St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14
THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
Refnements Of Growing Civilization as
Shownin Modern House Linen
and Brio-a-Brac.
Color in Dress, Equipages and Houses
Japanese Wares and Dainty
Decorations.
Little Lecture on Cook fng--O Old
Practices Versus Modern
Discoveries.
Housekeepers' TroubIes--Th1ngs for
Beauty's Boudoir--Latest
Table styles.

Housekeepers' TroubIes--Things for
aBeauty's Boudoir--Latest
! Table styles.
Household Affairs.
Every pretty device of equipage is copied
by the quick wits of modern hostesSeS. Tea
and coffee are served charmingly after din
ner or at 5 o'clock in the tlorid, graceful
fashion of Spano-Amercans, which would
make such subject for one of MadrazO's
pictures. The mirror-polished table in
drawing room or balcony with gay awning.
the OpenwOrk gilded tray with ace-edged
napkins, the silver coffee-pot with bow of
blue or scarlet satin ribbon on the handle,
other knots decorating the knob of the fill
gree sugar bowl and handle of the cream
pitcher and sugar tongs; all sorts of Spanish
and West Indian confectionery in an open
work basket of silvet with napkin whose
deep lace edges almost hide its tracery, big
bow and knot of flowers on the handle;
porcelain bowls in Benares holders with rose
leaves floating on the water, brought to dip
the fingers in, and towels of finest damask
embroidered i'll open work half yard deep
with lace ends, and the expression of house
can family of wealth you find this display
at its height-the open work tray and ser
vice of gold OF silver gilt, with airy napkins
of pineapple fibre, fine and laced enough
for handkerchiefs; the encrusted and
pierced gold dishes, the transparent lace
work and flower-li like knots of fresh ribbon
making the after-dinner service as sumptu-
GUS and gay as the most luxurious fancy
can prescribe.
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You will see such niceties in the houses
of the California people who have caught a
certain Opulence of habit, as if the best in
the world was only good for them, from
their Spanish neighbOrs at home. Asked
to lunch at certain Californian houses on
the upper avenue, you have your straw
berries served with gold teaspoons, and
your Mexican chocolate finer than French,
from gold-lined cups, while the laced dam
ask and lawn Of the table service are sheer
delight to housekeeping eye. which every
| fine woman ought to have. The laced bed
linen perfumed with altar of roses in huge
carved armories is shown as sight to IA
vored few, and the wife of a Pacific mag
nate sends home So, 900 worth of embroi-
dered linen sheets from Paris at a time, for
| L.
100 in addition. But this is republican
simplicity compared to the royal housekeep-
ing of the Bourbons, who thought little of
paying $40, 900 for pair of laced sheets
which our finest demoSelle would be will
ing to wear for her wedding gown.
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The feeling for the refinements of living
| goes through all classes of American society,
trained as it is to consider nothing too good
for it within reach. You find this innate
nicely in unlikely places, an implanted
New England cottage among the hills, a
fourth-storY west side fiat, a janitor's rooms,
a cabin on the SieTas, or redwood shanty
on the Pacific coast. where reign the snowy
lace curtains and pillow covers and toilet
adornings, where the deeply wrought towel
and embroidered napkins are brought out
for the guest as they would be in a Sicilian
I palace or a sheik's striped tent. The fine
soaps and flask of perfumery, the cup of
Oriental porcelain meet you on the sandy
streets of the rawest mining town in New
Mexico, while the globe will have to be put
under requisition to fit the superb require
ments of the Arizonian, if the Apaches ever
give him chance for quiet life. One
goes West to find increasing luxury in ma
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hotels in the Union are in Denver and
Monterey, CAL; the taste shown in the bet
ter class of private houses is as remarkable
as their comfort. You dine from fine dam
ask, heavy silver and iridescent glass, and
walk among art tiles, frescoes and stained
glass in hotel among the Rocky mountains
where they are uneasy about your going out
of sight in the canyon from the double fears
of Indians and bears. In an adobe house
with mud floor in New Mexico you find cur
tainS of handsome real guipure at the Win
dowS, embroidered Chinese silk counter
panes toilet basin and ever of Oriental
porcelainS, and long to carry off your fine
| bed linen wrought in fine drawn-WOrk by
| the patient fingers of Indian women. The
| Navajo rug on your mating would be
coveted for studio hangings. An army store
keeper in Arizona tells us of the fine rugs
woven as wedding presents for his wife of
which the choice wool in each cost 500.
The practical, limited, calculating East
stands in salute to the lavisil-handed West,
born to the purple and fine linen of album
dance.
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The lace toilets of woven yak in guipure
patterns are eminently dressy and substan-
tial for all their elegance. The widths of
the dress are entirely of wool guipure, fin
ished with robings and fOunces, with
punched drapery: ZOuave jacket on basque
of guipure over a thin black or sherry silk
habit shirt; bonnet of jet open work, the
arrest of all millinery, hardly more than a
| jeweled net combining the hair, and over all
this fretted, rosetted, flowing drapery the
provoking roof of an enormously wide lace
parasol with deep border hiding all view of
the face, unless by favor of the wearer. In
such dress, shaking out the French Ori-
entail perfumes of frangipanni or vanilla
grass blended a woman with Wavy tresses,
and skin like cream, lately from her bath.
floats down the promenade irresistible. All!
if some one would only give out the con-
tract for dressing women by the hundred in
what was the most becoming to them, what
a changed aspect the world would shortly
put on!
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Clusters of blue and white forget-me-nots
with the slender stems tied by gold thread,
and tiny diamond dew on the petal, are ia
vorite gifts, and it is not quite the thing to
wear them unless given. The pierced in
cense burners of Eastern work are put to
use in pertaining rooms to guard against
impurity of air. Pastilles are better than
nothing, but the finer usage burns lavender
stalks, cherry, prunings and cedar chips,
resinous pine knots sifted over with ground
SPICE and the dry stems of garden sage and
marjeram, which yields a refreshing Odor,
said to prevent disease and benefit the lungs.
Ladies at home in the country are packing
large jars Of potpourri for city houses, the
| perfume OF strong spice essences, rose leaves
and gillifioWers assisting in keeping the all