The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1901, Page 3

R - N Ra, 1A VAL MAT R from the throat stead of having center of the & large uneven e~ —— s BE OoF BAROQ@QVUE PEARLS GREEMN ENAMEL RsEs B JewELP7 PHoToS B> ALi5k Olivines look lik f stones that They are a clear and ¥ ornament inded by diam s not intended This to wear in nets constitute its The %&# (Copyright, 1901 HEN Strephon puts on his Sun- day best and goes to court Doris, eeives him, @ebonazir, his J that of some knig! Doris herself, her silk waist, her mass of gol. as & princess ries herself as regally. she has bee ht of the middle Whatever her s r scholar’s child, y; 1f poor, she riter, a teacher, an er allowance or her in a2 heme, unostentatious, the question of rears fts formidable d is neither to be evaded nor ig- T they be brought from t} fatal to the music 1sbands and wive: 1ld confess that they 1se all the heart-burn- A man says, Whatever 1 She has only to ask. ikes to ask, and if her asking is covered with hu- Men seldom multiform personal re- The purse-bearer e of authority. r of Dollars and Conts J{:Jpll'ea/ lo the JStousehold. Herald, N. Y.) ion No wife should be forced into the pos of a leensed nd Ko wite i« nt In an enjoy acquiesce the marriage this, though on e is to be a type of heaven in d rest, the two who it, and rry it on' at an intelligent agreement who ¢ ial m; "ment very early have been building nsubstantial foundation they will r v at any pertod In styvle of living pre- may easily es- ftems in ithe elter, fuel, primitive wants. Idren, the social rami- tions of th Iy, a n 1 for char- and for travel, come later. The wife, 12 she defr portion of the regular expenses of the house- school bills, ete., d the = of the grocer and the tcher, = have her allowance, paid to her at stated intervals, for the purpose. Beyond this, and in accordance with the family means, she should h; for her individual ve something expen her private P If possible, her separate bank ac- [ ., even if very small, should be part of the domestic scheme. Men consta ntly complain of or assert the business i aw ompetence of women. Yet ¥ be treated like a child all her life, and if by her husband’s iliness or death, without previous training or prepa- ration, she will meet the occasion, and prove herself mistress of its_exigencies. The wife who never had any money in her control, who perhaps bought what she chose and sent the bills to her husband, or did without desired conveniences rath- er than face his criticism, will when thrown upon her own resources show a wonderful adaptabllity. She will not launch out as a spendthrift, nor be fool- ishly wasteful, neither will she be miserly. Women born administrators and economists, and, given the opportunity, ma are GuiBA "DOUDET ALCAZAR THEAT R appearance it rals form with a < 328 o B 9% chief beauty, and they are not a stone. There are all kinds and conditions of this latest fad . Some of them have large round pieces of gold with va- rious heads or mottoes stamped on them. they manifest EL Obliged by an e custom to accept the role of juvenility in their mar- ried live to explain t r purchases and justify them, and to ask for what shofid be theirs by rig sl their hidd. knew 1 once wif who sav household expenses enough money to bu a gold chain for present, Pe might have made a better choice, aid for it in the rain of h it had taken her a ye te, and—her hus- band refu gift and compelled her to take it funded. hd e the tance 1 money re- of Mr. Scrooge Thrift a virtue which °d, if not in nous. A ands the lack ould be culti- rench woman of it in zhast the advantage of being a recognized part- ner in the domestic firm. sted united fortune, are often pi husband’s affairs. The hu nd, honestly anxious to shield the wife from every care, keeps the problems in his office, and him to American has not the courage in periods of stress and weather to let her know the impera- tive need of retrenchment. No home can ever be perfect where on either hand confidence is there are reserves. Entire an essential of success in home making. Doris and Strephon, should life be grant- ed them to reach their golden wedding, will be lovers =till if they have proceeded on this rule. And surely, if a man trust his wife with his most intimate ang sa- cred secrets, with his good name, with his _children’s care and up-bringing, he may well afford to be open and to bestow upon her regularly a requlsite portion of the home income. MARGARET E. SANGSTER. have no chance to d Dbit by s and coppers out of her her good man’s birthday an American, but the French woman has had Looking for- ward to old age or to the dowry of her daughters and the establishment in life of her sons, she has been in the confidence ly ignorant of their GULBA PN S { | | 2z A~ THEATRE % . LA VALLIERE oOF — IARNETS, DIAMONDS . & OLIVINES g DiaAMOND BRoocH These hang pendent like a medal. Other very swell effects are created by a simple chain with a diamond on each end and no clasp