Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1893, Page 11

COSSIP FOR WOMAN'S EAR| How One of the Sex Was Stabbed by Suspi- cion and Flayed Alive by Sneers, THE SAMPLER'S TASK NOT A HAPPY ONE Galt of the Glddy Girl—Raps at Wrappors ~What Men Like Best in the Falr Bex—tlead Dress of Ac- tresses—O0dd Notes, “There!” said Mrs. Van Klevver, throwing a handful of bright colored pleces into Miss De Korus' lap. ‘“Take them!" “Why, Katharine!" exclaimed Miss De Korus in a shocked and reproachful tone. . “Don't eay ‘Why, Katharine! to me,” L s. Van Klovver, pulling inside out, and’ looking “‘3"(‘311 here, do you beliove glove off ry fierce. in_the marty The above conversation was caught by & writer on the New York Sun, who con- tinues: Miss De Korus looked more shocked. ‘‘My dear,” pursued Mrs, Van Klevver, T am ready for canonization, and you, Miss De Korus, are the cause. I have been shrivelod vp by glances of burn- ing scornj I have been stabbed by sus- picion; I lave been flayed alive by eneers, and [ haven't a doubt that I'm all in minco meat now from the way I have been pulled to pieces by a horde of ravenin “May [ ask you to explain?” asked Miss De Korus stiffly. “T am Yavid and Jonathan and Damon and Pythias boiled down into one,” Mrs. Van Klevver wenb on unheedingly. *'I, Miss De Korus, am that rare bird, a true g ) There was a pause and then they both laughed. “You see,” resumed Mrs. Van K ver, “it was all because of the myth She. I don't think I ever ran across many more of her than I found today. Don't look so puzzed, my dear; you have often heard of the lady yourself. Oh, yes, you bave! She is always vouched thELly o woman, something after this fashion: “May please?’ “Clork shows the goods. ‘Ah, yes!’ says the customer. she turns to a friend with her. think she would like this?’ clerk again, for a friend.’ “Do you recognize my mythical ‘She’ now?" De Korus laughed. ell,” said Mys. Van Klevver, “there were legions ‘of her today. At every counter her ghostly presenco was all-pervading. At first I wasn't aware of it, and when I asked for a sample it was with that extra touch of dignity and conscious worth which we always assume when the object is samples. Of course, I prefaced my request with the remark that ‘a friend’ wished me to get a piece from which she could order, for no woman will shoulder the ignominy of securing samples for herseif, if, in reality, they ave for some one else. Very few, in fact, as you know, are wi ing “to assume the responsibility any way,and so the mythical She has sprung up and flourishid " liko a green bay tree. ““As I glanced with the regular sample act hauteur at the clerk who gave me that red piece there, I beheld something which froze the marrow in my bones. The youth was engaged in exchanging knowing winks with the nearest sales- man! And, upon my word, the nearest salosman was, in his turn, bestowing a blue sample on a very disagreeable look- ing woman who said she was quite sure her ‘friend’ would like it. ‘At the next place I thought I would be brave and omit my remark that the samplo was not for me, but the clerk, who was shockingly rude, said with a sneer: ‘* ‘Not for yourself, T friend?’ ““Yes," I replied so emphatically that he almost cut through three widths. “The others I gained only after a sort of council of war between the floor- walker and clerks, in the course of which I was called on to make affidavit as to my age, place of residence, and 80 on."” “‘Katharive!” said Miss De Korus, “Oh, yes. I know thatis a trifle over- drawn, but it isa reflection of my feel- ings. And now, if you have any lavors to kof me, let them be simple ones. Let me lie down and he trampled upon, or let me walk weary miles for you, or let me gor through fire and water for you, but don't ask me to be burned, stabbed, flayed alive and reduced to mincemeat all at one fell swoop through trying to sccure you samples at the dry goods counters,” I sco that plece of goods, Then ‘Do you Turning to ‘It’s not for myself. It's suppose. Fora » Everybody has seen the giddy girl in her varied plumage of bubbling ostenta- tion, On the street her very walk, a some- thing between itching gait and a mlncinf strut, marks her as deficient in gense; in the cars she is the observed of all observers, particularly if she is obliged to stand. There seems to be no center of gravity in her makeup; she sways with every motion of the car, doubtless acting out a conception of the lily nodding on its fra- gile stem. Her mood before the public is gener- ally of the volatile, sunshiny order, but she has a reserve force for” sentimental moments, and is equally aggarvating and discreditable in either role. Her giggles, her glances, her loud- voiced remarks replete with emptiness