Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1894, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. ‘ P¥eitten Exclusively for The Evening Star. N SOME RESPECTS Dorothy is a remark- able young person, in common with the majority of young society girls sne slurs her “r’s” and Grops her final “g's, according to the jatest English fash jon, and really tak unpardonable liber- ties with Mr. Lindley Murray's methods, but when it comes Right down to “get there” Dorothy does $t with both of her number threes. For imstance, she knows that times are hard @ndthat the treasury is being depleted with no show of immediate relief. But @early as she loves rich clothes she is not One of the kind to go into a decline be- cause she can’t have them. I don’t think that much praise is due her for her adapt ability, however, for she knows that sh @an get herself up in a perfectly fetching style out of things that most girls throv @way, and aryhow she is so fond of bein happy that she hates to be misera What sounds paradoxical, but I think i explains itself. I heard Dorothy say distinctly the d: Before Christmas that she needed,bu* coul. Mot have, a new house gown. That even img I found her sitting on a hassock be fore the fire, in a brown study. To my Offer of a penry for her thoughts she re Dlied that she was evolving plans for a Rew dress out of nothing, as a dr must have. New Year evening she appe ed in that new gown, and looked as p &s a princess in it. I had to be in to it, however, as I never should have re Ognized it otherwise. The material had nce been light tan crepon. Three years go it served as an evening ss, with Dise lace draperies and fiounces. Two years ago it was made up into a street dress in combination with oak brown bengaline. It had been pretty well frazzled out when ® rain storm put an end to its usefulness. Bt searcely looked fit for carpet rags when :Worothy hung it away in the closet last isn’t She Swell! lay after Chri spring. The next -in-bloom ripped it in pieces. T gathered up ail the scraps and is t had been left over, and took the whole and had it colored petunia bengaline took a mu bought new li to the dye shade so at sewing ‘woman to help The dress had been made wit tshioned bell skirt, so was shrunk in Dreadths too she Tip to cover th the bottom, rk. ‘Then she little rosettes The waist was made ek, with a piait- in front, and a of th ngaiine of the scraps < up perfectly pl ed_vest of th soft, narrow to hide wher From the p beng. crush t beit mat bs since over style v ealled for r Ee p Materials. Of course « t at @ould be ma s, bu alme if n s ly make lways , im styles and otcn joud, net iths were | able, in fact, fora woman who has to count the dollars. But there are certain standard Weaves that when made up stylishly are much more serviceable than the flashy new fabrics that go out after one season. A handsome all-wool fabric in quiet tones, at $1 a yard, will wear a whole winter for best dress. The second winter it can be made over with some combination of velvet wv sik, The third winter it can be dyed »lack or one or the other dark shades, and nade up again for a rainy day dress. Even ven it may not be cast aside, but fall to he lot cf a younger member of the family. une of the 50-cent wools will scarcely last through one winter. Certainly there is economy in the higher-priced mate In selecting light materials for a dr if care is exercised in picking an Theater Waist. wool,” the dress may be consigned to the dye tub after its first*freshness has worn off and come out looking like new; but the half-cotton dress fabri are a delusion and a snare. ‘ To Renovate Old Dresses. It is really an easy matter in these days to renovate old dresses. A young friend of mine had a plain brown Henrietta cloth dress that she simply detested. it had a round waist, and was made with a plain bell skirt. It was never a becoming dres: because it was too plain for so tall a girl. She got some dark brown velveteen and made big puffed sleeves and arranged a rounded jacket effect in front and put two ruffles of the veivet below the waist. On the foot of the skirt she put a very wide band of velvet,, with a piping of yellow silk at the upper edge, and lined all the ruffles with yellow India silk. She finished all the edges with a gilt gailoon. To wear with this she fashioned a brown velvet hat, split and turned up at the side, with two yel- low tips and a rosette of brown velvet to finish it off. The effect was ning, and there was not a sy ‘make over” in the whole gown. Dorothy and this young persons are great chums, and they can either of them make $1 do the work of % if you just give them to under- stand that $1 is the limit. Otherwise the gold reserve would soon vanish. A Handsome Ball Wrap. I wonder if many people noticed the ball- quitting wrap worn by one of the prettie young matrons who attended the Bachelors’ cotillion. It was of black velvet with cloth of gold-brocaded figures and lined with what looked to be ermine, but, between you and me, I think it was only