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-.THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH," SUNDAY, - MARCH 6.- 189a
13
HER RIGHT TO WOO.
Even if Marie Kevins Blaino Did
liope Young Jimmie in She Did
Nothing That Was Wrong.
PUT THE CASE THE OTHER WAT
ir the Boy Had Been Twenty-One and the
Girl Only Seventeen Kot a Word
onld Have Been Said.
TCOMLW SEED XOT TVAIT XOWADATS.
ItfirSIodEraSptere Indndes a Sat In the llitrlma.
Jual Will Street
rwiirrTE-r ror. rui. mrATUt.l
The story of Marie Blaine, as told by her
famous father-iii-law, is old very old as
old, indeed, as that ot the Garden of Eden.
The woman did it, of course. The woman
was at the bottom of it as usual. The man
was a poor victim of a woman's wiles and
smiles. The tale, as told, shows how much
smarter was the girl than the boyj It re
veals how much more brains the wife had
than the husband. Italsp thovrs that when
a woman v ills in dead earnest, she usually
makes her point .whether fathers and moth
ers, are willing or not It Mas what the
world agrees upon as a mad marriage a
cave of "marry in haste and repent at lei
sure," a ca-e of calf love on both sides,
which nearly always ends up in disaster.
Parents knowing that marriage is a serious
matter and that it should not be entered
upon without careful consideration, are
naturally opposed to either son or daughter
assuming its responsibilities at an early age,
and in a clandestine manner particularly.
1'ather Elaine's Mdo of It,
The straight story told by Mr. Blaine as
to the marriage of his son leaves it plainly
to be inferred that "Jinimie" was "roped
in," as. they say out "West, by a girl who
was anxious to marry into a distinguished
family. She was young, pretty and am
bitious. A brilliant marriage is held to be
the highest success a girl can reach in
society. In this case an alliance was in
iew with wealth, high position and a great
name. "With the bliss of love's young dream
thrown in, it is not to be wondered at that a
fashionable girl, with all the teachings of
totiety in mind, a ailed herself of the op
portunity to marry even a poor young man
like "Jimmie."
Kur-km sets down Dcsdemona as among
the perfect woman as lonely and faultless,
and as belonging to the highest and most
heroic type of women. Yet she held by
most of the critics to be so noble, pure, and
perfect at dead of night clandestinely left
her father's house to fall into the embraces
of a "blaekamooi." She brought shame
upon her noble house, and broke her
father's heart. Yet this is the periect
woman, the highest type of lirtue held up
for modern i omen. She bamboozled Othello.
She "gac him a world of sighs." She told
him if he had a friend that loved her to
teach him how to tell his story and that
wonld woo her. This was a broad hint and
it emboldened Othello to take her to his
"sooty bosom" and finally they eloped and
were married.
Slarle a Good as Desdemdna.
If this is the way that perfect women and
highest types act, why are not the nine
teenth century heroines who run off with
tiie penniless coachmen for pure love, or
those who elope with silly liomeos when
they are far gone, and suffering much ex
tremity for lote as was "Jimmie"
equally as highlv esteemed. According to
the testimony of the great poets and men of
the world whom ltuskin backs up, the
women who are to be the models tor the
girls of to-daj are the Dcsdemona!., the JJosa
!?, the Jvltcts; but if they are, why should
the heroine ot the late famous failure in
marriage be so strongly condemned'.'
A lo cr' eyes w ill gaze an casle blind.
That -he w blind seems plainly pro ed.
Matchmakers are held in reproach, but
matchmakinc is a business constantly pur-t-ucd
olteutimes by those ho most zealously
condemn it. In secret they feel entirely
iustilied in bringing friends together and in
enraging in a constiiracv for making them.
hanpv 0 helping to secure advantageous
' marriages. Kow if a girl chooses to select
the man she wants to marry, where is the
great lault or wrong in her endeavoring to
secure what she thinks will make her
happy. All strategy, they say, is fair in
loe and war.
The Othir Side of the Fence.
Men of all ages, even up to the eighties,
are seen attempting to marry wives in their
teens and twenties, but they are not re
proached with duplicity and hypocrisy, and
taking a mean advantage of np'oor, innocent
cirl If "Jimmie" had been almost 21 as
lie claimed to be, and "Marie" had been 17,
it is hardlv likely that he would
have been held up to scorn as haying se
cured his bride unfairly and under false
pretenses. Why, then, should the woman
be condemned for endeavoring to obtain
the man of her choice, when she deemed it
w ould be for her benefit, and that such mar
riage by the unwritten laws of society would
be considered a brilliant success?
