The representative., 1895-09-25
ITEMS FOR WOMEN.

An authority draws attention to the
fact that want of water alone is not why
house plants often fade and die. Regular
and sufficient wetting is necessary, but
equally to be insisted upon is freedom
from dust. Plants breathe through their
leaves, and if these are clogged by dust
the needed air cannot be got Wipe off
the leaves frequently, and the result will
be apparent.
The new woman" is old-centuries old.
In April, 1716, she was advertising her.
self thus:
"This is to give notice to all my honored
masters and ladies, and the rest of my
loving friends, that my lady Butterfield
gives challenge to ride horse, to leap
horse, or run on foot, or halloo with any
woman in England seven years younger.
but not a day older because 1 won't un-
dervalue myself, being now seventy-four
years of age. My feast will be the last
Wednesday of this month (April,) where
there will be good entertainment for that
day and all the year after in Wanstead
In Essex"
That any man can step into a florists
and order bouquet for any lady is no
longer possible in New York There is
florist, and a very exclusive one, who
refuses all orders that do not seem just
conventional be very polite about
It. An elderly man, unknown to the flor
lst was refused a bouquet to be sent to a
school girl, and a young sports green
back was handed back to him when he
ordered box of flowers for a beautiful
society leader whom he had admired in
her victoria.
when I got to Paris" says a woman
who arrived at the French capital a few
weeks ago, 81 thought I would stock my
self in some things for the rest of my nat
ural life. Among these were shoes and
gloves. I did accumulate several pairs of
each, but they were in the way of unsuc-
cessful experiments, and were discarded
as soon as l reached New York. 1t is
very possible that l did not strike the
right shops, though tried every one sug-
Eested to me, but it is fact that could
not get shoe to fit me and the gloves
were expensive and most unsatisfactory
Frenchwomen or anybody who knows
the city thoroughly would undoubtedly
fare better, but l am convinced that fer
the New Yorker, hurrying through these
European cities, at the mercy, as she is
Of the fleeing shopkeepers it is folly to
load ones self with the smaller necessit-
les Of the wardrobe, that are to be pur-
chased in them. In my own especial
shops here in New York 1 find cheaper
and vastly more satisfactory things"
The writer's cramp, according to an
authority is as often due to the use of
badly constructed pen-holder as to too
much writing. Thin, heavily topped
pen-holderS such as those made of ONYX
mother r-of-pearl, and the like, with pretty
gold devices at the top, pull the pen back
ward and make it weigh upon the hand
The common wooden ones, made with a
bulge at the nib end, to save ones fingers
from getting inky, and costing only a
benny, are the best and most comfortable
Implements for use.
Nine. Dandurand is lady who has re-
Gently written paper on the influence
of Women's Clubs on Canadian life. In
this article she said something which
ought to be written in letters of gold and
hung on the walls of every Woman's
Club in Christendom. She begged all So
cieties to admit a new candidate to mem
bership-Gayety. II crave you," she
said, mot to give it an i'll reception, it is
such good child. And then it has
wrongly been accused of being too super
fetal. I am aware that there is no afIln-
ity between it and pedantry; but it is