The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21

ian was a black feather one having Its tor
toise shell sticks inlaid with diamonds,
and fastened to it was a gold lorgnette, the
case of which was also tbickly studded
with diamonds. The young woman who
wore this frock gave one the curious i'm
preston of being some sort OF 4 crawling
creature, not exactly the serpent for she
hadn't the colors for that, but as ii she
might be first cousin TO n bat and her
wings were lost. Looked at from the
fashionable standpoint it was thor
oughly smart get-up and had an air of
individuality that, while it was marked,
was not aggressive. That's the secret of
good dressing, TO be individual without
being bizarre.
Among the old fashions coming in, bru-
nettes who are wearing their hair low
stick large white rose or a 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 q dangerous thing
to wear. If il gets a little TO one side,
you have the most absolutely depraved air
imaginable, and nothing ever struck me
as quite so funny as Roman senator on
the stage, whose wreath had gotten lit
tie of, and who had great air Of wishing
to pant the town red instead OF liking to
drink mock wine out OF property goblets.
On Decoration day they invariably put
wreath on George Washington; it invari-
ably slips to one side, and then George
looks as If he was out on terrible tear.
You can believe 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 it is arranged in strictly Nere-
de-Nere fashion.
Somebody has been writing long let
ter about the afiable woman. Now, il
there is one woman on the face of the
earth who is to be despised with q seven
teenth-century hatred, she is the one.
She makes you feel while she is talking TO
YOU she is being so nice and so agreeable,
and so altogether charming, and that she
is sure you appreciate it, that you feel as
il you would be willing 10 be blown up
yourself If can of dynamite was standing
near that could extinguish her. The atfa-
BILE woman is as far from the agreeable
woman rs one pole is 10 the other. and the
affable woman has the effect of the north
pole upon YOU. She is so intensely pleas
| ant until Won freeze and freeze until YOU
don't know whether YOU are a lamp-post
| OF 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 affability; but if you
have any sense at all refuse to be i'm
pressed and be as abominable as YOU
can-remind her how her dressmaker
has gone off in her tit, how the
wrinkles are beginning TO show on her
face-do anything, in short, that will ex-
tinguish the affability, for then you will
be serving your fellowman. She is the
sort of woman who parades all around,
dragging people up to other people on the
plea that thew ought TO know each other;
now, most of us who ought to know peO-
pie usually manage to make our desire
known to some one we think proper, and
no man, woman or ghost wants to be
hauled around by the affable woman be-
cause she thinks she is doing her duty and
forming society. She is enough TO make
anybody turn a hermit. She is so inter
| ested in your affairs that she fOrgets some
times and asks very impairment questions;
usually her 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 to spend all
their money to get messenger boy to
swear for them because of their truth
telling. An affable woman once asked me
how much / made week, and i was so
used TO telling the truth that / gave my
self away; and though five years have
gone by since that time. | am still paving
messenger boys so much year for saying
wicked words for me, and inducing all the
men l know, especially those who belong
to the artistic and Bohemian fraternity, TO
devoJing five minutes day to expressing
themselves in a highly colored manner
| As you live, beware of the affable woman :;
when YOU are dead it doesn't much mat
| ter. though she is pretty certain to come
| to your funeral and do the affable act at
| that. One of them once shook hands over
the coffin of a dead man, she was so glad
| to see another woman!
There are other people to beware of as
well as the affable woman.
Beware of the man who wants to kiss
you 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 i'll 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 aud
stupid.
Beware of the people who tell the truth
| at all times, because the truth is like a
| sweet mutt is sometimes better covered
with sugar and put away in a bon-bon
box; then let some man with a lantern
| go around looking for it. 1t gives the
men something to do, and preserves the
truth.
Beware ofthe people who are ready and
willing to do ,,erything 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 a material door
mat, 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 will hurt Bah.
HOVEY'S MESSAGE