The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-20

and behave exactly as II they had re-
ceiyed something worth having
ETIQUETTE on TllB CARRIAGE,
We used to think that London aud
| Paris were far ahead OF MS In their
smart showing of carriages, hut that IL
no longer so. New York has got 10 he
| very correct as far as the stable ia con-
cerned, and you know the swagger Het
is largely inclined to be the horseS set
1t must be confessed that the swell mon
either initiate their grooms or permit
their gro0ms to initiate them. HorseS
gentlemen always suggest gentlemanly
horses to me. You know the kind. The
sort that look we'll enough 10 ride for
awhile, are then given to the children TO
drive in Il phaeton, and eventually end
| their lives in the service OF a cab stable,
| OF course, there are women who do not
know what perfection in II carriage is.
| There is a woman who always looks TO
| me as IL she might say that she hailed
from Billville. and who is the daughter
OF a many times millionaire, and this
one concludes that as she can have any
trap she wants she will pay no attention
to the fact that certain laws, rules and
regulations constitute carriage etiquette.
In the first place she sits on the wrong
side. A lady should always be on the
right OF her carriage just behind her
coaehman. In the second place, this
lady is given over to the jangling of
chains. which is a worse stamp of vul-
garity than IL claret livery with white
collars and cuffs and gold braid. Then
her carriage Us not, as it ought to be,
immaculate. One concludes that there
is no capable body TO order the stable
people just how TO keep it, while the
footman looks as if he wanted n rod APP
piled to him 10 make him sit up. A
good footman ought TO look as If he had
swallowed a board, which had attached
itself to his spinal column, and if there
are thousands of accidents on the streets
and hundreds of exciting episodes he
ought to look perfectly impressive and
absolutely unmoved. When such a
footman is got he is a treasure.
CORRECT STYLE IN LIyERIES.
The most correct livery today is very
dark one, blue or black being preferred
The boot tops should be white and the
coat have a velvet collar and narrow vel
vet cuffs. The gloves should be white
and the hat should shine as if it were
an advertisement for some shoe polish.
The storm coat should be of white rub
Der. and in winter time II fur cape Of
black bearskin should be worn. 4 good
coachman never takes a storm coat on
a victoria. If his mistress chances the
storm. he must do the same. On ham
som-that is. a private hanson, and
private hanson is u delightful luxury
the driver does not wear a livery at all,
and this is done TO distinguish him
from the ordinary hanson driver, who
always wear livery. Instead he wears Il
box coat, his collar and puff scarf are
immaculate, and his high hat has a mar
velous polish, while his gloves are dark
tan ones such as gentlemen wear. The
fashionable GIRL who used TO have Il
phaeton, now has hanson, and she
manages to get more solid fun out of it
than she would out of any other trap.
But the average girl gets u good bit of
fun out Of life anyhow. Why shouldn't
she? She is young, well dressed, and
pretty.