Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-04-14
FROM MINNEAPOLIS.

amateur art club. Being in need of funds, one of
the brightest members conceived the idea of in
dulging in an aesthetic rattle" tombola,' y which
is Italian for rattle, methinks would have been a
more artistic and mysterious word. Well, each
member was to paint a picture and present it to
the club to be ratified for. Some novel little invi-
%tations, with pen and ink sketch on one side and
a four-leaved clover containing a mystic number
on the other, were disposed of by the members to
such of their friends as were inclined to pay fifty
cents a piece for them. There were seventeen
pictures and some three hundred invitations dis
posed OF, so one stood a very feeble chance of
winning. However every one went and enjoyed
the two or three artistic rooms into which they
wandered. In the room devoted to the famous
seventeen, one was served to coffee and delicious
light cakes. At the appointed time a bag was
produced, containing all the numbers disposed of.
From this a little girl, mounted on the table in
plain sight, drew seventeen numbers, and the for
tunate ones rejoieed greatly. Of course the least
artistic person in the whole room drew the most
artistic thing-a lovely girl in feecy pink, smiling
her way into your heart from an indescribable
gray background which we all went out and
walled. -
The latest thing in "tea shoes''-for slippers
are things of the past everything of that kind is a
"'tea shoe'-is a red slipper, very pointed as to
toe and very high as to heel, or they come in low
shoe shape with patent leather tips and black
laces. The latest color in dress goods is light
~yellowish green, not light either, but many shades
removed from bottle green, and partaking of the
yellow green of our g~irlhood-horrible to think of
but rather I" fetching" to contemplate when COM
bined with black braid and you know it is the
fashion.
ssMr. Barnes, of New York, " and "Mr. Potter, of
Texas" still haunt aristocratic library tables, and
you read and despise yourself for reading. Mr..
Barnes is highly improbable but rather interesting,
while Mr.. Potter is enough to cause an uprising of
Texans to search for Mr.. Archibald Clavering
Gunter and, when found, to rend him limb from
limb. But the poor man has never been in Texas,
and probably that is the reason he feels called
upon to write of Texans.
They say Mr.. Howells dreamed one night that
he got up and sat by the window, from which he
is evolving a most thrilling story of society life in
Buffalo. This is only hearsay.
You women of the south are so self helpful you
put northern women to shame in some instances,
although this is a day when to work for a living is
something to be proud of. The fashion for know
inc and doing nothing has passed and the frail,
petted southern woman is putting her gentle
shoulder to the wheel in a truly noble manner. |
know a delicate, cultured little woman in one of
your lovely cities, a widow with a little daughter
to whom her heart and soul she gives, and for
whom she was willing to work night and day if she
,onlv knew how; but she didn't know how to do
anything, having been broughS up in the utmost
luxury by a mother who considered work only the
xor+;on "a o1ouac We'll This LITTLE women thought
of the years ahead and the very small bank ac-
count that was hers, and groaned in spirit IN that
she was unable to turn her useless hands to any
thing. But in that magnificent old garden sur
rounding the happy home of her glrlhood grew
hundreds of rose trees, and as this little lady wan
dered among them the fair roses kissed the hem
of her garment and smiled and blushed at her aP-
proach, for to more than half OF them she had
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