Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-06
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Hts Facts and Fancfes. Written for the JOURNAL AND CouRIER.l

Written for the JOURNAL AND COURIER.I
 WITH SILVER WINGS.
 The milkweed pods are ripening fast in the September sunshine, and if you want them gather them while you may. else will they unbar their doors and let their pretty silken-winged prisoners go free to float away on the lightest breath of the wind far beyond recapture. When the pods are of a soft gray-green, with tintings of old rose and brown, velvety to the touch and well rounded, they have begun to ripen and may be gathered and brought home When the sponge-like text ure of the pod has been carefully broken away there is disclosed beautiful cone with row upon row of over tapping scales, pale green, edged with white or brown, with cream, ending in long silk en point of lustrous wilderness. Put these cones in a milk pan and set the pan in a sunny window and every day the wonder and the beauty of them will grow until at last you find the pan heaped with a fluffy mass of fly-away filaments; the seeds are ripe and brown and they seem impatient to be up and away, feeling doubtless that | they have mission to perform. It is for you to thwart their aspirations and pro- vide for them sphere of usefulness limit ed but pleasing, that of home decoration. If you have a choice bit of wax work in prre white that you do not wish to dis card at the bidding of fickle fashion, or | tiny Persian statuette, tip the. bell glass that covers it and gently insinuates a couple of handfuls of the filaments under meath. They will settle in lovely yelling l of silvery mist about the flowers, or the | goddess, and add new beauty to the old | ornament.
 ! Milk weed balls are made by shaking | off the seeds, dipping the silky threads in | water to discourage them from flying all about the room then tieing them in small punches, and fastening them to stem of l wire. This requires delicacy of touch, | unlimited patience, and not a little time; | if you lack these three requisites, and can buy the balls of the florist at five cents each you may find it cheaper to let him supply you.
 Another way of using them is to make a bag of the palest gray or cream white tis- sue used for veils. Run the sides together with fine silk of the same tint, closing the raw edges for the bottom of the bag, leav- ing small space open and filling it in with both filamsnts and brown seeds, which will arrange themselves in graceful and fantastic shapes. The bag is not shirred some soft and harmonious color in bow with one long loop to hang it by. The bottom of the bag should have a row of the ightest silk tassels of the shade of the ribbon. By using two yards of the yelling, folding the raw edges to meet in or near the middle, a sort
 of double scarf drapery may be made,
 filled with the seeds and finished with rib
 bon and tassels. By all that is tatesful,
 forbear to use bright ribbon, or the eye
 will be caught and held by that alone, and
 all the delicacy and charm of the silver
 gray and soft brown tints will be worse
 than wasted.
 woMEN's CLUBS.
 A very interesting list to many is the . directory of Women's clubs published iI
 sThe Woman's Cycle," glance at which
 shows that women the country ever in
 cline more and more to group-themselves
 into organized bodies for the purpose ot { mutual improvement, for the study of art literature or science, or for directing
 schemes of benevolence, finding in sucf } comes from companionship with those O, harmonizing interests and aspirations. i, The list is very incomplete one, but the names of 172 societies are given; they are located in twenty-nine states, New York claiming twenty-six and Massachu
 setts twenty-three of the number. Ear thest to the eastward are found the ''Fort nightly" and "Friends in Council" club 3 of Rutland, Vt., Mrs. Julia c. Dorr, the ) author, being presiding officer of both l Away down south is the t'Woman's club of New Orleans, while most remote of al is the ssWoman Club for Mutual Improve 3 ment," located at Olympia, Washington and claiming to be the first of such asso
 citations on the Pacific coast. Eldest o all, if we may judge by the given date, i ] the Ladies' Literary society of Manistee g Mich., organized in 1852, and, by the way
 it is noticeable that while only. twelv
 societies are for ladies sixty-six use tn e word "woman" as the whole or part of tn l. club name. The most ambitions titles ar q "Anthropological," !" and the "Ethical Syn
 posium,n while commendible for .thei 8 modesty and suggestiveness are the :. "I( ! nogance, ? the "Quill,n composed of new