The age-herald., 1898-09-25

Copyright, 1S9S.1

Everybody who is anybody is coming back from Paris. The first thing you are told, and everybody who is some body is a woman body, is that unless you can wear cherries you are nobody. The Frenchman a la mode wears in his buttonhole a huge bunch of cherries, with a stick and a leaf as the back ground. Real? Well, they are the next thing to it. You are almost ready to swear that those cherries have just come from the tree itself; but, unlike those belonging to the tree identified with G. Washington, these are made of the most perfect celluloid. Then the dark haired girl has bunch of cherries at her waist to convince you of i. smallness, and the plump girl has |, bunch of cherries in her hair to remind you of the quantity of beautiful tresses that are her own and to which the cher ries form a good contrast.
 Next to cherries, everybody who is anybody is drinking Scotch whisky. The bottle that used to fizz and encourage our wit is out of fashion. The bottle which held the somewhat sour but love- ly colored liquid has, metaphorieally, gone to the dogs, while the golden tint ed sherry, with it's flavor of nuts and it's bouquet of sweet flowers, may be taken with your soup, but it is not counted q necessity, merely a something that we bear because our grandfathers did it. But the Scotch whisky, pale yellow in color, mixed with soda, is given to you all through your dinner, whether you l., not the virtues of Araby the Blest in the way of smell, still it is not altogeth- CT criminal and it's taste can and must be cultivated.
 The queen has indulged in Scotch and soda until she has forgotten her own age and has to refer to the 'Peerage" to discover just how old she is. As for the set that calls itself we" it is saving money by this Scotch idea, and as one young man whose drawl had been gain cd by Five Years of Life Among the Highlands'' said: "It is 30 beastly vul- gar, don't you know, to be anything but stingy nowadays. A fellow, though has to learn just how he can give penny to another fellow who is starv ing and has the usual six wives and children. Still if a fellow learns to give his penny to the other fellow with the right air the other fellow thinks that he certainly must be a-duke, else he wouldn't dare be so careful of his mon- ey Why, my dear fellow, 1t took me quite a time to discover that the people who give wonderful presents and spend no end of money are always the people who dug up their gold or went out do- ing washing and sometimes earned their ducats in a way not so clean. We who really know appreciate the value of money, and, while we do a kind thing for fellow, we don't go around throw ing our money away. That's beastly bad form, and as you are young I am going to tell you, my dear boy, to take this lesson to heart. Give little things, and people are certain to think you are awfully wealthy and very stingy, whereas, as suggested, talk quietly, and when you give some trifie make it some gift that money could not pur- chase. but which courtesy could only command. As I said before learn to know how to give little and give that little with the air of duke or French duchesse."
 But everybody who is somebody is bringing home to the other body the dearest little night lamps that ever charmed the soul of woman and made her feel rich. Generalizing, women are not grateful. Life Is short. and the changes in hairdressing are numerous. , But the night lamps-oh, they are dar- lings! They are of china, and some rep resent that lovely little cottage in which w Shakespeare and his sweet wife, Anne Hathaway lived their life of d- iuted bliss, while there are others that initiate those ducks of Noah's ark some what that delight the souls of children and in which live elephants and mos quitoes of the same size. The little houses are of china, and there is an opening at the back of each. A broad low candle is set inside on the floor, and the light comes through the win dows in front. Think how perfectly loveful 1t would be to have lamp made after the style of the cottage of the divine William! And as you dream of Romeo, your Romeo, you would remem- Der how he said, Anne Hathaway, she hath way to make earth heaven or hell, Anne Hathaway"
 Then, too. we are hearing of the new bazaar. It is the thing to give it either in a big picture gallery or a ballroom, private ones, of course. At each stall is sold whatever the managers of that particular one may WISH, put every thing must be of one color, and all the saleswomen must be dressed to match their goods. Best Of all we're two pretty girls who sat under huge umbrella selling what they called country produce, which included hothouse grapes and beaches at $1 apiece, or two for $2.25. Hardly any of the men discovered where the economy of buying two peaches lay; but, then. as the saleswo- man said if you paid more you had -. ,..l.iol, ,unc az aroupnanf which no