THE PITTSBURG' DISPATOH SUNDAY, DEOEMBER 21, 1890.
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FANCIES FORTHE FAIR.
Points on Home Decoration and the Trouble
the Fad Inflicts on the Stale Creation
Jottings on Fashion and Society A Pitts
burg Girl In Gotham.
Now that the holidays are upon us, home
decoration Trill soon be a phrase so nagged
at and abased that before the Christmas
tree Is fairly down and out in the alleys the
subject of "art decorative" will be black
end blue for sir months says The Upholster
er of Philadelphia. No wonder a sensible
man crows pale and careworn, glum of
visage and blue under the eTes, when the
realization dawns on him that his wife has
the decorative fever. Visions rise of pink
scar's and blue tidies all over the mantle
and bureiu, with no place to rest a cigar
stump attenuated tables with gingerly
Vases. poi&ed to tip over if looked at little
ottomans always under your feet bow
bedecked rockers, always aimed at your
shins fussy curUius, that keep the light
from your shaving glass, and a dozen-and-one
scheming devices made for "system,"
but which need a map and a guidebook to
keep track of.
"John," says the wife, "when you take
off your shirt at night, there's the box for
your collar buttons; when you want your
flippers, there's a case over there you will
find them in. This is for burnt matches,
und that a catch-all for hair combings, and
there's the pin cushion," and forthwith she
tucks all her hairpins at night under the
pillow and sticks pins in the foot of the bed,
where John's feet invariably find them. By
the heavens and starsl If ail these odds and
ends could only be gathered together and
clustered in a sort of decoratne freak
group, Jchn would certainly be a happier
man.
The one tb'ng to avoid in furnishing a
room is in overdoing it. Itislikea woman
if she is over-dressed, her appearance is in
effective. The illustration at the head of
these columns shows a corner done by the
best decorator in this country. It is not
only effective from a decorative view, but
inciting and full ot sense and comfoit. The
fretwork which con.es across the top is dope
to harmonize with the other colors of the
room; so alo are the cofa cushions. The
Test explains itself.
TVashlnc the llalr.'
Up and awav the best thing fcr washing
the hair is hard soap, procured from the
kitchen. Hake a strong suds, rub it quickly
on the hair, and just as quickly wash it off
again.
IIow Pittsbnrgers Tare In Gotham.
A yonng lady from Pittsburg entered a
Sen York millinery establishment the other
day one that has no end of a reputation in
this city and elsewhere and selected a per
fectly s-itisfactory bonnet, says the Hew
York JSun. Sue wanted auottier, but she
felt that the prices demanded would not
warrant her indulging in to. She was led
to try on a second, however, and forthwith
was attacked with a longing to possess it.
The price was asked, lieply, "SJO."
"I musn't, I can't pay that," said the
joung ladv from Pittsburg, "but if you
will let me 'have it for S25 I will take it"
The milliner, looking the picture of
outraged dignity, exclaimed: "Do
you think for one moment that
lever comedown m nn prices? Never! I
couldn't think of letting you have that hat
for less than $30." The oung lady, feeling
cnlpalile ol a heinous sin, Ievt the store.
Before she re.icccd home she had visited
-another milliner and selected a hat that
Suited her, although it did not bear the
ciark of the more famous establishment.
That evening at the hotel her purchases ar
rived. Instead of one hat there came two
from Mme. B., the milliner whom she had
viitcu first in the morning. The bill for No.
2, however, was reduced in size, and bonnet,
outraged dignity and all, were only $25.
Ebe didn't want the bonnet now at any
price, because she had lound and paid lor
one to take its place. She remonstrated
with the messenger. He had received orders
cot to budge until the bill was paid, and
budge he wouldn't.
There were arguments and expostulations,
but without avail. To save a scene with a po
liceman, hotel clerk, hall boys, and what
not, the Pittsburg young lady handed over
the ?25. Madam B. knew she would.
Novelties In Tables.
Many tables are now shown entirely cov
ered by thin velvet, studded with brass
nails or finished at the edges with gold
cord. The tables are made in simple
straight line effects, and the coverings are
usually soft rose or delicate greens. Work
tables are fashioned with the top represent
in'; a musical instrument, a violin, a guitar
or banjo, produced in realistic wood effects
and upheld by legs, plush covered. Among
the new kind of tables to be seen in the mar
ket are curious imported examples of inlaid
work. The tops, lor instance, show three or
four different varieties of wood, ar
ranged in parallel lengths, with a huge
tulip pattern or some other heavy figure
inlaid over them all, in an additional four
or five color effect. Experiments are being
made for casting tops of imitation marble
and other composite material upon tables
alter they are made. These tops will be
made in various figures and, tints, and very
effective work can be had without much
cost. The material adheres fast to the wood.
being C4st upon it. Castings are made from j
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tides with relief designs. These castings
-are an exact reproduction of carved marble
or stone which is very expensive.
A Fretty Rustic Screen.
We have all seen the rustic irames which
have been used for screens, and consist of
roots and vines massed in solid framework
and probably it was this which gave the
idea for a screen we were recently
shown, aays The Upholsterer. The side
uprights were two crooked saplings,
painted a dead brown in imitation of de
cayed wood. Between the forked upper
limbsa cobweb is built, and an owl sits on
one of the branches, a crab is crawling up
from the trunk, and a snake is traversing
one limb. The screen is kept in place with
thongs of grass like the reeds out of Chinese
matting. The ornaments can be had in
any Japanese store.
