St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-01
WOMEN AND THEIR WAYS.
Pick-Ups in the Feminine World
That Will Be OF Interest.

WOMEN AND THEIR w IA y.
Pick-U Ups in the Feminine World
That Will Be OF Interest.
Mary j. Holmes, the novelist, will
spend the summer in the peninsula of
Alaska, and collect material for another
book, to be delivered for the holidays.
Annie Jenness Miller is a strong adj
vocate of complete rest, and part of
every week she gives her body and
mind as nearly nothing to do as it is
possible to determine.
White canvas shoes will be worn in
the tennis court and the seaside parlOr,
and white pipe stem will be used to
keep them clean.
A dinner dress of black net, tufted
with pink and white daises, is one of
the perfectly new and lovely summer
ideas.
French modistes have undertaken the
revival of the old-fashioned lawn. The
sheer muslins of our grandmotherS'
time are being made over silk petit
coats, garnished with bright ribbons
and girdled with delicate silver chains.
After sunset natural sprays of lilac,
peonieS and carnations are worn on the
shadow hats of lace and point d'esprit.
A red hat covered with green leaves
is far from millinery sensation.
In the jewelers. windows along Broad
way are to be found among other novel
ties the Chantilly carriers, which are
odd affairs, and very suggestive. Cherry.
and white, orange and cream, one pink
and one blue, a gray and rose, canary
and black, amber and crimson, are some
of the combinations in silk elastic and
ribbon rosettes; but in every instance
the buckles, which are either enameled
or JeWeled, match.
Splinters of orange wood are sold by
cosmetic dealers, together with dental
floss for cleaning the nails and teeth.
The fashionable modiste has a piano
stool Oh which the customer sits, re-
volving at will before the mirror. I'm
less the BODY is sitting as we'll as
standing fit, it is only half fit.
A ladies' outftter of London charges
a guinea for a silk petticoat-some pic
tureSque affair, with which billiard
coat is worn for breakfast table.
The Mary Anderson, a new toque
that an English designer has dedicated
to the bride-elect of young Navarro, is
merely fillet of velvet, brocaded with
tiny field flowers.
Long streamers of black and yellow
ribbon velvet are seen on sun umbrellas
of white net.
Violet ink, once regarded as a par
dOnable feminine vanity. has come to be
the fayorite of all writing fluids 1t has
the advantage over black in that it flows
more easily and is softer to the eye. a
consideration of the utmost importance
to those who do great deal of writing.
For this reason it has been called the
authors ink, and among those whose
manuscripts are written in violet are
Mis-. Humphry Ward, Katharine Hill
lard. Margaret Deland, Mrs. NJ. r.
Field, Emily Faithful and Edith SeSsins
Upper.
'Gyp" is the laconit nom de plume
under which the Countess de Martel.
niece of Mirabeau, writes her spirited
novels. She is very petite, with
pretty figure, brilliant complexion, mis-
chievous gray eyes and a wealth of
light yellow hair. Her hands and feet
are chiIdishly small, and, though auda-
ciouS and reckless in point and speech,
she always remains ''grande dame" to
the tips of her fingers. Her books sell
as fast as they are published, and her
bounty is large and free. In the impo-
sition of people she finds inspiration for
her pen.
Only the 'Arries and 'Arriettes use
scent. One must have S25 or $50 worth
of sachets to he au fait. There are
sachets that slip into gloves and fit into
bonnet crowns, dress skirts, bodiceS and
sleeves of cover coats. There are little
three-inch pads of sweetness to be
tackled around the neck and arm-holes
of a basque, and bags filled with orris,
lavender and violet powder for personal
and household linen, while the closet
sachet is as big as sheet and as sweet
as bed of poisoning violetS. BY
means of ribbon loops this can be hung
in any closet or clothes press, and aside
from the delicious contact with the
clothing, protects the dresses from the
WhiteWashed or dirty walls.
Scented water. virgin milk, aromatic
vinagar and cOlogneS are used for the
perfect bath so dear to the fastidiouS
French woman. In addition to these
there are cheese cloth bags filled with
bran and almond meal to be tossed into
the bath and used on the skin like soap.
The cost of girl is not confined to food
and clothlng-there are bath bags of
almond meal for the bath, bags of
crushed lavender leaves for the toilet,
luxurious skin tonics, concentrated ex-
tracts of Recamier bouquet for the hair,
velvet sponges and brushes, soothing
lotions for face and skin massage. be-
sides vapor baths, dry shampoos, and
the hundred odd toilet accessories and
''forty-'leven" crazes that make bright
girl Of duIlard and gentlewomau of
the ordinary dame.