Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — The Necktie Charm. [ARTICLE]

The Necktie Charm.

If there is one thing more than another that a “sassietv” belle adores it is a hobby. Something new in this line is invented every little while by some fair sister, for hobbies grow stale and uninteresting in a short time. The latest out is the collection of the small neckties which gentlemen now wear, and are used by the dear creatures who beg them in a, most moral and sentimental manner. A small cord is stretched from post to post across the head and foot piece of the young lady’s bed, to which the ties are fastened. A tie, when presented by, or begged of, a gentleman, must be accompanied by a miniature card, bearing his name or monogram, under which the lady writes the prettiest compliment the giver has ever paid her. The ties are arranged artistically, with regard to color, and the belles of fashion vie with each other in endeavoring to be the first to have ljer couch fully decked. Each night a tie is taken from the line and placed under the pillow to insure pleasant dreams. If at the end of two months %fter a girl has completed the task of' decorations she be not engaged to marry, the ties are put into a black bag, tied with a black ribbon, and hung in an obscure corner. She must then begin over again, in hopes that her luck will turn. After marriage a. silkquilt must be made, and the ties are fastened in clusters here and there all over tire top of it. This will in all probability remain a thing of beauty adornment until after the first quarrel, when the sight of the ties of his wife’s former admirers excites the' young husband to greater 'finger, and he yanks them off, one by one, and throws them into the lire. -Cleveland News. When a babe is born in any hbuse in Turkey there is great rejoicing if it be a boy, less if a girl. The wife is proud for a while; but Turkish women are sot good mothers ; they are too childlike the s selves. When a girl is born to a Kultan they fire seven guns; when a boy, twenty-one. The boys die early; the girls are more apt to live. This is supposed to be a divine interposition of Providence to prevent too many claimants to the throne. Babies are dressed like mummies in swaddling-clothes for six months. Then the boys are put in trousers, sometimes in generals’ or colonel’s uniform, regularly made. A Vienna writing-master has written forty French words on a grain of wheat that are said to be easily legible for good eyes. It has been placed in a glass case and presented to the French Academy of Science. A GiANT is coming to London. He is an Austrian. He calls himself Winkelmeier. l.e is eight feet six inches in height, and is one of. the t.llest men i who have lived sinee the days of the ! Anakin. ]