Collars of Gold.
Neck ruches have been abandoned to the
vulgar millions and their place is filled
anions the select and favored few bv collars
of gold gimp and chenille knitted together
ran origin ribbons,
Foetry on the Wall.
There is no fashion among the manv
transient fads, which have sprung up of
late, so sensiblo as the inscription fad.
Every boy that ever recited "My Name is
Normal," has heard of the handwriting on
the wall and the intense effect it had upon
Mr. Belshazzar. It was about this time
the inscription fad started, and although it
has taken sometime to reach over American
cities, it has at last got here, and way back
districts are impressed by the touching sim
plicity of "don't blow out the gas" or "use
the rope in case of fire." An East End
girl one of thoe girls that you always
read about, with large liquid eyes and even
temperament, who never snores and
sleeps with hands resting peacefully over
her bosom that sort of a girl has the fol
lowing in her boudoir:
Sleep sweetly in this qnlet room,
Ob, tboc, who e'er thou art,
And iet no troubled yesterday
Disturb thy peaceful heart.
Nor let to-morrow scare thy rest,
With dreams ot comlnc 111.
Thy Maker Is tby changeless friend.
His love surrounds tbee still,
Forget tbjself and all the world,
Pot out each glaring light;
The stars are shining overhead
Sleep gently, then
Good-night,
Painting Plants on Windows.
A plant in front of a window is never in
poor taste, but plant "effects" are something
rather new. A housekeeper in Baltimore,
wishing window room probably and less
bother with watering-pots, conceived an im
provement on nature and painted, realistic
ally, a plant and pot on the window pane of
her second-story "front." If that woman isn't
watched she'll be stencilling a boiled dinner
design on the table cloth and feeding fam
ished progeny on "effects."
Here we have an adjustment of material
suggestive of comfort, says "Meg" in the
Philadelphia Times. Surplice folds and
puffed shoulders and wrist; broad waistband
arranged carelessly and in & manner to
shorten the waist, knotted artistically a
trifle to one side, the full round throat, bared
A Ifeglipee Effect.
that breath may not be fretted; the skirt,
though fashionably decorated, short,
lull, not tied back, leavinc the ankles un
trammeled and insuring perfect freedom to
the wearer. Everything in this costume
suggests & warm, vigorous, well-put-to-cetber
being, a wholesome humanity whose
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courage and strength would be sufficient
adornment.
Woman's Sphere Again.
Miss Kelly Kelly, of the Ohio Statt
Journal, is a regular "first-wire" operator
of the Associated Press, at the same salary
that is paid to first-wire men. She takes
15,000 words in a night, and at 2:30 A. M.
she goes home alone and unmolested.
The Wonderful Wooden Kings.
One sees a wooden curtain pole ring and
the rings that are used tor towl racks and
wonders how they are ever made to sell for
so little money. It Is done through the al
most human intelligence of modern factory
mechanism. A block of wood is put tinder
a turner. Four, five or six large rings, ac
cording to the depth of the block, are
ground out of it, leaving an inner circular
block as waste. This block, is in turn, put
under a smaller size turner and as many
more smaller rings are produced. What is
left is again utilized, and so on and on, un
til thev are down to the smallest size possi
ble. - Theserings are used for no end ot pur
poses. They are tied up by ribbon or caught
up against the wall as a whisk broom holder.
They are cut in half and form curved legs
for hat racks. They are hung from a rod
and used lor towel racks. They are ar
ranged side by side, clover-leaf shape and
serve as tops for umbrella stands. There is
no end to the use of them.
Suggestive of a Bog.
A great furore for bands of blue bearskin
as a decoration for light and dainty dresses
prevails among the Parisian women.
ABealistlo Hat Back.
The most curious hat rack we ever saw,
says Upholsterer, is fashioned to represent
an old wooden lamp post attached to the
corner of a country fence, about three feet
wide; sticking out of the post and ience are
hat and coat pegs, and perched upon the
top is a cat with back uplifted, spitting at
a barking pup below her. The animal
figures are done in lite-size and presumably
bronze; the fence and lamp post are in oak
and in close reproduction of just what some
old country fence and corner lamp post
look like, even to the old-fashioned iron
lamp which surmounts the top.
The Bower of an Heiress.
Miss Bockefelier's bedroom at Bockwood
Hall, in Tarrytown, is a most dainty and
unique little apartment, with its walls and
ceiling painted with leaves and garlands.
In one ol the panels is set an onyx clock
with a silvered pendulum reaching to the
floor and richly chased golden hands mov
ing up among the carved garlands.
The Sachet of lavender.
There is no more delicious sachet than one
of lavender flowers for underwear or bed
linen. It is one of the least expensive of
sachets, and, though faint, is peculiarly
refreshing and soothing to the nerves.
Lavender used to be grown in old gardens;
but, like most English garden herbs, it
does not always survive our uneven climate
with its alternate periods of freezing and
thawing in winter. The plant cannot be
obtained now, and florists who are honest
will tell yon plainly that the herb they
advertise as lavender is not the genuine
Euglisb flower, but a lavender balm with
nothintr in common with the true lavender
but a name.
A Pretty Daisy Frock.
Flower dresses are decidedly in vogue,
aDd are exceeding pretty and becoming
for evening wear. The daisy frock
we cive as an illustration would be very
appropriate lor a young girl. A corsage
completely covered with scarlet geraniums
was shown by a French modiste as a
splendid foil to a dark beauty's charms.
New French Furniture.
