Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-07-21


CHRISTIANS.
ana sl,anua.
-.r,tr. others 100
a., hard 90 -li~ say youl
.. bs. could aut
....- al. ,ec charms combined
',..o.,. .rsued above,
-,,..nt.- 10 happy live,
-.--..,-. tss-. 90 AerI dgire-
composite
nav fancy has aiken POSsessi0u OF
q - l-.,.., he rosebud in the gagden OF
s'v-' ~. b.. cities. ard. in the natural
GU -. vsB,s. IFS advent may sOOn be
-.tn- in wheeling These girls are
IN ..rsetag things, not miscellaneous,
ICED pieces Of portable property, but
80 Articles of one kind as the devO-
- m body, soul and pocket-book can
ssc1-s
The acquisition Of fans, ancient and
modern. big aud little, historic and other
sss is the object of enc girls ambition.
n, grabbed numismatist of sixty was ever
-1-s greedy for rare coins than che IS for
ans Of uncommon shape, color, design or
na.srial
Another girls thoughts BY day and
dreams st night are full of the costume
mates in old magazines, books ard papers
which she is collecting. Her album
already contains several hundred, and no
.wo are alike.
The soul Of another girl has been sold
D- p.,c1els-glass, porcelain, metal, deli
tall. .auatty fat, thin, snub-nOssd, wide
m5u.bed, artistic, grotesque, ugly, beauti-
f1l priceless and worthless pitehers-and
her collection, which numbers seventy
.our. is stu growiDg
Vinaerettes. pomanders' scent-bottles
and rrngents of every description from the
collection Of another maiden with an eye
for the curious and keenly susceptible
nose She has representatives Of every
change rf fashion 10 that particular, from
the tiny .we.ed Domanders Just large
enough 10 hold g bic Of cotton saturated
with one drop az o.tar Of rose, OF small
vanilla bean, 20 che huge cut-glass scent
bottles that were carried by all The iash-
ionable girls a few wears ago.
Sweet grasses braided into curious shapes,
lavender sticks woven with tiny ribbons,
and boxes made of the fragrant linOlOa, Ce-
dar, sandal and camphor woods have been
added % the collection, IN which there Is a
= d .f oh Of
the scented kus-kus root and decked with
the bright green wings osthe Brazilian bee
ties.
These are all individual tancies, and the
girls who are devoted to them collect IN
the proud consciousness that they have not
many successful imitatOrs, for they ali nave
exceptional advantages.
Bat the collection mania which has at
tackled all fashionable girihOod has been
particularly violent in the direction Of
spoons. Not ore, but scores Of girls, are
gathering spoons, possibly with thrifty
thoughts offuture matrimonial needs,
They are not spoons bought by the dozen
or halt-dCzsns, not even spoons by the pair,
Tor each one considered worthy 70 grace a
collection is different from all the rest.
As there is nothing new under the sun,
the spoon TAD probably has a precedent, but
If 10 has the precedent Is sufficiently remote
10 be forgotten. 10 has been taken up with
the enthusiasm that usually accompanies a
novel pursuit, and II has bsen extended N
way that vas not dreamed Of by its
originators.
The pioneer collector appeared in New
YOIa aboet year ago, and when she
calmly asked the Tiffany young man VINO
presides over the silver department. to break
a set ald sell her single spoon, she prob
ably gave him che same shock OF indignant
surprise that Oliver Twist gave the beadle
when heasSed for more. But after timid
and doubtful interval, other girls came and
asked the privilege of buy'pg one spoon,
and within few months il occurred 20 the
Tiffany young man in each city that It
MIGHT be as we'll TO indulge the whim and
provide quantity of assorted spoons to
meet the demand, and this was done.
Designs innumerable grace the handles
Of the spoons that 20 into collections. The
latest are c'pied from pictures and trescoes
in the palsCe of Versailles. They came in
with the gay figured chintzss and silks
that line the walls Of pretty boudOirs,
with the deiicately painted furniture Of
holly and other light cOlorsd woods and
the roscoe decorations that are associated
with the names OF the fourteenth and fl
tenth Louis.
Charming figures of scsntily clad
nymphs, playing upon pipes or Tyres,
seated among roses and surrounded by
scrolls aud arabesques, occupy the widest
end OF the rocco spoons, and their float
ing draperies 6eckGd with scattered roses,
curl down the handle Fat little Cupids
In ahsurdly sslf-consciOus attitudes occupy
the same position on the smaller spoons,
and OCCASIONALLY one 6nds q spoon handle
with medallion at the end, occupied by
pretty, saucy head in a charming wig
and hat, with dimpled chin carving into
beautiful throat and bust
There are very generous bowls on the
newes. spoons, and the gold lining shows
hne carving lines near the handle that
LOOK as If they were copied from the scroll
that one hnds 20 often in Veider's illus-
trauons OF Onsr's quatrains. Handles
are not inireQ usntly thick, instead Of sleu-
der, where they join the bowl. and thew
are not SO darkly oXidizsd as they were a
year OK two ago.
livery desiga that has been popular in
tns last nfty years is represented in the
examinations Of the most enthusiastic
collectors, aud some of those who bavs
greal-graudnOtheTs own thin. smooth. |
sP'odDng little spoon OF two that might
nave been used TO sip tea from when |
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