The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1904, Page 10

DAY CALL. g, and many arries around of a side in every pur be also a sap- rse ied in the p phire t be ¥ f 1964 longer. ide. Wear Do Get one and it or carry has a fad for of th jonal. E gives tle ar s. Her guests com: v rts, but E dressing silk petticoat. This 80 dressing sacqu s and is made of the d the w, in girlish ribbon at the of has other es a Lim- what a a dozen ) come pre- Then get a blank Limericks” on the out- the first page inscribe Each tells his or tes it in the Lim- t makes the enter- great fad in Gotham. ricks the better. has another fad. rries a tiny luck d ngs a skul of a r f she cannot get the her dressing table = r ow of skulls along the nocent looking s just But a very vi arranged so that w another vns half a panthers , and she pos- olf's head, a fox head and a wild boar. Bhe never ess protected by one of these, animals sl can carry > the better. This is f the girl of Gotham. She wears a silver head at her belt, the head of an animal; she carries a A her parasol handl reposes a carved ivory throat there is a tiny her shirt waist set is in pe of animal heads; and, upon has it and sc £, there is fastened a silver or- t which resembies a Truly unprotected. rl animal of she does not move / the of Gotham has some fads which not quite so barmles: e ughty fads. And one of th: s the fad of the scented cigarette. She nd takes paper cigarettes and rolls them perfume until the paper is satur- nd the way to do it is this: Take nice perfume and pour it into of your hand. Select your e, roll it around in your hand e perfur is dampened. y. As soon as the paper in light the cigarette and The result will be a very e is all soaked up and Then lay pleasant aroma, a highly scented at- mosphere, which will add a thousand per cent to the delights of smoking. The Gotham girl has one more fad which might not be called just the 1g. She burns Chinese incense and sits in front of the long smolder- ing sticks—smoking! She takes long whiffs of cigarette smoke and blows the smoke in the air while the Chinese sticl nd forth their incense behind her head She makes a lo picture seated thus and one that will not be forgot- ten. But is it right to smoke? Is it right to burn incense and sit in front of it as though you were the daughter of a mandal These are questions to- be pondered. The zirl of Gotham has plans laid ahead for August. She is going to go barefoot. Yet not quite barefoot, for #he will wear sandals. If you want to know v she will look just get a pair of child's sandals—the sort the children of London wear in the sum- mer time. There are, if you will re- call, soles that are long and wide and flat. Then comes a strip of leather which passes up between the toes. There is a strap at the back, making a sort of little harness, and there are straps across the inst This makes the sandal strong and complete., The girl of Gotham wears this and goes Imost barefooted. It §s pretty and it is healthful, and, now, since she does not pinch her toes, it is becoming. Making sandals is one of the Gotham girl's fads. She cuts them- out of leather, has the straps-arranged at the harness shop, and so is enabled to have sandals of e y kind and every color. She needs nothing but the leather with ich to work. The rest she can man- ge for herself. She knows how to make them. There is another fad, and this is a pretty one. It costs real money, but it is refined and esthetic. To have such a fad one must either be rich or have rich friends; for the fad is nothing less than the collecting of purses. To gratify this fad one must have.a purse from all over the world. There is a quaint purse, all gold threads, APPY that hostess who, on the glorious Fourth, can boast a porch, either in town or couptry. If ever there is a day when all the world and his wife wants to go a-summering it is ndependence day; and never are guests so easily pleased as then. On her porch, therefore, the hostess concentrates her energies and her pret- tiest things. From the front porch the women folk will watch the men renew their youth in ball and tennis. In a secluded corner of the same porch the table should be set forth, and again at night the guests will move to the front steps to watch the fireworks. hostess may, therefore, feel safe in despolling her Uving room of its easiest chairs. softest cushions and prettiest tea table, the latter for the punch bowl and glasses. Decorations of crepe paper, paper lanterns or bunting should be used on the porch. At the favor counters of the department stores a bewildering wvariety of queer Chinese balls, fans and rings strung together for garnishing porches can be purchased. These are all made from folded papers and are casy to carry to the summer home. They come in the national colors, as do the lanterns. Nor should the host forget to have “Old Glory” run up on a pole on the cupola or fluttering from an upper window. If the dinner table is set on the porch screw a big hook in the ceiling directly above the center of the table. Make this the center for streamers of red, white and blue bunting or crepe, paper, which can be run out to the four corners of the ceiling overhead or draped to hang above the table like a canopy. For the center piece on the table use a cut glass dish filled with poppies, bachelor