Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 16, 1887, Page 9

IN THE EFEMININE DOMAIY, Migs Pomebe Couzins, the Accom- plished United States Marshal. FRED GRANT'S CHARMING WIFE. Practical Girls—The Charm of Health ~A Circle of Beauties—A Mother's Courage—Some Things About Women. The Southern Girl. Her dimpled cheeks arc palo, She's a lily of the vale, ot a rose. In a muslin or a lawn She is fairer than the dawn To her beaux. Her boots are slim and nent, Bhe is warm about the feet, 1t is suid. She amputates her r's, But her eyes are like the stars Overhead. On & balcony at night, With a fleccy cloud of white Round her hair— Mer grace, ah, who could paint, She would fuscinate a saint, 1 declare. "Tis a matter of regrot, She's a bit of & coquet Whom T sing. On her cruel path she goes ‘With a half & dozen beaux To her string. But let all that pass by, And her maiden moments fly, Dew empearled. ‘When she marries, on my life, She will make the'dearest wife In the world, Practical Girls, From the London Queen Choice girls are those capable creatures who the Americans eall “fee- is, eyes that see; why, by all persons have not got,” who arenot blind; and hands that can do many things and all well. As daughters in a house where wealth is wanting and a good appearance has to be maintained these girls are simply invaluable. The, paint flowers and birds and landscape on the plain deal furniture, and so mak; it beautiful and artistic in the highes sense. The wooden chimne; rough-hewn wooden stool doors, wardrobe: sideboards, sofas —all things where wood appears —are treated in the same way, so that pieces of furniture of the simplest and cheapest character are made of real and intrfusic value by the decorative faculty of our clever daughters. Things they cannot paint they carve or em broider. Those brackets are their work, so are the curtains and the cushions, the chair covers, the sofa covers, the tablecloths, the furniture generally. All have handsome em- broidery of fine designs thrown upon poor material, so that not only a good effect is got at small original cost, but gain & real and intrinsic money alue is given by the industry and cleverness of our choice girls. We have even known of a valance to the drawing room curtains so deftly pninted as toresemble the tapestry of the hangings—a remnant which ran short—that no one not yet into the secret could possibly have told the di ference. An opera glass might have found this out. Nothing short of this could. Now, the application of this tal- ent {s quite worth a year's salary governess or a telegraphist, or indeed as anything that an ordinary girl can do. The artistic power is not enough to enable our home decorators to paint pictures that will sell,®ut it enables them to save where they can not make, and to apare the pavental pride as well as pocket. Akin to these are those choice gi who have learned the art and mystery of cooking, so that they are able at a inch to take practical command of the itchen when domestic disappointments arise—as they do at time: the coun- try, with ne professed cook on the job to bé 'had, and friends at the railway station come straight from a well ap- pointed London house for a fortnight’s visit. What is to be done? Cook has suddenly struck her tents and marched away without the honors of war. Per- haps her mother was ill; perhaps she had a quarrel with her lover, the gur- dener or her fellow servants all round; perhaps she a a whitlow on her finger or a gnhu in her temper—no matter what the tables, ause, the result is the same. Cook has one and those friepds ar¢ coming in an hour. Then one of our choice girls outs on an apron and goes down into he regions below, able to supply the missing link, to personate that import- ant functionary, to arrange a charming little dinner and to cook it to perfec- tion. When she appears at the table well, ye haps a little more flushed than he ters, say, who have had less heated work to do, but perfectly serene and smiling—those friends who oy the fruits of her skill, an huppily praise the cook, do not know who has been the Vatel, the Francatelli, the Soyer for the occasion, and unless they are of the right sort they will never know. If lln-{ are snobs in grain—and some of our old friends, whom yet we love and keep in with the charm of old associations, are snobs and not to be trusted with a homely truth—if they are of this super- ficially vencered kind they leave as they come, without the faintest idea that it is Clara who has been the Vatel of the establishment for all the time of