imitation. ii} it answered every purpose and was a ptuous looking garment. It could e be reproduced in plain dark velvet of any shade and bordered with mink or gray fox and be almost as rich looking. A ric) dark green velvet lined with white brocaded satin and trimmed with sable would be very stylish. Ashamed of Her Age. mptom Fashion magazines seem to have very lit- tle thought for old age. They evidently con- sider that a woman past fifty should give up all the frivolities of the world and spend er declining years in loose house gowns and felt slippers. It is an awful mistake and leads lots of women to horrid attempts at disguising their ages. I saw such a wo- man recentiy, s accompanied by a little girl about se pretty well bred child full of life and int st in all that was going on. “Oh, gradm she exclaimed at something she saw from the window in the hotel parlor. The old chromo turned on the child and in a fie>ce undertone said: “You little torment, don’t call me grand- ma. I told you to-say dearest!” The frightened little girl crouched down in her chair with the quick tears hanging on her eyelashes, while Ri -bloom nestled up to me and whispered, “Isn't she just awful? I'm glad she isn’t my grandma.” The woman was one of the caricatures who are ashamed of their age. Her thin locks had been bleached and tortured into The glaring con- the frizziest of coiffures. flashing nd her neck, n her skinny silk if it wants to, and a white-haired old lady in eminence purple is simpiy superb, but the a jories must be in touch and tone with each other. Gray hair is pretty i can’t comprehend wny women Wish to colour or bieach if, ature has wisely proviged that tue awir anu com- piexion show match, and as the years go by, changing We Ussues of the bouy, te haar aisu Changes its cor, The guid of ehuanood rarely 4s Ils yeuow sheen aiter the Urst youth, ana, i you Will no- luce, the Womaa whose yellow locks are naturally hers after Uuirty you Wii ina that they beiong tu tuat treak of aatue, the Albino, and are never attractive. est old ag ion may clothe itself in any ot ne darker colors, and the richer the taorie the better. Veivet is particularly becoming and fmne, soit laces, both black and wal cut jet and a little touch of silver or cut steel may be worn by an old lady, but no gold embroideries; they belong to youth. af the brightness of the is retained al- most any of the finer gems may be worn, but if the eyes are dim or watery the wise old lady will avoid the contrast, and lock her jewels up in their casket or give them to her granddaughter. On her own person they will simply draw attention to the fact that her face is wrinkled and her eyes lusterfess, I saw a handsomely gowned old lady at a 5 o'clock tea recently. She was dressed in velvet, a shade of blue so dark | as to appear black by gaslight. White thread lace was gathered into a wide vel- vet band around the neck and then cascad- ed in two rows down the front to round off in pannier style; at the foot of the dress the rare old lace was caught in graceful festoons over a knife plaiting of dark blue peau de soie. Her soft white hair was waved in front and twisted high in the back. This dear old lady’s face was seam- ed with fine wrinkles, but her cheery laugh and flashing dark eyes were as young as her granddaughter’s, and that young lady was very proud of the presence of her grandmother at her coming-out tea. For the Theater. Women are paying more attention to dressing for the theater this season than they have before in years. Evening @ress and unbonneted heads are the rule for the boxes, but decollete corsages are scarcely the proper thing for the body of the house, so bright colors and charming styles must take their place. The English custom ob- tains here of wearing evening bodices with dark skirts, a fashion that has much to recommend it. These evening waists can be manufactured quite inexpensively, and the return in one’s feeling of being hand someiy and appropriately gowned is corres- there are many soft and silks sold as low as | y be purchased at any price from ten cents up. Light sili is prettiest when trimmed with black lace, anid dark colors look very stylish when outlined and edged with cream or white lace. The cotton cre- pons which sell ts a yard make very pretty e ts, and when trim-/| med with ¢ and ribbon dis- | count many of the richer fabrics, Any silk | or wool dress skirt that is not absolutely | passe will do to wear with these theater waists, provided, of course, there is not too | great a contrast in colors. Hats should | never be worn with these bodices. Only very small toques or bonnets are permiss- ible, The prettiest head garniture for the opera is a twist of velvet that harmonizes with the dress, with a bow in front, lying Straight across in Alsatian style, or stand- | A Business Dress. ing like Mercury wings. A stylish one that I saw recently on a blonde will bear repro- duction in almost any color of satin or vel- vet. It was a French confection and cost its owner ten dollars. A versatile