Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-01-01
HOW IT GOES.

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A New York girl has a sewing
basket that cost ~, 100.
Anna Gould's wedding cake was cut
into 10 hcart-shaped pieces and
| packed in solid silver boxes lined Will
gold
"Sport," Il shaggy fox terrier that
had long been pet in the family OF
Mrs. Ida Hoppcrt, of 100 West Sixty
eighth street, New York City, leaped
from the roof and was killed. Theo-
dore f. Senior, a fashionable under
taker, was summoned and instructed
to give the dog "Christian burial"
Accordingly, Sport was taken to Wood
lawn cemetery in handsome coffin
and laid to rest among the million
aires who repose there, in plot not
far from the Jay Gould mausoleum.
The coffin was lined with satin and
"Sport's" pedigree set forth on silver
plates, Mrs. Hopper was feeling too
badly over the loss of her pet to at
tend the funeral. This is how the
plutocracy buries pet poodles, but
honest human beings who spend their
lives in toiling for a meager existence
die paupers, are placed in a rough
pine board box and trundled off to the
potters' field.
AS if this were not enough, the st.
Paul Pioneer-Press of November Sth,
1896, devotes two columns and half
to illustrating the "New Fashions in
Dog Costumes" 1t depicts richly
dressed lady leading two ugly pugs
and carrying cute little poodle on
her arm. The dogs were clad in elab-
orately designed imported costumes.
Their wardrobes are described thus:
Every we'll costumed dog has its
clothes directly from Paris. Ledou-
BILE, on the Boulevard Haussman, does
for Fido what Worth, Paquin or Rouff
do for his mistress. The result of so
much comical extravaganza is usually
a small odd looking trunk in which
everything will be found that could
possibly cater to Fido's needs. His
combs, brushes, curling tongs, mono
gram towels and bottles OF perfume
occupy one compartment. In another
are the negligee suits, downy silk night
dresses, with frou frou pierrot frills
circling the neck, wadded silk dress
ing gown to wear about his mistress
room in the morning and half dozen
house-blankets, to be worn with collars
of lace. The absurdities do not end
here, however, for the dog of the
period wears shoes. Cunning little
velvet pantoufles, trimmed with fur
for the house, outdoor in bits of soft
brown suede patterns and rubber over
shoes for wet days. A dog barber is
called weekly to trim and dress Fido's
hair, and also give a bath and mas
sage"
The San Francisco Examiner of
November 80, 1896, contained the
following:
"The golden anklet is the latest fad
of feminine bicycle riders in New
York. An up-to-date jeweler says:
4 am now making very handsome
and expensive anklet for a prominent
member of the Michaux club which
will create some thing of sensation.
The ornament is in the form of a
South American serpent highly valued
by natuIalists on account of its
beautiful colors, the hues of which
I shall reproduce in fine enamel. The
eyes will be represented by two large
emeralds and the irridescent hues of
the back will be represented by hun.
dreds of the very smallest rose
diamonds. The cost will be con-
siderably over $1,000 The anklet
was first worn by beautiful English
noblewoman."
Jeweled jackets are the latest whim
of the society girl. A jacket which
was designed in Paris for an American
woman was made entirely of am.
ethysts and emeralds. 1t was to be
worn with gown, a brocaded taffeta,
revealing the two colors of the Jewels.
Every jewel was sewed to the lace by
hand. Thess are designed for women
who wish to make themselves the
center of attraction.
And now, dear reader, do you
wonder that the national bankers took
such an active part in the Mckinley
do you understand why the
were willing to contribute
SO literally to the republican CAM
paign fund? They knew it ment
continuation of the banking system
that made them so fabulously wealthy
and an increase in their power,
while Bryan's election meant their
downfall. Just SO long as the present
system is continued, the rich will be-
come richer and the poor poorer; just
so long will fortunes be expended by
wives and daughters in
the gaudy attire of themselves and pet
poodles, and the families of thousands
of laboring men be compelled to clothe
themselves with old gunny sacks and
flour sacks, while they live upon
scanty supply of bread and potatoes.
Does the reader know of an instance
where laboring man became a mil