Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-06-25
,o,,,o, Correspondence OF Gazette ana journal

larry Ruin-Tha Fate of Wonian's Hirsute
Crown Of Glory-Perfume and its Abuses.
s,ocini correspondeuc OF Gazette and journal
Il New York, June 10. --Af flor while
there will be nothing for an honest
and hard working man to do. Tho
women will control everything. / am
moved TO say this by reading that
so-called society woman has gone into
the box making business And yet, ia
there anything more feminine than
boxes? A man wouldn't be fool
enough to pay three times their worth
for some handkerchiefs because they
come in pretty box. He would think
of tho handkerchief. and a woman
would ponder over the use to which
the hoy might be put There is no
woman above the weakness for heauti !.
ful boxes. Catherine dc Medici had
most marvellous caskets of gold and
silver. and tortoise shell, and tho
Countess de Soissons, the lady who
hau the pleasing way of poisoning
anybody whose manners she didn't
like, kopt her Jewels as well as her
poieons in beautifully inlaid boxes; in
finely carved boxes, and in marvelously
ieweled boxes. | am sure a red box
iDbunltd III tspiN Nohtf "Sh'Ps aAaN -
buy an imp of Satan.
They are showing some very smart
boxes nowadays Boxes made of tor
toise SHE'LL Of ivory and of ebony, with
mountings of gold or silver.
BoxEs ARE SUCH A LUXURY.
One always has such lot Of things
to go in them, and really after all one
cannot have too many of them. Ii
you are woman, you open a box dedi-
Gated to hairpins. and you find in it
three wells, four or five caramels, a
postage stamp, with no stick on the
back: two cigarettes that you promised
tn keep for somebody: a note that you
didn't want anybody else to read, and
a stick of sealing wax. That box is
a surprise. and after you close it, with
some regret, you open the one dedi-
Gated especially to wells. In it you
find some old rings, the clipping from
a society papcr. that said how well you
looked in your Worth frock, and some
Jets that you thought you were going
to sew on the bodice, from which they
Toll the other day. Eventually the
hairpins are discovered in box whero
paper of powder has been upset, and
they look as il they had been through
flour mill. Think how Eve must
have suffered through having no boxes
No place TO put her fig leaves OF
course, it didn't make much difference
to Adam. He could hang those belong
ing to him on tree. | should think
the first mechanical art our forefathers
learned was that of box making, since
The original man really longed to cater
to his wife.
IN ANCIENT VENICE.
Tho old Venvtians made such beauti-
full boxes that one prefers to call them
caslots, for the work lavished upon
them was so exquisite. One can easily
fancy Portia tossing her hairpins into
d Venetian boz. And it would not be
difficult to imagine some great beauty,
who had that wonderful golden hair
throwing her additional switch into
such box, because that kind of hair
is very hard to match, and she would
want to treasure it carefully, and
would try TO, for while. 1t is a
funny thing, but | do believe that
hairpins and switches are possessed of
wandering devils. Given five full
packages Of hairpins on Monday, it is
difficult, on Saturday, to tud four
with which to fasten up one's hair.
Given new switch, and for one week
IL il braided and carefully put away,
aud after that it is thrown or tossed
| think the latter most likely-into
the charming medley of brushes,
rouge, eyebrow pencils, soft linen rags,
old veis, love letters, pages Oft the
calendar, and WORKOUT gloves, that
tond to make up the contents Of what
is known to womankind as the "top
drawer.
THAT "ToP DRAWER"
Tho top drawer is the abiding place
Of the most devilish imp in Satan q
dominions. One is never sure of what
is there Your finest lace haudker-
chiefs come to you scented with to-
bacco, your incest tulle veiIs deftly
rouged, and your brushes marked over
with black and red and white dust
\ that might be powder il it weren't sc
dirty, But, speaking of boxes, | know
a woman who once bought villainous
hats and paid an outrageous price for
thom because tho milIiner sent them
home in boxes that had roses printed
upon them. And yet they pretend to
say ttat women, mentally, are equal te
men!
This is the time of year when the
marble brow of the average woman
eheds tbars that are a tribute to the
heat, and which means that a few
loose ripglets on the forehead are alb
solutely impossible. Consequently, one
wonders whether it ie better TO yanl
all one's hair backward, or to look like
convict and have a straight bang.
little woman l know made up her mint
she would wear this depraved coiifurt
for tho eummer, and she went to
barber thht she might have her bans
cut scienG Gfically. He was an English
man. andth had an inclination to cut
feuressly land with scissors that had ;
sound Suggestive of the guillotine
And he talked, oh, how he talked
MS EXPERIENCE WITH EADs.
He said: 81 have only been in thii
country month, mum, consequent,
my experience with the 'eads o
American ladies' is limited. Th
trouble, mum, is as 'ow we're al
living too Ugh. and the 'air will no
be as good as whom tho extreme o
civi-li-za- tidn had not been reached
you soc, mum, Ugh livin' CAUSES th'
'air TO drop out, and in a very littl
time, mum, learned men says as 'ov
the reeth will follow, likewise th'
'ighbrows, ahd we will ave noihink il
that limo toi speak of-'igh liyin' ant
'air do not work together. y
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! swish Of the scissors and bang O
he hair bruhh, but it must ba said TO
his English man that, like most. of tn