American girl can make one exactly like it for about a dollar. The foundation was a piece of common bonnet wire, the round heavy kind. It was twisted into a Mary Stuart point in front, and the back was simply an oval to fit the head. Around this wire was a loose twist of petunia velvet, which covered it entirely. Standing up from the point in front was a coquettish bow of the velvet with many pointed end: and two or three heads of gilded wheat. In the center of the back | ‘sas another flyaway bow of the velvet, but | not standing as high, and a narrow twist} of the petunia velvet came down around the Diana knot and fastened with a tiny but- terfly bow just under the edge of the hat. The fair hair of the wearer was waved and curled in defiance of the cry that bangs and wav are out, and the little velvet affair was as becoming as could be. The same idea could be adapted to suit any face by bending the wire differently, and changing the arrangement of the bo Of course, it is only a kind of hea but it is so very pretty it ought to take well. Another favorite is a twist of ribbon with a coronet setting of jeweled flowers in front and sprays running back to meet a tiny choux of ribbon just above the knot of hair. Needed Repose. At a social function the other day I made up my mind that one of the essential needs vf the average society wor is repose. Economic repose, if you please. I had made the rounds of the “at homes,” and, worn out, sat down to chat for a moment with a lady of the “old school.” It was a positive rest to me. She sat still in her chair, didn’t twist her feet, and never once adjusted her bangs. She had in her hands two or three} long-stemmed roses one of the “buds” had given her, but except to lift them to enjoy their perfume now and then, she seemed to be unconscious of them. She neither smoothed the fingers of her gloves, nor pull- ed them higher on her arms. I never met a woman who seemed to have the world un- der her feet more absolutely than she. She is not a rich woman, either. She has only what the world would call a comfortable living, with much necessity for strict busti- ted the ha lot the long her awful row of Sultable for Advance = Years. 1 et and blue, black or gr velvet or! usual. She is well informed, . Sensible, but not brilliant, omething about her which say, “I have no apologies to make | on earth, and I expect no banners | y passing.” She met people of | degree and people of obscurity with Ittle| difference of manner, save the adaptations | ‘ood tast Hun ‘ympathy seemed in} She established the s a river. mien of self-forgetful gracious- ness without being patronizing on the hand on the other. As I s ted me. woman should seem un- We are accustomed to look for ab- | ours. | easy | colcrs solute repose only in those who have run | the race and are in possession. People of easy fortune and little business worry. It is seen in the authority and dignified con- fidence of the actor who has earned his fame; in the exalted assurance and imme- diate sympathy of the orator who has won his laurels. But the fever of pursuit almost burns out the beauty of attainment in this world of All this despite the counsels of men of science and the apostles of beauty. The ravages of the great exactions of society are an old subject; but the establishment of a proper relation with the world in small and trifling affairs, which, after all, make up the big end of life, is not so old, and may well be worth a serious thought. Repose of manner is one of the first things to be sought. An owl isn’t as pretty as a hum- ming bird, but it has a reputation for a lot more sense, and I know lots of society wo- men who would boom their social stock by imitating the repose of the ow! The Purple Cra: The purple craze is something wonder- ful to behold. And the people that wear itt One would thing that Washington had an epidemic of jaundice, when the fact of the matter is so many women are wearing purple who should not. Any of the shades of purple must be used with prudence, even in a house gown. It com- bines effectively with many colors, but the proper shade of those colors is not to determine. One of the favorite is yellow. For hats and bonnets it combines effectively with light green, AS THEY TROOP PAST Glimpses of Public School Girls on Their Way to School. SOME SUITABLE CQSTUMES How to Dress Little Ones in Com- fort and Good Taste. AT THEIR DAILY TASKS Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE CHILDREN’S holidays are over, and once more the little folks can pe seen trooping past on their way to school. Per- tle ones were sorry to greet the school safe in saying that at least some welcomed the first day of school and looked forward SAO during the holidays to comparing notes on the Santa Claus ques- tion. - Reautiful Old Age. yellow, and with gold and silver tinsel. With the last two it makes a rich appeal ance, and if too much is used is apt to! overpower its wearer. Many will find that a bunch or two of violets is as much pur- ple ag they can stand. Elondes may use | it with k discretion, perhaps, than bru- | nettes, but the auburn-haired woman wouid | better ponder deeply and seriously before she permits it to come rear her. Magenta is a no less trying color. A clear, olive complexion or one that is di- | vinely fair, can stand it. It is extremely | conspicuous used alone, and requires ton- | ing down. It combines admirably with | brown, tan and green. Gold and_ silver makes it loud; black and very dark green rubdue {t. Elderly women should only wear a suggestion of it, and it should’ not come near the face. Women who work should pay more*at- tention to having their dresses fashioned to suit their business. A dress that is designed for store or office wear should be made especially for the purpose, and be shorn of the dainty fripperies that look | so enhanci at home or at the theater. A dress fashioned on businesslike lines will wear much longer and retain its freshness to the last, and to the working girl will be cheaper in the long run. ‘The one here presented I saw on an F street clerk. It was fashioned of brown boucte and dark green cloth, but can be effectively made of two old dresses, say black for the underskirt and revers, and tan for the waist and overskirt. Another combination that would be very pretty is dark brown and red, but it will be pretty and neat and stylish in any color, unless the dress- maker is a bungler. | SENORA SARA. Costumes for Little Giris. From the € ago Evening Post. The dear little girls are dancing through the holidays, dear little belles with dear lit- tle beaux, and how like fairy dancers they are! Fancy a golden-haired atom in a dress like the one illustrated today—a sim- ple, inexpensive little frock of accordion- plaited nun‘s veiling, trimmed with bands of cream lace insertion and full ruffles of lace. The shoulder has a plaited ruffle which falls from the yoke, and has, more- | over, a cunning arrangement of pale pink and blue ribbons. Another simple little cos- tume is of soft cream silk—the kind that will wash—and has ruffles of fine cream | lacs, each ruffle being headed either by small festoons of cclored beads or fine feather stitching. The bodice is arranged with a frill of silk and lace and a gathered yoke, while the sleeves are formed of dou- ble puffs of the silk. This frock can be worn by a child of four years and upward. A cream cashmere dress is always suitable for quite a small child, and a pleasant | variation of style is obtained by draped folds of cashmere knotted together in frént and fully gathered at the back. For heav- ier wear a blue velveteen with embroidered straps passing over the shoulder and puffed The little girl in the first illustration tripped past my window on the first school day as gaily as was possible with the big lvad of books which she had taken home fer the holidays. She looked very bright and happy, and, from the hurry she was in to reach the school room, I am sure she knew her lessons well. She was a pictur-| esque young person, with the brightest of yellow curls, and glanced at me shyly from under her broad-brimmed hat. She wore a scarlet cloak which was trimmed in black, and reminded one of a big butterfly as she skipped over the pavement with the ends of a bow on the back of her coat standing out like wings. Late. Picture the despair of the next little lady when she finds that she ts late on the first day ot school. I am afraid she lingered too long over her toilet, for she looks unusu- ally sweet in her new coat, which I suspect Santa Claus knows something about. It is dark green in color and has braiding and velvet of a corresponding shade. Her bon- net is of close-fitting dark green velvet and has silk of the same shade and also of light blue about the face. She lets her school bag fall to the ground, she is so disappoint- ed, for she can’t go in. So she turns away and hopes for better luck tomorrow. In the High School. The wee tots are interesting, but the third year High School young lady claims our attention, for she is a most important mem- ber of society. She is waiting for dismissal, and is fully conscious of how well she is looking in her navy blue gown. It is made with high collar and a lace bib of ecru, The body is full at neck and waist and hi a full girdle of dark blue velvet let in at the under arm seams and brought down to a point in front, where a rosette is placed. Shirred bands ornament the wrists of the sleeves and yoke of some light-colored silk | full sleeves, and the skirt is a big seven- is extremely pretty and becoming. A Literary Luncheon, A pleasing literary luncheon for a party of ten guests is thus described by Mrs. Bur- ton Kingsland in a capital article on eco- nomical luncheons in the Ladies’ Home Journal: Mena. “Lays of ancient Rome”..... (Stuffed eggs. “The red skins”. (Lobster farcie.) “Lamb's works’’.... - (Chops, potato croquettes.) “Gometh up as a flower”..Rhoda Broughton (Mushrooms.) r the solitary and the .