The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-02-18


the Inaugural ball is described as follows: The
material is cloth Of silver. The groundwork
OF white satin. heavily woven with silver
thread in conventionalized lily design. The
train, which is plain, full and sweeping, meas
ures two yards and half in length. On the
left side it is open over a panel of seed pearls
embroidered on satin. Beginning at the bot
tom is fonncs of Venetian point lace OF q
special and beautiful design, half yard in
width, which is carried narrow at the bottom
and gradually widens toward the top, until 1t
is extended its full width over the hip and out
to the back. where it is partly concealed under
the full train. The right side of the skirt is
also slashed open halfway up, and under that
is embroidered pettcoat of pearls. The
bodice is tight-ftting, and slightly pointed
front and back. The lower part is of silver
cloth and the upper and back of pearls. The
same beautiful lace that is used in the founce
is fastened at the waist line into Barrow
point and is draped wider toward the shoulders
in V-shape. The collar is of pearl-embroidered
satin. aud from it is high Medici collar of the
lace. The sleeves are long and fairly tight and
are finished at the wrist with Vandyke effect.
embroidered at the edge from which falls frills
of narrow lace of the same design as that on
the skirt.
The Russians who are great tea drinkers, and
always have their samovars ready for tea
making, serve the cup with lemon, rum, or
jam for sweetening.
remarkably good rice pudding is made
after the following recipe:
Two tablespoonfuls of rice to the quart OF
milk. with pinch of salt. a little nutmeg and
sweetening to taste, the whole cooked slowly
for hours to cream, that produces the dish in
its perfection.
The modern ideas Of the proper furnishing
for sleeping room are bygienic and artistic
both. An oiled or painted floor is first neces-
sary-then rug rugs, but never dust laden,
fixed and immovable carpet. As for curtains,
sash curtains Of dImity, Swiss or muslin-some-
thing that can be washed easily and often-are
best and prettiest. Lambrequns and valances
are tabooed because they are dust-catchers. If
portieres be necessary, they too must be either
of heavy wash material or of some stuff that
will bear frequent shakings and beatings The
bed must be of enamelIed- iron or brass, the
chairs Of light wood and wickerwork. The
table-covers, cushion covers, scarfs for the
dressing-case and washstand, the splasher-all
should visit the laundry every few weeks.
everything in the room must have frequent
dustings for dusty bedroom is strikingly un-
hygienic.
In Asola, a little Italian town, where Robert
Browning once lived and wrote, and made
memorable in his "Asolando," there is to be
established school for the girls employed in its
silk mills. The poets son, Robert Barrett
Browning. is the founder of the school.
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Professor Gottfried Schadow, of the Royal
Academy of Arts in Berlin, asserts that the
artisticalIy proportioued woman measures as
follows: Hight. 63l inches; breadth of neck,
81 inches; of shoulder, Is inches; of waist, 9
inches; of hips, 134 inches.
Tho measurements Of the Venus de Milo are,
hight, GO inches; breadth of neck. four inches;
of shoulders. 16 inches; of waist, 81 inches. and
of hips, 13 inches. the Greek ideal being
slightly shorter and heavier than the German,
except for the hips, which in the Greek Venus
are smaller.
Now, to come to the average American girl,
height, 631 inches breadth of neck, 3.8 inches;
girth of neck, IL. inches; breadth of shoulders,
14.7 inches; breadth of waist, SO inches; girth
of waist, 24.6 inches: breadth of hips. 1871
inches; girth of hips, 1854 inches; girth of calf
1913 inches; girth of upper arm, 10.1 inches;
girth Of thigh, 21.4 inches; and forearm, go
inches.
According to these figures the American girl
is taller than the Venus. Her throat is SLIM
mer her shoulders very much smaller. Her
waist is also much too slim for true proportions,
but her hips are larger than the Venus. At the
time the measurements were made-1892-it
was urged that the American woman has not a
straight, well developed back and shoulders.
The measurements for the American girl are
the average OF several thousand measurements