Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-01-10
S()NE PECULIAR WOMEN.
Bah Chats About a Certain Class of
New York Fpmininitv

BONNET-HER COMPANIONSHIP
WITH THE NEWLYRICHES -
STEALING OF WHICH THE
WORLD NEVER HEARS-THEFT
OF GARMENTS AT LUNCHEONS
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
OF A BRACELET-WHAT KIND
of MAN A WOMAN AZORES.
CFrom Our Regular Correspondent
New York, January 6.-There is
type of woman peculiar to New York.
She always suggests largeness and
squareness. And squareness is not a
virtue in woman. The fem
mime figure, to be correct, should
be described by curves. Then,
this woman invariably has pro-
nounced aQuiline nose, extremely thin,
and rather blue looking. A big mouth,
that. when it opens, shows large teeth
that are set far apart. And her
clothes, while decidedly in the fashion,
seem to be put on her with elamplng
irons or hinges, but they certainly are
not held together by the ordinary hooks
and eyes. she is topped by bonnet
of the hearse-like order-the plumes
of which wave in / fashion that say:
"ALL MEN ARE FLESH"
I have never been able to understand
why this \. oman lived. Availability is
certainly not her excuse for existence,
for she is invariably positive and posi-
tive to the last degree. Usually, she is
spoken of as having small income
and belonging TO an old family. She
is to be found, however, among the
newly rich who have come to this big
city, have plenty of money TO spend
and long TO get in with and be counted
among the famous -four hundred.
They believe that this lady can help
them to get where they want to be.
She accepts their invitations to dinner;
she sits in their opera boxes; she bor-
rows their carriages; and she does not
hesitate to hint for and get from them
valuable presents; but she never intro
duces them to the people they would
like to meet. She will announce with
pride last night my cousin, Sallle
Blueblood. dined informally with us
and her husband, who belongs to the
real old Blueblood family, was so full
Of funn but she never tries to mix
water and oil by bringing together the
new friend on whom she is sponging,
and the old ones among whom she is
counted bad form but still as "one OF
us" Sometimes, Madame, the newly
rich, is clever enough TO read her char
acter and in a very short time drops
her; being certain that she can a.one
more easily obtain her object in life
than if she were hampered by lot OF
undesirable hangers-on. This type
of woman is invariably the one who
will undertake arranging Christmas
tree, or festival of any sort for some
society; she says, with a certain
amount of truth, but she says it to
herself alone, that she has right,
since she mas worked SO hard, to take
a few special toys that she wishes TO
send away for gifts, as a sort Of wage,
but she isn't honest enough TO mention
this to the committee, and so she may
be numbered among the polite thieves.
She wants to belong to no society I'M
less she has charge Of the funds. Oh,
of course her accounts are invariably
correct, but, still she manages to get
either as a percentage from the people
with whom she spends the money, or
in some round about way, what the
darlxies call
'PICKINGS AND STEALINGS."
AprCpos Of stealing, there is a great
deal Of that done about which the
world at large doesn't hear. All New
York, however, has heard of the latest
theft-the sable cape. At very fash
ionable luncheon not long ago, the
bride, in whose honor it was given, was
the last to leave. Her hostess went up
in the dressing room with her and to
their horror, instead OF the superb
sable cape which she had worn, and
which was one Of her wedding pres
ents, she foupd a tattered mink one,
having inside it the name of a cheap
furrier. The hostess, who had not lost
her belief in humanity then, suggested
that there must be a mistake. A note
was written to each lady present ask
ing her if, by mistake, she had taken
a cape which had in it the name of
famous English furrier. An answer
came from each one; in every instance
the writer stated the sort of cape she
wore; and in many cases there had
been worn capes of fur, capes Of velvet,
coats of cloth trimmed with fur, or fur
coats.
The next afternoon the pretty bride,
wearing a coat Of cloth and carrying in
her hand a very simple muff was walk
ing down the avenue with her mother.
She suddenly clutched her parent by
the arm and said in a husky voice;
There's my cape"
THE PURLOINER ACCUSED.
The two ladies quickly walked up to the
wearer of the sables. She was girl OF
good standing who had been present at
the luncheon but whose people were not
wealthy enough TO have bought her such
a cape as the one she was wearing. The
mother said to her with much tact:
Miss Highbred. did YOU not. by mistake,
take my daughters cape yesterday
Miss Highbred Grew herself up very
stialy and said:
Il answered your daughters note, and
I know nothing whatever about the cape"
The little bride, losing all control Of her
self said:
why, you nave IL Ol'
The young woman gave her one naughty
look and announced:
you are crazy; the cape that ! am now
wearing was sent to me by a cousin in
England"
What can they do? There is nobody who
saw her take the cape. She went upstairs
with the others. and a maid helped her
assume whatever she picked up as be-
longing 10 herself. Nobody is willing to