-F, Saunders sseee+.Macaulay ) Cooper --Lamb “Salad social, (Lettuce.) “The queen of curds and cream,” Mrs. Gerard (Cream _ cheese.) “Man and the glacial period”...Dr. Wright (Orange ice, served in the skins.) “Coffee and repartee” . Bangs (Coffee.) The explanations in parentheses should be omitted in the menu. Prices. cents One dozen eggs, cream, 10 cents are Salt, pepper, butter and onions. Lobster ory One egg, cents; 5; half pint milk, Lamb chops, 4 Ibs Potatoes, 6 cents; Mushrooms Lettuce, 20 cent ed salad, i. Neuchatel cheese whipped with’ cream. Bread, 15 cent 5 : Twelve orange: Ice and salt Coffee half pint gored one. In the Fifth Grade. The child in the illustration is a fifth grade child. She has arrived five minutes before the quarter bell will ring and has no cne with whom to discuss the past fun of Christ- mas and New Year time. Her heavy cloak is quite becoming and it is perhaps worth the while to describe it. brown in color and has wide revers, belt and big cuffs of brown velvet. It is made of, beavercloth and is very nice and warm. The edges of the dark brown velvet ure bound in wide gold braid and the bright room again,but I feel | It is light golden | j effect makes the little wearer a veritable bird of paradise. “Who Are You Looking att” | While we are talking of public school | children it is not fair to forget my little | was returning home one day. She is a | very comical little figure, and when 1 looked at her she seemed’ to feel a keen resentment, and inquired in a cross way, “Who yer lookin’ at?” She is a very t | pupil, and is generally dressed up quite re- | gardless, though sometimes one of her many plaits of woolly hair is standing up | | Straight on the top of her head, show- | | ing itself through the torn crown’ of her | t, Simple, but Pretty. The next two pictures are designs for simply mvade school costumes. The first is for a small girl, and the next for an older one. The first child’s dress is of dark maroon, and is made with a full waist, which is gathered to a very wide black belt. Nar- row revers are cut from the same color and are put on as in the sixth illustra- _ tion. Smoked pearl buttons are placed | on either edge of the wide belt, and there are two one each rever. The sleeves are gga! a tiny ruffle takes the place of a col POINTERS FOR WOMEN Some Valuable Hints as to Home Decora tion and Styles. ‘The Use of Mirrors and Flowers—Sug. sestions as to Color Combiua- tions in Costumes. Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. One of the charming old-time fashions that is being revived is that of furnishing rooms with mirrors. The effect of a wide mirror at the «74 of a room, particularly if it reaches » the floor,is to give it greater depth, and a .irror on the side wall of a narrow room will broaden it wonderfully by reflecting what is opposite it. The re- markably rich effect may be studied by the uninitiated, in shop windows, where the rich treasures of art are cunningly dupli- |cated many times over by the adjustment vf mirrors. A good place for a full-length mirror is between two windows. Pictures hung in such a place get a bad light, but a haps most of the lit-| friend, Blanche Irene. I saw her first as ™irror is not open to such objection. It there are three windows on one side of @ room, two full-length mirrors will make the apartment seem twice as wide. In such case the mirrors should be set perfectly flat, and the curtain draperies should be arrang- €d to cover the edges. If frames are intro- duced, they should be of gilt. A social function without flowers would be bad as a Christmas without Santa Claus, it there are some things about flowers t some people do not know. The matter ecoration is usually left with the florist, gee fesse ges Bes ag banquet hall, and please the eye without offending the gastronomic sense. Silk is fashionable again, and the A vites i iy Hts fry with them, A favorite fancy is to make vay pen ie a] — black lace. 'y trimm! vice was appl black silk recently. ced in three E a o> | ‘The gown of the older girl is a stylish one of black. It is trimmed with either black silk or velvet and black and majenta strip- ed silk. From the latter is cut the yoke, cuffs and gored ruffie about the hips. The ruffie that borders the yoke and the high standing collar, belt and wrist bands are of the black velvet or silk, whichever be used. This may be made all in woolen goods if mother does not approve of silk for school. Gimme a Bite. The black-haired young scamp in the eighth cut has struck up an acquaintance with the new first grade pupil, and I am afraid that it is based on rather selfish rea- sons. The short go. little miss cares mcre about fun than rsonal appearance, and rather scorns the well dressed new- comer, though with the candy in view she is careful to conceal it. The new little girl's coat is made double-breasted and has a twisted velvet cord about the waist that fastens at the side with a rosette. She is the pink of neatness, and is rather a con. trast to her rowdy looking companion. ees ps sss SSS 12 O'Clock at Last. The last little girl has been eagerly wait- ing for 12 o'clock and can not