Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1893 — Page 10

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Among the many intt resting collections made by royal and famous women. & fancy of the princess of Wales has Jiitherto escaped the general notice. Her royal highness never suffers a hat or bonnet she has worn to be thrown or given away. As it is discarded each Is put carefully away with a large collection of fellow sufferers, labeled with the Beason of the year in which it was worn. This custom the princess has rigorously adhered to ever since she first came to England thirty years ago, so that the array of various forms of headgear has tiow assumed formidable proportions. If the princess could be induced to exhibit her collection it would be extremely interesting to all who follow th vagaries of fashion, for as a rule the "Whims of the fickle goddess are more pronounced in our headgear than in any other part of our attire, or an artlcl might be written by one of her literary Fisters-ln-law on the subject which would fce quite absorbing to lovers of dress and Vhich might plve fashion-makers, who teem Just now at their wits' end for something to Invent or revive, many a. flint for future guidance. The only drawback to the collection from the folnt of view of a. history of hats In the last thirty years of the nineteenth century lies in the fact that the prin.cess of Wales has always shown a. tendency tO be uninfluenced by fashion, especially when it was at all outre, though doubtless this tendency has largely inCreased cf late years, for early photographs show us that she succumbed to the crinoline and fell a victim to the pork pie hat, than which it would be difficult to find anything more hideous. For several years past the princess has discarded any suggestions of a hat. I suppose she thinks it would be out of pla-ti on the head of a grandmother, und her bonnets, like her style of dressing the hair, have practically remained almost unaltered in shape, though the trimming is arranged so as to bo slightly in accordance with the prevailing lashion. I cannot think how she manages to do it ami yet never look otherwise than smart. Most of us would look distinctly dowdy under the same circumstances. It is not because she is a royalty, for many a princess who pays Jiomage at the shrine of fashion seems to lose all the advantages she should gain thereby when she stands by the Bide of the princess of Wales. I wish ehe would give her recipe to the world. It would be such a balm to one's sense f the beautiful if the dowdy were to disappear from the face of the earth. XiOndon Correspondent Philadelphia Telegraph. A Mother's Plan. ' I know a busy leader of society in a large city, says a writer in the Cincinnati Gazette, who has the finest working plan of conducting her children's reading1 of any mother I know. The children attend a private school in the morning and romp and play to their heart's content and after that until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. At 5 o'clock, a little tea table is set out in the big nurseiy, bountifully loaded with lots and lots of the very thinnest slices of hot buttered toast, some dainty little dishes and preserves, and unlimited cups of hot cocoa, mlik and hot water; then the children and mamma banish the nurse to the kitchen and hold the fort in high glee until 6 o'clock the children eating, and the mother reading aloud some delightful book looking up now and then to check Robbie's greed or Nellie's dawdling, with a smile. The children, as a result, have beautiful table manners; for a gross breach of etiquette sends mamma and the book away before 6 o'clock, and brings nurse and bedtime. I asked Mrs. A. to give me a ILst of the books she read thus to the children, and for the benefit of other mothers I give them here, as they are the best collection of children's books I ever saw: "Water Babies." by Charles Kingsley; Hans Christian Andersen's "Fairy Tales;" "Children's Pictorial History of the United States," "Aunt Joe's Scrapbag." by Miss Alcott: "The Story Mother Xature Told Her Children." Jane Andrews; Dickens's "Child's History of England;" Charles and Mary Lamb's 'Tales from Shakspeare;" "Little Women." by Miss Alcott; "Little Men," by Miss Alcott; "Little Lord Fauntieroy," Mrs. Burnett; "The Earth In Past Ages," Sophia Herriek; "Sons of Hiawatha," by Longfellow; "Mme. How and Why." by Kinpsley; "The History of a Mouthful of Bread." by Mace; "Little Folks in Feathers and Fur," by o. T. Miller; "Royal Clirla at Royal Courts," fend all of Abbot's histories. Indoor Clothes Prying. It would have startled the housewives )f fifty years ago If a word had been eald against open air clothes lines. The wash might be delayed half a week by tad weather, or the maid