of intellect, are simply muddening; she revels in driving rational women to the vursvu of frenzy and then attributes their condition to “jealousy of her superior charms. No reproof” can quiet her, no insult even penetrates the shield armor of her vanity. In a ten minutes’ ride you get ac- quainted with all her accomplishments, the Christian names of her numerous admirers, the many compliments paid her, the shorteomings of her feminine friends and their perfidious efforts to supplant her in Frank’s growing affec- tion or Charlie's passionate love. Lvery ring (and she generally wears a lot of “them) represents a conguest,a "':l'hfl prudently kept after the giver ha ren discarded- heart-broken, of course. kven the watch she wears dangling outside is boasted of as a token of regard; she doesn’t consider her self- respect too big a price to have paid for the bauble, e If the average man had his way there 1 little doubt that the wearing of wrap- pers by his wile in his sugust presence would be a legal cause of divoree, He cherishes toward those harmless, neces- Bary garments a sort of personal spite, If he comes home a little early in the afternoon und finds the shaver of his sorrows still clad in her morning wrap- per he grows almost vituperative. He asks Mary why on earth she wears those slovenly ‘things, inquires if she ever sees Mrs, So-and-so similarily attired, snd abjures her at any rate not to offend his fastidious eye with the sight of one, even \hou&h it mu{.bo necessary for her %0 don it when he 1s not around. 4l of | v which,says one of the gentlersex, throngh the columns of the New York, World is highly unroasonable of the average man. There is nothing so cool and alto- ether comfortable as a wrapper. It is oose and the air circulates freely inside it. Init the tired woman dares drnE onto the lounge or into the hammoc with the utter disregard of creases. In it she does not hesitate to kneel over her flower bed; it doesn't matter if a wrapper is stained with earth. In it she does not object to lending a hand in the kitchen, beating eggs or rinsing the clothes through the blue wator. No wonder she is as devoted to the wrapper as her lord and master is averse to it Still she owes something to him and to her househo'd generally. She can win them all to her view of the case provided only that she takos the proper precautions,” She should not hope to win favor for her beloved garment if she puts one on Monaay morning and wears It until Saturday night. Let her have a fresh, clean one for every day. Let it have a neat collar, and let the full sleeves be gathered into n neat shirt cuff. A ruffle about the bottom and a frill about the yoke will not add muc to the cost or the labor of ‘“‘doing up, but they will prove a powerful aid to SoRJUgAL Teliaity. Percales, with fine stripes in black, red, blue and brown, or with little dots and sprigs adorning their white ground, can be bought for 10 and 12cents a yard. They do not fade, and last two or three years, Ior $6 any woman can provide herself with six (’hmny weappers with nich to reconcile her husband to that negligee style of attire. She can be cool, comfortable and comely in them, if only she dons a fresh one each morn- ing, and never by any chance forgets her belt! * *"e ‘What men like best in the opposite sex is that indefinable attragetion called womanliness, which makes up for the lack of beauty and other attractions. Buv it takes a great many virtues to make up this womanlines: Men like amiability in woman, they like a pleas- ant, cheerful face, the courtesy of the fireside. They like motherliness large enough to include the wants of the older as well as the younger boys. They like a Woman who can talk, but also understands the virtue of silence. They like a_disposition to speak good rather than ill of every human being. They like sympathy, which means a willing ear to a tale of sorrow or of glad- uess. They like intelligence, but they prefer that her heart should be stronger than her brain. They like women whose minds and faces are always full of the sunshine of a contented mind ‘and a cheerful disposition. They like a woman to possess a knowledge of how to dr well, which doesn’t mean conspicuously. They like a companion—a woman who has sufficient knowledge of the world and its ways to talk well with them, who can become interested in their plans and hopes, and can give a cheering word or intelligent and sympathetic hearing. A man shrinks from a woman who bore and nuisance. e Cte nal instinct to be present in all good women, and he is di appointed if he finds no evidence of its existence. There was never a man living, no mat- ter how stern, how cold, how repressive of his own feelings, who did not like some demonstration