A woman who is ambitious is as careful
to consider the-stepping stones to place and
pouer as a man. By tact and smartness,
she 1 as likely to gam her point as he, but
the fact is that when she succeeds it is set
doun to artifice and deceit, while in
him it is handsomely called capacity
lor success. Etcry man is struggling
lor renown, or wealth, or power, or influ
ence of some sort. He aims to stand high
anion: his fellows, and cut some sort of a
fijure in the world. In Eociety the same
desire, faculty, ambition is manifested by
managing, mothers and ambitious daughters
in the matter of marriage. Kank, title,
monej, high position that will open up to
them the honors and pleasures of life are as
eagerlj looked out for and as ardently pur
sued. The Fault or the Teachln;.
People affect to despise mercenary mar
riages. They are shocked at the idea"of the
sacred coutrtt being anything but a "love
affair." But as long as modern girls of
fashionable life are educated with the idea
that marriage is to be their end and aim,
tne are sumcientiy instructed to endeavor
to hx their affections upon eligible men. By
That is meant men with sufficient fortunes
to lne in good stTle, and with the capacity
for getting on in the world.
faoniebud says that the average of fools
is cry well kept up, but it is likely that
if the facts could be ascertained men are
more given to making failures in marriaee
than women. They are more captivated by
men. prettiness, wcakmindedness or-frivoli-ty.
Then when the dream of bliss is broken
and they find themselves joined to a vapid,
silly, empt j -beaded soul ignorant and ex
acting to whom they must sit opposite
three times a day, they become thoroughly
miserable and realize what bitterness it is
to draw a blank in the great lottery. Tal
mage savs somewhere that if a man selects
a v ife without consulting the Lord about it,
. there are t-'3 chances to 1 that be will select
the wrong rib, but as women can give their
whole time and thought to it they-are not
so likely to make such glaring mistakes.
M omen "Waltins For Wooers.
The tendency of the age, says an English
writer, is to right one of the wrongs of
modern chilization by changing the old
idea of sitting idly at home waiting for
wooers, by making it fashiouable lor women
to improve the shining hour by doing the
wooing themselves, instead ot sitting in
moated granges waiting for the coming man,
they can just modestly and charmingly take
the" lead themselves. He maintains that
marriage is an indispensable institution. It
is alike the. mission of both men and women
to marry, but whereas women are honorably
anxious to fulfill this mission, vet men are
more disposed to shirk if, and according
to the long held notions to his chief con
trol is its furtherance entrusted. In short,
he plainly makes "out that "husband
hunting,"' however outrageously im
modest it may be considered, is the
right explanation of how marriage is to.be
carried on. He "nuts together, as he says,
the th,rce facts of nineteenth century civili
zation, viz: Men are becoming averse, to
marriage; it gives no object in life but mar
riage to women, and yet the fashion con
demns the latter to remain, in the back
ground and wait until some heaven-appointed
man comes along and proposes. ".Husband-hunting"
and '.'match-making" have
been held under condemnation by all of the
drawing room dowagers and porch chair
cats and sewing society gossips, but they
are quite common, notwithstanding, under
the rose. The British matron has hitherto
been considered the greatest "adept in the
business, but American fashionable mothers
and daughters could now give tnem pointers
in these arts.
. The Old Ideal for a 'Wire.
The old-time ideal w.ife is certainly going
out of style. In the days of the grand
mothers she was pictured in most men s
minds as a little tender ignorant mortal who
would cling to him as the ivv to the oak,
and worship him as a sort of a god, whose
words were her laws. She was to be patient
under every provoi-atiou, sacrifice her every
wish to his, and look up to him as her mas
ter. She was not to hanker after book
learning.norread thenewpaprs. Herpleas
urs was to be found in cooking and darning
and drudging. To come up to the standard
of a good wife she was to be willing to be
her husband's door mat, to exist in bondage,
and to lhe under a burden of domestic care.
Even in those early days of bigotry and
narrowness and superstition when blue
laws were in fuller force than now good
old grandmotbers'had to work on Sunday
and on holidays, and the girfs were not al
lowed to go to school.
But with the advan.ee of civilization men
ha e changed as well -as women. The men
of to-day, in the main, do not set up as des
pots in the family. They do- not demand
cringing obedience from their wives. They
would not get it if they did. "Whether.it
is called evolution or revolution women aTe
everywhere demanding lair play in the
world, and are everywhere upsetting old
ideas and knocking out the old ideals. They
hae do desire to "usurp man's place, but
they want to hold their own..
Signs of Good Times to Come.
It is a cheerful sign that women are dis
contented with the old ways, and reaching
out for knowledge, culture and training for
something better. It is a rich promise of
good days to come when men are growing
alh e to the meanness ot nnjust laws as re
tards women and children. As a writer
happily puts it:
One of the Dest results of the work now
being done everywhere hy women Is thnt it
has cieated :i new sentiment of chivalry for
the new womanhood. The old cmvairy was
inspired by their helplessness, ignorance,
quite as much as innocence, timidity and
lrail physique. Now, within memory1 al
most of the youngest, women have tauglit
men to honor them not only ior their
purity but ior their philanthropy, their
high ambitions for their woik in rescuing
the lallen, m tending the sicfc, in succoring
the poor. The flippant woman is out of
date. So is the woman whose charity begins
and cuds at home.
