The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
What She Has to Say About
Buying Winter Gowns.
LIKE BLACK cosTuMlNc
Curious and Expensive and Fa-
nous Watches of Long Ago.
THE NEW VERTICAL WRITING
Ellen 7 Terry Writes on Thinnest of Pa
per with Blacklist of ink---ttow
Wife Should Hold the Love
of Her Husband.


New York, Oct. S.-The young wo-
man who used to pride herself ON
sessing ~ bangles has wearied of them,
and they have gone THE way of the
pins. Then she elected to cover the
front of her bodice with what she call
ed 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 and fads. After
them appeared the huge gold heart
that was swung around the neck and
nance. after the young woman Mr.. Du
Maurier made famous. Then, and then
is now, she eneircled the upper part
OF her body with chains There is a
thin gold chain with q gold purse on
the end Of it, there is a gold chain,
strung at intervals with pearls, that
has tiny gold-framed monocle on the
end Of il; there is another gold chain
that has a watch ON the end of it; and
there is another gold chain which has
the end tucked out of sight and
doesn't explain for what purpose it is
used OF course there is no sense in
this collection of chains. There is good
sense in the ONE chain in which the
watch is put, for it is less likely to
he lost when it forms the termination
Of a chain than when stuck on the
bodice with an insecure pin, or dang
ling at the belt an equally insecure
chatelaine.
Watches are cheap nowadays, and
so. unles your watch is particularly
unique it is not worth while wearing it.
Though some old-fashioned people
wear watch that they may know the
time.
4 FASCINATING WATCH.
saw fascinating watch recently
Its case was i'm the shape of beetle
and the darling had his back thickly
studded with emeralds, while on his
"tummy' was the face of the watch,
and YOU literally pulled his leg when
you wanted to make him 60. A great
many wears ago, before any of us were
dreamed of, the simplest kind of a
watch cost nearly $4,000, 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 % pounds. In those
days men were strong. Marie Stuart,
in addition to her liking for many
good things, had a positive weakness
for watches. Not the kind of watches
that represented flowers or fruit pieces
or anything cheerful, oh, no! To
please her a watch must be concealed
in tiny skull, or come out of a crys-
tai coffin. The watch that she be-
queathed to Mary Seton was a marvel
GUS one. Do you remember Whyte-
Meville's booll-"Tyhe Four Maries?"
have never forgotten the rhyme
which saysi
Last night there were four Maries; to-
day there are but three.
There was Mary Beaton and Mary
Seton and Mary Carmichael and
me.
How those jingles cling to one
But, the Queen left to Mary Seton
watch, inclosed in la gold skull. On
the forehead of the skull were the
symbols of death, the scythe and the
hour-glass. At the back was old Faith
er Time, and on the top of the head
was the Garden of Eden and CrucifiX-
ion. The watch was opened by revers-
ing the skull; inside, stood the Holy
II ~
ceiving tln@ sheplhl rds. The works
constituted the brains, while the dial
plate WAS the palate. This watch is
said to be now in the Lander family,
and to keep perfect time. Many of
the old watches have both inside and
outside cases. The outer case was us
ually deliberately CARVED and could
he entirely separate from the watch.
One that was picked up in an Old shop
in London has a group, formed of
Peter, Paul and Luke, on the back, IN
high relief; ST. Peter wears his hair
in a plait, looped and tied with rib
bon. while ST. Luke, telling Of his pro-
fession, has an old-fashioned medicine
case in his hand 1t was evidently
made in the days when a spade was
called a spade and people dotted their
is and crossed their is.
VERTICAL WRITING.
A newspaper announced this week
that 1.-THE vertical writing is being
taught in adj the public schools" How
sorry / feel for the children! They
have Just learned to write the sharp
| English hand and they are expected
to take this straight up-and-down one
and to become adept at it. / have
never been extremely fond of Napoleon
Bonaparte. But / saw something that
he said the other day-that is, / saw il
| the other day, but / presume, unless
it was through the medium of a spirit.
| ualist, that he said it a long time ago
| It was this: mo man, dealing with g
| press of business, can be expected &c
| write legible hand; all he can do is
| to set down dots and leave it TO others
| to decipher them" Since reading thai
| Napoleon has seemed more human anG
| less self-made. Of course, it is great
| thing to be able to write clearly, but
the average man, and more especially
the average woman, is not a legiblt
writer think / have solved the reason
| Of this.
At that happy time when most of us
| were going to school, we began t.
| write Perseverance, is the secret O
| success" in round, copybook hand, Will
beautiful standings. tall u.s. and shor
its" SIS" properly dotted, and Us,
that didn't have curled tails like "q's.
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