Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-20
BAR LIKES ENGLISH SYSTEM
1t Induces You to Buy Most
Beautiful Things
THAT COST BIG SUMS OF MONEY
And Gives You Several Years
to Pay.
In tho Meantime, You Can Purchase Some
thing Else, TO Keep Everything whiriipg
Around. for what the People Really Want
Are Absolutely odd Articles.


odd bonnets and gay wraps. You must |
fetch instead something that is par
ticularly odd. 1t may be ugly-in fact,
it often is-but its popularity makes
| il Joy forever. One girl know put
all Of her money in French poodle
about three inches long and two inches
| high, made'of topaz, while the curly
part Of him, and especially the tip Of
his tail, was of clear white diamonds.
But there wasn't much originality in
| that. She just went into jewelry
store, picked up what she wanted and
possibly paid her bill. Possibly, If she
had any sort of credit, she didn't pay
her bill, but she sent over So or $40
at time until it was settled.
| l like the English system. 1t in
| duces you to buy most beautiful things
that cost big sums of money and then
gives you from two to five years to pay
| little sections of money and in the
meantime buy something else to keep
everything whirling around, for what
people really want are absolutely odd
things
There is an Irish gentleman who con-
descends to keep cake and apple
stand near our corner, and last summer
he was over to see "the ovid mother. ="
He had been saving his money and not
even blowing the froth off glass of
beer so that he might sail the ocean
blue second class and feel himself equal
to Victoria herself. He noticed that
every shop and every wagon had on it
"Purveyor to the Prince of Wales"
"Purveyor to the Queen. "Purveyor to
Her Royal Highness, the Princess of
Wales, and after he had told every
body over there what great country
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railroad even if he could not sign his
own name, then he concluded to freshen
l,up the old stand, so he got sign-oh,
beautiful one, a blue background
with" gold letters upon it, and these
, letters read, "Purveyor to the General
Public the whole neighborhood
so enjoyed il that business has been
great. II has an addendum which
|. reads, "Pies, Pickles and Peaches. !"
, He glories in the combination. l sup
pose he thinks the pies and pickles are
always with us, like the much talked
, of poor, while the peaches come during
the summer time and sell for consider
. ably less than in the land Of old Eng
. land, about which we all talk.
4 But to return to the souvenirs. A
: good many of them get smashed coming
!, over-t-I mean souvenirs, not peaches
and a good many more are not placed
! on the right kind of table, so they
Z suffer untold indignities. You put
. your collection in one of those rather
I large glass lidded tables, where small
children can look with their fingers
( and feel with their eyes. You want Ia
q pick up something queer, something
# that nobody else has, Now, Mrs Van
4 Rensselaer, Cruger possesses o some.
1. thing that has "a real tang to it. 1t is
4 a cradle in which was rocked the great
!. Napoleon and which she picked III
n in one Of those secondhand shops il
: Paris. 1t is vouched for and is fillec
I. every day with great masses of flowers
/. so that where once the restless brain
i was quiet now there are the perfume
- and beauty of the blossoms, something
. that the emperor Of the French or thu
prisoner in st. Helena never gave 1
thought to.
Then in jewels you must have odd
D. queer rings that were made by hant
and made in such way that each ha,
/, a special use. There is a queer silve
IN ring, with an uncut emerald in il, tina
TX rests in well-filled bric-a-brac table
n, and this is said to have been worn b.
at one of Napoleon's numerous loves and +
n, have been brought by him from Egypt
b. Another odd ring shows heavy ban
u, Of gold, each end terminating in sue
way that there is a space left so tina
IN the flesh shows between. The one en-
ne is an asp, the other tiny lotus flowe
OF carefully enameled in white. That wa
r. one of Caesar Borgia's rings, and whe
or you were his enemy and he invited 20
ey to dine with him he knew how to pres
n the back of that little ring SO that tn
asp's tongue came out and there was
little scratch on your finger. Tomo
row it grew black, and your han
'rs swelled, while your friends talke
n about cholera, and nobody dared viii
re per "poison, though everybody knew
he There is another famous ring. 1t b.
lis longed to great explorer-a hea,
* band of gold, with acameo having I'll
h. face of beautiful woman cut in |
he But the cameo is like lid and lif
is up, and under it is q vegetable poisc
ID. that, softened by little heat, will ki
lrs two or three men, and this one mt
RS took it rather than ride TO the gull
ice tine in a common cart.
is In little town near Vienna {
b. enterprising American girl found al
iel never was satisfied until she hi
IL brought the wedding dress of Mar
ew Antoinette. Like all of the house
ell Hapsburg, she had given her marrial
nd gown and veil to some poor churc
si- where the lace might be used as We
ct and the dress be cut into vestment
Here it was waiting its turn, and Il
frock worn by the girl bride will pro
ably remain always souvenir, a som
RS. thing that has history and one tn
nit is so delightful. Queen Victor
OF counts among her treasures the wal
led ing stick that Bonnie Prince Char
~. I forgot when he started off that mornil
ur- to fight the battle of Culloden. 1t W
ing discovered afterward and shows on
by handle that it has carved on one 81
INK the head of Wisdom and on the 9th
ally the laughing head of Folly.
the From all the world over we hear tn
and Jewels were never worn to such gre
Gu extent as now, but nobody wants j,
on, diamond band. The diamonds mi
use be set in some strange way and m,
have been worn by some great and go
woman or some great and bad woma
Which would you rather have, the ri
90 of nun who gave her life to pra,
of or the ring of Catherine the Gree
ece, No, no; no explanation is necessa
ana Human nature is very much the sa
Sat- all the world over, but you know til
lere did have such odd things in the d,
unit gone by. When worker in trink
ade devoted a year to cutting out ri
esi- or designing rosary, then they W,
She worth possessing.
thin That poor empress of Russia, p'
because she stands equal with
poorest woman living or dead, CLAIM
i Tn haue had n niaca of the tree III