Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-04
Ii VAN WAYS GOSSIP
Our Correspondents Spicy
Weekly Letter.
Something for Mayor Hazard
to Think About.
Things Which Are New and Ultra
Correct in WOman's furnishings.
The GainsbOrough Hat-Spangles-Dln-
ner Gowns-Flowers-vei
A School for Hus-.
bands, Etc.
Special correspondence to the HERALD.
San FRANCIsco, Oct. 2, Is

SAN FRANCIsco, Oct. 2, 1891.
Talk about American independence
Talk about American daringl When
you come straight down to facts, de-
mure Scotch lassie, or calm-eyed Ger
man fraulein, can give the American
girl points.
Have you heard of the Berlin women,
and what they've been doing2 No?
Listen, and stand aghast. They have
been learning to ride astride, and to
ride in tights. That isn't all. They've
gone to the mayor or to the councilmen,
or whoever it is that says you shall and
you shall not in Berlin, and they've
petitioned him for permission to ride
astride and to ride in tights in the
parks. The mayor said no. What
would Mayor Hazard think of saying If
some of the Los Angeles girls confronted
him with such a petition as
that? From what know of
that estimabIe gentleman, he would
blush and echo the words of the i'm
mortal Pooh Bah: go way, little
girls; go 'wayV'
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There's always something new. This
time it's leather. Leather cuffs, leather
collars, leather waistcoats and leather
bands for the bottom Of your gowns:
II you want something that will make
you look ultra-correct and ultra-know-
ing, just you run straight to the nearest
shop and purchase tweed, an English
tweed, mind you. Then you have that
tweed made in a plain, glove-fitting
princess, with a vest of tan-colored
leather, and band of tan-colored
leather around the bottom of the skirt.
You get tidy bit of tweed jacket,
with buttons as big and as brown as
they make 'em, and you have
that jacket pocketted in tan
colored leather, and colored
in tan-coloTed leather, and you have it
| finished on the edges with the very
narrowest kind of leather piping. Get
straight brimmed, low-crowned tan
colored felt. Slip band of leather
around it and stick a straight, sassy"
little wing right up in the back. Put
all these things on the minute they are
done, and you'll see how stylish you'll
look. Stylish! You'll look stunning
and no less.
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Speaking of hats, any shape will do
| this year. There are few big-eyed,
picturesque women who can afford to
wear the enormous Gainsborough that
| is just now the fad; but there are only
a few. The Gainsborough itself is big
enough to take all the life out of an
| ordinary face, and make it look
like a lone strawberry on an
expanse of restaurant short-cake.
And when you come to load that same
! Gainsborough with half dozen curly
| plumes, and yard or two of ten-inch
ribbon, why tits simply overwhelming.
| And that's the way they trim them now.
There never was but one woman who
really looked as pretty as she might, in
a Gainsborough. That was Mary An
dersop. There are very few Mary An
dersons roaming about this cold world
just now, so the Gainsborough looks a
| thousand times prettier in the milliner' Is
window than it does on the head.
1t makes handsome woman look
bold, and it makes pretty woman look
Insignificant. There are lots of other
hats, though, that are becoming. Lots
of them.
There's queer little excuse of bon
tible. It's only square of jet or a lace
of that square comes fatty down over
springs gaily into the air at the back.
It's held there with an aigrette or
anything that's impudent, and that
bonnet is delicious. Anyone that wears
it must look we'll to her couture, how
ever. 1t will make or mar that bonnet
to have the hair trifie too fluffy or a
thought too severe.
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Spangles are coming to the front
again, more's the pity. Spangles are not
lady-like. They are too ci-cusy too
much like ballet, girls delight. They
smell of the foot-lights- and the saw
dust, someway.
There are going to be some charming
dinner gowns this season. All on ac-
count of velvet. Velvet is to be worn
again. Every pretty woman ought to
thank precious birthday when she
hears that.
know of dear little blonde that is
going to dazzle all eyes in a gray velvet
embroidered in dull silver. It's slim,
sweeping medlaeVal sort OF gown,
without thing to break the line OF
beauty from the nape of the neck to the
end of the train. It's opened bit at
the throat and she's going to wear tiny
band OF turquois about her lily throat,
She's going to do her blonde hair in a
silken knot, and she's going to carry q
bouquet of violets. Then her rivals will
wonder why it is, every man that sees
that girl in gray falls in love with her
@Tan velvet treated the same way only
toned up with bronze is beautiful, anc
white velvet is charming for brunette
#*#
Blouses are very much in vogue fol
morning and shopping gowns. They
are dainty and pretty, and they are al
comfortable as that dreadful thing,
Mother Hubbard.
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BY the way, chrysanthemums are thu
proper flower for your belt. For tina
matter 80 is any flower that's autumna
and not too conspicuous. They do ga,
that roses are coming to the thronl