American Society Girls Rooms.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 524, 5 January 1889, Page 4

American Society Girls Rooms.

j jiiit O.n: room o! a. society <Av\ whose name I could vienihm but may not! The odd things upon, the walls and lying scattered about (writes Clara Belle in the Cincinnati J.'ii'j/iirrr) are a wonderful mystery to the uninitiated. A variety of cigars .-.impended from the tnantfil by differenfci hued ribbons or a bunch ot ci;^avpUcs attached 10 a pieiure franid by means oh" a largo ribbon bow, are easily known for what they are ; but a pretiy iittio box on the i.oilot tablo with the mii scriptioii : • Cm: sated July l'J, J«H7,' calls for many a guess. The opened lid discloses a small heap of <;r>iy as!;<\-3 witii another inscription : 1 MomiU hescri, July i'J. !« v i 7.' It is the ashes of a CiVjar smoked by the fair owner during a mild I'irliition oi the" b?t foason. A parcel 01' canes, t-rojihies won in fencing matches, occu];:cs ix prominent, whII f-pace, and a vclvpt pla^juo luountcd wifh pipes ol' every kind, from common clay, through cob txml bmrwood to meerschaum, are souvenirs of friemß Ail sorts of riding whips rNo' liko car. rails from a large vase, a pair of or.r-; marked • Isles of Shoals/ arc crossed over tii/; door, and ,i genuine ii.^h net is draped over a ir.ro', oi siatuaiy. Theso are <j_uito common | b-oa\onin; of va-uiion dp.liylits and lender re col. • lef:tion~ ; fyJii- m:iny of tho vie with each i oilier in colloeiing oddities. One ox them [ oxhibiis a tiny Japanuso bowl tilled widi shining I o!;]ecfs ol ivory whiteness. i ■ Tjmso arc, the uvzl tect)i of my friends" J babieV ihe esphiin?. j One b:i-; :: puncli boy.i Jiuif/illed with clippings of hair. • J-Voni ino:;s!.achc.-,' flic nivdterioas;ly whispers. ' From moustaches that have ventured dangerously near,' the other girls say. ' and she has a | fancy for carrying .vjmc pretty gold scis.iors I sheathed at her belt." | She herself declares that she is collecting 1 hair for ji hammock pillow on which to 1 dream of. what might have been. They do_ say t-lmt many an incipient moustache has so suffered from those pretty gold scissors that the wearer has had to shave and begin over Rgain. It might not be safe to infer that the hirsute souvenirs were surrended gallantly as a tribute for a kiss. In the .same room a silken banner with designs from the cigar boxc-, of the favourite brands of favoured, friends, fringed 'with cigar ribbons, makes au ornamental affair, and festoons of dance order.? and gorraan favours are prettily airanp^d abent photographs.