Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-24
The Auctioned Robes of the
Rich New Yorker.
GREAT WEALTH IS A SCREEN
A Recent Story of High Life
In the Metropolis.
Bleaching the Hair Ages Fading Woman
hood--Have Happy Smiles and Discard
the Rouge Pots--woman n Free Agent.

you. be sold at public auction, when
little over 300 would have made them
yours? One becomes the property of
low music hail. the other is to be exhibited
IN the window of shop on Third Avenue,
labeled, of course, MS Mrs. Astors gown
tleness, of politeness, and of respect for
woman has gone out of New York? |
know It exists in other places. But |
should think either husband or son would
have gotten hold of these dresses. even II
they put them at the bottom of the sea,
rather than have such crowds present to
see them as there were the day that the
auctioneer so glibly 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 newspapers
would have teemed with her lack of deli
,cacy, 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
havepaid the piper.
When this kind of thing happens. it al
ways makes me wonder what the old, old
generation would have thought Of i'll
What would the real original John Jacob
Astor have imagined If his wifes frocks
had been sold at public auction?
WITH sEcoND-RATE ACTRESSES
ladies whose virtue could not be doubted
and the motley crowd collected around,
Just because they were supposed to have
belonged to a lady. Everything goes by
supposition nowadays as far as woman in
the extremely fashionable sets is con-
cerned. They have gotten so they think
that they can outvie the ladies of the
demi-monde, and that nobody will object
to il; because they are Mrs. We're de We're
or Mrs. Montmorency Rhinelander they
think they can smoke, drink, and take
morphine and libitum; and when they
reach the last degree, they are usually
: going to His Satanic Majesty at the rate Of
60 miles an hour You think this isn't
so? 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 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
year everything went merry as marriage
bell. They lived abroad, and when they
came back madame brought with her an
English maid. Soon the husband began
to notice that his wife was always late at
dinner, and on inquiry, he found out that
she invariably had a nap late in the after
noon. He thought nothing of this for
awhile, but, after a time, when she came
dazed, and as if her tongue thickened.
What was il? Brandy, my friends
The English maid had taught her to
drink exactly as English women do,
never realizing the difference in consti-
tuition and in climate. And so, from
having a small glass of brandy, she had
gotten to have a good big wineglassful.
Even the brandy did not satisfy her. She
would come in tired and want to be braced
up; take the brandy, and il was no use; so
she sent for the doctor, and told him he
must give her some morphine. Being a
good doctor, he refused this. She sent for
another, who was less scrupulous, and
who gave her large dose. This
LuLLED HER TO SLEEP
and the next day she wanted more.
Gradually she got so that she took three
or four doses day, the effect ceasing to
be quieting, but rather exciting one. and
now, well, she gives the doses to herself,
takes as many as she wants a day, is the
color of piece Of white linen, hasn't
very much sense of right and wrong and
the best thing that can happen to her is
that death will come and claim her. Now,
that's true story, and it is told not ia
show off the wickedness of anybody, but
to make some other woman stop and think
before she allows herself to get under the
influence of the two tyrants.
Please do not believe by this that wear
hibition society. / am not. regard man
as free agent that is, as free as women
will let him be, and woman as an entirely
free agent,an fully believe that a woman
can stop doing anything she wants to, that
she can have glass of wine with her din
ner without becoming fearful example
eand that she can teach her children The
use and abuse Of a glass of wine. The
worst drunkards | have ever known have
come from homes where total prohibition
was the by-word and where the boys crepi
out at night to buy glass of ginger ale
later on ons of beer, and later on one OF
whisky The descent to hadcs was at
once very quick, but very sure, after this
FREscoED AND UNFREscoED BELLIES.
The girl who rouges has gone ont and
the woman whose face is washed clean is
decidedly to the fore. Occasionally mar
has admired woman who puts dab OF
rouge on her face, cleverly and skilfully
in the evening. But the average man wht
can detect rouge on a woman's face III th,
daytime is very certain to object to it, nt
matter how much prettier il may max,
her look. A man has good taste. IL,
doesn't want to paint the lily He know.
that the bright pink is not in harmony
with her eyes and hair, and if some day
she should appear before him with COLDER
blonde hair he is certain, if he is engaged
to be married to her, to insist on her stay
lflS III bIlt uOlloc tillil lltI Hcts Dltf
to its natural color, and if he is marriet
to her, to wonder whether bleachel hai
is not cause for divorce. My dear woman
when will you understand that just a
soon as you are beginning to fade bleache'
hair makes you look about 10 years older
and face makeup adds about eight more
consequently, if you are 80, you look IS
whereas, by brushing your own hair well
washing your face clean, wearing q happ,
smile, you may look only %? The fac
that rouge is no longer fashionable will, i
Is hoped, induce young women who regar,
being in the fashion as being in paradis
to drop the rouge pot or the liquid bottle
and in their places choose good brun'
of soap and soft flannel wash cloth
Their admirers will increase by the score
because
MEN LIKE NATURAL GIRL.
They don't want her to be natural in th
sense of being weed-like, but they like +
think that her skin is her own, her hair
her own, and the larger part of her anal
omy is her own, only they forgive the us
of a little curled hair to make the anatom
look better, because, after al, they don don
know IL is there if it is well put on. Bu
they see the rouge and they see th
bleached hair, and they feel exactly as
they had before them the scarlet lad
against whom there is so much harrangt
ing.
BAB IN DEATHS PRESENCE.
Did you ever feel yourself SO close to th
gates of death that you didn't care niue
whether you went in or not2 Did it eve
-ome oyer you, when pains were very bae