of all work have her fingers and clothespins frozen et iff, but the wash had to be dried in the yard. Times have changed since grandmothers were girls and In the whirligig even the "flying Dutchman" with the wire lines and the patent clothespin have gone out of use. In the model laundry and the institutions wher? domestic work is scientifically taught open air clothes llrves are regarded not only as impracticable, but Useless. In the first place It is a waste cf time. Clothes can be dried by heat In an hour or less time nnd with an assistant the laundry work finished in Be day. The lines instead of being hung across the room are arranged about the wall, four or five feet above the floor. Usually the cables are in Croup of four. Napkins, stockings, handkerchiefs, collars and like Fmall pieces are hung on the lower lines, and the tableclothes, ' sheets, etc.. go on the upper cables. These driers are both open and covered. The same fire that supplies the eteam heat and boils the clothe in the kettles supplies the drying heat. A walk through the fashionable neighborhoods of Nev York any washday in the year will convince the strollers that outdoor clothes dryirg Is rapidly disappearing". It is not the fresh air and sunshine that make clothes white, but the way they are washed, rinsed and boll-d Tvn In apartment houses clothes lines are banished as b'-in? disfiguring to th premises. N. Y. World. Mr. Itoicoe Conkllne. I remember Mrs. Roscoe Conkling in the first years of the war, when she shone in Washington, where she devoted much time and energy to the sick soldiers In the hospitals. She looked like some worthy chatelaine of the middle ages as she came from her errands of mercy, "with a pale cheek, and yet a brow In-epired." and she was always comporvl, gentle and firm. At the dinner parties we used to say that Senator and Mrs. Conkling were the handsomest pair In Washington. . I was at a d'nner with her at Governor Morgan's, given to ('.in. Grant after he was elected, but before he was inaugurated. Mrs. Conkling, looking splendid In a blue brocade with pearls, was taken In by Senator Sumner. After dinner I had a few words with Senator Sumner. I said: "I have been so fortunate as to it next to Mr. Conkling, and we have

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talked poetry." Said he; "I have been ho lucky as to sit next Mrs. Conkling, and we have talked sense. Io you know 6he Is one of the few women who can talk sense." Mrs. Conkling was very much admired at Washington, but her heart peemed never to be in that life. She told me later on how much better she loved her life at tTtlca. When I saw her In her beautiful house, so adored by her neighbors, I did not wonder. Who could have thought that death lurked so near that placid brain! Hut she is gone, leaving1 the most wonderful record of a woman without vanity, though beautiful; without undue pride, though of aristocratic lineage and connections; a wonnn pure, self-contained, silent, yet overflowing with sympathy. Philadelphia Inquirer. ' Mis Ponle on Women' AVork. Menie Muriel Dowie may be an eccentric young: woman, but she Is capable of saying mightily clever things. Listen to thla: "I am looking forward to the day when no howl of amazement, no blare of delight will rise up whenever a woman chances to have evinced th bravery, the intelligence or the foresight which is expected of men. In the meantime w must bow to these plaudits because they are Inevitable, becaua preceding generations of women have rer suaded preceding generations of men that bravery, foreijht and Intelligence are not to be expected of women in a masculine degree; thus instances of it must stand on the side of minority and exception. "No very gTeat degree cf faith or prophecy is required to hope for and expect a period when the bulk of experience Will be th other way; when the woman of the future shall have succeeded In blotting out the general impression of foolishness, cowardice and imbecility of the woman of the past with her own very different stamp. Then no undue notice will be taken of the fact that the human being who accomplishes something worthy or reasonable Is dressed in skirts instead of trousers. It will be neither help nor hindrance to wear female clothing. Adventures may he sought, life tasted and work done without the removal of a corset if the women of a future day wear corsets. Thus on the page of tomorrow we shall find a clear signature Instead of the cross of inaptitude, which has been 'woman, her mark.' "Chicago Post. Fornixlilncr a Modern Hnll. Lay a large rug in the center, and at the foot of the stairs a Ions narrow one. Place another long rug before the fireplace. If the fireplace is for wood, have brass or wrought Iron andirons; have a poker, tongs and shovel to