except the crossing of the chain arcund the neck. But the quaintest of them is a dainty green enamel with a pearl pendant. Two chains of irregular lengths end with green clasps holding fast gle pearl. It is the daintiest, frailest appearing novelty that has lately pleased the novelty crank. The matrix is another new and popu- lar fad. Any kind of matrix and any kind of setting seem to go, but the tur- quoise makes up the swellest. A new turquoise brooch is mounted in rose gold and the gold makes a wiggly, curling mass of snakes: that peer into every nook and cranny with their bright diamond eyes. Nine out of ten times the matrix brooches are mounted with snakes or some other crawling beast, for that is a fad within a fad. Bugs and snakes have been all the go for some time, and so far haven’t gone out. The opal matrix isn't nearly as pretty as the clear opal, and the emerald is al- most ugly. However, pins are made of both of them, for there is no accounting for taste, you know. A queer looking pin is the opal in an oval rose setting. Two little chains hang from the center of the brooch and end with tiny danglers of the matrix. It is very much like the jewelry of long ago, 7 E2 Ghe Slamour of the JHciress Is Ot Waz‘ On, the Jiaye. PENDANTS OF Gcown CoLLAR oF PEARLS W'Tfi\ OIAMOND BaRrRS but the matrix wasn'theard of then, or at OPAL MATR|x PIN WITH 5 just as swagger as ever and looks per- fectiy at home on a swell waist. It deedn’t be worn at the throat to hold the collar in place. That fsn’t the fashion. It rambles all over the collar; sometimes stops almost in the center of the back. Again it drops fo the shoulder or stops to restle In the lace front. Anywhere and everywhere is the correct place to wear jewelry. Don't worry about it, for you couldn’t possibly make a mistake. A pin to make a blaze and to show its full value is a sword of solid diamonds. The cbain from the hilt to the scabbard has six large pearls to break the monot- o Bcsides lockets and fancy neck pleces strands of coral are wound about the throat several times, and they are very pretty, too. They ncedn't recessarl worn with a low gow although the somewhat of a nuisance when worn around the collar of a taflor suit. It is a pretty this latest trimming of pearls or stones, and oftentimes it gives just the finishing touch to a frock that en- tirely redeems it from the commonplace. of the swell set in New York want their itiful jewelry, but are afrald to keep them at home. Now that's a bad predicament to be placed in, but they manage to wear them and not live in corstant terror of being banged on the Man to wear bea BAROQUE. PEARLS, EMERALDS & DIAMONDS m: company and the jewels are deliverea at her home. Then she swells up at the opera or ball and feels perfectly satisfled with herself and-everybody in general. When it is time to go home she calmly takes off her hundred thousand dollars and hands them into the keeping of a firm's representative, who is there for that express pose. That may sound queer, but truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Now it is to be wondered if San Fran- cisco will feel the need of such a firm. She certainly possesses many charming is and matrons who wear gems as fine as can be bought on the other coast. Many necklaces that run into the thou- sands have been sold this past year. In fact. the jewelry business is a thriving one just at present. When people buy pearl t of fifteen strands of are held in place by fine diamond it doesn’t clearly co: the idea at times are very hard. Yet that is just what they have been doing and are doing right along, for Frisco is gradually wak- ing up to the fact that she must appear in evening dress after 6 if she would be In the swim Arother beau costly thing for even- ing wear is the aigrette. They come ! two colors, black and white, and are vari- ously ornamented. But the daintiest is a full white one generously sprinkled with diamonds. At the base a pin glittering collars that tiny pearls iful -+ least wasn’t considered the proper thing head, either. and sparkling sets the entire affair off. to wear on one ¢ bib and tucker, so There are companies who take and de- “To LT pi cudden faney for orna- .t is 2 new style after all liver them at the proper time. For in- . .ntation end? Perhaps only when we A bug pin, big or little, of solid dia- stance. if Madame Brown wishes to Wear reach the “rings on her fingers and bells monds has by no means lost its favor. It's® her famous ruby set she "phones to the on her toes TS all tommyrot, this talk of the stage glamour. Defenseless actresses are every day painted biacker off the stage than they are ever painted rosy on it. As a mat- ter of fact, the glow of illusion shed over many a woman vanishes in the cold real- ity of the actress. Take a front seat and watch her with the footlights full upon her and you know the worst at once. They are nearly all good hostesses. The first dressing-room interview I ever had | was with a star