their visit. If they are of the right kind they are told, and they love her and respect her all the more in conse- quence, 1s of this kind are sure to be good dressmakers nnd mili ners. We know that the family is poor, and that it must have enough to do to make both ends meet over that large amount of need. Yet the girls are always freshly and be- comingly dressed. Take their material between your finger and thumb-—noth- ing can be simpler, more inexpensive. But the cut and trimmings—the facon, as the French call leave nothing to be desired; and, like that clever paint- ing in common pine wood, the taste and skill and ingenuity employed on mu- terial that did not cost six pence a yard, create a toilet of s preme elegance and real beau Here again, cleverness of hand and “pwer of manipulation have created lue, and for the cost of a few shillings aese girls arve dressed as well asif a court milliner had clothed them for as many pounds. We may smile at the idea that this kind of skill comes as a merit or a virtue, It is true, neverthe- less. Anything which enables the daughters of the poor gentry to have money while keeping up appearances before the world, and which keeps them safe at home, rather than let them squander themselves all abroad, away from home and unprotected, that is a gain, rightly reckoned us a mérit— a faculty taking rank as a virtue, B The Charm of Health, New York Sun: The most charming actresses of the stage are, with rare ex- ceptions, women of robust health, Per- sonal charm has quite. as much to do with guccess on &m boards as mental ability, perhaps more, and rsonal charms—that something which lies THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1887.~TWELVE PAGES. ET THE BEST|His Execellency For fine Photographic work of every description, go to The Leading Photographer, 313, 315 and 317 South 15th St.,, Granite Block. Our facilities for fine work are unsurpassed and wé will pos- itively do nothing but the VERY BEST. We call special atten- tion to OUR BEAUTIFUL CHILDRENS AND BABIES PIC- TURES. On this class of work we never fail. We also do en- larging in every style, at prices that cannot even be beat by cheap outside copying houses. beautiful specimens of work. Give us lots of time on all hol- Call and see our gallery and iday work, as it requires time to do fine work, and workmen, no matter how good cannot do their best in a rush. GEORGE HEYN P. S. Don’t forgetour elegant $15 Photo-Crayons, the best bargzin Respectfully, ever offered in the picture line. deeper than mere beauty, and is called, for want of a better word, *'magnetism’— depends ton_wonderful extent on_the hysical condition of the actress. Mrs. famgtry'n manager once said that the Lily was the best matince attraction on the stage; that is, she is attractive to women as well as men. Her healthy English color has paled of late, but her beauty is still the beauty of good health, and her complexion, when she lets it alone, the product of r blood and plenty of exercise. She is a famous walker, and must regret her quarrel with Coghlan, if only for the chance it lost her of still further advertising in his new play her skill with the foils. Coghlan’s sister is a woman whose suc- s has defied the analysis of clever itics. Rose Coghlan is not pretty, at least her face is not, but two genera- tions have raved over her beauty. Her rude health is the only explanation. She is rugged and her vigor is in- fectious. ‘When Daly took his company to Eng- land, the London Times called Ada Rehan ‘‘pawky,” a provincialism for charming healthy or healthily charm- She i Lwhnh‘smguly well woman. It is me with Carrie Turner. She is no beauty, but she is so beauti- fully healthy that not one person in ten who sees her calls her face to severe ac- count Mrs. George Gould, before she became the mother of the only baby whose clothes were photographed for newspa- per illustration, was, as Miss Kingdon, 4 vigovous girl, well cared for by a good mother, extremely fond of open air and beaming with the roses of exercise. Fanny Davenport’s strength is a mar- vel. Her father wasof fine ysical proportions, and I have seen Fanny, as ady Gay Spanker, catch her dolly and swing him three times around her, his feet performing a dizzy circle in the air, never touching the floor. Fanny does not do that now. The antics that woman went through a couple of yearsago when she was trying to get rid of her super- abundant flesh would have lled an ordinary woman, but produced little or no effect upon her, Mary Anderson’s charm depends on her good blue