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fad : s and fancies.
SOME OF THE THIN'OB WHICH
INTEREST THE FAIR EEX.
Some Things la Dresa That Are Talked
About— A Few Stories of a More or
L?as Humorous Character Why
American Girls Ara a Success In Eng
land -Other Matters of General In
terest.
They say, says a Paris letter in the New
York IForfd, that at times Worth shuts
himself up iu his cabinet de travaille and
does not emerge until he has finished creat
ing for that particular season. I know not.
wbetner he creates all these things in seren
days or in seven weeks—it may depend
upon his muse.
He has many strange customers to deal
with. There ia a certain woman of rank,
note and unlimited whealth who is said to
pay him $80,030 a year to dress
her from her head to foot, to to
speak. In some instances he is forced
to make things which he himself does not
approve of. One of his crosses at present is
that he is forced to succumb to the vanities
of an elderly duchess and dress her like a
10-year-old glrL
A strange suit was recently brought by
Worth against an English widow for quite
a large sum, representing clothes furnished.
Tne evidence showed tnat among the ex
travagances of the widow she had dainty
Nile green night dresses coating SSO eaun.
This, Worth declared, was not his taste.
Tossibiy you may recollect, says Clara
Helle in the Cincinnati Enquirer, that I
have often condemned the custom of after
noon oails on the part of gentlemen. Ex
cept in the case of engaged oouples such a
custom is not to be encouraged. There is
hut one conclusion to reach when a gentle
man calls to see a lady in the afternoon,
to-wit: he dosires to be alone with her’
Possibly you may say that that is the case,
too, when he calls in the evening. True;
but in the evening he always runs the
risk of meeting someone else. But an
afternoon call presupposes a certain
understanding and hence is always open to
suspicion. Only a few days ago a rumor
reached my ear that one of these afternoon
calls had been working mischief in a
wealthy uptown borne. It seems that the
aged lord who does the carving in the house
lms a young and very attractive wife, who
is inclined to be a bit frivolous. Well, the
aged lord being a reasonable sort of a fellow
—a man of the world and a good fellow,
too —made no particular objection to a
harmless little flirtation on the part of his
young wife. All he asked and all he ex
pected was that the proprieties should al
ways and on all oocaslous be most strictly
observed.
Men, ray dear sisters, are great sticklers
for the proprieties. They spell them with
a capital P and lay stress on them when
they pronounce the word. You should
always respect this weakness in a man.
Father Adam suffered from it. He didn’t
object so much to the loss of a fsw summer
pippins, but he did object to wbat might be
said by the Miss Gruudys of the Land of
Nod. Well, tho aged lord camo home on
this particular afternoon and found a man
in the house, or, rather, was about to find a
tnan in the drawing room. There was con
sternation. Suddenly the caller had what
he conceived to be a happy thought. He
threw off his coat, raised the lid of the
grand piano and pretended to
be tuning it as the aged lord of
the manor opened the parlor door. But a
glauce at the young wifo told the caller that
she wasn’t as cheerful as she should be
Tinder the circumstances.
“The piano-tunor, dearie,” stammered tho
wife, as sho met her liege at tho door, and
niSde a tremendous effort to wheel' him
around and to lead him into the reception
room on the opposite side of the hallway.
But no, he wanted to converse with the
tuner concer.dng the new pitch, which had
been adopted by American orchestras, for
he had a very thorough knowledge of
music, which this special tuner did not hap
pen to have. Well, the upshot of the mat
ter was that tuner—this special tuner,
blurted out someting about having brought
the wrong key, or having forgotten his
fork-—and rushed out ot tho house. Ah,
me, that harmony should so eisily degen
erate Into discord, that sweet bolls should
Bo easily become jangled!
"Why is it that American women who
aro not able to get very much recognition
at home can go to England and make for
themselves fame and fortune!”
This question was propounded to Lady
Henry Somerset, says the New York
World, who laughed a little as she
answered: “l have often wondered why It
was that Englishmen of whom we never
hear at home oau come here and be made so
much of by American society people.
