Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-10
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
For the Industrious, the Fashionable and
 the Domestic.
Especial Correspondence. l


 NEW YORK, Juno IA woman can earn very comfortable livelihood nowadays at practical designing for carpets, wall papers and dress materials. A friend of mine who has been drawing designs for challies and printed cottons for the summer trade made S75 by her first sale, and since thon in ten weeks she has earned $500 by de- signing for silks and ginghams, and one firm has told her they will take all the de- signs she can bring. But making designs which the printer or weaver can reproduce Is vastly different from drawing patterns which look well on paper, and although no great artistic talent is required n certain amount of instruction Is necessary. the samc as in every profession.
 Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Cory, founder and teacher of the School of Industrial Art and Technical Design For Women, Now York city, has pupils from every state and territory in the Union, as well ns from Cuba, Japan, Hawaii and Canada. who al- most and in some instances quito support themselves the first year by selling their designs to manufactures. They send de- signs for straw mating to Japan, for linen to Dublin, for china to Carlsbad, and for carpets to Leeds and York. England, for which they get good prires, and their work Is always in demand.
 A woman can gCt much better photo graph of herself if she refrains from tho use of powder before exposing her face to the camera. Tho best photographers absolutely forbid even the faintost dust ing of the powder puff, as they say 1t makes shadows in the wrong places and intcrfcrcs with tho lights and shadows which the artist himself can adjust from ONprhRn6 with n host fS fn fissS sit ter.
 A woman can give her face a pretty tinge of color in a natural, harmless way by buying at any pharmacy facial cup ping glass and applying it to her faco for 10 or l5 minutes night and morning. The facial cupping glass is little rubber bulb attached to a tiny glass cup, and by plac- ing the cup against the check and squcczing the rubber bulb the flesh is gently sucked into the cup, causing the blood to rise to tho surface and this gives not only a healthy activity to the blood vessels of tho face and a consequent color, but also tones up the flabhy muscles, making them firm and hard, and in timo, by a systematic ap- plication of this little toilet accessory, tho hollows of the face will become filled out and the checks will takc on a pretty rOundncSs-a condition so desirable in n beautiful woman.
 A woman who wants to be Gowned in the latest modes will not fail to go in for buttons AS tho garniture to bo used on at least ono frnck of her summer outfit The craze for buttons-buttons of all sizes and shapes, buttons of porcelain and buttons of metal, buttons with little dainty heads or landscapes portrayed on their surfaces and buttons plain and scvcrc-tho craze for buttons will dominate everything in hn vi ,,f CT ii I've tailor madc or frou frou.
 Tho fishermen of Bermuda contrive, with very littlo trouble, kind of water glass that would delight tho heart of every girl and h0f within reach of river, lake or sea. and which any mother can get carpenter tO make at R very small cost Four hoar,lS about 3 feet long nrc nailed together, thus makinga box without ends, tho inside of which Is painted black. Around the inner edge of ono end is cut n notch about a quarter of m inch deep and into this Is fastened pano of ordinary glass with putty and Jacks. The cracks insid" tho hOx must be we'll covered with putty to prevent the water from getting in. Around th" glass end of the box should b" fastened strips of old lead pipe for weights, and on the other end loops of lcath her for straps should br nailed, one on each side" TU use this telescope drop the glass end of the hux into tho water. hold ing on by tine straps, and hy looking through the glass end you will St, the oh- jCCtS beneath as distinctly as if no water 
 Bicycle parades will be all the rage this pressing hard on the heels of the ever popular coaching paradcS for suprrm- acy at mountain and scashurc rcsort At n recent bicycle parade in Paris many of fhta fTair lists ,sa. groom In livery occupying the roar seat. The machines were gay in floral dccora- tions and ribbons, and one or two riders wore suits of white duck throughout, from to cap, which made n pretty cen terpiccc to tho bright framing of flowers Neither hloomers nor divided skirts were to bc seen, and indeed tho leaders of fash ion in Paris and New York have adopted a regulation costume which eschews any resemblance to mannishneSs. Tho bicy- cle costume in question consists of a weight cd skirt reaching only midway the calf of the leg, norfolk jacket or blazer opening over duck vest, legginEs of same mate rial as the gown and cap to match.
 You can keep your sleeves to the deSircd balloon expansion if you will sew strips of wirc taste at intervals around tho inside of the puff, and no matter how damp tho weather may bC or how much tho sleeves may bc crushed you are always able to pull them out to their original bigness,
 new lining for sleeves and skirts, surpnSSinS fiber channels In stiffness and Is wood fiber. material made from the fiber of the bamboo
 Tho young Duke of Marlborough, who gave away at the altar his beautiful step mother Lillian, dowagcr Duchess of Marl- l borough, formerly Mrs. Louis Hamcrslcy of New York, upon her recent marriage with I.orl William Bercsford at St. | Gc"rgr'S churh, London, is himself soon to lead to the hymcnoal altar aS bride Miss | Iirrtrudc Vanderbilt, eldest daughter of | Cornelius Vanderbilt.
 The women who habitually cross the ocean have devised a most sensible ship board dress, which, like the conventional | riding habit. will gradually become the | thing for steamer wear It con sists of a pair of knickerbockers, a light | weight flannel skirt, heavy serge gown | the skirt falling to the ankles-buttoned | jersey leGgings, thick travelling coat with | hood, and an alpine visor or Tam O Shan ter cap. l
 Enormous hats will be the very swellest | thing the coming season. Rough bright l orange straw, with fine black straw under | the brim, is tho latest fancy from Paris
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