Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 March 1895 — Page 6

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

:BAB'S LETTER.

SHE THINKS PERSONALITIES AND »,«WASTE ARE DECIOEDLY VULGAR.

Some Thoughts 8nse««ted by the Gorg«otu Gould Wedding— How Staring May be Effected in a Properly Managed Household—The Way a German Baker Got Bab Si For a Permanent Customer. lUopyright, 1885.J -M.

There is no place quite so provincial as *4 New York. By some carious counting, it is said to be the biggest town in America, while in reality it is small to a degree. All you need do is to pick up the morning papers and read the nonsense written about the Gould wedding. Ne JV

Yorkers think it is very funny to see in an out-of town paper the announcement: "Miss Birdie Morse of Kalamazoo is vlsiting her cousin, Rose Smith. Miss Birdie, we hope you will have a good time." But this is refined and desirable beside the debcriptions lavished upon the family of a dead and gone money-maker, whose methods were held in scorn by all honest men. We are carefully told about the rooms which these French visitors will occupy a big newspaper describes the paternal .and filial feeling existing among them all, while five different papers have a picture of the wedding dress, and each differs.

Why can't we be big enough to LBT PERSONALITIES ALONB? Of course we are a young country, a young country eaten up by the vice of curiosity, and a country that until it recovers from this disease, will be laughed at by the whole world. We are carefully told how the lover of proud degree and corresponding blue blood expresses bis love to the so-called fair one, who, by-the-bye, is a very ordinary looking girl with the peculiar Gould look which they all have, and which suggests their father's "cuteness" in selling the rat trap. Now, they can laugh. Their lather's invention was only calculated to catch the household horror, but his sons and daughters have bated another kind of trap, bated it with gold dollars and caught New York society, New York newspapers, and they can afford to laugh. I remember before Jay Gould brought sadness and poverty to his friend Cyrus Field hearing a woman who had been on his yaoht, speak of him as "Little Mr. Gould who, after all, really meant to be kind to everybody and was quite a reader." "Little Mr. Gould," alas! toppled over the giants of the Field family, but who oan ever think of those gold dollars, which are in reality Gould dollars, as desirable? Inasmuch as they represent outeness rather than shrewdness dishonesty, not .-honor, and false friendship rather than truth. If we, as a nation, had the English and German respect for honesty, the

Gould trap to catch society would have to be bated with something better than dollars, and indeed could not have been utilized until the years had brought forgetful ness of how the money was earned.

The newspaper accounts of the wedding, of the trousseau, of the flowers and the jewels,'the frills and the frlvvles stand in black and white to accuse us of another vulgarity—the vulgarity of waste. It is another evidence of our youth, but it rises up and confronts us, and we dare not deny its existence. THE DUKE OF WESTMINISTER'S DAUGH

TER.

The other day the daughter of one of the richest men in the world, a man who could buy out the Vanderbllts and the Goulds and the Standard Oil magnates, and still be a wealthy man—the Duke of Westminster—was married to a young prince whose fortune was largely in his kind heart and his blue blood, and he gave her a beautiful little brooch set with diamonds and rabies for her wedding present. Tbisgirl, who counted among her belongings gems inherited from her mother and given to her on her wedding day by her father, wore, on the eventful day, the broooh that came to her from her bridegroom and a aimple string of pearls given her when she was a girl. Her people had sense enough to know that she had the beauty of youth, which needs no jewels to emphasize it and that there was suoh a thing as sentiment, and that it, when a girl's heart was right, appealed to rich and poor alike.

We have undoubtedly the most beautiful girls in the world in this oountry beautiful with the delicacy of a Dresden statuette, or a fine orchid, and instead of gowning them simply and saving brocades and elaborate pieces of jewels for their matronhood, we give them carte blanohe to wear what they please, and the oonsequence is that, with the first wrinkle, they can assume nothing new to draw attention from it. What the rich girl does, the girl in the middle class does. The rich American girl throws aside the gown of which she is wearied and doesn't care what becomes of it. The English, German or French girl, in the same position, wonld have her maid take it apart and pnt away for future use those decorations which were in order, and decide then whether the material should be used for pillows, coseys, gowns for a smaller girl, or whatever the fabric was beet fitted for. Wrongly enough we call that stinginess, whereas it is simply proper care. American women handle more money, spend it more lavishly, and account for less of it than any other women.