control the \sigh of satisfaction as the hour strikes. | She belongs to the lowest class and goes | home at that hour. Her large white apron ‘saves the making of Big sleeves to her school frocks, for it has large puff sleeves of its own, which have a gathering string run through the lower edge. This can be | let ovt and thus be easily laundered. MARY ELLE SIGSBE! — + | HALL'S HAIR fv R DERS THE HAIR lustrous and silken, gives it an even color and enables Women to “ut # up in a great variety of styles. wide cherry satin ribbon was pla rt. Over the ribbon a fine — = the ski: intilly lace insertion was laid, and at each edge was placed a quilling of inch- wide blagk ribbon. The effect was rich. ‘The fact that women like to eee aan a en like to be comforta- ll be, if possible, is by the unflagging Popularity of the blouse or Spencer waist. It gets mixed up in al- most every kind of gown except the tailor made. Even ball gowns present symptoms of the craze, and low-necked waists made of accordeon plaited lisse, mouselaine de scie Tne totes are quite commonly worn. in can stand that style, but Stout one should shun it. rs ‘The bolero jacket appears ‘in fact or sim- ulation on alm roundness fill_up the front of her waist with a lot of ruffies and silken cascades, over which the jaunty bolero sets out in true Hogarth beauty lines. The Eton jacket holds its own well alao, ‘The genesis of the ulster overcoat, that very topcoat for men, is rather in- teresting. It derives its name from the province of Ulster, in Ireland, where it was first worn. It was seen in Belfast as long ago as 1860, though it was not until 1868 that the Prince of Wales set the seal 82 Unless one can have a hat gown, fashion has decreed chapeaux shall get around it in a novel manner. If are two or three girls in the family. one them spends a week in the spring and in the fall in one of the big millinery houses, where they learn all the tricks of twisting ribbons and velvet and adjusting of feath- ers and flowers. The raw material is not as expensive as the “know how” to put it together, so it is much cheaper to pay $10 for a week's lessons, which will enable on: to construct hats for a half dozen for a whole season at a trifling cost, than to pay out $10 for each hat and have the supply limited. At a dinner given in honor of a lady friend last week the hostess had for a cen- ter piece a handsome round mirror set in flowers, a decoration that the late President Arthur was fond of. At the end of the din- ner she presented the mirror to her friend as a souvenir of the very pleasant occasion and it was then discovered that the mono- gram of the guest of honor was engraved in the center and at the edge was the date of the dinner giving. Unless floors intended for rugs are of hard wood they do not look well oiled, and an oiled floor is always open to the objec- tion of showing every footprint. The new- est notion is to paint the floor with yellow ochre mixed with a little white. This color does not show dust and the warm color makes the floor look less bare. At a swell New York wedding last week the bride carried an ivory-backed prayer- book in which the marriage certificate had been bound. At another wedding the bridesmaids carried prayerbooks bopnd in snake skin, presents from the bride. Was there a suggestion in this thatevéry Eden has its serpent? A girl whose brush does charming exe- cution did a piece of work last week that does credit to her inventive genius in more ways than one. In some way one of the elegant mantel mirrors got an unsightly crack across the upper left hand corner. It was too low down to admit of effectual draping,and the disgusted man of the house had decided that it must be replaced by a new one to the depletion of his pocket- book. One day Miss Artist got the folke all out of the house, and then tackled that mirror from the top of a step ladder. She painted across the crack, following its mov- ing lines, a spray of climbing rpses, a rich pink, with dark green leaves. The effect ‘was so lovely that her father threatens to take a club to every mirror in the house, so that he may enjoy the display of her ex- quisite talent. In the pretty bed room of another girl artist hangs a mirror which her all brother used as a target for a marble one day. The glass shivered like a sun- burst, but no pieces came out. This girl painted that myriad of cracks into a spider web, in the center of which reposes a_big | | fat web-spinner, also painted. As it is off at aide, it does not Jestroy the usefulness of the mirror. Though not as pretty as the rose idea, it is unique and useful as well. A society woman, who knows how to take care of herself, gave utterance to a very profound sentiment recently, when one of her friends remarked that she was so tir she wanted to die. “There is no doubt.” she said, “that the longing to, die is mis- taken for the need of a nap. Instead of the immortality of the soul, bus m and working women want regular an sys- |tematic doses of dozing, regular meals and 'wholesome food.”