Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-29
An Interesting Contest.

With thrObbing heart and conscious eyes,
Thou wouldst not be the maid love
An Interesting Contest.
Two French ladies lately agreed
upon trial for thousand francs to see
which could make her tongue run the
faster. The contest was to endure for
three hours. One pronounced 20S $50
words, reading from Eugene Sue. The
other pronounced 206,311 and won the
prize.
That is, ofcourse, owing to the liquid
ity of the French language; however, q
gentleman who tried to break the rec
ord scored record of only 119, ,4l2 words.
Ball Programmes Encircling the Wrist
Like n Bracelet.
A novel ball programme, says the Now
York Mail and Express, consists of q
neat, thin, cardboard band an inch and
a half in width, edged with gold, which
encircles the wrist like bracelet, and
is easily closed and unclosed by means
| of the thin sillxen cord which suspends
| the pencil. HDances" is inscribed on
the overlapping flap, tine date and resi-
dence below, and the dances in rota-
| ton all around, with space left for the
"
| These novel bracelet programmes"
| can be had in white, pale blue, or pink,
and stamped to order at short notice.
There is another; is is a menu. 1t is
| also "a bracelet and is fastened by dainty
| colored ribbon bow after the menu is
| stamped or written and passes over the
| folded table-naplsin. These are in
white or delicately tinted card, and are
pretty and novel. They can be stamped
with crest if required, close to the bow,
where ''Menu" is written in gold.
| And here are other novelties in the
same line. There are some French
menus, with pen and ink sketches,
which are uncommon and consist of sets
of six, issued fresh every month.
| Among the subjects are scenes at race
| meetings, visitors to art galleries,
fashionably attired femlae figures step
ing out of large broken egg in
various positions, others caught in the
rain, etc, all artistically and quantity
drawn. Two Sits are cut In the paper
and the menus slipped in, SO that they
can be used as often as they are
not carried off by the guests, which is
so frequently done.
This does not finish the new menus
beautifully colored with buttercups,
DAISIES and violets; another of Watteau
figures, each one picture; an old En-
| glish one in imitation of discolored
| edged parchment, with narrow double
ribbons run down the sides holding the
seal and "Ye Lyste OF ye Dyshes of We
Rejection" illuminated above in old
characters, others to fold up, represent.
ing natural looking slice of toast, etc.
are all popular designs.
Two Curious Artists.
Says the New York Graphic: There
is picture in the Academy by Maria
A'Becket, the chum of Bertha Won Hill
lern. They are curious pair. Miss
A'Becket has been nun, and through
some inscrutable logic still claims ale.
glance to the Roman Catholic church
and in some still more inscrutable way
the church accepts that allegiance des,
pite her broken VOWS. She went along
with the rest of the public to see Mis-:
Won Hillern when she was walking in
Boston eleven or twelve years
ago. She left the hail late In the
evening and after she got home
and in bed she was haunted
by the thought of that
woman going. on, round and
round through all the long night hours
and finally about o'clock she got W
and dressed and went back there
Everyone was gone but the trainer and
sleepy attendant or two. 1t was the
last night of the engagement and the
trainer was very anxious about Miss
| Won Hillern. He welcomed Mis-!
to excite and interest his charge. He
begged Miss A'Becket to walk arount
the track few times with her and tall
to her. She did so, and became so in
terested in the conversation that sht
walked on till daylight. From tina
night the two women have been grea
friends. Miss A Beckett was painting
and, with characteristic impulsivenes
and belief fn her own intuitions, sh,
declared Miss Won Hillern ought to bt
painter that she'd make a grea
painter, that she must stop walking ant
go to painting. Miss Won Hillern &C
cepted the dictum, and the two womer
have sinceithen spent most of their tim'
together ON a lovely farm in the wild
of West Virginia. They paint to pleas
themselves, and sell principally to peo
pie who are fascinated with their ro
mantle history and ways. They ar
satisfied with their work, but it hiss N
great standing among painters, and i
not often admitted to the exhibitions
Miss A'Becket's trees in the academ.
are one out of half dozen she sent
The men say she has talent, but no dis
cipline. She lives at the Sherwoo
with brother, who used to be monk
He paints, too. AS might be imagined
they were not brought up Catholics, bu
were converts IN their youth. The
are picturesque pair.
Women are Bigger Now.
"Women are certainly larger tina
they used to be-" said dressmake
to Mail and Express reporter.
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query.
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