The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-27
$50 IT SEEMS"
Kate Jordan Gossips About Health, Diet,
Fashion and Morals.
HERBERT HAYWOOD.

Fashion and Morals.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, April 23.-The American
people who eat the most indigestible food:
for Observation-Disclosures cakes, waffles,
hot breads, liver and bacon, etc.-are the
hardest to take hint. Writers on hygiene
have exhausted their persuasive powers in
writing of the beneficial results to be OBJ.
tanned from eating oranges or grape fruit
or baked apples before tasting any other
food in the morning. Yet how many try
it or heed it? There is more virtue in a
cup of orange juice than in all the powders
and pellets ever made.
Small china spoons, almost transparent,
are rapidly displacing the silver ones per
haps because they cost more. 1t has been
an incongruity of the present hard times
that all the fads in women's 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 bedspread of point d'esprit,
ruff1ed all along the four Sides Curtains
of the same lined with the blue are at the
shining, small paned windows. She has
taken the bagdad from her divan and put
on a covering of thick cotton Grape in very
dark blue and white. She has stripped her
mating bare of rugs and filled her CRATE
with fiowerpots in which hardy plants are
growing. 1t makes you feel cool and alto
gether peaceful to peep into that shady
room flecked with pale blue lights
Mr.. and Mrs. Herne are the great pillars
OF the realistic drama. In "Shore Acres"
Mr.. Herne shows us the actual life in q
New England farmhouse even to the roast
ing of turkey, which fills the theater with
the smell of brown gravy. Mrs Herne in
Margaret Fleming" portrays a woman'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 chews so thOughtfully, and the moth
er love that is in all women for all chill
dren is touched by the gentle, protecting
gesture with which Mrs. Herne takes the
child to her bosom. A new era in the
history of the play has commenced
There were $50, 900 brides in England
last year. This does not seem to imply
that marriage is becoming questionable
This is the time to get flower boxes
ready. Pansies, mignonette, nasturtiums,
petunias and candy tuft can be sown in
the open air after May has set in with
sun warranted not to vary.
Black and white, mostly white. dimity
gowns, with trimming of soft, wash
lace, are the coolest and prettiest you can
get for the mornings in warm weather.
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lescent or one not disposed to eat after a late
supper has been suggested by an English
nurse who vouches for its popularity in
England: The juice of lemon and grape
fruit-or shaddock, as they are called there
"a small, delicately broiled piece of salt
mackerel, dry toast and English breakfast
tea.
The "swagger" shirt waist of this sum-
mer will be made of pale hued chambrays,
with white collars and cuffs.
1t has been quite a fashionable thing in
charitable entertainments this winter for
girls to gown themselves after famous
and stand motionless in frames
have also been popular, and anna
teur theatricals have bored US, as usual.
Yes, indeed. 1 saw an Ophelia who lisped
as they could not possibly lisp in Denmark,
and very evident spinster who dared to
he Naomi in school" But, lastly, we are
having minstrel shows. Everything goes
when charity Is the spar.
There are some beautiful bingham gowns
made up in the shops now. Pale green and
white, with lace; or dove gray and white.
with black Selvet ribbon for trimming: or
pale blue and snuff brown, with mixture
Of the colors in the ribbons run through
deep ecru lace, are all effective. Bingham
coats over white pique or linen wsistcosts
Are new this season. KATE JORDAN.