grass constitution, and I am not sure that she does not owe more of her freedom from care and worry to good health than religion, though the latter gets all the credit with her. Bernhardt used to have the agility and strength of a cat. Paiti is a robust woman of opera and tragedy physique. Frau Materna is imposing. Lilli Lehmann is a woman of mag- nificent health. Janauschek is an old woman, buta vigorous one. Modjeska is as charming as when she was younger. I have seen poor Felina Dolaro, when she must have been past forty, carry a whole theatre full of people into rapture by the vigorous and physical perfection of a Spanish shawl dance. Anna Robe is so sound of health that her skin is fresh enough to call for no make up after years on the stage. She has never even tried a dash of powder. Aunie Pixley is a well woman with a skin as soft us a baby's. Rosina Vokes was something of an in- valid last year, but years ago, when the Vokes' were all together, it was the bloom and flush of health in the faces of the girls quite as much as Fred Vokes’ funny long legs and Fawdon Vokes' funny short ones that made them popu- lar. Rosina has a fine constitution. There has never been any nonsense about fashionable pallor on the stage. Stage beauties, in spite of late hours, the vexation and fatigues of traveling, the strain of the work, etc., are strong women, and women of the stage are finding out that by cultivating health they, too; cultivate in equal proportion '{ looks and charm. The queens of majestic Fred Grant's Wife. Philadelphia Press: In invoking the help of his wife in his canvass for secre- ry of state Colonel Fred Grant dis- a degree of sense that does him infinite credit. He has little natural aptitude for politics, He must have been forgotten when gifts of oratory were led out, for in his most awkward ays General Grant was a Cicero com- pared with the son. Nor has the colo- nel been rubbed up against the world and thus acquired the experience with men of affairs that his father had be- fore assuming public functions. Ex- cept in name and in the cut of hisbeard he has not yet developed any resem- blance to the old commander. But he has not been blind to the advantage that beautiful wives have secured to as- pirants for public suffrage and he seems to have set out tostake his game on that card. No man_could ask better equipment than he has for that purpose. = Mrs. Grant is wonderfully beautiful. She was of the Honore family of Chicago. Her sister, also a woman of noted beauty, is the wife of Potter Palmer, owner of the Palmer house. Mrs, Grant shows her French extraction her naive and graceful manners, as well as in her features, in which is the attract- ive combination of black hair and lus- trous blue eyes and well-modelled rosy lips, which disclose in parting a hand- some set of teeth. She is a born enter- tainer, possessing the faculty of drawing from her guests the best that is in them and sending them away de- lighted with themselves and with her, It is quite safe to say that she will muke as favorable an impression every- where as she has in her first appear- ance, and that if Colonel Grant shall accomplish the up-hill task before him of election as secretary of state, the honor of the achievement will be due to the conquests of his charming wife. A Circle of Beauties. European Correspondence Chicago News: Beauty shows are by no means an American invention. It is not more than a few weeks ago that such a show oceurred on the feast of St. Stephen, the patron saint of Hungary, at Pesth. But the beauties were not from the start on exhibition for any one able to pay a dime. The beauties, forty-0dd in num- ber, were standing in a circle to be looked at and cross-examined by a ju composed of & numberof gentlemen moving in the highest circles of so- ciety. The chairman, Count Stephen Karolyl, announced the verdict of that strange jury, declaring Miss Gizzella Scholez, M Ida Torony and Mrs. Mariska Kolos to be the greatest beau- The former is described as a_splendid figure, tall, well proportioned and a little voluptu- ous, with blue eyes and shining golden hair, dressed in'a charming pink suit. The other two are dark beauties, with black hair and fiery black The awards are duplicates of the golden apple awarded by Paris of Troy to the goddess of beauty some 3,000 years ago, but in the degenerate northern climate of Hungary the ‘apple has be- come much stuntea in growth, being now not much larger than a little hazel- nut. After delivery of the verdict and distribution of the prizes, inclosed