"1 think,” Bhe continued, “it is an ex
emplification of the old adage that the
world accepts you at the valuation which
you place upon yourself. For example, a
man who is vary remotely attached to a
very remote branch of royalty In England
comes over here and represents himself as
‘My Lord’ somebody or other, and the very
kind people of New York believe all he savs
and treat him accordingly.
"Then, too, you must remember,” said
Lady Somerset, "that Americans are not
the only people who have ‘fads.’ The
Anglomaniao craze over hero ha3 been sup
plemented by a craze for Americanisms bn
the other side. It has been the fashion
among a certain class of Enelisb society
people to ‘take up’ American artists. Any
thing that was American was the fashion,
and for the time anything that was Ameri
can seemed to be amusing. The American
women who have gone to London for the
purpose of entertaining have, I think,
usually created the impression that they
represented the best of American talent.
There was no one to dispute their claims.
If a lady appeared advertising hersalf as
the greatest whistler in America the
English people wore willing to believe that
Bbe was the greatest whistler, and therefore
very well worth going to hear.
"The fad has to a great extent died out.
I think that an American woman who goes
to England now for the purpose of appear
ing before the public will need to do some
thing that is Instructive rather than merely
amusing. English women are coming to
the front very rapidly.”
The result of Lady Somerset’s two
mouths’ travel in this country is that she is
much pleased with Americans. Bhe thinks
it is a good thing to be an American citi
zen, she sayg. she doesn’t blame those who
are for being proud of it.
But there is one thing that she cannot
oomprehend, anil that is the capacity of
that historical vessel the Mayflower. She
says that for size, compared with that
goodly ship, the Teutonio must be only a
joke; otherwise how could she possibly have
carried all the ancestors whose names are
claimed to have been on the passenger list ?
. Speaking of hospital children a physician,
m an account in the New York Times of his
work among them, says; "One little fellow,
whom I knew very well, had to have some
dead bone removed from his arm. He got
well, and perhaps thought I had taken a
Rood deal of interest In him, although I was
not oonsolous of showing him extra atten
tion. The morning he was to leave he sent
forme. When I reached his bed I bent
over him. ‘Well, Willie,’ 1 said, ‘we will
all miss you when you are gone,’ and after-
S* r< J;.‘■PM you want to see me specially? 1
7 h f !‘ ule fellow reached his hand up and
laid It on my shoulder, as I bent over him,
and whispered, ‘My mamma will never
near the last about vou.’ Could any one
express gratitude moro beautifully!”
. T, h f. T aluo ot or anges as an article of food
kn °""- "I buy them by the box,”
ays a mother, ‘and let my children eat
candy or other
prized ohilaren s dainties. I consider that I
save money by It.” At gome of the inebriate
asylums oranges have proved an efficient
patie ' ts •’Siting the
thfert fJo? abundantly every time the
thirst for liquor dims upon the n I bis
" e; ‘ rec °Bb!xed that often at tera-
J* taucU P‘ les of luscious
oranges are also kepi.
AniMwaothw benefit is alleged for
fnrUt n° m<3 fsmous French beauties of
er ** * 4 asserted, secured and
th ?‘ r marvelous complexion bv a
U®*, , crau f? p - One in particular
lived almost entirely upon the fruit. A
dozen each at br.akfast and luncheon
made up these repasts; at dinner a dozen
more, with a crust of oread and one glass of
burgundy. Doubtless au orange fad is
threatening—for the pursuit of a complex
ion is a very absorbing one to women.
A wonderful index to character, says a
writer m the New York Sun, is the bit of
silkeu webbing wherewith mv lady clothes
her slender ankle and (the gracious fulluess
oi her thigh. A single fleeting glimpse of a
woman s at >ckiug caught as she steps from
her carriage or gathers her pettiooats up at
a muddy cross-walk su dices the skilled stu
dent in stocking psychology to determine
to what part of the country
she belongs, in what phase of so
ciety she mo ves, and where she does her
shopping. Stockings that find roady sale in
the .sixth avenue shops are never seen on
Broadway counters; not that they are less
expensive over on the democratic avenue,
for the oppoiite condition prevails, and
smokings that never see the light of day in
New York are imported in hundreds of
varieties for ths western and southern trade.
