HOW BELLES ARE MANUFACTURED IN NEW YORK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 41, 12 February 1876, Page 4

HOW BELLES ARE MANUFACTURED IN NEW YORK.

The New York correspondent of the Chicago; Times thus describes tbe manuiacture of a belle in the former city:— "Any young woman who is not hideous or deformed, and who will psss ma crowd, as the phrase is, and can command a certain amount of raiment, j^ inclined to. enter the belle market. She may in the begioning bave sufficient sense to perceive tbat she is not handsome, oor interesting, nor clever.

If not, all the more reason for assumption, management, find energy. Having left echool, she has nothing to do uutil she be married— exoept to put forwurd her claim to something she is not. The initial step is to give a party, which may be the dullest and prosiest of affairs. Immediately following the occasion, she writes or causes to be written, a notioe of the event, describing it in inflated terms, and especially mentioning how lovely she looked, and how magnificently she was dressed. Her raiment need not be either elaborae or expensive; but it would be well to record in ink tbat she wore an exquisite Worth gown, specially imported from Paris for tbat social event. The notice is sent to tbe Home Journal and those of the evening papers that have a Jenkins column. The notice is printed, for all such things are in demand by presses of that sort. Hardly anyone who reads it has tbe remotest idea who Miss Marigold is; but the chronicling of her social triumph on Thursday evening at the elegant residence of her parents, No. Thirty- fourth-sti eet, and of the unknown guests present, has a good deal of interest to people capable of wasting their time over such stuff. The Marigolds, of course, are delighted and astonished that any reference to the party could bave got into the newspapers. They cannot understand how it happened, but they venture the assertion that in these days nothing escapes the press aud thst movements in fashionable society will seized upon. Is Miss Nannie really bewitching? That depends. She is in robust health ; her hair and eyes and complexion are not bad. She has not tbe least claim to beauty, however, and the impression she gives ia one of unquestionable vulgarity. By a wise provision of nature, brains are left out of her composition ; her English is faulty, and her French is oi the kind that is spoken with such purity at Denver and Cheyenne. She is deplorably ignorant in regard to dress. She wears a great many clothes and wears them all ill. A vast improvement on her mother, she might be a vast improvement on herself, and still be a loog distance from the garden in which gentility grows."