The record-union., 1896-04-05


burning incense at her own shrine.
The latest thing in jeweled smelling
bottles Is a veritable censer that swings
from milady's chatelaine, and when
lighted diffuses a delicate perfume and
Q tiny cloud Of incense. At an operate
matinee the other day very elegant
young woman in a tailor-made gown
and fetching millinery get-up, pro-
duced her whilom smelling-salts at the
most affecting moment Of the perform
ance. AS she snapped open the cover
and q fine streak of circumambient
vapor curled softly up and stole
athwart the footlights there was a
craning of necks in her neighborhood
Tor two whole minutes, while the
women tried to investigate this latest
Idea of elegance.
This new perfume burner, as 1t is
called, has displaced the tiny bottles
OF aromatic salts, so dear to the heart
of the swooning maidens Of half CEN
tury ago. The English matron now
swings her censer through the London
drawing rooms as sedulously as she
carries her lorgnette rampant.
The perfume burners are also appear
Ing, and are to be found in the shops
which make a speciality of imported
novelties of the toilet, both in sizes for
the chatelaine and for the dressing
table. The little chatelaine censer comes
in cut glass and silver in very dainty
designs. It's inner mechanism has
nice little device for automatic lighting;
extinguishing is accomplished by merely
excluding the air by putting on the
silver top. The perfume burner is in
reality tiny lamp, burning, in lieu of
xxriol nf a
fragrant as the frankincense and
myrrh of Biblical days. Eastern per-
fumes, such as the pungent, aromatic
sweet grasses Of India and Ceylon, are
favorites for this use.
An interest in pillow-lace making as
fancy work seems to be awakening in
London, IL anyone may judge from the
following extract from an English girls
letter to friend in New York:
You should just see our drawing
room at present! There are no less than
four lace pillows lying about 1t, and
mothers loom into the bargain. The
room looks like a factory. Mary has
lately taken to pillow-lace, and Is max
ing some handsome coarse lace to go
round tea cloth. Mother has two pill
lows in use-one huge thing like a
BARREL on which she is making a large
square Of Russian lace for a sofa cush-
ion. 1t will be exceedingly handsome.
On her other pillow she Is working some
insertion to go between the strips of
linen she is weaving on her loom for
tea cloth. Did you ever hear Of such
an undertaking? I am making some
very fine real old English lace of the
kind called Buckinghamshire, which is
H. &C.
worth small fortune. 1t is very quaint
and quite beautiful, very fine, and has
a fine net groundwork like Brussels,
all Of which is made by me. 1 have
been busy lately drawing a design for
q fan to be made in this fine old lace,
and it is going, hope, to be quite lovely
I tried at first to prick it myself. but
that was impossible, so now I have
drawn out the design anew and sent
it away to the lace counties-Notting-
alamshire, etc.-to be properly prepared
for working Goodness knows when I
shall get it back-they always take so
long"
Meat and poultry, to be served cold,
may be very much improved in appear
ance by being glazed. The process is
very simple. An excellent glaze may be
made of half an ounce of gelatine dis
solved in a pint of water, and favored
as well as colored with extract of beef.
To be successful the meat must be per-
fectly cold before the glaze is put on,
and the first coating should be allowed
TO dry before the second is applied.
The glaze must be we'll melted and
warm and applied with a brush.
soined the ranks of Hindooism, having
been converted by Swami Vivekanda,
and. with two other women, she has be-
ccme a Sanyasin monk. Her religious
name Is Swami Abhayananda-
George Eliot Is to have memorial
erected to her name and fame in the
shane of library in her native town Of
Nuneaton, in Warwickshire, England.
Americans are expected to subscribe,
and It is believed the response from
the United States will be hearty.
princesses Khnoumit and TIA can hard
10 he said to be up to date, as they lived
An Egypt some 5000 B. c., but their
vnummies, recently discovered by M. de
Morgan, prove that however varium ct
,vntabili women may have been accord
src TO Virgil they have ever loved the
1aueler as the Jewels of the two Prin-
.,asses in the shape of diadems and neck
sacas are exceedingly beautiful, and In
-rorkrnanship equal the best of modern
times.
Mics Amy F. Acton, who graduated
<~oro the law school Of the Boston Uni
raraity two years ago, left Boston to
Ssr position as attorney in Dayton, o.
a month ago she went to Columbus for
termination for admission to the bar,
md her average places her at the head
~ q class Of over fifty members.
Mrs.. Amelie Rives-Chanler-Pierre
rroubetzkoy leads us to expect great
+bsnrs from her in a literary way. Twice
-. vried and once divorced already, and
.,,e A still young. With this record she
can't fail to become great authoress.-
washington Times.
Mrs. Mary Harlan, living near Cox
.,,,,a Ind. has just celebrated her one
s,,,rdredth birthday. she is the mother
- ex-senator Harlan of Iowa and the
rra ndmother Of Mrs. Robert Lincoln.
IIer Oldest grandchild is GO years of
80 che has lived under the admins
trafion Of every President Of the United
States.