Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-17
THE TATTLER.

There was larger and more elegant stock
Of Easter novelties carried by merchants
this year than ever before seen in this city.
The list embraces thousand and one Eas-
ter novelties, from the trifing toy chicken
and tiny speckled birds eggs to costly and
elaborate designs appropriate to the season.
Some of these novel Easter conceits are
really superb, but none of them will ever
take rank with the time-hOnored Easter
staple-the Easter bonnet Filgrees Of
gold and enamels of silver bright ribbons
and plush cabinets of dainty eggs are all
right in their way, but the Easter bonnet is
too highly priced by your wives and your
daughters, yes, and your mothers and your
grandmothers, for its supremacy as an
Easter emblem ever to be aSsailed. A gem
il is of flowers and straw, refulgent in the
light; decreed as one Of fashions laws,
man humbly bows-he's out Of sight. And
is not in it on Easter.
A small and despicable class of thieving
has been going on in this city for some
time and it will go hard with the thieves
if they are caught, as they are sure 70 be
soon. Merchants who have had the white
enameled letters placed on their plate glass
windows are often surprised TO note that
during the night some of the letters have
disappeared. The rest of the letters re-
main on the glass as solid as the ages, but
no signs Of the missing ones are to be
found. A few days later fellow will
come into the place and call attention TO
the appearance of the letters on the win
dow, and solicit the Job of supplying the
missing letters
He is probably the fellow who stole the
letters in the first place, and if he receives
an order 10 fix up the sign on the window
will replace the old letters. A second visit
is liable 10 be made by the same fellow II
he succeeds in "bilking' the merchant the
first time. The only way TO do is 10 call
upon some reputable firm for the missing
letters, thus cheating the thief and discour-
aging him in his petty roguery.
One of the most picturesque Of sights is
the young man who, a stranger in the city
and only just free from the comforts and
restraints of a happy home, begins his
career by trying TO appear as though his
new experience was an old story TO him.
He walks the crowded avenue as though
he never saw such things as a pasture lot
or a cOw-path and the nonchalance with
which he loiters about hotel or enters an
Office is so very pronounced that the truth
is proclaimed in unmiStakable tones. de
NAV be deliberately attired, his hair may be
well cut, his carriage may be all right and
he may smoke a cigar with the utmost
elegance, yet there is that indefnable
something about him which tells that he
is a beginner and so he becomes interest
ing.
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Say, look at that woman using the
wrong end of her opera glasses for mir
ror," said theatre usher at matinee a
few days ago. did you ever notice how
differently a woman conducts herself at the
theatre from a man. A woman can have
more fun with pair of glasses than man
could with a whole theatre, company in
cluded. In the first place if she has pretty
hands and rings, she gets ten minutes OF
enjoyment getting the opera glasses out OF
their case. A man never thinks of using
glasses until the curtain rises Well, after
a woman gets through showing of her
hands and rings she turns the glasses
around and uses the lenses in the big end
for mirrors. She don't care much who no
tees her doing it.
"A woman comes to the theater to look
swell as well as TO see the show and she's
satisfied that she looks all right before she
leaves home Its just merely a satisfaction
10 her TO look at herself in the wrong end Of
-her glasses. Ii isn't because she thinks
there any thing wrong. Then after that
the woman begins and takes in all the hats
in the house and as much of the dresses as
she can see. Some men look around the
house with their glasses occasionally, but
they amt looking for dresses. It's on opera
nights when dresses are down below par, so
20 speak Whenever a woman recognizes
an acquaintance through her glasses she
bows and smiles and smiles and is just as
animated and delighted as though sne had
shaken hands with an old sweetheart
Everybody within six seats Of her knows
that she knows some one across the house.
Then when woman leaves the theater
she carries her opera glasses in her hand all
the way home and every body she meets
knows she's been 10 the theater. The
theater without opera glasses TO a woman
80 ffly, a., arc-o cer,ar,t without a ring -