Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-01
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
written for the JouRNAI, AND CouRIER1

Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.1
ONE DEPARTING.
Farewell, Septem! So soft and bright
Your skies of blue, your star-lt eves,-
So sweet your parting smile-the heart
Of one who loves you sorely grieves;
Would hold you Close would bid you longer watt
And keep your royal sway inviolate.
Farewell Septem! Queen deposed
Your robes grow rich with warmer dyes;
The crowns you've dropped upon the hills
Dazzle with gold our longing eyes.
Alas for those, unready, whom King Oct
Demands should be re-bonneted and frocked!
Springs work just done.-and Winter on the
way
Till We ':catch up stay, September, stay!
September go.
STICK PIN HERE.
Already many feminine minds are occu-
pied with these questions, which, among
host of others pertinent to the season,
will thrust themselves forward persist
emily: What shall make for Christmas
gifts9 and what for the grand bazaar that
the ladies of the x. Y. e. society are to
hold for the benefit of the Musskiyowyow
Indian missionl and what for the fair that
the Working Marthas have projected in
order to uphold the pews of st. Somno-
lents more luxuriously9
Something attractive; something pre-
sumably useful; something that will sell;
in a aword-pincushions. pincushion
table at bazsr may be made quite pictur-
esque with its variety of shapes and colors,
dainty bits of embroidery or painting,
r-:ll IS To- Ipo Of rihhnr
Novelties of course attract the attention
of customers. One very salsble article is
called the ''surprise" piEcushion. Take,
as the cook books say, one fancifully
woven little basket with cover. The
cushion itself is placed upon this lid. and
is made by cutting number of rounds of
coarse flannel, the exact shape and
size of the lid, and covering
them with a pretty bit of brocade
or printed silk. This is sewed to the lid
and frill of narrow lace with tiny knots
Of ribbon conceals the stitches. If the
basket is without hasp and staple, sew a
loop of silk elastic to the cover before the
cushion is put on, and button to the side
| of the basket, as it is essential to the ''sur-
prise" that the lid should be fastened down.
Next take dolls head, pretty little head
with flowing locks, and fasten it to one
end of stout spiral spring. A strip of
silk the length of the spring Is sewed to-
gether, gathered on one edge and fastened
around the neck, and above this is added g
| full frill of lace. The spring is then sewed
firmly to the bottom of the basket. When
the pressure upon the spring ia relieved by
lifting the lid the doll flies up, Jack-in-the
box fashion. A 'iittle darkey" head, o,
one painted to represent clown, may b.
used if the maker wishes the surprise tx
partake of the comic element.
A cuehion for holding the hat pins O
which every girl has collection, and o
which this season offers many eccentric
varieties, such as chestnut burs and croco
diles, is in cylindrical shape, eight inche
long and an inch and half in diameter
The cover is of white or pale tinted sill
upon which is painted a long spray o
feathery grass A ribbon tied around i
exactly in the center serves to suspend
beside the mirror.
The malt bag idea, quaint, but not pal
ticularly novel, has been applied to pin
cushions Two bags of white linen ar
alton of pasteboaId covered with plush O
velvet A ribbon roll makes a well-shape
and substantial foundation. The bags ar
lmarked "Malt'' in gold letters; are tied 9
the top with satin ribbons, and glued t
the foundation 80 that they lean again,
each other, while apple-seed mice, wit
! black sewing silk whiskers and tails, ,appes
to frisk over and around them.
Another fancy is for double cushio
made of pair of baby shoes, sewed t.
) gether at the sides near the back, stuffe
: with bran, and with cushion glued int
each opening. A pair of tiny white sho,
with cushions of delicately contrastin
? colors, and laced with ribbon or buttone
with little gilt balls, are particularly daini
, with the impressions made by little wri
. Cling toes, might be used for this purpos
a provided always that there clung abo,
them no narrowing suggestions of sorro
and loss.
AL sorts of fat pincushions are accep