Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 January 1895 — Page 6
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PAPKK FOR THE PEOPLE.
BAB'S LETTER.
HOW
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TO LOOK AT THIS LOVELY WORLD.
BIG AND
America's Bad Manner#—Sketches of the "Swells" at the Opera, the Girls and Tonng Men of the Present Gone rat Ion
As to "Professional Beantles"—The Real "Society"—Why Women Marry.
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What a deal of difference it makes as to the glasses we wear when we look at the world and the people therein. To see it as it really Is, to see the faults sod .•/virtues, the kindness and sweetness of the men and women who compose it, we need to look at it, not through the green spectacles of envy and disoontent, not even through those that are too rosy and make everything seem good, but instead we need to chose those wonderfal glasses made of the finest and clearest pebbles, "•permitting the looker-on to eee everything as it really is. A good many people behave as if they always wore the green glasses that show hatred, malioe, "meanness and all uneinritableness through them. Then sue*in, beoause there is sunshine in one's own life, one is convinced that ail the world ia just as it seems and that unhappy *er troubled people do not exist. This -extreme is almost as bad as the otber, and, what you and I want, ray friend, are the dear glasses that do not exaggerate in any way. We want to see life, people, books, piotures, and beautiful ^belongings as they are—to look the truth straight in the faoe, and to know *feftt«ifc4s*mighty and does prevail.
TTTCR HKABT WITH trad rPOOH.
The average man and woman is inclined to think that sfee of whom they read as being gay, rich and beautiful, ".does not trouble herself either about the sorrows of the world, or how to relieve them. That is one mistake. The fash ionable woman is really a busy onq, but she manages to have tier pet charity, Jto work faithfully for it, give to it plenti fully, and sometimes she forces her friends to do likewise. A silly idea, the result of foolish stories, that idealizes the poor and insists that hearts do not beat under silk or satin as they do under cotton or wool, exists. The best contradiction is to see the rich woman in the hospitals, not only at holiday time, but nil the year round. To see these women carrying jellies and delicacies to the tenement houses, and entertaining grace fully and graciously (as does Mrs
Fred Vanderbilt), party after party of working girls members of the club to which she belongs, is an emphatic denial in itself.
ALWAYS IN PRETTY FROCKS.
In the hospitals, and down among the tenement houses, it is preferred that the rich woman comes well dressed. Those women on th$ other side like to see the pretty gowns, and. feel that, if they are worth visiting at all, they are worth dressing for. I shall never forget the expression on a sick child's face after he had had standing by "his cot a charmingly pretty girl all feathers and ribbons, laces and furbelows as she laid the bunches of holly berries on his bed, he smoothed the silk of her gown caressingly and said, "I like you, you always look as if you had walked out of the fairy book." I tell you, my friend, the charities of the fashionable woman are many, and if she were to give them up, the people on the other side would realise exaotly what they bad meant, and all that she had been to them.
QUESTION OF MANNERS.
Looking through the glass with great care, I think as a nation we may be set down as at once the most chivalrous and the worst mannered in the world. Too much independence of constitution has made too much independence of manner, and there is a slight inclination to respect neither weakness nor old age. A party of fashionable women go to the opera, and talk through an entire scene —make everybody else uncomfortable and then, when some man, a real music lover, who can only afford the opera once in a while, feels that he is being defrauded of his rights and ventures to hiss the chattering contingent, he is quoted as a boor. Now, that is all wrong. The women who talk deserve to be hissed, and each one of them ought to go home with her cheeks burning with shame, and think out, iq the quietness of her owtj room, as to what constitutes real politeness.
WHKRK HAS COURTESY GONE
We women, who crowd the streetcars that are already full, and look steadfastly and rudely at the man who does not rise and offer his seat, are very guilty. We go into a restaurant, where the tables are already crowded, select the one we would like to have, aud wonder audibly and, occasionally, loudly "why those people don't hurry up." We talk a great deal about respecting the rights of the nation, and we haven't the slightest particle of consideration for the individual. Impoliteness exists in every olass of society, and is the one vice which the rich and poor share alike.
