Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-30


will make fortune. don't believe
the beds themselves were ever more
beautiful; they are Of enameled wood,
of brass, Of mahogany frightened with
gilt in the Empire fashion, or of
whatever material you will, but they
are always marvellous studies OF beauti-
full furniture. Gossip says that Julien
Gordon sleeps in a bed shaped like
swan, with drapiugs Of lace about it;
surely, Bumbering in this way, the
songs Of the swan should come to her
in her dreanls OF fashionable di-
was like huge hearso, heavy and
black. 1t stood in the centre OF the
room on a raised platform, whcih
made il necessary to climb two steps
to get to ii. Whom it was first brought
over from the other side, the heavy top
was lined with a French mirror. for
the purchaser did not know ttat
French ladies objected to this style of
bed, but the truth was soon dis.
covered, the looking glass removed and
rose colored satin put in it's place.
Those who know say that this bed
room had barren, cold look, and all
| that IL suggested was the opinion given
servant" 1t is expensive.
QUEEN EIIzABETn's WAYS.
That funereal type is the sort of bod
Queen Elizabeth ought to have slept
in. This Queen of England was un-
tloubtedly woman of great strength
of mind. No frivolous lace decorated
her night gown; no rose colored knots
we're here and there upon it, and no
thin null made the gown in which she
dreamed. No, indeed, her favorite
night gown was of purple veivet.
trimmed deliberately with gold lace
| This was sufficient reason for her re
naming virgin queen.
| But to return to beds. Mile. Nous
seline must have a bed that looks sim
pie and is expensive. 1t must be oil
white, its curtains Of white Swiss
muslin, its ribbons of white satin,
really, it must in the first place be as
immaculate as the lilies, and then it
must be kept 80. And that is why 1T
costs. so h much. Mile. Mousseline's
draperies must be like herself, un-
spotted. The fancy for the silk cover
lids on ones bed has caused the heavy
Marseilles counterpane to disappear,
and this means that it is now possible
| for one to sleep under something that
is less in weight than sheet iron, and
which permits little more ventilation
than a stone wall. Doctors tell that
more people have died from Marsoilles
counterpanes than from pneumonia,
and that is saying good bit The
prettiest bed | ever saw was Mrs.
Lapgtry's. The bed itself was Chippen-
dale; the draperies, soft gray brocade
with tiny flowers in faint figures upon
them; the side curtains were of bolt.
ing cloth, those at tho head Of the bed
embroidered in poppies, and those at
the foot in morning gloriea. But, after
all, it is not the bed or its draping, or
its covers, or its curtains, but it is the
sleep that one wants. And one may
have the softest bed in the world, and
yet the rose leaf hidden in it will
irritate the flesh and annoy the soul.
IL ono is awake, tho hours of the
night are just as long II ones bed is
1raped ip brocade, as il one slept with
out curtains and on hard cot.
GOTHAM AND IT'S SHADES.
New York is rampant in color From
royal purple to burning scarlet, from
sunshiny yellow to blue that blazes,
there ia every color of the rainbow, in.
tensitied and made inartistic. Women't
heads are topped by flower gardens.
The styles are not SO pretty as they
wore when tho simple cloth gown and
the small bonnet were in vogue. Con
sidering the extravaganza of the poor,
and thoy are the most eXtravagant
people in the world il would seem as
il the old law regarding who should
and who should not wear velvet bro.
cado, silk 0r lace, fur or jewels, should
again he enforced. The lady who pre-.
sides in our kitchen is attifed, on
Sunday afternoon, in gray cashmere
with pink brocade waistcoat, cuffs
and collar, and she is topped by gray
hat yroathed with pink roses, yellow
jonquils and green leaves. Her coarse,
rough hands are squeezed in yellow
kid gloves two sizes too small for her.
1t has taken two months wages to nay
for this get-up Her undNrclothes arc
in rugs, her shoes arc run down at tht
boels, and she hasn't penny saved.
Yet, in reality, she gets better wages
than the average shop girl, inasmuct
as she pays nothing for board, anc
when holidays come, receives many
presents. The furore for rich materiall
and bright colors is 80 great that, un
doubtedly, women with good taste will
cling during the summer months t
pretty cottons and 10 hats that hav,
not all of the flowers of field ant
garden and hothouse upon them.
on POVERTY AND Ant.
There are 30 many kind ladies' VIII,
are willing to teach the lower clasae
many good things. just now, the,
soem most anxious to make then
appreciate fine pictures. | wish the
might bang into their heads somethin,
about tho value Of money and th
sense of dressing to suit one's con
dition in life. can forgive the over
dressing Of child; that is mothe
love. But. when women who have t
work hard for evory dollar they possess
spend il so ignorantly, it is Guite time
either for tho charitably inclined Il
4 teach them better, ur for the countr
I to revive tho old sumptuary laws
] New York used to say that it was tn
, West and the South that overdresseol
, That can no longer be its claim, fo
bonnets and frocks, parasols and belts
3 gloves and wells arc gaudy of th
. naudiest | think If some of ther
: could only sec themselves rs others Sc
r them. they would not crown wrinkle
+ and crows feet with roses. Hundred
! of years ago, the Jewish maidens wore
in chatelaine fashion, small mirror
a framed in brass, and these mirror
4 wcro to show exactly how the, locke
at certain times. Hand mirrors woul
t be of no use nowadays. If the cit
O would have chcval glass at ever
/, street corner, however, some goo
h might come, and ono would not see, a
Z one docs nowadays shabby ski
I with a gaudy, overturned bodice;