The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-23
Odd Things arc Wanted.
For Bonnets, Fine Frocks and Waps--Some Points Abou
What is Fashionable in Jewels Now Days.

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nature is very much the same all the
world over, but you know they did have
such odd things in the Gays gone by.
When a worker in trinkets devoted a
wear to cutting out ring or designing
a rosary, then they were worth possess
ing.
That poor Empress of Russia, poor be-
cause she stands equal with the poorest
woman living or dead, claimed to have
had piece of the tree upon which Christ
was cruciied, and this tiny bit of wood
is in perfect shell of diamonds while
| it rests on an altar made especially for
it. drapcd heavily with fine laces and
before which lamp burns forever, while
Sister of Charity never ceases saying
her prayer for the whole wicked world.
AprOpos of wonderful rosaries, a girl
who has plenty of money, and, better
still, good taste, picked up in Japan Il
rosary formed Of huge beads made Of a
dark brown, highly polished wood. Each
bead is hollow and cut in a sort of lat
tice work, so that through it can be seen
the little gold god that literally grins
out at each one and about which the
head itself must have been cut. Undoubt-
edIy it decorated some famous temple,
since its great length-it is twenty-four
feet long-would suggest that It was not
intended for home use.
BY the bye, even in the hour of sick
ness | laughed and laughed and laughed
again at an old Scotch story as it was
told me. A Scotchman was having a
slight contest about money with the
Nf ffnr
of money, for the Scotchman does not
lessen his life and weaken his heart by
quarreling over anything else but money.
The driver on the high seat insisted thai
he had not been given enough. The
fierce-looking laddie from the land of the
mountains threw himself into dignified
attitude and said: Mon, mon, dinna We
ken that 1 am a Mackintosh|'
"Oh, bosh - answered the cabby.
"I don't care if you're an UNI
brella. You have got to pay that six
pence" With a dropping crest, the
Scotchman gave the siXpence and felt
that he was in a country that was no
good.
| like that sort of pride. l like the
sort of pride that when pennies are
scarce makes one happy because one 5
grandfather came of what our Scotch
cousins call guide" blood. 1t is very
good to know that ones pregenitors were
respectable.
Your grandmother may have been
queen of the washtub yesterday and
ride in her carriage to-day, but if. she
washed the clothes well she did duty
in that state of life in which she had
been placed, and you owe her respect.
Your grandfather may have been re-
spectacle farmer who worked away in
the hayfields until one day railroad
wanted to go through his land and ne
made them pay for it. You can afford
to be proud of him. He was n good,
honest farmer, and that is more than can
be said of most of the politicians.
All of "you-uns" and all of 'we-uns'
may have been born of respectable and
well-behaved people, who wouldn't have
known how to wear a coronet, but sun
it is from the great middle class, indus
triOus and economical, that all the wealth
in this world comes. But wealth is not
everything. There is something in being
n Macintosh, for it gives one respect
for oneself, and the right sort of self
respect makes the right sort of man or
woman. You and l both like the good
things of life We like to be Miss Muffet.
! should, for / have Il special liking for
curds and whey and think they are just
as good out of an ordinary bowl as If
eaten from the finest of fine china.
Like beautiful things, possess them If
you can, but do not let the rage Of the
collector overcome you. The man with
one idea grows very tiresome. His one
idea is always the great value of the
letter 81" Bah.