The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-21
One Of Them is to Make Straw Hats
Fashionable in Winter
Time.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves New
Years Present from q
Black Man.
Gossip About Some Women WHO arc
Known the Land Ovcr-The COLLIE
glate AlumnR.

(6DtClHl NtSEIVSIpuuGuCE VI HE
New YoRK, Dec. 1s.-I do not know that
there ia any more curious development of
fashion this winter than the sudden and
luxuriant blossoming OF the straw hat for
dress OCCASIONS. At the last reception given
her before she left New York, Mrs. Kendall
reminded one oddly of shepherdess who
had slept over from August until the snow
blew, as she took her station at the head OF
the room to meet the guests who passed be-
fore her in conventional velvet bonnets.
while she stood in delicate flowered silk
that lent itself treacherously to tho fancy
suggested by her large, fat white chip hat
running over with ruches of lace and but
terflies. l*
The fashion seems to be- followed
especially by the English contingent, and
yet Mt the theatre the other evening did
not see Ward McAllister'a own daughter in
a small white Leghorn, covered with roses
and rosettes of black velvet ribbon2 The
Duchess OF Marlborough is only recently
English, but she was doing some shopping
at the fan counter one morning this week in
n little cap-like white straw bonnet with a
roll of brown velvet about the face and
brown velvet roses. The most noticeable
combination yet. however, was presented by
young woman Mt dinner at Delmonico's,
who when she suffered her wrap to slip from
her pretty shoulders appeared in silvery
silk crowned by flat grey straw hat.
deres Eer GOWN These strange wnss
growths seem to differ from those which
blossomed in the glad summer time only in
a certain modesty of size. Are the seasons
getting mixed or the wits? Yet straw bon
nets were in high fashion at Christmas
seventy five years ago.
A New Business Opening for Women.
In Boston there is little shop which is
called the New England Kitchen. II is
really college settlement of very peoul-
lar kind. II you happen to be there at
noon, as CHANGED to me last Monday, yon
will see strange and motley procession OF
pitchers, pals and cans brought by men,
women and children of many nationalities.
The little shop is run by college girls, some
of them indeed belonging to that very aris-
tocratic Saturday morning club which kept
the Hub discussing its performance of "An-
that these young women have not gone into
a.commercial experiment with noney-get-
ting as its single object, and yet they are
probably developing L. new business open
ing for W men. They Ne cooking and SELL
ing certain cheap and nutritious foods.
Sanitary cranks are always trying to in
duce people, especially poor people, to eat
what is good for them. but these girls went
about their novel undertaking in a very
practical way; they began making beef
stew and pea soup in plain view of custom
ers as an object lesson in methods and in
cleanliness; this was scientific cooking.
They invited the corporation of buyers BY
tasting and commenting; this was effective.
if not scientific catering. They really got u
cosmopolitan flavor that suited the whole
neighborhood, and induced it TO turn up
with the pitchers, pals and cans aforesaid,
in numbers almost embarrassing. The
Kitchen was started in order to distribute
practical knowledge Of heathful living, and
to this end was put Oh a sound business
basis, not one of charity 10 give an ex-
ample of the every day wisdom OF it's prime
movers they have been preparing kind of
evaporated milk, practically sterilized and
yet cheap enough for tenement mothers to
buy for tenement babies. Mrs. Ellen H.
Richards, Of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, supervises the scheme, and
Miss Marion Talbot, who lectures on do
mestic economy at Wellesley, has had much
to do with it.