The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-22
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where President and Mrs. Mckinley and
party are spending the heated term, that
Mrs. McKinley's health is greatly i'm
proved by the change and that she is
feeling stronger than she his for some
months. We must all rejoice at this
good news, for her ill-health must be
a very great cross to her, especially in
the prominence Of hsr husbands pres
ent position, when there are such scon-
slant demands made upon her strength.
1t is impossible for Ms. Mckinley to
perform many of the social duties of
ths presidents wife, which must be very
notifying to a woman of her ambi-
ton. Since their stay on Lake Cham
plain q healthy color in her cheeks is
said to have taken the place of her for
mer pallor, while her EYES are bright and
her general appearance denotes much
greater physical strength. She natur-
ally attracts a great deal of attention,
and her rare, frail beauty caused a lady
who has been familiar with the first
ladies of the land for the past thirty
years to declare the other day that "shs
has the sweetest face of amy presidents
wife have ever seem" The contrast be-
tween Mrs. Cleveland, 50 handsome, so
vigorous, and of such splendid physique,
and Mrs. Mckinley, SO frail and deli
is certainly a very striking one.
That women have bargain counters has
passed into a proverb. That they fire.
quently have cause to regret lingering
so long at these alluring displays of dry
goods is fact that few of them can be
induced to admit. But o, we bargain low
Schmidt, a pretty sixteen year old New
York girl. was, until a few days ago. the
possessor of magnificent suit of wary
golden hair, which she wore in a long
thick braid hanging far below her waist.
One day not long ago, in company with
a. friend, Miss Piffett, she had occasion
to visit John Wanamaker's great dry
goods establishment. OF course they
crowd was very great So dense, in fact,
was the crush. that for a few moments
they became separated. When they re-
Joined each other, Miss Piffett gazed at
her friend In amazement and horror
Your hair is goner' she gasped, when
she could speak. Ida put her hand to
the back of her head. and finding moth
ing where the lhxurant golden tresses
ShOn1d have hapn n
mysteries. much to the decentralization Of
Mr.. Wanamakers establishment. She
cried and moaned and wanted to know
how 1t could have happened. She was
told that some one had cut her hair off
close to her head. She said that could
not be so-that nobody could have done
so without her feeling it, and she had
not felt anything-which was, of course,
unanswerable. The reporter who tells
the story in New York paper, ends it
something like this: Her heart-broken
mother took her shorn lamb to the po-
lice and told her story. They said they
would do what they could, but what can
they do? They are not hair restorers."
The moral to this tails is obvious.
The Van Rensselaer, mansion opposite
Albany on the heights of the Hudson, is
understood to be the Oldest building in
the United States. 1t was erected in
1924 as place of defense and was then
known as Fort Cralo.. Gen. Abercrom-
bic made his headquarters here in 1857,
and it was at the well to the east of
the house that Mr.. shuckbury is aid to
have composed yankee DOODLE A
very interesting piece of property this
as any one can see. The Colonial Danes
thought so, and negotiated for 1t some
time ago. it would seem without success,
as it has just beeen sold for $4,000 to Pc
ter Kuizenacker, a horid ice dealer.
Won't there be tempest in a tea pot
when the fair Danes hear of this?
The northern girl, who has always been
more or less given to the wearing of lit
tie white sunbonnets when a fitting oc-
casion presented, partly because they
protect her complexion from the ravages
of the sun, and partly Qet the truth be
told. because they are becoming, will
rejoice to hear the edict that comes from
New York to the effect that the sunbon-
net for the summer girl of 1897, is quite
the correct thing. 1t is not the ugly, old
fashioned article our grandmother wore,
but lovely creation of some delicate
shade of MULE much shirred and frilled
and forming altogether one of the most
becoming frames for a pretty face So
satisfactory and popular are these lover
of bonnets that 1t is quite the fashion to
wear them at garden parties and they
promise to grow in favor day by day
HONOR BRIGHT.
ALABAMA EXCEPTIONALLY.