Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-29
IN A GIRLS BOUDOIR.
"Bab" Pictures the Dainty Temple
of a Fashionable Belle.


What There is In it--Gloomy by Day Bu
Radiant by Night--A Crystal Well o.
Hope Magic From BAH of Glass
Man Solves woman's Mystery--A
Chapter ON the Language of the Hand
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and Journa
New York, Jan. 23.-If you happen
| to be the chum of fashionable Cir
you will have an opportunity 10 visit
her boudoir. At the first glance you
will conclude that you are in temple
and so You area temple dedicated ia
the worship Of the beautiful. Although
when the nighttime comes she has
plenty of light TO see just how TO make
her toilette, in the day time agloom per-
yades that apartment that suggests not
a religious darkness, for you are certain
to stumble over the stools, but q dark
ness that has tendency to increase tho
violence of your temper and the YER
satility of your language.
A FASHIONABLE GfRL's BouDoIR.
The room that has come the nearest
to the swell girls idea of what her tenn
pie should be has dull purplish look
ing carpet on the floor and couches, low
stools and cushions galore all about the
room. The cushions are heavily en-
brGidered in gold with most mystic
looking figures that may be construed
as either Egyptian, Hebrew or Chaldaic;
but anyhow you are not supposed TO
know what they are. The curtains are
curious black ones embroidered in gold,
allowed to fall and keep ont the light of
day. The dressing table, which looks
like an altar, has curious old altar
cloth for its cover, and a priests vest
ment, bought at some auction sale, for
the drapery in front. The mirror is
framed in silver, and under It are tiny
hanging lamps that look exactly like
the lkons that the devout Russian puts
under the picture Of saints. All the
toilet paraphernalia is spread ont, and
just in front is a low stool, upholstered
in black and gold, upon which the fair
mistress may sit while her assistant at
mysterious rites brushes her hair Bel
shazzar-likr, there is handwriting on
the wall; only in this instance the mot
toes are those Of encouragement, the one
Just over the toilet table reading, Get
patience, sweet maid, il thou wouldst
be lovely"
II is rather d spooky room, and the
visitor therein has sort of feeling that
she had better not speak above wills.
per, and that materialzed ghosts arc
likely 10 appear ut any moment. Ona
low shelf near one of the couches is q
collection of books on '.Woman,n how
70 increase her beauty, how to make her
attractive, her faults, her virtues, her
tiny vices and her large ones
ppysa,If typTT f,F tIppIs
In this temple her ladyship must con
cenlrate her ideas. 70 do this she re-
quires one thing, and that is her crystal,
and this stands in purple velvet case
on the table, When she comes in she
calls her mald, whose French name abe
has twisted into lras, and bids her
Bring me the well of hope 1t is
brought, and she begins to look in it;
she drives every thought ont Of her
mind until it is an absolute vacancy, and
then She declares that whatever thought
She wishes will come to her. ! am a
tolerably orthodox person, never having
had any tendency to spiritual, ~, pess
imisn, agnosticism, or tleuspphy, but
being filled with optimism, which take
TO be the religion Of hope; but, being a
woman, thought | would like to try it
and see what the crystal would do for
me- Acting upon the advice of my
friend, thought nothing,
LUST LOOKED INTO THAT CLEAR BALL;
then, after had looked for a while, it
daWned on me that | had looked once
before in a ball, but that | couldn't tell
where it was. stopped looking and
said this, and was advised to think Of
that, of that alone, and would see il in
the ball. | looked and looked intently,
! thought and thought with desperation;
staring in that great globe, seemed to
see a beautiful large room, room full
~ pictures and with cabinets in the
centre, III which were lovely porcelains
and great number Of the crystal balls. |
saw tender, slender, scholarly man,
and beside him a small, dclcate-lo looking |
girl with braids Of yellow hair down |
her back, who held in her hand a
crystal. 10 her the man said, "No, that
was made in the east thousands Of years
ago; they cant make them here and |
then knew who It was. | knew that |
was the little girl, and remembered
where | had first looked into the |
crystals, first wondered about them, and |
who at first told me the story.
WHERE MANS MIND Is SUPERIOR.
The explanations Well, my friend
that it was magic, but somehow
ever since | had my fortune told /
haven't believed in magic, so | went |
where always 90 when in trouble-to |
a man. asked him tocXplain tito me,
and he said, "What do Won remember