{"id":766,"date":"2022-08-17T02:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=766"},"modified":"2022-08-17T02:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T02:11:45","slug":"new-york-girls-seek-a-nice-creepy-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"New York Girls Seek a Nice Creepy Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Girls Seek a Nice Creepy Feeling.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When a woman adopts a fad, says the New York World<\/em>, she enters right into the spirit of the thing and it becomes almost a mania with her for the time being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally the pretty little whim appears [sic<\/em>] to her artistic nature or is something so ultra-fashionable that it delights her very soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest and most erratic fad which has numerous devotees in this city is that set in vogue by a popular young lady, who certainly possesses a strong “creepy” vein in her composition.\u00a0 Nothing so delights this eccentric creature as to gaze for hours upon bodies in the Morgue.<\/span><\/p>\n

A theatre party with a lunch at Delmonico’s has no charm for her compared with the inexpressible joy attendant upon a visit to the Morgue.<\/span><\/p>\n

At all hours of the day she can be found at this uncanny spot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other day this same artistic woman purchased a Kodak, which is now her constant companion as she gayly wends her way towards the Morgue.<\/span><\/p>\n

She takes pictures, sometimes singly, sometimes in groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

These photographs are not wasted by any means, for they are used in a decorative manner. Many of them are elaborately framed and occupy conspicuous positions in her boudoir. Among the odd things which are used to furnish this elegant apartment is a coffin. It now stands in one corner and acts as a cabinet. Small shelves have been fitted in, upon which rests certain relics very dear to the owner. They include such articles as a piece of silk, all that now remains of some fair woman’s shroud, a set of teeth elaborately filled with gold, a lock of hair and a wedding ring. It need hardly be added that her room is not the most cheerful place one could enter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can be conceived which is more incongruous than a little banner hanging in her room upon which are written the words, “sleep sweetly within this quiet room oh, thou, whoe’er thou art.”<\/span><\/p>\n

One eminent physician, who is in possession of the above facts, said that he considered it a mild form of insanity: “Yet,” said he, “eccentricity is rather the better word to use in describing this latest craze.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever it may be termed the interesting fact remains that the “fad” has many adherents among women, who pronounce it “awfully sweet.”<\/span><\/p>\n

From the collection of\u00a0 The Comtesse DeSpair<\/span>
\n1891 Morbid Scrapbook<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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