Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — How French Women Tie Bows. [ARTICLE]

How French Women Tie Bows.

But, alas! what Englishwoman can tie a bow like her French sister? The latter ties it so carefully, pats it so lovingly, looks at it from every possible point of view with the aid of a handglass, pulls out its wings, pluming them as it were, and finally stabs it through with a lace pin, in the very center, precisely where it ought to go. I have seen such limp and ailing bows of late, during the hot weather, with the pin drooping sideways, as though it were nodding to sleep, that I feel rather mournful on the subject.— Girls’ Gossip, in London Truth.

According to the Chemist and Druggist the substance which gives to Russia leather its peculiar aromatic and lasting qualities is the oil of white birch bark ( oleum betuloe). Dissolved in alcohol, it is *,id to render fabrics proof against water, acid, and insects, and renders them more lasting.