in cases of blue velvet, to the three cham- pion beauties, the populace were so eager to look at them that they broke through the fence and formed a living and rather unruly circle around the three and, not satisfied with looks only, they persisted in being convinced of the fleshy reality of the marvels until a number of more sober and good natured gentlemen formed a guard of honor around the beauties and conducted them in safety from the field of victory. Miss Phabe Couzins. St. Louis Republican: Miss Phaebe Couzins, the first woman United States marshal, was born and raised in this cilg and received her education in the public schools. At the remarkabl early age of eleven years she enl.ereg the "high school and "graduated at fif- AND HIS BRIDE, Wer; Astonished and Amazed at the Magnitude and WONDER OF OMAHA. | Before honoring this city with a visit they had thought it but a vitLAGE ny THE WAYSIDE. they would have REMAINED A WEEK INSTEAD OF AN HOUR. Had they known of its Importance before coming here Their reception wis well arranged, their greeting cordial. Tue Prorre MoNoroLizep ALy THEIR TIME, and but for this the* Gate City Land Co. would have TAKEN THEM OUT IN A FOUR-IN-HAND, with a view to show- ing them some of the Choice Properties it has to offer in the way of an in- vestment, But as this could not be weare EVER READY to extend the same cordial invitation to the public generally to come to our place of business, 307 South I16th Street, Opposite the Board of Trade. At any time from daylight to sunset, and you will find some one of our firm with a list of 500 choice properties in Omaha, and from this we know we can find somethiug to suit you. Keep Your Eye on this Space, For Cable Cars and Bonnie Dundee. wish to startle you of things to come. ten to twenty five per cent. teen. She was the constant companion of herlate deceased father, and it is supposed that from him she received aspiration for a life of public service. She entered the law achool of the Wash- ington university in 1859 and graduated in 1871, and was immediately admitted to the bar—the firsf'woman graduate of a law school ever admitted to the bar on either continent. She was next ad- mitted to the bar in the state courts of Arkansas and Dakota, and admitted to the United States district court here by Judge Treat. Though never having engaged herself actively in a case, she was one of the few that sented their cases to General B. F. Butler when he was chairman of the judi- ciary committee of congress. She has taken many cases as cou ,and gave counsel in Compromise cases, a practice foqui ing considerable knowledge of aw. —— HONEY FOR LADIES. Sealskin will be more in demand than ever. Chinchilla and astrakan furs are once more fashionable, cems to be the favorite color gloves., The stitching must be Long, double-breasted secalskin New- markets will be fashionable garments next winter, The proper thing in engagement rings is now a large, perfectly shaped pearl set en solitaire, It is only when a woman's face is her for- tune that she is tempted to brighten it up with a little paint. Hoods are again added to every sort of wearing apparel upon which they can appro- priately be placed. The bair of the Mongolian goat, white as snow and soft as swansdown, is being utilized as a fashionable “fur.” Bonnets and hats in all the fashionable shapes made of sealskin will be scen on the promenade next winter. ‘Why cannot a man whose addresses are re- jected by the lady of his choice have her ar- rested for contempt of courtt The most noticeable feature in the new winter bonnets is the removal of the trim- wing from the front to the back. _ Emeralds are coming once. more into fash- ionable favor, in spite of the fuct thut they are unbecoming to almost every one. The attractive visiting dress is of Gobelin blue Henrietta cloth, and this is worn with a jacket made of fancy stripe velye Several young ladies of Madison, Wis. anized a cornet band. Itis to be hoped that they do not contemplate traveling. Generally speaking, a woman’s praise of another woman means about as much as ““Yours faithfully” does at the end of a letter, A physician says a man is shorter during the day than at night. ‘That is probably be- cause his wife picks his pockets in the morn- ing. The fancy for wearing black stockings with all colored costumes has in'the case of chil- dren given way to the tendency to match each costume. Patent leather tips and foxings are still worn, and will continue Yo be during the p ent season. Lace boots still hold the favor of young