Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-13
THESE ARE ALL ODD.
But th4 Most Important Paragraph Is How
 the Money Flies.
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Special CorrcspondcnCc.l NEW YORK, Feb. G.-Its very odd how fashions revive and how a period will hold sway for long time Just at present the 1880 craze is at its height. Bodices are made with the stomacher effect, and they are now introducing the puffs upon the hips
 It's very odd that American women, usually so quick to follow the lead of their English and French sisters, will persist in wearing big hats to the theater. At the Theater Francais elaborate cultures are the | style or if a bonnet is worn it is so small it looks like large butterfly.
 It's very odd what different charities women are engaged in. Some collect old magazines for the sick and poor; others pay the pew rent of poor families; others send unfortunate immigrants back to their old homes; others befrend shopgirls; others make playtime for the unfortunate chill dren of the tenements and alleyways. So you see there are fads in charity as in ev- erything else.
 It's very odd how much reading you can do if you will only utilize the moments of waiting that must occur continually. To read a few minutes before bedtime, while waiting for friend to go shopping, while having ones hair brushed, while waiting for the ) o'clock teakettle to boil would be time well spent. A very busy and ambi- tious young woman went through Car lyles works in winter just reading slow ly and in snatches as described
 It's very odd how hard most women find the care of plants in room. They kill them by kindness. Palms should have very little water, but have it regularly, and the leaves should be sponged lightly only once day.
 It's very odd how delicious cream cheese is with salad when the latter is properly prepared. But few arrange just the en- semble that is perfection. Oil of the best quality must always be used with vinegar and plenty of salt and pepper on the salad. Without olive oil the choice flavor is lost With this goes the pure Canadian cream cheese and Salted crackers. Black coffee is an excellent accompaniment.
 It's very odd in what different ways peo- pie amuse themselves. One woman is hap piest curled up on a divan, with sweets be- side her and an exciting novel at hand; an other goes fora 10 mile walk; another makes a tour of the suburbs for miles on a wheel; another does knitting or fancy work of some kind; another goes in for woman's rights, another for women's clubs.
 It's very odd how quickly money flies on trihes and how the amount accumulates. An account book may be startling and give one the blues, but it shows just where the OulldS 10 tlll'I 'lCttCucS pIOpcI LOT money.
 It's very odd and very pretty, too, to see an American girl in a warm Japanese Xii mona, her little feet in Turkish slippers. The two are incOngruous, but eminently becoming. When in this costume she fin gers a banjo, she is a charming suggestion of types we'll worth painting.
 It's very odd to watch the rise of photog- raphers An unknown man pays a cele- brated stage beauty to pose for him in a va riety of attitudes, and after her pictures have been on exhibition for d few days crowd may always be deserted outside his door, and he ir soon spoken of as an ''art- ist.' One lovely face, familiar behind the foOtlightS, works like a charm.
 It's very odd how some utterly unworthy play book succeeds. No one knows why, yet the fact remains. A publisher said to me the other day: "I don't know why this book sells and why that one doesn't. Both have been equally well advertised, and the unsuccessful one is undoubtedly the better. What is popularity anyway?'
 KATE JORDAN.