Few men there are now who are worth
talking about, who will deny that women
as doctors in the women's insane depart
ments ot hospitals are as much in proper
place as in the "domestic swim." Fewinen
will question the propriety of matrons in
prisons where women are confined. Few
men w ill now say that women as teachers,
as doctors, as nurses, as preachers, as open
ins colleges for girls, as establishing homes
for the poor, are out of their sphere, or will
deny that they are doing work as noble, us
heroic, as productive of good to the world as
they could do in a kitchen.
Bessie Bramble.
COLD CEEAM AND WHITE HAHDS.
What Shirley,, Dare Has to Fay to Inquisi
tive Readers of The Dispatch.
Among the questions sent to Shirley Pare
by readers of The Dispatch she has se
lected the following 'or consideration:
Maybelle Does cold cream make the
complexion soft and smooth like a child's?
Does it make hair grow on the face?
'Answer It certainly softens the skin,un
less the complexion tends to coarse pores
or pimples, in which case different appli
cations are demanded. Jf I am to credit
repeated complaints from women who
write to me, cold cream, clear 'vaseline,
glycerine lanolinc tend to a furry skin
when used as the daily cosmetic. All
creams made up of oils and fatty matter
nourish down on the face. But there is
great difference with susceptibility of
skins to this nourishment. "The mohstaches
and downy skins of South American women
are said to be largely owing to the constant
use of cocoa butter to soften the skin. Cold
cream is intended for chapped hands,
Hds and nostrils, burns or scratches. It is
an exquisite dressing, but not suited, to
most faces as an all-over cosmetic.- It must
be fresh, kept cool and closed, or it irritates
instead of soothing the skin.
M. B. Do vou know anything that will
make my hands white? I am at home doing
the housework and wear gloves of crash
while at the roughest work, and put vase
line on them at night But when I play
the piano or play games, mv hands are like
beets. Ibavenow quit playing, for I was
ashamed of them.
Answer This will never do. Our Ameri
can gentlewomen who liave the ability and
independence to do their own work, as most
of the proudest mothers of the republic did
in the beginninsr, should never have to
blush for any defect like red hands. A
woman who is "easily queen" in all arts of
housewifery must remember that hands are
not made for washboards, orbutterpaddlers,
cake beaters, dish mops or potato brushes.
They are not to be sodden in water, hot or
cold, three parts" of the time, or any time
avoidable. Especially are they to be kept
out of scalding suds, in triflinc matters like
washing cup-towels or handkerchiefs, which
a woman hurries through, tempering her
skin to parboiling water rather than to stop
to cool it. Constant scalding hands in suds
of harsh caustic soap ruins their color, and
it must be impressed on woman's mind that
neither glycerine nor vaseline, while they
soften the skin, have any bleaching effect
on it.
"When feet are habitually cold from im
perfect health, cold floors, or insufficient
protection, the hands are almost always red
or blue. Floors in houses heated by stoves
are usually cold,and a housekeeper should
wear warm stockingsand flannel or fur-lined
slippers or house boots. A favorite domes
fic cosmetic is fine oatmeal, cooked into a
paste with water and while hot, mixed with
a spoonful of lemon juice and as much vase
line, fresh butter, mutton suet or salad oil
to make the paste less adhesive. The hands
are spread with the paste the last thing at
night and enveloped in cotton flannel mit
tens tied around the waist Homely as it is,
oatmeal is as whitening to the "hands as
almond paste, and is the basis of recipes
which have a continent and court reputa
tion. - ,
KILLI0HAIEE8SES OF CHICAGO.
The Curtains for Their Windows Ce Up a
Good Dekl of Their Cash.
Boston Herald. '
The limit in extravagant window curtains
has been reached by the money-steeped
dames of Chicago, who'are using point lace
flounces for that praiseworthy object. A
'Boston woman who was sojourning in the
"World's Fair city 'recently, says its lace
decked windows remind her of those wed
ding gown models to be Eeen in Worth's and
Felix's ateliers over in Paris.
Each Chicago millionaress has hung a
banner of wealth, as it were, at her front
windows, aud the effect on ordinary mortals'
who pass by is overpowering, for 'nothing
could be more suggestive of interior sump
tuosity than these lace decorations." But
don't let us begrudge Chicago a new way of
spending its surplus cash. Getting up a big
lair ia such hard work. ' '
THE TABLE, THE
GOWNS THAT WILL WASH.
The Cotton Goods of These Day Have Fast
Colors Pretty Designs for Malting Them
, Up Points on Trimmings Suggestions
for the Comlnt Season. '
rWKITTESyOB THEDISf-ATCItl
One satisfaction nowadays in making up
cotton frocks is the almost absolute cer
tainty that the colors will not fade if "rea
sonable care is taken in the washing. Fast
colors are now as much a standard feature
with manufacturers as artistio designs and
fine textures.