Furniture of the French schools, Louis
XV. and XVL is shown in some stores,
very high in the back, and panels of Ver-nis-Martin
finish (pastoral views oil
painted) are introduced with coverings
gorgeous in gold and deep green, bright
garnet and bronzes, as well as the fady ef
fects. The purity of this French period,
which did not permit inlaid work, is
ignored by some makers, and into the gold
of the woodwork mother-of-pearl inlays are
introduced with purple and green effects in
brilliants.
The Tennis Fad Keeps Up.
Indoor tennis is one of the popular winter
spo'ts. It has been discovered that nothing
builds up the figure like handling a racket,
hence all the girls are playing tennis "fit to
kill" in both rain and shine. The costume
for indoor tennis is more abbreviated than
was possible lor outdoor work. A Jersey
blouse, skintight as far down as the waist,
and a copious Jersev flannel shirt, with all
wool stockincs and cort-soled shoes, are
worn for this glorious indoor pastime.
The Popular Theater Bonnet.
The Jeanne d'Arc theater bonnet is com
posed of the peculiar pointed waistband
which forms part of the heroine's costume,
arranged as a diadem on a twisted brim of
violet velvet, with gold and spangles in
relief and no crown.
E0ST0ITS SOCIAL CBAZB.
It Is a Whist Party at Which Whist Isn't
Flayed at All.
Boston Herald. 2
Ten young men and an equal number of
society girls met one evening recently at a
Back Bav hotel to play cards. They called
themselves a whist club. What tbey did
-was, first, to eat a nice, long supper, then to
play eucher for an hour, and, finally, to
enjoy a jolly dance. Having engaged an
orchestra for the evening, they ate to music,
euchred to music, danced to music and went
home in a tuneful flutter.
Everybody was in evening dress, the men
in clawhammers and the girls in low neck:
and short sleeves. It was really a formal
party, just like thousands of parties that
take place in the en virons of Commonwealth
avenue, except that cards were an element
of the entertainment. The men were the
hosts and the girls were the guests, but all
were members of a regular organized active
and rather exclusive club. This tort of
thing is very popular in Boston this winter.
So
III
ONLY LOWS TOKEN.
A Christmas Gift in and of Itself
Doesn't Amount to Much.
IT'S THE HEART THAT'S BEHIND IT,
A Beggar's Doll is as Important as a
Jlilllonalre's Diamonds,
TUB SPIRIT OP THE DAI CANT DIB
WEtTTEN rOB TBI C1SFATCB.1
There is great lamentation among some
people over what they call the decadence of
Christmas. They hold that it is degener
ating into a mere holiday, a common giving
of gifts, a time when people lose their heads,
run themselves into debt, indulge in ex
cesses that make tflem not happy, but un
happy. They say people go racing around
for weeks, wearing themselves out, making
themselves nervous, taxing both physical
and nervous energy to the utmost stretch by
the strain between their desires and their
means, and to what end? Not happiness,
because the philosophers contend that that
is an illusion, and experience seems to con
firm it, but simply as a sacrifice to the spirit
of Christmas.
The giving of gifts is beautiful in senti
ment, pleasant in reality, joyous and blessed
to those who have the power and the spirit
of love which prompts it, until it degenerates
into barter and trade, until all the poetry is
rubbed off by the mercenary idea ot measur
ing the worth of its expressions by dollars
and cents. Moreover, by those who value
friendship, who appreciate the kindly
thoughts of those who know them by their
simplest manifestation, who accept with
warmest pleasure the most trifling reveal
ment of appreciative regard, expense is never
considered.or, if so, is rather regretted as im
posing a sort oi sense of obligation.
WHAT AN IEVALID LEARNED.
"My illness has taught me a great les
son," said an invalid. "It has shown me
the real goodness in people, the true kind
ness, the blessed charm in the offices of
friendship," she continued, as she gazed
upon the offerings of fruit, and flowers, and
books, and tokens of remembrance as shown
in workmanship) and manufacture that
crowded her room. "It had always seemed
to me, before, that my little gifts were of no
moment, and of no value to anyone, but
now I appreciate the f-ot that the smallest
and simplest token inspired by real love is
infinitely precious as a mark of remem
brance and good feeling. I shall never,
hereafter, be withheld from giving by the
thought that what I could send would be
lightly esteemed or overlooked or held as of
no account."
Her last days were spent far from friends
and home, but they were continually glad
dened and brightened by the little gifts that
were enriched and made more precious than
rubies, as showing the love of lar-off
friends. Uncle Sam's budget rarely failed
to bring a letter, a paper, a photograph, a
book, a ribbon or some small matter that by
the exiles was looked upon almost as a god
send. Boxes of candv, baskets of fruit, a
iresh magazine, extracts cut out of papers.
little bits of this, that and the other were
cherished and appreciated with a zest hardly
to be realized by those outside of such ex
perience, but mentioned now for the benefit
of those who are restrained by the thought
that cheap gifts are not welcomed by the re
ceivers. If prompted by sincere l'ove and
true friendship let no one withhold his
hand it his bunch of violets cost only a
nickle, or his little tribute not more than a
dime. The spirit inspiring the offering is
the point, and not the value.
WHAT A BOX LEABNED.
"I can't have any birthday down here,"
said a little boy discontentedly. "Nobody
knows us." But the little fellow realized
he was all astray in his calculations. A
pot of flowers in bloom, a dainty little vase
filled with roses, a pretty cup and saucer, a
"pigs iu clover," a box of dominoes, and no
end of little gifts made that boy as happy as
a king, and for that matter happier. Birth
day cards in the mail run up his tempera
ture to almost fever heat with his excite
ment, but if the senders could have wit
nessed his delight they would have been
lavishly repaid lor the trouble they had to
give him pleasure.
