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FADS AND FOLLIES.
cOME OF THE THINGS WHICH IN
terhst THE Fair sex.
Tbe Fall Styles -They are Very Be
coming and the Women are Giving
Them a Good Deal of Attention—A.
p e w Gossipy Stories Which May In
terest the General Reader—Some
thing About the Blouse Waist-Open
Short Jackets are Commanding No
tice.
When are we to have a reaction, says the
Hew York Times, from the flimsy paper
ornaments which under various names and
disguises litter our “best rooms?" We cried
;,ius Deo when the silk rags which hung
from every hook in the wall and every ar
tjcje 0 f furniture received their conge, but
t ljev were better thau these monstrosities,
that am more unreal and cheap and desti
tute of any sort of beauty than were the
was bouquets under glass of our grand
mothers.
Do you know, for instance, what a piano
sachet is! It’s a bit of cheap perfume in a
waa of cotton that is bundled in a piece of
red, blue, pink or yellow paper, and pulled
together like an emigrant's pack, with two
or three ends standing up, crimped and
notched. That is the sachet, aud you want
to put it oa your piano down by the keys,
aud lot it stay until it 13 soiled and mussy,
and its perfume, if it ever had any, is gone,
aud its tall ends droop and it shows all
through what a pior, miserable attempt at
ornamentation it was—which will be before
a week has gone—and then you want to
burn it, aud with it every paper fraud in
your room, and you waut to register a vow
while the asties are crumbling never to do
6ucb a foolish thing again.
“What provokes us often,” says a naval
officer to the New York Times, “is the feel
ing which civilians often display that they
own the navy, and all things pertaining
thereto—vessels, officers’ private rights,and
all—because, as some of them occasionally
put it, we pay for it all, you know. This
liberty to roam at will over all parts of a
ship is especially desired by women. I
think they should have a hint, some of
them, of the injustices of it. On the At
lanta and other vessels of the white squad
ron visitors to the ship, particularly the
women visitors, would enter the officers’
quarters and their rooms, even pulling
aside closed curtains, without asking leave,
and would be really indignant if politely
informed those were apartments in personal
use to which visitors were not invited.
• 'One woman whom 1 showed through
with a party quite resented my refusal to
open certain rooms. 1 then told her that
these were as much private apartments as
were her own, and 1 said to her: ‘Wbat
would you think, madam, if visitors to
your house should open the closed doors of
your bedrooms to inspect them ?’ and she
replied, with a toss of her head, ‘lbis is
quite different.'
“Another incident was "this: A party of
girls were going through a ship) accompa
nied by two or three officers. They went in
to the ward rooms whore the officers
showed them their own rooms, and one or
two of tho others which were open. The
girls, however, were not satisfied and in
sisted upon pulling at tho closed curtains of
the other rooms. In one of these an officer
was dressing and his curtain was pulled
partly aside four times. Every time he
prevented it going entirely back, but at the
fifth pull he gave up and let it go. As the
inquisitive girl threw the curtain aside she
saw before her au irate mau m shirt and
trousers, who looked at her calmly a mo
ment, then remarked:
“ ‘lf you are quite satisfied will you kiudly
drop my curtain?’
“To do the girl justice, she was much
abashed, aud evidently had gone so far only
in iguoraut curiosity—a curiosity, howover,
that ought to be rebuked as it was. With
thousands of persons sometimes visiting a
ship jn a day, you can imagine the nuisance
it becomes and the difficulty we find in se
curing a little privacy.”
The comfortable blouse waist, says the
Evening Post , if not a dressy garment, is
nevertheless so useful an article of wear
that its reign is likely to be prolonged
throughout the autumn and winter. Season
after season wo see new improvements made
in these waists. Among tho novelties are
Bilk blouses made of rich Persian striped
silks aud satins. These will be worn above
black skirts of silk, wool or lace, making
bright and becoming toilets for dull, suuless
days. Iho blouse does not fall and spread
like the old variety, although soft full folds
cf the goods are brought from shoulder to
belt front and back; and in addition, a
fringe rouche (much liko a boa, made of
silk matching one of the colors in the stripe
or tartan, composing tho waist), is carried
around the nock and down tLe front, mak
ing a most becoming finish. The new ti k
blouse, unlike its cambric compeer of the
summer, is not to be tucked inside the skirt
band, but is worn with a girdle of silk
matching the fringed rouche, slashed aud
laced in various places, or simply pointed
front and back. On others, a bolt-band se
cured by a handsome buckle is brought to
a point and fastened there some inches be
low the waist. The plaided blouses are de
signed for slim, youthful figures, aud many
are finished with a velvet rouche and cuffs.
