The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-17
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. SUNDAY JANUARY II, 1897


General Lafayette must have seemed
a mere boy to her. The event of the
war OF 1872 found her approaching
her hundredth year. and each succeed
ing decade has added tremendously to
the weight of her experience.
During all this time the doll was
passed on from one person TO another,
ment from each successive owner-un-
usual beauty and strange history saw
ing her from the sad fate of so MANI
OF her sort.
Probably one of the most advanced
Of russian women is Mrs. Creighton,
the wife of the new bishop of London,
who is the daughter of a Russian mer-
chant. She has always been interested
in women's work and women's educa-
ton. Witness her presidency of the
recent national conference and those
earlier struggles at oxford in collabor-
alton with Mrs. Humphry Ward and
Mrs. Max Muller. which resulted in the
Oxford Association for the Education
of Women. She is a historian, like her
husband.
Dancing slippers are made to match
the gown, and rhinestone and pearl
embroidery is the finish; but when this
style of shoe is not practical bronze
and black kid embroidered with brown
and jet beads are quite as good style.
Slippers to match the gloves are fire.
quently worn, and the half-low shoe Of
finest kid is always correct.
g g 81
A good many things besides money
are in quest at Christmas. And toys
and jewels and other articles suitable
for presents are not the only things
for which money is required. Packing
boxes, for instance, a most common
place article. ere demanded almost as
much as plum pudding.
A man who wished to move the other
day found this out by unpleasant ex-
perience. He is the owner of a lot of
books, which he prizes more than he
does his clothing. and his wardrobe
is neither small nor cheap. When he
was ready to move he found that his
books would more than fill his trunk.
Then he decided he would get a pack
ing box for his books and place his
in his trunk. He went to
store around the corner, where he had
been accustomed to seeing large piles
of boxes, and offered to buy one.
Packing boxes are not for sale,
said the proprietor. I'VE are in the
enough to meet our own requirements.
We are using them to pack Christmas
goods in. We have been buying some
from Blank & Co., maybe you can get
one there"
off to Blank & Cos went the man
who was going to move, and there he
met with rebuff.
Cant get enough boxes for our own
trade" said the salesman. I'VE could
not afford TO sell you a. little box for 81
now. Come around after New Years
and we will let you have all you want.
If you find any one with boxes to sell
let US know and we will pay YOU a
commission for getting them for us
At half dozen other stores he was
told the same thing.
Not being able to get a box for his
books, the man has not moved yet. He
did not care to pay 81 for cheap
trunk.
The wise prophets among the peas
ants have shaken their heads most
birds, and then, too. the animals have
all been given such wonderful coats of
fur this fall-two unfailing signs of cold
weather, they say.
Perhaps the manufacturers have
taken their cues from the animals. for
they are turning out winter coats from
their shops that suggest Arctic shores
in their great furriness.
Others, more practically inclined, say
that whatever savors of Russia goes
this year in Paris, and they account
for the great popularity of fur that
way
Even house toilets and evening toilets
are lavishlv trimmed with furs. It's
always sure to be a becoming trim
ming, but the expense of it. There's
the rub"
amples of what furriers can do in the
way of renovatng old fur wraps. even
dyeing the fur its natural color where it
was faded in Streaks. The cost was mod
crate, too and ! know a woman who has
to conform to the little economies OF life
and yet her beautiful furs are everywhere
noticed.
She has three fur wraps-one dates
back 20 years-and instead of laying out
any money in cloth wraps for the winter,
she has one of her fur wraps remodeled.
Sometimes she boasts a collet and some
times a longer cape with stole ends. OF
course every inch of the fur that is cut
off in remodeling the garment is saved.
and when the season calls for longer
wraps the fur is cleVerly pieced out by
the furrier again.
1t means so much to a winter toilet TO
be possessed of elegant fIrS. for street
gowns then become minor affairs in the
ensemble.
One of the new winter capes is built of
black astrachan. There is a long yoke of
iahlia velvet heavily embroidered in gold