Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-05

speeial Correspondence Of Gazette and Journal
New York, Nov. 30. I am going to
be an etiquetter, SO to say. | don't
think that word appears in the die
tionary, but in these days when we
are all free and equal, either in the
United States Senate or on Broadway
cable car, the coming of word is
small privilege. My reason for adopt
ing this profession, for the time being,
is, as an editor would say, in answer
to many inquiries. l do think most
emphaticaly that it is wise for those
who are poor, but not vulgar, those
who have high minds and thin purses,
to have day sat home" I" For then
the hostess is certain to have all things
in order, to assume pretty frock, and
with it her best manners and be pre-
pared to greet the lady who calls.
Some of the ladies who call are beau
tifully systematic. may seem to ieer
at them, but l do not-I envy them.
1t is beautiful thing to be able to
keep book that has on one side the
calls you lsve paid, and on the other
the calls that are due you from the
other lady callers, for it proves that
you have a pure heart and are without
malice, for you couldn't possibly like
all these people However, when you
are great on etiquette you have no dis
likes.
do not approve of giving
A COMING OUT PARTY,
in what is known commonly, as a long
fat: that is one of those which has
straight long passageway, and many
doors on one side of it. Among the
five hundred people invited to tho
coming-out party, some will be certain
to go into the wrong rooms, which
will aggravate their hostess, mortify
them, and, il many diamonds are
laying around loose, prove great
temptation to professional lady
caller. My parent says that people
living in long flats do not have many
diamonds, but she is not well up in
the ways of this world. | have seen
girl who couldn't pay her landady
60 week, wear three marquise rings,
large headlights in her ears, diamond
brooch, diamond locket one of that
debased kind known as the Trilby, and
two diamond bracelets She said some
thing about her gentleman friend, but
that is another story. A gentleman
iiAchN anb ah obAIuOhbcl w hOl hdI
monize.
Really, though, it is good thing if
you happen to have many friends, and
do not keep an extensive establishment,
to select special afternoon to see all
your women friends, and give them a
little of the cup that cheers. Speaking
about the cup that cheers, / would
like to say that very often it nearly
ppiaonu Rt,t that 10 u,ba,o fba k,.t,r,,
has invited young girl to preside over
tine urn. She is usually stuck on her
frock, and determined to have as little
about pound of tea in the teapot,
starts the kettle and pours on water
until those poor tea leaves lose ali
flavor, and the last caller gets a cup Of
tepid water. Now everybody knows the
effect of tepid water Hot water or cold
water is possible but tepid water reduces
the last caller to such situation that,
after the call, she stands on the edge
of the sidewalk while a kindly police
man holds her, and she throws up heI
belief in third term. During this
episode small boys stand around anC
jeer, and an elderly woman with {
white ribbon in her buttonhole, sayl
in loud, shril voice, "What can ",
expect of the poor men when thu
women drinkfn
TEA, FOOD AND DRESS GOSSIP.
This stale, stewed tea is disgrace
Nobody offers stale beer, or cold vege
tables, to her friends, but these long
standing drugs are counted as proper
and the lady who is receiving thank
the girls who stow the tea for being s,
sweet and Industrious Another wa,
of making tea, favored by young ladic
who like to tiirt, and who thinl
nothing 0f the stomachs of the lad,
callers, is to put tAe tea in a coppe
KETTLE keep adding fresh leaves, ant
letting il boil all the afternoon
Strong? It, would not only make you
hair curl, but it would raise the tol
of your head. Still the dear girls ar
capable of doing anything when i
comes to choosing between work o
play 1t was Il ladies' luncheon tina
tine other letter was about. In givin,
luncheon tn women alone the dishe
are usually fancy and uneatable. Wha
else can be expected? When woman
has to put all her money in favors ant
decorations, there is SO little left fo
food tht. what in England are cale,
hashes and in France entrees are tn
only things possible. The charm q
the ladies' luncheon is, that as on
only plays with the dishes offered
here is much time for talk, and Lowell
woman can lie-l didn't mean to sa
that word, for it isn't nice--I mca
lovely woman can accept the complt
ments about her frock, and shrug he
shoulders, and say il is ii little thin
that was made for her in Paris, an
only cost 5000. This gives the woma
neNt to her chance to pinch the le
Of the woman next to her and whisper
1t was made right here in New Yorl
and she was cheated if it cost ov,
fifty"
SMALL TALK THAT HURTS.
Then the unmarried women al
sweet and humble and tell of the me
who proposed to them in the yeal
gone by, and whose wives are no
present. They look at Mrs. Jones an
say . know, Sweetheart, you won
mind, but, of course, Charlie hadn
met you then and | was his fir
owe. " Bat Mrs Jones does mint
and later on Mrs. Jones has an ur
pleasant quarter of an hour. Thet
with the coffee there usually appeal
Two or three of the cheap COMPOUND
sold at the large shops, where you ca
get diamond brooch or scrubbin
brush, Worth frock or a rat tran an
called by the saeswoman liqaors,
French likkcrs, she explains. ri
lostess has told her husband hon NM
cheaper she can get them here than
.he wine shop, and after he has taste
hem he wonders that they ARD Z,
given away with the guessing coptrs
IN the Sunday papers, However. II
women drink them, and Tia fir