With this chapter from experience which
might, if written out, fill a book of at least
three volumes, we have no hesitation in say
ing that the giving of gifts need not be at
all expensive in order to seenre apprecia
tion, or give pleasure. There need be no
filing up of bills to be groaned over in the
first week of the New Year. If people are
not satisfied, or if they growl over their
gifts they may be set down as ingrates. If
friendship is to be measured in that manner
it is worth nothing, and may as well be let
go. It should be remembered that those
who love you would gladly give you a
house and lot, or a good farm, or a million
dollars, if their means in any way came up
to their desires, but the appreciation ot their
lesser gifts should be measured by their
hearts. If there is a time when the most
well-to-do people feel poor, it As at Christ
mas, when good will to all men and
especially to those they love inspire them
to its richest expression in the giving of
gifts.
novr some people peel.
It is the overflow of this feeling that
makes Christmas a disagreeable time to
many. How greatly they would enjoy the
felicities of the season if they only had the
cash, is the prevailing feeling. They can't
sleep at nights for the miserable thought
that their triends will think less of them if
a gift is not forthcoming, and yet, they
know in the bottom of their souls they can
not afford it that to fall in with the custom
will use them up, it mayhap physically and
financially. How mnch happier they would
be if they need only give when the spirit
moved them, or when their purses could
well bear the strain.
Christmas is decaying, say some, because
its real spirit hasdeparted. It is no longer
a joyous celebration ot the birth of the Mes
siah, but has become a mere occasion for
holiday feasting, and a giving of gifts that
are considered obligatory by iorce of eustom,
rather than as tokens of love and good will.
The same is said of wedding gifts. In old
times these were bestowed as helps to a
young couple to go to housekeeping, but
now, as society goes, they are held as taxes
and tributes that are to be paid not so
much in token of love and friendship as
through deference to custom, which, how
ever, enforces their fnll payment in the end.
"The couple who get married on the dead
quiet, without parade of receptions and
gilts, are better off altogether," said a bride
of a score of years ago. "They have no ob
ligations to pay off with extortionate inter
est. Having received no gifts, save from
near and dear friends and relatives, their
names are not paraded upon the matrimonial
books of their acquaintances as owing some
thing handsome in the line of a present to
be shown at the wedding."
IP PEOMPTED BY LOVt
Wedding gifts, like Christmas gifts and
all others, when prompted by love and good
will, are blessed to give and to receive. To
love and to be beloved is the greatest happi
ness of existence, says Sidney Smith.
Friendship is the holiest of gifts; it en
hances every joy, mitigates every pain. It
is a plant of slow growth, records George
Washington, bnt it is the charm of life, or,
as Tennyson puts it, practically, it is the
sacred essence of the soul. ' "The world is
most blessed by friendship," is the expres
sion of another worthy whose name is not
at hand. When these sentiments are sin
cerelv expressed by gifts tbey are treasured,
held beyond anything, beyond that wealth
can buy, but when they merely express the
feelings of barter and exchange, or give and
take, they are worthless.
Fashion prescribes wedding gifts, and
that these should be costly. This unwritten
law prevents many from the manifestation
of what they really feel. Courtnjournals
.show that Dukei and Earls give sugar
spoons, and nui crackers, and hair pin
repositories Jat weddings, but is Americans,
with their largeness, would; think such
trifles mean.
Herein comes the lesson. It is not the
value of the gift, but the heart behind it
that should count. Manv, many people
are deterred from sending the little offerings
tbey could afford by the thought that they,
will be of little or no account, butif sincerely
disposed, without reference to a quid pro
quo, they are received with high regard.
CHRISTMAS CATT NOT BIS.
Christmas asa season for social enjoyment,
as a holiday of feasting, as a season for in
culcating the glad tidings of peace and good
will to men can surely not grow old, or waste
into decay. In the days of the Puritans it
was derided and ostracised and denounced
as savoring of idolatry. Instead of merry
making they decreed a solemn fast on that
day which should be spent in a bemoaning
of sins. The Puritans of New England
were opposed to the celebration of Christ
mas, but its spirit has outlived their
scruples. Everybody now takes part in it,
whether from secular or church-given mo
tives. Christmas as a season of rejoicing, as
a holiday in which people delight, as per
vading society with an emotion in which all
the world takes part, as devoted by all men
and women to the delight of childhood,
holds a sway that can hardly beovercome.
Its spirit may decay, its real rig
nificance as a birthday may perhaps
lapse, but as adding a pleasure to child
hood, it can hardly die out. It is only
when people grow old, that they wish 'it had
never been invented. It is only when it
has nothing but bitter memories, that its
celebration is held to be a sorry festival.
It is a matter of wonder now to some of
thosetrained in the school of strictest Pres
byterians, how they ever got along without
it, but the number of those who think its
glory has departed and its decay is at hand
seem to be growing. Bnt how strange now
it would seem to do without it. How
would the children measure the years with
out Christmas and Santa Clans? Christ
mas is the children's festival. For their
sake it will hardlv be permitted to sink
intol "innocuous desuetude " as Brother
Cleveland would say. It will certainly last
the present generation at least, though" peo
ple are beginning to discountenance the
"awful whoppers" told as immoral.
