Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-24

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
New YoRK, Jan. lS.-These are the days
when the grin, or the colds that resemble
it, are abroad and womankind is wishing
that, as she has to cry, she might bottle
her tears as they dropped, slowly and
gracefully, into bottles of cut glass, hay
ing gold shoppers. set about with precious
stones. That is what the ladies of Pompei
used to do. and no well-bred woman of
that day, or that city, thought of such
thing as weeping into a handkerchief.
There can be no doubt that the woman
who wished to be thought graceful could
practice lovely pose with her tear bottle,
before her mirror, and then when she
scaled it up, she could send this bottled
grief to her best young man in n regis
tered letter, with little note, SAYING:
You have all my heart, and these are
the tears | have wcpt for You since you
left" The tear bottle would be AN abso-
lutte proof, and the maiden, fair but
thoughtful, could write on the outside OF
the envelope, in very large letters: Glass;
please don't stamp too hard" These were
undoubtedly the DAYS OF romance. 1t was
said that some very fetching young
women who lived then. and who APP
preciated the impression made by bottle
of tears, and still did not like to have rcd
ilpbtt lloGd W Stb lllGlT SllNGS W UO lAlElT
weeping for them, and gave them physical
culture by administering to the said
slaves, good, sound whippings, SO that
they might have something to cry about.
HOW WE WEEP.
Nowadays we weep in handkerchiefs. 1t
is just possible that they may have magic
in the web oil them, but the way they dis.
appear when they visit q French laundry
is something past description. And the
way French laundress can assure you
that you only had five handkerchiefs in
the wash, when you remember counting
10, is most beautiful. She is cool and col
lected when among the linen squares re-
turned to you is one trimmed with coarse
lace and having somebody elses initials
upon it, This, she will pleasantly inform
You, IS yours, and at last You are forced to
keep IL because YOU cannot get any other.
The handkerchief nowadays-that is.
the proper handkerehief-is large in size,
fine OF texture, has a tiny frill OF real lace
about it, and your initials. very siuall
ones, embroidered quite simply far down
in one corner. never cOuld understand
people having black handlerchicfs They
were not pretty. they were not useful, and
they would look like dust cloths. How
ever, they are out OF fashion long ago, and
nobody grieves for them.
ANY WOMAN of SENSE
knows that her handkerchief should never
make the acquaintance of starch, that
abominaole stuff thar has ruined so many
pretty ones, and that 1t should be only
folded twice. Tie laundrcss thinks diEfer.
entity; and so she makes IL as stiff AS posi-.
BILE, folds it in the size of Il postage stamp
and is surprised that you don't like her
method. ] feel positively certain that we
will go back to the tear bottle. There are
upDH SbpriplpnS n rYlaaa a nd
china to be used for this purpose, that il
seems almost shame not to have the
beautiful materials developed in the grace
full rase-shaped affairs.
How many people that you know look
pretty when they are asleep? OF course, d
baby always looks like an angal, but PEG.
| pie don't keep babies all their lives. Thos,
women who have studied the subject sal
| the grace aud beauty Of the figure is in
creased by the position taken when tired
natures sweet restorer rules one. 1t i
said that ...5.
THE BEST POSITION
in which to sleep is slightly TO one side
with the body stretched at its full length
| The Russian soldiers, credited with bGin,
| the stralghtest mep in the world, CLAIM
that their fine figures come from scepin,
in the shape OF the letter ;, but insist tina
This way Of sleeping must be begun earl,
in life aud persisted in. After all. wha
| one sleeps on really concerns the sleepe
very much more than anything else. 10,
would not like to think of the Sleepin,
Beauty resting upon husks and covere
| with coarse linen. While You can per
fectly understand the dainty court lady
| whose skin was so superSensitiye, tina
she felt the rose leaf under forty silkel
spreads. z..
4 he idea of luxury in the bedroom is tn
result of generations of ease and wealth
The nourean richie never appreciates il
She is apt to put her bedroom IN the hand
Of professional furnisher and the rcsu
is u cross between the royal apartments a
| some of the Continental hotels and
funereal couch. His idea is to have hug
four-poster i'll the centre OF the room
reached by four steps.
A ROOM OF ERRORS.
Tie chairs are in harmony with thi
awful bed, and not one of them for a
instant suggests such delightful thing /.
louilng. The foui tiend, IN the shape 4
the decorator, then puts gloomy curtain
about the bed, three feathers ON the top 4
each post, and finishes up by giving you
dressing table so heavy looking that
suggests your preparing on ii the poison
OF the BOrgius, rather than all the sisyt
belongings, bottles of sweet scents, an
bowls OF perfume that belong to the lad
ul the nineteenth century. A woman
bedroom Ought first of all, to look rcstfu
1t should have lounges and chairs til,
seem to hold open wide their arms All
invite you in their dumb way to repos
Ones bed does not want to be IN the mi,
die Of the room, and it does not want
look 50 innereal that one feels as il OF
would like TO ask ones husband to tut
Mormon, and ALLOW two or three of ii
wives to sleep With one. so that one wou
not dream ol spooks and wake up with
cold chill.
The prcttiast bedroom That know has
CuIrrg&DALE BED IN n
which stands against the wall, while fro
the CANOPY top fall curtains of bultit
cloth embroidered in the most eXquisl
manner; those on the top having poppi
upon them, suggesting that sleep I'M
cone to the eyes, while those at the 10
are bright win morning glOries, invitii
the belutltu. sleeper To wake atd see d
sun. Inside, the canopy ii lined wi
rose-colored silk, and 50 is the part at d
back against which is hung a lovely ri
ture on ivory of the Mother Of God. III
: bed is always dressed, as it should be,
white. The finest Of linen forms the shee
} and these are humstltched by hand, al
have monogram upon each. The out
, spread is of linen made lace.like by b
drawn work upon it, and trimmed wi
Irish lace. When Jack Frost comes al
traces etchings on the window pane, the
is Il dainty satin douvet, and if mo
spreads are required, there is one of sal
! and one Of white fox.
YES, THERE ARE OTHERS.
At the foot OF the bed is little loun
that matches, it being upholstered
. white bTocade with pink roses upon
> while pillows OF pink ana gold ana VIII
and pale green are piled up and seem
ask one to rest against them for u 10 mi
! utcs' nap. There are no end of comfor
!, bic chairs, and the dresSing-table, best
all its silver belongings, shows that Il
,nnr,, 10 lived in fnr thnrn il a hnsLl