The stocking of elegant gentility, suggest
ive of a home on Fifth avenue, an invita
tion to the Patriarchs’, a box at the Optra,
a villa at Newport, a Luiband or papa with
a pew iu the stock exchange, and all the
rest of the good things, is of the color of
Hamlet’s cloak, of the texture of Queen
Mab’s web, and the fit of a true lover's kiss.
There is more iudividuality to this bit of
feminine gearing than you would think pos
sible from the uniformity of its somber hue.
This individuality is a matter of structure
ratuer than color, and of adjustment in
stead of de.oration.
The ultra-elegant woman with the un
limited bank account buys the Bernhardt
stocking extension with an annexed district
that does duty as an undervest and other
sacred garments which shall be nameloss.
These stookings begin at the toes and are
gartered about the neck or shoulders. When
a woman gets one of them on, she never has
to hunt around in the damp chill of
winter’s morning to find the other one,
because it’s there. Another peculiarity of
the Woman who wears this garment is a
certain serenity that marks her expression
and manner. She may be a woman ac
quainted with disappointments in love: her
husband may be faithless, her friends false,
her life a failure, but she is dead sure uf one
thing—her stockings cau’t comedown, and'
she smiles the wrinkles all out of her face in
secure content of peace of mind.
A woma i always sits down on the floor to
put on the ordinary stocking. She doesn’t
know why, only that her mother and
grandmother always sat down on the floor
to put on theirs, and she does it inadvert
ently, just as she picks locks and takes out
corks and buttons her gloves with a hair
pin.
The garment capable of producing the
most pleasing effects is the opera cloak.
Nothing can, for grace and elegance, take
Its place. A few evenings since one of
Philadelphia’s fashionable girls ap
peared in an exquisite fancy fashioned in
peasant shape. The material belonged to
that tone which, Jin certain lights, seem3
to carry all the tints of a sunset cloud. It
was lined throughout with a creamy surah,
a tiny pliating showing about the edge.
Two soft overlapping puffs formed the
yoke, while about the neck stood a feathery
line of marabout.
New handkerchiefs have no hems, but are
whipped at the edges and worked over in
blanket stitch with any color preferred,
and below the little colored edging is a
half-inch open border as flue as a fairy’s
web.
Women who have the white Paisley
shawls of twenty or thirty years ago laid
away amone their treasures should produce
them now and make them over into the
prettiest of opera oloaks. They are lined
with shot silk or brocade of bright colors
and have double-shirred capes of the
border edged with its own fringe.
Pretty! Indeed she was, and when a
lovely woman in a lovely gown is the com
bination everybody feels bound to enjoy the
novelty. She came among the Chestnut
street promenaders, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer, as if she had dropped from the
clouds. There was nothing ethereal about
her, however; indeed she looked a very
earthly young woman In her chic costume
of rich black cord. It was tailor-made,
that is, under the new system, which ad
mits of as many furbelows ns the most
frivolous in-door caprice. Raven hued
bands of ostrich featcers deoorated in an
odd but thoroughly unique style the skirt,
while the waist coat, deep cuffs and high
coliar of soft tan oolored leather were
tufted with bits of black ostrich. A hat of
tan colored velvet and finely cut jot with
lone turn suede 9 completed the effeotive
figure.
There is nothing a man enjoys seeing
more in the woman who pours his coffee
every morning for him, say* the New York
Sun, than some expression of the house
waist or sacquo idea, ot which there are
aimost ns many modes as thero are women
to make the modes bewitching. One of the
most effeotive of these is a brown surah
waist gathered to a yoke of tho white lace
so much employed for dress garniture. The
yoke is lined with a pretty shade of yellow.
