Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01

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Special Correspondence of Gazette and journal
NEW York, Feb. 25.-There is moth
ing going on just now, except teas and
sewing circles; and at both of them con-
versation becomes chatter, and there is
nothing SO high or so low about which
lovely woman cannot give her opinion.
At the smartest of the sewing classes,
which meets at different houses, there is
luncheon served from the sideboard,
and the workers are expected not only
to bring busy fingers, but good appe-
tite. For, although the good things to
eat are not spread out on table, still
that doesn't prevent there being plenty
of pate de foie gras, quantities Of straw
berries, sandwiches Of all sorts, salads,
tea and chocolate, and, following the
French fashion, good claret. One sews
little while, eats little while, and the
garment that one doesn't finish is taken
home. and furnishes employment prob
ably to another member of the house
hold.
always elect to hem towels myself;
one can talk and listen and keep on
sewing over them, whereas more
slant attention. Then, too, am a great
believer in the propagation of clean
towels, and of big towels, and of soft
towels. am very much given TO iudg-
ing people by the quantity and kind Of
towels displayed in their bathrooms.
A good, big one, soft to the touch and
immaculate in appearance, always sug-
costing to me good hostess and one
who desires that her visitors shall be
possessed of that virtue couuted next to
godliness.
LANGTRY AS A WRITER.
The other day, as l was sewing,
heard a woman near me say, $50 Lang
try is going to write novel;" | lost my
thimble, but Chunk to my needle, as /
answered her, II don't know what she
is doing now, but do know that when
she was in this country she had large
square diary which locked, and she told
me that she was going to write in it
everything she knew about interesting
people, pleasant or unpleasant that she
intended to put in their names-their
true names-to state places and dates,
but that she didn't propose this book
should be published until she was a
very old woman, or perhaps not until
will be frightened if they think that is
the book she is going to publish now"
picked up my thimble and started
in to sew again, and the other woman
said "what a beauty that woman is
Doesn't she look fine and majestic in
that last picture which shows her in a
low gown exhibiting those beautiful
shoulders, a string of pearls around her
neck and diamond tiara on her head :
How many other women would look
we'll in such tiara2 Those women
in New York who have them dom
seem to get them on right, and at the
opera the other night one woman hadn'
secured hers properly, and it tipped {
little to one side and made her look alb
solutely tough. But to return to Mrs
Langtry. What q pleasure and vel
what temptation it is to be a beauty
like that! -
"Yes," said /, "and / never realized
how much of a temptation it was unit
one day when Mrs. Kendall was talking
She was speaking Of the time whel
Langtry first appeared in London afte
the picture that had been painted of he
by Frank Miles and which Oscar Wild
had named 'rhe Jersey Lily Mrs
Kendall said that much ought to be for
given woman who had been SO mucl
made of and
WHOSE EXTREME BEAUTY
had been recognized all over the world
She said the first time she appears
after this picture was exhibited
duchesses stood on chairs to look at hel
people pushed and crowded to stare
this young woman who walked like
goddess and who seemed as entirely ur
conscious as if she were in the ffowe
garden at home on the quiet Isle Z
Jersey. What would we do if we ha
beauty like that? That is one reaso
why it is something not always to b
desired; still | never saw woman VIII
wasn't willing to give up everythin
else for the sake of being beautiful
By-the-by did you know that Mr.
Langtry, in addition to her knowledg
of modern languages, is good Gree
and Latin scholar? She was educate
with her brothers, and as she had goo
mind and marvellous memory, she at
sorbed all she was taught and she ha
. n never forgotten it."
IA By this time was ready for Tres
towel, SO after waiting five valuabl
minutes in an effort to get a coar.
thread in the eye of fine needle an
feeling that would like to say some
the words so emphatically uttered b
Mrs. Carlyle, got started again. TIL
topic had changed, and everybody w,
talking about the new way of arrangin
the hair. A knot in my thread mac
me say "BotherW And then ioine
in. "For my part, l don't think it
becoming to everybody. The part iu
down the centre Of the head is on
suited to women who have oval, but N
thin faces, and it never ought to be wol
n by round-faced woman. And yet v
are such sheepish lot that we all {
just like somebody else and
ARRANGE OUR LOCKS MADONNA WIS
even if it makes US look 10 years olde
as it is certain to do when the face
not adapted to the couture. / will t.
you what think are hideous; the flu
of hair arranged low on each side of Ii
forehead, and which, when one is
the theatre, make the girl in front 10,
as if she were bearded woman
Dundreary. 1t must be rather conYe
lent to be the Princess of Wales. Poor
believe, because she always wears it t
same way, that it is her own hair, b
it isn't. For long time she has wo
wigs, and they are the most natul
ones possible. According to all accou1
she has so, and they are regular
brushed and each takes its turn in bel
worn The wiz sIlits her faca hut "a,