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An assistant soon brought up the bonnet, and while 
the customer was duly inspecting it, the store proprie¬ 
tress ventured to inquire : 
“ How do you like it, ma'am ? ’’ 
“ It is simply horrid ! ” was the reply. 
“ But it is just as you ordered it," was the short 
and sneering answer. “ I am really sorry, but— ” 
“ Well, never mind," broke in the buyer with set 
lips, “ what’s the expense?” 
“About $7,1 
---—---- guess," said the 
ipwoman, tim- 
least in respect to his observing the ordinary forms of 
courtesy, would refuse or hesitate to return the ac¬ 
knowledgment of a woman, even though he might not 
have the remotest recollection of ever having seen her 
before, or though he were convinced she had con¬ 
founded him with somebody else. And the fact that he 
had been recognized by a woman would be the strong¬ 
est presumptive evidence that he had been presented 
1o her. Men are not likely either to forget their femi- 
WHO SHOULD BOW FIRST. 
Who has not heard ladies express mild surprise be- 
who had been presented to them had 
cause some manj 
not bowed to them on meeting them on the street, at 
the theatre, or in the drawing-room? If you ask 
them, “Did you recognize him?” they will be apt to 
reply, “ Oh, no; of course not. He should have spo¬ 
ken first.” Being reminded of the well defined eti¬ 
quette bearing on the subject, they are likely to add : 
“ I know that 
very well; but f afiMBMM 
no woman wants | (I|||] 1 fll^ 1 
to take the ini- 1|1 1 1 
tiative. M e n Ml Mi 111 
should do that; I Mf 
it’s their busi- 
ness; it doesn’t 
belong to us. No 
one expects us to 
make ourselves 
so bold." 
The truth is, 
the majority of m| m 
women are natu- 
rally so accus- 
turned to man Iff 
paying court to sSl® 
them, to his ma- j 
king the first ad- 
vance in every- j 
thing, that they 
can’tfinditin their 'Mn* '»■*<;{? i f j S?5 
womanly sen- jfgjjfl 
sitiveness, in their |{Fj 
severely conven- I 
tional selves, to t Eij 
obey a mandate | am 
t li e y originally | 
issued, and still 1 
ating. Not one 
woman in t e n BBS feja w-Mal fe My 
thousand has any JS 
fault to find with U 
the rule ; in fact. |B 
we have never LIki 
known a woman jfllS 
to object to it. KBr 
Nevertheless, she IMJI Bofflj 
: i i i ,V< ii ! :i 
in her own case. 
Sometimes a wo- 
man says, as a 
sort of self-justi- JgS 
fieation, “ Sup- 
posing I should 
speak to a man, 
on meeting him ~ - / T - : 
after an iutrodue- f .- 
tion, and h e 
should n o t re- i=- ■ "' ■—S 
member me! ^ ■■-■'■■■sj 
How awkward I 1 -^s===^= 
should 
1 lie money 
was paid over 
and the bonnet 
ordered up to the 
house, w h e n 
t. h e purchaser 
pranced out upon 
the street, and 
immediately ex¬ 
claimed to an ac¬ 
companying lady 
friend : 
“ Isn’t it per¬ 
fectly lovely ?” 
“ Yes," replied 
the friend, “ it’s 
ravishing; but 
how could you 
talk so to that 
woman ? " 
“ Talk so?” 
exclaimed she of 
the new bonnet; 
“ why, if I had 
let her know how 
much I liked the 
hat, that woman 
would certainly 
have charged me 
$15; but now, 
you see, I’ve got 
it for $7." 
The other wo¬ 
man said she had 
never thought of 
that, but would 
profit by her 
friend’s ripe ex¬ 
perience, and 
never like an ar¬ 
ticle again until 
after she had 
bought it. 
A handsome 
wrapper is made 
of very light 
la^=^B| g^||||BBS!rf!g|liifill^=g pearl-colored 
E|jjl!f| g|g^s j iillllteil==|i merino; the front 
is made of blue- 
silk ; the back 
has a watteau pleat, beginning at the neck, where is 
placed a long narrow ribbon bow ; the sleeves are of silk 
with merino cuffs having at the outer seam a double 
box pleat of blue silk, fastened with a band of merino. 
The bottom of the wrapper has a flounce of the merino 
gathered on to the skirt so as to form a heading; the 
edge of the flounces has two rows of knife-pleated silk 
sewed on so as to give the appearance of a double ruffle. 
appear; 
how overwhelm¬ 
ed I should be with shame to observe that he did not 
recognize me. I can’t afford to place myself in a po¬ 
sition to seem to be cut by any man.” 
If any number of women feel thus, the point of eti¬ 
quette should be changed in order to save their sensi¬ 
bilities. In truth, however, the objection is not well 
made. There is not the smallest danger that any man, 
presuming him, of necessity, to be a gentleman, at 
An Interesting Letter. 
nine acquaintances, or to mistake Mrs. Thompson for 
Mrs. Robinson, or Miss Blank for Miss Dash. 
How She Manages It. —“Is my hat done?” 
inquired a cold-looking lady at a Chicago millinery 
establishment, one pleasant day last week. 
“Yes, ma’am,” politely responded the shopkeeper, 
“it will be here in a moment.” 
