The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-16

of "a nice compleXion.n Who has not read
the Interestingly bewidering articles OF
:" The House Decorator" on how to furnish
for $3.50: What wailling and gnashing OF
teeth goes on in divers and several M n
SONS, when on the authority Of this stern
autocrat the fair mistress learns that her
carefully draped flower pots and milking
stools are quite demade! How could women
exist without their weekly budget of gossip
and gowns, eide ''The Ladies Column?,
Who could describe the swell weddings, the
smart froclzs OF the last advertised actress,
the sweetest thing in bonnets, save the
chatty woman journalist? DCes Mrs A.
wish it to be chronicled that 1.-The fashion
able Mrs. B., wearing her celebrated parure
OF diamonds, was present at Mrs. A re-
ception," she sends card of invitation to
the newspaper woman. Theatres, concerts
and dances cannot be attended by this i'm
portant functionary in any mere needless
spirit of enjoyment. Her Watchful eyes
ere rowing for piquant details to spice
smart paragraphs. A witty anecdote or q
good mot has for her the additional interest
OF possessing market value. She dreams
OF 'fads" and wakes to dress newspaper
hordes OF Christmas dolls.
She does serious work honestly when she
gets chance and she is graphic and bril-
liant as an interviewer.
GUIDING AND CHAPERONING.
Here promises permanent addition to
the growing list of occupations for women.
The bureau which was opened tentatively
IN New Y ork last winter has found work
enough on its hands so that it is now Oh
the brink of resolving itself into a stock
company and using its capital to fit I'D a
house and add to its functions some of those
originated by the Ladies' Guide association
IN Cockspur street, London, such as open
ing dressing rooms to women from out of
town who wish to array themselves for
reception or theatre and lodgings
to women travelling alone, who are
refused accommodation under the medieval
regulations in vogue at some of the hotels.
The bureau finds one of it's most successful
features the sending out of women to assist
tlmid entertainers in dinner serving.
WOMEN ONE SEES.
New York is the place to meet people.
just now one of its sights is Mrs. Dorothy
Stanley scuddine along at twilight on her
husbands arm like little frigate towed
by steamer. They walk very rapidly as
If bent Oh getting in thirty minutes an
hours exercise. Mrs. Stanley's face is
sensitively expressive and one can't heir
feeling quite sure she minds the rear guard
controversy much more than does the ex-
plorer.
When Otero, the new dancer, appears on
the street, she carries in her arms as likely
as not japanese puppy, with an expires
sion not quite so ugly as pug's and body
like white kitten. Dog fads are incom-
prehensible. These Japanese pugs bring
from $3.50 to $1,000, and the sale is brisk
enough to have tempted women to breed
them quietly, if against the laws of hygiene.
in their bed rooms.
Mrs. KendalPs seventeen-year- old daugh-
ter begins to be an ornament of drawing
rooms. She is sweet fair English girl.
charming to look at but without the self
reliance OF the American girl who has
sometimes been trusted to walk five blocks
alone.
MRS. PALMER's DREssMAKING.
One OF the best amateur dressmakers in
New York is the wife of Manager A. NJ.
Palmer, who doesn't get many opportunities
to indulge her taste. Paris robes being suf-
11clently abundant in her wardrobe 1t
happened not long ago. however, that a lit
tie friend, richer in hope than in cash, was
On the eve of marriage, and Mrs Palmer
entered with womau's zeal into the cues
tlon of the trousseau, cutting, fitting and
continuing every garment. At the same
time she was spending one night in every
two or three watching at the bedside of q.
sick woman and demonstrating in half a
dozen ways at once her possession of vital
energy. DUSTIN.