people. Nature knew what she was about when she made women beardless, “She knew that not one in a thousand cowd keep her chin still long enough to get shdved. A sharp-eyed travelorsreports that within a year the Mormon women have generally discarded their plain garb, and now appear us gaily attired as their genteel sisters. Pale almond and _delicate rose combined with dark green velyet areithree colors which are to be exceedingly fashionable this winter in evening toilets of various clegant kinds. Mies Nellie Shaw and Mrs. I. P. Longfel- low held the reins in a horse trot at Maine fair. Miss Shaw's trotter won In 3142, but the committee divided the purse of § evenly. Long straight drapeyies are still the height of style, the very latest fancy being for very long draperies in front and back, and very .,p;.n, or even omitted altogether, on the sides. School dresses for girls are made with belted waist gathered to 8 yoke and urufl gathered skirt. Serge, homesptn, cheviots or gay woollen plaids are used for these dresses. s Silks and velvets are ‘tabooed” on the street. Walking dresses must be made of one of the endless variety of woolen fabrics, and their trimmings must'be suitable to the fabric. 1t is curious to note that if fashion prognos- tications are correct, sombre colors will be the rage for evening wear, while all sorts of +bright hues will .auliven the streets during next winter. A There is but little change to note as yet in the fashion of furs. ‘The most important this season is the introduction of a pelerine, with long squarc-paneled fronts, after a fashion in vogue over a hundred years ago. A poor woman in Gratiot county, Michigan, who has been scrimping along on two acres of land for many yeurs, went up to Ithaca the other day, drew £3,000 back pension, and inside of an hour spent $300 for dry goods. Fine smooth Austrian broadcloths, trim- med with Soutache in_applique or enibroid- ered with dark shaded silk and beads, are among the clegant fabrics fmported for tailor gowns for visiting and carriage wear Dresses for girls from seven to ten will show the nautical designs that have been so popular for the past two or three scasons. Children _of that age will wear pea-juckets and kilt skirts of serge, trimmed with wide Hercules braid. A great many stylish gowns are made of plain cloth combined with striped or plaided material, Olive, bronze, and the gay autumn-ieaf shades look ‘exceedingly well, cither mixed in the same material or worn interspersed with golden brown. The temperance women of England have begn getting up a jubilee memorial to the quéen in the shape of a petition that the b rooms be closed on Sunday. 1t now weighs several hundred pounds, and_contains three- quarters of a million signatures, “Heart disease, due to tight lacing, was the cause of death given by the coroner’s jury in the death of Bertha Oppenheimer, of Phila- delphia, who fell back with & cry of pain while laughipg at a comedian's”joke ina theater in that city, Thursday afternoon. Although hats will not be so generally worp this fall as bonnets by married ladies or single ladies of questionable age, many very clegant models have been shown, and all the shapes in straw brought out for early fall have been reproduced in felt for mid- winter wear. The “tournure war” goes on with unabated vigor., Fashion writers say the bustle is out of date; artists declaim against it on wsthetic grounds, physicians on hygienic; but the fashionable dressmakers still insist upon it, and it will probably have at least unother year of existence. A re among the season's fashion's i the making of slecves of different material from the bodice, these very usually of a fab- ric matching the vests and panels.” In point of economy this is an excellent arrangement. In point of good taste or artistic effect, the fashion is 1ot a success. All the changes having been rung on ues, bodices and juckets. Polonaises will rec of favor this winter, and the soft camels' hair goods, meltons and suit- ings of various kinds will be utilized for the loug stately redingotes to be worn over striped, plaided or plain velvet skirts. One of the new wool stuffs has heavy lines woven in triple rows that are so wide and so promi- nent that they resemble Soutache braid ap- plied in bias rows, William Riley, of Springficld, O., has two daughters who are suffering from the effects of using too much face powder, The use of their fingers and arms has been lost, and vio- lent pains in the limbs and stomach have fol- lowed. The first symptoms noticed five 8 ago, but neither