Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
FANCIEs FOR THE FAIR,

| NEXT to an open fire and sunshine nothing
| gives such cheeriness to a room as books.
| WHILE you are dressing think of nothing
else, and when you are dressed think no more
| about it.
WEARING gloves at night is apt to make the
| hands wrinkled and yellow. They may be softer
but the softness is obtained at the expense of
| the appearance.
A NEW device that will appeal to the fancy
of women is that having tiny little purse let
| into the palm of the glove of the left hand lust
| large enough to hold a bit of change.
BYZANTINE jewelry has been adopted lately
| by lovers of novelty. 1t is made of fine gold
and enriched with cloisonne enamels and prec-
| ious chaslngs This fad for Byzantine work
even extends to bric-a-brac of all kinds.
THE happy penchant of the Princess of
Wales for brown brings into prominence one of
the most beautiful and adaptable colors in
the great variety invented by modern expert
ment.
THE wise clerical authorities at Treves have
decided that lawn tennis is game unbecoming
to German girls, and oppose the town Coun-
cllors who have opened the municipal gymna-
sum Tor that purpose.
LACE curtains formed entirely of gold thread
are among the most splendid of modern draper
les. Some OF these curtains have recently been
imported from Paris. One consists of Brussels
lace OF gold wire thread.
IMPORTED tooth-brushes from English and
French houses are quoted at prices ranging
from 25 cents to s8 each. They vary from the
stiff to the very soft bristle and are mounted
in bone. ivory ebony, plated silver and sterl-
ing.
LARGE buttons are feature of the newest
gloves, and though it has been urged against
them that they are not so neat in appearance
as the tiny ones so long in vogue, it cannot be
denied that they are very much more convent
ent and sensible.
IT is curious fact that, though women of all
nations are admitted in Paris to the State
schools of medicine and of law. the fine art
school, which most people would think SO much
the more suitable to be open, is closed still to
the sex. An attempt is now being made to
open it.
MISS FLORA GRACE, of Ohio. Is the inventor
of cooking thermometer which. inste.u of
registering summer heat" "blood heat" and
"freezng point" marks the boiling point for
meat, the gently simmering altitude. and the
varying baking points for meats bread, cake
and pies.
AMONG the presents given to bridemaids
brooch that is supposed to bring good luck, Is
fancled; it represents the Scotch thistle, the
lovely purple shade being produced by the
mounting of the cairngorm, while the leaves
and stem are of silver. 1t is supposed to bring
great good fortune, and should be fastened at
the belt of the attendant
is to have no best clothes, but to possess appro-
pirate garments for all the different seasons of
the year and times of the day, to wear all with
equal freedom and throw any one aside as soon
as it has lost its freshness. For such person
to be well dressed is no difficult matter, but as
soon as economy becomes a necessary consider
alton the trouble begins.
1T is fancy of the hour for ladies to buy
huckaback and damask towelling by the yard
and hemstitch their own towels at home. A
very beautiful quality of towelling linen may
be purchased by the yard at so cents. Towels
of the same quality, yard and quarter long
and hardly wide. would cost at least SIS a
dozen, so that considerable saving is effected
by such fashionable pastime.
A WOMAN of Kent, England. lost her hus-
band, Mr.. Jones, two years ago at Portsmouth.
and he was buried. Then she moved to High
gate, and, having obtained the necessary
authority, had her husband exhumed and
brought to Highgate Cemetery. In year she
moved to Canterbury and again dug up her
former partner and carried him with her. Each
time she put the coffin inside a new one. Now
she has moved to Liverpool, and again, with
the permission of the authorities, what is left
of the late Mr.. Jones is being prepared to be
sent after her.