Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-28
People and Things as They Impress
Provincial V sitor.
TERRORS OF The AUTOMOBILE COAT
The Dewey Arch is Good Deal
the Worse for Wear.
LIFE IN a b g CT L Y


NEW YORK. April %, 1890
While Washington is already radiant in
its yerra1 beauty spring seems to have
halted heSitating on the hither side of
this island. and the LEAKAGE in the parks is
still hut a timorous. uncertain promise. The
weather remains unms low and raw. 1t
therefore appears probable that we shall
have the automobile coat-that feminine
variant Of the gunny sdck-on universal
View until summer drives it to the camphor
chest or the rag bag. for the fat has been
issued from Paris that next season the
automabi-e coat will be as dead and gone
as the ! .st'r.
Th- one excuse that can be here present
ed for infringement on The Stars fashion
columns is that the automobile coat frenzy.
which has consumed the women of this
town since the beginning of the cold wealth
er. is sufficiently extraordinary to be en-
lars,.tI upon even out of its proper place.
They al wear EN-. The lady who emerses
from Rector's in an appliqued automobile
coat that cost somebody $40 steps into
her electric vehice and in the next block
she sees young woman returning from her
labprs in sweat shop or in downtown
hashery for men stepping out Spiendlter-
ou<ly in a sl9s imitation of the $40 wrap
The bag wrap is ubiquitous as the news
boy If you stand in Madison Square Park
just before s o'clock in the morning you'll
the department stores are wearing grlsly
Tapping counterfeits of the autocoats
All Dress Alike.
Women in New York take up some fads
of dress that are calculated to show them
off to the best advantage. but the woman
who can look handsome or pretty or grace
full or in any wise attractive in an automo-
bile coat has got to be very magnificent
creature indeed. The auto-coat frenzy is
This
population. All Of the men in New York
who can afford to buy good clothes dress
precisely alike. So do the women. There
are few American cities where there is less
individuality in the dress of both men and
women. For all of this. the New York man
smiles conplaisantly when he returns from
bit of trip away from this town and IS
highly pleased TO dwell upon the fact that
everybody he met in the provinces knew he
was Moo Yawker'' before he told him
One of them was telling visiting pro-
vincial that the other day
No doubt the provincial replied. 1T
was probably because you never thought of
giving up your seat in street cars to wo-
men because you dug your elbows into
everybody who nbstructed your path on the
public thoroughfares. because You slammed
storm doors in the faces Of folks behind
you and because You swagger like royal
marine with a TWO days liberty and four
sh!lings drunk money on his person."
Oddly enough. the New York chap ap-
peared To be quite mifed over this way of
putting II
Marriage Death.
1t Will soon be necessary for young wo-
men in this town who perceive the advan-
tageousness of declining the offers of mar
riage Of their suitors to wear suits OF
armor chain and face protectors when the
hour arrives for them to pronounce the final
No. The custom is rapidly growing
among the Suitors over here of puncturing
the young women who decline their hands
hearts LETT ont of
heavy bulldog guns until the girls res=rn-
Bile undnimated sleeves. or of hurting a
quart Or 50 Of yitriOl into their counte-
nances- There have been at least half
dozen cases Of this sort in New York dur
ing the past two weeks. Three of the gem
tlemen burned their idols heads off right
down 10 the neck with vitrioI when they
got the sack, and the remainder of them
executed fatal 0ne-sided gun or knife plays
upon the objects of their alteration when
they We're finally informed that they
wouldn't do as husbands There should be
an agitation here to the end that all stead
les be searched for implements of death
or Disagreement before they step under the
hntels Of the doors behind which their
young women friends sit waiting.
A Brooklyn young woman escaped death
the other day by praiseworthy exhibit
ton of foresight. When young man that
she couldn't see in the light of hus-
band called upon her. her feminine intui-
ton deduced from his agitated. uncanny
manner that he carried some kind of an
instrument upon his person that wasn't
going 70 do her any good in case she wasn't
agreeable TO his implorations. She had re-
fused him some 1000 times but she didn't
refuse this time. She said yes right
away. and the young man
Unused and carried aloft over her recon-
sideration that he pulled a large 40 six
shooter from his rear pocket, remarkinS
at the same time. Tsay. Mag, youse 'ud
ha' got some o these pills if youse hadn't
ha' bin good Mag took il ali Ight-heart-
edly, but when the young man departed
he hadn't proceeded two blocks before
ponderuus cop wrapped his arms around
him from behind, and now the youth is
doing a little six months retreat over
Blackwells Island. Before he is again
turned loose the apple of his eve who
quick thinker will probably have decided
that the salt air over here is too trying
on the complexion and remove farther in
land.
Gallery Gods Going.
The gallery god will soon be as extinct
over here as the dodo and the icthyosaurus
are everywhere. Most of the standard
price New York theaters charge a half
dollar for a seat in the gallery, and as
many women as men purchase seats in the
sEs parlors. Most OF these galleries are
50 sheer in their perpendicularity that II
they were just one degree so II would
seem that the folks in the galleries would
fall forward on their faces into the or
chestra or onto the stage. The old-time
stamping and whiStling and other manifes-
taii0H Of joy. approval or Impotence on
tne part OF the gallery god not often
heard N the theaters here any more and
on the whole, the discerning critical and
thoroughly just gallery god Is missed. Time
was when the gallery god used to make or
unnake hrst-night productions, but the
press agent attends to all that now.
An Innocent Abroad.
a well-dressed. quiet-loolxing man, who
plainly was not aware of the fact that
tickets not sold six for quarter or al
any other figure BY New York street rail-
way lines as they are back in the city
whence he came for visit to Manhattan,
rendered the conductor of a Broadway car
a quarter the other afternoon and said,
Tickets. please"
The conductor projected his chin for
ward ard gazed at the stranger in the city
with a hard cold eye.
Tickets fur wot?' he inquired DE ball
game, 'SaphO' or de races?''
Then h. handed the embarrassed citizan
four nIckelS and went out ON the platform
and pointed the 'Rube'' out TO the grinning
Niilie-boys who were amusing themselves
os iro1r