match. Hang a pair of bellows and a small, bright hearthbrush on each side of the fireplace. If you have a closet In which to hang coats, wraps, etc., you will not require a hall stand. If you must have one, get one with a broad seat and long mirror; in the seat may be kept rubbers and various small things. If there is a closet, place a long, broad mirror over the mantel and do not use a hall stand. Have a table near the hall door, on which can be placed hats. etc. If your vestibule is large enough, a hall stand may be placed there. In one part of the room have a broad, comfortable sofa, or a couch, with plenty of pillows. Near this set a low, strong table, on which keep a lamp. Place several comfortable rattan and wooden chairs about the hall. If you can afford it, put a tall clock on the landing .f the stairs. If this is out of the question, have a clock of good size on the hall mantel. Have hair cushions made to fit the seat on the second landing of the stairs. If there Is no clock f'r the first landing, place, a handsome chair or low, broad, cushioned seat there. Do not cover the stained glass window. Drape the clear glass windows with soft lace or china silk, and for long draperies use plain velours or chenille. Maria Parloa In Ladles' Home Journal. The Kimlrrenrlf n. The moral value of the kindergarten has been shown by the Interest given to its study by many prominent philanthropists. To take the babies from the slums of our large cities and to bring them into the warmth and light of love are what the charity kindergarteners aim to do, and no child-lover can visit one of these child gardens and not breathe a prater of gratitude that their benedictions are for the children of the very poor as well as of the very rich. Truly does Dr. Harris say, "the kindergarten Is most needed for the children of the suddenly rich and of the very poor. Those who have become suddenly rich have in most eases done so from their strong perceptive and inventive abilities, their power to grasp favorable conditons and use them, and their children. Inheriting these qualities, are ofttimes precocious and very restless and troublesome. At school they are pronounced incorrigible and sent home. At eighteen they develop a love of gambling and horse racing, and the paternal property is soon dissipated. ."Then the children of the very poor need the kindergarten, for they are cribbed, cabined and confined, no playgrounds and recreatioois, and living that stunted, melancholy life, surrounded by vice and crime of all kinds, they become the wolves of society." Jenness Miller Monthly. Are American Children Spoiled f A Hoston paper has been getting together several opinions for persons supposedly informed in the matter upon the question: "Is the American child spoiled?" They are specially interesting because every contributor to the symposium, in one way or another, attests his idea that the children of today are having toe much done for them. Very many persons share and often express a similar opinion. Said an old man, speaking on this matter very lately: "Children are taking the journey of life these days just as they are taking their railway Journeys in Pullman tars. Every luxury of education is provided for them, every pill of knowledge Is sugar coated, every dose of learning has the bad taste taken out or Is compressed into tablets that can be swallowed at a gulp. And the process Isn't going to make the sturdiest kind of men and women, in my opinion." The llraul) of It. Some - men never grow tired of admiring their wives, and one of these, whose wife was a handsome girl, was recently showing a friend of his a new house they had Just moved into. "I can't say I admire the house," said the friend candidly as they looked at it from the front gate. "Well, there's one beauty about it, said the owner. "Where?" . , "On the inside." "What is It?" "My wife," and after that It seemed to the friend that the whole place was beautiful. Detroit Free Press. Chivalry In the Home. Much of the unhapplness which sometimesattends married Hfl? owes its origin to a lack of the amenities and courtesies which were so assiduously practiced by both parties before marriage. The feeling that it is not worth while to keep them up Is answerable for much of the loss of respect, want of chivalry and Indifference which gradually lead to the decay of affection. In the same way brothers and sisters rub off the bloom of fraternal regard by the

absence of those Ren tie and respectful manners with which $hy greet all outside friends. Insensitly they become careless, indifferent and .rude, and black looks, hard words and i s iarp answers poison the home which mlht have been the haven of peace and happiness, had not the respect for one another's personalty been . broken down. N. Y. Ledger.

