The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-09-02
FOR THE LADIES.

Mrs. Capt" j. W. Holmes advertises In the Mys-
tic Comm Press for the return Of her nightgown,
which was stolen with other things from her house
by burglars. She adds that II marked. No
burglar will be safe in wearingit.
The Del Rio Dot is edited by young lady. She
remarks: " Man proposes. but it sometimes takes q
great deal Of encouragement to get him 10 do so"
Seventeen young and pretty maidens, none
under sweet Is and none very much over that hal
cyon age, all residents of Buffalo, have Just wound
up very pleasant vacation a strictly original
plan They hired a cottage at Eden Center, aud
ran it themselves for about two weeks, doing their
own housekeeping. baking. and washing. The
Summer days were spent in botanizing tramping
about over fields and through dells, and in running
race to see which would come out the fattest and
the brownest. All came back with a considerable
addition TO their svoirdupOis, and brown as
Spanish senoritas.
IL the man wins he takes the girl; IL the girl wins
she takes the man.
some Philadelphia women have hit upon
something novel In the way of occupation. surely.
They call themselves called, hampers"
The care of a lamp is n good deal ike that of a
steam-engine or a baby-it Is not everybody that
can tend To it properly and with Judgment. A new
occupation is open To women now that drawing
rooms display as many as halfa dozen lighted lamps
by night, with corresponding care Of wcks, chim-
neys, shades, filling etc, by day. and when n smoky
lamp ~ not only q nuisance but an ineeganee.
The lamper" takes this Off of the mistress of
the house. She comes each morning emDties out
the oil when it Is getting thick refIls trims the
wick mathematcalty without even touching steel
to IL, rubs the metal poshes the shade. and leaves
to house in q neghborhood and is fully worthy
her weekly pay. In unskillfu hands the new pop
ular oil lamps are great trouble; sometimes fill
ing them is put off until after dark when therei
danger in bringing the Oil-can anywhere near the
gls-lights When neither mistress of the house
nor her servants are good at lamp the skill Of
the professional can now be had for very small
sum for each visit.
In Mime. Missions new home the drawing-room
IL to be papered with hotel bills the novelty of the
display being enhanced by the fact that they are
receipted. The dining-roOm will be covered with
the laurel leaves received at various times by the
triumphant diva, the singers boudior will be pa
pered with operas, and the smOking-room with
newspaper notices of her performances These
facts are anquestionable, being vouched for by the
correspondent of a Paris paper.
Two young women of PHILADELPHIA summering
mt Bar Harbor. lost their way on Newport Noun
tain on Saturday, and a searching party found them
Sunday morning at o'clock on a ledge south Of
the mountain quite exhausted and considerably
scared.
Thirteen-year-old Grace Newell daughter Of W.
q. Newell, IL renowned ut jefferson Highlands, N.
H., "a pedestrian. She walks easily 20 miles a
day, and her successful tramps with the Appala-
ehian Club have won for her the title Child of
the Club"