Our young girls are in such a hurry to have a good time that they forget the deference due their mothers. Our sons are in such a hurry to make money that they disregard the advice and ignore the experience of the father, whom each ore is inclined to call "the old man." Our servants, treated rudely and without consideration, are impertinent, and are only a proof that the servant is reflecting the mistress as in a looking-glass. Do you think that I am lookiug at things darkly? No! Think it all over
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yotttself, and you will see that as a nation we are about as bad-mannered as wo can be, and that we will only attain politeness when each individual considers it a personal duty to be oourteous to each and every one in every grade of life.
GENUINE AND IMITATION.
It is funny how people writeand talk about the "swell set" In New York, the "swagger set" and the "literary set." The best set is that one never heard of. It does not blason forth its riohes, but gijjoys them in comfort. It is of blue blood and white reputation. Its daughters are not advertised in the daily papers as professional beauties, and Its sous are not oonspicuous among the horsey or fast sets. Charity and kindness are found among it. The men are honest and the women are above reproach. The set you read about is gov erned by the stock market} is rloh to day and making a great display. It is possible that its downfall may be chronicled to-morrow, and it-is certain that it will be forgotten the day after. The so called literary set has little to reoom mend it save that those who compose it mistake notoriety for fanpe. They talk about subjects they do not understand and they display, in a curious manner, how a well-advertised pill is swallowed without a question as to its ourative value. ».
HOW TO G«T IN.
To get in the
,olly-
I BOTH CHICK AND CHEEK,
she called herself a beauty, forced herself on the notice of the world, insisted upon her perfections until people who had never thought of her at all, accepted her own account of her loveliness, and so the name has stuck to her. She has the fair complexion of a Swede, hair and eyes to correspond and an absolutely expressionless face. Her reputation is like that of a successful patent medicine the result of good advertising. The hand somest womengln America come from the smaller cities, and if New York wanted a beauty
Bhow
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much-advertisea
ses, the
so-oalled swell one, requires very little, Simply the spending of plenty of money, a skin somewhat thick and a tongue somewhat acrid. In the literary set men are so scarce that they are accepted, no matter how, or through whom they come. You, who are from some small town, wish that you oould see all this gaiety, and regret that you are not In society. Really you can afford to laugh, for no one set makes society. Society proper is really the gathering together ef two 01 three, five or six, twenty-five or a' hundred, as many as you will, who find much in life about which they agree, and who like to come together to exchange a pleasant word, pass a pleasant hour and realize what constitute pleasure. The other is the basest imitation—-it-isn't even good acting, and the people in it oannot be lieve that the gingerbread is improved by the gilt on it, that it is worth offering, to any one, b'ttt the IbOl -wh^ jshgles his cap and bells as if hb were proud of his
THE EVOLUTION OF A BEAUTY.
"But," said pretty Btiss Primrose, "the newspapers say that" tbfc' great be&uty, Miss Base Metal, was in bnd of the boxes at the opera, wonderfully dressed,: and oh, how I should like to be a beauty!" Now, Miss Primrose herself has a sweet, soft skin, clear gray eyes, while' her brown hair is drawn back in a great knot, from which little tendrils will es cape and curl about her neck. I take up the spectacles of truth, and I look at Miss Primrose, and I say, "My dear, the young lady you talk about is not a beauty, except by report. The newspapers must have something to write about, and when-this girl appeared, as she was ordinarily good looking and had
it would have to
draw its best cards from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, New Orleans, St Louis and San Francisco, not to mention Chicago and Louisville."
Little Miss Primrose is satisfied and is wondertgg now about a certain fashionable marriage, and what the woman married the man for. I can't explain it. "WE?IiIi MERRILY MARRY."
The reasons for marrying are so peculiar. Some women marry because it is the proper thing to do.