knew what it wus. For the past few days Kate, who was once portly, but now a_mcre skeleton, bogan hav- ing spasms every half hour, and is now in a critical conditiBn. Local physicians say it is doubtful if she ever recovers, and should she live she will never be as healthy again, as white lead from the wash has permeated her system. S BRIGHT LITTLE FOLKS. “Does he go by machinery?” asked a little girl who saw a dude on @ bicycle passing. A little girl who was looking at & peacock for the first time grew enthusiastic. “Oh mamma,” she said, *'hasn't it got a beautiful bustle!” “‘Mamma, where does Dod live?” up in the sky, my child.” “Well, seen him yeserday & tummin’ down d graph pole wif @ wire in his hand.” One day little Emma’s mother reproved her lune sharply for not changiug her shoes. “Way then, I tele- fter a moment's reflection Emma said: * wish you would be real dood to me, mamma. { fink you would like it after you got used to %] ‘The small girl had a rl‘?uut to prefer to her mother. She wanted to be permitted to go to the grocery for something that was needed. She was only seven, she said. Well, MARK THIS PREDICTION. We give you this warning as we do not If you buy now you will save from you can go. But, mind, you mu on the street and talk to the boys she said, drawing herself up height, *Mamma, you insult me!" “A little boy at a village school had writ- ten the word “psalm” in_his copybook, and accidentally blotted out the initial “p" with- his sl . His little sister sitting at his side burst into tears over the disaster, but the spelling ~reformer defiantly exclaimed: “What if T did leave him out! He didn’t spell nothing, aud whut was- the good of him{? . A little three-year-old girl was in front of the camera the other day. The photographer had posed her to his mind, had told her what to look at and stepped back to muke the ex- posure. The little child concluded the pr liminaries were satisfactory, for she ele trified the photographer with the _cheerful advice to “Let'er go, Gallagher.” The pho- tographing was deferred till the merriment subsided. We heard the other day of a young minis- ter who was “taken down" very handsomely by a bright little girl. He had been called upon quite unexpectedly to address a Sunday- school, and to give himself time to collect his thoughts, he asked a question: **Children,” said he, *what shall T speak about? A lit tle girl on the front scat who had herselt committed to memory several declamations hield up her hand, and in a shrill voice asked : “What do you know " “What are you doing Tommy?" asked a Sioux Falls lady of her son who was sticking up stukes around the back yard. “Platin’ a addition,”” repligd the young hopeful whose father s a real cstate agent. “How are sulest” Bully, ma; Stubby Jones takes that corner there by the gute for u peanut and lem'nade stand, Bill Smith and Dutchy take a block by the barn for their circus, an’ Hen Jones is talkin’ ’bout takin' two lots by the apple tree for to tie up his dog s his dad can't shoot it. Say, ma, D'l let ye in on the ground floor on that lot by the corner o’ the house to stand yer flower pots on—take it for 5 conts an’ a handful o' raisins, sceing it’s you.” not stop Mamma,’” o her full e SINGULARITIES. The body of ared squirrel was found in a four and_one-half pound pickerel taken at Oxford, Mass., the other day. A peculiar feature of an oak tree at Ver- non, Ala., is that the upper half is perfectly yellow, and has been 8o since it sprouted. To her litter of three kittens a Kansas cat added two young rabbits, and luter three young racoons, all of which she is nursing de- votedly, John Lloyd, a New Haven man, hasa hen with a monkey's head. The hen has no bill, but the mouth and nostrils ave like those of a monk V. Simmons, of Missouri City, Mo., owned ahen which died a few days ago at the age of seventeen years, having first broken the shell in the spring of 1870, A remarkable unimal was captured a short time ago in the swamps near New Orleans. Tt has the head and tail of an alligator, and the back and claws of a tortoise. It is on exhi- bition in Liverpool. . On Peter Reynolds’ farm, in Nesh; township, Lawrenc ty, Pa., th pear t vhich seven feet five in- ches in circumfer and is about fifty feet high, supposed to be about 100 years old and bears fruit aunual A natural curios sts in Fayette county, Ind., known as Shaky Hill. It com- prises about twelve is occasionally subject to tremulous movements affecting several acres of land. This phenomenon is said to have been noticed for fifty-seven