The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
SOME FADS AND FOIBLES.
"BAs's" GOSSIP OF The METROPOLIS
What the Women Are Running To-Ths
Latest bracelet - New Gowns and
s'Get-Ups"-The Affabie Lady
People Best TO Avoid

New YORK, Jan. 16.-[Copyrighted. III
you saw the smart girl OF the period on the
street just at present in New York,
you would say she had cut her hair,
and YOU would be properly indg-
nant with her for doing this; but she
hasn't. Shei simply like the children,
she is making believe. Instead of that
she has taken her back hair, curled the
ends of it, tied it with ribbon, and has it
pinned up in such way, such an insid-
iuous way, that she has managed to fool
you Just as she has a good many other
people. If there is one thing in this world
that a man objects to it is a woman hav-
ing short hair, and must confess that 1
agree with him about this; but when she
can gain the rather youthful effect with
out having her locks, like SIMPSONS, sac
rifced, then she is TO be applauded. The
woman who can gain the effect without
breaking any Of the bylaws Of femininity
is the woman who is going to get along in
the world.
No end of fashionable girls are having
their band bracelets taken apart and the
jewels SIT in gold tillets for the head. But
the other girl, who doesn't propose TO sac
rifice her ieweled bands to popular fan
CIV, is calmly and cOmpacenty enough
wearing those OF limitations. In reality,
paste is always to be deplored, but when
it comes to setting real diamonds, real
rubies or emeralds in flat band OF gold
that is in vogue today and may be for
gotten tomorrow, nobody can deny that
| the woman who wears the imitation is
for once in her life wise.
To be thoroughly in the fashion, as far
as jewelry is concerned, you must cover
the third and little fingers of each hand
with as many gems as you possess, or rs
will reach up to the knuckle. We are
nothing if not Egyptian, and as the gentle
| Cleopatra and her numerous girl friends,
who are now interesting mummies in the
British Museum, had their hands deco
rated in this fashion, 1t becomes necessary
that we should do likewise. The butter
fly with which Cleopatra's drapery was
fastened is being inflated in many colors
and made to form a broad Rirdle. The ef-
| feet is really extremely picturesque.
Did it ever occur TO you that while
they wore the sacred bird and the sacred
| flower on their heads in Egypt, there
seems to be no record OF hats? Did they
| 90 out in the burning sun and never
wear any hats, or did they stay at home
all the time, and have everything
come to them? And will you please tell
me how Cleopatra's could have been a
| JOYOUS life, unless she had new Easter
bonnet? To be sure, Easter wasn't in
vogue then, but there must have been
something that corresponded TO it. [ am
| sure Eve made bonnet of violets, and
tied it on with ribbon grass that was in
perfect harmony with her fig leaves
| and the delicate ferns that formed the
fringe on the edge OF them. 1t has always
| seemed to me that Eve was a woman OF
more or less good taste, else she wouldn't
! have chosen the fig leaf shade for her first
gown, unless she had been sure 1t was
| suited to her skin and eyes. The study of
Egyptology is like the measles, you never
| know how it is going to end. 1t has
forced me back through centuries of wo-
men to Eve, and at present | am looking
| for the most accurate account OF the
woman before Eve. Lilith.
1t would seem as if in the glorious DAYS
of the past II believe that is the proper
way to speak OF them that womankind
was given to express itself; repression was
an unknown thing. If you disliked any
body YOU had them thrown in the river,
or poisoned, or stabbed; and If you liked
anybody, YOU adorned them with the
wealth of the world. People about whom
YOU didn't care a sou you simply let get
along as best they could, and political
economy and the labor question were
things that troubled nobody. ] think
that would have been the most COM
Portable time to have lived. Woman.
| good, bad, or Indifferent, seemed to run
everything and Caesars and Mark Antonys
were living around loose waiting to be
| trod upou.
We have changed all that now; the av-
| erage man goes to an evening affair,
| gobbles up all the terrapin and cham
payne he can reach, brings a woman a
| piece of pink ice cream and a glass of
claret cup that tastes like castor oil and
shoe polish and lemons mixed together,
! and then wonders that she isn't salts
| fed, and he says American women de-
mand too much. would like to see him
help an English girl to her supper. She
would eat right straight through the
menu, never let him get mouthful,
force him to cut up her bird for her, and
then. if he mopped his fevered brow, she
would say she was afraid young Jones had
| been drinking a little too much, when,
| perhaps, the truth of it was young Jones
| had been working too hard. The average
man here has gotten an idea that the av-
erage woman doesn't want anything to
eat, that her delicate appetite is one OF
her charms; but the sooner he gets that
notion out of his head, the more certain
will he be to see good-looking women,
healthy women and happy women.
So-called high living agrees with women
! much better than it does with men. 1t
makes women BEAUTIFUL, and il makes men
beasts That sounds little harsh, but /
regret to say it is true, for man who is a
slave to his stomach, who is Incorporate
in what he eats, is much less agreeable
than the man who is Incorporate in what
he drinks For the last takes various
| phases, and the first takes but one, dys-
pepsia. If you have ever had a man about
you who has had dyspepsia, YOU will not
only believe in a personal devil, but in
fire and sulphur and everything that the
PRESBYTERIAN church teaches Only min
isteriDg angels can satisfy him, and the
only thing for him to do is to get himself
to a sanitarium and let the doctors inOcu.
late him with deadly poison, for he is. a
blot on the face of the earth.
The new evening dresses are all in cloth.
1t can not be denied that they have the
virtue of originality, and then, too, the
slight train falls gracefully, the figure
shows TO good advantage, and a softratheI
than a glazing or starry effect, such as is
apt TO be produced by silk or brocades, is
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