The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-02-09
GOSSIP FOR WOMEN.
Fashion Notes and Foibles of Fair
Notabilia.

Sponge bathing with alcohol is
excellent for delicate women.
Velvet blouse waists having sleeves
OF soft satin, plain or shaded, are
new.
A bit of orris root kept in the
mouth for a little while will keep
the breath as sweet as baby's, un-
less the disagreeable odor is caused
by catarrh.
Panels are undoubtedly coming
in, but the more popular are those
which only reach halfway up the
skirt and are inserted in the seams.
Every woman should keep box
of charcoal tablets in her room and
take tablet once a day whenever
the complexion begins to get little
dingy.
When your face and ears burn so
terribly battle them in very hot
water-as hot as you can bear. This
will be more apt to cool them than
any cold application.
The Empress Of Austria, it is
stated, not only smokes from fifty
to sixty Turkish cigarettes a day,
but during the course of the evening
also smokes "terribly strong cigars"
Unpretentious evening slippers in
bronze or plain kid are sprinkled
with jet or steel spots, as though
they had been nailed, tiny horseshoe
buckles decking the instep.
One or two of the shades in green,
the tawny bronzes called Siam, the
rich, golden Cleopatra dyes in rus.
set, brown and tan, are among the
handsomest colors in fabrics for day
costumes shown this winter.
Quite the correct thing for walk.
ing wear is a high-topped boot Of
black, with low, broad heel. The
abominable fad Of high heels had its
day, and on the street, at least, ladies'
wear shoes with firm, steadying heels.
Miss Edith Rockefeller, daughter
of John ID. Rockefeller and heiress
to no one can count how many mil
lions, dresses very quietly, particular
ly for the street. She never wears
any jewelry with the exception of
some handsome rings.
When Patti is away from HON.
and at hotels she calls for her bill
every night and, after examining it
closely, instructs her clerk, il the bill
is correct, to pay it. She does this,
she says, to avoid squabbles with
hotel managers, which might occur
IL disputed items were several days
old.
Mrs. Elizabeth q. Custer. the
widow of the famous soldier, is an
accomplished billiard player. She
grew skillful at the game during her
long camp residence on the plains
II is rare to find woman an adept
with a billiard cue, yet there are few
more graceful games, and few, too
where the accepted characteristics
OF women, delicate accuracy rather
than strength, are more called IN
requisition.
At a recent thsat rical reception
Sarah Bernhardt was IN deep amber
or capucine velvet embroidered very
richly with silver and gold, pillows
OF yellow ostr rich trimming enhapc.
ing the magniiicence Of n marvellous
gown. The admirable "tragedienne'
wore neither flowers nor jewels IN
her hair-crisply waved and twisted
in an artistic knot, from which tn,
curled ends protruded gracefully
and carelessly.
Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune (Ma
rion Harland) has Just embarked
on a perilous enterprise, pilgrim
age through the desert of Syria tc
the Bedouins and lepers of that re-
gion, varied by weeks stay as al
inmate in the most noted harem oi
Damascus and various points Of in
terest. She Is accompanied only by
her son, a muscular lad of IL, except
that she will have guides on entering
the Holy Land. She has letter.
commencing her to all the tribes IN
Syria, and expects Ia live in the tent.
OF the Bedouins and follow theil
customs. Her journey will end al
Beyrout.
Mrs. George Gould is to be seer
at the opera occasionally, accom-
panied by Miss Helen Gould, with
the small aud famous fnancier a,
the back OF the box. Usually the
Goulds occupy the Clews box, aud
while the box is overrun with visitor.
when Mrs. Clews aud her stately
looking daughter attend the opera
il is seldom that more than three OF
four men enter it in the course OF
the evening when the Goulds arr
there. They hav. an entirely amia
BILE and unpretentious manner dur
ing the performance. Mrs. Gould
who is now quite matronly in ap
Pearance, sits in one corner of the
box, and Miss Helen Gould, who il
a very small and dark young woman
sits in the other. -Er.