The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-01

relaxation Saturday afternoons. Out of
this arraD cement nave come visits TO most
of the plays of the season, lunches at the
noted restaurants, a course Of Delsart9
lectures, some experiments In beauty Gull
ture at the Turkish baths and much CAREFUL
consumption of candy. These are whatonel
may call feminine I'm dc steele revels in the
fruits Of mortality. These young womeD'so
Easter bonnetS are to be chosen out Of their
funeral money.
MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
A few days ago I happened to see a pretty
picture; a woman with soft white hair
tucked under a lace cap was standing on
her door step, her slight figure thrown into
relief against tall, fame-eol0red lilies bios
soming in the window. Over her shoulders
was thrown a 1eecy white wrap run with
pink ribbons. There was a pink fush.in
her cheeks as she entered into the pro5aict
task of dismissing a book agent or subscrip-
ton man.
Funk s. Wagnalls lave asked Mrs.
Beecher to edit some of the sheets of their
STANDARD Dictionary now in course Of
preparation. The words relating to woman,
her dress, occupations, industries and the
like were to pass under her view; but l be-
lieve Mrs. Beecher has declined the propo-
sition.
Her friends nave not yet done smiling
over a wild tale recently published to the
effect that she was and had been for yearz
partially paralyzed.
MEN BID ON BOOKS, ON FURNITURE.
There are certain fascinating places
where we gather these toggy afternoons to {
yearn over antique KAYAK and Herman. and
Ouchak rugs, or fondle the curves CT
Pyscne mirrors and gilt bouquet tables and
cupid brackets, to eat our hearts out with
longings for Chippendale chairs and empire
couches decorated with swans and laurel
leaves and to soil our gloves with pointingi
the fingers at old Dresden plates and old
Sevres cups and saucers, but 7 noticed that,
we-those of US who are women-don't bid
on books very extensively. Having
haunted auction sales in the art collection
season at such expense of time though little
of cash now these several years, L feel
moved to say with confidence, that my sex
has quick eyes for a fan or a candlestick, or
| a bit of old blue and white, but it won't buy
engravings, and when the a%uctioneer gets
down to books itleaves the room. At sales
of books only there are present few, if any
women.
And yet it is popularity supposed that
woman reads. l have a notion hat the
itching of the fingers to grasp and to keep a
book is not especially common with women.
! A book, always excepting a ''table' book,
hardly ranks as material for decorative use,
and so a woman reads it, studies it even, but
is quite content to send it back to the circu-
lating library. For her money she wants a
cloissonne plaque or a lamp that can be pet
ticoated. lam often surprised in the homes
of cultivated, even Of literary women, at
the meagre display of the bookshelves.
How many women in the country have &C
%cumulated large librariesl
MRS. LOUISE BENSON.
Lent multiplies the classes in Current
Topics'' which divide favor latterly with
Ibsen and Dante. One of the most interest
ing is taught by Mrs. Louise Benson, Of
Syracuse, which has been obliged to for
sake the drawing rooms in which it started
for a good-sized hall. Mrs. Benson is q
~dark-haired, handsome womanof much per-
sonal magnetism, whose clear-cut style and
brilliant wit fully explain her successes.
CANDLESTICKs.
Wasn't l saying something a minute ago
about buying candlesticks! The candle-'
stick to buy just atpresent is an old Japan
ese piece in bronze, with a spike on which,
you impale your candle. You don thrusd
1t down on this antique bayonet point too
heavily, but let the major part Of the spike
show to get the full benefit of the Unusual
ness. Next to this the most desirable can
dlesticks going are old, three branched
Danish pieces, which are called ''three king
candles" because they were used on the
9th of January to celebrate the Magi's visit
to the infant Jesus.
ELIZABETH DUSTIN.