Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-11-18

otto-to look like the innocsnd flower
I'D be the serpent under it, and you are
very harsh in your judgement OF her,
very much taken ia, deceived as she
wishes you to be deceived For 10 nine
cases out OF ten her whole existence,
Ike her present attitude. Is a precon-
csived pose for effect She does not
really and Ia the bottom OF her heart
care Tor vulgar stories or for cigarettes
or for swear words. But just now these
things are the fashion, together with
tea.gowns and gyP and divans, and the
moor woman feels that she must keep
NJ With the procession, or it will sweep
bv band and flying banners and drum
major. and leave her desOlate and
laughing stock IN It's wake. And the
worst Of 10 Is that the more she INDUCES
ip such questionable iads, the more
conRenial they become to her Re
marks which shocked her once and
brought bushes 70 her cheeks seem
quite like the commonplaces Of CONVEX
sstion now, aud she even originates
other more than doubtful herself. The
smoking az first disguised her and
made her SOD, but to that, too, she be-
comes accustomed 10 time, and sooner
J than one would have believed it possi-
bic, she takes her cigarette after din
per as a matter OF course, and comforts
herself With a reflection that on the
continent all the most highly respecte-
bic princessess use tobacco. GAS for the
dlvsn, you and have probably heard
her declaim vigorously against 10 10 the
days when only very daring and pro-
oressive women had ventured 20 intro
o. Fak o. nlnH
receutiOnrOoms. Yet here she Is, en-
sconced upon her own, as much at ease
and as unconscious OF you as IL 10 were
the stiff empire sofa she had chosen for
seat.ln that highly dscorous salon be-
yond.
o Fashion. Unsuitable Molocb, what
facrifces YOU demandl What changed
beings you make Of US, Of the women In
particular! Are these our ideals, these
complicated creatures who daWdle on
divans and talk with the freedom Of
long past century?
Not bit Of 70, and yet they are so
undenisbly amu.lng and novel and cap
tivating tSst there is no danger OF our
ideals descending 70 such level, not
WitbstandiRg.
Ask your notwithstanding charmer
about her cushions. It is not impro0a-
bic that some Of them
HAVE A HISTORY
for it is the fashiOn-alack, the world.
Ito cover them with scraps Of silk and
embroidery and what not With romance
attaching thereto This big fat one,
encassd 10 q pattern OF tulip and dra-
CONS on satin ground, was part Of a
hanging in an old palace ia Spain, she
will very likely tell you. This gorgeous
piece Of wrought gold aud floss silk a
priest In an Italian village had hidden
away for years, his part Of the spells OF
some decayed and mOuldsred monastery,
and only produced 10 when bis hungry
eyes caught the CLEAN Of American
eagles. This is Mexican stuff. This
came from Calcutta Here IS mar
velous achievemeA in Russian en-
broldery. and here part Of the altar
cloth brought from Liege. And this,
Jet Us fancy owning TO you with a
reckless qlasEs out AZ the corner Of her
y. ewes, Is ~ q out Of her very wedding
Agown her own dett fingers.
Would Any one but the fn-de-
ecle Toman ruthlesSly cut and snip
,1er wedding gown for the covering
4 divan cushion? 10 is q last shock,
NNE NGUNNM UtA NAAH - 50 HAo1NAA INA w
be the most conservative and least pro-
Fressive Of your kind, so far on the out
skirts OF the world of society that the
ultra-fashlonabls Weman still remains a
rara avis 90 YOU, You rise, and the
clock 40 the same moment strikes 6.
She calls tia 'penduls," but that Is
neither here nor there. She sCrambles
down from the divau-nO other wOrd
expresses the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the high heeled slippers 20 great advan-
tage, and takes leave Of you with more
tests and Handwriting and shrill laugh
ter, which echoes after you through
the hall and all the way hume. Her
cigarette has sleft a bad taste To your
mouth. Your views OF women become
Hinged with bitter cynicism, and you
vow that you will remain a bachelor
Tor the rest Of your days, which IS one
OF the most fatal effects Of the end-of-
the-century lady.
And vet, who knows but what Il you
went softly back again and peeped into
shat rosy boudOir you might see her
curlsd uD on the divan, with her eyes
fixed upon the pillow covered With her
wedding gown? Who knows what sud
den visions out Of the past It's shining
surface may not have cODjured up, or
how she may be
LIVING OVER AGAIN THAT EYENrFUL
DAYP
The organ peals out Mendelssohn's
splendid chords, on her husbands arm
she moves down the aisle, seeing dimiT
through a mist Of happy tears the
thronging crowds OF guests with wed
ding garments on, and when she sits be-
side him az last ia the carriage aud
thev are rolling Of for more fetIng and
congratulation at home, she filings her
self into his embrace and on his shout
per sobs out an the pent-up emotion
OF her simple heart. And now Tom Is
I'm Europe, but he cables her when he
starts for home!
The Dompous butler, coming 80
nounce dinner, stands petriaed beN
the portierss at the sight Of the.
The house, kneeling by the
heL face buried IN one OF the
NovezNd with creaEc0
vately =
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