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WOMAN’S WORLD.
A POPULAR WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND
IS EMBASSADOR TO ROME.
The Storage of Furs—Should Have Let Her
Alone—The Working Girls’ Clubs—Wo
men’s Degrees at Cambridge The
Wheel woman of 1897.
Mrs. William Franklin Draper, whose
husband is the new embassador to
home, was a Miss Preston of Louis
ville, the daughter of General Preston,
and when a tiny child breathed the so
cial and official atmosphere of Washing
ton, her parents living here when her
father was a member of congress from
Louisville. He w T as afterward minister
to Spain during President Buchanan’s
term, and his family lived in Madrid
until the war broke out.
Miss Preston became Mrs. Draper
about seven years ago, Mr. Draper be
ing a widow'er with three sons, the
younger of whom is now at Harvard
college, and a daughter. The brilliant
marriage of Miss Draper to Mr. Mont
gomery Blair a few years ago will be
pleasantly remembered.
During the past four years the Dra
pers have occupied the large residence
at the comemuf K and Sixteenth streets,
opposite Senator Halo’s mansion. They
have entertained lavishly, and their
MRS. W. F. DRAPKIS.
homo has been the center of a series of
superb entertainments. The diplomats,
those identified in high official life and
the exclusive residential society set,
have all been entertained delightfully
under that hospitable roof.
Mrs., Draper is a handsome woman,
an ideal hostess, and her charms are
greatly enhanced by her brilliant social
gifts, a combination that has made her
deservedly popular in Washington. As
the wifo of an embassador Mrs. Draper
will fill the social position which de
volves upou her with honor. Her gowns
are always exquisite as to taste, simple,
yet elegant, and her jewels aro among
the finest that have been displayed at
any social functions in the Capital City.
Mrs. Draper’s individuality is always
evinced at her entertainments. The
floral decoration, always on an elaborate
scale, under her personal supervision is
extremely artistic and unique. The din
ner favors are always a novelty apropos
of the occasion, and a charming touch
of origiualit<¥peeps out even in the din
ner card which adorns each guest’s
plate.
On the 22d of May, 189.1, on the fifth
anniversary of her wedding day, Mrs.
Draper was presented at the court of St.
James.
While the many friends and admirers
of General and Mrs. Draper sincerely
congratulate them on the new appoint
ment, the congratulations are mingled
with regret that it takes them away
from the city where they have been
identified in official and social promi
nence so long.—Washington Post.
Storage of Furs.
“Furs are easy enough to keep during
warm weather, ’ ’ said a storer of furs
the other day when approached on the
subject. “If ladies would only uso a
few simple preventives, they could keep
them at homo as well as we can in our
storerooms. Of course a fur garment is
better hung up than folded away in a
box or trunk—first, because there is
less danger of crushing and wrinkles;
second, because moths can be more
readily seen at their work. The best
plan is to select a dark closet and have
it papered all over, top and bottom,
with tar paper. As its surface is sticky,
it should be covered with a second coat
of paper to prevent the clothes coming
in direct contact with the tar. For this
second coat I find newspapers as good as
anything that can be used. Perhaps the
smell of printer's ink helps the tar do
its work, or it may be because newspa
per is porous and allows the tar odor to
come through more readily. Before
hanging in this closet, all garments,
both fur and wool, should bo carefully
beaten with a slender cane.
“Here is the great secret of keeping
furs—it is in cleaning them before they
are put away. If a moth or a moth egg
goes into the closet with them the dam
age is only partially prevented. While
the egg will hatch the moth only lives
for a short while and cannot increase,
but during that brief life I have known
these littlo insects to spoil the beauty
of an elegant garment. Sc the greatest
care should be taken to beat and comb
furs clean before storing them away.