of affection from the woman nearest and dearest to him, and therefore they like affectionate women. These are a fow (?) of the many virtues a man loves and expects to find in the woman he cares for. . Actresses have the best kept heads of hair in the world. They are absolutely clean and healthy, and their tresses are invariably short. Shoulder length is the rule. Ellen Terry wouldn't bother with a useless mane, asshe expresses it. There is always a pair of scissors on her dressing table, which she uses almost as often as she does the comb. She never keeps enough hair to roll. It is drawn up to the crown of her head, twisted rope fashion, and secured with a couple of pins, and then the ends are pulled out, resembling the tuft of a carrot. The great Bernhardt has no use for long hair. Lotta has a shock of brindle brown hair that grows in loose ringlets, and looks like bronze when it is brushed. It is naturally thick, and she keeps it short. Lillian Russell, Ros- ina Vokes, Maud Harrison, Marie T\ pest and a host of other footlight fa ites who have made money and won suc- cess never have any more hair than is needed to relieve and soften the features, Tt is not necessary to shingle the hair, but it is nonsense for a woman to wear more hair than she can keep in order. Keep it clean, even if you have to thin it out and shorten it every month. Any hair, of any color, quality or quantity is beautiful if it is clean and nicely “ar- ranged, but no hair, however abundant, bright-hued and fine, is admirable that is unkempt, e The revolution in hair dressing, which scoms to be taking place, i3 entirely consistent with the present tende: reviving the costumes of the olden days. The most characteristic feature of the 1830 styles was the peculiar arrangement of loops formed of hair—or ribbon, where hair was not abundant—on the top of the head, and variously adorned with ostrich feathers, birds of paradise, rows of pearls, and precious stones. Without the ornamentation there is a striking similarity between the new adaptations ‘and the old fancies of our grandmothers, which is formed of empire bows of hair 80 constructed that they can be added to any ordinary coiffure. Decided change in the style ot hair dressing comes very slowly, for women are not so willing t0 adopt every new freak of fashion in this direction as they are to adopt anything new, however ugly, in “the " style of their gowns. After perfecting themselves in one par- ticular mode of arranging the hair, it is not so easy to become quickly pro- ficient in another. In order to attain complete success in this art the shape of the head and type of features must be taken into considevation. It is not enough that the hair is dressed becom- ingly in front. The side effect is of quite, if not more, 1unportance. Only & head faultless in shape, with a madonna- like face, is especially suited to the sin ple style of yaving ihe bair at the sido and coiling it up in a loose knot at the nupe of the neck. The pretty arrange. ment of Victorian loops are infinitely more graceful and becoming than sini- ple plaits and strike the happy medium tween curls and braids. A Victorian knot formed entirely of tiny strands of hair and arranged ‘quite high on the head is a novel and becoming style to most women, * " Don't—unless your arms are white and rounded, wear only a little puff on the shoulders in your party drees. Have your sleeves made in one or two big drooping puffs, to reach almost to the elbow, where they will meet the long gloves of the same shade. You will look quite as stylish and dressy. Dou't—if you have u pale complexion, wear a light fny or tan felt fiu, be- cause it will give you the effect of being sallow. If you must have it alight shade to mateh your dress, line the inside with dark velvet, which will let your skin look fair. Apropos of hats, the rule holds goods that au uatrimmed brim is 1893-SIXT trying to all save the most’ po.ilful faces, wherens a ploating, or even a fold of velvet, imparts a look of softnoss. Don't—if you are very thin or very stout, or if yon even suspect yourself of a tendency cither way, be beguiled by your dressmaker into having an Empire gown. It is a style which suits one woman out of ten, and the other nine are Is to set off her charms, if your feet are short and broad, squeeze them with agony into the shortest shoes you can put on. If you wear a three B, get a three and one- half A and see how much slenderer and better shape your feet will look. Don't—if you are blonde, brunette or medium, be afraid of wearing yellow, There is surely one shade of that color which will suit you and bring out all the pink in your skin: if you are sallow it would make you look White. Don't—cover your face with one of the