The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-01
"BAB'S" EASTER GREETING.
A WOMAN, A NEW BONNET AND AMAN.
Different Ideas of Good Time-Women
whom Men Like-New York Men
Who Ought to BE Framed
Easter Brides.


think woman with becoming Easter
bonnet on, walking with man Of whom
she is fond, is about as happy creature
as there is in the world; and for that
reason one of the few rights 1 claim for
womankind is the Easter bonnet. Give
it to her, fathers and husbands, even If
you do have to forego a little supper or a
box of cigars for yourself. Don't laugh at
her when she has it on, but take her face
in your hands and greet her as they do in
Russia on Easter day, with loving kiss
and happy announcement that Christ
has ariseng' You haven't right-not a
little bit of one-to keep an innocent
pleasure from a woman; and the woman
to whom innocent pleasure is given Is
not the one who is apt TO look for any
other kind.
Though, by the bye, what quesr word
pleasure is! There are people who think
it is pleasure to make a great deal OF
noise, to laugh very loud, to tire them
selves almost to death, and to shout them
selves hoarse in On effort to sing I'VE
won't go home until morning" There
are people who think it pleasure to
pose for the multitude and to utter inane
nothings, finding satisfaction in vanity.
Queer, isn't it? There are people who
think it is pleasure to DE in their best
bibs and fuckers, and to sit stiffiy and
formally at a dinner table, utter stilted re-
marks to their neighbors and come away
announcing what beautiful time they
have had. That's queer, too. Now.
what's your idea of a pleasant time?
Mine is to be with the people | like, to
hear some good music, some pleasant talk,
to say "how do you do" with pleasure
and good by with regret. Not TO have
q crowd, not to have noise, not to have
men behave like educated donkeys and
women like circus riders. Perhaps my
good time is a quiet one, but it Is the sort
that strengthens you mentally and ply
sicaly.
You won't have good time on Easter
if the new bonnet is unbecoming and the
gown doesn't fit The week before the
average woman has looked as if she were
in bad temper. That's not pretty look.
for il makes the wrinkles come, shriyels
the skin about the eyes, changes the
mouth into a hideons shape, with the
compression OF the lips that givesit an air
of severity. Now, every blessed woman
has had plenty of time to get her Easter
gown and bonnet, but the general one has
just concluded what she will do the week
before, and the most obliging dressmaker
in the world hasn't learned yet how, when
she has five hundred frocks on hand, to
make the five hundred and first in n few
hours, not only becoming, but well fitting.
The sweetest milliner you ever talked to
can't toss up a bonnet like an omelet; and
the consequence is the disappointed
women are complaining of dressmakers
and milliners, and calling them everything
that is disagreeable, covering the alpha
bet OF unpleasant words from Alpha to
Omega.
A disappointed woman is always agreat
mistake that is, the one who shows her
disappointment. She will cry-ergo, her
hose will be red. She will be cross-ergo,
her digestion will get out of order. She
will sulk-ergo, the man unto whom her
heart goeth out will desert her for another
woman whose face is wreathed with
smiles, even if it is framed in a winter
bonnet. Men do like women prettily
dressed, but above all things they prefer
that she should be pleasant. SO that
when it comes TO question OF sulky
women in new clothes or pleasant ones
and old clothes they are certain TO choose
the latter. Men count ii as their own prerog-
alive. Personally have come to the con-
clusion that what man really likes is a
thoroughly good, healthy, violent temper
that wears itself out in words, and Is ready
to be sorry afterward. There is type OF
man who likes dishes thrown at him, but
he is special rather than general. There
is another kind that is best governed by
violent attack OF hysteria but with this
sort of man the game is not worth the
candle. But anything-throwing plates or
hysteria-is better than the sulks.
The orchid show has been and gone. It
was interesting and curious at the same
time. The curious part was to see how
the women naturally drifted to the most
expensive orchids, and these were by no
means the most beautiful. Do you know
that the first bunch of orchids ever car
ried in New York City was borne by that
most perfect of gentlewomen, Mrs. Thomas
Francis Meagher, on her wedding-dayP
Mrs. Meagher was one OF the three sisters
OF whom Thackeray spoke in his letters as
being not only the prettiest, but the most
charming and natural in their manners OF
any among the American women he had
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dead-Mrs. Barlow and Mrs. Crawford
but Mrs. Meagher is as lovely and as
charming today as when Thackery saw
her, and is that best type OF the flower
garden OF American women, gentle, dig
nified. and considerate, the orchid among
women, the gentlewoman.
The Easter weddings are going to be
many IN number, but all OF kind. The
bride just now is after the French style.
She looks as if her widest dissipation had
been view of the geological gardens. and
the only books she had ever read had been
those illustrated by Kate Greenaway. She
is married in a gown high in the neck, and
with sleeves that come, in Nalois fashion,
down over her hands. She carries white
ivory or kid prayer-book framed in silver,
and she looks If she were frightened to
dea,h-not because she was getting mar
ried, but because she is among so many
people for the first time in her life. As a
picture nothing could be more absolutely
delightful, and il has the effect OF causing
the wicked old men about town to weep
bitterly, presumably for their lost inno-
cence.
Ii has usually been the right and pleas
ure OF fair woman to cry at weddings, but