Popular silk plaids show a mixture of black
and red iu shaded tones, with a line of gold
bet ween, pine green and doe color crossed
with dahlia, cream and brown, h iir-!iued
with turquoise blue and dark marine blue,
plaided with red and silver, eto.
A lady at Bar Harbor, says Clara Belle
In the tress, went into the telegraph office
at that place the other day and telegraphed
to her husbaud in Xaav Vork: “Elsie’s en
gagement is broken.” She looked entirely
happy, aud the 17-year-old young lady
who lookod over her shoulder as she wrote,
and who was undoubtedly the Elsie re
ferred to in the telogram, beamed like a
June morning. Here was a case of modern
romance that would not read at all well in
a novel. Elsie was allowed to become en
gaged several weeks ago simply because it
ntertained her. Her lover was the em-
Doumieut of all the virtues, as she declared,
~ lo °ked very much as if Elsie might
“Bally marry aim.
l ? p nearly the whole summer was
however, sho calmly told her mother
Witacoold not possibly love theyoutb,
tliio beln S asked why she had arrived at
conclusion, she explained that while
was . u very good fellow inmost
... ; ’ . ‘Bsisted that a man could eat ice
n „?, m " . a s P°° n and s'ill be a gentle
. , ’ Qn< * as sho had entirely different views
to . petnt. they had quarreled and agreed
“todf with each otb r. Elsie eats ice
fr ,™ * ltb a f °rk and she confided to a girl
fa- n 1 bat she was so ashamed of her
whl. .u en bo u? ed a spoon on an occasion
an i 1 were dining together that she
iLiSi . to tbe "'“iter, who was 60
weeping * vu * garit y that he came near
Stewing over the young man the
Unci, ' i-yeur-old has become very
E vii i? ta a b'tfkiy ornamental and swell
Her m*? an wbo is "‘siting at Bar Harbor.
' ittaeiJ ‘“or smiles complacently at this new
knowing that her foolisn child
that S P! B0 ber * a,er idol when she finds
with n ’ “k® the British nation, eats pio
“J 6 spoon.
OnwheuST !larh,r girl is a product of that
which ?° me Btata of super-refinement
Jininv tM banished the spoou from tho
9fher im n soc,et y. and like many more
worthv i’ e . rfect breediug wil despise many
tb-v are ,'; 1 ' 3 , tal9,lte ' l men because
3Uotf,, .. tnasters of ultra modern eti
cbief r , ® ea( i by marrying a youth whose
the ( jt,,', , ' o ® lUt, odution is tbat ho knows just
fc bcatf S tan£J£ of gett ‘ ng f °° d iDtub “
studv correspondent who has been
writes- “Ts of Kafflrland, Africa,
In tlui f , Hassacatumas are more cleanly
UWf “ a bita than any tribe I visited.
They keep their huts in good order and their
trips to the river for bathing purposes keep
a path well trodden down. I saw several
specimens of female beauty among this
tribe, such as have often driven men mad,
caused the overthrow of monarchs and the
downfall of nations, whose charms might
rank with those of Cleopatra of old. Many
fu,r-sk:uned ladies might envy their acts of
c.quetry, little graceful tossings of the head
and sly glances of large black eyes almost
hid by heavy eyelsshes.
if In looking at the finely chiseled chin and
forehead, at tho development of the entire
form, as perfect as nature could make it,
one almost forgets the scantiness of their
attire, whioh consists of fa girdle around the
lions, profusely ornamented with beads; add
to this long strings of shells, beads and tusks
worn around the neck and shoulders, and
you have a native maiden iu full dross,
liair a dark, glossy jet block; deep, liquid
eyes ; teeth of matchless whiteucss that peep
out like pearls between ruby lips that stnilo
as they greet you with the phrase of their
country, ‘si-a-gootanda-wena’ (love to you),
makes it no safe atmosphere for the nerves
of a susceptible bachelor.”