The sleeves are also of lace with the bright
lining, and have full shoulder and elbow
puffs of surah. These puffs are drawn upon
narrow brown velvet ribbon,which tios in a
bow of heavy loops inside the arm. The
belt of laca over yellow is fastened with the
loops of ribbon and the yoke hooks lieneath
n festooning Of the same. To make this
waist more serviceable black laca may be
used with equally good effect. The second
model is a very gay little garment
of scarlet China silk, black lace,
and black velvet. The yoka is
tucked, the full ness drawn down to a tight
fitting lining, and finished with a velvet
band, wliioh ties with loops and ends in
front. A plait3l frill of black lace forms
the basque of the waist, and lace is plaited
about tho neck (ki pointed collar aud fin
ishes the full sleeps. Black velvet ribbon
is knotted at the throat and wrists, and
tied about the fullness of the sleeves
just above the elbow. A length of
blue and black brocade on either
side the front, end another length which
forms tho back with blue crepe du cbine to
piece it out on the sides, aro the essential
elements of the matinee or breakfast sacque
which follows. Full blue sleeves aro finished
at the wrist with black velvet bows, and
the plastron of blue in front is completed
with more of the black ornaments. The
womau will confess to you if you swear
eternal secrecy that the brocade was a rem
nant with which the dressmaker declared
she could do nothing at all, tho blue crepe
part of an old ball gown, aud the designer
aud finisher of the dainty little affair was
none other than the woman who wears it so
gracefully.
Jones, says the Now York Tribune, hav
ing by years of biting economy and a hard
fisted meanness toward his employes, ac
quired a comfortable fortune, thought it
about time that ho begaD to entertain some
what. This idea did not spring at all from
a desire to give pleasure to his acquaint
ances, but from the wish to marry off
his daughters into good society, and
so get rid of the burden of
supporting them. Being of a thrifty and
frugal nature, he did not propose to waste
any money on these entertainments, but de
termined to make every dollar tell. There
fore, on tho morning of the day before tee
one on which bu first danoing party was to
oome off, be stopped the ouitor of a paper
which gave cops.derable spaoe to fashions
bln affairs wturn he met in the street and
knew slightly. After greeting him oordi.
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ally and asking after his health and his
prosperity, he said:
“By the by, we’re going to have a dance
tip at our bouse to-morrow night. A lot of
fashionable people invited, etc. These
frivolities of social life cost money, my
dear sir, but we have to have them, 1 sup
pose, or we would not be in the swim, eh?”
“1 suppose so,” said the editor, with a
quiet smile. ‘ ‘Good day” and he passed on.
Jones did not look as if that was the re
ply he expected. Next mcrnlng he called
on the editor. "Look here,” he said, “I
just dropped in to say that I hope you did
not misunderstand me yesterday when I
spoke to you on the street about the ball up
at our house to-night. It occurred to me
afterward that you might think I wanted
you to mention it in your paper.”
“Oh, not at all, said the editor, dryly.
“Well, I was afraid you might, so I
thought I’d just run up here and ask you
not to make a spread over it.”
The editor promised he would not.
“Because I think it very bad taste, in
deed, for people to try and force themselves
into society through the newspapers," added
Jones.
The editor agreed with him cordially.
“Although, of course,” continued Jones,
“since you have been so sgreea: le about it,
I don’t object to you having the news. It
will be what you call a ‘scoop’ on the other
papers, none of them shall hear of it; but
no cuto, you know, or anything like that.
For I don’t suppose, after all, that it does
aoy harm to be mentioned alongside the
Vanderbilts, the Lorillards, etc. Lots peo
ple know in a modest wav that you are in
it, eh?”
“It does,” assented the editor.
“The social world Is much like the busi
ness world in some respects,” said Jones.
“A man to succeed in either must keep his
name before it, 1 suppose.”
“Certainly,” answered the editor.
