Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-06-21

Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal
NEW YORK, June 15.-Ranging with
the other questions of the day there is one
that may be counted as quite as friyo.
ious as the strawberry. And yet which
is particularly interesting to women.
Though 1t is best answered by man. |
started out to ask il with the intention
of getting some typical answers, so |
first applied to Mr.. I. Green Olive, who,
while he dresses well, lnclines little to
the noisy, and one almost hears him
coming. Said |, "What is a Stylish
Girl ?"
He looked at his patent leather shoes
as II for inspiration, and then, after
thinking bit, he answered me: "a
stylish girl is, to my way of thinking, a
girl who is so well got up that all the
men stare at her as she passes by. Who
wears the very latest color, who keeps
her waist down to Is inches, and who
would rather stay in the house forever
than have to go out in gown of last
season. She is girl whom all the men
envy you. She is fashionable in her
slang and her dog, and when fox ter
riers are in she has got one, and when
bull pups are counted smart, she has the
tierccst looking specimen in town That
is my idea of stylish girl"
THE GIRL IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
LIFE.
Next man | approached was the exact
opposite to Mr.. Olive. He chung to the
old.fashioned name of his grandfather,
and posed as representing the solidity of
the country. His visiting cards have
upon them, "Mr. Isaac Truthful, Third"
It was over an after-dinner cup of coffee
that | asked him the momentous ques-
ton, and he said: "a stylish girl is one
who is so perfectly dressed that nobody
ever notices what she has on. She
abhors anything that is loud; she would
as soon put on trousers as smoke
cigarette, and she would prefer to swear
rather than speak loudly. She is abso-
lutely even, but never conspicuous. |
think correct is the best word to de-
scribe her. That is my idea of stylish
girl"
Later in the evening, met Tommy
| Tweedledum. Nobody ever called him
Thomas in his life. At present, he is
| gorgeous in frock coat that reaches to
| his ankles, and a hat with pronounced
bell crown and rolling brim. Tommy
| is an authority on everything in the
fashionable world, and his smooth little
face has some wrinkles upon it that
| prove there may be worries, even in
ordering dinners or leading the cotillion.
l asked Tommy the question. He
looked at me, and then he said: 81
don't like the word stylish, but as we
have nothing better to describe that sort
| Of girl, will tell you what think she
is. She would never make the mistake
| of wearing an afternoon frock in the
morning, or travelling in shabby visit
ing costume. She is trig in tailor suit
at 10 o'clock, wears a hat that has no
| flowers upon it, russell shoes, gloves to
match, and her shirt is immaculate. II
is made like mine with the collars and
cuffs on.
SIN the afternoon,
OUT DRIVING OR VISITING,
she is gay in a silk gown with a fanci-
full hat, an elaborate parasol and light
gloves. OF course, this is when she is
driving in victoria; if she is on the
box seat of coach, or il she is driving
with some chap in high cart, then she
is tailor-made to a degree, and it isn't
the same tailor-made as the morning,
for the shirt is omitted, and bodice,
which fits to perfection, that is buttoned,
and without trimming, so that the out
lines OF her figure show to good advan-
tage, is worn. She abhors an 1S.inch
waist, which she considers an evidence
of bad taste. Her shoes and gloves fit
well, but are never tight. At dinner her
gown is always low in the neck, and if
she is going to a ball afterwards, it is
unusually elaborate, SO that she will
not have TO undergo being dressed again.
The stylish girl is the one who is always
fit. You know she is not going to make
mistakes in her clothes any more than
she does in her manners. She has
learned the great art of wearing clothes,
which, if she did not understand it,
would make all her handsome frocks
useless.
MANNERS MAKE A WOMAN.
"Then there is style, you know, in
manners, and | consider that part of the
clothes that she assumes for social pur-
poses. She knows just how to give a
cool bow, and how to give a cordial
one, and she understands the drawing
of lines so well that she never, by anv
mistake, gives the wrong bow to the
wrong man. Without exaggerating 1t,
she is up in the last new handshake,
and just now, while they are still being
worn among us, she uses monocle in
plain gold framing. She never saws
anything against anybody, because she
knows that it is as bad form as it would
be to wear those hideous puppies that
are sold in the shops on the side streets,
She buys her toggery from the best
people, and she is certain that they will
not make any mistakes, because much
Of their reputation comes from women
like her. Take her altogether, the stylish
girl is the proper girl and the girl that
does one credit" Tommy's description
wasn't bad one.
THE NEXT MAN STRUCK
was a dignified old gentleman, who
asked me if by stylish | meant agreeable
or beautiful, or fascinating. | told him
no; thought l meant the girl whose
clothes were so successfully worn that
she had special air of her own. He
said he liked to sec woman look nice;
but that he thought great deal more of
her being agreeable, and that when she
was, he forgot all about her dress. Evi.
IDENTIFY the stylish girl was an unknown
quantity to him.
A woman said: "The stylish girl is
that one who is as effective in cotton as
in silk, and who, if she wore a meal bag,
with string around the middle, would
tie that string in such a way, and ar
range the bag so successfully, that when
she appeared all the other women would
crowd around her to ask who it was
that had imported those exquisite bags,