"Wash nice'eottons in moderately warm
water made into a lather with a mild, pure
soap, rinse' quickly in water of the same
temperature, and dry in a shady spot. Ke
member, thatstarched clothes are no longer
considered refined. Iron invariably on the
wrong side, with a very warm iron, but not
heated sufficiently to leave the hint of a
browning.- Any trimming of Irish point
lace or embroidery should be ironed on the
wrong side, over a "thick pad- to bring out
the pattern.
Buy euough goods for extra sleeves. Cut
a round waist amply long, as it tucks under
the skirt belt. Allow a deep hem; for cot
ton will shrink, no matter what the mer
chant or manufacturer maj- tell you. '
Elaborate Gowns of Cotton.
-'Cottons are now so beautiful that they
may be made into elaborate gowns, if you
like, with a trimming of embroidery or
point lace and ribbon. Velvet is often ap-
i
plied to cotton dresses. French modistes
prpmise.to .use black piece moire for cuffs,
revers, vests and girdles. But, I-cannot
appreciate cotton and silk dress goods thus
"cheek by jowl." "White cotton passemen
terie or fancy braid is a suitable trimming
upon frocks for ladies and girls, and washes
well. ,
The goods now shown include white and
black embroidered flounciugs, nainsook,
plain and figured, India linen, lawns, dim
ity, foreign and domestic ginghams, cam
bric, crepon, Bedford cording, Chambery,
organdy, mousselaine de Inde and batistes,
not forgetting satinet having China silk de
signs of natural-looking flowers over light
and black grounds.
The Bedford cordincs are in single and
clustered ribs, and will be made in tailor
style, wjth a "bell" skirt, or one having
the sides lapped over a V-shaped front and
held there by pearl buttons; athe "habit"
basque will have a coat-tail back, pointed
front, ' high collar, medium full-topped
sleeves, revers, if desired, and pearl buttons
for the dress front and for fastening the
sleeves at the wrists. This material will
also be used for small boys in place of pique
kilt suits.
How to Make Up Satine.
Satines are fashioned like the China silk
gowns, with a "bell" skirt and rnffle on the
edee, pointed or round bodies, high sleeves,
a ribbon belt, or girdle of heavy Irish point
lace. Yokes, V's, round jacket pieces, and
deep corselets are also of this lace, and the
fashionable touch of richness is added by
velvet ribbon bretelles and knots. "When
intended for the street, satine is quite
plainly trimmed with velvet accessories or
those of moire. It is hoped that the fashion
of trimming satine with black French lace,
that appeared last summer, will never rise
again.
The crinkly crepons 'and lovely floral
patterned cambrics will anpear in a modi
fied "bell" skiit, which allows a trifle of
fullness in front, caused by a few gathers,
and a ruffle, unless bordered goods are se
lected. The waist is a Kussian Dlouse, with
out lining, having only, underarm and
shoulder seams, the front lapped to the left,
embroidery edging the garment, which is
confined by a belt, of insertion or ribbon.
The blouse is really a deep sacque and has
full-topped sleeves, or those ending in a
bracelet cuff of insertion, More.ejaborate
gowns of this kind will be of orgftndie,with
a jabot of. Valenciennes lace and ribbon
down the opening, and a flounce of lace
around the skirt, festooned with ribbon and
bows.
The Bit Styles In Ginghams.
The wonderful popular ginghams in
stripes, lace aud cord effects should be fash
ionable with a slightly gathered or "bell"
skirt trimmed with -a ruffle of the goods, or
one of embroidery, or else a row of insertion
let in as a border. The jacket or round
waist will pre ail, and high-topped sleeves,
or the ever-comfortable shirt-sleeve. The
new jacket waist has one "or three-piece
sacque back, a belt across the back only,
and loose embroidered jacket-fronts over a
yoke and girdle of embroidery which match
the turned-over cuffs and rolling collar.
The familiar round waist is at present cut
without side forms, and sufficiently long to '
'jacket is unlined, have bag seams; when
lined the same fabric or lawn. 'The round
waist has embroidery for a V, yoke.xound
jacket pieces, and corselet or ; girdle; many
of the trimming, features of .woolen gowns
are thus used oh,cotton by means of em
broidery, or the heavy wh'iteor ecrujrish
point. ' Dainty ribbon accessories appear in
IT
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the way of belts, bretelles and shoulder
bows. - '
A vest 'or V of tnckea white lawn is al
ways effective and can be made removeable,
so as to be easily lau'ndried. Surplice waist,
full from the shoulders and lapped at the
waist line,"is always in vogue, as is sailor
waist with large collar. Deep,' close cuffs
are stylish: 'also turn over shirt-quffs, and
bracelet cuffs or bands of insertion. Lace
always looks well as 'a falling ruffle. Small
delicate designs of embroidery are the most
fashionable. Black moire ribbon will be
considered very stylish or gowns having
the fashionable black hairline or cord amid
bright colors. Kobe dress patterns have
wide embroidery-for the skirt, with narrow
pieces for collar and cuffs, chambery appear-,
ing the oftener in this style.