For this pur pose a fur comb should be
used, or a slender, strong cane, that
will reach the skin itself. The safest
plan is to remove the garments from
the'closet about once a month and givo
them a thorough beating. Some persons
hang them in the sun on these occa
sions, believing that the sun destroys
moths and moth eggs, while, as a mat
ter of fact, it hatches the eggs, and,
like any other heat, makes the moth
thrive.
‘ ‘Where only a chest or trunk or, as
issometimes the case, only a pasteboard
! • to be had, then the management
is deferent. After the cleaning process,
■w hieji is always the same, it is best for
the chest, box or trunk to be lined with
tar paper, after the same manner as the
*loset. But where this is not practica
ble any of the numerous moth prevent
ives may be used. Though sold under
different names their ingredients are
about the same. They should bo care
fully sewed in bags to prevent contact
with the furs, as they invariably leave
spots on dark colored skins. The odor
can be overcome by a thorough beating
and hanging for several hours in the
wind or open air—that is, where the
furs have been removed and beaten dur
ing the season; otherwise the odor is
hard to get rid of.
“Some dealers use the fumes of sul
phur to clean furs already attacked by
moths, but that should be a last resort,
as it discolors the garment and necessi
tates it being redyed. Many of the old
fashioned preventives have some virtue
in them, as sassafras, china root, etc.,
and can be used to advantage by people
in the country where they are easily ob
tained, but persons in the city have bet
ter means within their reach.”—Ex
change.
* Should Have Let Her Alone.
Hero is Mrs. Minuio Maddern Fiske’s
speech at the Actors’ fund benefit per
formance in New York the other after
noon. It is reprinted for the benefit of
the many clubwomen, who, it is hoped,
will peiusc-it with profit;-
“I had prepared an address for the
occasion and had looked forward with
pride and pleasure to the opportunity.
Just now, however, when I arrived at
the theater I was confronted by a mes
senger who handed me this piece of pa
per. I have not read it carefully, but I
know r wbaths on it. Here are written a
number of instructions, and directions
with regard to what I should say to you
this afternoon. As I consider this a di
rect slight upon my ability as a speaker
I have decided not to make my speech,
but rather to confine myself to the very
stupid instructions which are here be
fore me. As I am not prepared to speak
in this vein I shall hope the reporters
presont will clothe my hasty choice of
words in their own perfect and incom
parable English.
“My first direction is, ‘Please wel
come the audience. ’ It gives me great
pleasuro to welcome the audience. I
suppose I ought to speak of the brilliancy
of the assemblage (which does not in
the least surprise me under the circum
stances) and the generosity of your mo
tive in coming here, but you don’t care
anything about that, do you? No. Very
well. My second direction is to ‘Speak
of the work accomplished by the fund
during the past year. ’ I feel that I am
not well equipped to give you compre
hensive information on that score, inas
much as I know only in a general way
of the good which is constantly being
done by this splendid organization, and
at this moment I am conscious of a dis
tinct sense of shame that I am not better
acquainted with the details of the
fund’s work and that I am not a more
useful member of the fund, and it must
be confessed that the fund owes its life,
prosperity and capacity for well doing
to the unfailing efforts of a devoted few.
I look at my watch because it is written
all over this paper, ‘Please do not speak
more than five minutes.’
“I may say in conclusion that I am
very glad to be here today and am sure
that all the artists who have volunteer
ed thoir services are glad also, for after
all is said and done, when we have
‘outridden the storms of wayward
youth;’ when we have ceased to be
simple and ingenuous and have become
cold, calculating, suspicions people;
when we have come to believe with Mr.
Huxley that there is nothing savo the
‘universal validity of the laws of cau
sation’ (which sounds complex, but
which is not complex) after the years
and long meditation and frequently dire
experiences, the whole thing becomes
very simple, and we finally come to un
derstand that life is worth living just
so long as there remains to us the abili
ty and opportunity to be helpful.”
Working Girls* Clubs.
