The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-04-10
Women Who Carry Canes.

women VINO carry canes.
What A woman carry cane~
calculated the reporter, in astonish
ment.
women carry csnesl" answered the
dealer, smiling. why, of course; why
not? It is an established custom in
England"
"Are they used for ornaments only?"
was asked.
Sometimes, but not always. Now,
for instance, here is very nicely
polished snakewooI. Do you see any
thing curious about it? No. Well,
just look here, and, pressing little
catch, the top of the cane few back on
hinge, disclosing q very pretty
cologne bottle snugly imbedded in
the stick. THE carrying of canes, or
walking sticks, as they are generally
called by the fashionable, especially on
the part of ladies, is fast becoming
quite feature on Fifth avenue and
Broadway. Every young lady of rank
or good standing in society is expected
to have q walking stick with her at all
times, partly for protection and partly
for ornament. The sticks as rule are
made of ebony, snakewood, orange
wood, and in fact any expensive and
solid grained wood. The canes are
very thin, and generally have some
place in the handle for cologne, smell
Ing salts, or other trihes."
"How do the prices run ?" was asked.
"All the way from 20 cents to S3 or
81. Then we can make them cost $50
| with very little trouble"
What makes the difference in
price,"
1.-THE fixings, as rule" answered
the dealer. "Then, again, it's the con-
venience of the-look out how you
handle that one; it's loaded"
"Loaded" repeated the journalist,
mechan cally dropping lovely ebony
stick, having small gold cap for II
head.
Yes, sir, loaded" said the owner,
taking the cane up, "and loaded to
kill See here" and, pushing half of
the cane down, the man displayed a
cartridge of No. % caliber, over which
hung q hammer or steel rod, which,
by pressure of the little gold cap,
few against the cartridge, discharging
it. The whole thing was as complete
an Internal machine as any lady would
wish to carry at night.-Neac York
Journal
Esthetic Deiusions-The Folly or Email
Waists.
The belief in the beauty of alb.
solute smallness in woman's waist is
one of the most vulgar of vulgar de-
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beautiful, just as well-proportioned
hand or foot is, but disproportionate
smallness in any Of the three is a de-
feet. We compassionate the Chinese
because they carry the defect as far as
misapplied ingenuity can do it, but the
Chinese school is wonderfully strong
among ourselves The real beauty OF
hand or foot is in its shape and pro-
portion to the rest of the body, and
the shape is very difficult to improve
Ivy artificial means. In attempting to
reduce the size, the shape is usually
destroyed. Nothing is more charming
than well-shaped hand, and a we'll.
fitting glove on such hand is one OF
the most important items of q
woman's dress. But nothing is uglier
than hand crammed into glove il
was never meant to wear, glove which
crowds the palm into shapeless heap
and cramps the fingers into uselessness
The original defects of the hand are
not remed ed in the least /; they are
only dwarfed for the moment by artifi
cial ones. The same remarks app y Il
the foot and the waist. waist out o.
: proportion to the rest of the body IL
: ugly, whether it err by being too large
or too small. If it is naturally to,