ENGLISH MAIDEN'S COMMONSsksK. A New York girl has had an English friend staying with her this winter, and this girl has made her open her eyes

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very wide. In the morning, while the American girt Is lounging and yawn log, her English friend is, as she says, "rotting up fey aooouota and wTiting in my diary." The New Yorker said to her, "Why do you bother with a diary?" And the English girl answered, "Because, when I go home, I want to be able to tell about all I have seen and enjoyed to my mother and sisters, and it will be a help to me in reoalling things and then too, think what a pleasure it will be to me in the future." The Amerioan girl oanH understand that, while she has a smattering of everything, that what the English girl knows she knows well. She is slow, bat lacking versatility she has concentration having studied botany she is interested in all the strange blossoms and is making an herbarium. If she has a fancy for geology she is col looting pebbles but it is always certain and sure that she ha9 some special object and that this is going to be of interest to her all her lifetime and make her, when she is an elderly woman, of inter 63t to other people.

HOW SHE BOUGHT CONFECTIONS. She started out for a walk the other day, and the New Yorker took her into a fashionable candy shop. Each bought in her own way. The American girl fancied buttercups, and took a pound of them. She wanted ohocolates and had a pound of them, and then a pound of marshmallows. The English girl looked carefully, and requested an ounce of this variety, half an ounce of another, until she had half a pound, and the shopgirl opet ed her eyes very widely and credited her with stinginess. This was not true but she knew she couldn't possibly eat three pounds of candy, she thought it wrong to spend her money so foolishly, and she knew that, getting a great quantity of sweets* they would grow stale. When they got heme the English girl rang and asked for a fancy plate then from her package- she brought the delioate laoe paper mat she had bought, arranged her sweets prettily on that as only a girl oan do to whom comes the duty of overseeing the dessert at home. The platter was put on the tea table, tempted everybody by its dainty arrangement, and each tea drinker took one or two of the sweets. Now, whioh was the wiser woman

REMEMBERING HER HOSTESS. The American girl wants to show her appreciation of the English girl's kind ness. She speeds $10 on a tiny box of orchids. They are beautiful to look upon, and they last three days. The Englishjgirl spends {5 on the materials for a teacloth, devotes her leisure hours for a couple of weeks to embroidering it, then gives it to her hostess, who has, not only a lovely bit of work, whioh she could not buy for less than $60, but feels that with^every stitch set in it, there has been a kind thought of her and her pleasure. Whioh present was the most sensible? The French girl stares with surprise atjthe New Yorker when, with the vulgarity of waste, she declines to wear cleaned gloves and, yet, when the French girlfgoes home, she sends to her friend at Christmas, at Easter, and on her birthday, whioh she has carefully written down in her notebook, some pretty souvenir, and the New Yorker, the type ofj the American girl, groans because she has been so extravagant, and cannot return the pretty courtesies. And yet, if one (wishes to be generous, one mustibe careful.

Nobody|desplBes stinginess more than I do but I don't think it is represented by carets to one's belongings.

WASTE IN THE HOME.

Tfae other day I saw a woman, evidently a servant kept in an apartment, throw into the ash barrel two loaves of bread that bad never been cut, and at least twelve slices that had. Now, a Continental housekeeper, even if she were a duchess, would never have permitted this. In a properly managed household toast is a constant necessity, and any man or woman knows that there is no dessert that is any better than a well-made bread pudding, which requires a stale loaf. When I say "bread pudding," I don't mean that mixture commonly called by this name, and which looks like a bread poultioe and tastes like glue, but I mean the beautiful looking pudding whioh, underneath its orust, is creamy in consistency, and well flavored and has on top thin siloes of buttered bread that in the baking have browned, and whioh have upon them, very closely stadded, brandied cherries. As it was near my own home, I had sufficient curiosity to find out who lived where suoh waste was permitted. I discovered that it was a young broker, whose wife is oounted quite a beauty, who dresses elaborately and requires for herself and her husband, in this bit of an apartment, the servioes of two women. It is her boast that she keeps a cook by allowing her to do as she pleases. She wonld be horrified If she were oalled vulgar, and yet that is exactly the adjeotive to apply to her. Her husband's inoome and her own position demand that she should know where waste exists, and she is stamping herself with the crest of vulgarity by not look ing after the ways of her household.

UTTlV THIIfGS TKttlt.

We wonder, we who are the most wasteful nation in the world, how it is that the French and German shopkeepers become owners of the large markets and the fashionable restaurants of the city. I will tell yon why it is. They consider the day of little things. Not long ago I asked in an American bake-shep that three of a certain kind of rolls be sent to me. I was told that unless I ordered twelve it would be Impossible. It was not a question of cost, but I didn't want them. Leaving the place, I went to one kept by a German. He was civil, perfectly willing to send me the small quantity that I asked for, thanked me very politely for the nine cents I handed him, and said that he

THE GREATEST PLEASURE TO DO IT for me, aad, when they arrived, care had been taken that each one should be of a different color, so that they would look prettiest on their tiny silver platter. Do you think any Amerioan confectioner would do this? Certainly not. They would count the trouble as great, and would fail to see how, in being courteous and going to some trouble for a small order, that there existed the certainty of keeping a customer and of having her recompaendation. The French laundresses will mend the belongings 'of bachelors without extra oharge. The German Delicatessen will sell the wing of a chicken and two small slices of ham, giving much thought to the carv ing, where the Amerioan dealer would be inclined to laugh at the order. We will be the most prosperous nation in the world whon we realize the value of pennies, and become certain that generosity and prodigality are not synonymous.