purple veils. Very fow colored veils are to be trusted as being becoming, while black and white are always in good style. Dan't—copy everything that you see is the fashion. Suit your own figure and facs, nd among a1l the. vatled designs you will find something that will give you an individuality of your own. Re- member that the lovely ladies in fashion plates are all Venuses, which few of us are. e People who make a .fltufl{y of such im- portant problems are always telling women that the throat is the first part oft heir bodies to reveal the insidious approach of age. But they don't add that high “‘choker” collars and the stiff linen in which the “tailor-made” young woman and the athletic girl delight to bind their necks are age's most potent allies. The proper way to treat a neck s to give it all the air and freedom possible. Bestow your linen collar and chemisettes upon some one who doesn't want a well preserved throat. Rip every high col- lar off every bodice and finish it with a tiny standing ruftle of softest silk, if it must have a finishing, Cut your house gowns down in V’s in back and front. Make your ginghamsand your muslins with round waists and surplice fronts; trim them with a bit of lace at the throat. Then wash your neck every night with a rough” cloth and pure almond meal. Rinse it in hot water and anoint it freely with some emoli- lient. If youcan afford it, and caro about taking your cream in that way, a cream neck bath is excellent. * *"e I should like tosee a man who could solve the question of matching a piece of lavender ribbon when there are eighty different shades of it; and a wo- man can do this any day she wants to. I should like to see a man pin a hat on his head without eticking the pin in his cranium; and a woman can do this twenty times a day without a looking glass, writes ‘‘Bab” in the St. Louis Re- publie, and in the same strain she con- tinues: I should like to see a man who couid make a bare hotel room look like home half an hour after he has gotten there; and a woman, with her fans and her shawls and her photographs, can do that without any trouble. I should like to see a man who could take a sick baby that didn't belong to him and give it & bath and mother it and make it happy and quiet; and a real woman cav always doit. I should like to see a mun~u¥|, by the by, that is just what I am going t0 do—so0 all there is left for me is to say that with all his faults we love him admirer than ‘‘Bab.” » *"x She walked up to the fan counter of a large store, rustling in silk petticoat and gorgeous in russet shoes and chamois gloves. ‘‘Have you,” she began in a loud but not absolutely certain voice, ‘“Have you—er—any of those Uerseeaycle fans?” “Any what?” inquired the clerk in amazement. “Oh!" said the yonng person loftily, “they're generally called fans der seeaycle, but the straight way seemed good enough for me.,” ‘When even this explanation failed to throw any light on the subject, she walked out again, saying that she'd look elsewhere, where the clerks knew some- thing. Such are the ways of the fin de siecle young person, »"e A woman can can do without rest— most women do—but she must have sleep. The quantity will be regulated by her physical condition and circum- stances, and on the quality perfect health and the preservation of beauty will depend. The less sleep a fat woman gets the better; the frail girl, on the other hand, may round out in time if she can spend ten hours out of the twenty-four in dreamland and is prop- orly fed between times. Sleep is a good cure for trouble, disappointment and indisposition. A doctor never worries over a patient who has the faculty of going to sleep. Southern women, who are the most coquettish of American types, are noted for “the good night's vest” and the *‘beauty nap” taken before an event at which they are anxious to look their best. Women who sleep well are nov only prettier, but more amiable than their restless sisters, #"% The nail uncared for receives very lit- tle more odium in these days than the overcared-for nail. It is no longer any better taste to go about with nails glow- ing with the red salve of the toilet table than it is to have cheeks bright with the brightness of rouge. Neither are nails any longer polished to the brilliancy of isinglass. The natural flous is main- tained, but not heightened. Manicure sets, sccordingly, aro some- whut simplified and are not bought as sets at all. Better implements are ob- tained by buying them separately. A pair of nail scissors, a fine jewelers’ file, a chamois pad, an emery board for smoothing the under surface of the nail and a box of nogaline for healing the soreness caused by loosened cuticle com- prise the necessities. e An American version of Ze Language Volapuk is thus conveyed by the Tammany Tiwes, sung in jingle and sot to rhymes: Zo train go around ze bend Wiz ze grana r-r-r-roar and r-r-rattle; And 1, wiz all my ear, attend Lo e petite mud moiselle's pr-r-rattle. She have occupy ze seat in front Wiz what you call—ze lovaire; Ma foi! he make nod voue complain or grunt From vhidg he nod recovaire, Alzough ze maiden parlez—talk, Enough to kill ze fellow, She suy: “In zis I take no stock— Rats! Cully, aint you mellows " She say: “Git onto zat !