The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-30
NOTES, PERSONALS. FASHIONS

NOTES, PERSONALS, FASHIONS.
The daughter of Bayard Taylor has
recently been supporting herself as gov
i..rness i'm New York. She and her mother
declined a purse of $4,000 raised by New
York ladies on learning that Bayard lay
lor die'i poor.
William D. HOwells, the novelist, is q
young looking man, of middle height; his
hair is cropped short and parted In the
center; he wears short, gray mOustache,
and his aspect is that of student. He
shrinks from society, and is Of quiet and
domestic tastes.
Amateur florists, to whom il is an OBJ
jet To save their own seeds, should bear in
mind that the double aster, which is SO apt
TO degenerate into the single form, is said
by LIE Coz To yield double flowers chiefly
from seed from the outer forets Of the disc.
And in raising choice gillifower seed, the
upper part OF the pod is broken off by the
gardener, as the seed from il give mostly
single flowers.
! "A cultivation of a taste for good read
ing cannot we'll he ov.r-eslimated Nearly
everywhere the individual is met who
claims TO be well read, but when the read
ing is analyzed il is found that much of j:
has been superficial. 1t is never best te
rad anything hastily, the work should be-
carefully selected and when this is accom-
plished the reading should be an enjoyment
oi SO much calibre that the mind would
retain the impression as indellible as Was
the carving on Egyptian monuments.
The school marin is about the sweetest
and winsomest thing on earth, and 1t is
natural that she should be. When she
has gone through the treadmill of a moral
combat with c-oichety, Sell OpiniOnated I'll
rectOrs, and campaign with rude, quar-
relsOme boys, and sly, deceitful girls, and
comes out triumphant, with eyes Drumming
over with unsurpassed good nature and
good spirits, she is a daisy of celestial
bloom, and the fellow who gamers her in
on his own behalf is chief among 10000 for
luck.
The old servant now III charge of
Edgewood, Mrs. Kate Chsse's mansion tells
many stories illustrating the peculiarities
of his mistress. She wouldn't let him
plant cabbage anywhere near the house be-
cause she could smell 'em." Last spring
she engaged a man at very nigh price,
aud set him to blowing up the fields. she
said she was going 10 make the lane OF
some use 10 her. But bless you. she hadn't
got il plowed before she called him in one
day, and told him to stop all work on it,
that she was going to Europe to be absent
for five years.
Most men are little bashful with
women. Young men get over il by bravo
do-cldef men with kind of silent, supe-
- cs,,Ix
never to take advantage OF this shyness,
many men are conscious of being perfect
fool with women-if you never wound them
by look or word, or insiuuation or i'm
plication, and never seem in league with
i,ny one man against any other-why, a
little jndicious Aauery of manner only, not
Of words, does the whole business-the man
is yours.
The majority of women deem il, if not
absolutely degrading, at least beneath their
standing, to cook, but there really is rs
much artistic skill in putting a we'll
cooked steak before a hungry husband and
one which requires almost As much thought,
TOO, as embrOidering on plush or hand
painting china vase. A gentleman In
this city remarked to the writer Of this,
''You should have seen me in tie kitchen
this morning broiling steak TO Shit me.
To tell you the truth, / haven't eaten
well cooked meat in my house for months.
Nv wife does not care to meddle with the
servant in this respect and the servant
don't know the art, so this morning l just
walked into the kitchen myself and got
out the grid-iron and took the steak and
turned it very lightly on one side and then
ON the other and used buiter-plenty OF
it-and when it was lovely pink, shading
into gray and brown, took it into the
dining room and let me tell you il was
sumptuous." One could readily believe
the gentleman really enjoyed his expert
ence and certainly IL his idea Of the
blending of colOrs there was something
particularly artistic.
Society condones many things. but the
question Of bare arms for evening dresses
seems in many parts of the country, just
AT present, to be undergoing a revolution.
Why this is so, is hardly attainable, I'M
less the exposure OF the female form d. |
vine at the many summer resorts during |
The past season, on the score Of checking |
the evil, is to be the result. A recent |
writer, speaking of the matter, says |
These things ought to regulate them
selves. There are women who should bare |
their arms, and there are others who |
shonld cover themselves in many thick |
nesses Why should it be necessary for a
man to wear dress coat when he doesn't
look we'll in it? Why should it be asked of
skeleton to bare her arms or her legs?
The ballet has to adopt certain costumes or
it would not be ballet; but the society
lady should be her own judge as to what
to wear, and when and how to wear it. 1t
is a good thing that the tyranny Of fashion
does not extend to the bathing house and
the beach but it would be q better thing
if the tyranny were not so excessive that
when a lady went out to battle she need
not feel called upon to go by way OF re-
lief TO the extreme of unUOiventiOnalism.