These clubs succeed for the same rea
sons that other successful clubs succeed
—because membership in them is found
to be remunerative, because their mem
bers have gumption enough to manage
them, and because they mind their own
business and stick to the purposes for
which they are organized. Working
girls abound in solidarity. They like to
get together and talk, and they do not
at all object to having competent wom
en, who know things that are worth
hearing, talk with them and steer their
discussions into edifying channels. Ev
ery working girl knows something of
life, especially of its practical condi
tions. She has her point of view and
the opinions her experience has devel
oped. An educated woman, whose orig
inal intelligence has been developed on
different lines and under different con
ditions, knows a whole lot of things as
to which the working girl’s notions are
very vague. She has, too, a different
point of view, and usually different
opinions. So when working girls and
educated women from a different sphere
of life get together and converse a great
deal of information and many valuable
ideas change heads, to the mutual ad
vantage of the parties concerned.
It is a disadvantage to any one to be
restricted to one variety of acquaint
ances or to the society of persons in a
single condition of life. People ought to
bo mixed up far more than they are. If
people who aro rich associate only with
rich people, their affluence—in that re
sult of it—is a great detriment to them,
just as the poverty of the poor is a det
riment when it restricts them to the so
ciety of the very poor. The tendency to
classification on a financial basis is very
strong, but the tie of human kinship
ought to be strong enough to restrain
it. These working girls’ clubs bring
people together who ought to meet.—
Harper’s Weekly.
Women’s Degrees at Cambridge.
Woman’s equality with man in edu
cation lias been advanced a step in Eng
land by the report recently made to the
University of Cambridge by the syndi
cate appointed lust year to consider the
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1897.
question of degrees fer women. Though
only 5 of the 14 members appointed on
the committee were believed to be in fa
vor of the university’s granting degrees
to women, tbe report is unanimous on
the main point, the only difference of
opinion being as to the form of degree
to be bestowed.
Tbe syndicate admits that women
studying at Cambridge labor under dis
abilities that should be removed; it ad
mits that the inconveniences of coedu
cation are not serious, as it is carried
on at present, and it takes the ground
that Cambridge should act at once re
gardless of what Oxford may do. Nine
of the 14 members, including tbe vice
chancellor of the university, propose
that titular degrees of bachelor of arts,
master of arts and doctor of science and
literature be given to women on passing
tbe same examinations that men pass.
This would confer on them all the mys
terious rights conferred by these de
grees save those of membership of the
university and of sharing in its govern
ment. It would give them the substance
that they ask for, the stamp of the uni
versity on the work they have done,
and what commercial advantages at
tach to a university degree.
Tbe minority would substitute a fan
cy degree like mistress of letters or of
science for the degrees hitherto confer
red only upon men. Bnt it agrees that
degrees of some kind should be granted
to women.
Tlie syndicate’s report must still be
acted upon by tbe senate—that is, the
body of the graduates—and possibly
may be rejected by that body. The sub
stantially unanimous conclusion reached
by a committee many of whose mem
bers when appointed were known to be
opposed to any concessions to women
must carry weight. It is evident that
the “sweet girl graduate” will soon be
a reality at the English Cambridge.—
New York Sun.
The Whcolwoman of 1807.
Wliat shall I get for wheeling? is the
cry of every girl who rides a wheel. Of
course she wishes to look well, and just
what to get is of more importance than
a spring gown.
There are a number of improvements
in this year’s cycling costume. In the
first place, bloomers of the dress mate
rial have been found to be too heavy.
Black pongee bloomers aro worn, or, if
their expense is too great, black cambric.
Nor will leggings of the dress material
be worn. They stretch too much and
look ugly. High shoes that reach to the
knee will be used, in tan if the {*own is
in any shade of brown, in black if it is
of any other color. Mixed tweed in tbe
various shades of brown is the best
material to use for the gown. It is made
in two pieces—jacket and short skirt.
Every person learns by experience that
the skirt wears out much more quickly
than the jacket, and the wise girls get
enough extra material for a walking
skirt. She will then have a cycling suit
and a walking costume with one jacket
common to them both.
