The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-15
SOMETIMES.
Kate Jordan's Bright, Breezy and Timely
Observations


Kate Jordan's Bright, Breezy and Timel,
Observations.
Sometimes a dainty little dinner il
completely marred by weak or taste
less dessert. TO make Siberian punch a.
home, pour little of the best Jamaics
rum over the platter Of ice cream, and a:
an appetizing decoration cover it with
the clear, preserved cherries
Sometimes the feminine detective is a
nuisance III the large shops of our bic
cities. When competition sets in be-
tween few of them, then let the most
innocent shopper beware. If a sharp lace
pin or a gauZy handkerchief happens To
adhere to her fuzzy sleeve while passing
counter, she runs chances of being ar
rested, searched and is perhaps forced to
spend at least a bad quarter of an hour
trying TO prove her innocence
Sometimes women are charged with
being hard hearted. In affairs of the
heart they may at times be a little
cruel, but their sensitiveness to suffering
IN dumb animals is particularly acute.
A small club has been started in New
York by little woman who is a bundle
OF nerves and sympathies One of the
rules is worth recording: mo member
shall decorate her hat with any part of a
bird. She shall not eat Holsters, crabs.
pate de fols gras nor any food supplied
through unnecessary torture to an ami
NAL. Holsters, crabs, ETC., are boiled
alive. The delicious, imported pates are
made from the livers of unhappy geese
who are stuffed to repletion until the
liver IS abnormally swollen and the bird
(f
terdict.
Sometimes dead, pale skin. despite
the fact that novelists continually give
their heroines a ''clear, soft pallor." is
exceedingly annoying. AS a remedy try
iron In some form just after eating, a
glass of undiluted claret or port at
luncheon and dinner and regular walk
ing in the open air, no matter what the
weather may be.
Sometimes fashion revenges herself |
cruelty upon her devotees. The present |
style of couture is exceedingly trying |
10 plain women. When the face is too |
ong. the hair should not be parted in
he middle, even though to arrange it
otherwise marks one as not quite s'up to |
late" A woman who looks older than |
Ter years should not wear the old fash
oned banded style minus bang This
viii add settled look anything but
attractive. 1t is peculiarly adapted 70
he baby style of face.
Sometimes cherries dining room or
ne not quite in good taste interferes
nth that atmosphere of conviviality
hat should prevail around the friendly
GARD. The very happiest ones for a
n N b h. A
olished wood, warmly tinted but not
laring rugs, green things growing near
swiss draped window, the blue and
'hite of old delft on artistic shelving
lat can easily be put up, and over it
i, in winter, the irregular Pickering of
4 open fire.
Sometimes an artist has to select the
BOD points of many models to make one
erfect figure. / understand that Mr..
gorge Wade, the English sculptor. is
ithority for the fact that few women 7
assess really beautiful arms The bone
usually too prominent at the wrist and |
bow. Pretty women as rule have
Fly arms, and the only perfect ones he
IS ever seen have belonged to women
hose faces were hopelessly plain The
W of compensation is plainly inevitable. r.
sleep cannot be wooed by
e most arduous coaxing. A good rem
V is to be found in bowl of warm Il
Tx before retiring. Kittens invariably o
,ep after warm milk. 1t has a sooth-
: effect upon the nerves and sends a | r
liciOus warmth through the veins.
we are almost inclined to | I
fy fashion, but women are initiative
q hare the sheeplike instincts of going
tn the crowd. y year or so ago we
re skirts that swept the muddy pave
'nts. Now the decree comes from
ris that skirts this spring will be fully ! :,
II inches above the ground. Fancy 4
} big woman whose feet match her
hes in such an abbreviation and shud- !! Y
:. But she'll wear it if the fashion
)ks carry out the rumor.
Sometimes woman's interesting age is
natter for argument and speculation.
e gallant novelist of our grandmoth-
day would not write of heroine over
She has steadily grown older, and
v the French novelists, the masters of H
craft, scott at a heroine under 80 and |
woman's most interesting age at 80.
w charming! IF this keeps on, the A
N ''old maid viii become obsolete.
KATE JORDAN.