Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-26
EDRATC FEMININE WAYS.
Bah Scores the Woman Burdened
With "InyitatiOnS."

AMERICAN GUESTS AT THE CAR 5
CORONATION-THE FAIR SEX
AND THEIR LOVE FOR ARIST0C-
RACY - JEFFERSON AS COM
PARED WITH RUSSIAN NOE les
LEND YOUR BOOKS, LOSE YOUR
FRIENDS-THE CAUSE OF IN
SClINIA-AS TO BEDS AND
ROBES DE NUIT-MLLE. NOUS
SELINE'S DRAPERIES -EXTRAV-
AGANCE AMONG THE POOR
THE CHASM BETWEEN GOOD
TASTE AND FLASHY COLORS.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
New York, April 2S.-If you wish TO
be considered smart, you are, OF course,
announcing to your friends that May
will find YOU in Russia Witnessing the
coronation of the Car. l have Dsen
told Of the pleasure expected by women
who will get no nearer 10 Russia tnan
the quarter dedicated TO the Russian
Jews. on the East Side, in New YORK
City: and the queer part CT Il IS that
these ladies who do not tell the entire
truth are so placid about it. II takes a
woman 10 lie with ease She can SCI
into her face a look as innocent a pos
s.ble. and then go ahead in her efforts
to Guido Ananias. l can imagine that
this great spectacle Of the coronation
will be well worth seeing, but | don I
think il will ever compare as curl
! osity, with the sioiidity with which the
spring-gCWned young woman tells OF
her invitation 10 be present, and OF The
impression that she made on various
Russian mobiles whom she met abroad
last season. l cannot understand why
Russia is SO fascinating to women.
Possibly. ii is because. in The history Of
the world. the most wicked women have
been Russians Possibly il is because
the average Russian man. while good
TO look upon, is. in reality, stupid.
And. possibly, it is because tn line Ct
caste is drawn very decidedly in all the
Russias.
WOMEN ARE BORN ARISTCCRATS.
A republic does rot appeal to any
thing feminine. The eternal feminine
wants to sit upon a throne and COM
mand other people. or else she want 20
be sufficiently near the throne 10 infu-
ence il. With women. an aristocracy
is necessity. and although We may
talk until We are blue in our faces
about an aristOcracy Of brains. there
never has been and never Will be che.
Brains bow 10 good manner and blood.
Sometimes, when get TO thinking very
hard, | find myself predicting that five
hundred years from row the United
States Will be q monarchy. The day
whsn men Of brains and wealth. men
like Thomas Jefferson and James Mad
ison. l0nsed 10 make all mol as near Is
possible equal. have gone by; In these
days each city and each little town has
its aristocracy OF W alcl. But after
two or three generations CT wealth,
there begins 10 be a longing for an aris-
tCcracy OF race; and, once The aTist0c-
raCv CT race and weal;l. with a certain
leayen Of brain is in control. it VIII d
mand a leader. and a king viii be the
natural result Who will be the king
five hundred years from now? 4 de-
scendent from the butcher As;or? Ons
of the tribe CT Vanderbilt, boatmen?
WIN the king come from OUT OF the
West. and be descended from one OF the
railroad magua,es. or from the workers
who dug in the earth and found geld
therein? The king will not be a pcli
tician. of that | feel SUR; unless, in
deed, he should descend from one Of
those dign.fed New England gentlemen
who made politics not question OF
money but VINO usad their money to
purify politics. I an not speaking of
any politicians OF to-day. Even in
New England, | know Of none who will
answer that description. But think IL
out for yourself and decide under whose
banner will the Gristocrats of twenty
five hundred rally.
AS TO CATHERINE Or RUSSIA.
But to return to Russia The wo-
man o, to-day is a great admirer Of
Catherine OF Russia. She always speaks
Oh her as possessing great brain and WI
power. She has never seemed TO me,
however, the sort of person that |
should care % have an intimate ac-
uuaintance with. She began her career
by killing her husband. and after that
she took fancies. so TO say. 10 various
Gentlemen 10 whom she gave her very
intense love, and on whom she spent
the wealth of all the Russias. One of
the gentlemen. Fotemkin, was 50
wary OF money that he had his books
bound in bank notes. | may mention
that have never seen or borrowed one
OF these books, but | read this in the
r,f D. xrrrsfhs o. in
Speaking Of borrowing books. aren't
thsy cheap enough. and isn't orr civil
iza.i0n old enough FOR that sort OF thius
to cease? You, or | love a book. we
spend many happy or unhappy hours
over it. Here a passage is marked by
a pencil; there a specially beautiful de-
scription is emphasized by some rose
leaves between the pages, and there.
well, there where there was something
that appealed specially to your heart or
to mine a tear drop fell and a tear drop
never fades. This book is part OF ones
self. Some day Miss Rosalind Flighty
appears, and she, after the manner OF
her kind, goes OveTyour books. picks mp
this special one, and asks you to lend
it TO her You are kindhearted and
don't know how 10 refuse. And this
fool has in her possession what is really
a part of your life. And the chances
are ten to one that she pencils certain
passages as lovely" ''t0o sweet for
anything. and when the book that your
fond of comes home. if It ever does. it
has become so inocUlated with the in
sipidity OF the borrower that YOU eaten
it up with a tongs and put it in the
fire.
Sometimes the borrower selects your