The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-19

dangled her feet, admirng her Turkish slippers.
The man was presentable in pair of trowsers
and a dressing gown. When the leak was
found one of the workers announced her deter
mination to put a porous plaster on it. And l
give you my word of honor that it was, and it
stuck and prevented further damage for that
night. The plumber rather scorned it, but it
only goes to show the possibilities of a woman's
brain, for who but woman would have
dreamed of stopping a bad leak with such
funny thing? After it was all over the genius
refreshed herself with ginger ale, and the rest of
us sat and thanked Heaven for the wit and wis
dom that by ssterhood of sex belonged to us.
The chatelaine, with its jingling bells and half
hundred odd toys, is again to the fore. This
year it must have not only the usual accompani-
ment of tablets and pencils and pin-cushions,
but it must also show tiny little silver walnut
that when open contains a little powder-puff
and enough powder to last for an evening.
POWDER AND SAUCER ROUGE.
The perfectly open and general use of powder
and of saucer rouge is wonderful. There was a
time when the women who INDUCED in such
luxuries did it secretly and trusted that nobody
knew, but nowadays mademoiselles best young
man does not hesitate to tell her that little
rouge would add to her appearance, or if he
thinks she has too much on he will announce
that fact and daintily shade it off for her. In
the extremely fashionable set the girls are rouged
up to their eyes, fashion adopted from the
English women, and one that is neither pretty
nor refined The English girl lacks the Ameri-
cans ability to make up, and the American,
thinking she is very clever, copies stupidity.
Some of the so-called beauties are made to have
such burning red compilations that they look as
if an apopleetic stroke were imminent, and re-
mind one of the women in the far heather lands
who refused to accept any article of civilized
wearing apparel except the corset. Then they
required the services of two strong warriors to
pull it sufficiently tight to suit them the glow
they got in their faces and the size their waists
proclaimed answered exactly to that of the
smart girl who leads among the Four Hundred.
CoRsETs AND TIGHT LACING.
Missionaries attempt to say that the tight-lac-
ing women are dying out, but am not be-
lever in women dying from overlacing They
may grow ugly, their noses will get red, and
their eyes lose their lustre, but they don't die
Providence keeps them on earth as horrible ex-
amples. My OWL especial fad is that a well-ft-
ting corset is Joy forever, and when it comes
to wearing those dreadful corded waists and
ask why should woman wriggle? There is
certainly nothing pretty in it, and if she were
child she would undoubtedly receive what in
my younger days was known as warming
up" woman wants to hold her body easily
and unaffectedly, and to be properly supported.
The disappearance of the corset usually means
the rapid following of everything else that is
feminine, including knowledge of what is
right and of what is wrong. Oh you say, but
she is prejudiced. My dear soul, l never met a
crank in my life, crank on the subject of
dress or free love, of doing away with babies or
letting men stay at home and rock the cradle,
who had not begun her downward career by
casting aside the stays.
NEEDS OF THE MODERN WOMAN.
Really the modern woman needs great many
things. Just now she needs new bonnet, and
sheis searching all New York for it.
She needs new coat, and she thinks it per-
sonal insult that the seals should reduce the size
of their families and so make their skins more
expensive.
She needs bunch of roses, box of candies,
and the very sweetest words that man can say
to her at all times and seasons.
She needs information as to why the Tariff bill
has made champagne, perfumes orris powder,
and Basis ale more expensive.
She needs to learn to write legible hand, or
else to employ typewriter
She needs to learn to smile and smile, and still
be villain when she wishes to seduce the golden
ducats from the masculine contingent
She needs to be little more careful how she
speaks, and to remember that though the tongue
may be divine instrument the devil often plays
upon it.
She needs to be better hammered, sweeter
voiced, and more amiabe
'Amiability is the divine something most appre-
ciated by mankind. And it is the one thing that
woman with opinion of her own, brains of
her own, heart of her own, and slight temper
OF her own finds it most difficult to achieve. The
state of amiability is undoubtedly one of grace
Dear sisters, let us hope that some day we will
all get in it, If you are ever so far off from it
so is BAB.
A Novel Dress Cover.
From the Evening World.
Those women who buy dresses to hang up or
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