The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-13
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
6ersonal Gossip and Special Gleanings
From the Metropolis.

6srsonal Gossip and Special Cleaning
From the Metropolis.
Especial Correspondence.l
| NEW YORK, .. "A New York
woman is wearing one of Queen Mar
| guerita's last years gowns. She is not q
| poor relation Of the house Of Savoy, but
| just clever American woman who spen,
last winter in Rome and was served By
the same court hairdresser. She found
| out that the queen gives all her clothes
After very little wear 70 various servants
| a. perquisites, and they sell them. She
bought from the hairdresser brown vel
| vet suit trimmed in sable that had only
been worn half dozen times for SEQ. and
| now she has had it remodeled, and all her
! friends are talking about her extrava-
| gance and wondering where, on her hus-
bands salary, she gets the money for such
| clothes. The queen gives her maids all
her stockings after one wearing, and this
same frugal American woman has some
pairs she has not yet had washed, because
she likes to show her privileged friends
the exact shape of the royal lady's legs
There are various devices for keeping
cut flowers fresh, but the one that is worth
all the rest is to keep the stems immersed
don't show well in that position, but
when they are, as 1t were, "on duty" at
night, for instance, II you will give them
this kind Of a bath they will last three
times as long as they would without It,
OF course the deeper the stems are in tho
water all the time tho better This is the
way the flower painters preserve their
models, and they are people who have
en- AL INT. T. 49,
and keeping their florists bills small.
Miss Wheeler the head nurse Of the
New York Babies hospital, says no one
knows what little babies suffer from mis-
handling. Her nurses are taught TO wash
babies without lifting them from the lap.
They ara laid on q soft flannel apron and
then turned about by pulling the apron
without touching them. They arc never
put In q tub till they are able to sit alone
Under this method even sick babies love
70 be washed, and laugh and crow during
their baths instead of emitting the tortured
squalls so familiar in domestic life.
II your nails are brittle and continually
breaking, it is a sign that your nervous
system is out of order, and you had better
look after ii.
One big American editor says Beatrice
Harraden, the author of Ships That Pass
In the Night" writes the most illesible
copy that ever came into his office
II you want to make children happy
during the holidays, give them a soap
bubble party. The Christmas tree itself
won't give them more pleasure. With
very little trouble the entertainment can
be made much finer than ordinary bubble
blowing affords. Pipes are not the best
thing to blow with. Tin horns seven
inches long and an inch and an eighth in
diameter at the mouth can be made at a
trifliny expense and are 100 per cent bet
ter. They should be family huted for an
inch upward from the base In order that
enough fluid may be collected to feed the
bubble. One-fourth of an ounce of white
CASTLE soap, four ounces Of glycerin and
three-fourths of pint Of water Is the
mixture that makes the finest bubbles In
the world. The soap cap best be dissolved
by boiling it in the water three or four
minutes. With the horn and this mix
ture bubbles can be blown foot in diam
eter of the most brilliant coloring.
The purity of candy can be- conclusive
~ tested very easily. Dissolve it in hot
water and if no insoluble sediment is left
pure sugar only has been used. Sugar is
SO cheap now that edulteration Is pos
common. Glucose is used in cheap candy
and sometimes in fine, but glucose Is q
kind OF sugar and entirely wholesome,
though not very sweet. Its use makes the
molding of bonbons smoother and flrmer,
so that they do not so easily melt and run
together in a warm atmosphere.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt and some
other New York ladies are interesting
themselves In the extension Of the train
ing OF nurses for the sick. They have had
course OF lectures on Dslsarte and his
system delivered before the nurses OF the
Postgraduate hospital so as 70 try TO teach
them 10 walk more lightly and handle the
helpless more gently. In the London hos
pitfalls nurses have for years now been
trained in aesthetic gymnastics, ard tho
experienced rich find them more aereea-
BILE than the graduates under the Ameri-
oan system.
Cocoanut oil Is being used more and
more in tho toilet. Women careful OF
their parsons find il delightful for the skin
when rubbed in thoroughly all over the
body after the bath. II the feet are rub
bed with IL every day, IL keeps them as
soft as q baby's and does much to prevent
corns and bunioDs. Used on the scalp,
1t Is q sure cure for dandruf. II need not
be put cn the hair, but simply rubbed In
snail quantities with tips of the fingers
on the scalp. After railroad journey or
any experience in which the face has be
come soiled IL can be cleaned by this oil
bath much more thoroughly than With
soap and water and with much less abuse
of the complexion. After such a bath
when the oil il rubbed of with a sof. /
cloth the skin shows no sign Of grease,
but the infinitesinal amount Of oil lefs on |
the skin is the best possible basis for pow
der. A small amour: Of fine powder then |
adds to the look Of freshness and bloom
and AZ net percepable 70 the eloses; CD |
servation.
Mrs. DR.. Parkhurss is noticeable among
the wives of New York clergymen az Be-
ing particularly we'll dressed In the solid, |
black silk way. ISABELLA PROCTOR