The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-12-19
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A pouring all day rainstofm In New
York has just developed a new result a
the cycling fcyor. Howl Why half doz.
en- women were seen by one person walk.
ing IN the short skirts II their wheeling
costumes We all saw In the summer
how the women turned those short
skirts 10 account for all kinds Of coun.
try expeditions. and now they arc going
10 make wet weather city costumes II
them. The wheel is doing more for dress
reform than all the associations to that
end No woman has yet been heard Of
walking in knickerbockers.
Junius Henri Browne says men don't
marry women because they are pretty,
even though they think they do. 1.-THE
sexes mate by agencies unknown and
enigmatic, even TO the mated" says he.
Ida NJ. Tarbell, Of recent fame. is
plain faced, plain hammered plain
dressed young woman, and not so very
young either.
Julia Magruder, the author Of tho
princess Sonia, recently published in
The Century, did not aspire to such dis
tinction for her story when she wrote It.
She tried to sell it to one of the cheaper
smaller monthlies that pay much less
1t was not given even fiattering consid-
GRAFTON in that quarter, but when The
Century got hold Of it, it gave it the
finest pictures money could buy and
rushed it into print in less than a year,
wonderful record, for stories usually
lie hidden at The Century office any
where from 2 years to 90.
The latest complexion" fad in
New York is the milk diet Nothing
but fruit and milk till late dinner
that's the way now to get a milky skin
and apple cheeks.
German solidity instead Of French
| kick shows is the last revolution in fur
nishing. A set of plain, unvarnished,
Imprinted deal has just been made by n
New York manufacturer for the dining
room of luxurious country house. The
deal must he kept white by sand, soap
and elbow grease, and the floor is to be
sanded and "herringboned" like the
floors of song and story.
Frederick Archer admits that Eleanora
Duse is the new woman, but says she's
the only one that makes the men feel
that there must be new man, and a
better one, to match her.
Rob Roy caps are fine invention Of
fashion, but women with big faces look
like nightmare jack o. lanterns in them,
and, alas, women with big faces will
wear them.
One item about Consuelo Vanderbilt
that the reporters have not found ont is
that her peculiarly lxug swanlike neck
has made long necks fashionable among
the -Four Hundred. For the first time in
20 years the women are doing all they
can to make their necks look long.
Mrs. John Palmer, Mrs Kyle, wife of
Senator Kyle, and Miss Emma Sickles
are the officers of the National Woman's
Association For the Development of Do
nestle Science, and they are going to
try to get an appropriation from the ma
tional government for their work. If for
agriculture, why not for domestic sci
ence? asks Miss Sickles.
why" says John La Fargo, the art
list, why doesn't some rich woman
who likes to get up rooms in different
styles of furnishing, as so many of them
do, distinguish herself by having a real
japanese room?' Mrs. W. II. Wander
bilt has japanese room, and so has
Mr.. Henry Marquand but these rooms
look stranger to japanese eyes than the
parlors Of our hotels. They are simply
filled with Japanese curiosities arranged
in most western manner. Mrs. Van
derbilt S makes you feel that you are in
side a japanese cabinet. 1t is lined in
red cherry wood, treated to look like
red lacquer. A real Japanese room is a
triumph of emptiness-two ornaments,
one vase, one picture, and beautiful, soft,
uncolored mats on the floor The wood
it is lined with is in state of nature
What rest such spot would be in one
of our houses!
The increasing army of women who
smoke are changing their outfit. The
boxes of cigarettes are giving place to a
luxurious tobacco jan, dresden china pref
erably, AMI books Of papers, and to roll
cigarette becomes fashionable accom-
Il plishment. This looks us if women were
getting to really like tobacco and smok-
ing for another reason than the natural
desire to be innocently naughty.
Pieces of charcoal in an icebox will
keep it sweet.
Mrs. Coils p. Huntington says it will
be four years yet before her new house
in New York is ready to live in.
Further, she conlides to her intimates
that she thinks of all things he can for
the decorators to do, because she hates