—it's slick] Pop tipped me zhust for gred Is it a hatt Vell, I should sni Come off ze perch—you know not ze beans,” “'Size up ze French zhibiets 10 us behind ; 1 vould break his weasly old riblets If zay were nod vit ze coppairs lined. *“You bet your royal neck, zhough, Zhack, I'm yours—you've mashed me silly; But when we're hitched you'll toe ze crack Or I'm no Zhersey lily.” Zees way she talk and laugh and tall And Ciel! J'al non comprehend. Ze language give wy zhaw ze lock Eed do my ear offend Eed seem ne zat ovaire here Zee Awel n ladies speak Zat language vhidg is uot quite clear— Vat you call ze—Vol: 3 l"llhh;l Frills. China silks are decidedly fashionable { Wils vear, und the most popular patterns still, and that he has no more ardent. are those revived frafn, the early part of the century. $ve A soft, uncrushable silk called regence is very popular in PAr(s. Midsummer blazerd: and reefors are made of white duckj pique, and linen sacking. 2 254 Cream-white silk gloves delicately stitched with black ave very fashionable on dresey occasions: Skirts made of hl:ck crepon and worn with plaid silk blouges are practical and effective summer digss Even in these daysof fervid heat, very many tourists—brides included—wear traveling costumes 6f ‘tweed. Recently imported silks have raised designs in chrisanthemums, lilies and butterflies on a white ground. Decp, square collars, sometimes fall- ing in folds at the edge, will be one of the features of autumn jackets. A new grenadine for trimming pur- poses is checked and spotted with a color. }t is used over silk of a third shade. A London hosier says he has sold more white stockings during the past few weeks than in the same number of years. The *‘Eulalia” coat is a cream white cloth jacket trimmed in various ways to make it appropriate for many occasions, All the new huts show black wings, either back or front or at the side, and bunches of cherries are often used with them, A pretty idea for decorating finger bowls is to have a bowl within a bowl of larger size, 5o that space for flowers is left between., Belts reign supreme and there is hardly a summer costume regarded as complete unless it is finished by u ribbon or metal band Little capes barely reaching beyond the shoulders are made of coarse net and covered with frills bordered with narrow white lace. The rage for lace {s greater than ever before, and from thirty to forty yards of valenciennes lace is a moderate amount for a silk muslin dress. The newest waistbands are composed of seven rows of beads joined togother at intervals by bands of imitation gold finely chased and ruched. Yellow is a prime favorite this year, and there are many gowns combining this tone with either black or white, or else may be entirely in the one color. A ribbon rosette, with long floating ends extending half way down tho skirt, and placed at one side of & square cut bodice, is a fashionable dress ornament. Patent leather foot coverings, though uncomfortable in point of wear, are de- cidedly smart in appearance and are chosen as a rule for full dress occasions. Silk, net, batiste, flowered silk muslin and organdie form some of the most charming toilets of the summer season. Hats and parasols to match are often en suite. For all light dresses white shoes are worn—in fact, the general tendency is toward those dainty tints that are so much in keeping with youth and summer time. As the Princess May will be responsi- blo for many of the fashions in the im- mediate future, and pale blue is Ler most becoming color, blue is to be the coming fashionable shade. It is more generally than ever a ‘‘cot- ton summer,” as women, both old and young, have discoVered that washable fabrics made up in stylish forms are the most attractive gowns for warm weather. Some of the beautiful summer toilets of flowered muslin, sprigged or dotted organdig, or shot erepon, are made with folded empire girdle and Queen Anne sleeve puffs of pale-tinted French surah, Imported outing cloths, light of weight, smooth surfaced, and thus pleas- ant to the touch, and this season pre- forred for mountain and seaside dresses to the more woolly flannels so long in use. The deplorable want of pockets in gowns, and the inaccessible region