Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-10
- 1873 ----
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Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Feb Its very odd how
fashions revive and low period will hold
sway for a long time. Just at present the
1880 craze SAT its height. Bodices are made
with the stomachcr 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 Francois elaborate coiffuresa are the
style, or if a bonnet is worn it is so small it
looks like a 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 befriend 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. 10
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
lyle's works in a winter just reading slow
~ and in snatches as described.
It's very odd how hard most women find
the care OF plants in a room. They Kill
them by kindness. Palms should have very
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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 sailed 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 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 Oh wheel;
another does knitting or fancy work of
rights. another for women's clubs.
It's very odd how quickly money flies on
trifes and how the amount accumulates.
An account book may be startling and give
one the blues, but it shows just where the
outlay is and teaches q proper regard for
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 Il banjo. she is a charming suggestion
Of types well worth painting.
It's very odd to watch the rise Of photog-
raphers. An unknown man pays cele-
brated stage beauty to pose for him in a va
riety of attitudes, and after her pictures
have been ON exhibition for q few days
crowd may always be deserted outside his
door, and he is soon spoken of as an ''art-
ist." One lovely face, familiar behind the
footights, works like Il charm.
It's very odd how some utterly unworthy
play or book succeeds, No one knows why,
yet the fact remains. A publisher said to
me the other day: II don't know why this
book sells and why that one doesn't. Both
have been equally we'll advertised, and the
unsuccessful one is undoubtedly the better
What is popularity anyway"
KATE JORDAN.