Skirts should be gored, not circular,
fashion plates to the contrary. They
should be ankle length. Jackets are all
single breasted. In shape there are two
from which to select—one, a belted nor
folk, with long, rather tight, skirts; the
other, a short jacket that extends about
three inches below the waist and has no
fullness whatever around the hips and
back.
The best hat to select is an alpine
trimmed with a few quills. It is pretti
est if made to order of the dress mate
rial.—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A Floral Fireplace.
For a recent wedding tbe drawing
room where the ceremony took place
bad its one fireplace most tastefully
decorated with flowers. A framework
stood within the tiles, which had been
first covered with moss, which was en
tirely concealed by the mass of golden
rod pinned over it. This was a gold
and white wedding, so the colors were
carried -out here by a center of the
screen of pale yellow silk on which was
fastened flatly half a gilt basket filled
with white thistles. The great break
fast table had an oval pond for a cen
terpiece, in which tiny goldfish were
swimming. There was a slender stand
in the middle of this, which held aloof
a large flat bouquet, carelessly arranged,
of white orchids. All about the border
of the pond were feathery sprays of
goklcurod.—New York World.
“New” Women.
In all tbe talk there has been within
the last few years about tlie new wom
an, there has never been, so far as is
known, a single woman who has claimed
the title for herself. The most radical
and aggressively independent women
are the most vociferous in their objec
tion to the term and to its application
to themselves in any way.—New York
Times.
Miss Helen M. Staples has been ap
pointed superintendent of tlie Maine
Industrial School For Girls. Mrs. L. M.
N. Stevens and her associates have been
trying for eight years to secure the ap
pointment of a woman as superintend
ent, and success lias at last crowned
their efforts.
A room from Longfellow’s old home
in Cambridge is to be reproduced in the
woman’s department at the exposition
at Nashville, which is to open the Ist of
May. This room will be the colonial
sitting room. The old house at Cam
bridge is now occupied by the daughter
of the poet.
Oue of the popular designs in table
linen is a combination of the rose,
shamrock and thistle, treated on ara
besque lines, which give an oriental
effect. The latest 6 o’clock teacloth is
of white damask, with very open hem
stitching and a scroll of white embroi
dery.
Wendell Phillips advocated woman
suffrage ou the ground that it would
purify politics by “emptying the parlor
into the caucus. ”
GRANT’S SECRETIVENESS.
Tlie Responsibility of lIIh Position Forced
Him to Guard His Utterances.
General Horace Porter, in “Cam
paigning With Grant,” in The Century,
says concerning General Grant’s secre
tiveness:
After the general had got some miles
out on the march from Cold Harbor an
officer of rank joined him, and as they
rode along began to explain a plan
which he had sketched, providing for
the construction of another line of in
trenohments some distance in rear of the
lines then held by us, to be used in case
the army should at any time want to
fall back and move toward the James
and should, be attacked while with
drawing. The general kept on smoking
his cigar, listened to the proposition for
a time and theu quietly remarked to the
astonished officer, “The army has al
ready pulled out from the enemy’s front
and is nowon its march to the James.”
This is mentioned as an instance of
how well his secrets could be kept. He
bad never been a secretive man until the
positions of responsibility in which he
was placed compelled him to be chary
in giving expression to his opinions and
purposes. He then learned the force of
the philosopher's maxim that “the un
spoken word is a sword in the scabbard,
while the spoken wordTs a sword in the
hand of one’s enemy. ” In the field there
were constant visitors to the camp,
ready to circulate carelessly any inti
mations of the commander’s movements,
at the risk of having such valuable in
formation reach the enemy. Any en
couraging expression given to an appli
cant for favors was apt to be tortured
into a promise, and the general natural
ly became guarded in his intercourse.
When questioned beyond the bounds of
propriety, his lips closed like a vise,
and the obtruding party was left to sup
ply all the subsequent conversation.
