The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-01-28
One of Her Vnnfties.

The autumn girl shows a decided
fondness for making n thing answer
the purpose of two, says the New York
World. But it is not for the sake of
economy that she is so inclined. 1t is
merely the novelty of the idea that at
tracts her.
The handle of her umbrella is called
Upon to act in this double capacity,
To the casual observer there is moth
ing strikingly new about the handles.
They are more elaborate than in OTHER
years, but hat is all. But the up-to-
date girl can prove to you in a minute
that they are not quite so common
place as they seem. There is the han
die of natural wood, for example, with
a large round top of gold set with a
miniature. The autumn girl will allow
you to admire it. and if you are a pc
cial friend of hers she may surprise
you by touching a little spring just un-
der the miniature. If she does, the top
will fly up and there you will see a
bit of mirror and a tiny powder puff
box. .
Or she may carry an umbrella with
long silver handle, which has a pug
dog Tor its top. One naturally thinks
this surely can be no powder puff box.
But the pug, when he is strokcd ac-
cording to directions, will suddenly di-
vide in half and astonish every one by
proving that he is just as much Il bon
bon box as he is a pug.
Handles of gold, many Of them set
with jewels, have the tops made for
holding change as well as bonbons. or
course, all the umbrella handles are
not these surprise affairs. Among the
prettiest of those which are umbrella
handles and nothing more is n which
is q combination of Dresden gilt and
leather. The handle is unusually long.
The lower part of it is green leather,
arranged to look like scales. Above
IS the handle is Dresden china. 1t is
scattered with flowers, which appear
as if handpainted and ornamented with
gilt in a rOcOco design. MOther-of-
pearl handles, inlaid with silver, and
also with gold, are much in favor. All
the new handles this year on the best
umbrellas are considerably longer than
last year.
Rather Let the New Woman Go!
When all has been said and done,
when the new woman has become an
established parsonage among us, and
has advanced in years as we'll as in
wisdom and honor, there will still be
| one thing for the world to regret and
| sigh for-we shall have no moro fat
| old ladies. bless EN-.
For of course the new woman. train
ed from her youth in the most ap-
proved and effective methods of physi-
cal culture, with all her superior
knowledge of how to control bodily
| conditions. to put off flesh and take it
on at will. will never. even in her old
| age, commit the error of growing stout.
So that, when the present generation
of old ladies, our miStaken-SOme
might say misshapen-aunts and
| grandmothers. are laid to rest, there
will be nobody left to fill their wide
armchairs by the fireSide (the new
grandmothers will probably be in the
gymnasium. and the world will know
n want which no superiority of the
new woman can satisfy. This loss will
not be felt all at once; it will steal
gradually upon us as a shadow steals
we the lawn. and there may even be
| some in those progressive days $50
thin and long and slim in . ind" as not
to recognize it as a loss ut all. But
these persons will be the ones who
never knew in childhood-for it is upon
the children that the loss will fall The
heaviest-the blessedness of having Il
stout aunt or grandmother within
whose radiance of serenity and good
nature, they crept as into the sunlight
when the world suddenly turned Il
bleak and cheerless face upon theil
souls.-From The Point of View" in
Scribner's.
Feminine Fads.
An ingenious EkaslisA 1Xiter, whose