Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11

| cises as youngsters less highly born enjoy,
is not conducive to the most perfect bios
soming of womanhood. Nor are balls, be-
| ginning well along toward midnight, and
late suppers calculated to keep the stomach
and liver in good order. Without first
rate digestion and properinternal economy
otherwise, beauty is not Besides, it has been
truthfully remarked that wine-drinking in
the smart set is shockingly prevalent among
women, even with those who are unmarried
and should be restrained from going beyond
. sip or two of champagne.
Here is true story in point: A young
girl of not more than %, while on a yacht
ing party one day last summer. took per-
ceptibly too much to drink. Everybody
supposed that it was an unfortunate acci-
dent But during the subsequent winter,
at ball given in private house, similar
misadventure happened to her, her condi-
tion being such that two young men, who
had been on the yachting party aforesaid,
were obliged to hide her away upstairs,
taking turns at guarding her, SO that she
should not escape and make an exhibition
of herself OF course, however, the story
got around.
Too Much Champagne Flows.
There is champagne at dinner parties,
champagne at balls, champagne on the lawn
companied by other tempting drinkables,
with which the young women are piled by
beaux who have more than commonly taken
more OF the same than was good for them.
Any observant person who will take notice
OF the fashionable women on coaches at the
races or on festive occasions at Newport
will remark that they quite usually exhibit
symptoms of having partaken too freely
from the bottles that are kept continually
popping. What wonder that young married
women have frequently to powder their
noses.
Do women dress to please the men or to
is a much-mooted question, and probably 1t
will never be decided. Presumably it Is
somewhat of both. General condemnation
will not kill fashion. The men all laughed
the "Grecian bend' to scorn, but the style
ran its course. Thev made unlimited fun of
the ugly masses of Zulu hair called "chig-
mons" which women fastened on their heads
q while ago, but they held their own.
Bustles, likewise. notwithstanding the ridi-
cule of the comic papers, and similarly with
the new tangled suspenders for females
But, though men may make fun of women's
fashions in the abstract, they encourage
them in the concrete. Is not every man par
ticular and even anxious that his woman
kind shall be dressed according to the fash
ion?
Stockings the Fair Ones Wear
A great manufacturer of women's stock
ings told the writer that these articles of
apparel were sold now in the same sizes as
hitherto. Without going further into the
discussion of so delicate subject the infer
ence to be drawn may be left to the reader.
1t is stated, and probably with truth, that
the average American girl of to-day is taller
than 20 years ago; furthermore, that the
girls of the Eastern States are bigger than
those of the West, so that one often sees
them looking down upon their partners in |
the dance. After all there need be no hesi-
tation felt in speaking of the clothing for |
the neither female limbs, even though it |
were of garters, inasmuch as women are no |
longer ashamed of having legs. Do not the !
new-fashioned gowns exhibit them almost |
as plainly as if the wearers had on tights?
There has been revolution in thinking |
as to this point within the last generation,
and grandmothers nowadays vainly try to
convince their granddaughters that they |
should always sit with their feet close |
together on the floor, SO as TO convey an i'm
preston that they are bailt solid from the |
ground up, like the ladies of Noah's family |
who come in toy arka
When the fn-de-siecle American girl sits
down at the table, she eats hearty meal,
not being ashamed to have an appetite, like
Lord Dundreary's young lady, who ate
nothing to speak of in public and gorged
herself in private. This is another matter
N which ideas formerly accepted have been
,verthrown. If the Yankee young woman
has grown one inch in bust measure in the
aat ten years and over an inch around the
hips, to what proportions will she have at |
aimed a century hence, her feet becoming |
teadily more sensible in size and her hands |
mailer? RENE BACHE