Handsome camel’s,hair says the New York
Times, comes in seven-yard patterns for
5117,the width fifty inches. The waved stripes
running lengthwise of the goods are as ugly
as possible, but give promise of being much
worn. Siuce gowns of this will be made
with the bias skirt, using the width of the
cloth for the length, the stripes will have a
very snaky effect, increased In some de
signs by the snake-skin arrangement of
colors.
The white Bedford cord which has been
so popular at the summer resorts will not
be eclipsed in beauty by auy fabric which
may bo brought out during the winter. It
may bo safely relied upon as one of the
standard materials of the coming season.
Tho silk jersey webbing that has been its
good comrade will be liked because of its
disposition to cling to the form, adopting of
its own will the unwrinkled set over the
hips to which clumsier fabrics are con
strained with so much trouble.
This and other short open jackets arer se
curing much attention as among the proba
ble styles for the winter bodice. The blouse
alone, with braces and as a vest, is pushing
its claims. The coat bodice shows many
new developments with every passing week.
The large gauntlet cuffs arc* one of the
sleeve fads. The sheath, or double sleeve,
is seen in several styles; the big “bell sleeve,”
falling in folds at the shoulder and droop
ing over a long cuff, is another favorite.
While the outrageously high-standing
shoulders are cho.-on by extremists, the
sleeve moderately high, or softly full at the
shoulder, is tho c' oice of tho best taste.
The former style is that of the coat sleeves,
adapted to cloth costumes, the latter be
longs to the large sleeves used for thin
goods.
It may not be true, but a young, hand
some and very successful physician vouches
for it, says Ciara Belle iu the Press.
“If you want to get so many selfish wo
men on your booss that you can’t find time
to attend to them all," said he, “don’t pre
scribe medicines for them, but ordor them
to drink wine and taka plenty of diversion.
I’ve got at least seventy women patients.
Ten out of the seventy are really ilk The
others are as hearty as I am.
“Now, I began with one or two wealthy
ladies and gradually all the others h ive
been recommended to me because I treat
patients in such a delightful way. I’ll give
you a case in point.
“There is a young married lady living at
present at Newport. A doctor is necessary
to her according to her own ideas. I was
first called in to seo her n year ago. She
had been under treatment with three or
four very good men for months previous to
that. Sho told me at once she bad taken all
sorts or nasty medicines until she was tired,
and had been stopped of all the nice things
sue liked to eat and drink. I looked her
over and saw that she was in robust health.
“ ‘Could you take a milk punch at about
11 o’clock In the morning?’ I asked, and im
mediately her face brightened.
“ ‘Oh, yes,’ she replied.
“And a little sherry at lunch, then an
other milk punch in the afternoon, with
phaps a glass of champagne at dinner?’l
/Srat on.
“Her face fairlv beamed whon I got this
far, and I found I had struck the right
track. She thought there would be no
trouble in doing all this, and then I sug
gested she bad bettor go to the theater and
opera as much us possible iu order to dis
tract her mind.
“By this time I had won her heart com
pletely , and since then I have been uuabie
to keep my bill for services down to less
thau SIOO a month. I am compelled to make
special trips to Newport to see her, and all
I do is to tell her to keep up tho champagne
and other things, and to have all the good
times she can. Bhe is convinced that lam
protracting her life and recommends me to
anew patient every week or so.
“It’s very simple becoming a successful
doctor, I assure you. Tne principal thing
to learn is to leave drugs alone and study a
woman’s appetite."
A little incident illustrative of the kind
ness of Queen Isabella is told of a Spaniard
who had tried to take tho life of the queen.
The report that he was dying of hunger in
Baris reached her.
“Send him 500 francs," sho commanded.
“But your majesty knows that this man
is au assassin, that it is he who ”
“What difference does that makeJ" an
swered the queen. "You are absurd with
your hatred and your Ideas of veugoanco.
The unhappy man did not wi3h to kill mo,
but the party I represent. Uo now and do
what I bid you."
