Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-28
"SO IT SEEMS"
Kate Jordan Gossips About Health, Diet,
 Fashion and Morals.

Kate Jordan Gossips About Health, Diet,
 Fashion and Morals.
 Special Correspondence.l
 NEW YORK, April 24.-The American people who cat the most indigcstible foods for brcakfast-buckwhcat cakes, wafflc2 hot breads, liver and bacon, ctc.-arc Xlc hardest to take a hint. Writers on LJgienc have exhausted their persuasive powers in writing of the beneficial results to be ob taincd from eating oranges or grape fruit or baked apples before tasting any other food in the morning. Yet how many try 1t or heed ity There is moro virtue in a cup of orange juice than in all the powders and pellets ever made.
 Small china spoons, almost transparent, arc rapidly dispiacing the silver ones, per haps because they cost more. It has been an incongruity of the present hard times that all the fads In women $ garments and in household matters are more expensive than in previous years.
 A very dainty little woman I know is putting her own particular room into its summer dress. Over pale blue silesia she has spread a bcdspread of point d'esprit, rufled all along tho four sides. Curtains of tho same lined with the blue arc at the shining, small pancd windows. She has taken the bagdad from her divan and put on a covering of thick cotton crapo in very dark blue and white. She has stripped her mating bare of rugs and filled her grate with tlowcrpots in which hardy plants arc growing. It makes you feel cool and alto gether peaceful to peep into that shady room flcckcd with pale blue lights.
 Mr. and Mrs. Hcrnc arc the great pillars of the realistic drama. In "Shorc Acres MT. Hernc shows us the actual life in a c--- | Al. ing of turkey, which fills the thcater with the smell of brown gravy. Mrs. Hernc in Margaret Fleming portrays a womans S sublime forgiveness, even to the nursing of her rivals illegitimate child. In less capable hands neither of these plays would have attained their present success, but one knows it's real, fragrant hay that old Nat chcws so thOughtfully, and the moth CT love that is in all women for all Chil- drcn is touched by the gentle, protecting gesture with which Mrs. Hcrne takes tho child to her bosom. X now era in tho history of the play has commenced.
 There were 250, 900 brides in England last year. This does not seem to imply that marriage is becoming unfashiOnablc.
 This is tho time to get flower boxes ready. Pansies, mignoncttc, nasturtiums, petunias and candy tuft can be sown in
 
 sun warranted not to vary.
 Black and white, mostly white dimity gowns, with a trimming of soft, wash lace, are the coolest and prettiest you can get for the mornings in warm weather.
 A breakfast that might tempt conva- lesccnt or one not disposed to eat after a late supper has been suggested by an English nurse who vouchcs for its popularity in England: The juice of q lemon and grapc fruit-or shaddock, as they arc called there "a small, dclicatcly bloilCd piece of salt mackerel dry toast and English breakfast tea.
 The ''swagger' shirt waist of this sum- mer will bo made of pale hued chambrays, with white collars and cuffs.
 It has been quite fashionable thing in charitable entertainments this winter for girls to gown themselves after famous paintings and stand motionless in frames. Tableaux have also been popular, and anna teur theatricals have bored us, as usual Yes, indeed. I saw an Ophelia who lisped as they could not possibly lisp in Denmark, and very evident spinster who dared to be Naomi in ''School." !" But, lastly, WIG arc having minstrel shows. Everything goes when charity is the spur.
 There are some beautiful gingham gowns made up in the shops now. Pale green and white, with lace; or dove gray and white, with black velvet ribbon for trimming; or pale blue and snuff brown, with a mixture of the colors in the ribbons run through deep ecru lace, arc all effective Gingham coats over white pique or linen waistcoats are new this season. KATE JORDAN.