Bessie Bramble.
HOW TO BETIBE.
Bnles Beanty Should Observe If She Is Going
to Last.
Philadelphia Inquirer.!
What is thu correct method to pursue in
preparing for a trip iifto dreamland, for
there is a right as well as a wrong way?
The business of disrobing should be
so systematized that attending to all
the little niceties included in the
process will become after a while second
nature. There is something more to be
done, let me assure you, besides putting
your hair up in curl papers and dabbing a
bit of cold cream on your face if you would
wake up in the morning looking as fresh as
a rose. In the first place, do not put off
these important preparations until you are
so heavy lidded that yon are ready to give
everything belonging to the toilet the
go-by.
And now for the first step. Early in the
evening your sleeping apartment should be
thoroughly aired by dropping the window
from the top and raising it at the bottom.
Ten minutes will be quite sufficient for ton
ing up the atmosphere. How close the
windows and allow the room to become
thoroughly warm. Prepare a big bowl of
tepid water( into which you sprinkle a
small quantity of ammonia or borax. Take
a Turkish towel, which is much better than
a sponge, wring it out as dry as possible,
and grasping a corner in each hand give the
spine a vigorous rubbing. Have at hand
another Turkish towel, and as you bathe the
body in sections dry as quickly as possible.
How your smooth white skin will glow as
you start into action the sluggish circula
tion! From the points of your rosy toes to
the curve of your soft throat you are a
blushing model of the charming ef
fects of the bath. When finished slip
over your head a soft little Bhirt,
high neck and short sleeves (a white
silk or lisle thread is the best), the rosy skin
beneath giving it the appearance ofbeing
lined with pink silk. Then comes the
night robe, and next the paiama or lounging
gown, which may be made of anything
from flannel to eider down. Tuck- your
feet into a pair of bedroom slippers,and
you are ready to attend to minor details.
Never think of retiring in any article of
clothing which you have worn during the
day.
HICEB THAN THE ICES.
How to Make Czarina Cream, Which Is tfco
Popular Refreshment.
,N ew York Tribune, 3
'''Czarina Cream," which is now served in
preference to ices at really nice and refined
dinners, is very easy to make and looks ex
tremely pretty and ornamental. Whisk a
pint and a half of cream to a strong froth,
add 14 ounces of fine powdered sugar, a
wineglass ot maraschino, half a glass of
kumruel, 16 drops of concentrated essence of
vanilla and one and a half ounces of isin
glass dissolved in a gill of boiling rose
water.
Have ready a glass of spinach juice, color
the cream therewith, beat the mixture thor
oughly and drop into it some shredded fresh
pistachios and almonds. Pour into a mold
and place in a pail of crushed ice and salt
to freeze. Serve with iced champagne sauce
and vanilla gauffres.
Trousers Bottom Protector.
It seems as if the ingenuity of the in
ventor would never tire of seeking for new
worlds to conquer. A singular invention is
the subject of a recent patent. This is
neither more nor less than a trousers protector
which is held to the trousers by means of
two small spring clips, and the balls or pro
jections at its lower edge prevent the bottom
of the trousers from cominc in contact with
the ground and getting muddy. It is
claimed that by its use it is impossible to
pickup mud, and that the unsightly method
of turning up the bottoms of trousers in wet
weather is avoided. It is said to be not
noticeable when worn, and is made in differ
ent colors to suit the cloth. It weighs one
eighth of an ounce, and can be instantly
fixed or removed.
Styles In Embroidery.
The "sketchy" style of embroidery so
much like a few years since has under
ignorant handling produced such astonish
ingly bad results in form and color that set
figures and patterns are now greatly pre
ferred. Kensington stitch and crewels
have had their day as all genuine art
lovers are thankful to know. The old
fashioned Berlin work is coming slowly
but surely into favor again.
Don't be Spotty.
The great Delsartian master speaks as fol
lows to his devotees: "Don't be spotty; take
away from your dress and out of your par
lor anything that asserts itself. Don't wear
gold and diamonds with dark dresses; put
them on with yellow. If you want all the
cups and saucers you.have broken and all
the torn clothes you have fretted over to
show in your face put on a black gown."
PatU's Goddaughter's Pearls.
. Miss Adelina Patti Baird, a goddaughter
of the diva and daughter of a rich English
Iron founder, has a string of pearls collected
from the days of her babyhood. One of her
first gifts was a number of fine unstrung
pearls, and to these have been added others
from time to time by parents and relatives,
until she now has a matchless necklace.
A Ghastly Discovery.
M. Gorex, a learned physician of Burgos,
recently ascertained the fact that the figure
on the crucifix in the cathedral at that place
is a real human body, in a perfect state of
preservation. It is said to have been in its
present position since the beginning of the
eleventh century,
RULES FOR BEADTK
How to Drive Away Wrinkles and
Bring Back Yonth's Bloom.
SHARP ELBOWS AND UGLY NECKS.
Care to bo Exercised in Bathing on These
Cold Wintry Days.
PIEACI 15 ADYERTISING SCHEMES
rwairrEjJ ron the dispatch.
Can anything excel in daintiness the first
snows of the season? They fall gently now
before my eyes on the quiet hillside. The
little wood which girdles it looks soft as a
richly toned engraving through the gauze
of the flakes. The place is still as the quiet
after death, but wrapped in warmth and
comfort deep as the silence. Summer days
hardly have anything sweeter than this
quiet of fulfillment and zest of work. Of
all conditions to accomplish real study or
mental work give me the unfettered quiet
of a country house set in December snows.
