The morning news., 1891-10-11


minds You of Tenryson's Brook"
The Politicians own Broadway, and
Bah Doesn't Lik It-Woman's PEN
GIANT for Smuggling - Bonnets TO
Make Women Look Young-Man's
Idea of Women's Wear-Ie is, at
Times, Unreasonable; Women Oan
Fool H N, and Yet He is Not So Bad
After All-That's What One Woman
Thinks, at Least.
(Copyrightl
New YoRK. Oct 10.-You have probably
never connected romance aud fiannel petit
coats. The flannel pettiooat has seemed
to you the very apotheosis of that
which is practlcal-but that shows how
much you know.
ROMANCE IN FLANNEL PETTIC0ATs.
Flannel petticoats are at present. con-
sidered the most desirable Ct gifts from
female Damon to her feminine Pythlas. OF
course, the Damon has her special color !:
the one in which her room is draped, of
which her paper is the proper shade and her
wax corresponding in hue; consequently
her flannel petticoat harmonizes. 1t is
really a thing OF beauty. A young woman,
who had assumed as her favorite hue that
much admired shade Of lavender that is a
favorite with the Princess of Wales had
given her on her own birthday flannel
petticoat that suggested mitigated woe
rather than anything else. A small dog in
the family had diel, and for this reason dull
colors were being worn, but the skirt itself
WAS SOMETHING TO DREAM ABOUT.
no nF art Dfi ,NFi 10
der flannel, light in weight, and smooth as
possible. The edge was band OF lavender
satin ribbon, then came a row Of Lavender
black lace insertion, then one of the ribbon,
and last of all full frill of black lace. The
band around the waist was of lavender
silk, and the ties in the back with an inch
wide ribbon OF the same color Such a
petticoat as this would console woman,
even for the death Of the dog. They are
shown in white and pink, pink and black,
white and blue, and black and white. The
last is, it must be confessed, a little
startling. bat anything that suggests the
magpie combin stion is liked.
THE POLITICIANS OWN BROADWAY.
Were you ever politiciang And do you
see any use for their existence? Some poor
little dot is dying with fever next door: q
young woman who can only count nineteen
years is i'll with it just across the street, and
somebody's mother is 30 very ill with it that
it seems as if death will soon hover over the
household, and the fault Of all this lies in the
hands of the politicians Three summers
ago all New York city was dug up 30 let
steam heaters go in. The next summer it
was reiug to mako Lew pavements, and
now it is in an open condition that
the cable car may traverse the
streets aud that the population may die
of fevers and low sicknesses brought on by
the frightful smells-you couidn't cali them
anything else-that arise from ths depths
of the streets. You know | wouldn't say
one word if this was done to help ANYBODY: /:
butit isn't. Il is simply done to puJ money
in the pockets of the politicians, and We
submit to it because we haven't got parti-
Gle of independence In our bones. In fact.
| think we have reached point when, after
awhile, we will regard getting the bones
under ground as the best
thing that can possibly hap-
pen. / didn't want to be staaln-heated; /;
the old streets were bad, but they were no
worse than those we have now; and, as for
the cable cars, don't suppose they will ever
let dog ride in them, SO | am out Of them.
Bah DOESN'T LIKE POLITICIANS.
New York just at present looks like a
country village, with an occasional large
hotel here and there. Women twist their
ankles trying to cross the st -eet, small
babies tumble IN the mud in an effort to
learn how to walk, and man, lovely man,
who is the only politician known to us, oc-
casionally drops his hat in the mud, and
then | yearn for "a choice collection OF
words. that ara not really had, you know,
but simply expressive, and / would give all
the money | possess 81 ''little picSaniny
from down ole Virginia" who would do a
song -and-dance act on toat hat. Politicians
are perheps necessary, so are those abomi-
nable beasts that in habit beds, and which
are so pretuilv called In London "Norfolk-
Howards." But isnt there some sort of
powder that can DO away with tie Nor
folk-H -Howardsn and the politicians at the
sulne time. Civil service wasn't worth a
cent, and we have got to get something
better than that Ii We ever expect t. point
to New York city as even a moderately
clean place.
WoMAN'S PENCHANT FOR SMUGGLING.
ALI women who are coming over from
the other side ere having a beautiful time
smuggling. | wish it to be distinctly un-
derst0od, though | do believe in the Bible,
the Koran, the Talmud and the Light of
ASIA / regard smuggling as the ono right
woman has above all others. A pi sce Of
lace is not worth q row of pins unless iU
has been carefully put in dress pocket and
smiled past the inspsc or. A new diamond
brooch has no charm unless it's put on ones
hair, and a hat worn over It. o, there
may be pleasures on earth, but there is
nothing quite compares with this. AS for
the women inspectors, I'd jump overheard
hefore I'd let one OF them touch mel Just
fancy the way they would pull and haul
yuur clothes and ask if trock that fits you
like glove is your own.
WHERE WOMAN LOOKS BEST
Women should not occupy political Offices.
The only office they really occupy we'll and
where they can stand is that just in front
of a looking-gless with a man 3 arms around
them, and their faces to tho glass, 30 they
can see Just how they look, even at that
critical point when q man tells you that he
loves YOU as he never loyed any woman
before, and you are willing to take his word,
though you can still see there's smudge Of
powder on your nose.
HERE, INDEED, Is BRUTE OF MAN.
A brute Of a man, can call him nothing
else has invented @ machine By which,
when you drop penny in the slot your age
is told. Now, VINO but a fool nf man
would ever do such thing as thati lie
would know no woman would ever get Oh
il. unless she was quite certain 1t was out Of
order. and he might also KNOW that no
man with any respect for himself would get
upon Il anless be had reached that most
fashionable age Of a. A man Is supposed
10 be- Ike canVas-back duek-not worth
picayune unless he u a llttls high. Tbs
man who made this machine Is q Doctor
Somsb)dy, end the only thing left for him
10 20 Is 20 70 b q c0l0red aged wemaH's
home. Tor there they are 80 deadly fong of
telling you that they were - four years
agos taat for once truth woaid b. mighty,