The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-18

power she may consider herself hopelessl
beyond the line. Examples were cited 0
ladies of fifty, sixty, even seventy VIII
had lovers galore, and remained beautifu
and attractive, after their grow
up grand-daughters were in tn
field. But what of those wome
who never possessed that charm for til
iopposite sex and never attracted lover i
the whole course of their existance-wer
they born old! After all, we cannot recko
time by the flight of years, and age, Xix
beauty, is "but skin deep" So long a
the blood remains warm, the heart fresl
and the affections unwithered, a womal
need never consider herself 'laid up OIL
the Shelf" whatever may have been the
date of her birth.
What can helpless female do?
| Rock the cradle, and bake and brew;
| Or, If no cradle your fate afford,
Rock your brothers wifes for your board.
| Or live in one room with an invalid cousin:
| Or sew shop shirts for dollar the dozen;
| Or please some man by looking sweet
| Or please him by giving him things to eat;
Or please him by asking his advice
And thinking whatever he does is nice.
Visit the poor under his supervision;
Doctor the sick who can't pay physician
] Save mems time by doing their praying
And other odd jobs there's no present pay in;
| But if you presume to usurp employmentS
Reserved by men for their special enjoyments;
| Or if you succeed when they knew you wouldn't
! Or earn money fast when they said you couldn't
Or learn TO do things they've proved are above
You'll hurt their feelings and then they won't
| love you.
Elizabeth Al1ers Allen, the author of that
famous poem, Crock Me to Sleep, Mother, u
began writing poetry at the age of fifteen.
Though now fifty-seven years old, she is
far more interesting than most younger
women, still retaining beauty of face and
| figure and all her olden sparkle of CONVEX
sation. She lives very quietly at Ridge
wood, New Jersey, and beyond an oc-
casional poem does little literary work.
The city editor of the Muncie, Ind,
EceniRg Herald is Miss Minnie McKellip.
She is an energetic little woman, meeting
trains, getting interviews at hotels, gather
ing more news and furnishing the printers
with more and better 'copy" than any
body else on the paper. But then, she is
only just eighteen. When she has pegged
away at it for ten years or less her journal
istic ''vim" will begin to ebb
In the matter of fig leaves, great value is
attached nowadays to a pretty bodice for
theatre or evening wear. For sake of
variety, the cutting out at the neck may be
managed in divers Ways-sometimes by the
addition of falling collar, or high medi-
els frill, or puffs stiffened with wire foun-
dation. saw pattern bodice made of
Tuscan satin, with collar of Tuscan tulle
stretched over wire. Bows of mauve rib
bon came between the puffs, and bands of
similar ribbon alternated with puffs on the
elbow sleeves.
The ''four-in-hand capes'' are becoming
immensely popular-almost too popular to
last long. They are in white, red, fawn,
brown or black cloth, with turned over or
upright collars made of either velvet or
embroidery, tied in front with a ribbon.
They have three or four deep capes, one
above another, and only reach to the waist
They may be worn ON the street and at the
theatre, as well as for driving.
Many of the new dust cloaks are almost
tight fitting, with long crimped, open
sleeves. White alpaca, trimmed with gold,
forms many of the smarter ones. Short
mantles of white cashmere, with gold silk
Innings, gold embroidery and wide ribbon
strings is greatly worn by young ladies at
evening enterta inments. Pink is also used
for trimming, and sometimes white. Little
Old-fashiOned looking mantles, made of
muslin some lined with silk with long
ends and frill all around, have been worn
during the recent hot weather, and these,
with the large fanciful hats by day, make
the youthful Wearer a true representative
of many pictured belle of bygone days
For bOnnets, the best seem to be consti-
tuted of nothing but band and bunch of
flowers; but these component parts, though
simple enough, must be treated with a mas
ter hand. Straw is used in many ways, and
one of the prettiest styles is the surprise,
formed of straw. A bonnet crown of this
has bunch of roses on top and narrow
black velvet strings, with a soft filling of
plated green tulle under the brim. A
bright green straw has pale pink roses out
side, bordering of green velvet all around,
and exactly in the center of the front,
bow of the velvet.
Capoles are made up of the most unique
and extraordinary combinations Fancy,
for example, two fittings, one of silk
gauze, the other of pink silk placed be
meath the gauze; by way of trimming, two
bands OF Jet braiding and a small wreath of
roses, with the gauze-winged butterflies
perched on the flowers. Another very
large hat is of fine straw, lined with violet
velvet-the insides garnished with a big
cluster of irises, mixed with loops of pale
green ribbon.
A dainty little capote is tiny shape of
brown crinoline, with cochage of cream
lace in front, fastened in by butterfly
arrangement formed of the wing feathers
of some small brown bird. A floral bonnet
has a coronal of corn flowers and spray
of buttercups garlanding tia Tuscan
straw folded into close shape and girt with
bow and strings of narrow green velvet.
A host of the newest hats are quite fat
upon the head, and are trimmed with
velvet flowers, black camellias, green and
black primroses, orchids of the strangest
colors, towering irises, and dropping
violets, With these are mixed leaves of
all kinds, all the grasses of the meadows,
delicate ivy, tiny water-cresses, hops,
mignonettes, and verdure eff every sort
If you want to laugh at the most vicious
and persistent mosquitoes, try this: Take
piece of camphor gum an inch square and
half an inch thick, and keep it in your bed
room, always exposed-by day on the bu-
reau, and at night somewhere near your
pillow. You may not believe it, until you
try it, but it is an effectual and unfailing
remedy. You need not burn the camphor
as some do and you may discard mosquito
bars and keep your windows and doors
wide open. with impunity from the pestif-
erous insects however numerous they may
be.
Some sentimental person has suggested
honeymoon hotel," TO be erected either in
the sweetest part of Devon" or the most
romantic section of Wales. This is a very
sugary idea, but not an original one. In
Germany, where they are proverbially SEN
timental and eat their sausage and pretzels
between signs and kisses, they have that
same institution, called boldly "a honey
moon hotel" There is one on the banks of
the Rhine just above Oppenheim. And,
oh, the ''spooning" that may be witnessed
there!
81 cannot praise Hoods Sarsaparilla half
says a mother, whose son, almost
blind with scrOfula, was cured by this med
icine. %