Said a woman yesterday to tho New York
Times: “For over a month I have been
treasuring a sense of wrong from wbioh I
am at last relieved. Five weeks ago last
Saturday I went with a friend to pay a visit
in Brooklyn. When we came to take an
elevated train at an up-tewn station on our
return trip several persons reached tho
ticket offico just as we did. Whon I stood
before the window I laid down a quarter
and asked for two ticksts. The man pushed
the com into a pile of change and said, ‘5
cents more, please.’
“ ‘Why,’ I remonstrated, ‘I gave you a
quarter.’
“ ‘Not at all, madam, you gave me a
nickel,’ was his equally positive assertion.
“1 appealed to my friend. She had no
ticed the quarter, and said so. The ticket
soiler was politely positive and refused the
seooud ticket. I refused further money and
the train went off without us. We stood in
the station and discussed the situation, aud
once more tried to reason with the man at
the ticket window. He was civil, but firm
as a rock in his insistence that 1 had put
down a nickel only and was entitled to only
one ticket. Wo were indignant aud obsti
nate, but attar two more trams had passed
without taking us aboard wo were forced
to yield, and, producing 5 cents with the
reiuotance of the proverbial tooth pulling,
I got the tickets and we came on to New
York.
“Last Saturday I made a second visit
alone, to Brooklyn, to the same neighbor
hood, and when I came to the ticket windo w
of th# station, homeward buund, there was
tho iace of the obdurate fellow who had
charged mo 15 cents a ticket on my previous
trip. As I looked at him all my former
indignation returned.
“ ‘Have you found my quarter yet?* I
ocuid not resist uskt g sternly. He looked
an instant, then his features relaxed.
“‘I have, mhdam; you were right. My
cash that night showed asurplus of liO cents:
here it is.’ and ho shoved two dimes thro ugh
the window. Satisfaction, though late, is
sweat.”
The following infcdent,says the Jewelers'
Circular, happened at Oroville, Cal.: It
was (Thandsome solitaire and she evidently
desired the jeweler to know tbat it was her
engagement ring.
"I would like to have this ring cut down
to suit rav finger," said the hands tmo heart
smasher, as sho nourished the brilliant ring
before the eyes of the jeweler.
The jeweler took the rii g and smiled—he
had seen it before.
“I can fix that in a minute,” replied he.
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Screwing a magnifying glass in his eye, and
taking a small sharp pointed instrument iu
his hand he touched a minute button on tho
inside of the ring and made it the exact size,
saying as he placed it on her finger: "You
see these rings are made in this manner for
the reason that thoy are worn by so many
different people; it is a great convenience. ‘
The young lady sailed out of the stcre
hurniDg with indignation, and the reason
she did not fly was because she didn’t have
the wings. Wbat did she think? You know,
and it is only necessary to state that she did
not wear the ring. Another girl has it now,
but this time the jeweler was not permitted
to touch the button —the young man did it
himself.
It is hardly probable, says the New York
llecorder, that the leaders of the dress re
form crusade themselves expect the radical
measures which they suggest to be adopted
in their entirety. That they will succeed iu
simplifying women’s dress and abolishing
some of its exaggerations aud serious evils
many women hope and believe and are
roaty to aid in their accomplishment by
precept and example.
“I am willing,” said a woman discussing
the matter, “to give up oorsets and adopt a
more hygienic stocking supporter than the
garter, if one can be provided, and now I
always wear a walking skirt which dears
the ground, but why,” she asked,plaintively,
“may I not huve, indoors, the frou-frou of
my silken petticoats and the graceful sweep
of my pretty house gownsP’
This is a question a large proportion of
her sex wifi ask as well. Dress with most
women is a seutlment, and there is no senti
ment about tigbts and trousers.
If, however, through this agitation the
family needs in the matter of dress could be
simplified, if the perpetual shopping of our
women could be in a measure done away
with, what a burden would be lifted from
many an over-burdened shoulder. The
“weariness of clothes,” as a clever woman
puts it, is the eternal getting and making
and altering and finally buying over again.
Strong, woarable fabrics, the best in the
beginning, fewer, artistic and more perma
nent designs—these are reforms to whioh ■
there would be little opposition.
