The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-18

say, high Medici one lined with feathers and
made heavy on the outer side with let The
sleeves reached to the elbow and were finished
with jet cuff that came over the long black
gloves as If it might be bracelet.
REALLY SMART eET-UP.
The stockings and slippers were black, and
the ornaments were diamonds. The fan was
black feather one, having its tortoiseshell sticks
inlaid with diamonds, and fastened to it was a
gold lorgnette the case OF which was also
thickly studded with diamonds. The young
woman who wore this frock gave one the curl
Gus impression OF being some sort of 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 standpoint it was thor
oughly smart get-up and had an air of individ-
uality that, while IL 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 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 dangerous
thing TO wear II it gets little to one side you
nave the most absolutely depraved air imagin-
able, and nothing ever struck me as quite so
1unny as Roman senator on the stage whose
wreath had gotten little off and who had a
great air of wishing to paint the town red in
stead of liking to drink mock wine out of prom
erty goblets. On Decoration Day they inyari-
ably put a wreath on George Washington; it in
vanably slips to one side, and then George looks
as IL he was out on terrible tear. You can be-
heye 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 We're -de-Vere fashion
THE AFFABLE WOMAN.
Somebody has been writing long article
about the affable woman. Now, il there is one
woman on the face of the earth who is to be de-
spised with seventeenth-centtry hatred, she is
the one She makes you feel while she is talk
ing TO you she is being so 1iee and so agreeable,
and SO altogether charming, 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 extin-
gulsh her. The affable woman is as far from
the agreeable woman as one poleis to the other
ana the affable woman has the effect of the
North Pole upon you. Shei is so intensely pleas
ant that you freeze and freeze until you don't
know whether you are lamp-post or a woman
The agreeable woman is simply natural woman
with tact. The affable woman is one who is
neither agreeable nor has tact, but wants to i'm
press you with her affabflity; but if you have
any sense at all, refuse to be impressed and be
as aDomlnable as you can-remind her how her
dressmaker has gone off in her fit how the
wrinkles are beginning to show on her face-do
anything in short, that will extinguish the affa-
pllity, LOT tnen you Will be serving your fellow
man. She is the sort of woman who parades
all around, dragging 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 thlnk proper, and no man, woman,
or ghost wants to be hauled around by the affa-
Die woman because she thinks she is doing her
duty and forming society. She is enough to
make anybody turn hermit. She is so inter
ested In your affairs that she forgets sometimes
and asks very impertinent questions usually
ner victims are so impressed by her manner that
they answer before they know what they are
ABOUT, and then when they get home they have
10 speDd all their money to get messenger boy
TO swear for them because of their truth-telling
An afable woman once asked me how much I
made week, and was so used to telling the
truth that gave myself away; and though five
years have gone by since that time am still
paying messenger boys so much year for saw
Ing wicked words for me, and inducing all the
men know, especially those who belong to the
artistic and Bohemian fraternity, to devoting
highly colored manner. AS YOU live. beware
OF the atfable woman; when you are dead il
doesn't much matter, though she is pretty GER
tain TO cometo your funeral and do the affable
act at that. One of them once shook hands
over the coffin of dead man, she was so clad
to see another woman!
PEOPLE BEST TO AVOID.
There are other people to beware of as we'll
as the affable woman.
Beware of the man who wants to kiss Won
because he knew your mother before she was
married.
Beware of the woman who wants to use your
name at the dressmakers.
Beware of the man who works hard ten days,
is in an il-temper all the time, and only amiable
when he is lazy.
Beware of the children who know more than
their fathers and mothers.
Beware of the books that are nasty and
stupid.
Beware of the people who tell the truth at all
times, because the truth is like sweet mutt
is sometimes better covered with sugar and
put away in bon-bon box; then let some man
with lantern go around looking for it. II
gives the man something to do and preserves
the truth
Beware of the people who are ready and will
ing to do everything for you-they are usually
the ones who wouldn't walk from here to the
corner to oblige you and who will regard you
as material doormat on which to throw off the
dust of their shoes.
Beware of the dog that never barks-he is
going to bite some day, and when he does it
VIII hurt. BAB.
What London Fog Costs.
London Daily News.
1t is almost impossible to estimate the cost to
Londoners of such fog that which spread
over great part of the metropolis Yesterday.