The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

Where will the higher education of
women cease? Girl graduates no longer
tie the sheets of their graduating essays
with blue ribbon, but fasten them with
brass clamps.
Father-"If you paid more attention to
cooking and less to dress. my dear, you
would make a much better wife" y
DGughter-"Yes, father; but who would
marry me ?"-Cgodk ReUielo.
The woman who follows the fashions is
writing her June invitations upon silver
gray paper with texture and gloss like
porcelain. On each sheet lies, fresh, as if
just gathered, q spray Of yellow jasmine
or OF pink and white hawthorn.
The Princess Mela Barese deserves
credit, for she has made cruelty to animals
dangerous in Naples. A beautiful and
talented woman OF royal blood, the prin-
cess has set an example of charity and
good work that other royal ladies might
we'll follow. AS the president of the So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to ami
mails in Naples, she has been indefatiga-
bic. The organization OF which she is the
head is terror to abusers of dumb ami
mails.
Fair maiden (summer boarder)-"How
Hayseed-"Its your red parasol. num-"
Fair maiden-"Dear mel knew it was a
little out of fashion, but didn't suppose
country cow would notice it.'-NelO
York Weekly.
In nearly all the large retail shops in
London the saleswomen sleep and eat as
well as work in the building. Even the
black silk dresses they wear during their
working hours belong to their employers.
To the American sense of the fitness of
things the total abolition OF home lie
which this means seems absolutely GRIM
inaL. The English employer defends it on
the ground that girls who live at home and
provide for themselves are apt to keep
late hours, to have uncomfortable homes to
sleep In and have improper food.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards says that the
secret of success in the writing of fiction
Is 10 be summed up in a single word-sin-
cerity. ''In the conception of my own
stories the plot flashes across me some
times in its entirety, sometimes only par
italy. but l wait and il works itself out.
The characters present themselves as real
persons might; they do as they please
and say what comes into their heads, not
what comes into mine. The blessed priv
ilege, the exceeding great reward of the
novelist. is TO console the sorrowful and
suffering and ease the burden of pain"
A lady who met both the ex-Empress
Frederick and the ex-Empress Eugene in
Paris says that the former is Short stout
and buxom, with a sorrowful expression
on her plain face which, despite its sad
ness, gives the impression of sturdy
strength of mind and lofty thought. The
latter is a hopelessly faded old woman,
who had to be almost lifted out of the car,
and walked with two sticks. Little re-
mains even suggestive of the old Eugene
who welded the sceptre of fashion in the
wrinkled face with its twisted and sunken
mouth, narrow temples, eyes set close to-
gether with hanging eyelids, and falling
pouch-like cheeks. Her hair snowy white
and beautiful was care FULLY dressed and
formed becoming framing to her pallid
face
The new denim pillows, which are so
pretty and useful for a hammock, are en-
broidered this season with white linen
floss in all-over patterns OF graceful inter
secting geometric figures. The pilot
wheels, concentric circles and other pat
terms OF last year are also used. White
linen powdered with tiny blue fowerets,
yellow buttercups or rosebuds makes a
UTILITY pillow LOT tue D6uTOOm lOuuRc. IL
may be as steadily Numbered as plain
linen, if embroidered in washable silks.
A pretty ruffle OF lace in Mechlin pattern
is good finish to such q pillow. These
Dresden patterns are especially pretty in
a bedroom furnished in white and gold in
Louis XVI style, but are too delicate to
use with the garish upholstery and furni-
ture of Louis Nv.
One of the handsomest of the debutantes
presented to Queen Victoria at the sec
ond drawing room was Mrs. Sidney Peddar
of San Francisco. Her presentation dress
was as follows: Rich white satin petticoat
and bodice embroidered jour with silver
crescent and fringes, manteau de cour of
white poult de sole, brocaded with silver
moons and lined with satin, fastened on
the shoulders with transparent silver
Medici collar and trimmed with ostrich
feathers; silver spangled veil and court
plumes diamonds. Her fan was one of
the new gauze variety, which are hand
painted. with flights of butterflies, swal-
lows and dragon flies and studded at in
tervals with mock gems-diamonds, ru-
bies, emeralds and the like. They glitter
and look very brilliant by gaslight and
are comparatively inexpensive. A pretty
fan of black gauze, called the "rising
sum-" is ornamented with graduated lines
of gold. 1t would be Just the thing to
carry with black and gold ball gown.
Some girls have their first name painted
on thair fans