Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-27
FEMININE.
THR BLONDE AND BRUNETTE DISCUSS PEOPLE
WHO KNOW
And People Who Don't Know How TO Wear Clothes
Her First Balloi-Ihe Finery Worth
Makes for the Queen Of Ialy.


You know I went 10 see the first night
Of AristOcracy;the programme is divided
M into the American AriStocracy'
the European Aristocracy' and the
Newly Rich family from San Fran
cisco. II ought to be great matinee
play because there are so many good
looking men In it. But what / was
going to say about them is this: Fun
nily enough the men who represented
the European ariStocracy, although
thew were all more or less villains,
wore their clothes with an easy air
that did not come TO any Of the rest. l
don't know how this happened, but
do know that the easy wearing OF
clothes seems the most difficult thing
for an American man TO do. An Ameri-
can woman is as much at her ease In
presentation frOck as she is In q tea
gown, and in this same play Blanche
Walsh looked as if she had the blood Of
All the We're de Veres in her as she
walked 10, dressed as she had been to
make her bow before the Queen, and
she was as perfectly at ease as il such
frocks were a matter Of everyday oc-
currence TO her"
81 can't explain II, said the brunette.
"You know I think the great charm OF
John Drew is his entire unconscious
ness and the ease with which he wears
his clothes, though, Of course, when
you come 70 that perfect ability to be
easy on the stage, to be perfectly we'll
dressed, to dominate everything and
vet be doing nothing, there is nobody
who compares with Charles COghlan;
be is most beautifully unconscious OF
anything except the part he is playing,
as 10 real life people are not bothered
70 death with their hands or their feet
neither is be in the make-belleye life"
That's true, f." said the blonde, "but
did YOU ever notice that the average
comedian in q dress suit looks like an
usher at funeral2 Does he think that
smiles and fine linen and broadcloth do
not 60 tOgether2 1 don't consider
Sothern q comedian In the ordinary
sense OF the word, because / think he
can do infinitely better work, so, after
excepting him, / must say that l don't
know a single comedian who looks
we'll purely and simply as gentleman.
It's a character that most OF them fail
to comprehend"
'sBut, my dear girl" said the bru-
nette, "do you know that you are absO-
lutely getting sarcastic? Is your tea TOO
strong?"
mo" answered the blonde, "the tea
Is very good, and II you will think over
the plays you have seen you will find
that am right. Fritz Williams, at the
Lyceum, always looks well in his
clothes, and, of course, there are excep-
tiOns, but men like Nat Goodwin and
the enormous number ranking about the
same look self-cOnscious and awkward
when they are we'll dressed. II had a
son I should buy him a dress suit when
he was Is and make him wear IL TO din
ner every night. he should do honor
TO his mother, and in paying her mis-
t7ih7tS he would learn to be at eS,,s and
-sae . yes2eetiul appearance to The
rest OF Womankihu.
There are some Others" said the
brunette, "who are easy in their be-
longings. There's Dixey. l don't think
be has a good tailor, but still he wears
his clothes well. Barrymore always re-
minds me of Southern man-supreme-
" unconscious of his clothes, aud yet
looking the gentleman in whatever be
has on Herbert Kelley suggests a
fashion plate, but then he is correct,
while Ed Bell and Joe Holland always
look at ease. Don't you remember
Tearle? What love be wasl My dear.
/ used to spend al my pocket money 60
ing to matinees to see him, and although
I knew / was only one among thou
sands, and I heard he had wife whom
be adOred, still he was always so de-
lightful that I didn't in the least mind,
and quite fOrgave all the rest OF the wO-
men. lie always looked as il his clothes
grew on him like bis skin. I'll tell you
where 10 comes in, and why the men on
the other side OF the water wear their
dress clothes easier than our men do.
Dress clothes are never novelty 70
them, but are simply the things they
put on in the evening. OF cOurae they
rest man just as much as changing
gown rests a woman, and between you
and me think they make him better
man; his manners are apt 70 be better.
Nobody but fool, " positively spoke
the blonde, "denies the influence OF
clothes. The best perfume for a man
Is that Of intense cleanliness. The I'm
est jewelry is not seen, and the perfec-
tion Of a scarf is one that is never no
ticed. Why, one night at DelnOnico's
saw a fellow who had on pink bro
caded Waistcoat and a broad, white
satin stock The information was
scarcely needed that the young mans
father had made a fortune In stage
because even one generation
OF education would have taught that
boy to leave satin and Orocade to his
sSter,"
shs was a time, unused the
hen men wore laces, bro
elvets, and were manly"
always doubted that" re-
londe. 1T has always seemed
we're more diplomatic than
rhey were always mixed up In
rows. and It has always ap-
possible for q man with lace
10 listen to the gossip Of women,
enI.,n with linen cuffs wouldn't be
0the ed with them. One luxury l do
permf Il a nan, and that is fur-lined
coat remember not q fur-trimmed one,
but bne lined throughout with skins.
They are somehow suggestive OF the
mighty hunter, and for that reason are
HARMONIOUS.
my dear" asked the brunette, 81
wonder II men Know how women criti-
else their clothes3 II they know how
they abhOr trousers that are too much
creased, scarfs that are badly tied,
handkercheiis that are not fine lawn,
shirts that do not it we'll and are not
we'll lsundried, and coats that look as
If they might have been made for any
man and just happened to fall on this
one? / know 3 girl that refused to