Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-30

Just what its name implies, a house
where honest, merry play is made for
those who look on.
THE BUSINESS woMAN's FRocK.
One of the exciting topics of the day
Is "What kind of frock shall a bust
ness woman wearPn Whenever there's
woman's convention it usually puts
Just such sort of bee as this in the
bonnets of the women who write and
it goes buzzing round in the funniest
sort of fashion. Now, l am quite willing
to acknowledge that it is criminal to be
business woman, but fail to see why
they should be put in special suits like
convicts. There never was more sensi-
BILE gown made than well fitting cloth
one, and the women who can't walk in
them had better put on trousers at once.
As for a lot of pockets all over you
Goodness, gracious it's as much as the
ordinary busy woman can do to manage
one pocket without having the greatest
number of places in which she would
carry around lot of unnecessary rub
Dish. What does she want pockets for,
any way? One good pocket to hold her
handkerchief and her purse is quite
enough, and that she should go carting
around all her correspondence or col
lection of note books and of pencils is
usually an evidence not of the amount
OF business she does but Of her lack of
business knowledge.
BUSINESS WOMEN WHO ARE TIREsoME.
The business woman who wishes to
thrust upon you that she is not gentle
woman, but puts her business before
everything else, is about as offensive q
type as has resulted in this great nine
teenth century, She speaks as ii she
paid so much apiece for words and had
an extra supply of sibilant sounds on
hand; she writes even her social letters
on business paper, and she walks as ii
the ground needed tramping upon and
she intended to do it. She regards the
women whose business in life it is to be
lovable with intense scorn, and refers to
them us idle butterflies, and as for the
woman who makes her own living in a
wothanly way, she has even more con
tempt, because she thinks she is wasting
her opportunities.
THE SMALL nov AS A CRITIC.
There is only one thing / hope about
the business woman's dress, and that is
that those who have designed the dia.
bolical get-up may wear it down Broad
way and bring delight to the soul OF the
small boy. He is the one person in the
world whom the business woman can
not scorn. She couldn't put him down
to save her soul. He rises like a rubber
ball with new piece of slang and an
impertinentsp speech that is as truthful as
it is epigrammatic. He is the concen-
trated extract of sass. Kingdoms may
rise and fall, but he 'gets there" just the
same. by his ridicule, idiotie fashions
have been downed, and by his approba-
ton and cheers, policemen have been
brought to defend the weak OCCASION
ally, he errs in his enthusiasm, but not
often and if he can only once get on to
the business WOman's dress, its doom
will be sealed. Personally, | like the
small boy. He is ut once earnest and
original, and he has great respect for
ability in any way. You may not al
together approve Of his method of ex-
pressing it; indeed, it may embarr4ss
you, but it is sincere; he is Il connoisseur
about woman's clothes and gourmet
as to hockey -pokey ice cream.
To the number Of about fifty he
greeted me the other day. stepped
out Of hanson, and, seeing that the
lining of my coat was red, he raised his
voice in this way: 500 yer catch on to
Ter paintin' ther inside Of 'er coat red n
They caught on with a whoop, and the
smallest of the tribe called out; q say,
yer a-makin' the lady blush" 1t was
an embarrassing experience, but an in
teresting one, and it showed exactly IL
what extent the small boy was capable
of using his eyes.
THE LATEST IN woMAN's WELLS.
The new wells not only show stars
and crescents here and there upon them,
hut spiders and flies The most curious
is a veritable spiders web net with one
tolerably large and three small spiders
meandering over it, The effect is more
unique than beautiful, and rather too
suggestive. If the young woman who
wears it rejolces in bleached hair and q
rather loud get-up and gives you an in
Nltatlon % pay her n visit you will Keep
thinking OF that old story about the
spider and the fly, and things suggestive
of such unpleasant incidents arc not de.
sirabe for belongings.
WOMEN WHO LIKE CREEPY Things.
The Jet snake coiled around with hi:
tail standing up in the back and hi,
head in front is conspicuous among the
bonnets of the spring, butlike the spider
lie IS little too creepy and don't seen
quite the proper thing for woman e
wear for her bonnet. Roses and flower;
of all sorts, pretty plumes and cav rib
bons are appropriate to women, ha
mankind rather shrinks from woman
given over to the worship Of strange
gods in the way Of serpents and spider.
and horrible looking beetles for which
thay reailv do seFm Ia have a daeid.F