WILL WE EVER LEARN?

As a nation are we going to take the trouble to be generous in a sensible way? When we act as do the people of the older nations, we will have their splidity and their certainty. As it is, we are like little boats on the sea of trouble. In our eagerness to have the boat decorated, to make it look pretty, and to receive words of commendation as to its daintiness, we forget to test its ability in a storm. A willful waste is certain to make the wdeful want that is predicted, and want will come and be felt by all those who do not comprehend the vufc garity of waste and the refinement of care. It is largely our women who are, to blame, and yet, if the American man would assert himself, and would insist upon teaching woman the value of all things, she would not err as she does. Every right-thinking woman believes that a man should be master in his household therefore let him use his power, and use it properly that is, use it so that his womankind will be careful, thoughtful and generous women, instead of shiftless, wasteful and care less butterflies. Think it all over, and giving it the proper thought, I do honestly believe that you will agree as to what constitutes the right generosity* with BAB.

ye: Rain Costumes. Modern women not only indulge in ontdoor sports, but it is the oorreot thing to go out every day whether the weather is fair or rainy. The fashionable woman's costume for rainy weather is beyond reproach. As described by the New York Herald, it is made of tweed or Scotch Berge, quite shojrt, so as to clear the ground, very simply made with ooatand plain skirt, looks trite and beat and when a felt bat is worn the outfit is complete. She wears heavy boot?, in some oases waterproof oOes fiiade of calfskin, with oork solos, and ooming high upon the ankles. Some women Wear low shoes, rubbers add then gaiters. This last plan keeps the feet and ankles absolutely dry, but it gives an extremely clumsy appearance even to the smallest ankles. When the snow or mud is deep, skating boots are quite de rigueur. These are made of heavy leather, are iaoed and come far up on the calf of the leg. They have invariably broad soles and low, fiat heels.

The fin de sieole girl has quite given up ruffled petticoats for rainy weather, instead of which she puts on under a serge gown ber black satin or cloth knickerbockers, and buttons on a pair of leggings that reach from foot to knee.

An Approved Breakfhst Dish. A dish of hot well cooked tatmeai into which has been mixed chopped dates or figs is meeting with the approval of well known food specialists. It is eaten with cream or with butter as may be preferred.

Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers is a popular preparation in one bottle, and oolors evenly a brown or black. Any person can easily apply it at home.

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The two diagonal bands of either antique brocade or embroidery are outlined with fringe and secured down with a few stitches to hold some small photographs. The larger specimens with water colors are placed in the two compartments, which are also Handy to hold any fashionable odds and ends.

A Dainty American Duchesse. The Duchesse do la Rochefoucauld, who was once upon a time—and only a few years ago—lovely Mafctie Mitchell of Oregon aod New $ork, is said to be one of tho most charming hostesses and one of the most brilliantly clever women in sunny France. Of the truth of this assertion people who have the average opinion of the clever Frenchwomen may have doubts, but of the duchcsse's beauty there is only one opinion. She is remembered in New York as a lovely girl with a perfeot figure, superb snovvy shoulders, which she always draped with chiffons, gauzes and tulles in off shoulder fashion, which showed to the best advantage the very classical contour of the lovely shoulders. Miss Mitchell also had regular features, bronze gold hair, a complexion of dazzling pink and white and lovely eyes like aquamarine jewels of a haunting shade of blue gray. No wonder -that P&ris imagines Senator Mitchell's daughter as clever in every way as she is pretty.

Wishbone Parties.

A wishbone party is a happy diversion. A card, with a wishbone painted in the center and a quotation written beneath, is torn in halves and a piece given to a lady and gentleman respectively. Partners are secured by matching 'tho pieces, and the company, in pairs, then move about to scan and locnto, if possible, the other quotations as well as the one which has united them. Prizes, of course, reward the leading successes. At one given recently just as the party broke up a little tray of gilded wishbones was brought in, and every pair broke one between them, making a wish at the moment. On this saiiie occasion, |oo, a huge wishbone hung under the central chandelier. It was cleverly cut from stiff pasteboard, gilded and gmilax wreathed. It may be added that the wishbones requisite for tho final wishing were accumulated by the young hostess in a short time, with the assistance of one or ty?o friends, and were bona fide portions of fowls' anatomies.

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