These circumstances proclaimed him
a man who studied to be uncommunica
tive and gave him a reputation for re
serve which could not fairly be attrib
uted to him. He was called tbe “ Amer
ican Sphinx,” “Ulysses the Silent” and
the “Great Unspeakable,” and was pop
ularly supposed to move about with
sealed lips. It is true that he had no
“small talk” introduced merely for the
sake of talking, and many a one will
recollect the embarrassment of a first
encounter with him resulting from this
fact. But while, like Shakespeare’s sol
dier, ho never wore his dagger in his
mouth, yet in talking to a small circle
of friends upon matters to which he had
given special consideration his conver
tiou was so thoughtful, philosophical
aud original that ho fascinated all who
listened to him.
WHEN WE CRITICISE FRIENDS
The Kmdnef.s of Ignoring Trivial Mis
takes In Our Daily Life.
“There are two kinds of mistakes,
mistakes of moment and trivial mis
takes,” writes Edward W. Bok in The
Ladies’ Homo Journal. “Undoubtedly
the best service which one friend can
render another is to save him from a
mistake liable to serious in its re
sults. In such an act lies truo friend
ship. But in these days of criticism,
when we are apt to criticise everything
aud everybody, we aro all too apt to
correct mistakes which are absolutely
trivial and not worth correcting. And
yet in calling attention to them we of
ten hurt the feelings of our best friends.
Not one of us, even the most good na
tured, likes to have his mistakes point
ed out. We may appear not to mind cor
rections and accept them with a smile,
but it is human nature to smart under
correction, although some of us may be
clever enough to conceal tho smart;
hence the fewer mistakes we call atten
tion to in others tbe better.
“Two-thirds of tho mistakes we make
aro trivial. Their correction is unim
portaut. Why then notice them? Yet
some people do, aud do so constantly. A
person speaks of having done a certain
thing on Thursday, when in reality it
was done on Wednesday. If no impor
tant point is involved, why call atten
tion to the mistake? What good does it
do to have the exact day set right? It is
a matter of no importance, so why in
sist upon correcting tho trivial error?
Stanch friendships have often been
pricked by this needle of useless correc
tion. It is a great art—this art of learn
ing to allow others to be mistaken when
the mistake is unimportant. Few learn
it, but those who do are among the
most comfortable friends one can have. ”
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A Lively Roman Sauce.
Garum, tho black green sauce of the
Romans, was a species of universal con
diment, but its principal use was for
fish. The recipe is as follows: Let the
cook take several fishes, it matters not
much which, but mackerel are the best
for the purpose. Let him take out their
entrails and put them in vinegar and
leave them there for ten days. Then let
them be taken out and dried and pow
dered in a mortar with pepper, frumen
ty, roots of dandelion, mint, thyme,
sage and a little ginger, and well mix
ed, after which the powder mutt be put
in jars, together with honey, and left
to ferment during several weeks. When
ready for the table, it must bo mixed
with Falernian wine.—New York Post.
A Discouraging Sign.
Mrs. Hnnniker—l’m really discour
aged about our Will. I don't believe he
is destined to boa great man after all.
Mr. Hunu'ker—Nonsense, nonsensel
W hat’s put that idea into your head?
Mrs. Huuniker—Why, look at this
letter I’ve just received from him. He’s
been in college two years now, and his
handwriting is still so good that you
can read it right off, about like print.
—Cleveland Leader.
Wise In His Generation.
Irate Father—What yon need, young
man, is a sound thrashing. J
Delinquent—Well, pop, my Sunday
school teacher says that the Lord will
supply our needs, and I don’t mind’
Waiting.—New York Times.
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A TELEPATHIC EXPERIMENT.
How to Demonstrate This Curious Power
by a Simple Device.
Avery interesting experiment in the
fascinating science of telepathy, vouch
ed for as being sure to “come out right’’
by such high authority as Hudson, au
thor of ‘ ‘The Law of Psychic Phenom
ena” and other works of the same or
der, may be tried at any time by our
readers.
