Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-19

ecialcorrespondeuce OF Gazette ana journal
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Nobody seems to
be anybody nowadays, unlesss She can talk
about French plays and the individuality
of French writers. Tie most curious thing
10 the present fashion in French women. |
may mention that this craze has not as yet
reached America, and that il does not meet
with favor i'll London. The French woman
who is counted adorable, who gains tie
most admiring looks as she breakfasts at
one of the fashionable restaurants APP
pears, to be exquisitely Saxon. more like a
rejuvenated corpse than anything else
can think Of In the first place, She IS as
thin as lead pencil her color is some
thing between saffron yellow and a sui
phur green; her hair is Titan red, and in
state of looseness that is possibly artistic
but suggests its falling down every minute.
Her gowns are very smart, but she is much
Y riven to wearing long, loose wraps that
ne dlscards as If she were throwing off the
outer shell and permitting the world to
look at her soul. You must not imagine
that she has any of the languor of the old
esthetic SCHOOL, dear, no, She is as ami
mated as possible, and her eyes sparkle as
if they were Goals of fire. She is the idol of
the impressionist SCHOOL, she is counted
thoroughly fin de steele. and is adored by
the morbid novelist of the day.
Is THE PARTISAN CRAZE UPON US :?
The British matron despises her-she
looks at her; shrugs her shoulders, and
then mutters in an umdertone that she
thinks "a dose of medicine had better be
administered to that young woman" but
III few hours she is surprised to find that
her own Englishmen are forsaking the
clear compilations and dimpled curves that
belong 70 the tight little isle, and going
mad over The idol of Paris. Some time
ago, at the Russian bath, ! heard very,
very thin girl, one who weighed 80 pounds,
and who was rather above the average
height, say she was coming there every
day until she lost 10 pounds, and thought
TO myself The craze of Parisis upon lis,
the worship of the angels has reached us =
For it is angels that they adore. 1t is not
Swinburnes or Rossetti's snuous women,
long and 1.-the, but instead it ig the abso-
lutely thin woman, whose bones seem to
stand out as if in defiance of dmples and
curves. What is it Are the French
people living so fast that they make the
skeleton at their feast a woman? A witty
woman, and clever woman, but, never
theless, woman who seems to have had
all health burnt out of her by the excite.
J ment of the century. Women are very
odd, but they are interesting. | heard two
talking the other day, and this was their
conversatlOn-one was blonde, the other
brunette. The blonde spoke first:
She gave polite yawn as she said
II tried my very best to be knowledge.
able about something. Everybody went
In for knowing so much, that l thought
ought to have what the woman suffrage
people call a soul above chiffons,' but
don't seem to have succeeded"
What did you do?n asked the brunette
well, of -''rse, / wanted to be original
60 / didn't
GO IN FOR THE BROWNING RACKET,
or hypnotism, or Buddhism, but thought
81 II Ntrrl.N ~.
that l would resurrect the ser. ..colon
who wrote letters to me usel
7. dashes and periods and all the people who
81 wrote books said what they had to say IN
~ what reviewer would call short crisr
sentences. read up in the old Engist
n authors, and | took to writing the most
delightful letters with beautiful semi
colons, made with curly tails. and in theii
proper places. Now, what do YOU slppost
the result was? The world at large is 81
ignorant, that snip of girl, who ha
never even been married. wrote and tolt
me that she lost the noun in the beginnin!
Of the sentence, never found the verb ant
all that she really understood in the lette
was that was trying some new fad, an,
that she didn't propose to represent til
dog p
"That wasn't very nice, answered tn
brunette; but what did you take up aftc
! that? What filled the place occupied by
the semi-colon -
The proper arrangement Of English u
she is spoke, or rather rs she should b
spoke. studied books on IT, and a MAJ
told me j spoke the finest Saxon he hn
ever heard. Somebody said this was
doubtful compliment, but think She va,
Jealous, ! devoted one entire afternoon +
explaining To very handsome fellow tina
later on was correct. | explained it i
this way. For instance, | would say, .Th
mail will come later naturally that wVul
he of time I ggt,
Later on we will have orr coffee | woul
mean naturally after series Of dishes 4
the table, rs well as a lapse OF tiine--uu
surprising the passing OF time alone, til
other sequence Of events. really loo
"a deal of trouble about this and what d
Wsou suppose that impudeRt boy djt.1
Il can almost guess responded til
Bbrunette.
L Yes answered the blonde. lie sal
NJ it woldn't be question Of later or ihtt
Won, but lie would kiss me at once, ana b
HniJed the action to the words. 50 han
4 &opped studying the English Iuuglts
A Nad lts peculiarities.
4 w. BoNNETs ARE MORE sATtsFTiNG,'
Xbe brunette.
that goes without saying but sti
1ahat must have an intellectual fiji
Ho1 took up heredity. It's immensely ii
k<*seresting to work out how the tullies m
Sins OF our ancestors come out IN u.s. al
~ how, though my father and mother ma
have been angels rs far as temper goes,
a inherited from some remote ancestor NI
used to thrash ms wife and all the So
wants when he waSn'tin pleasant hUlnD
somewhat spicy temper which kce,s II
from being nanny pamby. There's Il
here about whose birth there hts al wa
been little doubt and the dOubt
longer exists in my mind. | watched tt
movements oil her hands the other d,.
and they were exactly like that of som
body else whom she oughtn't to be lik
II is the most marvellous thing i'll the wur
how gesture, a method of speaking u
word, or peculiar look will be traI
United when no absolute resemblance /
tween parent and child exists
DUMAS WANTED LIGHT
81 can tell you story about that a
nouuced the brunette. 1.-The story v
told to me by the ceverest woman in NJ
York. She was talking about SardOu :
told me what sunny nature he had; he
perfectly happy he was, and how
seemed to see before HIM years Of 40
and the writing of his greatest play. ;
compared him with Alexandra DUN.
who is pessimistic to the last degree :
had spoken of this to sardou, and he 81
to her Don't YOU know why?
Dumas own life there has been much
tragedy; women have brought to him $,
row rather than happiness but that il i
the reason for his morbid temperance
Go back years ago. You see IA par
young man of brilliant mind, of mary
Gus industry, lie has worked in the pub
libraries to make his novels historical
correct. No publisher will take them.
has written long plays and short PLAYS
manager will produce them. He Is hung
and cold. The future looks hlaek a
\ dpSOlatp. He is fripndlass Al ingt