The blending of primitive and modern
comfort is pleasant where an opening door
lets In the cold, exquisite sweetness of the
dead wood spices lingering in drift of sweet
fern, bayberry and dry vernal gra'ses which
perfume the snow banks, the subdued, rich
coloring of the brown-grav woods, shot with
russett, the yellows of bark and willows and
somberly iresh evergreens to meet the eye in
place ot the brick walls and iron pipes of
the streets.
WIKTEB IN THE COBKTBY.
A house warm with wood fires and fur
nace from one end to the other, where the
glad sun looks into five windows in the sit
ting room, with as many tables heaped with
periodicals and manuscripts plenty of new
books and old, easy going chairs and
comfort-loving lounges, the city at
one's elbow, its glow lighting the
sky by night, the house to one's
self, with unlimited control of every hour
for working to the best advantage is not
this to be envied by the sincere brain toil
ers? Ton rise when rested; if it has been a
wakeful night you take the good of five
hours' sleep alter the first cock crow, and no
frown awaits you at the late breakiast, the
coffee is as hot and the muffins as fresh as if
you had dragged yourself aching down at a
canonical hour.
Perhaps you wake to see the red fires
burn in the East while the Morning Star
grows whiter and the valley takes exqnisite
changes in vapor and level light. A whirr
of soft wings at the lattice comes like an
audacious good morning, or a bird flies in
at the open top of the window and sweeps
round the room in friendly fearlessness.
There is a pat, pat of four legged friends,
dog neighbors coming up to the side door
to be petted and get the bone or two saved
for them.
A MESSENGEB FBOM TOE "WORLD.
The New York express dashes by with its
long steam plume flying backward half a
mile the pulse of the world's artery iu this
quiet fold of the east counties and the day
opens for 14 hours' good, uninterrupted
work till the evening lamp has burned for
three of them, and about the time the cur
tain goes up iu theaters one creeps to a rest
ful pillow with "Shocmiker on Skin Dis
eases" or some such light reading to go to
sleep over.
The air pure and sweet as incense, the
long hours of early sleep, the studied
warmth and simple generous care, above all
the freedom from petty annoyances and
friction o! social life are the best possible
regime for finding strength lost in the city.
I do count the years spent in cities as good
as wasted but for the renewed conviction
they leave that country life is the only one
worth living. It is a relief to come back to
cosmetics and health questions after 2,800
old queries for waste silk. Mary 31. asks:
A school teacher's hard lines.
"Is there any way in which the perpen
dicular lines an inch long can be erased
from between the eyebrows? They have ap
peared and fixed themselves only within the
last two months and are probably the auto
graph of two years' teaching, but at 28 one
does not wish to bear a certificate of service
on one's face."
One needs to be a clairvoyant to answer
such questions, i. glance at the girl's face
would tell her mental and nervous state and
the relief necessary to correct this care-print,
which would be worth all the cosmetic hints
in the world.
Is it any use to say to teachers, leave your
school behind you when you close the door?
Our school system is such a pitiless grind
that I had rather be a typewriter, a dress
maker, a small shopkeeper, or a basket ven
der with small wares than have the best
salary in city schools, A teacher's life out
of school ought to be as care-free and lively
as possible, and scholars and parents who
are able should vie in attentions and de
vices to secure this refreshment for teachers.
It instead of stitching forever for church
fairs and relief societies, the women of
leisure were to lootc after tired teachers, not
as objects of charity but as honored and use
ful ministers in the very hardest work in
the world except that of mothers and house
keepers combined, overwork would not
print its brand on their brows so early.
CHABSIKrO ATVAT THE WTSIITKLES.
Whether Mary M. needs warning, or can
take it it she does, she will thank me more
to tell her how to charm away that ob
noxious wrinkle. Holding a hot iron to the
spot, with folds of cloth to prevent burning,
tends to erase lines on the face. Applying
a drop or two of hot almond oil or any sweet
oil, and rubbing with the finger, makes the
skin elastic Massage with the tips of the
fingers, rubbing outward with both hands,
rubbing outward with the tips of the fingers
from the root of the nose, and stretching the
sKin across the eyebrows with pressure will
obliterate the habit of contracting the brow.
A piece of court plaster to cover the lines
worn nightly for a week will do mnch to re
move them.
Lama writes: "I am about to ask you
what mother says you will consider a very
fooliih question wby is my neck beginning
to sink, either side, just above the collar
bone, and why is my elbow getting sharp,
when I weigh more than I ever did. 112
pounds, just five feet high? I have read of
washes to mate the necs iook plump, out
am afraid to try them."
SHAPING THE NECK AND AB3I.
The question is a Very timely one, for the
hollow above the collar bone of a person in
good health can only be caused by defective
way of holding oneself in sitting and walk
ing. Throwing the chest out, holding the
head up, and shoulders. flat will "fill the
salt cellars" in time. Washes may whiten
the neck, but they cannot make it plump in
any possible way. The sharp elbows on a
plump arm show want of exercise for the
arms. Laura should sweep, grind coffee,
carry weights and make beds in stirring
fashion three hours a day or she will find
herself getting out of shape as she grows
older. If she could turn a wheel as
country girls turn the grindstone or the
fanning mill on occasion, it wonld be the
finest exercise in the world for making a
shapely arm.
