The record-union., 1896-03-29

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| a small girl taken to see Mrs. Cleve-
land was told she was going to see the
first lady in the land"
why, / thought Adam and Eve was
the first lady in the land!" said the
child, better yersed in religion than in
politics.
Mrs. Marguerite Moore, who is far
and away the most brilliant and enter
tanning speaker in New York's group of
suffrage women, has been abroad for
almost a year, and writes from London
tc friend that she has presented her
self with the freedom of the city, and
spends half her time in taking long
tramps through it, hunting up the odd
hooks and corners, and tracing the con-
nection, near or remote, between the
city's architecture and it's various
epochs of faith" Recent articles by
Mrs. Moore in the Catholic World' de-
scribe her native Ireland in a fashion to
make the whole world fall in love with
it.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been
forced to acknowledge man as a dress
maker supreme. The possession of two
generous pockets, supplied after years
of fruitless struggle with modistes, has
won even her stony heart.
| She is good Presbyterian and
Scotch, which is to say, a special theo-
! logical breed. She was on her knees
saying her prayers. Her husband, dis
charging his clothes, let fall from his
pockets some silver coin Without
opening her eyes she reached out her
hand vaguely over the carpet, murmur-
ing: Excuse me minute, Lord,
am little short just now
Handsome Englshwcman = Only
fancy! I have found three gray hairs
in my head.
! Polite Frenchman-So long as they
can be counted, madam-they don't
count.
This, ladies and gentlemen" said the
wax figure lecturer of a dime museum
sis Cleo-patterer-the same to a dot as
her mummy in the catacombs of Rome
She was the most beautiful antique ever
dug up, and history tells us Alexander
the Great was SO enameled of her, he
killed himself when she ran away with
his friend Brutus.''
Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood has taken
up an entirely unique study and is
making profit therefrom. She has al
ways been interested in Oriental mat
ters, and has now so far advanced in
the Japanese language as to be an au-
thority on poetry and all sorts of art
| treasures. She is one only woman in
| New York who can read the mystic
| symbols, and is known and recognized
| by every dealer in Japanese curios
Furthermore, Mrs. Wood is often in de-
mand at the Custom-house, when an
expert opinion is needed, and she has
built up a most lucrative business. Her
own collection is valued at $4,000, but
serves its best use as a model for less
knowing buyers.
| The meringue on pies and puddings,
which should be dainty foam several
| inches high, is often but crust of
leather, produced by too hot an oven
After making a meringue it should be
spread roughly but evenly over the sur
| face of a pie or pudding that is nearly
| but not quite cold. Turn the heat off
your oven and bake it about twenty
minutes. When finished it should be a
delicate brown. Professional makers
of fine pastry dry or cook meringues in
a. very slow oven from a half to three
! quarters of an hour, and then brown
them slightly with a salamander.
| A pleasant variation in an even
ing of games is the drawing Of flowers
with colored crayons, and then having
your guests guess the, names of the
flowers A list of flowers should be
made out, each one with a number. On
separate slips of paper write the name
of one of the flowers with its corre-
spending number, until you have used
each one on the list. Give each guest
one of the slips, or have a draw for
them, and. provide them with crayons
and sheets of paper Give fifteen min
utes for the making of the flowers, then
collect the drawings and pin them up
about the room. AS the names of the
flowers are read from the list guesses
are given as to which flower among the
drawings represent it. Another pleas
ant game is called matching quota
tions. Well-known lines are written on
slips of paper and then divided into
bits, each part having three or four
words. These fragments are pinned
about the room on furniture, curtains
and hangings, and each person takes
one and starts out to find theother parts
that will make the quotation complete
| Sometimes the quotations may consist
of an entire line, with the second line
forming the other half to be looked for
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Next to curtains of real lace nothing
makes prettier and richer looking cur
tains for little drawing than
those of fish-net edged with Renais-
sance lace The net, as you know,
looks like a heavy Brussels net. The
| lace border is a heavy lace composed
of lace braids and rings covered with
heavy linen thread. The rings are in
troduced into the pattern Of the lace.
which is connected with lace stitches.
The fish-net comes in a numebr of quail
tiles, both fine and coarse, and the
"reminiscences 1aces are to be bought in
narrow edge at 80 cents a yard, as well
as in wide insertions, and in edges at
! least a quarter of a yard wide The
curtain may therefore be very reason-
able in price or as expensive as one
chooses. A very pretty pair of the cur
tains with narrow lace edges costs from
$12 to SIS. Some of those having
wide lace of elaborate pattern cost S100
Often the same net of good quality has
vines of lace and flowers appliqued on
the lace Lace braids are used for the
design. These curtains are known as
tha Marie Anfniuatta Renaissance lace