Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-29

TOWN AIRS AND GRACES.
Many Little Matters In Which Nearly
Every Woman Is Interested.
SOMETHING ABOUT SUMNER FABRICS AND HATS
WALKING wANDs FOR woMEN--How TO TREAT
HAIR IN suMMER-ADvIcE TO GIRLS WHOSE
FACES GET RED-suMMER READING.
Tall walking canes for ladies are Just shown
in highly fashionable shop, the last importa-
ton OF Partisan seaside fancy. The canes are
white enameled wood or ebony, nearly FIVE feet
tall, thick as a stout walking stick and finished
by gold or silver heads, and a cord and tassel
lower down, in fac simile of the stick carried
by Swiss guard or major domo. The fashion
Is, however, not wholly to be laughed at. 1t is
great relief to delicate women to have some
slight support in walking, and / personally
found ones strength wonderfully eked out by
a cane or crutch. It is all the difference be-
tween coming home tagged out by walk or
coming with strength gained. People with spi-
nal ailments, not fancy ones, but real, deep
seated maladies. will GO out feeling fresh and
pretty vigorous for an hour or two, when sud-
denly the strength gives way, it is an effort to
stand upright, and the comfort Of stick or
crutch is too friendly to be told. I have often
thought OF writing a sonnet to my own crutch
for the comfort it has been-the best friend,
with my pillow and my pen, that have ever
known.
THE CARE OF THE HAIR
The great trouble away from home with girls
seems to be to heat their curling-tongs without
gas in the daytime or any sort Of fire in the
country boarding-house. / have Just had to
find, for two friends up in the Catskills, cum
ming continuance of an alcohol pocket-lamp
with wire support for the curling-iron while
heating. The whole thing costs IS cents, shuts
naQfahnnrd poa IN lfrxh< r1Uh 10 hvx
mail, and small enough to go in the pocket.
know girls will thank me for mentioning of
it, as the country folk say. How to keep the
hair In curling order is another thing, and to
do this one must keep the natural oil out of the
locks, washing the front hair with borax or
with a dilution of ammonia, one tablespoonful
OF ammonia to the quart of water. When dry,
mOisten with bandoline and put in crimp till il
dries again. Wetting the hair with alcohol in
hot weather tends to diminish its dampness,
and spraying the temples and top of the head
with lavender water from an atomizer relieves
heat and headache without the drenching by
water, which spoils the hair in summer. Hair
must be washed as often as once a week the
warm season through to keep it silky, as it
grows stiff with imperceptible dust settled on
the rings of the hair, if neglected, causing
difference in the shade of color.
NEW YORK CHARACTER.
For the last fifteen years whenever q corre-
on Miss MILDLY Morgan, agricultural
editor of the Times. My reason for writing of
her is not quite the same. but some recollec-
tons were brought up by seeing her the other
day at her desk on the spacious editorial floor
of the new Times building. The grand old girl
looks thought grayer and more gaunt than
she used, but shall always remember her by
the splendid symmetrical modelling of her
figure in bathing dress years ago. Her neck
and arms from the wide -sloping shoulders to
the finger tips were perfection, and the face
above them in its early days was type of blue
eyed, dark-haired, thoroughbred Irish good
looks. Well, being in amicable conversation
with this authority on grazing once, / inno-
Gently asked her to explain to me what was
used in stock reports. ooh, it's no USE" re-
sponded the daughter Of the Irish Rings, toss
ing her head, 'you couldn't understand it if
did explain it" That was rather taking down,
but like plain speaking far too we'll to quarrel
with its eccentricities, and as 1 since learned
without peculiar effort Of mind that
grade cattle have definite proper
ton Of pure blood no harm was done. Two
years after found myself lame, dependent on
a crutch, at the Erie depot in Jersey City in
charge of great basket of supplies going up
country, and not a soul to help with it. The
person who was to meet me had failed to con-
meet, as usual, no boy was about when needed,
and those long railway platforms take you al
cars. / was moving slowly and painfully
along my crutch under one arm and that 40
pound basket nearly wrenchlng the other out
of the socket, when strong hand swung the
burden from my grasp, and that tall, easy fig
ure of a demi-goddess in an old waterproof
dress glided by my side with it, as il carrying
heavy baskets were the most natural thing in
life. She did not let go of it till were safely
cared for. talking kindly and genially all the
way, and that was the last saw of her for many
Aay Hnx NV NM oincn in, drao xl.x
strong, kind arm has come relieving my strain
and weakness like the sweep of some ready
angel in working garb. How many women
could help another SO, or would do it if they
could2
READING FOR YOUNG WOMEN.
Caryophyll wishes for list of entertaining
books ''suited to develop taste for reading in
a circle of ladies and girls who find much that
is recommended rather dull" OF course they
do. A middle aged young lady lately told me
she had tried to cultivate taste for reading,
and began Middlemarch, but confessed she
found it SO heavy she never finished it. She
might as well have begun to like reading by
taking Bishop South's sermons. Middlemarch
and all George Eliot's novels are thoughtful
books for persons of advanced taste and ripe
minds. 1t takes a fine order of mind and ex-
perience to be a good novel reader, one who
tastes with discretion and savors what he
to their own sympathies and their own run Of
ideas. always tell women unused to reading
to begin with Mrs. Gaskills "Cranford," that
humorous, sympathetic little story of women's
lives IN a quiet English village. They are
pretty sure to relish the story OF the teadrink-
ings, SO intensely genteel, and of the pussy who
swallowed the old point lace soaking in milk to
whiten it, and who had to take an emetic in
consequence, and of the COW that fell in lime
pit and lost her hair and went about in a blue
flannel suit her mistress made her, and all the
droll pathetic happenings so deity told by q
fine author. Then Miss Woolson's "Castle
Nowhere" is most poetic and pic
turesque collection of stories, revealing
the unsupported interest of our own Interior
country and characters. That and Miss Phelps
'Sealed ORDERS" with its authentic histories of
our eastern coast are books want to read over
every summer. ''Villette," by Charlotte
Bronte, is the best depletion Of real feminine
character in fiction, which in this case is
founded on fact, and the fiction is so finely
wrought never new anyone fail to be inter-
ested by it. "On Cast is one of the very
best later American stories, light, lifelike and
so brilliant as to oblige one to read with atten-
ton, whether he will or not. Mrs. ELEPHANTS
'Little Pilgrim" and ''Stories of the Beyond
are sure to thrill and enchant every reader not
cut from neither milestone, and she alone brings