C. C. M. asks questions about things
which, as she says, mothers, possibly from a
sense oi delicacy, do not always take the
trouble to see to. Mothers don't fill their
duty when they do not instruct a child in
every detail of toilet and the most intimate
questions of health. I answer the questions
without repeating them:
A warm sponge bath in a warm room,
with water and temperature high enough to
feel luxuriously warm, may be taken in any
state of health without risk.
The fullest bath is the best, keeping the
water hot all the time. Hall the ailments
of women are aggravated itTiot caused by
their economy in warm bathing.
The room in which a bath is taken should
be something like 83 against the wall, and
the water kept hot as the hand can bear, for
a sponge or full bath.
LIMITING THE BATHING.
When this cannot be seemed, when one
is the least indisposed, it is better to limit
bathing till full strength is regained to
washing the face, armpits and such parts of
the surface as secrete the most. The hollow
of the bosom and between the shoulder
blades on the back are furnished with more
and larger glands for oil and perspiration
than any other parts of the trnnk, and need
a daily wash with soap whether a
bath is taken or not always pro
vided one is not chilled in the process.
Eastidious women must take notice that
cleanliness, prized as it is, is not so indis
pensable as warmth to our vitality. I
snouid feel very sorry it the stress laid upon
bathing and personal cleanliness in these
letters should lead any heroio girl to take
baths in a cold room or, what is almost as
bad, a halt warm one, where she must hurry
through with her toilet to avoid getting
chilly. Better in cold weather, where the
luxury of warmth is not at its fullest, limit
one's personal cares to washing neck, arm
pits, etc., at night with a soapy cloth with
out wholly undressing, and take a dry rub
with a woolen cloth or a silk sponge towel,
limb by limb, till glowing warm. This with
a thorough-going hot bath once a week in
midwinter will keep one in good condition.
The cold lessens the action of the skin and
throws its work on other organs, hence care
is necessary to keep other functions perfect.
TAKING CASE OP A COLD.
There is nothing like a little cold for mak
ing one feel utterly miserable and spiritless.
A trifling matter yes, but worth some
trifling care to prevent what is worse. If
you are chilly get warm, if you crowd the
fire to do so; drink hot tea, lemonade or hot
clam broth, not by the bowlful as a pen
ance, but a half cupful every ten minutes
or every hour, to supply the fluids of the
body and to increase its warmth.
Areices dangerous? In cases with irreg
ular circulation and sharp neuralgic pains
they most certainly are not advisable, es
pecially when there is any weakness of the
heart's action. Learn to know your own
sensations, to note cause and effect. This is
part of the education of every man and
woman.
Miss K. writes that her eye was perfectly
well upon retiring the other evening, and
on arising was bloodshot, and remains so
much against her wishes. I trust the eye is
well before the letter found its roundabout
way to me, but any sueh case is well treated
by hot fomentations half an hour at a time
three or four times or oftener a day, hot
foot baths and mild purgatives.
Sara finds that her blonde hair the last
year falls continually and grows much
darker. "She knows a bleach that many
girls in town use, and is strongly tempted to
follow their example. Would it cause her
hair to fall or injure it in any way?"
Some weeks since I received a letter with
the cipher and device of a fashionable
druggist who enjoys the reputation of hav
ing the showiest store in New York. It
conveyed this singular message: "I intend
to use your article on toilet cerate for a
preparation ol my own," and added a hint
of some toilet novelties to be forwarded for
inspection. The coolness of this message
struck me as extreme. There was not the
shadow of a request to use my article not
the most distant hint of recognition that I
might have some right or wish in the matter
simply the seiznre and notice that he in
tended to use it.
CONSCIENCE OP AN ESSEX YANKEE.
Now I don't pretend to be above liking
pretty toilet things or at all objectionable
as people here say to being paid five times
as much as anybody else gets, but what this
drnggist overlooked from beginning to end
was that even a newspaper correspondent
might have a sense of personal right and
property which not all his plate glass shop
and mirrors would count against. It so
happened that the name toilet cerate was
invented by me for a preparation by a Mas
sachusetts chemist, which has another trade
name. As the New York druggist owned
to the agent who wrote me, he never heard
of such a thing as toilet cerate till my
article of October 19, when, not knowing
what it was, he got up something to answer
the name for inqmring customers. It was,
as he said, a fine cold cream as much like
real toilet cerate as sealing wax is like bees
wax. He meant to do a big stroke of bnslnen,
to adroitly turn the article you all read into
a gorgeous advertisement of a preparation
he never thought of till be read
the article, and then get another puff for
his novelties on equally favorable terms.
Making newspapers pay for his advertise
ments instead of his paving them seemed a
Iuminou3and perfectly feasible idea to him.
His circulars and a'dvertisements for a
month have borne my name against my re
peated protests through an agent, and the
last intimation wis that he did not feel very
well treated because some notices of his
toilet articles did not appear in the papers.
DIDN'T KNOW WEITEBS ABE HONEST.
That a mere writer might have objections
to his perversion of her work and the free
dom taken with her name, which could not
be soothed by a present ot fancy wares and
the prospect of a profitable bit ct work, does
not seem to have occurred to him. That a
newspaper which had bought and paid for
the article in question might object to hav
ing It used as an advertising puff never
crossed his mind.