years, ’ he Savannah News perpetrates the fol- lowing: A lady at Indian Spring has a hen that is quite a curiosity. It has a coat of hair in pl Although it is only a chicken, still it is a wonderful freal of nature. It came from a flock of ordina chickens, and some of the offspring is like the parent, but she has not yet succeeded in bringing them to maturity. Robbie T. Wilson of East Nottingham, Penn., has a pair of Siberian kittens, re ceived a few days ago by express, One of them has twehty-two toes, six on each foro foot and five on each hind fopt, which is four more than the regular nwmber, as an ordi- nary cat has flve on each fore foot and four on each hind foot. Each kitten has a blue eye and a gray eye. A calf was recently born at Prairies old ranch, Cal., without eyes or tail. Although blind, it will not run into anything. Itis kept in a corral alone, and will start to run toward one of the fences, and when within & few feet will stop, turn in another direction and go through the same performance. It will act the same toward a stream of water. The skin which coveted the eye were linded, but no sign of the eye were visible, HOME DECORATIONS. The stork, the “‘cat tail” and the sunflowes are three things which have had their day i houschold art. Linen book covers are ||ne‘\|l and prot with the owner's name outlined in brigh linen floss upon the upper cover, Engravings and etchings, no matter how fine or valuable have no place in parlon They belong in the study or dining-room. Cut flowers about a room in winter are now considered rather tastoless decorations, Growing palms, ferns aud the like have taken their place. A revival of anold fashion is seen in the use of wax candles instead of gas, to furn! the light of festive occasions. They give & soft light, which is very much pleastoter than the gas jet's glare. In handsome rooms the heavier picces of furniture, including pianos, or cases und the 1ike are now a under the supervision of the s lu'm'u‘, and made to seem an inalicnable paré o Cameo glass is one of the latest novelties in glass manufacture. The groundwork is & doep rose pink, with cameo figures in relief, The effect is wondrously clear, the detail dainty and developed to perfection in figures and groups, Very high studded rooms should have very tall dadoes and broad friezes. Pictures as mural decorations are rather out of date. Without their aid wall spaces are hard to il satisfactorily and should be made as narro as possible. Mantels in really well-built houses should not require mantelboards or lambroquing, These were originally devised only to hide Seontract built” house. A well designed mantel looks better without them, and they are the worst of dust catchers, The newest lamp shades are made of iron, with o lining of cathedral glass: the iron frame is fanciful in design, with graceful lines covering the glass, or bands of iron simply clasping in a dainty fashion the panels of col fough which strong light pours with exquisite beauty In handsome houses carpets on the floors are considered almost as much a_relic of bure barism s would be rushes strewn upon them. The proper floor must be of hards wood, or a colored imitation thereof, scantily vered with rich rugs. The fad has much ccommend it. Steamheat is 4 boom, but steam are horribly ugly in handsome sorts of de have b used to conceal them, but the “heater” shows through ale most all. The best is a cabinet for books or bric-w-bac so shaped that its hollow back will completely cover the unsightly array of metal tubes. A pretty screen for the lamp can bo made from a small fan by attaching a long Kilw of ire at the top, bending it over to keep in place upon the chimney: then take a tiny bunch of ostrich _tips, u bunch of artificial flow wed sea mosses, attach to the center of the fan and hold it in place by a bit of bright ribbon. Nails, with oramental heads of brass, i ough copper, are much i erior ration, often for app holding in place the licavy wall papers which simulate stamped leather, and such materials. They can be used liberally, with good effect, by observing the rule of never putting a nail where it does not, seem to serve, us & naily some useful purpose. —_—— ™ TIES. ‘Talmage is authority for the there ure 1o pianos in he use of 4 piano trying to b thent “Mamma, will heaven be just like church all the times? 