Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1895-01-01
OF lnTeREsT 10 WOMEN.
Chronicle of Facts and Fancies For the
Economical and Extravagaut-
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Economical and ExtravaEaut-
Especial Correspondence.l
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Never wash your
shoes. Clean them with oil. Any oil viii
do. If you want them to wear well, don't
wear one pair constantly. If they are OF
only when you are asleep, they don't have
time to air and dry thoroughly. Two pairs
worn alternately will wear four times as
long.
Mary wilkins, the story writer, is so shy
and reserved that the general remark of
all who meet her casually is that they
don't feel acquainted" with her.
If you want to make the fashionable
expensive, soft caramel at home, just go
by your ordinary caramel recipe, only
varying it by beating your candy thor
oughly for two minutes Just after taking
It off the fire That keeps it from sugar
ing or being sticky, and the result is the
most coveted soft caramel. II you want
to do something to brighten up an even
ing party and to show off your own pretty
dishes and cups at the same time, turn all
your fine bits of china and glass into bon
bonnieres, fill them with candy and scatter
them about the place.
New York cooks at big restaurants and
hotels have been interviewed rs to what
they cook by, and though electricity and
but unanimously agree that charcoal is
the only thing fit to broil over.
Old fashioned blue jeans has come to be
| recognized as an artistic material. 1t is
! not for clothes, but for upholstery and
hangings that 10 is in favor. Chairs are
covered with it and curtains made of 1t.
If you want to Keep candy and keep it
fresh, put it in n tin box.
The best thing in the world for polish.
ing glass is the japanese paper napkin. 1t
Is for eyeglasses and spectacles that they
are especially invaluable. THY are better
than any channels skin except as the skin
is quite new.
Here is the recipe for the t nest sachet
powder in the world-that is, for the most
| aristocratio in smell: One part white rose,
| one part heliotrope, one part violet, one part
orris root. \ tiny pinch of musk added to
an ounce of this mixture increases its at
traction without bctraying its presence.
| 1t is wise to select your pott. vi plants for
parlor decoration with refere to the
temperature you like yourself. One man
who does not like cold rooms is vowing
that his wife shall have palms this year.
| Last winter she had as his chief vegetable
feature some kind of fancy arctic pine
that could not support a temperature
above 65 degrees, and tho pines preference
rbeumatism and doctors bills,
If -FOUR instep is not higher nuGhta suit
| you, did you know you could have it pad
ded? Any fashionable shoemaker can do it,
fastening the pad in the shoe so that you
| have no trouble and small risl: of exposure
before your prying feminine friends.
New things in visiting cares should be
adopted with caution. Novelty is usually
| vulgar, but ono new feature is out that
| has the best social backing. 1t is especial
| ~ used by single women, but also by mar
ried ones when they do not carry the name
| of a mother or sister on their pasteboard.
1t is like mans, = by 215 inches and
( bears both name and address.
| \ now way of mourning people you
don't want to mourn too much is to have
| your card with n black edge, but not the
smallest black border. That means two
or three weeks of grief for an acquaintance
not intimate enough to desolate you for
| six months.
Picture gallery parties are coming TO be
as accepted form of hospitality as is the
theater party. They have tho novel charm
of being both sweller and cheaper
Lillian Russell Is playing The Grand
Duchess - and she wink; at the house
with peculiar and now vivacity now when
she says to the general that she does not
| CdrS NHdl iilc newspapers say. anu Jnc
house laughs and applauds.
The best place for the innumerable
photographs of modern society is not an
album, nor the wall, nor portfolio
These things are out. What is wanted is
big open, pretty basket. You can find
| just the thing among japanese goods
| Dump bushel of pictures in that il you
| like and then set it under n table or on a
stand in a corner, where you like, and
your friends portraits are accessible with
out being obtrusivC.
Remember in buying flowers that the
| big white lilies arc the flowers that last
longest, and that the buds will blossom in
close rooms as no other buds will.
The most famous set of dishes in the
world is in the white House. The first
dish toward this famous set was selected
by Martha Washington and is an old fash
Toned family soup tureen. Every lady of
the White House has made additions
Some which will be greatly appreciated in
years to come were contributed by Mrs.
Harrison and arc decorated by herself
| During her first term as first lady in the
land Mrs, Cleveland presented to the
| White House few very large pieces,
which We're given to her as wedding gifts.
| THEo. HOLLAND.