The times., 1898-05-22
THE NOTION COUNTER.

The fields are starred with clover bios
SONS. white and pink. II you viii go out
with basket and pull and pull the sweet
things. and afterward empty them into
bags-cheese cloth is best-and hang them
in your wardrobe or lay them in your
bureau your gowns and lingerie will Diff
fuse as dainty fragrance as did the
quaint belongings of your Colonial great
grandma. OF course you can buy per-
fumes. but they VIII not impart the
charming individuality that VIII be yours
II you viii contract the clover habit
TO say nothing of the advantage In
money.
Here is some bright Investigators anal
ysIs of cigarette:
A cigarette is bit of paper. bleached
with arsenic. together with tobacco,
drugs. mainly cocaine, with fire at one.
end and a large fool at the other. Some
of it's chief enjoyments are condensed
nightmares. fits. cancer OF the lips and
stomach. spinal meningitis. softening OF
the brain, funeral professions. and fami-
lies shrouded in gloom There are plenty
Of subjects left. however. who are perfect
Iy willing to undergo these trials Of such
a trivial nature for the sake of putting
on a certain amount OF style
Poor Mrs Maybrick. She has Just in
herfted a handsome fortune left by dis
tant relative. who has wiIIed that II be
allowed to accumulate until her release
and that 1t must not be directed to any
other purpose whatever
And she is walled in by the stones OF an
English prison. where the chances are
she will die. Poor. poor Mrs Aayprich-
Nothing aggravates a book-loving man
more than to see his wife rip open the
leaves of a fresh magazine with hairpin
instead of using q paper eutter-as h9
does.
Paiamas have their good points. oh.
dear. vest But when Fashion tries 70
substitute them for the conyenuohal
night robe. the fact is developed that no
true woman is going 10 give up willingly
her soft white gown with Its huny irll"
l-and insertions Of lace On, dear no.
Boarded houses are beginning already
to assert themselves. Country homes
are being opened and garden parties ana
| strawberry festivals are about to hold
| their sylvan sway
1
when does a woman cease to be fascin-
1 ating2" is again prOpounded over the
/ land. How can an age limit be set Wnen
it depends so little on years? Shoals or
/ young girls are unable TO attract, ana
! equal shoals Of women aetat thirty and
1 something dreadful over. walk the ways
| of aduIation without apparently lifting
] finger TO lure. Cleopatra was what tns
/ Philistine might call a back number when
! she had her historical love bout with An
| tony, and that irrepressible old NInon
| d'Enclos was seventy-odd when she In
! fatuated her grandson to distraction-un-
| I'll he learned who she was. Mary stuart
\ was forty-seven when she was beheaded-
| 'the most irresistibly Ioyable lady In
/ Scotland'-and even in our own day and
/ society the matrons who are most popu-
| lar with young people, men and maids.
| are those who are. as far as the years OF
| fascination are supposed TO go. long since
! passed their prime. Fascination must be
/ reckoned by other qualities than the mere
| circumstance Of years
| Miss EstelIa Louise Mann. OF New York.
/ earns a good living by singing into ths
/ reverberating hollow tubes OF phono-
| graph. Hers Is one OF the few feninine
| voices which have ever made successful
/ record for the phonogrdph OF grapao-
| phone Her voice is powerful and her
/ enunciation distinct and clear. or she
| could not have remained IN the business
! To sing without an audience IS NOT very
| inspiring, but Miss Mann says she knows
| in reality that the world IS her audiences,
| 50 when she takes her stand before her
/ phOnograph every morning she simply
/ imagfnes that she has the world at her
feet and that helps her to expend her
best effort