The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-26
would last forever, yet it is difficult
this season to fi:d Il stand with mirror
attached at the furniture stores.

this season to fiI.d Il stand with mirror
attached at the furniture stores.
Another man has furnished statistics |
to prove that baldheadedness and intel |
lectuality go together. This time it is
u barber in one of our large Northern
cities. Alas. our full suit of hair would
forever stamp us as mediocre i'll the eyes |
of that august person who trims the |
hair of the upper ten.
More than once we have heard some |
young woman say in the privacy of con-
iidcntial intercourse: "Oh, but do not |
want to go to college, and then to tho
university, because men do not like
highly educated women and VIC felt
like replying, ''My dear friend, you
have heard some one say that men do
not like too brilliant women, out that
remark does. not apply to brilliancy
such as yours, which could never, under
any circumstances, set the Roanoke
river on fire. Such women as Margaret
Fuller or Maria Mitchell would make
most men feel snail; but take our ad-
vice and develop your little brain by
good college course, if possible. and you
will be all tho more attractive to men
of sense. 1t is true that the 'Vassar
girl marrics late, but marrics wcll.''
There are no longer nurse girls or
house girls; in the language of fashion
all women servants are ''maids."
A certain Benedict was absorbed in
his newspaper for half hour after tea;
suddenly we heard him say, THE Lord
be thanked" The cause of his eiacu-
lation vas this item in the woman's
column: "Pillow shams are not to be
used this season."
Many have obeyed fashions mandate
in regard to pillows by putting them out
of sight altogether. For bed without
pillows get pretty cretonne cover and
make of the same material i bolster
case to slip over the white one. Make
the cretonne case large enough to tie
prettily at each end with bow of rib
bon. The outer cover is removed at
night.
Helen Dauvray says, 'Petticoats are
good enough for women" but the would
be-stylish girl goes on appropriating
various items of male attire-the last
article that she has taken from her IN
protected brother is the smoking Jacket
as house garment.
MN
Palm leaves are pretty for decorative
purposes, they can be mode pliable by
steaming, and can then be bent into Il
variety of shapes.
The latest club organized for women
in New York is ''The Twinkle Club. y
The leading woman's club in that city
is the Sorosis, which has long been an
established social feature. Is there not
some woman in Roanoke with brains.
wealth and leisure who will organize a
wOman's club here? Such an organiza-
ton would develop feminine talent and
crystalize society.
Miss Annie Cammack. the hciress to
81 900, 600, was married in Baltimore a
few days ago to Arlington IIardcsty. a
young blacksmith. Causc-true love.
xxx
Put tca-ball into the teapot, pour
in hot water and YOU have tea for two
1t is time to begin thinking of Thanks
giving turkey.
If you intend to buy two fall gowns, let
one of them be of rough Scotch stuff,
bourctte, or ticecy wooden of some kind
a pretty piano or hall lamp may be
made at a small cost, and with little
trouble. Take an ordinary table lamp
with any kind of metallic base and soft
tinted shade Get small post of pine
or any cheap word about four and half
or five feet high. On each end of the
post, fasten circular pieces of polished
black wood, two thicknesses giving it a
more solid appearance. Cover the pine
with embossed bronzcd wallpaper; give
| the column one coat of varnish; fasten
the lamp securely to the top, and secure
the pedestal to tho floor.
Miss Julia Magruder: daughter of
| the late General John Is. Magruder, of
the Confederate army, has begun serial
in tho New York Ledger for October
The story, "Jephthah's Daughter" is
highly complimented by the press in
general Miss Magrudcr has many
friends in Virginia, who will doubtless