Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-06
ADJUSTMENTS In N
ments of the Society People Dur
ing the Winter Season.

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The ladies who form Vienna society
are, in the autumn days, absent from the
capital. Usually the first week of De-
cember sees their return, when prepare
tons for Christmas and New Year be-
come necessary. Then the pleasures Of
the season, varying with the different
classes, really begin, those Of the perhaps
1000 a~ristocratic women and the wives
of the leading financiers being consider
ably more elaborate than the moderate
pleasures of the middle classes, says the
London Telegraph. AS a house game.
even ping-pong is still in great favor;
there is even a ping-pong club in Vienna,
to which the leading tennis players be-
long.
But the favorite outdoor winter
amusement of the Vienna ladies is I'M
doubtedly skating. On the immense
surface of the Eisverein grounds they
display their skill and grace, TO the ac-
compartment of lively military music.
Between three and four on a clear, fros-
ty afternoon all that Vienna boasts of
youth and beauty is to be found at the
Eisverein club. When unwelcome no.
tees, fixed in prominent places in the
city, state that a thaw (tauwetter) has
set in, the fashionable crowd join the
Corso in the Ringstrasse, where the
promenade continues until darkness
causes a rush to those confectioners
shops for the time in favor, where cof-
fee and sweets are enjoyed. The Jours
form also an important part of the win
ter's social pleasures.
On all visiting cards is to be read sec
ond Wednesday, every third Tuesday, at
home, LIST and 18th, etc. These are sent
by post to different circles of friends,
and the rounds begin, the more formal
the occasion the less agreeable (gemuth-
lich) it is found BY the visitors. The
rooms are adorned with flowers. Cake
biscuits, sandwiches, tea, coffee are Of
fered, a few words spoken upon the lasi
premiere or the latest political or SO
departs to a second. third or fourth
house. Committees of ladies also fire.
quently sit in the winter months tc
arrange concerts, fetes or bazars fol-
charitable purposes.
Every distinguished Wienerin must
also attend the Sunday morning Phil
harmonic concert, and she possesses a
box. or a portion, if only the eighth or
sixteenth part of a box, at the Burg
theater or opera house, where she duly
appears on the fourth or eighth or six
teenth day. The concerts, again, at the
must by no means be neglected.
The height of the Vienna season is,
of course, in the carnival, which begins
at Epiphany day and continues until
Ash Wednesday. Commencing with the
court balls, a long series of balls and
dances follow, and no evening passes
without a dance. With such contilA
Gus practice, especially in waltzing, no
wonder Vienna m are called
queens of the dance. The attempt last
season to introduce the cakewalk into
the Vienna salons failed.
The wives and daughters of the we'll
to-do middle classes are also richly
PROVIDED with amusementS. Ihey also
skate-if not at the expensive Eisverein
and they, too, join the fashionable
Ringstrasse Corso, but at a later hour.
from six to eight. Their Jause (Anglice
tea) is usually taken in one Of the large
cafes, which at the tea hour overflow
with these ladies, or they are to be found
at the Tiroler Hof or the Wiener
Molkerei. Their favorite Sunday amuse-
ments are the concerts at the Cursalon
and the Volksgarten. The Ladies' club
founded some years ago at Vienna, did
not long survive. Had card playing
been allowed it would probably still be
in existence. as high play is the delight
of the Wienerin, who is accustomed to
a round of movement and excitement.