Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-01
BAB'S AUTUMN GOSSIP.
She Tells of the Hobbies and Fads
of the Women of New York.


Wells and Mems Trousers.
Special Correspondent of Gazette and journal
New YoRK, Sept. 25.-The city is getting
full again, and, to be q little bit sangy, a
good many of the people arc so glad they
are back that they are getting full, too; at
least have never seen so many gentle
men who had evidently been seeing a
friend, as now pcrvade the streets Of New
York.
woMAN's IDEA or DRINKING.
Personally, never could imagine what
there was In standing up at bar and firing
drink down your throat, as if there were
so much to 60 in during your life time,
and that you had to hurry and get it in, or
else yon would be left. can see deal of
good fellowship in sitting down at a table
and talking about Kitty and the children,
and stocks, and how cotton is this year,
and. who is the prettiest girl in town, and
but short drink, aimed direct at the
throat of masculinity as coolly rs coal at
hole, cannot understand. Some people
say that men don't sit down and talk about
Kitty and the babies and that kind of
thing; Well, maybe they don't; but what
ever they do, it looks more sociable than
the barroom way.
WHAT WILL KEEP MEN HOME.
You know have special fad on this
subject, and when | get to yentilating it
the family usually leave the house, while
the dog whines. Not that they don't be-
lieve in it, for they fully agree with me
about it, but it has got to be an old story
with them. When home is made pleasant
women wear decent-fitting clothes, proper
drinks are given to them with their din
ners or their suppers then the men won't
go to barrooms to hunt for them. con-
slider that concentrated wisdom, tied, not
.ar hi IN nil. .ia.,t. but
with red, white and blue which is much
more patriotic and wears better
MEN CAN'T BOW GRACEFULLY.
Another thing you notice as people come
home is the queer way in which every
body bows to everybody. The average
man has about as much knowledge of
what constitutes graceful bow as a gem
tlemanly Thomas cat. His conception of
the part is to walk forward, give sort of
swirl to his body, grasp his hat off his head
and put it back with great rapidity. That
the man takes off his hat and the Thomas
cat doesn't is probably due to the fact that
the man has a hat and the gentleman who
makes melody for us in the evening
hasn't otherwise their modes of salutation
are similar.
HOW MEN AND WOMEN BOW.
A woman nine times out of ten bows
with a smile. She doesn't move her head
much, hut she seems to offer her best smile,
which has been in training all summer, and
which is now at your disposal. A man, un-
less he happens to wear eyeglasses, looks
idiotic. There is neither smile OH his face
nor recognition in his eyes. He is crea
ture who knows how to conceal his feel
ings. He may have sworn that you are
the only person he ever loved last evening,
but you meet him in the morning. and
though his boots may glitter, there is not
lI,rtaf fnl-a x,f l. l..
face, though he does take OF his hat. A
very young boy bows as if he was afraid
he were doing something wrong; he re-
members that his mother told him.
he MUST TAKE OFF HIS HAT
when he meets Mrs. Jones, and he'looks all
around to see If anybody is staring at him,
jerks it off in great hurry, and then rea'
Lies that nobody is looking, and by that
time Mrs. Jones has passed, and is pre-
pared to tell his mother what very rude
boy he is. In time he will get over this.
An old man bows as he was taught to In
his youth. He sweeps the air with his hat
nna mornns IN oS ans e Su doesn't hss gSSa f%S%
they pronounce good form out Of fashion.
Dear old heart It's pity there's not
more like him who would realize that the
way to make ladies is to behave like gentle
men to them.
YOUNG (o HEADS ON OLD SHOULDERS.
Isn't it Hamlet or some of the people in
the Bible or Shakespeare who concludes
that all the world is mad, or something to
that effect2 Well, if all the worlds not
mad. at least the greater part of the old
women in it are. They have taken, taken
violently, to the use of enamel and rouge.
They have taken, with an intensity that is
painful, to the wearing of sailor hats, and
they are too gurgly-giggly for anything in
the world. There are three who ride in
the park here every day, and they have
been riding there for several years. None
OF them is under 70 each of them must use
box of rouge and lot of white liquid on
her face every day. One Of them inclines
to a vivid green brocade, with black;
another wears shrimp pink with black
lace on 1T. while the third indulges in a
black and white brocade with a white
straw sailor hat. | used to believe in the
survival of the fittest That doesn't prove
it. Why are not those women taken out of
the, world to which they are no ornament,
and where they never would be missed if
they went to Africa with Stanley.
HAVE THEY NO KIND HEARTED FRIENDS
to tell them how they look? am not 70,
but | have never found that l lacked
friends kind enough to tell me of my mis-
doings and my general human nature, but
friends of that sort. It's pity, isn't it ?
Indeed, to do a little gossip, there's young
woman here in the city who says she gets
q diamond ring every time she tells the
shrimp and black old woman how young
looking she is. Think there's more money
made by flattery than anything else in this
world, and with the average women the
THICKER you lay it on the better she is salts
fled.
THE FAsHIoN.pIr corop rurs ,vtrrvp
What are you going to wear this winter |
You ought to appear in black. That has |
the cachet given it by the great French |
dressmaker who only two years ago said |
nobody under go should wear black, but |
who has changed his mind now, and |
thinks that he can make blonde, or even |
a brunette, look as marvelously lovely in |
black as in any other shade It is true |
that he wants glistenlng tones for the |
brunette-satin and silk that is almost US |
bright and which is heavily corded-whiie |
for the blonde he wants soft, clinging
crepe. cloths. cashmeres, henriettas, and |
occasionally dull silk and all the beautiful, |
elingng stuffs that are developed in black.
II Is said that one of the prettiest women |
in New York will this season devote her
self exclusively to the wearing of black
and white-white being for the evening
and black for the daytime. She knows
that her house gowns will permit her
wearing a great yellow topaz, that will
glow and glisten like sun on her bosom.
She knows that with her white gown cut
low, her garnet necklace will make her
skin and the gown look whittier, and if
there is any fine lace or feathers arranged
about the bodice she can stick pearl here.
a diamond there, knowing that it will
glisten effectively among her laces and
mystery films.
WOMEN WHO LOOK WELL IN BLACK.
Nine. Modjeslka looks well in all black; so
does Maude Harrison, Sadie Martinot and
Georgia Cayvan. Mrs. Langtry, with her