Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-22

tiic OVulCt was u uThpeu one eiuDOTdtBly
covered with jet. II was cut out in Y
fashion, and had the latest novelty in
collars upon it-that is to say, a high
Medici one lined with feathers and
made heavy on the outer side with Jet.
The sleeves reached TO the elbow and
were finished with a jet cuff that came
over the long black gloves as if it might
be bracelet.
A REALLY SMART GET-UP.
The stockings and slippers were black
and the ornaments were diamonds. The
fan was black feather one having its
tortoise she'll sticks inlaid with dia-
monds, and fastened TO it was gold
lorgnette, the case Of which was also
thickly studded with diamonds. The
young woman who wore this frock
gave one the curious impression of being
some sort of a crawling creature, not
exactly the serpent, for she hadn't the
colors for that, but as if she might be
first cousin to bat and her wings were
lost, Looked at from the fashionable
it was a thoroughly smart
get-up and had an air Of individuality
that, while it was marked, was not ag-
gressive. That's the secret Of good
dressing, to be individual without being
bizarre.
THE wREATHs OF OUR GRANDMoTHERs.
Among the old fashions coming in,
brunettes who are wearing their hair
low stick to a large white rose or
white camellia in one side, and women
whose faces are young enough wear the
wreath Of roses that our grandmothers
used TO sing about. A wreath, however,
is a dangerous thing to wear. If it gets
a little 10 one side, you have the most
deprayed air imaginable, and
nothing ever struck me as quite so
funny as Roman senator on the stage
whose wreath had gotten little off,
and Who had great air of wishing to
paint the town red instead of liking to
drink mock wine out of property
goblets. On Decoration Day they in
put wreath on George Wash
ington; it invariably slips TO one side,
and then George looks as if he was out
on terrible tear You can believe any
Of the little stories you have heard
about the Father Of your country. and
you can feel that if he couldn't tell
lie the chances were that there were lots
Of other gay things he could do So in
putting on your wreath see that il is
arranged in strictly Vere-de-Vere
THE AFFABLE WOMAN.
Somebody has been writing a long
article about the affable woman. Now,
if there is one woman on the face Of
the earth who is to be despised with a
eyenteenth-century hatred, she is the
one. She makes You feel while she is
talking TO you she is being so nice and
so agreeable, and so altogether charm
ing, and that she is sure you appreciate
it, that you feel as if you would be
willing to be blown up yourself if can
of dynamite was standing near that
could extinguish her. The affable
woman is as far from the agreeable
woman as one pole to the other, and the
woman has the effect Of the
North Pole upon you. She is SO in
tensely pleasant that you freeze and
freeze until you don't know whether
you are lamp-post or woman. The
agreeable woman is simply natural
woman with tact The atfable woman
is one who is neither agreeable nor has
tact, but wants to impress you with her
tllllhlllN1s LUZ IL YOU nave any stllGt at
all, refuse to be impressed and be as
abominable as you can-remind her
how her dressmaker has gone off in
her fit, how the wrinkles are be-
ginning to show on her face-do
in short, that will extinguish
the affability, for then you will be sery-
ing your fellow.man. She is the sort of
woman who parades all around, drag
cling people up to other people on the
plea that they ought to know each
other; now, most Of us who ought to
know people usually manage to make
our desire known to some one we think
proper, and no man, woman, or ghost
wants to be hauled around by the affable
woman because she thinks she is doing
her duty and forming society, She is
enough to make anybody turn hermit.
She is 50 interested in your affairs that
she forgets sometimes and asks very i'm
pertinent questions; usually her victims
are 50 impressed by her manner that
they answer before they know what
they are about, and then when they get
home they have to spend all their money
70 get Il messenger boy to swear for
them because Of their truth-telling
An atfable woman once asked me
now MUCH MADE A WEEK,
and was SO used to telling the truth
that l gave myself away; and though
five years have gone by since that time,
am still paying messenger bows 81
much year for saying wicked words
for me, and inducing all the men |
know, especially those who belong 10
the artistic and Bohemian fraternity, to
devoting five minutes day to express
ing themselves in a highly eolored man
ner As you live, beware Of the atfable
woman; when YOU are dead it doesn't
much matter, though she is pretty GER
tain to come to your funeral and do tile
aifable act at that. one Of them once
shook hands over the coffin ~ n dead