they ave placed when they exist atall, has caused the women to rebel, and little bags tobe worn on the wrist are the re- sult, The majority of the most fashionable corsages are either seamless and drawn over glove-fitting linings or mevely fitted with side forms, with the immediate front and back portions slightly gath- ered. In hats there seems to be a perfect mania for those that turn up directly in front, and this style, though very be- coming to young faces, is most danger- ous for any ono to attempt who has passed the first blush of youth. Sheer white lawn blouses and waists are at once cool, dainty and stylish. They may be in serpentine form, ma; follow the conventional lines of the sil or crepon shirt waist or drooping blouse, or be shaped in some pretty simple fash- ion of the owner’s own. A pretty accessory to a gown, and one which makes an old waist look new, consists of a flounce of lace falling from the neckband in straight folds nearly to the waist in front, forming epaulets on the shoulders, a collar in the back, and all in one piece. Dainty and elegant dresses of India muslin are made with alternate trim- mings on the skirt of lace insertion and rows of tiny gathered ruches of the muslin. The corsage is a belted round waist with the same style of trimming coming from the neck and shoulders to the waist. The long, the very long, silk: mittens, with or without decorated tops, will be worn this summer, and in the greatest length shown will run quite up to the top of the shortest sleeves, while in a diminished length they will reach the ruffle, coming low the elbow, which will be worn on the sleeves of many .of this season’s summer gowns. An exceedingly chic gown of corded Piquo in undroken white has milliver's olds of the pique run around the skirt in twos, The two folds at the bottom are an inch in width and a finger apart, A foot above two parrower folds are set closer together, and at the koee the two folds are quite narrow and close set, not over an inch and & half apart. Feminine Faots, Haymaking partias are the latest fad. A certain English gentlewoman has a lavender distillery in Surrey. Queen Victoria brews her own tea, and has a decided, fondness for orange pekoe. b Miss Anne Bayard, daughter of the new ambassador to the court of St. James, is said to have been the most graceful and spirited rider in Washing- ton, e Miss Braddon is said to have realized the historic ambition of Sir Walter Scott, who declared that he would make £100,000 by fiction before he ceased writing. A prominent English physician of large experience with drunkards says that he can recall hundreds of recover- ies among men, but only five among women. It isn't strange that sedan chairs and a good many old fashions should be re- vived in the wake of the 1830 gown. The latest resurrection is of spinning and lace-making. Mrs. Lieutenant Peary has a fancy for tall leather gaiters, and, it is said, wears them upon all occasions. Her greatest wer lies in her personal magnetism. She makes & convineing argument when lecturing because of hor earnestness, simplicity of language and straightfor- ward statements. Kate Claxton (Mrs. Stevenson), the actress and playwright, has an exquisite bijou cottage in Larchmont manor. It is decorated and furnished like an orfenta] summer house and has every comfort. Miss Grant, the daughter of Colonel Fred Grant, besides her various social attractions and her remarkable beauty, works hard in the study of art. She has an ambition to follow in the fontstops of Bonheur. Our own brains Elizabeth Cady Stan- ton recently closed her remarkablo paper with the lines, “The kindost womans heart is that which shrinks rather at its own inhumanity than at another’s,” Louis P. Dessar, the celebrated young American painter who has made himself famous by his delineation of women's faces and figures, is the creator of that Rreat canvas ‘‘Clothilde,” which has set all Burope talking. Beethoven's ‘“‘Tmmortal Beloved" was the Countess Theresa Braunschweig, to whom he was for a long time secretly betrothed. The betrothal was not made public because the countess feared the effect on her mother, who was intensely proud of her rank and family. If you are a housckeeper and wishto keep up with the styles you must possess a Deutschen jug for iced tea and coffee. The Deutschen jugs are quite the fad in table decorations. To be extremely fastidious you might have your picture photographed on the outside. Two hundred and fifty clubs, with a membership of 25,000, were represented at the federation of clubs this year. As this numberis probably not a tenth of the total number of women's clubs in this country, the figures, if they could be secured, would be astonishing. A woman'’s branch of the