The Linen Lawn Dresses.
All cotton gowns are not supposed to see
the washtub, but these, we have described
"mav be fearlessly washed, when freed from
their ribbons and velvets, as 'may the white
dresses spoken of ftirther'on; the styles of
the organdies and mousselaines of course
indicate that any washingof thein isa farce.
Alinen lawn "wears "forever and a day,"
yet it is not in favor with Madame Fashion.
Still there are many conservative women
who dearly love these cool white and pink.
blue, black, tan .and lavender linen lawn
gowns, trimmed 'with a ruffle edged with
Valenciennes or Torchon lace, having a
round waist, frill down' the front $dgc and
on the wrists, the costume completed by a
belt, of black or colored ribbon with lone
ends and loops in-the back,' bretelles and
butterfly bows on the shoulders.
"White cotton gowns are supposed to be
suitable for all ages, hence their continued
popularity in'all parts of our country in
spite of the favor extended lately to woolen
irocts the vear round, tiouns ot embroid
ered flouncings are easily made up, as the
skirt is a simple gathered one; please make
it four yards wide, with most of the fulness
massed at the back. As the flouncing
comes in lengths of four yards and a luff,
there is a half yard remaining, which will
answer for a yoke, or V, and perhaps cuffs
on the round waist of plain material .match
ing the ground of the skirt All sleeves are
amply long and generously full.
Some Foints About Trimming.
"While dimity, lawn, and nainsook frocks
are fashioned with round waists, and acces
sories of embroidery in thewav of girdles,
V shaped plastrons, jacket fronts, yokes,
deep corselets, collars and cuffs of em
broidery, and a skirt ruffle of edging, or
border of insertion. Some very dainty
white frocks are trimmed with lace, but even
Valenciennes dbes not wash as w ell as em
broidery. Point de Genes or Irish Point
lqce in thick, openw ork patterns, looks very
handsome as a yoke and girdle on an elab
orate white drtsi, the laces being such a
deep cream as to merit the name of "tinted"
lace. The skirts are plain in effect, after
the ''bell" fashion; and alwajs look better
with a foot ruffle. "White gQwns may be
pressed when wrinkled, and kept for quite
a time from the laundry, with care, but in
the end thev must reach the tub, so remem
ber this when "thinking out" the new
summer frock.
Although of cotton, an organdie -nowadays,
as has been said, can hardly be styled
a "washable" frock; organdies are made
over silk or satin linings, and are most
elaborately trimmed with ribbons and lace.
The skirt of a pale ecru arganely with
pink flowers and green leaves, has a ruffle,
of the goods on the "bell" skirt and a lin
ing of ecru French satine. The round waist
has only side and .shoulder seams and full
sleeves. A deep corselet tapering to a point
in the back, cuffs and short yoke are of
Point de Genes lace, laid over pink satin.
At the back where the corselet nooks .over
long pink satin ribbon, No. 16, loops and
ends, fall over the skirt
Emma 51. Hooper.
A NEGLECTED VEGETABLE.
The Carrot Is the Most Delicate and Useful
That Com en to the Cook.
Carrots are the misunderstood. Their life
in the kitchen isa vegetable tragedy, so to
speak! They are the subtle life of soups,
yet not one cook in ten knows that they are
anything but a make shift, "if you are short
of vegetables." They nre a "dainty little
vegetable in their prime, but who counts
them so? They not only help the looks,
but immeasdreably help the flavor "of cer
tain salads, yet they get no credit! There
are many ways of cooking them and you
will make no "mistake trying them..
Carrots boiled and cut into dice or strips
are a help to many salads, especially a vege
table salad. The qreat attraction of a vege
table salad is that it can utilize all left over
vegetables, being the most tolerant ot
salads. A few peas, a few cold boiled pota
toes,' a beet or two, some onion and carrots,
with a mavonaise dressing make a dish of
delight Beans, string beans or any other
kind, are good, but not indispensable. In
fact no one vegetable is indispensable, while
all are welcome in vegetable salad. That is
its great moral lesson. Cabbage, com, arti
chokes, celery, lettuce, nasturtiums I can
not think of a vegetable that is too humble
or too haughty, to associate with any other
vegetable in vegetable salad. Turnips go
very well, properly prepared, and you can
use squash if it have taken care of itself. I
did once, although to be frank, I cannot say
that I was encouraged repeat the experi
ment Octave Tiianet.
TEE PEBISHABLX PEAKL.
It Becomes the Maiden Best of All, bnt Its
Beanty Is Evanescent.
Pearls are very perishable. They cannot
be considered a first-rate investment like
diamonds. After a time they deeay. Some
times a fine specimen will lose its luster
and beauty within a few months, so that
the possessor of such" treasures does well to
keep them put away ,in a- sealed, place.