who has since turned out to be no planet. Just then, however, she was it at a local vaudeville house and I was shown to the best room. My reception was tropical. To be sure, I was not such a lobster as not to know that there is often a business motive for the courtesy which the ‘‘profesh” shows the press. However, I did not think that was here nor there, any more than I do to-day. The point was that she knew how to be charming, and to Cariboo with the motive. “Do sit down if you can find a place,” she said, clearing the extra chair of a suit of blue silk tights. “I don’t suppose you ever saw a dressing-room in such dis- order before.” The implication that I was used to dressing-rooms was a stroke of genius and I warmed Immediately. “R-row, r-row,” came inquiringly from a pillow in the corner of the shelf, and the mascot terrier awoke. After a long survey he came straight to me and gave me the glad paw. “Did you ever!" exclaimed his mistress. “I never before knew Taidie to go to a stranger. He is most reserved. He seems to think you are all right.” Now there is nobody who Is not sus- ceptible to the flattery of a dog, especial- 1y a reserved one, so I warmed still mcre, though as a matter of fact I suppose Taldie is tipped to nose every stranger. As the chat went on I glowed more and more. Here was the woman of tact, of magnetism. She was not beautiful, to ba sure, but her fascination was all the more remarkable in view of that fact, “You are a native San Franciscan, are You no e asked. No,” I answered. “I made a mistake of 4000 miles when I was born, but T am willfng to be more careful at reincarna tion.” “Well, you anyway, and seem the San Franciecan that is the most T can sav I have come here all the way from Rus sia, stopping in every land oy the w and I have found no people like these Then she handed me bouquets to be de- livered to/San Francisco via the press. They were more than I could carry, but by the time that I gave her over to her rouge-pots and powder-puffs I was good for a column of rhapsody over the lady herself. The last thing that I heard as I passed out wa. “Now you'll be sure to stop upsia and see my act, won't you?" Of course I would. “And run down for a minute afterward to tell me frankly what you think of it. I want so much to know. This was new to me then. Upstairs in a box I waited for her (urn. I was deaf to the trombone solo that came first, and blind to the fetcheries of a pair of performing feet. I was waiting for my be-tighted lady and phrasing her® eulogy. And when she came— She couldn’t sing. She couldn’t dance. No first class brand of cigars would have had her for a poster. That was the gnd of the filusion. Some of these bad actresses are good homemakers. I used to know a little singer of a stock company, and.I grew to have a soft spot in my heart for her. Once in a while I would drop in and we would have a tea tipple together. She was the most domestic creature, and her domesticity was so contagious that I always went home in a beautiful frame of mind, which moved me to rake out buried dust and to study Mrs. Rorer. It was really lovely to see the polish her furniture had, and you could take down ~ the e in teen books of her library any day the vear without blowing their tops. Every afternoon her husband used to corhe home an hour before dinner. She would have his smoking-jacket ready and they would sit before the fire and talk. When he had a cold she would prepars his mustard bath, and sometimes he would catch one on purpose, just to ses her play the fond wife. She might have Leer: made in Switzerland, to judge by her flawless mechanism. She was a wife and housekeeper to be recommended in a Heart-to-Heart with My Boys. 1t was all very charming. The glamour was upon me. It surrounded and envel- oped in the fumes of the orange Pekoe, in the depths of the rose leaf cushions, In the ease and humor and tact of her good- terapered gossip. But when it came to hearing her sing on the stage— For the love of Mike! e I sat through three hours of her once when her husband was urgent and I had already made the break of mentioning that I didn't know where to spend the evening. I bad always dreaded to hear her, fear- irg that it would be the same old experi- erce. It was. Her makeup was put on in the lavish way that prevails in the 50- cent houses. Her costume was of faded red silk that had been cheap and tawdry to begin with and had been rumpled and crushed and torn and made over all the way from Carmen to Pinafore. There was a place in her voice that felt like an err- ing state pencil. It was a long time before I wanted to see her again. After that I always an- nounced engagements for a week ahead in the same breath with my “How are you?" The illusion had vanished into thin alr. SARAH COMSTOCK. —_—— The first clocks manufactured in this country were by Eli Terry at Plymouth, Copn., in 1793. The manufacture soon be- came extensive and €onnecticut wooden ciocks were famous all over the countey.