“Now, something like this, I dare say,
would do no harm,” and he banded the
editors type-written sheet which read as
follows: “James De Courcey Jones, that
popular loader among the 400, gave a
recherohe entertainment at his palatial resi
dence just off Fifth avenue last night. The
magnificence of the decorations, the oost
liness of the collation and the seleotnnss of
the company have not, ia our judgment,
been surpassed by anything this season.”
The eaitor smiled more broadly than be
fore and handed to Mr. Jones a little card
bearing the paper’s advertising rates.
Mr. Jones glanced at the card, changed
color, pretended not to know what was
meant and bowed himself out. Tnen he
went straight to his advertising agent.
“Look here,” he said grufily, “you've spent
a good deal of my money on tbe Howler
tea it you can’t get somethlug out of
them for ine now. If they won't
do me this little favor, just let them un
derstand clearly that my ‘ad’ in the Hugle
will be doubled and tbe one in the Howler
cancelled altogether. I’m going to havo a
ball at my house to-night, and 1 guess it’s
just as well worth the paper's time to notice
it as it is to write up the balls of people who
Dever advertise a cent’s worth,” and he
slammed the door as he stalked out.
The crafty advertising ageut, anxious to
please u good a customer, went off 1 6 tbe
paper and. carefully avoiding the editor,
got In his line work at the business end. The
result was that next day there appeared in
the pauerthe following: “J. D. Jones gave
a dance last night at bis house in Fifiy
fourth street.”
As Jones was coming down-town that
morning in a street car he was aocosted by
an old business friend, who exclaimed:
“Hello, Jones, you’ie getting to be a social
light, eh? I see an aooount of your ball last
night in The Howler this morning.”
“What’s that what’s that?” exclaimed
Jones. “ The Howler meddling in my
affairs! Confound its impertinence. Why
can’t a man's pr.vate life bo left inviolate in
this city! How did they get on to the fact,
I wonder? Tneir Indefatigable industry is
only equalled by their cold gall. I’ll go
down there to-dav and give that editor a
piece of my mind. If there is anything I
detest, it’s having one’s name noised about
in the papers. It's so oommonl”
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Tbe Holiday Trade Brewers How
They Win —ltalian Opera —Teuton
Against Roman—Lucky Authors.
iCopyright , 1891, by the United Press.)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.
New York, Dec. 19.—The streets, as
usual at this time ot the year, are crowded
with those who go from store to store seek
ing novelties In the line of Christmas gifts.
The holiday trade hos been fairly good this
season, but it has been apparent that the
shopkeepers depended more than usual upon
the sale of inexpensive articles. There Is.
of course, in this city a large number of
wealthy people anxious to take
advantase of yuletide to re
lieve their plethoric purses, but
what is known as “the holiday trade” does
not, in its final outcome, obtain its com
parative value from the purchases made by
millionaires. It is the money spent by the
people fairly well off in this world’s goods
that determines tho question whether the
holiday profits shall be greater or
less than last season. It is evident
to a close observer that an effort has
been made this year to appeal, in the mat
ter of Christmas shopping, especially to
those purchasers who' cannot afford to
squander money. There aro more novelties
in medium-priced articles than in those that
cost a small fortune. However, I hear that
a leading jeweler a few days ago sold a
diamond necklace to a loving husband for
$30,000. He will give it to his wtfe. You
won’t bo surprised to learn that he was a
brewer.
SALOONS.
By the way, speaking of a brewer, did
you know that a vast number of saloons in
this city are practically owned by the manu
facturers of malt drinks? A man who has
just money enough to hire and fit up a
saloon gives a chattel mortgage to the
brewer who supplies him with
way the leading brewers of the city have
gained possession os a vast number of drink
ing places. The malt has captured
the house that Jack built. Some
men are born rich, some have riches
thrust upon them —and some aro brewers.
One of tue latter recently bought a hand
some house on Madison avenue and fur
nished it in elegant style. How to fill his
library was a problem he could not solve.
Sending for a highly-educated young man
who was tutoring his boys, he said: “Now
look ahere! D’you see them empty shelves?
