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

hair, and you would be properly indignant with
her for doing this but she hasn't She is simply
like the Children she is making believe. In
stead of that she has taken her back hair, curled
the ends of it, ticd it with ribbon, and has it
pinned up in such way, such an insidous way,
that she has managed to fool you just as she has
a good many other people. If thereis one thing
in this world that man objects to it is a woman
having short hair, and l must confess that l
agree with him about this but when she can
gain the rather youthful effect without having
her locks, like Samson's, sacrificed, 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.
THE LATEST BRACELET FAD.
No end of fashionable girls are having their
band bracelets taken apart and the jewels set in
gold fillets for the head. But the other girl,
who doesn't propose to sacrifice her ieweled
bands to popular fancy, is calmly and CON-
placently 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 fiat band of gold that is
in vogue to-day and may be forgotten to-mor-
row, 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 jew
elry is concerned, you must cover the third and
little fingers of each hand with as many gems
as you possess, or as 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 decorated
in this fashion, it becomes necessary that we
should do likewise. The butterfly with which
Cleopatras drapery was fastened is being imi-
tated in many colors and made to form broad
grille The effect is really extremely pictur-
esque.
WHERE EVE AND CLEOPATRA DIFFERED
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 go 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 joyous life unless she had a
new Easter bonnet? To be sure, Easter wasn't
in vogue then, but there must have been some
thing that corresponded to it, l 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 must have been a woman
of more or less good taste, else she wouldn't
have chosen the ig-leaf shade for her first
gown unless she had been sure it 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 women to Eve, and at present am
looking for the most accurate account of the
woman before EVe-Lilith
WHEN WOMEN TRoD ON MEN.
1t would seem if In the glorious days of
the past Il believe that is the proper way to
speak of them) that womankind was given to
expressing itself; repression was an unknown
thing. Ii you disliked anybody 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 don't care 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 comfortable time to have lived. Women,
good, bad, or indifferent, seemed to run every
thing, and Caesars and Mark Antonys were living
around loose waiting to be trod on.
is THE MODERN MAN oBLIGING?
We have changed all that now; the average
man goes to an evening affair, gobbles up all
the terrapin and champagne he can reach,
brings 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 he wonders that she isn't satisfied and he
says American women demand 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 mouth
ful, 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 drink
ing 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 average 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.
WOMEN AND HIGH LIVING.
Socalled high living agrees with women much
better than it does with men. 1t makes women
beautiful and it makes men beasts. That sounds
little harsh but regret to say it is true. for
man who is slave to his stomach, who is in
able than the man who isintemperate in what he
drinks For the last takes various phases and
the first takes but one, dyspepsia. If you have
ever had man about you who has had dvspen
sia you will not only believe in a personal devil
but In fire and sulphur and everything that the
Presbyterian Church teaches. Only ministeripg
angels can satisfy him, and the only thing for
him to do is to get himself to a sanitarium and
let the doctors inoculate him with deadly poi
son, for he is blot on the face of the earth
THE NEW SWELL EVENING GOWNS
The new evening dresses are all in cloth. 1t
cannot be denied that they have the virtue of
originality, and then, too, the slight train falls
gracefully, the figure shows to good advantage
and soft rather than glaring or starry effect
such as is apt to be produced by silks or bro
eades, is produced One of the smartest worn
here was at a New Years Eve party, one where
everybody blotted out go and greeted '9l with
"a cold bottle and another one," and as if it