Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-05

whom have found in my travels to be the most refined of face and feature, and at the same time strikinglY stylish en tout ensem- b1e, is the fine palm leaf bang-commonly called the pointed bang-aboye the brow, while the hair at the back is twisted about @ large-sized comb made especially for this ar- engagement. This very unique way will gain great favor, particularly with young and at- tractive faces. The entire coiffure is fre- quently made of false hair, and SO easily fastened to the scalp as to escape criticism from the most scrutinous eyes. Take, for example, the regular society girl. Why, it is next to impossible for her not to wear 8 wig. Of course, there are many wo do not do so, but the majority find keeping the natural hair in order physical impossibility. Hence the already made coiffure gains increasing favor especially those fitting the head with patient spring. When she has completed her hair toilet in the morning it is stationary for all day, for calls, ball or reception. At the seaside it is indispensable. Talking about new fads in the toilet article line, do you know that with fashionable woman soap is an article gone into disuSe2 In the first place ladies find the effect roughening to the skin, gradual in the beginning but finally ob- structing the pores until often disease is formed.
 Now there is new article called cream do palmier, or soap substitute, sometimes, too, termed winter wash. It cleans the skin in 8 dry way as effectuslly as the most potent soap. could name 100 well-known ladies in this soap. 1 remember one the other day of the French count who wrote letter ask ing for release from his finance because she never washed her face, but used oil instead to cleanse her completion but of no avail. Anti-soap is the cry now, aod women will follow the fashion at any hazard even to 8 lack of personal comfort
 vANDERBILT'S NINE RESIDENCES.  The Last Es the Newport Villa for
 Which He Paid $250.OOO.
 Clare Bell Letter to the Philadelphia Press.
 A quater of million of dollar has just been paid by MT. William K. Vandervilt for the villa and grounds hitherto belonging to A. G. Stout at Report, and the next neighbo, on one side of the place is William Astor, and on the other William Waldrof Astor. This trifing bit of architecture and land is a birthday gift by Vanderbilt to his handsome wife. He now owns no less than nine resid- ences, ranging from hunting wilds of Scot land to the exquisitely civilized corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street. Each establishment is complete in itself, with fine furniture and all the outfit necessary to lux urious habitation. There are servitors in charge who keep everything almost ready for
 
 who bring with them personal menials suff- cient to fill out the complement.
 Every body who has been to see the man. sions built by the late William H. Wander bilt for himself and his two daughters, with their families, knows that the structures oe- cupy the whole Fifth Avenue front between Fifty-frst streets, and most visitors have mo- tieed the enormous stones which from the si 7ewalk. These blocks of granite reach from curb to area rail, and are proportionately wide The city home of Mrs. William Wand erbilt is on the corner just across Fifty sec ond street, and it is more ornamental, with it's carved granite, than the larger piles of brown stone. But the 200 feet of sidewalk bordering the two sides of the premises were composed of flags not remarkably big, al- though rather better than the Fifth avenue average. The whimsical young matron did not choose that her sister-law neighbors should be better of than she, even in what they tread on in transit between portal and carriage. Therefore, she has ordered her sidewalk torn up and replaced by the biggest fsgstones ever quarried. They will be about twenty feet square each and foot and half thick. The difficulty of getting out such tre- mendous blocks and the costs of transporta- tion will make the price rather more than$1,- 900 apiece by the time they are laid. To re- alize the extravagance one has only to think that the money paid for every one of these stones would built pretty house in the country or buy 8 considerable farm. Never thelees, as not less than 96 per cent. of the outlay ia for labor, isn't it better for many poor people that this very rich person should want that kind of sidewalk.