The Listener. Persons who have regard for the usages of polite society should remember that listening is one of the canons of good manners. Absentmindedness is Impolite. Everyone is entitled to a fair share of attention paid him when conversing. If one Is bored courtesy demands that he should still listen and appear to appreciate the story that Is related on the subject under discussion. A writer on social etiquette once remarked that "nine tilhes out of ten the attentive listener Js more admired than the most brilliafit talker." Harper's Bazar. Keep -Well! Jte Clean! Women everywhere pay less attention to the laws of health than. men. They have less exercise, less fresh air, less punshlne and less variety in their lives than men. Hence, although the most beautiful women are more beautiful than the handsomest men, yet in all civilized communities the average man is a finer peoimen of creation than the average woman. First health, then beauty, and with the facilities for living a clean life and the privileges of being gay and happy an intelligent woman has the secret of personal charm. N. Y. World. World. Whr-"s Mother t" A middle-aged vvlJov said to me: "Life is very little to me now. Both my children are married and their Interests take them from me almost entirely, and though they are good, dutiful and affectionate I know that I am ly lonper essential to them. While my husband lived life had a purpose for me, but since h!s death I know that I am not first with any one. 'Where's mother?" makes a woman more important than she perhaps realizes. It's a question I would give much to hear as I used to." Polly Pry in X. Y. Recorder. Save the 7.ine Scraps. Bits of zinc should never be thrown away. If used in the kitchen around the range, save all the trimmigs when the edges become broken or curled and must be cut off. and when at last it is worn out and must be replaced save the old piece; cut it up with an old pair of shears or bend and break it into pieces, and occasionally throw some of it on the coals when there Is a hot fire. It will then seldom be necessary to have the flues cleaned. Mid-Continent. Lonesome Company. Mrs. Blank was a good, kind-hearted woman, but she talked very little and had a sort of dejected, mournful air about her that wa trying to a hostess when she was subjected to a whole afternoon of It. One lady In speaking of Mrs. Blank's visits, which were always lengthy, very aptly said: "Well, she is what might be called lonesome company." Harper's Bazar. The Snndhnsr. A sandbag Is a useful household article. Its virtues are equal, if not superior,, to the hot water bag. and the cost Is considerably less. The sand should be fine and clean and should be thoroughly cleaned out before being bagged. It is better to cover the flannel bag which holds the sand with a cotton one, as it prevents the sand from sifting out. Eiumple. Example to a boy Is a rainstorm that wets him through; while to amin It Is a snowflake which the winds drift forcelossly by. Boys reproduce their fathors. They weave after the pattern set before. There is no Cod above the father to his child. We are all god-fathers and god-mothers to our own. Ram's Horn. The (harms of Refinement. Writing of Spanish types of leauty, Washington Irving said: "After all, it is the divinity within which makes the divinity without, and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and Intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular features of beauty." Dampening Clothes. When dampening clothes for ironing, use water as hot as the hand can bear. It is not necessary to use so much water as it is when cold is used. A whisk broom kept for this purpose alone is an excellent thing to sprinkle clothes. After sprinkling fold smoothly and roll tightly. A Salmagundi Party. As the word implies, a salmagundi party is one In which a variety of forms of entertaniment is sought, and may include games, cards, dancing, etc. At a saJmagundi party held in New York cooking was the form of entertainment, each guest being called upon to prepare some dish for the supper. Exchange. Netting. Netting has again come into use, or rather is used in making very pretty articles in fancy work, doilies of ail kinds being trimmed with It. Toilet sets, too, are beautiful when the work is done in silk. The articles required are a steel netting needle and a flat mesh stick. To try to teach the actual stitch by illustrations or explanations would be very unsatisfactory, as the peculiar twist in getting the knot must be seen in actual working, but in the most remote village an old lady can be easily found who in her time made hair nets, and that is the stitch pure and simple. XETTED DOILY. Oh. such dainty finger bowl dollies the illustration but feebly pictures! The crochet silk on spools knots better than the knitting silk, and by preparing half a dozen little round pieces the size of the top of a coffee cup of sheer linen hemming, very fine, then crocheting an open edge around to take the netting, marking any little fancy pattern with center, you have as pretty a set of doilies as can be made. The illustration shows a fine linen cambric center worked in pink filo silk, the other edge done with crochet silk to match. Inexpensive ones can be made of ordinary linen, just dotted with different colors in the center for the netting for the edge. You can use No. 30 crochet cotton. After thoroughly knowing the stitch a novel effect can be obtained by netting two stitches around the first row. When finished the netting will be very full, and by putting the doily through a thick starch, the edge can be pulled up Into shells, thus forming a ruflle around a plate, if the center Is made large enough, for little fancy cakes or bonbons to nestle in. The last named dollies can only be made In crochet thread and plain centers. AGNES GEORGE.

