Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-15

The ibrst vocation for him to take
would be to sell ready made under |
wear to ladies. for that requires a
gloomy man, hut doutor-well, ii |
there's anything between a man and an |
anIel-that is, on this earth --its a |
doctor who cannot only cure your pains,
but make you so absolutely eager and
thankful to pay his bill that you are
willing to pawn your soul to get the
money to do it with.
tJust now there is a special fad as to
your photograph. In thB first place,
you must not have full length. That 8
counted especially had form. The very
latest is to be early Victorian. To pro-
duco ii you musr part your hair in the
middle and 0raw it down 10 soft curls
at each side. Then you must assume
a large straw bonnet, inside the brim
Of which is a wreath of roses, while
over the crown droops real whito lace
veil. The brond ribbons must be tied
in fascinating bow under your chin,
so that attention is called TO the dim
pie in it, and altogether you must look
ss nearly like the early pictures OF the
Queen of England as you can. llideous
aa this huge bonnet is, when placed on
the head of thoroughly womanly
wpman-that is. woman whoee face
Is distinctly feminine and Madonnalibe.
<-5this coal scuttle abomination really
becomes her and makes her look
sweeter and daintier than the smallest
and Frenchiest OF bonnets ever did.
You remember these bonnets, don't your
There's hardly garrett in the south
that has not at least ore coal scuttle
shape in leghorn or tuscan braid, and
one OF which | know IS 50 large that to
allow it rom enough to spread it is
put not in box or trunk. bur in
harreli In those days great deal of
material went to make bonnet and it
was by no means unusual for a lady to
pay $50 for the bonnet alone, while its
trimmings and the veil cost $40 more.
But this bonnet lasted lifetime. II
fashion ordained change in shape.
''my best leghorn" was pressed and
bleaohed. and. like the best feather
bed, the best bonnet appeared in many
will. We have changed all that now.
A bonnet can be got for s25, but a new
one is required every season.
Fad No. 2 in regard to photographs is
very Frenchy. Finished, the picture
shows pretty woman 10 fascinating
dressing gnwn, really low neck tea
gown, sitting in front of her dressing
table, which ie covered with all that
dainty litter adored by woTankind and
utterly unknowp to man, with Ii powder
| puff in her hand. as if she we're going
| to put the last touch on her face. OF
| course the face ia seen in the mirror,
and the effect when the subject is a
| good one is decidedly suggestive of
| Nine. Pompaflour or of any of the
beauties of the court of Louis XIV. or
| Charles H., those beauties VINO re-
ceired their admirers as they gave the
| finishing touches to their make up or
let the fashionable man hairdresser,
with his comb stuck in his own locks
as his badge of office, arrange their
coitfurss This style of picture re.
quires first of all clever photographer
and then a woman with a pretty pro-
file, for, while the full face looks at
| you from the mirror, it is, of course,
the profile that is absolutely to the fore,
Fad No. 3 is absolutely silly. 1t had
its origin in London just after the
queen had disc overed lot Of her old
dolls and when the rage for having dolls
all around the room was adopted by
women of more beauty than brains.
This picture shows some lady fair with
her dolls around her. Dolls do not
come out well in photographs. Even
their most ardent admirers have to
confess that they lack expression, and
what might lie called their pink and
white beauty is not reproduced in black
ana white. There is one kind OF doll
that possesses an absolutely wicsed
look. That is the lady doll from Japan.
Dressed in her kiuono, she sits in
one corner of the room and seems to
rrafnh auarpfhinn fhutfc 0ninO nm
you happen to do or say anything In
her presence that you wouldn't care ia
have all the world know about you
will feel guilty whenever you look at ber.
| once knew Japanese doll. He
was gentleman doll, and his name was
Daniel Deronda. HIS mistress grew
to feel that he read her like book.
She could stand him no longer, and
one day when she was convinced that
his glass eye winked she laid him on
the floor and danced on him. Now,
although he's gone and, as far as she
knows, will neyer return, she says she
can never meet Japanese doll, a gen
tleman doll, even in an oriental shop,
without feeling that be is saying il
Japanese. what did you do to Danie
Deronda?" | tell her this is the voice
of conscience, but she SAYS she never
heard that the voice of conscience spuki
through the eyes of Japanese doll.
But who can say what form that eX
trsmely unpleasant voice may choose
to occupy? | would prefer to have il
, inhsbit Japanese doll rather thar
take the way it often does OF making
people disRgreeahle to all the rest of thu
! world. Dyspepsia is so often mistaken
for conscience, Let us hope, however
that among the people who know tht
difference between the voice of con
science and it's imitators will be yoI
and your neighbor and Bah.