One of these very next evenings, when
the family are comfortably settled aft
er dinner or supper, the experimenter
should introduce the subject of mind
reading or telepathy, which will usual
ly create an .interest even in the most
inveterate reader of the evening paper
or the latest novel devourc-r, curled up
in her favorite corner. Now will be the
opportunity to become a hero even in
one’s own household, for we are told
that, like a good recipe for cake or what
not, if directions given below are strict
ly followed success is sure.
Let a circle be formed by a few per
sons joining hands, and one member of
the circle be securely blindfolded, that
is in such a way that he will euter into
a darkness so dense that it may “be
felt.” To secure this desired trick dark
ness, fold a pair of kid gloves into sev
eral thicknesses and place like a pad
one over each eye, with an ample hand
kerchief bound tightly over all and
around the head. Now let a card be se
lected at random from a pack, take
great care that no one sees any other
card of the pack, even for an instant,
then place where all can see it except
of course the blind man. The rest of
the circle must now fix their minds and
gaze upon the card with every bit of
earnestness they have in their nature.
In the meantime the blind man must
put himself into a quiet, passive “Bar
kis is willin’’ state of mind. He will
soon begin to see (scientific authority
for this, remember,) indistinct objects
floating in the darkness. Soon they will
begin to take shadowy shape, then dis
appear, take more definite form, and
finally the card selected will appear.
Mr. Hudson declares that out of the
six in the company when he witnessed
this experiment each scored a sufficient
number of successes to remove the re
sult from the domain of coincidence. It
is well to bear in mind that sometimes
the information is conveyed from ono
mind to another allegorically, for in
stance, during the evening mentioned
the ten of diamonds appeared as ten
IT PEACHES THE . . .
. PEOPLE AI s D TELLS .
/-—THE NEWS
' flashing diamourls.
Surely this is well worth a trial.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
GRAY SQUIRRELS.
How They Hide Their Scattered Store.
For the Winter.
Gray squirrels are winter neighbors,
but very shy ones. I have tried to coax
them to come into the yard for walnuts
by leaviug out a supply under the trees
there and gathering all from other trees,
but they were too well supplied with
nuts in the wood. I did succeed in gain
ing their confidence through a pair of
tame squirrels that had been raised in
a cage by a neighbor. I induced the
neighbor to set them free, and, apparent
ly to reward me, they took up their
abode in the tall cottonwoods and pop
lars about the lawn, but more likely be
cause the neighbor bad no large, trees.
While they remained an occasional wild
squirrel would call or spend the day in
the great trees with my tame ones. But
the villainous pot hunter and his worth
less cur destroyed my pets and drove the
visitors back to their wild state.
The gray squirrel is not as provident
as the little ground squirrel, who toils
through the long days of summer and
fall to provide himself a home and lay
up a store for winter use. What littlo
the gray squirrel does lay by for a rainy
day is not stored in his deu, but scatter
ed here and there about the woods, like
the prudent housewife afraid to put all
the eggs in one basket.
I learned from my tame squirrels
their method of hiding nuts. The nut is
carried in the mouth, and some time
and thought are given to the selection
of a likely place to hide it. When the
spot is finally decided upon, a hole the
size of the nut is dug in the ground, the
nut thrust in and pushed down hard
with the nose, a little earth pressed and
patted down, and leaves or grass tossed
about in the most natural way Af;cr
a snowfall their tracks will he found in
every direction, from the den trees to
all parts of the wood. Following these
trails, one will find many little holes
in the snow where hidden nuts have
been dug up.—J H. Kennedy in Har
per’s Magazine.
In 1471 a French baron offered a
pledge of 10 marks of silver that a copy
of “Avicenna,” which he desired to
read, would be returned, and even with
this security, equal in our money to
over SOO, his request was refused.