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AFTER A SHORT ACQr.tITACE, NEITHER KXOWI.G TUE OTHER. Soon After They Find They Did ot Wed the Person They Supposed Sirs. Frank Ieslle Says AVomin Is n Conundrum to Man. People always have been asking each other conundrums and riddles and ruzzle3 of various kinds ever since the world began. It seems to be an instinct of the human family and almost always of a disagreeable nature. "We are told that Samson, by way of making things pleasant during his wedding festivities, asked a riddle of his. "best man" and ushers, with a sort of wager attached to it. If they guessed it within the week the bridegroom was to give each of them a new cult of clothes, and If they did not each "of "them was to give him on. It is a very entertaining story throughout, but not in place Just here except as it is the earliest recorded instance of a conundrum. It was not fairly guessed, and the result was a frrxxi deal of faxnily unpleasantness, a divorce and the deaths of several hundred persons, including the bride and all her family. Then comes the sphinx with her stupid little riddle about the animal that in the moraine walks on four legs, at noon on two and In. the evening on three, it is a very poor affair looked at as a riddle, but pretty serious when one remembers that Mme. Sphinx was in the habit of devouring those who "gave it tip." What an advance the world has made, to be sure, since the days of Edipus and the sphinx! Nowadays instead of being devoured if you do not guess a conundrum some one kindly explains it to you. and you have the opportunity to Emile satirically and blandly while saying; "Oh, really! Is that all?" For my part I never try to guess conundrums, the other course is so much more amusing. But, as in most other things, nature excels man in this sort of puzzle making, and the best of it i from her point of view that she can inflict her own penalties for the failure to give a correct answer, and we are quite powerless io resist her decrees. Perhaps the ccmputest puzzle of all those in the deir r.IJ l.idy's abundant store, and one tl. it ha n.-ver, so far as I know, been successfully i.-n-swered by any son of Adam or ehushPT of Kve, is a series of questions relating to the due relation of the sexes to each other, with minor queries as to the nature of woman and the nature of man asked in each case of some member of the opposite sex. The beauty of it is, that the questions are so fascinating that both man and woman insist upi'il studying them, and unwarned by the example of others thoy put so much of their time and life and Interest into the matter that when the time comes that they must "give it up" they are too we-iry of all life s problems to care to take up another. Oh, the mistakes that men and women make with regard to each other! Oh, the fatal shipwreck they encounter in trying to personally test their theories as to the true solution of the puzzle upon which all their forefathers and foremothers have broken their teeth and yet never come at the kernel of the nut! And with that gallant confidence each new aspirant comes before the sphinx and says: "I can guess your charming riddle, although these ethers have failed. I understand the nature of at least one woman or one man, and I will stake my whole life upon giving the correct answer." The sphinx smiles, and that cold, satiric, incomprehensible smile was caught most cleverly long since by the Egyptian sculptors and fixed upon the immortal stone which after the lapse of ages tells its story more clearly than words can put It. The sphinx, as those great artists knew, Is the prototype of nature in her conundrum asking mood the subtle amusement, the bitter satire, the veiled and conscious power of the great mother as she plays with her children like a tigress with her cubs is all th--re. She Is but a sportive mother at the best, that old nature! She flings her children Into the water to teach them to swim for their lives. If they have nerve and strength to strike out vigorously they are safe, but if they are weak or timid or make mistakes, why. she lets them drown as not worth saving. In the old story of Saturn and Ops the children were devoured by the parents, and earth and nature are but one. And so the poor little wretches go on century after century sinking or swimming, as the case may be, always trying to get the better of nature and very seldom succeed Ins even when they plume themselves upon having done so. Look at the manner In which men and women practically reply to the query as to which member of the opposite nex is the one best adapted for a lifelong companionship, this being, as we all know, one of the most important of nature's conundrums. Every one of us at some period or other has found it propounded to ur, r.r.d probably every one of us has decided it in a manner differing from that we should have selected had we better understood the matter. A man sees a woman at some social gathering, it matters not If It is at the reception of a duchess or a queen of society in our country or if it is at a "sociable" or a dance In some little country town. Nature is pre-eminently "no respecter of persons." and works in the .one case precisely as she does in