I want ’em filled up. There’s just
yards o’ space. See? Well, you go ahead
and I’ll let you spend dollars a yard.”
Selling beer by the keg eventually enables a
man to buy books by tho yard.
THE OPERA SEASON.
The first week of tbs Italian opera at the
Metropolitan has been a great success.
Whether this means that the experiment
now being tried by Messrs. Abbey and Grau
will be triumphant is questionable. New
York opera goc-rs—those, I mean, who go
to tbe Metropolitan to see and hear, not to
be seen aud heard—have taken kindly at the
outset to this practical protest against ths
Wagnerian monopoly tiiat has been
in control here for so long.
Nevertheless, there are Cassandras
who predict that, after the new
singers have been heard, and the old operas
rendered there will bs a reaction, and a
loud cry will go up fora return to Wagnor
ism. I dare not hazard an opinion in the
matter, but a3 I listened to Lehmann and
ivaliich in “II Trovatore,” on Wednesday,
on the occasion of their first appearance in
Italian opera, a remembrance of that awful
night when I was obliged to sit through a
rendition of “Tristan and Isolde” came over
me and I prayed that tbe present enthusi
asm for Italian opera—contemptuously
called “the operatic grip,” by VVagneriam
—would last for at least tbe season.
A RACE WAR.
The contest between Germeu and Italian
opera is not the only evidence here of an
underlying hostility between the Teuton
and the Roman. The leading German
newspapers here recently made a sharp ed
itorial attack on the Italian immigrants, {
giving an alarming picture of the inroads
made by the sous of Sunny Italy upon the
realms of the D 01-bla -k, the fruit vender,
the barber, the itinerant musician and the
man with tbe piok-ax The article
has not created any great alarm in
this community. Ther.- aro very
few Germans in New Yorx woo aro not
prosperous and cultured. That any of
them care to black boots or sell bananas ts
not probable. hut tho little Berman band
may well have a grudge against the swarthy
musical genius who turns the crank of a
band organ. In a minor way it is the same
contest mat is going on between Wagi er
and Verdi. Whatever may be the outcome
of the struggle between Italian ari l German
opera, between the wandering brass baud
and the band organ, it Is certainly
“amoosin'’ at present.
CP AMD DOWN.
Of the thousands of people who daily ride
in tbe elevators of this city surprisingly
few understand how to do it gracefully. It
is wonderful how difficult it seems to be
for men and women to learn that riding in
an elevator is not like sleeping in a lest
r walking on a lonely road—you must
keep your mind alert and your nerves
ateady to do it correcily. It ia an art that
rexuiree one who practices it to liase his
method on that ancient behest, “Be
vigilant.” If you want to stop at tho
twenty-ninth floor dou’t make that fact
known to the elevator boy just after you
have reached the tbirty-fourtn. Such oon
duct—not at all rare—caum-s your fellow
balloonists to look upon you a- deficient in
presence of mind. Another thiug; if the
boy doesn’t know on which floor Brown'd
office is, and whether Brown is in, don’t
scowl at tbe yoath as though you oould bite
him. What’s Brown to him,or he to Brown
that he should ksep tab on Brown’s move
ments! You see there are many fine points
in connection with this modern custom of
riding in elevators. If a lady enters
the lift, it remains for vou to de
cide whether or not to remove your bat. If
it is anew hat she might prefer to have you
keep it on. If you look letter without
headgear, and the lady is h mdsotne, it is
generally considered advisable to remove
the hat. But there is one rule that admits
of no discussion. Never smoke iu an eleva
tor. If you must puff tobacco on your way
up or down, have the boy put you in the
freight compartment underneath. If you
are somking a cigarette, yon would do well
to jymp down tho shaft. If cigarettes
haven’t killed you, a little thing like this
will not.
LITERARY WORKERS.
The men who make the most money by
their pent are uot always known to fume.
