Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
A oAND1Hsr1cK CRAZE.

candlesticks. She had plenty already. The
lady Is candlestIck struck; she has been fill
ing her cabinets ever since she married, and
her husband rarely returns from a journey
without bringing her another one. All
nations, art schools, potteries and kilns are
represented in the modern, while her
antiques are like q museum collection in
number, rarity and value A peep at her
chiuas is like glimpse of the certain Broad
way house where Dresden figures, French
studies and floral effects in porcelain rival
the nature in her gayest mood. A virtuoso
would forget his contentment looking st the
dragons. vestal virgins, harlequins, reptiles,
sea monsters, dolphins, warriors, ,fshmongers
and fabled deities modelled in bronze,
wrought iron, brass, silver and ormolu. The
quaint bits of color and the lovely forms of
laid work and under glazing would make
suppliaDt of an independent artist. Aside
from their artistic value many OF the candle
sticks are priceless as souvenirs, coming as
they did from immortals, living and dead.
Mrs. WILDER ,. Storey, until recently the
owner of the Chicago Times, and who is as
mucn at home in the Windsor Hotel as she
is in her Michigan avenue house in the
Lake City, is a slave to her haidkerchiefs.
When her husband was alive he used 60
have them made to order, not by the dozen,
but by the hundred. Most men will admit
that pretty underwear is the most witching
part of woman's trousseau, but Mr.. Storey
put the handkerchief at the head of every
thing and
PAID THE BILLS G1EEFuLLY.
There was one French firm that used to
fill his order, and the delicate squares were
sent home in an oaken box big enough to
hide family of children in. One specially
of this house was bobinette handkerchief
made with a-two-inch ruffle of the same web
and finished with bands and bows of ribbon.
Usually it required 15 day to supply the
lady, and she kept maid who did nothing
but wash them, pull them dry, and baste in
the ribbon. There were mulls and sheer
linens, batiste and fine lawns, lavishly
trimmed and stitched fat, and point lace in
a hundred different varieties; but the gem
was and still is the bobinette. Nothing
like it was ever handled by many women.
AS q supplement Mrs. Storey wears ottar of
roses that costs $50 an ounce, one drop of
which is veritable benedietion to the
senses.
Mrs. William Livingstone has weakness
for window draperies Of applique lace, with
her monogram picked out of the delicate
web in batiste lines. Mrs. Major General
Schuyler Hamilton, who on the day of her
marriage to the distinguished soldier was
presented with the famous pearls in the
Hamilton family, has an inordinate love for.
the jewels, which she is more fond of play
ing with than wearing.
The actresses go into fads for advertising
purposes, Just as they sign literary contribu-
tions which most of them are incapable of
writing. Lillian Russell is an adept, and
yet can hardly leave her out of this letter,
for she has q really remarkable collection of
silver bound toilet articles. She is mad on
the subject of brushes, and really believe
there are three dozen alone in her outfit.
She has nail brushes, jewel brushes, brow
brushes, hair brushes and manicure brushes,
all woven with imported bristleS and backed
with silver-sterling, every inch of it, and
superbly carved or hammered. These things
are spread over her dressing and toilet
tables, backs up, and if you didn't see the
French bed with its silken canopy and
hangings in her chamber, the polished
Wardrobes Of her dressing room, and the
porcelain tub and swinging health lift of
her bathroom, you might fancy yourself in
the shop of a dealer in exclusive novelties.
These brushes, with the hand mirrors, jewel
and powder boxes, are distributed over the
tables of three rooms, and against the white
drapery they suggest mosaic of pearl and
silver. To the sight they are admirable.
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up every Monday morning, they are appall-
ing.
AN IMPORTANT FUECTIoNARY.
Let us consider that climax of pomposity
in servitude, the butler "When a man
comes to me and wants me to find him
situation as butler, have no opinion of
him from that time on" This is the state
ment of the proprietor of an uptown EN-.
ployment agency where more than one
member of the Four Hundred has obtained
her servants, and it is a statement that
holds equally good in other agencies. Why
buffers who are in need of employment
should be Disseminated against in this
fashion is more than the ordinary mind can
grasp. It is nevertheless fact and sad
and cruel fact for more than one butler who
suddenly finds his imposing presence no
longer in immediate demand.
"Most families, continued the dispenser
of domestic patronage, especially those
families that belong to the best society,
never think of going to an agency for
butler, though they have no hesitancy in
calling for q maid, o coachman or hall
boy. Buffers see more of society than any
other servants and they are expected to
have polished manners. These can only be
acquired by living in families of high
breeding and culture. Sometimes the butler
is evolved, often he starts in service as q
sturdy little hall boy. AS he gradually at
tains height and angularity he becomes a
valet in the household of his master and in
course of time he is graduated tall, inn
posing, full-blOwn butler, with dignity and
grace and manners that send cold chills of
terror up and down the spines of un-
sophisticated guests from the country.
IThn idaal br1tlar iu nua ba io add raseod
as sir by the country cousin. This may be
said to be the great test of his fitness for the
high Office he holds, and such o salutation
is treasured by the perfect funkey as an
emotional actress holds the tears Of her au-
dience. When family breaks up house
keeping the butler is disposed of to some
favored acquaintance.
A SOCIAL ARBITER.
Sometimes there is struggle to secure his
services, for well-trained butler can do
much toward building mp the reputation of
family just beginning its acquaintance
with fashionable society. This is particu-
larly the case with buffers who are imported
from some titled English family. In some
instances such buffers have been known to
exercise the functions of social arbiter in
matters OF taste and etiquette.
''New York has not finished laughing
over the revelations of butler imported
direct from the family of noble British
Duke. He soon left the service of his i'm
porter and found more congenial employ
ment with another family of more established
social standing. After his initial dinner
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