The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-04
THE NEW FADS AND F0lBLES
"BAB" NOTICES THEM ONE AND ALL.
How Our Women wak-whO Arc the
Best observation-disclosures In slippers
Diamonds on One Pair--Actresses-
New Stationery, Etc.
Copyright, Book syndicate Press. ]

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! call things cometh TO her who knoweth
how to walk" and by knowing how to
/ walk, l mean to 30 out in all sorts and
| conditions of weather, and keep your eyes
! open wide, so that YOU see everything from
the shop-windows to the pretty girls. from
/ the sunshine to the clear blue sky, and
/ you can get absolutely intoxicated with
the fresh air.
Now, the material side OF knowing how
to walk is unknown to the New York
woman. When she goes in for being
stately she takes two long steps and three
short ones, and when she is in hurry she
trots. 4 woman trotting, especially II she
| is waving a muff to stop a street car, is
/ much more ridiculous than the woman
/ who is doing an amateur tohogganing
| down high stoop, and she ought to re-
| alize this, and cease her frantic rush. a
| French woman can hasten, and you are
never conscious of anything ridiculous in
her walk.
The best walkers in the country are the
Southern women, who from natural indo-
lence put the foot down with ease, and are
! taught early in life that they must land
| first on their toes, and not on their heels.
| The Western woman walks with emphasis,
as if she meant 10 get there, and, usually,
1 think she does. The Philadelphia
woman has a little bit of an inclination to
mince, and an occasional startled sir
about her, rs if she we're afraid OF being
| quick in her movements. To walk we'll,
have a comfortable shoe that fits the foot,
with me ium high heel, and always put
| the toes down first; this gives a good car
riage, throws the hips in their proper posi-
/ ton, intensifies the springy movement,
and makes the man passing by you very
! conscious of the fact that you are well
| shaped about the shoulders, and have a
! graceful curve from the waist down. 4
woman who walks well is pleasure to
! look at, and every man who knows her
feels himself honored by being seen with
! her.
The real I'm de steele is for the man of
your heart to give you not gloves, not
| flowers, not sweets. though these may all
come in due season, but slippers, Slippers
such as Cinderella wore slippers thai
glitter with buckles of gold or silver,
sometimes of precious stones, and that
| have the highest of heels and the mar
rowest and most pointed of toes. With
! them always gees wish that your feet
may 60 in pleasant places, or the slippers
come with a hope that you may walk
| through life beside him who loves you
with all the intensity of his heart. It's
very touching. But L think the
most touched girl in New York was one
who got pair OF white satin slippers,
| and on the toe of each, instead OF a buckle,
was beautiful diamond butterfly, that
might be used rs brooch or a hair Orna-
ment when it was not doing duty on the
| slipper. | consider those slippers the first
excuse have ever seen for anybody put
ting their feet on the mantel shelf; bat
the funny part of it is that the young man
believed his own darling wore No. /,
whereas, she found it difficult to get into
No. 3. She couldn't change the slippers,
for she couldn't find out where they came
from, but she bought herself pair exactly
| like them, removed the butterflies, and
dances around and over the young man s
heart with perfect unconcern.
I Another pretty pair OF slippers sent to a
fdncee were of gold brOcade, with buckles
! gitteriug with topaz. These were to be
worn at a dinner where the engagement
was announced, and the gown with them
was one of deep yellow chiffon. The man
who sent these slippers will certainly
make a good husband. for with them
came lovely yellow gauze fan on tortoise
shell sticks with a monogram wrought
| out in topaz, a pair of pale yellow gloves
that reached far up over the arm, while
very far down in the toe Of each slipper
was pale yellow silk stocking These
| all came together with the note from him,
and later in the day, without any card,
| presumably not from him, arrived a box
in which were encased pair of carriers,
one black, the other yellow, the buckles
| set with topaz, and on one was the mono
| gram of the wearer-that was on the
black garter-while on the yellow was en-
craven, Luck comes through me-" The
girl was so happy she couldn't tell whether
it came from the garter or the man who
| sent it, but OF course she knew he did,
| and she intends to thank him in the
prettiest way possible after her mar
| rage.
Everybody can't have ancestors-that is,
of course, everybody does have ancestors,
| but they are not ALWAYS particularly vain
OF them, nor anxious TO introduce them to
the public at large. Several times million
| aires may not object to having thieves,
and liars, and forgers, and men who die
on the wrong end of the rope among their
progenitors, but plain, ordinary, everyday
people have an idea that they would
rather their parents" far back should be
more or less respectable, presumab y more.
bright woman. with no blue blood to
speak of, has solved the ancestral picture
fashion in a very amusing way. She her
sell is a very beautiful woman, and she
earned her living by her needle and her
brush that is dong very fine embroidery
for various decorative societies, and by
painting menus and cards for the large
shops. A man whose riches are great and
whose blood is most cerulean fell in love
with her and made her his wife. This
family had a slight inclination TO scott,
not because she had earned her own liv-
ing-thank God, that is credit to a
woman nowadays-but because she
hadn't come Of gentle folk She never
seemed to know this-had the tact to ig-
more it in the most beautiful manner. At
her first afternoon tea the members of the
family and her intimate friends were in
vited into her own special room TO see the
pictures of, as she funnily put it, 'the
women who preceded me-" and there she
had, either in colors or photographs, the
| picture Of almost every woman who had
triumphed through her beauty. She had
| Cleopatra Catherine of Russia Lady Ham,