Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-21
WOMAN rs A POWER
But, According to Bah, She Bows IA
Pretty Box.

THE MYSTERIOUS NICHE OF Ham
PINS AND ROUGE-WHERE An,
HUNG THE FIG LEAVES
TAN'S IMP IN THE 8" TOP DR,w
ER"-HEAT AND THE RINGrpr,
Ugh LIvIN' AS A CAPITJapr
RUIN-THE FATE OF WOMAN,
HIRSUTB CROWN OF GLORY
PERFUME AND ITS ABUSES
MATERNITY AS A HEAVENLY
BLESSING-BAB SAYS WV,1
SHE WOULD HAVE HER son D
AMERICANS AS GOOD LIARS
THE POLITICIAN OF TO-DAY
(From our Regular Correspondent
New York, June Il, 1896
After while there will be Do,b,r,
for an honest and Woodworking man =
do. The women will control eyer.
thing. l am moved to say this by read.
ing that so-called society woman Ia.
gone into the bOx-making bushes,
And yet, is there anything
more feminine than boxes II
man wouldn't be fool e,or,r
to pay three times their worth for Soma
handkerchiefs because they come in
pretty box. He would think OF ia
handkerchiefs, and woman would a,-.
der over the use to which the box r.gs.
be put. There is no woman above -
weakness for beautiful boxes. Cs-ba,.
inc de Medici had most marvellous c,,
kets OF gold and silver and tor.oi,.
shell, and the Countess de Scissors n.
lady who had the pleasing way Of ~,
soning anybody whose manners =.
didn't like, kept her jewels as well .,
her poisons in beautifully inlald bors,.
in finely carved boxes, and in marys.
ously jeweled boxes. | am sure q Re-,
box mounted in gold would tempt me :,
buy an imp Of Satan.
They are showing some very smart
boxes nowadays Boxes made OF to-.
toise shell, or ivory and of ebony wal
mountings Of gold or silver.
BOXES ARE SUCH A LUXURY.
One has always such a lot of thing;
to go in them, and really after all On.
cannot have too many Of them. II
you are a woman, you open a box de3.
icated to hairpins, and you find in id
three wells, four or five caramels. Il
postage stamp, with no stick on ths
back, two cigarettes that you promised
to keep for somebody, a note that yo.
didn't want anybody else to read. and d
stick Of sealing wax. That box is
surprise, and after you close it, with
some regret, you open the one esps.
cially dedicated TO wells. In it you find
some old rings, the clipping from a
society paper thta said how well y0l
looked in your Worth frock,. and some
jets that you thought you were going
to sew on the bodice, from which they
fell the other day. Eventually the hair
pins are discovered in a box where 'ie
paper of powder has been upset, and
they look as if they had been through
II IOuI Hill. HIN nON Nv AA+'r
have suffered through having DO
boxes. No place to put her fg leaves
Of course, it didn't make much differ
enee to Adam. He could hang those
belonging TO him on tree. / should
think the first mechanical art our. fore
fathers learned was that OF boX-mas'
ing, since the original man really long
ed to cater to his wife.
IN ANCIENT VENICE.
The old Venetians made such beau'i'
full boxes that one prefers to call them
caskets, for the work layished up1i
them was so exquisite. One can easily
fancy Portia tossing her hairpins inO
a Venetian box. And it would not Be
difficult to imagine some great b3uT
who had that wonderful golden hail.
throwing her additional switch ino
such a box, because, that kind OF hair
is very hard to match, and she would
want to treasure it carefully, and wol.
try to for a while. It is.a funny thing