They are -very delicately made, consisting
of thin films overlaid one; upon. another,
with more or less animal matter 'between
the layers," and it 'is no wonder that they,'
deteriorate.
After being buried in, the ground for
awhile, they are found worthless. Those
whicn are dug out of Indian graves some
of them of great size, and doubtless of won
derful beauty when"they were new are
now utterly,valueless, even were they not
"uierced. Nevertheless, there is a Dure and
evanescent. beauty "about them which seems,
oetter io Drcome inc maig.cn tnxn any oiner
avrii ci jcivcl.
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NEEDLEWORK FOR LENT.
Suitable Gifts for Easter Day That Are
Both Appropriate and Tasty Direc
tions Tor Making Them The Materials
to Get and Dow to 'Handle Them:
rWMTTEN ron THE WSPATCn.l
"With a large number Easter is the greats
est feast of the year: the gladdest Homes
and music, servjee and' sermon, seem to
'carry to every heart a message ot life re
newed, and abiding beauty, and it is cer
tainly well to let our gifts at Eastertide be
in accordance. "
Ofchurcfily symbols and signs there a
goodly number," but in ecclesiastical mat
ters, as with other things, - authorities
differ, and-it may be well'to- keep to those
simple forms and those r simple colors that
never occasion dispute.
The circle ' which symbolizes eternal
life, the decorated cross that tells of con
quered pain, the crown with its promise of
glory, tne fleur-de-lis 'and the simple tre
foil, both, of. which combine the three in
one and so bespeak the triune Godhead
they are each and all assuredly correct and
can offend' the taste of none. '
A Uonbm Box.
The Easter lily has a special place; and
all combinations of white and gold speak
oi rejoicing and ot tne least ot leasts, xne
simplest thing that takes the lily form or
wears the white and gold colors seems to
bear a part in the glory of Easter.
As a suggest ion. for a gift to the pastor or
tKe church, there is described the work
upon the end of. a decorated stole, which
will surely.prove a welcome addition to the
church's outfit The stole itself is to be
made of heavy white silk in which there
must be no "touch of cream, for purity is
symbolized -by purest; white .alone. The
embroidery isnot elaborate, but it lias the
merit ot entailing no great strain upon the
eves, and when we see ecclesiastic medal
lions of needlework that have cost a
woman's eyesight, the simplicity of this
stole will recommend itself.
Tne scallops which edge the cross are to
be worked with the best of German gold
over a heavy stuffing; the line .within the
scallops with pure while silk, which, is also
to be stuffed; the circle and trefoils are
worked with white.then trimmed with gold.
The rays behind the cross call for fine gold
For a Blotter.
thread; the edge of the cross is cut as the
illustration shows. Above the cross the
circles are designed for solid gold; the tre
foils white, outlined with gold; the fleur de
lis for a base of gold, the top of white, with
gold trimming in its edge. i
The whole design is as simple as simple
can be, but it can be trusted to please the
most fastidious taste and will offend
neither "high" nor "low," "ritualistio"
nor "broad, ',' which is a special claim to
favor.
A gift which is well suited to the day,and
which will be welcome on the desk ot any
woman friend is the blotter with lily decora
tion. It is made in pad form and oblong
Design for a Stole.
in shape, butin the lily lies its beauty, and
in. the' lily lies its special bearing upon
Easter day.. The flower is first painted upon
a sheet of celluloid, thin cut on all its edges
and laid upon the blotter pad. Lastly two
holes are punched and rich white ribbon is
made to tie the lily to the pad. Thus wi
complete a truly significant Easter gift
-Bonbons are much in" rogue as Easter,
guts and are made tne excuse ot many a
costly box.. But the pretty and appropri
ate bag s'ueeested below need offend the
taste of none. Th lower portion, the box.
part', is made of four, pieces of cardboard, 'I
six jucaes nign, ana inree incues wiue.
Each piece is'cut attbe top,in the fleurde
lis, and each isneatly covered, with, pure
white silk. Then all are painted in -white
and ffoldafterthejnanner indicated, "and
then tne edges Tare -f 'the bor-jseetions,
DECORATIONS
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HYGIENE.
joined by i the neatest and finest of over
handing. A bag of softest silk is fitted to
the top, the seams are covered and hid with
tree stitching of .fine gold thread, and the
bonbon.box is complete; as dainty a messen
ger of Easter greeting as the daintiest
woman need wish to send.
Of handkerchiefs and of handkerchief
cases no woman can have too many; and, as
the one suggested here has all the beauty of
Easter color and all the merit of doing gen
uine service as well, it makes a fitting gift
lor the season about to come. It is made of
fine white linen, and is cut exactly square,
a good size being 14 inches each way, or
9U inches when folded and finished. After
the square is carefully measured and cut it
must be folded to get the line at which the
A Handkerchief Case.
decoration stops. 'Then on all four corners
should be drawn the simple daisy forms as
the illustration shows. Each should he em
broidered with pure white Turkish floss in
solid Kensington stitch; each should be out
lined with Turkish gold, and with the same
flexible thread. The centers of all must be
perfectly darned. Then the edges of the
square should be finished with a frill of fin
est linen lace, and the whole should be
lined with linen, exactly like that which
makes the outer part. The square should
be folded, and at the central point should be
attached a bow of white and gold.