The reason why a good many things are
done is that it is possible to do them. Tuis dic
tum doesn’t seem at first to have any mean
ing, but it means this among other things:
There is no reason why a woman should
wear a little red lobster for a lacepin, except
that it is physically possible for a lacepin to
look like a lobster. There is no conceivable
reason why a woman should wear ear rings
that look like coffee beans, except that the
jeweler who took the curious notion of mak
ing ear rings to "look like coffee beans is
quite capable of manufacturing them and
of putting them upon the mar ket. There is
no reason for ; most of the peculiarities of
fashion, except that women are well taught
while children at table to take went is sot
before them and ask no questions for con
science sake. What is .-eo before them
among the minor offerings of the autumn is
a low-cut shoe with a big leaf or flower in
bright glazed kid or patent leather for its
adorning. Being a "novelty” and much
like other novelties the shoe will probably
he taken and, to do it justice, it opens a
wide range of possibilities.
The girl who wears an oak loaf on her
shoe and the girl who wears a rose will be
very different individuals, and tbero may
come to be as much in individual slipDers as
in individual perfumes. By their foot
flowers you shall know them.
When a woman has got her bonnet aud
glove* on nud is perfectly ready, with her
parasol in band, she always goes back, says
a cynical person, “to a mirror to take a last,
fond farewell. Every woman does this, but
few are honest enough to confess it. For my
part,” continues this frank as well as cyni
cal individual, “I don’t mind telling you
that I mysolf am not satisfied with one last
look; I invariably take four. The first is
for myself, that’s fair; tho second is tor my
brother or—or some other young man,
that’s nothing but just; the third is for my
friends, that’s only generous, and the last is
for the women I don’t like and who don’t
like me, that’s human nature. If the fourth
satisfies me, then, I assure you, I never take
any more.”
Mr. S , who had recently married a
second time, says the New York Tribune,
brought his wife to New Haven to visit
s mo of his old haunts. Meeting in the
street an old friend who was one of the pro
fessors, he invited him to return to the hotel
to call upou his wife; the profossor, not
knowing tnat No. 1 bad been replaced by
No. 3, acquiesced with pleasure. “My dear,
this is Prof. Z——said the bridegroom.
“1 had the pleasure of meeting vou a num
ber of years ago, Mrs. 8- begun the
visitor, “but how you hav: changod! ’ The
pause of astonishment on the part of the
lady lasted only a second as with ready
tact she realized tte situation, and assum
ing the aegis of her predecea or, gave the
worthy professor no reason to suspect he
had made a lapsus lingua:.
One or the tilings that fashion means with
a good deal of emphasis this autumn is the
corselet waist. And in this instance she
shows her hand without hesitation, because
she expects no opposition. Yet the c irselet
is sure to be misapplied. If worn properly
the peasant bodice should not find place on
a gown of auy dignity, nor is it meant for
any ceremonious occasion. All its associa
tions arc with the wurk-u-day life of every
day. It is proDerly a more or less orna
mental corsot, worn over a white smock
that is part of the underwear, however,
starched and stiffened and made to put on a
bold face outside. See a Swiss woman make
hay in it, and you understand it is a com
fortable and natural contrivance for attain
ing the same end for which a man strips to
his undershirt to keep cool while harvesting.
It is in its origin a deshabille and, it ought
to be confined to such simple and homely
uses as are not too widely removed from
labor in the sweat of one’s brow.
At all summer resorts, says Clara Belle
in the Enquirer, low shoos are. of course,
greatly affected and no matter how un
shapely the ankles may be, the women,
young and old, persist in wearing them and
the shoes themselves persist in coming uu
tied.
One husband informed me that it was a
common thing for him to tie bis wife’s shoes
six times in one evening.
“But why do you do iti” said I, with a
quizzical look, for I happened to know that
me lady in question had a pair of the most
exquisitely turned ankles in lowd, and
the husband in question was insanely jeal
ous of her.
My question put him on his mettle at
once.
“If I had my wayhe exclaimed, “I
would oblige all women to wear button
shoes. “The beauty ot a woman’s foot
has something highly mysterious and
powerfully fascinating about it. The deli
cately turned ankle, the delightful swell of
the instep, the graceful arch from heel to
ball, the daintily pointed toes, all unite to
make this useful member of the human form
a thing upon w bich mankmd has for thou
sands of years bestowed an admiration; nay,
an adoration borderiug upon tho neyatic.