Horticultu- ral college in Kent, Eng., was estab- lished two years ago, and has now eight students. This is a comparatively new iment in the education of women, but it is said that all those who have entered thus far seem to thoroughly en- joy their work. Since it has become a fad for ladies to visit the houses of Parliament they have especially disported themselves on the terrace, where they can have both tea and talk. Lord Randolph Churchill, however, and some other selfish legisla- tors have rebelled, and have succeeded in reserving one-half the terrace for members only. Mrs. Haryet Holt Cahoon comes to the front this week with a book - entitled, ““What One Woman Thinks!” Wedon't expect this sort of thing from a woman, and yet, when one does think and think logically, then we bow down and wor- ship her, Mrs. Cahoon has buauty and brains, a rare combination outside of Mme. Lecreq’s fairy tales. Mrs. Berry Wall, who spends several days every week at Manhattan beach, has not the same love of conspicuous dress as her fastidious husband. Indeed, sho presents a marked contrast to him, and together as they promenade on the beach at Manhattan, one nervous and sparkling and the other calm and re- served, they are objects of much com- ment. Another thing which shoemakers and physicians will tell you todo for your complexion is to wear looser shoes for the summer months than you do for the rest of the year. The feet scem to feel the general languor even more than the rest of the frame does, and whatever gives them the nearest approach to bare- foot ease is the best thing for them in summer. Mrs. Richard Irvin, the classic fea- ured flame who keeps all society gues ing as to what she will do next, has de- parted for Narragansett Pier with her charming niece, Mi&s Lulu Morris. Miss Morris was not always the tall, slender, gracoful maidon she is now. Just about three years ago she was passing through the awkward age of girlhood where freckles and forwardness constitute the omnipresent features. The bow in polite eircles is considered all that is necessary. A gentleman whan given an introduction to a lady bows. Two ladies being introduced bow.” When friends meet they bow or nod. A gentle- man when escorting ladies raises his hat, which means also a bow from the ladies should they recognize a friend. This last rule is the same in ull social circles in America. But whenever the introduction partakes of a marked friendly character, then the handshake becomes a go-between. In 1879 Sarah Bernhardt, as a member of the Comedie Francaise, visited Lon- don and was entertained by the lord mayor. The breakfast was held in the long parlor at the Mansion house, a room which is adorned with busts of ‘Wellingion and Nelson. The divine but erratic Sarah took offense at what she considered an affront to her national prejudice, and was on the point of leay- ng the room. She was pacified, how- ever, but this year the entertainments 10 the present company are given in the Egyptian hall, 80 as to avoid dangerous ground. ‘Where are the croakers who say that everything was all right in "the good old days?” Here comes along a diary written by a lady of fashion some fifty years ago, and among other complaints, which are like echoes of those we hear every day, are these: ‘“Our streets are not wide enough for the carriages, nor the week long enough for one's engage- ments, There isn't enough money, or enough time to spend it in. In short, such a mess!” Also, the writer of the diary, Lady Georgiana de Ros, says: “No wonder girlsare delicate if they cat mutton chops before dinner!” Mary E. Wilkins “fosses up” to the following story about her youthful days: When Miss Wilkins was a young girl she was invited to a party, and she yearned with a great yearning for a blue sash to adorn herself for the occasion. But her mother thought differently and Mary was obliged to content herself with a blue ribbon tied around her waist. But another little girl was more lucky and appeared ‘in the full glory of a wide blue sash. Miss Wilkins at once took all the life out of that other little girl by telking her, ina superior way, that sashes were all, oh! all out of style, and ribbons were the only garniture a self-respecting waist would acknowledge. Miss Wilkins characterizes this con- duct of hers as “‘a piece of cattishness” and professes repentance. There are taree uuin worth saving— Time, Trouble and money—and De Witt's Little Early Risors will save them for you. “These little pills will save you time, as_ihey actpromptiy. They will save you trouble us they cause no pain. They will monev as they economize doctor's OTHING LIKE SWIFT'S BPECIFIC fs totally unlike any other blood . 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