The case will be found appropriate in
color, ample in space and above" all and be
yond all it will launder as perfectly as the
bits of fine embroidery it is destined to
keep in place. The linen improves under
the influence of the tub. The gold and the
silk come forth unharmed and only the rib
bon now requires to be replaced, in order to
get a fresh and unsullied case each time
that dust and soil shall do their work.
Clare Btoce.
THE EXCITED EHPEESS OF FKAHCE.
Contrast of the Pair Creators of Years Ago
and the Aged Woman of To-Day.
Ladles' Home Journal.;
"Upon her first visit to .Paris Eugenie's
beauty, was ravishing. Shexwas likened to
a snowflake on a July day; like the fairy
like mist that hangs oyer Niagara; like all
that is purest, freshest, loveliest in nature
was the impression that she produced upon
people. Once at a great ball she was clad
entirely in white, of the fleeciest, gauziest,
mistiest description, and with a very sim
ple parrure of emerald.-; and diamonds glis
tening in her blonde hair, looping up her
transparent sleeves, and shining on her
lovely neck, she was as completely a vision
of delight as eye ever rested on.
The remainder of the story is known, and
her marriage, her reckless extravagance, the
war,. her downfall and escape, are tales of
history told again and again. She encour
aged frivolity and spent money more reck
lessly, perhaps, than any other woman ever
did. She was conceded to be the best
dressed .woman in- the world. Her ward
robe cost $1,000,000, and her jewels were of
fabulous value. She spent 110,000 a day
for household expenses. It was the age of
gold. She undoubtedly was the cause of
her own downfall, but" she did many kindly
deeds. She was one of the first to recognize
the merits of Bosa Bonheur, and it was by
her wish that the talented artist was deco
rated. SUCCESS.
The stoutest ship may breast the gale,
And still be driven baclr.
What though to reach the port she fail,
Shall we declare she could not sail
Because she had to tack?
When storms Delate and plagues impede,
When aches and ills betide.
Ambition's goal-may not be won -Yet
hast thon bravely, nobly done,
If thou hast bravely tried.
"He nobly doos who nobly dares,"
When trials sore oppress.
Whose perseverance naught can shake,
Though failure follows in his wake,
His failure is success.
The fiercest battles are to fight,
. The strongest forts to scale.
Sometimes the bravest heroes fall,
Sometimes the truest lives of alt
Are lived by ones who fail.
Myrou Hamford Veos..
COOFIBSTOWlf, Pa.
AN OVER-DECORATED ROOM.
The Japanese way of decorating homes is best With them a piece of bric-a-brac, a
porcelain, or a bit of enamel, is something to be loved and studied for itself first and most,
quite apart from any decorative purpose it serves in the apartment And so their treas
ures are not set about loosely and in unlimited quantities, bnt locked securely in a cabi
net from which a single piece at a time is brought and set carefully out for the family to
dehglit in. Perhaps it is a choice jar or a bit of bronze or of cloisonne and it stands in
the best light in the room, on its teakwood mounting, and the -family come and look
lingeringly and lovingly at.its brilliant color, that seems fairly to pulsate with life, or at
its delicate up'-soaring curves. It is net there for display, bnt for delight and for educa
tion. Just about the antipodes of this is to be found in the American modern home
There is nothing that it is like except a bazar for the sale of all kinds of articles useful
and useless, pretty and hideous, oriental, occidental and infernak Take the' parlor for ex
ample,there is a carpet on the floor.and rugs on the carpet.ancF three sets of curtains at the
window,andin every window a piece of ornamental furniture holding from one to five pieces
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of bric-a-brac. The wall space is covered thick with pictures, little and big, zig-zagged
everywhere, as if the main idea had been to see how many could be crowded into the
given number of feet There are chairs sown thickly over 'the floor spaces, and stand
where there are not chairs, and tall lamps and vases where there are no stands. And over
all these there are scarfs and ribbons and throws and banners, and about them are bits of
bric-a-brac, good and bad, in keeping and out of keeping, bronzes and plaster and china
and glass, and pottery and placqucs and porceliiris and Japanese fans! These last are
always the last touch of the infatuation for decoration. Indeed, the infatuation may be
characterized as.au intoxication, which has paste J into the delirium tremens stage. There
is almost everything in a modern parlor or drawing room except comfort and rest " There
is decoration always, and elegance and costliness sometimes, but-seldom, either taste or
thai subtle spiritual quality which is to a room what the soul is to the individual the
illuminating factor. It is this spiritual presence in a room which makes us so glad to sit
ddwnln'some rooms because they soothe and comfort us, and that mates us flee from
others because they bewilder and confuse us. And these rooms set this atnm nnwur
irom the personality of those, who have made
sootmng quantr come troni simplicity and the wearying quality from complexity. That
is one reason why bedrooms should hire as little ana simple furnishings as possible. '
AIT OBXEHTAL HEAD-DBZSl
Pretty Adaptation That Might Bo Prepared
. tor Atlantic City Wear. . '
The capeline, a Bulgarian head-dress, has
been adopted by French women, who wear
it at the seashore. This, drapery hood is
not only pretty and comfortable, hut it per
fectly protects the front hair from all damp
ness or. action, of the wind. 'More im
portant " still, ' it, shields the throat,
neck and ears from draughts, and there
fore is particularly desirable for piazza
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The Capeline in Use.