It is wonderful. Often I see a young mau
sit for a whole afternoon opposite my wife
solely to got a glimpse of her beautiful feet,
aud so consious does she become of this in
voluntary adoration that in spite of my re
quest to he careful how she exposes her feet
in public, she heeds by doing the very thing
he wants her to do; she can’t help it. I’m
sorry for her at times when I note the
struggle between duty and the weakness of
the flesh.
“True, all women haven’t such handsome
feet as my wife, Lut men will look even
w hen a woman’s foot has only a moderate
share of beauty and, therefore, I say that for
a young woman, married or single, to thrust
out her foot in front ot an almost perfect
stranger and exclaim: “Please tie my shoe!”
is not only bad manners: it's bad morals.
Good day!”
And away this excited husband stalked;
quite out of breath after bis tirade against
this habit so common among womenait our
summer resorts of calling upon their male
escorts to tie their shoes.
The late summer hats, says the Recorder,
are far from abating their eccentricities.
They run largely to streamers and veils.
At Narragansett there was one that waved
joyously in the salt wind. It was a fancy
scalloped straw and it has been repr,>duced
with tolerable faithfulness. At the hack
was a cluster of pink ribbon loops shot with
gold. Tied over the hat .and flying as it
listed, was a long brown net veil. It was
the veil that was of consequence. Yet the
dress may have a word. It was of cloth the
color of washleather, with a big tie ou the
bosom of pink chiffon.
Borne of the early autumn hati are as
clumsy as they ore novel. They have thick
plaited straw twisted about them and tied
in a bow on one side. Others are trimmed
with striped ribbon. The new turbans aro
dome-shaped and not altogether prepossess
ing.
For later autumn wear than the fall
drosses thus far described is the t reed gown
shown in tho last illustration. It is of a
light brown with gold galon front and mili
tary cape tossed back from the shoulders
and tied with beaver colored ribbons. The
strips of velvet that form the striking trim
miDg on the skirt are of beaver colored vel
vet also. The hat is trimmed with ostrich
feathers.
It was one of the peculiarities of a recent
trousseau that the bride’s dresses were all
in white and black, without a hint of other
color. The wedding dress was white satin,
with sweeping skirt flounced with old Brus
sels lace. A white dinner dree- was satin
also, picturesquely draped with white chif
fon. Another white dress had its hem bor
dered with an applique of true lovers’knots,
in white also. Thore was a tea gown of
white chiffon, with color encrustod with
pearls. The black dresses rangod from a
black serge with Egyptian bodice to a black
velvet with long gored skirt and front cov
ered with black lace from waist to hem.
When in doubt, says tho New York Sun,
buy serge, take it to your tailor and have
your oAriy autumn suit made with the
double-breasted English coat and plain
skirt. The skirt just touches at the back,
of c ,urse, in spite of the attempts of fashion
to lengthen the street gown. Fortunately
fashion exercises tho prerogative of tho sex
to which she caters, and changes her mind
on short notice and slight pretext. Accord
ingly we hear rumors from Paris that the
long street gown is to be peremptorily cur
tailed in the near future, and fair woman
will carry about a smaller deposit of mi
crobes on her petticoats, and make loss
shocking and im-nodest exposes of r klo iu
consequence. Now the deep this
sheath skirt, which, by the way, must be
well-fitted to be considered elegant, is to be
finished in a heavy silk cord in black or
blue. The same finish completes the coat,
which is closed with the most rare and ele
gant buttons compatible with yc ur allow
anca These buttons may be of old silver,
quaintly carved, of painted porcelain set iu
jeweled edges, or imitations of antique
coins.
The distinctive feature of the gown, how
ever, is the smart Tat ter.sail waistcoat,
which may be of piquo, of corded silk, of
suede, or of buckskin. If the gown is
corded with black have the waistcoat of
buff, with tiny gold buttous. if the cord
ing is of blue make a white walstcoast
closed with white buttons. Borrow a ool
l*r and tie from the man you love best—he
is Bure to have smarter taste than you,
even if you don’t believe it Starched linen
cuffs and dogskin gloves complete a suite
that is us correct as the rule of three, and
more sure to give you satisfaction than any
other purchased now, when the mod*
is iu its transition state and is set
tled.