buttons or larkspur and daisles or marguerites, which will give the 'national colors in bloom. A Western hostess evolved the idea of a centerplece made from as many silken flags as she had guests. These ‘were stuck into a mound of soft moss and connected by red, white and blue ribbons with the plates. Surrounding this mound of flags was a circle of thir- teen gups, tiny brass cannon, each T77/5 QM OF i 7ADS 70 CAHERYA SR bL LR TR HATH, T from Central America. Then there is the Indian bead purse. There are hand- some leather purses, with a jewel set in the front, and there are the leather purses of Japan, all bright colored and exquisitely carved, with a chain at- tached, with a jewel, which is carried in the hand. There are purses made of Russian embroidery and hand bags of the same. V. Upon the outside there are stubby lit- tle trees and Russian wolves and low houses. There are square silk purses and hand bags that are wonders In handsome French brocade; and there are bags of 1830, made from the attic. It is a fad to have a great many of them and to carry as many as possible, one at a time, but changing often. And the New York girl has other fads, and one og these is very inex- pensive. It is the fad for laundry work. Don’t put out your fine laun- dry if you want to follow this fad. Do it yourself. In one of her summer trunks the girl of Gotham takes a - miniature laundry outfit. Everything is dolls’ size, but very useful just the same. Theré is the tiny washboard. There is the little bit of a washboard, no big- ger than a little girl would need for her doll clothes. There i§ the little box of fine starch and the salt to make it smooth and glossy. There are the tiny clothespins and there is the blu- ing and there the dyes. Fine washing nowadays includes the knowledge of ecru tints, cream and blue and gray. For ironing purposes the Gotham girl takes with her a little charcoal iron. You build a fire in it and it stays hot all through the ironing. It is the neatest, safest thing that ever was and the summer girl who owns such an iron is quite independent of gas and electricity, of stoves and un- certain heat. ! ‘Washing one's own clothes in one‘s HINTS FOR HOSTESSES ON holding a small firecracker, the small- est size ghe could get. When the guests were seated the hostess touched off the firecrackers with a lighted taper, and the meal opened with a salute of thir- teen guns to the flag. When the meal was over each ribbon was pulled by a guest, who drew out a silk flag as a souvenir. If the hostess is a city woman she need not despair. If she has a balcony overlooking the back yard—and the decoration of the back yard is a mat- ter of pride with most women who stay in town during the hot weather— she can serve the dinner or supper to half a dozen guests or more by using small tables. If the porch is not avail- able, then she makes her dining-room as light and airy as possible and serves her dinner early, before lights are nec- essary. A music box sending forth pa- triotic airs is a pleasant accompani- ment. A heavy dinner menu is not appro- priate for the evening meal on this hol- iday, when all the world grows young again. Something on the line of an old-fashioned six o'clock tea or supper tastes infinitely better to jaded city ap- petites or healthy country ones. Here is an excellent-menu for a six o’clock supper on the glorious Fourth, and it gives the touch of color which is quite essential to service on that day: Raspberry Cocktail. Creamed Fish in Forget-Me-Not Ramekin Cases. Olives in an Ice Tub. Broiled Chicken. Creamed Potatoes. Cherry Salad. Crackers. Frozen Strawberries with Whipped Ci Angel's Food. Coffee. Raspberry cocktall calls for dead- ripe fruit. A dozen berries are washed and heaped in a glass, with the juice of an orange poured over them and allowed to stand for a while. Then, at serving time, a heaping teaspoonful of powdered sugar and a tablespoon- ful of finely chopped ice is added, giving a fine appetizer for hot weather. The forget-me-not ramekin _cases are of paper in delicate blue, with arti- ficlal flowers outlining the edge. The ice tub is formed by melting a - small cake of jce into the desired 1T IS ATAD OF THE_FOURTIH OF JULY GiIRL TO GNE A VERANDA WACHON™ own room is a great fad. The board- ing-house keeper and the proprietor do not like it, but what can the poor girl do when there is no laundry handy or when prices are ruinous! It is a fad to give a laundry party. All the other boarders are invited in Yyour room while you slap out your fine laces, wash your organdies and lawns and dwa little lace handkerchief iron- ing on the looking-glass and window pane. There is many a dollar saved this way, so it is a very useful fad. The monogram fad is not new, but it is more the fad than ever. You can get a belt buckle which is made of your monogram and nothing else. You can put a big monogram on the back of your gloves. You can stamp your bag with a monogram. You can em- broider one on your instep. You can put a monogram upon the breast of your shirt waist or uvon your right sleeve. And you.can monogram your sash end and goodness knows what not. Itlis a very pretty fad and one that affords work for busy fingers all summer, for the making of mono- grams there is no end. And, among the fads, there is the patch. Do you know how to make