Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-21
BOSTON.
New Fashionable Rags-.Aeunt0n
OF Tonrjeans, &c.


me soon want to show you my
corners
Thus said NY friend the othar day, on
the occasion Of u chance utrset meeting.
The invitation was coucht ia the words
and with the emphasis customary between
the dear ton lh0us,nd friends ol that
happy sex who have nolninR 10 do hut
make calls. (I) a,la tue customary reply;
Yes, | a5W, | have been trutng 10 for
50 long, but you know JUST how il is!"
was on my lips, when the second clause
OF my friends remark struck my attention
and changed my answer to;
"ill come ,o-uo row 20
And want.
"Her corners, indeed! AID pray
what might they bai That frien rt
mine IL "a most ingenious inuividuai, spd
combines with a strong love for the beau.
iifui, an exquisite taste in artistic matters
and plenty of money. the rare faculty of
cleaning the latest freaks of the fashion
able world and putting them into delight
full practice.
'Cotners! repeating m, hrst jduula.
tion on entering the hospitnble and elegant
little house. why, don't you know? But,
of course one cant expect any civilized
knowledge to repose in the mind of one
who has been OF gallivantipg in foreign
lands all summer. Corners my dear, are
the latest; they are the rage. new sort
nj album on large scale, you know.
Your house is the album and your friends
your dearest friends only OF cuurse-
have each a corner"
Are going to set us at the Old game OF
puss, puss that you are going to put us
In corners"
No, stupid You know better. II
isn't you, bur your presents that we put in
corners. IN show you"
And Leading the wey into the handsome
drawing room my hostess soon explained
the mystery quite to my delight. Each
| corner of the room Including those formed
by the chimney reoesses, was devoted to
some friend, the work of whose dainty
| fingers, with souvenirs aud other little
gifts, made the cosy nook beautiful and
unique. In one corner is graceful little
staud, the top of which is painted very
| prettily, aud on il stands u Tiny easel,
supporting a palette, on winch Is repre-.
scented the dsbs of colors, set in regular
order, as if Just ready for use by M artist.
| except that just across the face Is painted
a peacocks feather. Just above the
palette, on the top of the easel. is real
feather, and so perfectly painted il that on
the palette, that | have seen more people
than one try TO pick it off, thinking it had
fallen from its companion above. On the
wall over the stand is plate, OIL which is
painted the daintiest spray of apple
blossoms
Other corners were similarly individual.
lied with little groupings of taste, and art
aud remembrance
Your corner is in the library said my
friend, and sure enough in lovely nook
hung the lair castle which | once con-
structed-not my only cIstie 4 EsPagRe
alas but the only one whose composition
isinglass and bits OF red flannel formed the
component parts Other tr tles reccg
ni1ed below the floating castlr, and imme
diately decided that there must be Il corner
bracket with wrought lambrequin to com
plete the spot.
Another friend has u new idea worth
mentioning here. She is one who value.
highly those little souvenirs in the shape
of birthday and holiday cards, whirh ar,
now so pre,tily gotten up, and OF whict
she has tius collection, all bearing The
names of friends, with dates Nc. She ma,
procured a handsome album, and has tilet
1t with these cards, FASTING them upor
the pages, and as they vary from gray,
to gay, " from sentiment TO humor-.um,
OF the funniest things among them ii
make book well worth looking through
aud the ideH m ~ be worth remembering
This reminds me OF book which W,
made once--sister aid sting up I'll
r nearly morning Of one Christn 81 night, d
work on it with mncilUg bnttles, shear
aud = pile Of I'D NarptlA Bas15a, from
Iyb I4l W. mt liz
5 ones froul tue last pages aud the lin
t engravngs from the double pages, an,
: pasted them upon the pages of an oil,
, bound volume OF fair" paper, whicl
had handsome cover. This book hH
r filed a good iLany cracks in conversatio,
/ since il was made
Nor bad idea was that OF u.iue belor
gotug to Europe, last summer Tough
L the best pressing bot k / could eud: on
:, intended fCr botanical study, filled wit
Y porous payer, supplied win -snio sheet
q Of very thin Rlu'innus paper, 70 be en-
into tiny ships aud used to fn9lsn "spec
:, mems" in place on the leaves. The hand
u some cover | protected with cGulbric and
= taking the book on my travels, brought
s home flied with pressed flowers, ferns
weeds, grass $, ltaveS, souvenirs Of nunrl
y every place We VESTED, aud many yer
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