The periodicals that pay the highest prices
for fiction and spe ial articles are not those
that give a writer a reputation in the world
of letters. I have a friend who makes $lO,-
000 a year writing etories of adventure fir
a seniational weexly. He is a poet of uo
mean ability and when he leels that he
would like a little applause be sends a poPm
to some leading magazine. Only (Tie
most intimate friends know that
“Pendragon” of the Youth’s Weekly
Thrill is the long-haired, remantio looking
man who listens' at the Authors’ Club to
the flattery ot those who think that the
highest success In life consists in having a
poem printed in the Century, Harper’s, or
Scribners’. Another man 1 know gets $25
a thousand words from a weekly that is
read in thousands of kitchens throughout
the country. He Le a highly educated man,
but he must earn his living. He makes at
least #B,OOO a year. He was recently
offered a college professorship at a salary
of $2,500. But he oould not afford to
abandon Tbe Chambermaid's Own. These
men will never go down to posterity as
great novelist*, but, to U9e a vulgar ex
pression, they gat there all the same.
Curtis Kinqlake.
LEISURE FOR HEADING.
A Choice Between Monograms and
Information, and &he Was Wise.
From the St. Touts Republic.
They were talking over the teaoups.
“But then,” said the little mother, “I get so
tired that I haven’t the heart, let alone tho
head, to read.”
“Do you know” said the doctor, brusquely,
turning upon the shrlukiug little woman,
and setting her teacup down on one side of
her saucer, “women have uo earthly or
heavenly business to get so tired.”
“I Know they haven't,” she answered,
meekly, “but then they do.”
There was a look uf assent among the
other four. There were six of them, all
mothers and housekeepers. The dootor was
young, acute, enthusiastic and a little
severe.
“It is a question of time, even more than
strength,” said the eldest ot the group. ‘‘l
am sure we women all want to read and
keep oiir wits shining, but the days oome in
full of promises and go out in postpone
ment.”
“But you have ail tbe time there is,” be
gan the dootor argumentatively.
“No, we don’t,” spoke up tho black-haired
woinas; “there is all the time there U, but
we don’t havo it. The cbUdrcn and the
butcher and tbe casual aller got it. We
have uo share in it at all,”
“Let mo tell you,” said a soft voice with
a southern ao.'ont. "A good many years
ago I found inyseif slipping away behind in
the word of books 1 had always lived in. I
was a conscientious housekeeper and thought
I must let uo little |ioiut eeuape mo, aud so
the biassed leisure that made me free of the
•world of literature was frittered away.
One day I sat down and thought
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about the way the days run. I rose at 7
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off to school, dusted and set the rooms r ight.
Often I did a share of the chamber work.
At any rate, there was always something.
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Aud then there was fancy work. Aud then
there were calls and callers, and the enter
tainments that no woman ought to miss be
cause they do brighten and hearten her so.
And th-se things filled each day to tho brim
and made up the weeks and the months and
the years. And now I was getting shabby
intellectually. It would not da
something had to go,
and I didn’t know what it could be. It
can’t be the children, I said, half in fun,
half in hysterics, uor Tom, and so long os
they're here they’ll havo to be clothed and
fed and washed; hence what pertains to
them can’t go. As for myself, I haven’t
aDy time oonsuming comfort* inlife to give
upT I haven’t
“ ‘Household linen!’ said something in
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“There were bcoros <.f monograms and
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“I thought about It awhile longer. I
really oouldn’t see that I had slept bettor
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for my embroidered napkins aud doylies,
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health, or brains.
“ ‘Thank you. sir,' i said at last as I got
up, to the something that bad whispered
that idea to me. 'l’m not so old and stupid
but I can learn.' From that day to this I’ve
never set another stitoh in fancy work. It’s
pretty and it’s tempting, and it’s worth
having. But I get a solid hour a day
for reading and I'm uot ashamed to talk
with my betters and my husband has mere
respect for my opinions and so have L And
os between haviug embroidered linen or
having intelligent Ideas, I don’t see any
choice.”
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