Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20

Yet this DEBUT is always made on a festive
occdSiun The parents of the debutante give
a tea a ball, and invite all their friends
She receives more or less flowers, just as
though she were being married or buried
She il dressed all in white. and she stands
10y the side uf her mother and shakes hands
with the people Is they come in. Some she
already knows, many she has never met
Iefpre. because heretofore she has been
only q girl. but now she is woman. The
people have come to see her She is the
person of consequence, and the scenery is
arranged to set her off, and the people look
at her ard pass Judgment on-her. No won
der she is agitated. This thing is Incl
dent in her life. 1t is a grand event.
There Is certain young man in Wash
irgton who makes it his business every
autumn. just before the season begins, to
prepare an accurate computation of all the
d. butdntes who will make their appearance
In society later. This year he pronounces
the crop TO be large and promising. OF
those who are positively in the most exciu-
siNe st he thinks there will be no less than
twenty-sevcn. and Of more general debu
taHtes he Counts about nifty. He thinks a
society man will be Obliged, picking and
choosing to suit himself. To add to his visit
Ing list about forty names. Necessarily.
SUppo~ing this sort of enlargement to be an
arHual occurrence. the list would gradually
swell To- proportions almost as large as a
city directory. In truth it does swell grad |
ualy. year by year, but there are elimina-
tions dde at the same time that there are |
additions. and ii is thus kept within bounds.
some # the people whom you knew a few |
years back a. debutantes get married and
move away, some get married and move out
of society, while some simply drop out of
The swim and settle down to a humdrum
life at home. All Of these people cease to
occupy places ON the calling list of a pro
1e7>londi swell lie may go to see them,
Tut he does So ont Of the season and incl |
dsnfHtlE. HfaV FA arc a.
notes I" the page he is reading. and he
sk'PS them as unnecessary whenever he
chooses To do 50.
Her Girii>h Seraaintances.
Tn deLutante undeTsOas a certain change
in her list OF acquaintance. too. She fas
up To- the time of her coming OUT asso-
Cidtei with boys of about her own sge,
but when she is in society she leaves these
fellows behind They must become men
gradually, but she at one step passes across
the line which separates a girl from
woman. She has right. having made her
debut. u associate with old women ami
Old men. or young women and young men,
but with boys and girls she is supposed to
haN TOthing more TO do.
II - rather a strange state of affairs and
II may not be actually just. but 1t is So
or course. there are times when the deb
utante returns for "A brief period to her
siTihoOd. This Is when she is of duty, as
1t Were and may relax unObserved. Then
whom she calls b. their first names. and
perhaps patronizes them a little. AS tor
them. they may take il well and wait for
a few years when they will have all the
rights of manhood. or they may take II
with bad grace. being convinced i'm their
own minds that they are just as much
men as she is a woman and this is doubt
less the truth.
Traias Like an Actress.
the four great events in a woman's life
a of he
sex, her birth, her debut, her marriage and
her death. Before she makes her debut
her education largely goes toward perfect
ing her in the arts which will make that
event a success just as an actress is
TRAINED and studies with the idea of her
nrst appearance before a critical audience,
aAd when she makes this appearance lis
tens eagerly for applause and reads all the |
criticisms the next day, 50 that she may
knJR whether she a success or a fail
ure, - f'es the yIu1g girl In certain
walk m life get ready for her debut into
50 trty. and, having made IL, look eagerly
L. know whether she meets with approval
ar i~.YTTtvdL She can read societys YER
diet ~ tn" amount Of attention she re-
CrIE - Yet she must not lose heart II
she receives ItUv attention at first, for
som 81 the greatest bellies have received
Httl- ar no notice until their second sea
son T. pursue the comparison with the
actress a little further, il is very well
known THAI soma O.: them have proved very
great ~I,c, s-rz who were IN the beginning
apparently failures.
= tr, inci society man once 81 pod in a
bail room, where h did not know dozen
p"upi-. and pointed out every debutante
th-r-- There were certain signs he said.
by WIIrh ne cpU1 always tell them. one
girl b" knew 10 be a debutante because she
Wa 80 Eirlish in her behavior another he
was certain Of because she old in
her tastes Sine shunne1 Ice cream al sup
per ard took tOuiiiDn. She wanted to pre-
tend she wsss not debutante and she over
did il. This IL not at all an uncommon
thing with them. The freshman at college
IS every one has remarked. always behaves
like old man. while the Senior plays
alleys and spins tops.
Types of Dcbafantes
The youngest girls I'm society like TO APP
pear old. ard the oldest girls like TO appear
young. The debutante who is girlish In her
behavior Is the one who is natural and she
Is usually the one that is most successful
Another girl that can always be told as a
debutante is the one who is painfully shy.
She sticks close to her chaperon until. she
Is forced away. when she is 50 frightened
that she can hardly say three words 10 the
an " no i talking to her II is not agree
abi~ 10 b. with this girl or to her.
Nhrr" others are happy and jolly, she is
utterly miserable and serious She may
conquer her stage fright and wonder why
she ever felt H. and then all will be well.
IL II unreasonable that she should not con-
quer A. II she X without large quota Of
Drains she Is no worse OF than most Of
the p-opi" around her. and il she is really
clever Il II not 20 her credit that she allows
herself To appear otherwise
som times her extreme bashfulness NAV
have rs origin In her own conccit Sine
may be too self-cOnscous. and she may
think that few Of the people she meets are
worm whlie being pleasant to. She Is not
wise u she holds such views. She viii be
quite surprised when she finds out that
many Of the men whom she sees have other
purposes which they pursue energeticalIy
She may put down as a frivolous yo,Iuy
fellow man who Is in reality a most
brilliant young surgeon, and she may. I,y
mistake. sn0b rniii-iOOking man who IL
an authority on Shakespeare. great rep
Ntation. absolutely Worthwhile and univer-
sal follows a man into a ball room but
anything short OF this is left behind when
he comes there. The only thing that never
leaves him Il his money. and IL is nrettv
certain 10 be Known whether or not he has
any.
Some Spoiled beauties.
New. ~ a debutante Is really beautiful