The record-union., 1897-11-21


A household magazine giving sugges-
tions for an autumnal feast to embody
the color, life and poetry of the season
begins with a cloth of sky-blue satin,
and over this spreads film of canary
colored chiffon, which is to be caught up
at intervals with white chrysanthe-
NUNS and a bit of their foliage. The
suggestions go on. but it is not neces-
sary to follow them. We who have
/ learned to abolish millinery effects in
our parlor and sitting-rooms, have torn
bows off from mantelS and chair backs
and put gilded gridirons and bootjacKs
where they belong in the kitchen and
bathroom, are not going to begin calmly
and in our right mind to make our din
ner tables a repository for finery that
should go with ballroom gown.
Tt was something of an innovation, at
a wedding lately, to have the brides
maids enter four by the right and four
by the left door Of the church. 1t was
such a surprise that the wedding party
should thus separate that the audience
did not at first notice that two process
sions were simultaneously making their
way to the altar. The bride, on her
fathers arm, entered by the middle
aisle, when her attendants had accom-
pliShed about half the distance up the
right and left aisles. She was preceded
by two ushers and her maid of honor
walking alone, another pair of uSherS
closing the procession. AS the brides
maids reached the chancel they formed
a lane through which the bride slowly
passed, to be met at the altar steps by
the groom.
One of the first surprises that people
have as they begin to realize that they
are leaving the record of a goodly num-
ter of years behind them is that peo
pie think they are old. Casual re-
marks TO that effect made before them
come as a distinct Shock the spirit
does not grow old; it is merely ham
pered by physical infirnities, and more
particularly by public opinion. People
are made old; they give up youthful
practices because people think they
should, though that was more in the
past than in the present. There is no
doubt that people, women particularly
lost much of their physical force be-
cause as they grew older it was prop
err for them to give up this and that
and settle down. Now that grand
mothers ride the bicycle, things have
changed somewhat. Almost any one
can remember, as child, wondering
how it would seem to be very ol1-in
the child's estimation, twenty, thirty,
even forty years. Then when the
twenty, thirty, even forty years have
nassed. the child, who has become a
woman, looks back and thinks that she
feels little older and surprisingly little
wiser than that child. The wedding
which took place last "Wednesday in
Watertown, when Mrs. Julia Ann Sher-
man. ninety years old, was married to
BENJAMIN F. Hunt, eighty-seven years
ois. is one of the constantly recurring
illustrations of this eternal youthful
ness. Mrs Sherman, in talking about
the wedding the week before. said:
"At heart we are as young as ever, at
least I am, and really that ought TO
keep our wedding from being talked
about outside of our circle of friends
and relatives. Just tell the papers THAI
and they won't print anything about the
young couple that is to be married next
week"
The children of the bridegroom are
married, and Mrs. Sherman, or Mrs.
Hunt, as she Is now, has no children liv-
ing. The couple We're old family
friends; they have outlived other old
friends and they feel the need of COM
panionship At the ceremony the bride
wore a pretty new gown Of lavender
silk and black Brussels lace, and car
ried white roses. Children and grand
children were present at the wedding.
A son of Mr. Hunt, living in Chicago.
wrote that it would be 'the pleasure of
his life" to be his fathers best man.
But no special favors of that kind were
granted, and the relatives attended the
wedding en- masse.
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81 cannot understand why il is" says
a physician, that when / order cold
tub bath for my patients, the tempera-
ture TO be. at 60 or 20 degrees, they
never can understand how they are to
do it. I suppose l shall let the water
stand over night says one. But it is
not necessary to let the water stand
over night We are living under CIV
ilized conditions, and the very simple
plan of turning on the hot water fau-
Get for few minutes will moderate the
water TO exactly the proper tempera-
ture. Some people do not understand
taking a cold bath anyway; / don't
wonder they take cold. To bathe prop
erly, when the water is in the tub turn
down the night clothes and bathe the
face and neck. Then, stepping into the
tub kneel on one knee, and with the
sponge throw the water first over one
shoulder and then over the other down
the spine. That causes the reaction
which makes the body warm. Quickly
sponge over the rest of the body. make
few motions forward in the water, as
if swimming. and then jump out into
the bedroom slippers. 1t need not take
more than a moment. Such bath is
very beneficial to many -blooded
people"
whenever you come across pretty
nest Of bowls that is cheap said the
housekeeper, never fail to buy them.
convenient in the family. And If you
are troubled as we are you will never
buy dishes that are anything but cheap
for common use" said another house
keeper. Eve select crockery that is
pretty and in good taste, but it is never
expensive. We have too many things
broken for that. Our cups and sau-
GERS seem to so by the half dozen. We
limited ourselves. at one time to 10
cents apiece for cups and saucers, and
never went above that price"