If. however, you are sure of having the
courage of your convictions, and mind
enough to enjoy wearing a fr nk that y m
like even if the mode changes, try a plaid iu
Lincoln green, checked with bronze yellow,
and brightened with a thread of scarlet.
Let your double-breasted waistcoat be of
scarlet, fastened with gold roin buttons;
have your collar a choker, tied around with
a four in-hand of black satin, and your
black Alpine hat brightened with a gray
scarlet feather, and you will baa jaunty
aud picturesque traveler on autumn jour
neys by rail or coach.
I made a call on a very pretty young
friend the other day, says the Washington
Post, and was moved to comment upon the
exquisito whiteness of her complexion. I
begged her to tell me what particular face
bleach, or cosmetic, or wash she had boon
using. For a minute she hesitated, and
then, with a bewitching little pout, she
said:
“ I presume you will put my secret in the
paper for the benefit of all the other girls,
and they will then discover what they have
begged me to tell them for weeks. How
ever, I’ll tell you, and it is a most inexpen
sive cosmetic. I assure you.”
She bent to me and whispered gleefully:
“It is just buttermiL!”
“Mamma told me about it,” she went on
to explain, “and her old colored nurse told
her years ago down in Kentucky when
papa used to come and see her. And so the
other day, when I was worrying over the
freckles and sunburn on my face, she be
thought herself of that old remedy and ad
vised me to try it. 1 did so and behold the
result!”
“Is there any particular way to apply it?”
1 asked.
“Just, wash your face well with water, and
then take a silk sponge aud‘pat’ it on all
over your iace and neck. Then when you
get up in the morning wssh in clear water,
and th n in some more of the buttermilk,
and dry your face thoroughly with a crash
towel. You can get your milkman to bring
you in a pint or s > every morning, and you
will find it a cheap as well as a porfect cos
metic.”
And when I said good-by to my friend
that day I went straight to the dairy and
asked for buttermilk, haunted all the while
by the memory of my friend’s lovely “com
plexion. I could not wait for morning and
the milkman.
It is just a piece of good luck, says the
Chicago Herald, uow when you got a glovo
to fit you by relying upon tho number
which you have worn for years. The size—
which to you has seemed rather diminutive,
from tho fact that it took a groat deal of
patience, time and muscle to decide you
could wear it at —nearly makes you blush
now.
i i It makes you blush to think you have be
trayed the fact to the attendant that yuu
ever wore a glove of that number—your
band is so rauoh smaller now. You can
never tell how it has come about. You
know that those scales insist upon ,adding
five or six pounds to your weight, and yet
here ithis glove .two s;zes too large at
least.
•She seems to know how to ignore your
embarrassment. She says, sweetly: “Really,
you are mistaken; you never wore a g ove
as largo as that. It must be you want.
Let me measure your hand. Yes, it is s>£.
It is not olten iadisi a k for a size too
large.”
• 'Do they buy them too small?’
“No, they don’t buy teem too small ex
actly, because we fit them, but it is maDy a
glove that goes to the repairing room from
the first attempt.” A flood of light crosses
your embarrassed brain.
The managers of glove stores are balanc
ing up the profit side of their ledgers by
changing the numbers on gloves, and you
can tell your friends now that you wear V 4.
where before you were obliged to acknowl
edge to and 6. There is something so
aristocratic about a small baud.
Stand Your Ground.
When you make up your mind to take
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, do not be Induced to
buy some otber preparation insfead.
Clerks may claim that “ours is as good as
Hood’s” and all that, but tbe peculiar merit
of Hood’s barsaparllla cannot be oqualed.
Therefore have nothing to do with substi
tutes, and insist upon having Hood’s Sarsa
parilla, tbe best blood purifier and building
up medicine.—Ad.
For neuralgia,headaches Quickstep never
fails to cure iu from fifteen to thirty min
utes; warranted, at Solomons & Cos., whole
sale druggists.—-4d.
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