Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

New YORK, Nov. at Is funny how
the word "dude" has gone out. 1t isn't
considered the right thing to say it, and
the man aiming to be fashionable is dis.
gusted at being called it. OF course, the
dude has u successor, and he rejoices In
being called "a bowling swell" When |
one says "howling" one thinks of Il
Niagara of noise, and yet nothing is
further from this type than anything
loud. Before everything else, he is i'm
passive. If he were told the house was
on fire, he would make an effort to
begin to dress himself properly for the
hour Of the day, and if there were a
blockade on the cable car he would sit
for one hour without permitting
muscle of his face to move or his eye
to twitch. His costumes are many, but
they always aim at being excessively
quiet and intensely correct.
OUT ON DRESS PARADE.
When he walks, he throws his body
forward, the upper part of it, at an an
gle of fortytiYe degrees and swings his
stick, which hasn't particle of silver
or gold upon it, so that its orutch handle
almost reaches the ground, Primness
is his main characteristic. Hespeaks as
If he believed he would live forever, and
that the res. of the world was waiting
to hear him finish a. sentence. He is not
particularly interested in women be.
cause he has an idea they are little eX-
citing, "but dawgs-well, dawgs-and
don't you know, a bull pup, you under
stand-well-he's good form-awfully
good form" So he and the bull dog
saunter up the street to look at his trap.
He brings all his intellect lit wouldn't
be hard to read the riot act and collectit)
to bear it to his trap, and if he can only
get groom as impassiye looking as
himself and with features like the bull
dog, then he is quite as happy as he ever
| permits himself to be.
HE DOESN'T WEAR A MoNocLE;
he allows q very large, round one to
| dangle on the end of black string, and
when he is not too weary, ne holds it up
to his eye and gazes, presumably, into
the dim future.
One specimen of him here is great
success. The nearest | can get to his
name is Angostura, and tine nearest he
can get to u man is bull pup. He is SO
suitable. At the races the ether day,
his scarfpin was jockey cap, gold,
spotted with rubies-"the colors of the
only gentlemen in the world, the Prince
of Wales, don't you know"-while he
permitted his man to wear gay scarf,
with horseshoes brocaded upon it. In his
fancy for suitability, haven't doubt
that If that young man went to a
funeral, he would wear scarf figured
with skulls and crossbones, wear i'm
mortelles at tue buttonhole and nina
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immensely silly; indeed, it is part Of his
creed not to know anything, or to be
interested in anything; but he is de-
cided improvement on the dude, with
his vulgarity, his chorus girls and his
drunken sprees. What will we have
next in the form Of a tailor's block?
DID CLEOPATRA WEAR A BoNNET2
The women are again taking up
Egyptology. 1t seems to have great
fascination for them, and they like to
discover people who have slumbrous
eyes, like those of Cleopatra's, or women
with faces that conceal secrets like til Sc
belonging to the Sphinx. Isn't 1t II
little queer that while we hear of the
sacred bird and the sacred flower being
worn on the heads of the Egyptian
women, we never have any mention OF
hatsG Did they go out in the burning
sun bare.headed, risking freckles and
sunstroke, or did they stay at home all
the timer And will you please to tell
me what earthly pleasure in life there
was for Cleopatra, unless she collected
the whole family about her, and then
with great mystery and much slowness
open the box that contained the delight
OF the year-the Easter bonnet? AS
things are now, the bonDets are so tiny
, that Cleopatra could have taken locust
: flower, looped diamond necklace
around it, and tied it ON her head with
Tyrian purple strings. l always believe
Eve had u bonnet; think she made one
out of violets, and tied it on with ribbon
grass. But to return to Tyran purple,
i which we all have, how many people
know that it is the crimson which is be
7 ing SO much worn, and which is SC
. generally unbecoming? But that is the
real Tyrian purple. AT least, us far Il!
? can be proven, and as none of the
people who wore it then are living now
why should it be denied?
AN OFFENSIVE TYPE OF WOMAN.
haven't yet recovered from havin!
, to meet woman the other evening
That sounds rather queer, but what
mean is that she forced herself upol
Inc. She was so amiable She couldn'
let any woman with who she wa
q acquainted pass within a yard of he
without stopping her to tell her how
well she looked, how lovely her bonnc
was, and how delighted she was to SCI
t her. Now, if there is woman on tn
face of the earth to be despised with
scventeeth-c -Borgia hatred, it i
the one known as atfable. All tn
j., time she is talking to you, she is con
u vincing you that she is so nice and S,
:. amiable (and these virtues are in italics)
II that you wish there was can of dyna
mite in the neighborhood that you Nigh
8 blow her up. The atfable woman is al
many miles distant from the agreeabi
o woman as are the people who go I
seek the North Pole from it, Sh
/ impresses you so with her falsity tina
you feel yourself freezing, slowly bu
surely and you don't know whether yo
1 are
LAMP-PosT OR A WOMAN.
e The affable woman thinks she
y agreeable. She is not. The agreeabl
woman is simply woman as natur
u has made her, with the special virtue 4
tact added. The atfable woman is nc
., natural, nor has she tact, but She want
IS to impress you all the time with he
atfability. She is the sort of woma
Y who drags other people about intro
= ducing them to people they don't wal
to know, claiming that friends of hel
q must be friends. You feel like tellin
1t her you are not her friend; you feel lii
reminding her of the wrinkles on he
10 face, of the mistakes of her dressYake
l. OF all the horrible things that canfposs