The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-09-05

Gold thimbles are covered with min
ute daisies in relief instead of being
penetrated with the usual needle holes.
1t is rumored that the passengers on
the Pennsylvania limited are to be at.
tended by ladies' maids in place of col
ored porters.
A portrait on ivory of Mrs. Fremont
In her youth, q valued memento OF
General Fremont's, was placed on his
breast at his death and buried with
him.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on their
heads; the fair-haired may even have to
dress seventy miles of threads of gold
every morning.
The report of the Massachusetts bu-
reau of labor statistics shows that in
1875 there were nineteen branches of in
dustry in which were not en-
ployed, in.1ss5 there were only eight.
An inventory of the wardrobe OF
Queen Elizabeth; made in the year 1900.
shows that Queen Bess'' had 90 robes,
1876 skirts, 269 gowns, l36A'fore parts"
125 pctticoats, 81 fans, DC cloaks, So
safeguards, IS doublets and 10 lap
mantles.
A pretty sewing apron is made of a
large silk handkerchief or square of
silk twenty-seyen inches in size. The
pointed bib is formed by gathering the
square across one corner under a ribbon
belt. Thence the rest of it falls in a
deep pointed apron front.
All who are possessed of fine tortoise
shell ornaments or combs will be glad
to know that they can be easily cleaned
and polished by dipping them first in
spirits of wine and rubbing them Shor-
oughly, polishing them afterward with
a little bismuth applied with a chamois
skin.
A wonderful wedding dress was re-
Gently made up in Russia for the
daughter of a great Russian artist. 1t
is OF regulation white satin, but on the
satin are innumerable little pictures,
chiefly allegorical, painted by her
fathers artist friends. What may be
its value in years to came?
III pLtbb VI ocl uldIlJ Id an az
complishcd needlewoman, and has al.
ways embroidered the clothes Of her
children. AS Princess William she
heard the little princes say their pray
ers every night, but now she has sc
many other duties to perform she is
obliged to leave them to their attend.
ants.
Gum chewing and its effects have
been subjected to a scientific examina
ton with the eminently gratifying re-
suit hat the scientist makes the asser
ton that in this process "the massetei
muscles which move the Jaw are alb
normally developed, and the fatty sub
stance which produces fair, PLUMP
cheeks is detcriorated."
Lady Haberton, the English dress re
former, has sanctioned a new sort o
dress for tennis, boating, shooting ant
outdoor wear generally. 1t looks like
an ordinary dress, but inside the founda
ton is closed at the hem, forming +;
kind of divided skirt, which does ava,
with the wearing of pctticoats.
One of the handsome bellies of Colum
bus, o., is Miss Kittie Thurman, grand
daughter of the sold Roman" ex-Sen
ator Thurman. She is described as
pronounced brunette. and she has abou
her much of that individuality which
characterizes the daughters of Judge
Thurman, one of whom. Mrs. McCor
mack, resides on Long Island.
Many parents are apt to conside;
their daughters worth their weight il
gold, but a Scotch gentleman estimated
his W daughters value at even
higher rate than this, bcgueathing t.
each her weight in 81 notes. Tn,
elder seems to have been thinner thai
her sister, for she got only E51, 800
while the younger received f57,344.
This is how Lady Florence Dixi
, takes exercise. Since childhood sh'
! has always been an early riser. Straigh
from her bed she plunges into a col,
tub, and energies therefrom warm an,
glowing: she feels the blood c%oursin,
through her veins, and the rudy healtI
l which a good circulation always engen
, dcrs. The cold bath h never neglccts
9 summer or winter she welcomes it
Then. before breakfast, a sharp walk O
perhaps a quarter of n miles quick run
: or a two-mile course at a slower pace, o
$ a gallop across country on horseback
| Any of these gives an appetite 70
. breakfast. Later on, she uses the dunn
q bells or Indian clubs, or frcqucnts tn
gymnasium. In all athletic sports
I rowing, riding, cricket. lawn tennis ct,
she is at home, and, Homc say, is
$ first class hand.