and hammock. Made of black cashmere, it
is very comfortable and convenient to wear
when traveling, either on shipboard-or by
railway, and its value will appear in the
sleeping car.
For evenine wear t is appropriately
made in black, or 'Indian silk, albatross
cloth or any crepe'de chine, soft light fine
material. The hood is most simple of mak
ing, consists of two pieces; the front or
coronet, and the cape. Two yards ot mate
rial are required, but if the goods is 40
inches wide, two yards will make two
capelines. Both pieces are cut lengthwise of
the cloth; line the coronet with French
canvas. Baste the goods upon the canvas and
Ardoror.e-Pieee. '
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then braid upon it some pretty pattern,
preferably an arabesque, in yellow silk
braid an eighth of an inch in width, or less.
Slightly gather four inches at the top of
the cape, the sloping edges having 'been
finished with a narrow hem, and the oppo
site selvage being left as it is; then sew
these gathers to the upper edge of the cor
onet, fine the front neatly with a piece of
the braid around the lower edge of the cor
onet, just under; and fasten to it eight or
nine small brass sequins; an elastic tape, to
Sass under the back hair and so keep the
ead dress in place, is then sewed up the
two ends of the coronet; the sloping sides of
tpe cape are brought over noon the coronet
and fastened there, as is most becoming to
the wearer. In wearine the drapery it is
brought and carelessly knotted at the
throat
With the white veil attached just be
neath the eyes to the coronet you have a
Turkish vashmak.
them. More than anything else does the
HEAT FROH ONE LAMP,
If Properlj Applied, Will Do All the
Cooking for a Family.
EDWARD ATKINSOK'SCONTEITANCB
Tle.TVasteofFnells Jfowhere So Beetles
as in the Kitchen.
COOKING 'BOX OP THE K0RWEGIAK3
t .WRITTEN- FOE TUE DISrATCB.J
'So far asJI know I am the only person to
whom it has occurred that heat may ba
boxed dp and converted into work in a case
or oven, and be maintained by a continuous
'supply from the combustion of a very small
amount of fueL The closest approach to
this method of applying heat is to be iound
in the Norwegian cooking box. This is a
wooden box made with thick w ills, lined
thickly with felt The food, wuich is to be
subjected to continuous heat at a low degree,
is put into a thin metal vessel with boilin"
water and that vessel is immediately placed
in the box; as the heat cannotescape rapidly
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rlCl.ltdqrc it. r converted into work and in a certain
nt iiber of hours cooks the food.
My own process consists in taking'that
part of the heat which is thrown off from
the chimney of a kerosene oil lamp, or from
the chimney of a gas-burner-and conducting
it through a hole into a box whose walls are
made of non-heat conducting material, of
sufficient thickness to retain it, this heat is
subject, of course, to continuous renewal
so long as the lamp or gas-burner is kept
lighted.
In this outer oven, or non-heat conduct
ing case, the inner oven is, placed; this is
made of sheet metak If is substantially
tight, but not absolutely. In this inner
metallic oven, the food is set in proper re
ceptacles, porcelain or earthenware being
preferred to metal pant.
It seems as if science" hadibeen applied to
the economical conversion of heat into work
at every point except in the domestic
kitchen. "When generated by combustion
and applied under the boiler-of a modern
marine steam engine the heat locked up in
a cube of coal so small that it will r
through a ring the size of a quarter of a ,. J
lar, suffices to drive a ton ot food -and its
portion of the steamship two miles on its
way. Compare this economy of fuel with
the' waste of the "stove. "We burn a pound
of coal to every pound of food.cooked upon
the iron stove or range.
In this new oven a pound of liquid fuel in
the form of kerosene oil suffices to cook 25
to 30 pounds of bread, meat and vegetables,
and I expect to improve upon that as time
goes on.
At first place could hardly convince
myself that the things could be done whioh
were done every day in my household;
neither could I, nor my cook, who happened
to be a very intelligent woman, quite ready,
to adopt improvements, at first comprehend' '
all that could be done; nor did we find out
for many months that we could adapt the
apparatus to nearly everything that re
quired qnick cooking, as well as to tho
slower methods.'' Edwakd Atkinson.
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