Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-23

rs Oyster Openers.
II women can't make CLANS neither can
they open oysters, or at least wish they
wouldn't try. There is pale, brown
haired little widow, who has started
fish market in New York, and ladies'
carriages stop at her door and busy men
check their footsteps because they pity
her, with three or seven towheads hang
ing to the strings and the skirts Of her
neat white apron. And she cleans cod
or whitehall slowly, but cleans it very
clean. When one asks for oysters and
she takes up the knife, her hands look
very small, and four or six youngsters
tumble on the sawdust, and the bivalve
shuts his tongue behind his teeth with
an air Of stern resolve. She gets the
better of him, but 1t takes time; takes so
much of it that all the other oysters in
the basket fall victims to an epidemic Of
lockjaw. When we want Blue Points in
a hurry for dinner We send after them
day before yesterday. for we are soft
hearted folk, we New Workers, and who
could buy elsewhere when the little
widows lips are white and FIVE or two
urchins squall?
Women who Are Known.
It would be interesting If one could
know exactly how ones favorite authors
look. When one meets for the first time
the writer of pet volume the impulse is
often to say: ''Why, supposed you were
such a very different person." Mrs.
Amelia E. Barr, who has found countless
readers for Jan Vedder's Wife" and
''The Bow Of Orange Ribbon" and who
has left her Highland eyrie for the pleas
ures of New York winter, makes you
think Of nothing so much as clipper de-
termination personfied. There is energy
In her step, vigor in the clasp of her
hand, go-aheaditiveness in the twinkle
of her eye, good-humored resolve in the
set of her mouth and decision in her very
bonnet bows. She's an optimist Of ire
mendous steam power.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge would strike
one as quiet, cultivated, kindly, conser-
vative. She is of medium height,
matronly figure, and face which you
would pass without attention, though il
the conversation, you would find yourself
presently getting pleasant impression Of
fine gray eyes, smooth brown hair and
fresh healthy skin. II some one asked you
what she wore you would say, Don't
know; black very likely."s
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, the widow Of
the martyred Gen. Custer, inspires peo-
L. a. o11 Ia
face Is sympathetic, and, sometimes to
its owners annoyance. draws peoples
secrets out Of them. 1t has been hand
some face, but anxiety and heart-rending
sorrow have marked it, making it more
expressive than ever beauty could have
done. She Is tall and slender; hair
black, eyes brown-gray.
Mrs. Burton Harrison, of "Anglomani-
scsv renown, is a blonde. She has .
mature and dsgnifcd beauty, set OF by .
knowledge Of dress and Of the world. and
BY peculiarly Southern charm of speech
and motion Long as she has been in
New York that Virginia accent il never
quite forgotten
Mrs. Lyman Abbott. the wife Of the
~ H1Voth P8>eofs - WHY etikutt ITatt
looking little woman of medium height.
very slender and with refined face, suR-
costing that she has taken on herself
many cares about many things Her
eJes are blush gray and she has plainly
banded, fne hair.
why Net . Pastry Cesks
Sometimes wonder that 10 does not
occur 10 women to try the experiment in
our big cities Of pastry cooks shops On
the French model Everybody knows
those attractive little establishments in
Paris. with their windows full Of dain-
ties and their walls on three sides ranged
about with rows Of toothsome things
There are no counters aad M tables, bat
The seor s.sce is open and ct with
chairs when ycu enter you saks
pretty. decorated plate from pie which
stands handy. pick ap . fork and hslp
yourself to sush sveeties - suit yosr
palate or yosr digestion, walking sbeut
the room -sad sp><risg ~hst yea So
Then somebody hands . sat snA pulls
little shelf mystersously cut Of the wall,
and IL ysu wait vine yos lag hands
er year own bostle-most Of the
eakss ara rseass 70 - essen with .
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