The morning news., 1894-09-30
" o. MANS " ORLD.
4 Few Things Of Interest 10 The Fair
Sex.

A Girls First Fancy-A Fashion Note
From Paris Women Who Help Theil
Husbands "A Debutante's First
Dinner-Old Friends Meet Again
Some Observations of Ward Meal
Hster's-A Pen Portrait of Two
Ladies of Note-some Other Matters
That are Well Worth Reading.
We all recognize. says Ward McAllis.
ter, in the New York World, the prince
of Wales as the first gentleman Of the
world from a social standpoint. He is,
therefore, a most interesting subject for
study ] devoted two evenings to taking
in his personality. At the opera he sat in
the club box, with his left hand covering
that portion of his face exposed to the
audience / could see at a glance that he
had previously taken in the whole house
and was then absorbed in Melba and
her charming voice.
Having at Cowes been surfeited with
Americans las / heard from his friends)
when he reached Homburg all the efforts
OF our pretty American women failed TO
attract his attention. BY feeling the head
tables surrounding him at breakfast at
Ritters Park hotel, and at dinner on the
terrace at the kurhaus. Years ago this
little game was successful, for he then
took up many of our young American
women, gave them his Endorsement,
which secured for them an entree into
London society. But all this is now a
thing of the past.
The eagerness Of our American women.
some of whom move in our best society,
to attract his attention, / regret to say,
was annoying 10 many of US, for, TO say
the least, it made US ridiculous and laid
us oDen 10 criticism. Failing in their at
tempts to capture the prince, they did
not stop there, but frantiCally made ef-
forts to catch any scion of nobility, no
matter how notorious, broken down or
impecuniOus be might be. We heard OF
individual Instances Of young married
American women having been introduced
TO sprlg OF nobility IN the morning rush
ing At MIN in the evening with an invita-
tion to dine with them. If the invitation
was accepted they announced the fact
triumphautly to q number of prominent
people, and asked many of them to meet
at dinner the same day their new, noble
acc liSitiCn. and thus rendered themselves
the laughing stock of the place If Amer
leans can associate with foreigners as
their peers, let them do so; but in the
4dIk ud4C VI DAL ALCAI W FtboAGI, II lltA
cannot soar socially, let them disdain to
crawl When our country women, by
some accident, were thrown in company
with tilted people the last summer, they
seemed to fail 10 recognize their own
country people, feeling Us il were q social
elevation. AS L said before. for heavens
sake do not let Americans blush at their
own nationality. The summer at HON
burg has developed some of the worst
cases of JOadYing and cringing by Ameri-
can ladies to foreigners that we nave ever
seen, and they have caused Europeans
TO sneer at US. To all this there were,
however, noble exceptions.
81 must confess, said one of the 400 to
a New York Tribune writer, to having
had quite a shock in meeting Mrs. X. last
winter-Alrs. X, who used to be the
beautiful Miss B. in my young days, and
who had lived abroad ever since her mar
riage-and in realizing how l. too, must
have changed in the lapse of years. She
was followed by tall young girl whom
she introduced as her daughter, and after
the first very enusive greetings, which |
was vain enough to ascribe to personal
reasons, were over, the real motive of
her eagerness to attract my attention be-
came apparent. 'Oh, MIR. A. she
exclaimed, persuasively, Olive has
no partner for the german. With so
old friend | thought l might ask-you
know every One-can't you find her one?"
Well, ! managed 10 oblige her, although
the task was not exactly in my line, aud
then sat down beside her, expecting a
pleasant half-hOur for in the old days
she was most amusing But | got scant
gratitude and small attention. She was
completely absorbed in the Young men
who were dancing with her fiedgeling.
What IS the name of the tall young
manP Who is the short OneN Who is
speaking to my daughter nowp Is that
Mr.. So-and-So who has Just taken her
OutP and so on, ad nauseum, until | re
tired in disgust, realizing more than ever
that my day was over and that a new gen.
Grafton occupied the old familiar places -
When l was in Paris in July the French
mOdistes were preparing models for the
United States, ana one OF the best known
said that only Americans would take
draped skirts, writes Emma NJ. Hopper in
the October Ladies Home Journal. Surely
this is hint enough to warn US not to ac-
cept what Paris avoids During my late
visit to this center ! found the universal
and haudsomes. skirts were of the godet
shape, having smoo h sides and front. and
the fullness at the back confined to a
width of three inches, and lined with
grass cloth or Crnoline all the way u0 to
give graceful, sweeping appearance,
while the remainder was faced with the
same to fully half Of the
depth. The skirts were cut to touch
al the back, bat this ndocs snot seem so
much out of place IN Paris, where the
streets are the cleanliest OF all known and
there are but few handsomely dressed
women that do not drive. The neatest
skirts are made with every seam bound
with silk tape, and the top corded in
place of belt. All rich materials, like
silk, moire, ladies cloth. etc, have the
skirts untrimmed; thinner goods may
have tiny cluster of three two-inch
bias overlapping ruiies, style that never
goes out in Paris. Serge, cheviot and
such goods have from three to five rows
of stitching above the velveteen binding
as trimming. The bias seam up the
back is worn.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY REFRAIN
Daughters, daughters.
What shall We do with our dauEhtersg
Why do men tarryf
Why don't they marrVg