Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-12-29

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The physical examinations of the new
| students at Vassar show that the present
freshmen class has an unusually high av-
erage in health and strength.
Something new in the belt line is eter-
nally going the rounds. The latest fad is
for a crush belt of broad velvet ribbon of
brilliant hue. such as burnt orange. yellow
that would shame Il ripe lemon, bulltisht
| red and a blue that makes Yale blue pale
before il. These belts. unfortunately. are
only suited TO Very slender girls, because
they are put around the waist in front.
crossed in the back and fastened in front
with a fancy buckle. Velvet has a ten
dency to make the waist look larger, and
crossed in this way actually makes a thin
girl seem plump. A specially colored buckle
noted on an orange colored belt was 4
large square affair made of gold. silver and
copper pressed together Observation-Disclosures.
The latest model for caricaturis,s is the
girl with the eyeglass. She WIS seen.
writes a contemporary. in the front of 4
box at the theater the other ~eyening--a
smartly attired charming looking girl. who
calmly surveyed the stage through her
mOnocle; and this is. apparently, not an
port that hundreds of fashionable girls
are now wearing single eyeglasses. some
Gle. it is true. but others openly in the
street. The report is probably a gross
eSdSSeratlOn or the truth. one OptlCldn
confesses that he has just received an
order from a girl in Switzerland for two
dozen eyeglasses at once but inquiries
among other opticians do not seem TO con-
vince one tha the eyesIass trade is sup
ported 10 any extent by women.
In the latest volume of the Blackwood
memoirs is given much matter bearing on
the secret of George E.liot's authorship of
the Scenes of Clerical Life" Lewes was
very cunning in throwing Blackwood off
the scent. writing him such letters as these:
ENTIRE nous. let me hint that unless you
have any serious objection 10 make to
Eliot's stories. don't make any. He is 50
easily discouraged, so diffident of himself,
that. not being prompted by necessity TO
that his writing is not relished. | laugh
at him for his diftidence, and tell him it's
passed the middle life without writing at
all. and he will easily be made TO give 1t up
Don't allude to this hint of mine. He
wouldn't like me interfering.
Much do l regard your leaving town be-
fore our return. l had set my heart on
breaking through the incognito, and bring
thai: if you once saw and conversed with
kim. and found the sensitive. shrinking, re-
bly, modified. Is there any chance of your
being in town in the autumn?'
How was that for a clever attempt to
boom literary wares?
New York Herald: Skirt and waist
hangers are a practical part of every
Woman's wardrobe outfit. and, as a lead
ing advertisement states. by their use
The wrinkles cease from wrinkling and
to be despised when crowded cars and
changeable weather do their best to
sen space as we'll as dispense with the
wrinkles, and when ones closet room is
doubled one is correspondinsly happy. The
newest design in skirt hangers consists of
q rod, on which four of the skirt supports
can he hung. which rod in turn occupies
but a single hook in the crowded closet.
y woman who has dressed in a hurry;
gone to her closet and found the needed
gown under four or five heavy skirts. each
of which has to be taken down before the
right one is reached. will fully appreciate
In the newest waist or coat hangers the
wire hook. instead of being straight, has a
collar, and this prevents wrinkling below
are ~ridiculously low when one considers
the comfort and convenience obtained.
Some of the sets are 81, some S.0.
The details of care are what make the
difference between the well dressed wom-
an and her Intellectually attired sister:
Good dressing is not always a matter of
makers. The dominant note is the perfec-
ton of tribes.
Writing in a Boston paper Miss Ethel
Knox gives some very interesting detaiis
Respecting the women OF Hawai-; sas
beauty does not fade early. as is often the
case with women who live in nature ia
voced chimes. The grace of figure and
beauty Of face of these fair daughters Of
the South Pacific are equaled by. their
sprightliress of Wit and quickness OF com,
dashing equestriennes. skilled fisherwomer,
in fact, veritable modern Dianas.
The women of Hawaii are blessed. for
they have no housekeeping duties worth
speaking Of. If the family have money
and live in one of the towns. there are
-rOGnE np SpvN-3nfG ~ wait nDon them. ana
if they live in primitive fashion in one of
the matched cottages in the interior. the
head of the household does all the work.
which consists of little more than, going
out and cutting a few bananas and vans
or custard pears. or digging up some taro
root to make the national dish. poi. or
chasing a pig or wild fowl through the
forest on feast days. or lying for hours
beside some fern shaded spring angling for
fish.
Among the simpler classes in Hawaii
that is. the country people OF the Interior
to-date millinery or frocks. for, %clapping
Il palm or a banana leaf upon her head
j., or gracefully donning a short Mother Hub
Hawaiian lady is quite in the South Sea
mode. There are very few of the natives
of the Sandwich Islands who do not know
how to read and write, and as a conse-
Guence the women as n class are educated
5 TO a greater degree than in communities
: that have had the advantage of clvlilza-
= ton for several hundreds Of years. The
l white women who have come into Hawaii
mothers. wives and sisters of the Ameri-
cans or Englishmen, whose capital IS help
| ing to develop the country-have set an
= example to the natives which they are
: not slow to follow. The children. too, in
e the kindergartens and public schools. are
being rapidly AngliCized.
The half caste population, families in
which the head of the house is a Posta,
guese. Chinese or japanese. and the wife
Il native woman, receive greater respect
l than is accorded the same class anywhere
else in the world. There Is the family oil
the Chinese Vanderbilt. for instance, that
: of All Fong. whose thirteen daughters are
| said to be bellies of Honolulu. and have
: long been the toasts of n%val officers whose
ships have fingered in Honolulu bay. TIL.
l lovely slant-eyed Misses All Fong are sale
to he very well educated. clever and G.
excellent taste. Those of the thirteen now
married have bestowed their hands an,
hearts and shares of All Fong's fortune
j., upon appreciative Caucasians. Many 81
: the native Hawaiian women are quite wei
endowed with land. and this has. of course
a wor them fortune hunters from Other
: lands. who have gone to Hawaii to take
up rice or sugar planting.
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