The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-22
NEW York. Nov. is. 1891.

q a home day still with the high and
mighty. as it was in the times when the an
eestors of some of them kept turkeys for
sale. Fashion respects the sanctity OF the
family dinner, and this | call the best
mart: but in several minor details there
have been changes.
The man of fashion, TO judge by appear
ances, views the holiday with considerable
favor. There are fewer men IN the clubs on
thanksgiving than on any other day IN
lie year, except Christmas. The bachelor
4 the upper ten usually eats his turkey
!. Nh the family in whose house he is most
aihome. Married people in the 400 look
outcarefully for the interests Of these lone
sone fellows, and almost all of them who
have no available homes but their bachelor
chambers receive invitations for Thanks
giving day.
There is an exodus from town on
Wednesday evening. A great many OF
the men are going to the hunt clubs at
Orange, y. j., Hampstead, L. l., West
chester, Staten Island or Cedarhurst.
There Is a run" early Thursday morning
in which some of the ladies participate.
Those who do not viii join the party on
its return about 9 O'Clock, and all will sit
down TO a hearty hunt breakfast. After
breakfast the members of the party ride,
drive, firt, or do anything else which
seems 10 them q proper observance of the
day. A good deal depends on the
weather It may be warm enough
10 play tennis or cold enough to go
skating, though this happens but rarely.
The small company of the faithful goes to
church. for which occasion the swell lays
ssidehis gorgeous hunting and dons his
BeEfashioned Prince Albert, his bell
roEned high hat and the rest of it. 1t is
not . church day. and here, perhaps, the
reader will disagree with me in my opin-
lon that the best part of the observance
has been retained. But / hasten to ex-
PLAIN that the tendency to stay away from
religious worship is not confined to this
particular occasion and should not be dis
cussed in connection with the holiday of
turkeys. but rather in a general way by
those who are competent to deal with SO
intricate problem.
But soon the interest of almost every-
body in fashionable circles centers in the
real event of the day--the football match.
This is now at the top notch of good form.
The football is the only real rival of the
turkey, and that celebrated bird must
hang on hard or he will be rushed" off
the roost.
For five years the game has gained
steadily in favor with society, and the
turnout of the little tin gods next Thurs
day, If the weather is even endurable.
will certainly surpass anything that was
ever seen hereabouts. The young man,
and especially he whose fad is horses,
finds in this day his greatest tri-
umph. The coach is the thing. and
he who loads his with the prettiest and
most stylish girls wins fame that lasts a
year. He invites his chaperone and she
invites the girls, but you may be sure that
he does not let them be selected without
special reference to their ornamental Quail
lilies. He himself invites the men, looks
out Tor the lunch, which is elaborate and
costly, and In general way superintends
the business end of the affair.
Everybody in the city and most of the
suburban people will attend the match this
year. Ii will be easy of access and society
congratulates itself. Last year, when the
game was III remote corner of Brooklyn,
way 7ostcts people VINO were out OF town
Tor Wednesday evening were, many of
them, compelled 10 torego the delight of
looking at each other while Yale stood
Princeton on its head The Manhattan
grounds, at One hundred and fifty-fifth
street and Eighth avenue, will be far more
accessible, and the turnout will be proper
tionately grand
But it's fine sight. Almost every
coach IN the city and suburbs will be there.
ihe girls will wear stunning hats and
long uisters, with great display of wraps
81 all kinds The Yale girls will wear
huge lunches of violets. and somebody
VIII go broke" in paying for them. Har-
sard viii get out of 1t cheaper on red car
nations Princeton girls will wear the
fashionable flower, the chrysanthemum.
Then the girls will all have NUTS, and
most OF them will lie loaded. / hate to give
them away. but must tell the facts. The
loaded mutt has a little flask of whisky in
sae II, and when YOU see a girl in a mo-
nent OF tapparentl great excitement, press
per mutt 10 her face and throw her head
back with wild abandon. il isn't tribute
20 somebody's fine play on the deid: she's
.Aklng little nip of whisky to drive out