Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-12

those who matched were obliged to
pull them together.
When it is u desired % use carbolic acid
as a disinfectant 10 should be mixed
with boiling water. IRIS promptly over
comes the usual antagcnism between the
aci6 and the water and converts them
into a permanent solution, which will
keep for weeks.
A recent craze in Paris has been for
frames, dainty boxes. card cases. aud
the like. made OF white or pale pink
kid. painted with a sprinkling OF flowers
copied from old Dresden china. This is
a suggestion for using the upper parts
OF long white kid gloves.
For newspapers and la5sic. TO stand in
he drawing room, aEe sedan chairs,
without the poles. covered in old bro
cade and fitted in plush These are in
tended - replace the wooden cabinets
usually doing such duty. as inside they
are properly partitioned to serve their
purpose.
At the recent wedding in Paris Of the
American beauty. Miss Flora Davis,
with Lord Terence Blackwocd, the
going away Of the newly married pair
amid a perfect shower Of rice and satin
sli ppers amazed the French guests
present, who were not familiar with this
a nglo-A American custom.
Tennis and golf booths we're a novelty
at q recent English bazaar. At the
former the ladies wore white serge
skirts, apple green silk blouses and
sailor hats, with green bands. The
golf girls wer, equally effective in red
jackets and shirts, with white skirts and
fetching little caps Acricket stall also
gave an opportunity for some striking
| costumes.
II a seal or otter fur coat looks soiled
il SHOULD be placed on a large clean
sheet and we'll rubbed with hot bran,
This, it is said by the cleaners, can be
more easily brushed out of the fur after
the process than hot wheat flour can
which so many renovators of fur use
Hea. and friction together will be found
to greatly improve the appearance OF fur
long in yea
a brain specialist said lately to a
woman who came to him for consultation
in a nervous disease: 1T is astonishing
the shame people display about their
heads. The possibility of insanity they
will hide as If it were a crime. And
yet. in ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred. insanity might be cured if it were
taken hold of in time
1t is said that the practice of the wife
assuming the husbands name at mar
riage originated from q Roman custom
and became the common custom after
the Roman occupation. Thus Julia and
Octavia, married to Pompey and Cicero,
were called by the Romans Julia OF
Pompey aud Octavja of Cicero. and in
later times married women in most Euro
pean countries signed their names in
the same manner, but omitted the of
1t is expensive, OF course, to bt
dressed" by Worth, but cost is a rela
tive question. and If people want theit
gowns trimmed with real lace, gold anG
jewels, they ought to ascertain before
hand what the cost will be. unless they
are in a position of fortune which doe:
not Oblige them to consider such sOrdiC
details. A certain Peruvian heires.
paid Worth $4,000 for a frock trimmed
with real lace. S23, 500 of which went fol
the lace and the remaining 400 for the
solids of the garment.
Speaking of Edwin Booth. a pretty
girl saws: Il did something once that
don't believe anybody else ever did.
made Booth laugh while he was playin!
Hamlet" You know the way he haC
of fixing his eye upon some one person
in the audience and apparently acting t.
that person? One night l was the one
1t made me nervous. / could not stanC
il. So, in the s~oliloquoy. what do yol
suppose l did? made a monkey face a
him. And he laughed. He certainl,
laughed" she ended ~triumphantly.
A new notion in pincushions is I
make them fat, the size and shape of
square envelope. The pins are inserte,
at the edge. They are made of tw
pieces OF cardboard covered with whit
silk and put together over a half inc
stuffed bag of the same size. The ad
dress of the person for whom they az
INTENDED is written out first on tracin
paper, then transferred TO the silk an
outlined. a stamp is put on II corne
it may DE painted there if one is cleve
with a brush, or q genuine stamp attixe