a patch, and how to put it on and how to wear it? It is the thing to cut it out in fancy shape and wear it next to one’s best feature. If you have a dimple by all means.put the patch next to it. If your chin be cleft then let the patch adorn your chin to show its pretty curve. If your forehead be shape by the application of cloths dipped into hot water, or a warm {ron wrapped round with a clean cloth. The object 1s to get & crystal tub, hollow in the center, to hold olives. It is set in a nest of fern leaves. Cherry salad consists of rich ox- heart cherries, stoned and served on lettuce leaves, with delicate French dressing. ‘When the hostess has a house party on her hands, whose members do not incline {oward athletic sports, it Is well to have some game or guessing contest to suggest when Interest in fireworks wanes, especially if the af- ternoon is passed on a shaded porch. Here are two games which will test the patriotic knowledge of the average gathering and find it sadly wanting. The hostess prepares typewritten coples of the preamble to the Declara- tion of Independence, omitting every fourth word, and the guests are asked to fill In the blanks with the correct words. This is the way the test is ar- ranged: “When in the of human events = peeomu necessary fer = wide and smoeth, if your cheek be round, If you have a pretty eye, try to bring out its beauty with a patch. Nor is the patch a tiny one. It is cut out of black court plaster. An[dt it is planted In just the right spot. cular. is dlamond shaped or it Is ¢ It is cut in animal form, or in some other shape, odd and attrac And the right it is placed exactly upon spot. That is the way to-wear a patch. The Gotham girl has a fad for mix- ing drinks this summer. This may not be as harmful as it sounds. Many of her drinks are made of fruit juices, cunningly mingled in ‘a vegetarian manner, and there is nothing of an alcoholic nature in them. If she we a wise girl—and the girls of Gotham are wige—slhie learns how to mix drinks both ways and you can take your choice by the asking. There are al- ways new drinks, and one of them is served with a tiny ladle from the depths of the shell of a grape fruit which acts as a bunch bow! Serving things in their natural shells is one of her fads. Squash is boile and mashed, seasoned and beaten light, and then is heaped into a great hollowed out squash shell. Potatoes are scooped out of their covers, are seasoned and piled back. and are sent to the table agaln as baked potatoes. Fish is served in baked potato skin And there are deliclous little salad which are served In apples the middle of which is scooped out. All sorts of fruit are cut up and served in grape-fruit skins; and now there come the muskmelons filled with ice cream, and the watermelons with their scooped out insides ref d with sweetened fruit. It is to be a season of mother nature, says the fad- dish girl of Gotham. If these were all the fads of the New York girl it would be enough. But they are not. She has fads galo Fads without number, fads fads present and fads to ¢ She has a fad for wearing a shirt waist without a collar and she loves to turn In the neck of her shirt walist. This Is when she golfs. She goes w out a hat and she rolls up her sleev This gives an even coat of tan a makes her strong. It Is ene of her pet fads. And there are others. But these are surely enough for the girls of this tow to know, enough to keep Husy a long time to come—if y are out fad hunting. people to dissolve political bonds which connected them with and to assume the powers of earth the separate —— equal station to the laws of and of Nature's entitles thém, a respect to the of mankind requires they should declare causes which impel to the separation. - hold these truths —— be self- evident, that men are created » that they are by their Creator certain {nalienable rights, among these are g liberty and the of happiness. That secure these rights, —— are instituted among , deriving their just from the consent the governed. That any form of becomes destructive of ends, it is right of the to alter or abolish it and insti- tute new government its founda- tlon on —— principles and organizing powers in such as to them ——— Seem most likely effect their safety happiness.” The name of the author of the THE GLORIOUS FOURTH | declaration must also be supplied, and there could be no more appropriate prize than a good photograph of Thomas Jefferson, daintily framed. This goes to the guest who comes nearest to filling out all the blanks: Another contest which will create no end of fun and rivalry requires the use of a large flag, the fleld cov- ered with plain blue cloth to hide the stars. This is fastened on the wail and each guest is supplied with thir- teen paper stars and as many pins or thumb tacks. The company is then invited to take turns at pinning the thirteen stars in the order in which they appeared on the first flag of the United States. Not one person in a hundred knows the correct arrange. ment of the original thirteen stars, The prize for this contest might be a small picture of Betsy Ross displaying her handiwork on the first flag to the committee appointed to view her de- sign. This picture comes in a small color reproduction, as well as in black ::dk;hin.llnexpeulvely framed, and a Dleasant souvenir tional holiday. e P