The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04
OUR HOWLING SMELLS.
Bah Pays Her Respects to the Modern
Dude.

Fop Angostura of New York-His Bull
Pups, Coachman and Traps-What is
Real Tyrian Purple ways of Ger
tain Obliging People We Constantly
Meet-Frothy Talk in a Book Shop.
Things That We are Awfully Tired Of.
New York, Nov. SIT is funny how the
word dude" has gone out. It isn't con-
sidered the right thing to say it, and the
man aiming to be fashionable is disgusted
at being called it. OF course, the dude has
a successor, and he rejoices in being called
"a bowling SWELL When one says
bowling" one thinks of Niagara of
noise, and yet nothing is further from this
type than anything loud. Before every
thing else, he is impassive. If he were
told the house was on fire, he would make
an effort to begin to dress himself proper
ly for the hour of the day, and If there
was a blockade on the cable car he would
sit for one hour without permitting a mus
Gle of his face to move or his eye to twitch.
His costumes are many, but they always
aim at being excessively quiet and Intense
ly correct.
When he walks, he throws his body for
ward, the upper part of it, at an angle
of forty-five degrees and swings his stick,
which hasn't a particle of silver or gold
upon it, so that it's crutch handle almost
reaches the ground. Primness is his main
characteristic He speaks as If he believ-
ed he would live forever, and that the rest
OF the world was waiting to hear him fin
ish a sentence. He is not particularly in
terested in women because he has an idea
they are a little exciting, but dwags-
well, dwags-and don't you know, a bull
pup, you nderstand-well-he 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
collect III to bear it to his trap, ana If he
can only get a groom as impressive looking
as himself and with features like the bull
dos, then he is quite as happy as he ever
permits himself to be- He doesn't wear
monocle; he allows a very large, round
one to dangle on the end OF black string,
and when he is not too weary, he holds 1t
up to his eye and gazes, presumably. into
the dim future.
One specimen of him here is a great
success The nearest / can get to his name
IL AuEOSluIdr ana inc nearest ne Gun get
to a man is a bull pup. He is so suitable.
At the races the other day his scarf pin
was a jocky cap, gold, spotted with ru-
bies-"the colors Of the only gentleman in
the world, the Prince Of Wales, don't you
know"-while he permitted his man 90
wear a gay scarf, with horseshoes bro
caded upon II. In his fancy for suitable
ity, l havn't a doubt that II that man
went 10 n funeral. he would have "a scarf
figured with skulls and crossboucs, wear
immortelles at tho buttonhole, and min
iature collins for sleeve buttons He is
immensely silly, indeed. 10 is part OF his
creed not TO know anything, OF TO be- i'm
terosted in anything but he is decided
Improvement on the dude. with his vul-
garlty his chorus girls ana his drunken
sprees. what viii we have next in the
form OF a tallors block2
The women are again taking up Egyp-
tolory ~ seems to have great fas-iua-
ton for thcm. and they IKE to discover
people who have alumbroua eyes. like