He must answer to his customers for sell
ing them cold cream under the name of a
totally different preparation with such an
indorsement. His example has been fol
lowed by two or three other houses in New
York and San Francisco, who advertise
toilet cerate evolved from their inner con
sciousness. I do not choose to be made a
party to this performance. If purchasers
find the articles fall short ot the
recommendation appropriated from my
language, I beg to assure them it applies
to a totally different sort of thing. I will
merely remark to this company of toilet
frauds that they have against them a chem
ist who knows his business and can com
bine preparations of worth, and a writer
who can invent trade names faster than they
can steal them, which is claiming a good
deal, but modesty must sometimes give way
to facts. I will close by saying to anyone
it may concern that persons attempting to
use these articles for advertising purposes
may get more free advertising than they ex
pected. Shibley Dabe.
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35 FIFTH
HER JEMIE IS DEAD.
Touching Story of Tenement Life in
the Bnsy Metropolis.
A BRIGHT, HEALTHY BABY GIEL
Dies of Suffocation, a Peannl Shell Lodging
in Her Throat.
THE DEEP S0EE0W OP THE B0THEE
Mrs. Isidor Bernstein, the wife of a cloak
maker who is out of work, was washing the
dishes on Friday morning in her living
room on the second' floor of 181 Orchard
street, says the New York Sun. Her baby,
Jenny, 15 months old, was was playing on
the floor with a bagfnl of peanuts. The
child was blue-eyed and gold-haired, and a
jolly little thing, always laughing. Every
now and then Mrs. Bernstein looked up
from her task and said something in He
brew baby talk to the young one.
All at bnce she heard Jenny cough
sharply, and then came that hacking splut
tering sound which every mother has heard.
Baby had swallowed a piece of peanut
shell, and it had stuck in her throat. Drop
ping dishcloth and everything, the mother
ran over and took Jenny in her arms, patted
her on the back, held her head down, and
poked in her month, but the thing would
not come out, and already Jenny's face was
turning purple.
A BACE TVITH DEATH.
Throwing a shawl abont her shoulders,
Mrs. Bernstein wrapped Jenny in its folds
and flew down the stairs. She forgot to
shut the door of her room. She ran to the
house of the nearest doctor through the
bitter wind, which seemed to be striving to
delay her. The doctor was at home. One
glance was enough for him.
"An operation will be necessary," he
said.
Mrs. Bernstein understands English im
perfectly, but the word "operation" she
understood.
"No, no, nol" she cried. "I won't let
you cut up baby."
She seized Jenny in her arms again, and
rushed out. A few blocks further down the
street was another doctor, and to bis office
she ran, and people stood still to look after
her and wonder. This doctor had hardly
glanced at the baby when he said
that same word, "operation." Mrs.
Bernstein ran out of the house. Then
she went straight to the station house,
but a physician's sign on the way attracted
her attention, and she stopped to ring the
bell. The doctbr was not at home. As she
ran up the steps of the station house she
panted for breath, and all she could do was
to hold up the gasping baby in her arms.
The Sergeant understood, and rang for an
ambulance.
NO HELP POE THE BABY.
It was a long wait, but when the ambu
lance came mother and child were taken at
full speed to Bellevue Hospital. Jenny
was taken, straight to the operating room,
where Dr. Brooke found that the peanut
shell had slipped down the windpipe into
the bronchial tube leading to the right lung.
He opened the windpipe, but could not get
the shell out The operation permitted the
baby to breathe more freely, but it was
impossible to extract the shell. They told
Mrs. Bernstein she bad better go home. Sbe
aays sbe went away with the doctor's as
surance that baby would Jive, ana that she
need not worry.
She sent her husband to the hospital yes
terday morning. He stayed away so long
that sbe was frightened. About noon, when
the children were flocking out of the neigh
boring synagogues, a carriage drove up to
the door of the house in Orchard street.
Out of it stepped Mr. Bernstein in thread
bare clothes. In his arms he carried a
small box. His face betrayed no emotion
as he entered the house and carried his bur
den np the stain. His wife opened the door
on hearing his footsteps, and then she saw
the box and tainted.
THE SCENE OP SOBBOW.
Stepping past her as she lay on the floor.
Bernstein placed the box in the middle of
the room and then sat down in a chair by
the window. He sat there all day without
speaking or shedding a tear, and stared at
the little coffin with an expressionless face.
Neighbors came and brought the mother to.
She could not cry either. She lifted the
cover of the box, and said, half in German,
half in Hebrew:
"Jenny is only asleep. Isn't sbe pretty?
Look at her beautiful blue eyes and her
hair, which is brighter than the color of
gold. What a healthy sweet-looking child
she ist Hnsh, baby, sleep in peace; the
angels watch your cradle. Oh, Jenny is in
a coffinl My God! she's dead, dead, dead 1
Then she sang a Hebrew lullaby and
knelt by the coffin. A neighbor went to the
undertaker and brought a black cloth with
the name "Jenny" embroidered in white
letters, which she laid over the box. Then
this neighbor sat on the threadbare lonnge in
the room and began to cry.while the mother
went on with her lullaby. This continued
until long after twilight, and the mother
walked constantly up and down the room,
while the father sat in silence. Next day
the little coffin was lowered in a grave.
Electrical Lectures.
It was recently suggested that electrical
night schools be established in various citiea
for the benefit of those who desired to be
come familiar with electrical subjects, but
who were fully occupied during the day.
Columbia College is about to put into prac
tice a modification oi this idea, and its
President, Dr. Seth Low, states that it pro
poses to have a course of evening lectures,
illustrated by experiments, on the practical
applications of electricity. Dr. Low, while
favoring the idea of night schools in elec
tricity, under certain conditions, is of opin
ion that, in some cases, where tbev are not
practicable, a course of evening lectures can
be given with very great benefit.
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