Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-14

liar strength OF mind, to roam at large
dressed in dowdy fashion, or in ultra-man-
nish rig, or without due regard for what
is both suitable and becoming. 1t is
every woman's duty to look Just as well as
she can, at home and abroad and those
who desire to accomplish really effective
work for any purpose or hobby whatsoever,
cannot afford to neglect their own good
personal appearance as an important part
of equipment for the fray If they haven't
the time or the taste to devote to it them
selves, they can at least secure the services
of a decent dress-maker and milliner.
There is a great deal of solid truth in the
French idea, although it is by no means
an exalted one-that talent, genius and
virtue are nothing without beauty. And
the woman was never born who could not
make herself pleasing object, if not abb
solutely beautiful, if she tried intelligently
to do so, calling upon art to assist nature
If need be, and giving due attention to
spiritual and mental, as well as to physi-
cal training.
On the subject of women in business,
Bah" writes: g do not think single
woman ought to have to work but as long
as we have reached that miserable stage of
civilization when they do, beseech them
TO do lceU what they have to do-for it is
just as easy, and certainly more creditable.
There is not one of us who would not
rather work for some one who belongs to
us, who would not rather feel that the
daily tread is after little footsteps, and that
in the evening, when all is quiet and at
rest, JOY will be found in one loving heart.
But If this cannot be, it does not make life
less duty" A long time ago a very wise
man wrote this to women, and | beg each
one of you to remember it: "Queens you
should always be; queens to your hus-
bands, lovers and sons. Queens of higher
majesty to the world beyond. But alas
You are often too idleand careless-oueens
grasping at majesty in the least things.
while you abdicaue in the greatest"
Canon Lidden has written an open let
ter, decidedly disappearing of female sur
plIced cholrs, movement toward the
establishment of which appears to be gain
ing ground in England and Australia. He
says: at is difficult to say whether the
spectacle Of ladies dressed in surplices and
so on in church is more irreverent than it
is certainly grotesque. 1t is greatly to be-
hoped that good sense and Christian feel
ing will steadily discountenance anything
of the kind, especially for the sake of the
ladies concerned"
The ecclesiastical vestments" of the
surpliced females in Melbourne church
consisted of surplices edged with black and
college caps. The same novelty appeared
at harvest festival in Yorkshire the other
day, where the surplices worn by the
women were made of Scotch lawn, in shape
not unlike a collegian's gown, with plated
backs, the costume being completed with
purple velvet caps, similar to those worn
in England by doctors of civil law.
Poor Mrs. Humphrey Ward is still
catching it" on both continents for that
much talked-of book of hers, ''Robert Els
mere;;" but as it all goes for gratuitous ad
vertising and pours golden shower into
her purse. it is to be presumed that she
does not feel much injured thereby. 1t is
said that her popularity is now on the
wane even among the home literary set of
which she erst reigned queen, it being the
impression that she not only ''wrote her
self out" in that remarkable book, but that
she did not write it all anyway. The
truth is that "Robert Elsmere" was origi-
nally bulky book, at least four times its
present length, the result of good many
years hard labor on the part of the author
ess. 1t would have filled four or five large
volumes; but her husband, who is the art
critic of the London Times. and man of
good sense, insisted upon pruning it down.
Gradually he clipped off page after page
and chapter after chapter, and no doubt his
work on the book was as important as hers.
Mrs. Ward is a lady of extensive knowl-
edge, but exceedingl y plain in face, having
weak eyes and very prominent teeth.
At one time no woman was more popu-
lar in Washington society than Mrs. Kate
Chase, as she now calls herself-and few
have seen more bitter cups and downs"
or felt more keenly the humiliation of
that public notoriety that is not fame. But
1t would seem, at last, as if fortune were
returning to this still beautiful and stately
woman. When Chief Justice Chase died
his estate was supposed to be worth less
than S30,0OO-an insufficient sum to his
only daughter, who could easily get rid of
twice that sum in one seasons entertain
ing. 1t is needless TO say that she was
soon penniless, so far as the paternal estate
was concerned-except the Edgewood
property, near Washington, the Chief
Justices cOuntryseat place, which flial
affection compelled her to keep. Lately
the electric street railway has been ex-
tended out beyond that suburban farm, in
creasing its value very greatly. 1t is
really grand old place, and might easily
be made one of the finest in the District of
Columbia. Her son, Willie, who went
with his father in the Sprague domestic
troubles, and who married a sister of the
woman whom his father married, has now
separated from his wife and returned to
his mother. He is only about q years of
age.
A New York bride gave a party last
week, and among other new wrinkles"
the guests noticed that every separate
spoon in her serrice was of different de.
sign and ornamehtation, inscribed with a
different date and place. 1t transpired that
the young matron had taken this means to
procure harlequin service and also to
commemorate her visits to various places.
Wherever she went a spoon-either des-
sert, coffee or table-was purchased in the
place and duly lettered AS she had tray-
eled widely, both at home and abroad, her
collection was varied. Really, this whim
was not bad one.
There are fashions, even in dogs. The
style for 1889 is the Schipporke, or Little
Skipper" He comes from the low coun-
tries, and is the old-time companion of the
Flemish bargee. He is jet black, with
next to no tail, and coat inclined to be
hard and rough, and never weighs more
than twelve pounds.
Among the pretty trifIes with which the
modern girl delights to deck her dressing
case are little love-bags. They are made
out of ribbon from one and half to two
inches wide. The bag is square, filled
with scented sachet powder and cotton,
and tied with narrow ribbon, the upper
part being prettily fringed out A dozen
or more of these little bags, of different
shades of the same ribbon, are fastened
together and placed to dangle on one side
of the mirror, emitting a perpetual faint
fragrance.
Another novelty in dressing-case decora-
tion is called butterfly shield 1t is
made of paper or silk, over wire frame,
and is placed against the gas,jet, to throw
the light in the mirror. A set of rose
pink butterflies, with silver spots, or of
gold-colored ones with crimson spots, are
among the prettiest l have seen. 1t does
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