Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-01-06
BREAKFAST TABLE TALK.
Interesting Facts and Society Gossip for
the Ladies'

Nicolaus Lenau.l
Turn on me thy mild blue eye.
Practise ali thy varied might,
Earnest, tender, visionary,
sweet, unfathOmHblc Night.
Take with thine enchanting duskncss
All this world from c away,
IT thou only DER my being
Maycst ilOat tor aye and aye.
The wife of Don NJ. Dickinson, the new
postmaster general Is n handsome woman
tall with auburn hair, clear complexion,
and large dark eyes. She has always been
very popular in Detroit and has been a
prominent figure in the social life of that
city. She is extremely aifable and is con
siderably younger than her husband.
Queen Victoria has just received a mag
nifcent present from the diamond fields
of South Africa in the shape of an ivory
casket lined with curled ostrich feathers.
The lid is mounted with gold filagree
work and profusely studded with dia-
monds.
Mrs. Scott Siddons, years ago, being
warned that she was losing her "stage
figure" discarded corsets and grew more
shapely from that day forward, so they
say.
Much gossip is occasioned at London
by the news of Berry Wallis runaway
match with Miss Melbourne few days
ago. Miss Melbourne is well known by
the American colony. Accompanied by
her sister she went TO London during the
season of 1856. Being both beautiful and
interesting the Misses Melbourne soon
got into the swim of society. Mr.. Sartoris
the husband of Nellie Grant, was their in
PRODUCER, and soon Mrs. Cavendish Ben
tick adopted them as her particular pro
teges. In few weeks the engagement of
the present Mrs. Berry Wall to Charles
Phelps, son of the minister and second
secretary TO the American legation, was
announced. The match was sternly OPP
posed by Minister Phelps and soon was
broken off. The Misses Melbourne then
faded from the social horizon.
The little shop girl in Washington who
was made sure that Mrs. Cleveland was
a real lady" by seeing her carrying a
bundle on the street had not studied
humanity in vain. 1t is only people who
are doubtful about them elves who think
it is not safe to carry a little package even
tor few blocks.
"a man who wants my society must
choose between me and a cigarette. He
certainly will never have us together. :"
SO said Frisco girl. She knows her
worth and proposes to stand at and above
par all the time. No third rate clerk or
bOokKeeper is going to blow his nasty,
smoky breath III her sweet face. Your
jolly, don't care, have-a- good-time girl
doesn't mind the cigarette and its slim
Drained holder and the holder and the
cigarette do not mind her. either. He puffs
in her presence and regards her-nOt as
warmly as the smoky rings curling in the
air. But your girl of force dares him to
it when she is in sight and he backs down.
If girls. would only stand on their rights
and their dignity they would ere long
have men where they belong-on their
knees.-Sdn Francisco Report.
For very young girls nothing is prettier
than white with floral decorations. BE
ware of real flowers if you are going to
remain in the heat of ball room over an
hour. A scrubbier sight than mass of
faded, dropping flowers you cannot find
but artificial flowers come now that make
nature ask herself how long she will be
expected to do anything more than to
grow vegetables and produce fruit.
Micheet says that a woman ought to
make herself up like a bouquet" a touch
of violet in her hair, scent of rose upon
her lip, dash of wild olive on her hands
| and IA bit of cherry blossom in her dress,
Some of the newest dresses from Paris
come with bits of perfume in the pockets
that smell like sandal wood. And the
boys are going to smell nice, too, for it
will be modest to scent the shirt bosom
just where the nose of the dear girl
touches -CtnCinn0H EUOllirCr