The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-08-10
Al ABOUT 6ONBONS.

AL ABoUT BONBONs.
Abomlnable Expense OF Fancy Baskets
for High Priced Candies.
There was never time when 1t cost
moro money to keep a girl in candy
than it does to-day. 1t is not enough
to pay ST. rs pound for bonbons, but
the sweetmeats must be put up in a
ive-dollar box or a ninc-dollar basket,
so as to provide a souvenir, which at
the end OF the season is counted among
the trophies Of Cupid's warfare The
boxes are legion and their beauty en-
dureth forever. In the small designs
there are powder-boxes, soap-boxes
sponge-boxes and pin-boxes, fit for a
brides toilet table; those in translucent
crystal, which sell at s. and So; Derby
silver, worth S. and quadruple white
plate worth 81, to which $1.25 must
be added for the chocolates. maroon
glace or crystallized fruits with which
the. dainty receptacle is filled. Jewel
cases, handkerchief boxes, glove-hold-
ers and lace receivers all OF silver, va
riously decorated, have a capacity for
something less than two pounds, and
cost the unfortunate admirer the best
part of $25. Willow baskets, lined
with tufted satin and strapped with
leather, brass or bell-metal, have an
immense sale the first time, but a man
rarely gets caught twice.
The fair damsel who waits on the
gui'eless customer and says: .Only
81. 50 for this holding up a basket OF
twisted willow with an interior decora-
ton of sapphire satin, doesn't intimate
the extra cost of the ten pounds Of choice
mixed it will take to fill it. a'
There is no economy in the candy
hampers, for the saving in willow
means treble the outly in bonbons. Lit
| tie baskets for lace work. hairpins or
toilet articles are elaborated with sat-
in bow secured with an ornamental pin.
spray Of French flowers or cluster
OF fruit made of rubber. They do not
hold over twelve ounces and cost 81
each. There is nothing to compare
with the forever-and-ever box in price
or sentiment which is one OF those ia
vors that a woman never parts with.
In it she preserves her love-letters and
the roses and lilies that play such an
important part in the history of her So
ciety life. The casket has generally a
secret drawer. a tiny key, and holds
about two pounds of bonbons, which
cost the purchaser some 800 A few
sterling boxes are to be had at $50 and
are never known to 60 to any address
outside of Newport.
For the buyer who is satisfied to have
his order filled in moire paper box
there is sn array of little silvers which
it is impossible to resist. These SOU.
venirs. intended as surprise are
buried among the creams and
almonds and wrapped in oiled paper.
Fancy your delight. dear girl, while
digging your way down with a pair O!
gilded tongs, to find couple of days
after the receipt Of the box, solid
, silver stamp box, a glove buttoner, 8
lace pia, a two inch paper knife, bon
bon fork or a bonbon tray not much
greater i'm surface than a silver dollar
Trinkets of this sort average IS OK
elusive of the candies, and constitute
the novelty of the hour.
The very Frenchy bonbonnieres
made of jewel crystals, cameo arc
coral have taken the place of the
silver boxes for the nonce,s the fair nib
blers of perfumed sweets finding the
metal ruinous to light gloves. It is no
possible to handle one of these silver
bonbonnieres during one turn. of {
ballroom or piazza without finding the
fingers of an almond-glove rich wal
nut.
The ladies who send bonbons to one
another are even more extravagant il
their fawors than the men, but theil
gifts are more profitable, combining
the useful with the sweet. For instance
a small sewing basket of MANILA gras!
OR rice rods for holding spool cotton
bodkin and scissors, is purchased fol
81 or less. AS lining handkerchie
is used, which may cost SIS or $50, pro
tected by sheet of parafne paper
Into this bed of sheerest linen or fines
lace an odd So worth of assorted choco
lates and fruit creams is dropped; ;
bow of satin ribbon covers the opening
in the top. and, wrapped in white paper
and tied with pink and gold cord, thu
Offering Is fit for bride, and is as prot
ty compliment as guest can vel
! pay her hostess.
Apropos of complimenting an enter
tainer. there are bonbon plates which
rightly belong to the novel in silve,
goods. Bonbon baskets of shell form
with gold trimmings and fancy tongs
sell at $29 in light weight. A service
including a shallow bowl, with twelve
Individual cups, is worth from 500 tc
$500, according to the work and weight
The cups are of petal or shell pattern
and may be used in other courses than
the last for almonds, mushrooms
olives. small onions or to hold frozen
tulips and roses N. Y. World.
BROOKLYN can boast Of having the largest
bread bakery in the world. It turns out
10000 loaves OF bread day on an average.
The great fire At Seattle, W.T., is said
% nave been started by the upsetting OF q
glue pot. r<'ssss=
Many industries having been establlshedin
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