the other. The girl Is well dressed, gay, smiling and evidently pleased with the young man's attentions. They pass an hour together and part with mutual good will. A dozen" or so of such interviews, a few calls at the family dwelling, a ride, a drive, a walk or two and he is prepared to offer himself and she to accept him. If any one having the riht demands of him the raison d'etre the solid foundation of his selection and consequent engagement he replies that is all right, that he understands Fanny thoroughly and is quite sure she will make him happy. As to whether he is quite sure to make her happy. It Is usually the last thing he thinks about. "What sort of a girl Is she?" asks the mother of the happy youth, recalling the mistake she made in guessing life's conundrum. "Oh, she's a Jolly girl; as jolly a girl as ever you saw," replies the wise young man judicially. "She is as light-hearted as a bird, always full of fun and laughter, always reaiy for anything proposed in the way of amusement, good natured" and obliging, great taste In dress and as neat as a pin In fact, she Is Just the kind of a girl I like and can get on with. I hate these prim, mopish, proper sort of girls who are always getting tired and faint and frightened of everything from a spider to a cow and mustn't get their feet wet, and all that." So they marry, and he finds that he knew as little about his wife as she did about him. The high spirits and constant cheerful alacrity in matters of amusement were the gift of youth and health and shade with beautiful ease Into peevishness, discontent and a restless desire for new amusements and distractions. The constant attentions of the suitor give place to the indifference and carelessness of the husband, and the disappointed wife utters complaints long and loud that he is by no means the devoted slave she was led to believe him. He retorts that if she were as cheerful and amiable, as well dressed and trim as he once had known her. he should be a.s much In love it Is he who is disappointed and has a right to complain, etc. The matrimonial question as to "scissors" Is well started and goes on until one or the other get flung

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or herself into some Dead sea of despair. But after all a man's failure to comprehend the real character of the woman he selects as wife is not nearly so disastrous as the corresponding failure of the woman to understand the man before she commits her Ufa to his keeping. The sphinx gives to the one a cruel blow of her lionlike paw, but the other she devours bodily, leaving but the crushed semblance, the simulacrum as the ancients used to say, of the bright and hopeful creature who dared try to answer her fatal riddle. Say what you will of the equality of the sexes and the ability of woman to hold her own in the battle of life, the fact remains that when and if a woman , loses she loses a great deal more than, the man. A woman plays for heavier stakes than the man and is so reckless In her game that she never pauses until she has flung her all upon the board. Take a case: A woman meets a man who at once devotes himself to her, and both by word and deed professes to hold his life as of no value except as j It may be devoted to her service. I Now no woman who lives is insensible ! to the delicate flattery of such a profes- : slon no woman so strong or so selfI reliant as not to be pleased and at- ! tracted by what seems the sincere and I thorough devotion of a man who Is ad mired and sought by other women, and is able to hold his own among other men. Even If she is happy and prosperous and surrounded by other friends a man who so addresses her, or without any spoken words so comports himself, is sure to win a favorable place in her regard; but if, alas, the woman is lonely I and tired and oppressed with the weight ana ODiigrauons too Heavy ror her strength, and which no one helps her to carry, then If one of these plausible and much professing men comes alonpr. and in every look and motion and act says: "Oh, how I long to help you and to comfort you and to take all that heavy burden off your shoulders!" she listens, raises her eyes to heaven in thanksgiving for such unlooked for succor and gladly, yes. eagerly, gives herself and all she has and all she hopes and fears and loves Into his hands. She throws her entire fortune upon the table. She stakes body, soul, mind, the memories of the past and hopes of the future upon this single turn of the wheel. She exclaims to listening Fate: "I have solved your riddle! I have found the answer to your conundrum of life! I have at last met with the answer to your terrible enigma. O Fate!" They marry, for the cruel game is not made absolute until this bond Is riveted. While a woman is bethrothed her good angel may possibly come to the rescue and give her some warning by which she may escape with no more than a heavy blow and an undying scar, but when once she is married there is but one door of escape besides death, and it i3 a question which is the more cri'el. . Few men, whatever may be their disposition, are the same after marriage that they are before. In the very best specimen of the sex there is a perhaps unconscious desire and effort to