1 hope so, dear,” said the mother. “Well, I shan't say my pra more; I'd rather go to the other | “The average woman thinks a good deal more about the condition of her crimps than she does about the salvation of her soul; and the average man _ wouldn't like her half as well if she didn’t.” Presiding Elder to Dakota Merchant—Can you tell me where Rev. Masher livest $He lives three blocks up this street, but he ain't at home now.” “Not at homet’ “Noj he's away on . vacation.” “Did he take hig wifet” “No, he took mine.” There was a feud between the four- young lady and her aunt, which cam to declared hostilities, ~ But_th knelt down at night and “Bless papa and mamma, and ominous pause—‘bless uuntie can’t bless her it docsn’t matter High Church—Eastern tray citizen)—Have you any_churches in your town{ Dakota citizen--Not_yet, but we're putting up a boss o 1t's 'Piscopal. Enste ern traveler—High or low! Dakota citizen— High, you bet. There ain’t a steeple in Da- kota but what'll look like a hole in the ground ‘long side of her. Sunday school teacher—“Why were five virgins called wise and five called foolish#! Pupil—*Because five put oil in_their lamj and five did not.” “Which five were wise{" “The five who did not put oil in their lamps.”” “Why do you think sot" “Becauss sister Kate never puts any oil in her lamps, and she catches ten times as many beaux ag Sally-Slocum, who keeps two lamps burning all the time.” “Brudder Augustus will please close de sarvice wid p . That is the remark thag Licutenant Skilton and o squad of his men heard when they broke info n suppose negro gambling’_ den on Locusy stre Philadelphia, M y night. X:‘ Jau in gstonishe heaters rooms. All tatement thay What's tha square or upright prayerss there came but if yo er (to Dakota the bly s 5 ment at what they found, one of the shippers (1) shoutéd: *“Who am dose men " “Dey's all right,” responded the first Dey'll leave in a minute,”” An of course they did. . There was nothing o the gamblers had evidently b ned of the and had improvi an excellent imitation of a prayer meeting. - RINGS, PINS AND GEWGAWS, Rings are of somany varied designs that it is impossible to enumerate them, but a new thing is two apparently scparate vings of dif- ferent shupes, cach bearing a jewel, but joined. Inlace pins and broaches the favorite pat- tern just now are in the shape of flowers, enameled in their natural colors and lmvini either dinmond dewdrops or other gems sef upon them. Bracelets are offered consisting of small square plates haviug u sapphire or diamond set in it. The cnameled goods are also be ginning to be used as centers on- ring »bruce- lets and have a pleasing effect. Moonstones are coming greatly by are cut either as can 5 O the form of a_crescent and studded around Novel eff cent ra Link sleeve buttons consisting of a horse shoe with diamond headed nails one side and a horse’s head with jewclston the other, find g ready sale among sporting men of large means, and buttons of sim design but nok quite as elaborate are worn. The zones or girdles of antique form with which the young ladies love to adorn theni- selves arv “usually of silver, and the lutest thing offered in this line consists of a_series of medallions linked_together, half of thom bearing figures in relicf, und the rest plain or chased. Blue cut garnets arc being used on_all bar pins and as centers in flowors aceping, sem to be taking the place of the turt rtain extent. are cheap, box recently put oyt by & smiths consists of a shoa bent over and the solg This sole and leel arg with small garnets to represen! wor- in_favor, intaglios in moon, for instance, with small diamonds. sets are produced by their iridese firm of leading sily having the up) forming ‘tho 1. studded hobnails. Lawn tennis rackets with long handles suitable for a head decoration have a spa; ling diamond or ruby to represent the racked ball lying within the center of the nettgng. A peculiar pin s of oxydized mlverun% consists of three crescents placed lengthwis on a bar, the half ‘an hxi‘,h cent is hammered, and nter sits a solemn owl in repose with large topaz eyes. Within the crescent at the right is a flying silver bat, whose sparkling ruby eyes are extremely realistic. In the crescent at the left is shown a flying nighthawk with eyes of snapping diamonds, Mme. Tima de Murska sailed for this couns try on Saturday to fulfil her engagements for a concert tour under the management of Signor de Vivo and a term of tuition at the National Conservatory of Music. The con= tract for the latter engagement was signed in New York and London and & large sum was cabled to Mme. de Murska on the part of the direction of the conservatory. - Mme. de Murska is to receive $10,000 for eight monthe® service as chief instructress,