Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16
have often wondered myself


the way of headgear, for with the
summers fashions in view, | am more
than over convinced that Eve made
herself bonnet of violuts and tied II
on with ribbon grass, so that it was
quite in harmony with her costume of
draped fig leaves fringnd with delicate
ferns. How heavy tho wreaths are
| this year! They quite come un to the
ones that our grandmothers used to
talk about Ultra fashionable girls are
assuming for evening wear the histori-
| cal and poetical wreath of roses, but
don't advise it. II, by some mis-
chance, it gets little one side, the
wearer has the most depraved look
| imaginable. Here. on Decoration Day,
they invariably put a wreath on George
| Washington, and after seeing how
George looks in wreath, ] believe all
those dreadful stories that are told
about him down in Virginia, and am
| quito certain George used, occasionally,
to 60 on a little tear. But speaking
of the coming thngs-.thero were two
| things here concerning women that
struck Yvette Guilbert One was the
lack of care given to the shoes worn by
| tho American woman; their unpublished
| look, and the other was her crushed
| UT TdkRbll fHlt anu llbT IuCh vi Lhblb Ill
choosing it. Yvette, being an artist in
Dress failed to see the beauty (?l,
even in Brussels net, Of spider on
the tip of woman s nose: and she also
failed to SEQ the beauty of a very thin
veil, put on before the bonnet, and
tlattening the hair down, SO that it
had plastered look.
ON THE WEARING OF Wells.
tour women are moi dainty about
wells. They wear ragged ones only too
often, and when they possess dainty
ones they don't arrange them well. The
veil is essentially an expression of
coquetry-half concealing, half reveal
ing.
"If one has passed the age when
one's neck is round, and white, and
firm, like pillar, then veil is great
friend, since il can be drawn in soft
folds to hide tho throat, that would
otherwise suggest that of an old
chicken. If you are pale, veil of
cream white can bB selected. and will
cast a shade on your skin that it will
give 1T less the appearance of death
than it has generally. A Frenchwoman
has veil suited. not only to each
style of hat, to each hour of the day,
TO each physical condition, and also,
strange at it may seem, to each mental
condition. She doesn't pray in cream
lace. wrought with rosebuds or butter
flies, nor does she go TO wedding in
black Brussels with funeral feathers
wrought out upon it. Suitability is
the keynote in her harmony of dress.
If her wrist is large, none of her
jewels are set in the form of bracelets,
and she argues we'll that if her ears
are small and well-shaped, they need
no jewels to evoke admiration for them
and that if they are large and red,
attention should not be called to them
by the flash of the diamond, or the
glow of the ruby.
''lf she is short WASTED, her belt is
narrow, and drawn to u point in front.
IL she is longer wasted than fashion
demands her belt is wide, after the
fashion of the First Empire. She does
not. like the English and American
women, accept the fashion as given by
the dressmaker, or the milliner, and
were it like one of numerous flock,
dressed alike, but she adapts it to her.
SELF taking off here that which will
lessen her grace, putting on there that
which will add to her grace, and MAX
ing the original study an individual
ono, only to be recognized by its good
points. You never saw French woman
shove her veil above her lips to eat
anything; she goes to the trouble OF
removing it, for, with il raised that
way, she knows that even the most
aristocratic, she who had the bluest
blood in the Saint Germain, would
have an air of yulgarity, such an air as
only attaches itself TO tine boy of the
street. We have an English word that
quits it we'll lat least, | dom + think it is
English, think it is American slang
she who raises her veil just on line
with her nose looks tough. 1t is a
nasty word, but it expresses the appear-
ance, and even slang is permissible
whom the language itself docs not fully
tell all that one means.
Here | interrupted her again, and
asked her ii she had heard about the
new dinners, these where you got q
card with a riddle written on ii, and
whoever had the card with the answer
took you out.
She said, "No, l haven't, and / con.
slider it very stupid. In the first place
conundrums belong to the nursery.
Civilized people have enough menta
work to do without taking up such
nonsense. Another thing most people
are tired of the so-called intellectually.
Many of the dishes at both dinners and
, luncheons, are mysterious enough,
without ringing in any beyond these
. material guesses. A mother thing, who
! wants to dine off of ones brains? One't
own brains? Whenever l consider thai
. a woman has asked me TO dinner be
Gauss she thinks | am bright, and viii
, help her entertain, ] either stay al
/, home or else, when ] get there, l enjoy
myself by being exceptionally stupid
III hostess wants entertainment FUR
nished to her guests, let her hire thosi
: people who make profession OF IT.
i There is no man for whom have 81
, much contempt as that one who be
comes, in way, the fool for the party
, This type is always wonderfully versa
tile. lie can rattle off the last new
: song, tell the last new story, dress hi
, thumb up in handkerchief to imitat
/ aome great parsonage, make himsel
! look like au old woman with the assist
a ance of the same handkerchief; in fact
make clown of himself, without got
, ting u clowns wages l am told tina
occasionally these men marry. M.
! sympathies 90 out to their wives, fo
: surely they could not have know
:, what they were doing when they swor,
: to honor versatile man. The versatil
!, man is an intellectual jack of all trade
---he is master of none. And | ca
= imagine that at home. having hal
: stomach because of the numerous indi
- gestible Dinners he has eaten, bein
= tired out because he has eXerted him
i self SO much, he is probably peeyish
:, and surely anything but pleasant