appear better than he really is during the period of courtship He exercises a perpetual restraint upon the coarser and more violent traits of his nature. He sacrifices his convenience, his comfort, his tastes and inclinations to those of the object of his pursuit. He likes to walk and she prefers driving; he drives. He loves to be out of doors, she prefers a shaded parlor; he sits in the parlor. lie dotes upon athletics and she likes to hear poetry; he reads poetry, and so on. I do not say that the girl or woman Is right to accept or exact all this self-sacrifice. I will, indeed, allow that she Is apt to become selfish, and perhaps unreasonable, but at this period of the game she is blindfolded, both by fate and by the man, who never once speaks candidly and honestly to her, but Is always insisting that her wishes are dearer to him than his own, and that to do what he doesn't like to do and give up all that he does like is precisely what he enjoys and wishes. The woman believes him and accepts the role of despot, which is thus forced Upon her, and she wonders that rhe is not even mistress of her own life, cannot arrange her hours, or her pi rsvits, or the dainty environments of her home as she has always done heretofore. &he thought to find shelter in a tower of strength, and she finds herself captive in a squalid and hateful prison, while he who was to have been her devoted knight and preux chevalier becomes at once her jailer and her fellow captive. All this because, jxor woman, she failed to correctly guess the riddle propounded to her by that unknown rower which we call nature or fate, or by way of parable, the sphinx. The riddle of human character! Did anybody ever fully solve it? Many of us have tried, but can any one of us say with conviction that we have succeeded? For even at the last even after th? man whom we at first considered has discovered that he has not married the woman he supposed, and after, in the latter case, the woman has found out her own woeful mistake can we set it clown as certain that either one of them finally reads the other's character aright? I firmly believe not. At "Irst each saw virtues that either were too evenescent or too much matter cf pretense to be of any lasting service, and when these had vanished, each discovered faults and disagreeables and perhaps vices that seemed to comprise the whole character, but after all, does not truth lie in the middle here, as in most other cases? Neither man nor woman Is quite as good as we at first imagined or quite as bad as we afterward oncluded in fact, we never quite understand from first to last; we never get the true answer to the conundrum. The sphinx his the best of it every time. MRS. FRANK LESLIE. Hutton llngn for the IIonneYrlfe, The button or darning bag is a comfort to the busy wife and mother, and may be fashioned prettily enough to be brought out on state occasions. An attractive affair of the kind, described by tlolden Hays, is of a chamois skin, the top finished with scallops, while below is a casing in which is run the drawing string. All about the edges falls a cut fringe of the chamois, delicately tinted with gold paint. In the center of the bag half a dozen stray buttons are outlined In water colors and luster paints. THE BUTTON BAG. A cretonne button bag is an antique looking trifle, with its big bright hued blossoms scattered across a sober colored background. The edges of one of these quaint button receptacles have been garnished by its clever maker with a solid row of pearl buttons, this odd decoration revealing the practical use to which the rather giddy looking bag la put.

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A TALK "WITH ELIZABETH CADY STAXTO.T AND SI'S AX B. ANTHONY. They- Recall Old Times Camien Which Led Them to Eaponae "Woman's Rljcht" HoW They FIrt Met Each Other In 1851 Mri, Bloomer's Drrii Skirts. One afternoon two white haired ladies sat opposite each other in a parlor overlooking the park and told stories of other times. These two ladies were Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan B. Anthony. "How long have you and Miss Anthony been friends?" asked the reporter who was present. "We first met in May, 1S51, didn't we, Susan?" said Mrs. Stanton. "Yes, there was an antl-slavcry convention in Syracuse, and Miss Anthony came. George Thompson and William Lloyd Garrison were my guests. We were going home to dinner when we met Miss Anthony on the street. Who was with you. Susan?" "Why, Mrs. Bloomer. Don't you remember I was her guest?" replied Miss Anthony, with as keen a recollection of the circumstance as if it had ajl happened yesterday. "You kno. Mrs. Bloomer introduced a new fashion, in dress skirts," she said, turning to the reporter with a quizzical smile. "Cid you adopt the costume of your hostess?" "Oh, no, she didn't!" said Mrs. Stanton. "I remember exactly how she was dressed. Susan, pet volume 1 of 'The History of Woman's Suffrage and show how you looked. She had on a gray silk dress and gray hat, and wore pale blue ribbons. She was the perfection of neatness and sobriety." By this time Miss Anthony had found her picture in volume 1, and showed the reporter a steel engraving of a young woman with fine, clear features and