Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-11

AT I tlbSIDE-GAhlSlAN MALE
APPRECIATION OF FEMALE AT
TIRE-PRETTY THEATRE HATS
THE "CHICNESS" OF THE
FRENCH GIRLS-MARRIAGE IN
THE GAY REPUBLIC-THE RO-
MANTIC SCANDAL OF THE DE
CHIMAYS.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
New York, April 7, 1897.
ON THE WING.
lam always convinced that the high
est point of civilization is reached when
| am seated in a comfortable arm chair
in a first-class car, beside a big win
dow through which l can watch the
country as | fly with the birds them
selves. There's something fine in trav-
cling in this way. The engine goes so
swiftly that you conclude you can out
speed anything and you forget entire
~ the days Of slow travel. OF dirty cars
and of poor service. Seated where
am | get everything l want. A cup OF
the liquid that cheers, distilled exactly
from that brand Of leaves that | best
like. a book 10 amuse me, which the
courteous servant of the company fur
nishes from the little library at the
end of the car, and a polite brass but
toned colored gentleman TO remove
dust from off my gown when the end OF
the journey is reached. It's worth the
small tip given HIM to hear his glad
expression OF thanks and to see the
look OF content which is over his en-
tire cOuntenance.
To-day | am going from one big city
TO another. Opposite me is seated a
gentleman from
THE LAND OF POLITENESS-
from the city of ciyilization-Paris
And we laugh and pest. and ask Of this
big, blonde Frenchman, SO many ques-
tions that ! wonder if, in time, he will
conclude that | belong 10 the secret
service. First Of all, ne tells me of his
great surprise about one thing: You
have a fashion of saying, you English
speaking people that. in French there
is no word for Home Perhaps this is
true. But, we have something better
than the word, We have the reality.
With us. you do not find, even among
the middle classes, newly married peo-
pie. living in hotels; and. even the
bachlor, should he conclude 10 leave his
fathers home, arrange another for him
self, since he cannot imagin comforts
synonymous with meals eaten in res
taurants Why Madame, the table
manners of many of the people ore
meets in public dining rooms is so bad
that ones appetite is taken away.
Then, too,
OUR WOMEN ARE WISE ENOUGH
to know that their power over the men
is greater the more comfortable they
can make them; and so they give mIcn
thought to the appearance CT their
homes and much more thought TO the
good dishes which they serve upon
their tables. Perhaps our women are
not great travellers. Yesterday !
heard of an American gentleman,
whose business calls him far away from
this country. His wife does not 20 with
him. because her friends are here, and
he sees her just one month out OF
twelve. Why. a Frenchman would be
Mortified at that. Ana even now the
French woman does not understand the
American who allows his wife to travel
all over Europe, dress superbly, enjoy
herself i'll her own way, while he re-
mains at home to earn the money 10
permit her 10 stay away from him.
Now that | know some American men.
| really believe they do it because they
love the women; and yet / used 90
think il was because they wanted 10
get rid of them. But it is not right,
Madame"
SOMETHING NEW IN FASHIONS.
Unfortunately for the American wo-
man. [ could not contradict my com
panion. and so | asked him TO tell me
something new in anything, but spe-
cially to tell me something new about
the fashions. The brighter a French
man is the more certain is he TO thor
oughly comprehend every detail OF
womans costume; and, if there is one
little note that makes discord where
there should be harmony he can detect
it at a glance So. to please me, he
told me of some wonderful fashions.
Said he: Just before | left Paris one
Of the most remarkable, as well as one
os the most expensive coats was worn
by a woman who dressed well. as we'll
as a woman of not only Of position but
of taste and wealth can dress; she wore
a short jacket of white buckskin, with
collar and cuffs of chinchilla. Natur-
ally, it would soil in one wearing, but
then it could be cleaned with the pipe
clay which the English soldiers use for
freshening their gloves. Such a coat
would not by a woman of fashion have
more than four or five wearings. but as
matter of course, it found many imi-
tators, the best being one of heavy
white silk, trimmed with black braid
and black velvet There is no doubt
that next winter in Paris the turban
made of velvet or whatever rich ma
terial is fancied, and decorated with a
jewel, will be seen at the opera.
THOSE THEATRE HATS.
men went to the theatre or the opera
wearing low bOdices and enormously
big black picture hats The effect was
charming. but l can see why you OBJ
ject to it here. where ladies sit in the
orchestra, while with us they only APP
pear in the boxes.
The Frcnchman's eye and taste are
well trained as to Woman's dress. and
| am going TO be frank with you. Mad
anne, and tell you why the average
American woman does not look we'll in
her clothes. II is because she buys TOO
cheap a corset Every woman's figure
differs. Consequently nc woman can
wear, with a good result, a corset fitted