The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-02-09

It to her hour-behind-hand sister to spend
her money on candy and soda waters She
Is generally sufficiently attractive to have
her men friends supply her with candied
goya lily and marion glace. She drinks
clam broth and bouillon instead Of orange
phosphates. She does not think it q waste
of money to buy matinee tickets for much
discussed plays, and when she goes to the
opera matinee she buys seat in the sky
parlor, for she knows she can hear better
there than she did the night before in an
orchestra chair with Jack or Tom
She is great club woman, preferring the
ones where live questions are discussed and
where she meets other women whose main
object in life is to keep their fingers on the
pulse of civilization. An hour day will
she devote to the standard authors, but she
will get a new book almost before the
printers ink is dry.
In the house she dresses with exquisite
daintiness. All the frivolity of her nature
finds expression in the lace of her negligee
or in the silken swishing of her petticoats,
in the glimpse and glimmer of silken ho-
siery On the street we see the adverse side
of her nature She gowns herself in the
plainest of cloth garments, but take heed,
we followers-if she belongs to the vast
army OF economiZers, she has dressmaker
in the house to fashion her ''at home'' toi-
lets. Perhaps her own polished finger tips
put the pretty little bows on serpentine
Grape, bat her street costume must bear
the stamp of tailor on its waistband and
her hats a milliner's name
She does not smoke cigarettes, perhaps
because fashion writers are trying to force
har to do so, but principally because clean
illness with her is the paramount virtue,
and the habit is not distinctly feminine.
She may use uuscented powder all over her
body, but she will never put a touch of
makeup on her face When she gets to
heaven, she viii enter through the door of
Turkish bath. Perfume is a thing of the
past. All the sachet bags that were once
sewed in the hens of gowns are rppled out.
With Henry Ward Beecher she thinks
1.-The sweetest smell is no smell at all"
Her finger nails are not so highly polished,
but just carefully looked after.
Her entertainments are according to her
means. If she spends the best part of the
day cutting off coupons, she gives ''cotil-
Ions" and has Partisan novelties for favors.
If she spends the day cutting off worn braid
from the bottom of old skirts she gives
Welsh rabbit parties. She makes the rab-
bit in chatting dish, and her guests drink
beer. This dissipation repsys the men to
whom she is under social obligations. For
the women she is lat home" certain DAYS
In the month and gives them bouiilon and
water cress sandwiches, with salted al
monds
Her bedroom is filled no longer with brio
a-brac and nonsense Every article has a
use, and what she has is good. The great
est wish of her heart is no longer TO see the
silver toilet set on her dressing table: nei
ther does she pine for one Of real old ivory
it is now of Dresden china
On the whole, she is a sensible vouus
woman, and what follies she mas are TAX
ing ones-when she wears a scarlet and
black gown, for instance, and one little foot
Is clad in q red silk stocking and the other
In black, or when she puts two tiny patches
Of court plaster TO adorn her face and car
ries a silver lorngnon for one eye
Taken IS a creation of the nineteenth
century. she is jolly, lovable sort of a
creature, and if she can be improved upon
she will be the first to find it out.
NJ. j. Chiffon.