soft hair, brushed, as pow, down over the ears. It was a face both sweet and strong, but not more so than the one which scanned it through the glasses which the clear eyes of forty years ago had not reeded. "They used to ridicule me so much," said Miss Anthony, looking at the engraving with a sort of curious Interest. "How did you two happen to take up the crusade in behalf of woman's suffrage?" "Well. Mrs. Stanton began it long before I did, so let her tell first," said iiiss Anthony. "What first influenced me," began Mrs. Stanton, "was my father's habit of saying to me, when I was but a child, one of five sisters, 'Oh, if you were only a boy : "So, to be as much like a boy as possible, I studied Greek and. what was much harder, learned to ride my pony. I even scaled the cupolas of the house because boys scaled cupolas and such things, and of course I must do as they did. But every time I went to my father in triumph over some achievement, expecting to be at last informed that I was 'just like a boy,' all I heard was, 'If only you were a boy! "All this made me feel very strongly about the subject of the standing of women, and there were other things that helped. My father was Judge Cady, and his cilice was in the house. Whenever there was any mischief or turmoil going on I was supposed to be the guilty party, and was sent into my father's office by way of punishment. Consequently it happened that I spent a good deal of my time there. I used to hear the women come in with their complaints, and I would listen with such sympathy and ask my father why he didn't make things different, so that women wouldn't have so much trouble. And then he'd tell me that the law Mas so and so and would take down the books and show it to me. It wasn't long, I assure you, before I had all those hateful laws marked. "At last the old woman, who used to bring us chickens and maple sugar and such things, came in one day and told my father all about her troubles, and when she went out I followed her. " 'Now, Flora,' I said, 'don't you worry any more about this. I've been thinking things over, and I know what I'm goi.iL; to do. Tomorrow is Sunday. Xow, I shan't go to church tomorrow. I shall stay at home, and after they are gone I'll come in and cut all those bad laws out of the books, and then it will be all right.' "Flora of course told my father about my Intentions, and that night he called me in and explained it all to me; told me that even if all his books were burned there were hundreds of lawyers ail through the state with libraries like his. " 'What you must do." he said, 'is to wait till you are older, and then go up to the legislature and ask them to change these laws.' So from that time on I lived, as I am still living, with that purpose in view. Xow. Susan, tell your story:" "Well." said Miss Anthony, "it was entirely different with me. 1 guess I was like 'Topsy' and 'jest growed to be lieve In women and their rights. You see, my father was a Quaker and trained us to think that girls were just as good as boys and had as good a right to earn money and to be paid as well. I think my first sense of injustice was when I began to teach school when I was fifteen years old. At first I taught for $1 a week and my board. But when I had n Ivanced to $10 a month I saw that farmers' sons, who were no better teachers than I, received $30 a month. That interested me in the right of women to their wages, and I began to work for the women's property law. Still. I had never thought of voting. "In 184$ my sister Mary, who was then a young girl, and my father and mother went to an anti-slavery convention at Rochester, and when they came home I heard nothing but Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Mott. How lovely they were, and how brilliant! Well, I Just laughed at them and at the Idea of women voting. But in 1850 tnere was a convention in Worcester, Mass., and Horace Greeley sent a reporter, so that I read the reports of the speeches, something I had never had an opportunity to do before. In lSäl, at Syracuse, I met Mrs. Stanton on the corner on her way home to dinner, you know. She didn't invite me home with her, but Mrs. Bloomer and I went over and called in the afternoon, and I've been a woman suffragist ever since." . "And have you and Mrs. Stanton worked together for forty years without a falling out?" "We agree in the main and differ just enough In detail to make things interesting," said Mrs. Stanton. N. Y. Sun. Snnl wiche. Chestnut sandwiches are not at all common and can be excellently made. Boll the chestnuts soft, then ieel and pass through a wire sieve, spreading the paste thus obtained between small oblongs or triangles of bread. Ginger sandwiches call for bits of dry candied ginger as filling, and chocolate sandwiches require an abundance of grated sweet chocolate. These are a few sorts not often seen, and a little Ingenuity will suggest more combinations. Almost anything edible, from roast beef to candied violets, may serve between sandwich covers. French Glrla DrPM Well. It does not seem to me that Fiench girls think any more about dress than other girls, but they go to work on the problem more scientifically. 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