The morning news., 1888-12-05

are very well, but they are not new, and
this author has made her latest success with
winter Strawberries which, grown in any
quantity, are a novelty. The thought OF
the enterprise came to her while listening
TO the complaint of a well-to-do acQuairit-
ance as they stood together in front of the
counter of fruit store. Her friend had
daughter bedrdden for four years who
could be coaxed to eat with difficulty, but
who took her meals in all docility in the
season of Strawberries. If tine berries
could be had, even a dozen of them
IN December, she would pay for
them any sum. The florist author
listened, said nothing, but laid her plans.
She resolved to experiment with winter
berries and she raised modest crop last
year. This season she increased the space
devoted to them and, l think, expects to do
finely, though l have not heard in some
time how the fruit is coming on.
Mary Anderson has worn gown in the
belt of which are some fine canoes. Cam
eos were about ready to come in with the
introduction of classic draperies, but Miss
Anderson has accelerated their vogue.
Canoes are likely to be worn as oval medal
lions, attaching chatelaipe watches and IN
glrdles for fastening gowns. Canoes are
with us, the cameo cutter has arrived, and
in one instance, at least, She is a woman, a
widow who on her bridal tour was fascl-
mated by the work cf the lava carvers turn
ing out souvenirs for the curious at the
foot OF Mount Vesuvius. There is no les
son for self-dependent women like that of
qulckneSs in seizing an opportunity. Thls
cameo cutter is one of the first in the field
She has watched the trend of fashion till
she saw the approach of an idea. Looking
over the relics Of travel she has brought
out, from boxes long laid by, pieces of agate,
bits of lava, shells from many seas. The
art of carving these in relief is not easily
acquired, but patience and nicety of hand
are the qualities chiefly needed, these and
the practice she had handling the tools of
the cameo workers on that past and gone
stay in Rome. TIE work is that of show
ing raised figures, in light or dark ii is,
according to the veining of the shell or
stone, the head, landscape, wreath, bit of
sea, or other design chosen. When the
medallion is finished, it may be joined with
others in links for girdle or set as brooch
or used for inlaying fancy table or other
piece of household furniture.
Two daughters of a former New York
judge are among the most successful intro
ducers of Christmas novelties, and their
designs for the coming holidays are already
being placed in the field. These women
live in a fine house which they own, but
their father left them not cent Of money
to run the establishment, and for long
work to obtain the wherewithal to main
tain show of comfort among their former
friends. Ingenuity, not to say inventive
genius, is woman's only salvation In
straits like these, and the judges daughters
are among the few who have cudgeled
their brains to some financial purpose.
There are always holiday books We dress
and furnish la Pompadour, then, say the
judges daughters, why not read q la Pom
hands will yield to Louis XIV. fashion.
They have designed bindings for gift vol
umeS varied according to the tale to be told
within. Novels will lie o the parlor table
in cover of old flowered lampas or brocade.
Poems will hide their tenderness behind gilt
or enameled ribbon leaves. Removable COW
ers of bright, pinked out silks will be put
on magazines to bring their motley colors
into harmony with the prevailing tintS of
gown or room. For the dinner table, they
have contrived new finger bowls of crystal
set within moss cups wreathed about with
yellow cowslips, or almost hidden under
red partridge berries. They have some
thing new for a piano lamp shade and
something for a fire screen. Simple ideas
enough all, nothing of revolutionary brill
fancy about any of them, but different
enough from what people have been seeing
to stimulate interest, and therefore seized
upon and sold by the dry goods stores The
work of these sisters is always spoken for
six months beforehand by one of the larg
est of the city houses.
A plump and rosy Englishwoman, who
made runaway matcl from the old coun-
try years ago, and who came all in good
time to grief with her husband and to
Brooklyn without him, is becoming famous
in decorative art circles as a weaver. She
mas gone back boldly to the handloom, and
with the simple technique learned at her
fathers knee, in weaver's hut III Kent,
she produces a peculiar effect which is not
to be had in the factory stuffs. Her spe-
cialty is greenish-blue silk whi h sets before
the eyes of everybody who sees it the shim-
mering of the moonbeams on midnight
sea. Art needlewomen rave over 1t, and
because she can do something which nobody
else can do she is assured a comfortable
living.
1 do not know of stranger business or
one more delicate to handle than that of
a young girl who acts as chaperon. The
dam el who is put under such curious ser
veilance is pretty creature, Innocent and
high strung, whose father has fancy that
she is in danger from the dudes and mashers
whose attentions fiatter her on Broadway.
She is too old for governess and when he
engaged companion she pouted, voted her
stupid and ran away from her TO take her
and SO her mother, who is an invalid, found
her friend in the shape of bright-eyed
maiden of her own age who visited at t.
house, made her acquaintance and from
whom she became insepa able. This new
friend promenades with her, shops with her.
and goes to matinees with her. She helps
her have good time and she keeps her eyes
on the too officious young mea. 1t is not
an office that every girl could be trusted
with, hut the chaperon in her teens is a
judicious one, and she earns snug little
sum for pocket money.
A small economy sometimes practiced by
college girls has taken root in big apart
ment house uptown. A student in one OF
the medical colleges for women has single
room away up under the roof, and main
ia ins her position in spite of the altitude
and the comparative expense, and because
of the fact that she is able to earn trlfte
toward her expenses by services rendered.
Immediately on her advent she caused cards
to be distributed to all the rooms, setting
forth the fact that for small specified sum
buttons would be sowed on boots, stockings
darned, rents mended, ribbons turned and
freshened, bodices reDoned and various
other dress arrangements attended to by
leaving the articles in want Of repairs at
Mo- floor. Her needlework gives her
occupation nearly every evening, owing to
the obvious convenience OF having such
things done for one without going outside OF
the building. BY gaslight she repairs gowns,
by daylight she studies how to repair the
bodies under the gowns.
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