The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19

IN SnaOe ana cIOud-llke In effect. A bride
wants to seem enveloped In it; it must
| fall behind her and fall in front of her,
like part of the heavens, surround her
until she really seems a something en-
| tirely too good for everyday food, or an
! ordinary man. The lace veil inherited
| from our grandmother, which is frequently
| bought from smart secondhand shop,
| is expensive but not becoming. 1t makes
| girl look matronly, and it will suggest
| the lace lappets worn by her Royal High
| ness, Queen Victoria of England, lady
! for whom l have the utmost respect, but
| whose appearance is not suggestive of a
| bride.
Although you and I would think bride
| looked awful in anything but white veil,
| opinions differ. The happy Roman bride
| hid her bushes under a veil of deep yell
| low. The Persian maid intensified her
modesty, as painted on her cheeks, by
wearing veil of rose color; the Greek girl
went her one better. and made her bushes
! look almost fierce by wearing veil of
| bright red. while the young lady of Tur
| key put blusnes and eyes and everybody
| else under cover, that is, as far as seeing
anything was concerned. by assuming a
| veil OF brocade, seeded with pearls. The
last named may be magnificent. but it sug-
| gests economy. Think OF girl in a bro
| cade veil2
| Think of newly covered sofal But
| wherever the bride is there should be
some kind of veil, although personally |
| should prefer the brocade of the Turkish
| lady to the black one worn by the Spanish
girl, 1t may be coquettish, but it GER
| tainly Will bring bad luck. never could
fancy bride without flesh veil. Even
| down on the Bowery the young woman
| who hires white satin gown not quite
new, orange blossoms that have been used
| before, gets new veil by paying little
extra.
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! girl who hires her white satin wedding
frock. There is a good bit more sense in
that, however, than in getting one after
the fashion OF Miss Shabby Genteel She
has very little money and an immense
capacity for getting into debt. She reads
OF the gorgeous wedding frocks worn DIV
women who have millions of their own and
who wed millions; then she elects to wear
frock as near like that of Miss Bullion
| as she can; SO, instead of putting her
money in neat little walking suit that
| will be of use to her afterward, she buys
cheap, cotton back satin, lines it with
| canton flannel, gets a gorgeous tiara of
orange blossoms, superb veil, white kid
| gloves, white silk stockings and white
satin slippers, and the consequence is, in
months time, Miss Shabby Genteel has
nothing to wear. She is not invited to
| houses where white satin is the rule, and
| in time she realizes exactly how foolish
| pleasure of wearing her old frocks and
| weeping over her folly. OF course, we'd
| ding frock can always be cut to advantage
| to make baby's cloak, but-well, some
| people are sentimental.
| During the days of good Queen Anne it
was the thing for lady never to be quite
| we'll. Although the ladies' of those davs
| drank and ate until they hid their fiery
| cheeks, not to mention noses, under DOW
! der and rouge galore, still health was
| counted vulgar blessing, and those of
| the court never confessed TO possessing it.
| only wonder one thing, and that is, how
| did the men behave in those days or
| have they changed, or were they particu-
| larly angelic during the reign Of the good
| Queen Anne? | think they must have
| been, or else the ladies of the era would
| not have had SO much pleasure in beng
not quite well. Nowadays if a woman is
| ILL., unless she is staring death in the face
| the average man regards it as a personal
| insult.
| He flies from illness as he might from
! an invading army, and ne is a great deal
| more afraid of bad headache or a fever
! than he is of one OF those new guns that
shoot million people az once. When he
asks how are you 1t is in an aggrieved tone
| impossible to describe, and if you happen
| to have enough strength left to argue a ht-
| tie, and mention to him that you think it
| strange he did not send you few flowers
or some dainties, he remarks: tOh, well,
| If you were really dying | would proba bly,
care great deal about it all because, of
| course, l am really very fond of you. but
when you are only little bit sick, well. it
seems so unnecessary, and l would rather
not be around. Then, too why didn't Won
| ask for what you wanted ?''
| From the standpoint of the Coroner. we
die once in our lives. But woman dies
hundred deaths from headache and heart.
an 10 mo ticy,, nd n 4
verge on pneumonia, but don't quite reach
it, and everything else that is un pleasant
and not dangerous. And these occasional
deaths are the ones when she would like
to have little thought given to her.
When she is absolutely dying she don t
care. She is not troubling herself about
! men, then.
1t is while she is living that she would
like to be remem bered; when she is under
the weather, as were those ladies in the
days of good Queen Anne, when. perhans
morals.were not quite as COOL as thew are
now, but manners were great deal better
History tells US that during those davs tho
Duchess of Marlborough frequently had
straw lad IN front OF her house SO that
she might not hear the carriages 90 hv
when she had the headache: and Thai
| once, when she was near a garrison. she
asked that the morning and evening shoot
ing be stopped, as it hurt her head. And
1t was stopped. | would like to know inst
few Things Do yoii think the Stock Ex
change would stop its hullaballoo because
some woman had the headache? Do YOU
think that the abominable express wa IONS
would stop running at night because some
other woman had the b artache3 Or do
| you think man would stop game of bill
ilards because some woman had wretched
cough ana was nervous? There is moth
ing quiie as exasperating to any body who is
Kept awake ny illness as the sound OF a
game OF billiards. Next to it, in order,
comes the NOISE made by a man who Is
practicing horn that is to be attached to
a four-in- hand in the early June days
both horn and man. mean. don't think
anything, generalizing, would stop be-
cause woman was i'll. And yet it ought
| to. Most of US women try pretty hard to
keep well, and we started handicapped be-
| ing women.