Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-15
BARS DELIGHTFUL LETTER
Various Subjects Handled by
the Brilliant Writer.
STYLE OF CHlROGRAPHY
The Wearing of Watches and
Ia Their Fastenlngs.
stick Pins Succeeded by Triiby Hearts,
and Chains Now the Kage-MarIe Stuart
and Her Chronometers of skulls aud
Collins Winter Fashions IN Gowns.

wHu hur Cnrouometefs OF Skuits
Cofnns-winter Fashions IN Gowns.
pecislcorrespondsnce Of Gazette ana journal
New York, Oct 9-The young
+ woman who used to pride herself on
possessing AZ bangles has wearied of
Il them, and they have gone the way OF
+ the pins. Then she elected to cover
< the front Of her bodice with what she
: called "stick pins" and she wore as
: many of them as she could buy, beg,
borrow or steal. The stick pins have
gone the way Of all flesh, or all fads.
/. After them appeared the huge gold
that was swung around the neck
4 and named after the young woman Mr..
Du Maurier made famous. Then, and
then is now, she encircled the upper
h part Of her body with chains. There
Y is thin gold chain with gold purse
on the end Of it; there is a gold
chain, strung at intervals with pearls,
that has tiny gold framed monocle on
4 the end Of Ii; there in another gold
: chain that has watch on the end Of
r IL: and there 10 another gold chain
which has the end tucked out of sight
E and doesn't explain for what purpose
Y 1t is used. Of course, there is no
sense in this collection of chains.
n There is good sense in the one chain
on which the watch is put. for it is
less likely to be lost when il forms the
& termination OF a chain than when
stuck on the bodice with an insecure
pin, or dangling at the belt from an
equally insecure chatelaine.
| Watches are cheap nowadays. and
30, unless your watch is particularly
't Irpfopa IL 10 NOT mprfl, ms 10 ,ua, =; =,
it Though some old fashioned peonle
< wear a watch that they may know the
( time.
A fascinating watch was shown to
me not very long ago. Its case was in
the shape OF beetle and the darling
had his back thickly studded with
omeraids. while on his "tummy" was
the face of the watch, and you literally
n pulled his leg when you wanted to
make him go. A great many years
& ago, before any of us were dreamed of,
z the simplest kind of a watch cost
nearly 81, 600, and it took one year to
make it. But what watches they did
make in those days! 1t was said that
the Emperor Charles had the doubtful
pleasure of carrying watch that
weighed "a pounds. In those days men
were strong. Marie Stuart, in addition
to her liking for many good things
n bad positive weakness for watches
: Not the kind of watches that repre-
sented flowers, or fruit pieces or any
thing cheerful, oh, no! To please ner
a watch must be concealed in tiny
skull, or come out of crystal coffin.
The watch that she bequeathed to
s Mary Seton was marvellous one. Do
you remember Whyte- Melville's book
THE Four Maries?' / have never
forgotten the rhyme, which says:
Last night there were four Maries; to-day
there are but three,
There was Mary Beaton and Mary Seton anC
Mary Carmichael and me-"
4. How those iingles cling to one!
But, the Queen left to Mary Seton {
watch, enclosed in a gold skull. Or
the forehead of the skull were th,
symbols of death, the scythe and th,
bourglass. AT the back was old Father
Time, and on the top of the head wal
the Garden of Eden and Crucifixion
The watch was opened by reversing
the skull; inside, stood the Holy
Family, surrounded by angels and re
ceiving the shepherds. The WORK
constituted the brains, while the dia
plate was the palate. This watch il
said to be now in the Lander family
and to keep perfeetstime. Many of tn
old watches have both inside and out
side cases. The outer case was usual
4 elaborately carved and could be en-
tiroly separate from the watch. On
Z that was picked up in an old shop il
London has group, formed OF Peter
Paul and Luke, on the back, in higl
relief; st. Peter wears his hair in
plat, looped and tied with ribbon
while St Luke, telling OF his pro
fession, has an old Fashioned medicin
case in his hand. 1t was evidentl
made In the days when spade wa
called spade, and people dotted thei
IFS and crossed their It's.
A newspaper announced this wee
that "the vertical writing is beip
taught in all the public schools.
How aorry feel for the children
They have just learned to write til
sharp English hand and they are @,
pected to take this straight up.anG
down one and to become adopts at j
have never been extremely fond {
Napoleon Bonaparte. But saw som,
thing that he said the other day--tht
is l saw it the other day, but PR
sumo, unless it was through til
medium Of spiritualist, that he sal
it long time ago. 1t was this: IN
iinhs bouiAhB WIN q pIpbo VI publDbE
can be expected to write a legib
hand; all he can do is to set down do
and leave ii to others to decipb
them" Since reading that Napolec
has seemed more human and less sci
made. OF course, it is great thir
to be able to write clearly.
But the average man, and mo
especially the average woman, is n,
legibls writer. / think have solve
the reason of this
At that happy time when most
us were going to school, we began
write Perseverance, is the secret
success" in round, copybook ham
with beautiful standings, tall "ps
and short ''t's, is" properly dotte,
and "y's" that didn't have curle5 tai
like. "q's." In the midst of th
: search for success we were sudden
stopped, and by order of the schoa
teacher we began to write ''If at fir
you don't succeed, try, try again."
the angular English hand. which ht
meantime become fashionable. Nov
no human being, especially at Il
mature age of 3D. could, after years
application at round "O's'' sudden
make sharp los" with success; 81
could not, in a moment. drag dow
from their haipht all her t1I,u - l,.a,