS9;lnen who regard being in the fashion as
.Ielng In paradise to drop the rouge Dot or
ue nquld bottle, and in their DIaces choosa