St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-27
WHERE ARE THE MEN?
WE'LL eRG 0MsD GIRLS PIE FCE
! THEIR APPRECIATED sGe5ETY.
GONE FROM THEIR H.UNrs.

Gotham's Gilded Youths Are Now
= to be Found on the Casino
Roof Garden WhiIeTheirsisters
Drive Their Smart Dog Carts
Alone-Who Is the Man Who
+ Has No Social Duties2
! New YORK. Aug. 25.-All the water
Ing p,ac ale making the same com
plaiDt-no men. This fact is very gall
Ing to pretty, well-groomed girls of
good family and social advantages-and
it is also rather humiliating 10 these in
comparable young ladies to have the
fact duly chronicled in every paper that
they chance to pick up. If you have
got left, you don't want every one to
know it.
There is only one conclusion TO be
drawn from the fact of their lamented
absence at the pleasure baunts. They
must have found "metal more attract
ive'' elsewhere. That elsewhere" Ill
most cases happens to be New 1ork.
Yes, the fastidious, gilded youth OF
Gotham prefers overpowering heat, hu-
midity, tawdry Broadway, crowded,
pushing, iostling existence in New York
to ozone, rural scenery. daintilv dressed
women, bathing, driving and flirting at
Newport.
The gilded youth is therefore to be
seen on the Casino roof garden, while
his sisters drive their smart dog carts at
Newport. Whether the man who has
no social duties is happier than the man
who has, is question which has often
been decided III favor of the latter, and
certainly the man who amuses himself
in town when 1t is deserted 10y the
smart set, has no social duties for a
brief spell. According to tradition,
during this "Out Of the season" period.
the society man whiles away the golden
hours with some brace or so of ftlppant
soubrettes, who waste any amount OF
champagne over The embroidered cuSf-
ions of his bachelor apartments, read
his private letters, laugh at his treas
ured photographs, and make fun OF his
fiancee. According 10 tradition, The
SOu6rette is always painted and vulgar,
horrible little compound of cheek and
business. According to tradition, THIS
forbidden fruit is the perquislte for "the
is out, and ii is always of poisonous
nature.
Poor soubrette. Tradition fiourishes
even at the end of the nineteenth cent
ury-and such slaves as we are to 1t,
that no one seems TO take the new, but
soEctimes true. departure, as repre-
senling the society woman as the paint
ed doll, and the gilded youth as one %hO
seeks, among the workers, for that re-
freshing quality, originality.
The fashions ale ugly. The great
thing Is to have style" This is not
always easy to acquire. just now 1t
consists partly in a stiffness OF get-up
which from truly artistic point of
view no one can admire. In the first
place, all the lines of the skirt are
straight, In face of the fact curved
is the line of beauty."We have straight.
stiff accordion pleatiDg used in every
way. L have nothing TO say against ac-
Gordon pleating in the right materials,
and in the right places. but when il is
made of stuff that gives it the appear
ance of sheet iron, bent, then | cannot
recommend il.
For evening gowns il is inimitable in
materials, such as crepe. silk, chiffon,
and IN shaded velvet it is charming, all
theSs materials being soft and flexible.
In place of the band of frill set on the
skirt some six or seven inches below
the waist band, Rcdfern, who is quite
alone in his styles, and quick 10 depart
from anything that other houses have
taken up, is handsomely braiding aud
embroidering the tops of his gowns,
mean, of course. the skirt portion.
Rediern. of London, has just COM
pleted very chic costume for the
Duchess of York, who was forced to go
into morning suddenly on account of
the death of Princess Amelie. the Coun-
tess Won lIugel. sister of the Duke of
Ieck. This gown was made with three
box pleats at the back. which Redfern
mentions as ii very new aud tailor-made
style.