Some women marry because they want a home of their own. Some women marry because haven't the moral oourage to remain single.
they
Some women marry because they want a little more money in their purses and a little larger credit at the shops.
Some women marry because they want "Mrs." put on their visiting cards. Some women marry because their mother wants them to.
Some women marry because a man has asked them to and they don't like to say no.
Some women marry for money— money—and nothing else. Some women marry because they love the man, because tbey want to be bis wife, his friend and his companion because they want to make him feel there is one woSoan in the world whom he can love and cherish, and from whom ba will receive love and consideration in return. Because they want to feel that if sorrow comes, he has a sympathizing, loving friend close beside him, and that in the day of joy, tbera is one that oan give him smile for smile. These are the
WOMEN WORTH MARRYING.,
The others are of little worth, and never would be missed if they dropped out of the matrimonial handicap. That sounds a little racy, but it is what it is called sometimes. Marriage is too often handicapped by lack ef love, lack of oompanionship, lack of sympathy. You *jpnt your boy to get the exceptional woman, and so do I, for what a man is, is what the woman he loves makes him. Women rule everything. Really the the oourt,, the camp, the grove. And just
as really, all men below and saints above What is your special kingdom? I1 ought to be a comfortable home. And who 1b your, special slave? It ought to be a loving man. If it isn't so, I am sorry for you. If it is so,.! congratulate you. Congratulate you most ^iiicerelyi and when that is said by the lipa, it oomes from the heart of— BAB»-
WINTER STYLES IN DRESS.
Special Features of the Season—Prodigality of Materials and Trimmjnjfs—Tea Gowns.
This year's winter fashions differ from last year's winter fashions in details. There are new materials, new oolors, new trimmings, bnt the out of the garments in many instances is essentially the same. The plain skirt remains with us, though its variations have been manifold. We still delight in fanoy waists and continue to pin our predilections to a sleeve of excessive amplitude. To balance this fidelity we have shown ourselves anxious to be off with the old love of moire and on with the comparatively new love of brocade, reserving a corner in our hearts for satin, with its soft, smooth faoe. The newest material we are oalled upon to honor is moire scintillate, which comes in all oolors and is used alike for skirts and entire dressea -.i
The present season is characterized by reckless extravaganoe. Greater variety and rioher materials have seldom, if ever before, prevailed. Every sort of fabrip between serge, velvet and transluoenfc gauze is employed for dresses and wraps. All sorts and condition of trimmings are in evidence, and there is a strange and senseless association of furs and flowers, feathers, lace and mook jewels. We are extravagant even in onr petticoats. Materials that our greats grandmothers would have put into their best Sunday frocks we lavish upon the Bkirts which we wear every day beneath oloth dresses.
In tailor gowns the oolor ranges frorn the soberest tints to quite a gay maroon. Maroon, by the bye, is a favorite oolor
ANEW TEA GOWN.
for street wear. Among old favorite^ that never die is the Eton jacket. Velvet jackets are much the rage just now, with cloth skirts.
For formal dinners elaborate gowns are worn, the principal difference between these and ball gowns being the sleeves. The ball gown has as little sleeves as possible, while the dinner gown Almost invariably has elbow sleeves.
The matinee jacket and skirt have pushed the fascinating tea gown quite out of the drawing room, but it holds its ground in the boudoir and olaims and deserves the patronage of every woman who has leisnre to wear a negligee garment. The newest tea gowns are made, m^ny of them, of the soft wool orepon which so appropriately lends its graceful folds to the essential languor of this gown of ease. In addition to the usual amplitude of front and baok, this season's tea gowns luxuriate in a wealth of neok and shoulder trimming. The luxury of the present season is also exemplified in the lounging and dressing gowns made in the new "zenana" oloth, which simulates quilted silk lined with eider down. There are also very oharming gowns of Frenoh flannel, with silk linings and fur trimmings. A pretty model likely to be copied many times is in crepon with silk front and revers. Flounces of lace, added to the sleeves, shoulders and skirt, transform an otherwise simple gown into quite a dressy affair. ALICE VABNUM.
