Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-12-05
or INTEREST TO WOMEN. +
"A Variety OF Up to Date Personal and
Pertinent Paragraphs

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
A Variety or Up to Date Personal and
Pertinent Paragraphs.
a pouring all day rainstorm in New
York has just developed new result Uf
the cycling fever. Howf Why half doz-
en- women were seen BY one person walk
ing in the short skirts of their wheeling
costumes We all saw in the summer
how the women turned those short
skirts to account for all kinds of coun-
try expeditions, and now they are going
to make wet weather city costumes Of
them. The wheel il doing more for dress
reform than all the associations to that
end. No woman has yet been heard Oh
walking in knickerbockers.
Jnnius Henri Browne SAYS men don't
marry women because they are pretty,
even though they think they do. THE
sexes mate by agencies unknown and
eDigmatic, even to the mated, - says be.
Ida M- Tarbell, Of recent fame. is a
plain faced, plain hammered, plain
dressed young woman, and not so very
young either.
Julia Magruder, the author Of the
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.
It was not given even fattering consid-
GRAFTON III 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 years TO 20.
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 checks.
German solidity instead Of French
kick shows is the last revolution in fur
nishing. A set Of plain, unvarnished,
unpainted deal has just been made by a
New York manufacturer for the dining
room Of q luxurious country house. The
deal must be kept white by sand, soap
and elbow grease, and the floor is to be
sanded and "berringboned'' 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 a fine invention OF
fashion, but women with big faces look
like nightmare jack Of lanterns in them,
and, alas, women with big faces viii
wear them.
One item about Consuelo Vanderbilt
that the reporters have not found out il
that her peculiarly long 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 na-
tional government for their work II 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 q real
japanese rOom?' Mrs. W. I'll Wander
bilt has a Japanese room, and so has
Mr. Henry MarquaDd, but these rooms
look stranger to Japanese eyes than the
parlors Of our hotels. They are simply
filled with japanese curiosities arranged
in a most western manner. Mrs Van
derbil Y 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 il a
triumph Of emptiness-two ornaments,
one vase, one picture, and beautiful, soft,
uncolored mats Oh the floor. The wood
it is lined with is in state Of nature.
What rest such a spot would be ID one
Of our houses
The increasing army OF women who
smoke are changing their outfit. The
boxes cf cigarettes are giving place TO a
luxurious tobacco Jar. dresden china pref
erably, and books Of papers. and to roll
acigarette becomes a fashionable accom-,
plishment This looks as If women were
getting to really like tobacco and smok-
ing for another reason than the natural
desire 70 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 contides to her intimates
that she thinks Of all things she can for
the decorators 10 do, because she hates
To think of moving anyhow.
Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, the editor
Of Harner's Bazaar, like her predecessor,
Miss Booth, is noticeably questionable
and indifferent TO dress.
"a teacher in sewing school says that
il is not IN every such school that they
know the useful fact that whipping
should be done from left to right and
not from right to left, as all other
stitches are taken.
Mrs. Elaine Goodale Eastman, the
poet, has been visiting lately in New
York city. 1t is four years since she was
married with fashionable wedding to
Dr. Eastman, full blo0ded Omaha In
dian, and she has two children. The lit
tie Eastmans look much more like full
blooded Indians themselves than like
half breeds. Viola RosEBORo'.
Eme. Hanna Korany-
Nine. Hanna Korany, who has been
one Of New York 5 picturesque figures