The Ordinary Nervous Headache.
A nervous headaohe will be greatly relieved and in many oases entirely cured by loosening the waist of one's dress, knotting the hair high upon the head out *f the way, and while leaning over a basin placing a sponge soaked in water as hot as it can be borne on the baok of the neok. Repeat this many times, also applying the sponge behind the ears, and the strained musoles and nerves will relax and very frequently the pain^vanish.
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OUR WALL BRACKETS
CONSIDERED FROM A PURELY DECORATIVE POINT OF VIEW.
Two Errors That Ajo of Frequent Occurrence In Brackets—High Class Brackets Which Afford Fancy Furnishings of Artistic Value and Pleaslnsr Decorative Effect.
In the decorative treatment of wall surfaces, a very important part is played by the forms and colors of the wall brackets which are destined to be placed upon the walls of au apartment. As a rule, the generality of* wall braokets suffer from twfc common errors—they are frequently made too large and conse-
A SIMPLE WALL BRACKET.
qnently look heavy and inadequately supported, and they are also often made in a too split up manner. This latter quality—that is, having too many little shelves/ mirrors, spindles and pediments—is often an indication of inferiority. The majority of high olass wall braokets that are now being made are beginning to assume a more modest and dignified appearance.
Suoh a character attaches to a dainty little ohina shelf, extremely simple and quite unlike the braokets that wetire, until reoently, in vogue. The center compartment frames a small water color drawing, and in the semioircular panel above it is inserted a beveled mirror.
Corner braokets aire often the only things wherewith to ftfrnish an empty corner of a room. These articles are oapable of a considerable variety of treat ment,- and, as a rule, lend themselves ves$*readily to the passing changes of fashion.
The market affords effective tittle angle affairs in the Queen Anne style, with such shaping of shelves and" sides that make these appear in just the right place when hung on a wall. There are also dainty china receptacles, quaint lit tie cupboards in which- an attempt has been made to depart:
:from
ungainly height 'of the' orthodox Wall braoket. This style is sometimes irkade in jwch1 form -as to- provide convenient anil inexpensive brackets td place Over laWideors provided with a wide cornice.
IijjJihfi imatter of ..brackets, though, as iii itemsltif greater importance, Decorator and Furnisher JadmoniBheS that due attention be givenji.at alJL times, to the variances of fashion,ablO taste. The French style, for-instance, is just as applicable to these articles as it'is to cabi-
BRACKET IN MOORISH STYLE.
nets and sofas, and Moorish art, too, has not altogether been discarded by the public. The effectiveness of Cairene frets, and the stained green hues which modern Anglo-Moresque cabinet work is made to assume, has insured the favor of
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Homemade Wardrobes.
In these days of contracted space there is never enough closet room. If there is a oorner of the room with sufficient space, it may be utilized in the manner here descrihfd:
Two strips of wood as long as you desire and 4 inches wide by llnoh thick are screwed in the angle of "the wall about 8 feet from the floor. Boards are out off to fit in the corner and resting on these strips. This will form the roof. A brass or wooden rod is then run across the front of this board from wall to wall, and from which the curtain is suspended by rings. Cretonne, chintz or printed cotton will make a good list to choose from and are inexpensive.
One may screw upon the underside of the roof and on the cleats as many hooks as are required, and if desired a shelf may be introduced about 15 inches below the roof, and on that attach the hooks. Such an emergency closet will often be of great convenience, and the cost will be trifling.
Beginning the Study of Music.
There can be no definite age fixed upon as to the time for beginning the study of musio. The development of the musical taste in the young is the best guide as to the proper time. Let the boys and girls frequently hear good music, and also permit them to have access to the pianoforte under proper supervision, and as they begin to have ideas of their own with regard to compositions they should have .a teacher. Onl^he best teachers should be engaged. It is a fallacy to Relieve that "anybody will do" for teaching beginners.
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