The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-07

clay has a deleterious effect upon the nerves.
Tor the individuals who have-the habit are
eyes are dull and often the skin is of blush
yellow hue.-Chicago Times-Herald.
The Chinese vie successfully with the jap.
anese in making delicacies to send to u.s.
Some Of the most important are crystallizsd
fruits, watermelon rind and preserved water
melon seeds. Their cleaned and dried
chickens and ducks that come to us are fiat
tened as thin lath. The sardines in oil
are enormous, each foot long, the box a
cubic foot.
They ship sweet pumpkins. that look like
watermclons, covered with flour or lime. Eggs
are preserved by coating with mixture Of
charcoal, clay, lime and glue. This country
also imports from them many sweetmeats
most Of them prepared like the Canon ginger,
cleaned and boiled long time in strained
honey. Tamarinds, green dates and lines
cooked in this fashion are delicious.
In celebrating their festival of the harvest
moon they use small pieces of pastry called
moon cakes; they look like pork pies and
are stuffed with a mixture Of watermelon
seeds. almonds, raisins. spices, rice, -four
and lard. These del:cacies are exported only
during August and September.
The literary women Of Paris are planning
an academy of forty members. and have al
ready gone so far as to make out q pros
pective list Of members. Among them are
Nine. Alphonse Daudet. Judith Gautier, Henri
Grevfiie, Nine. Hector Malot, "Gyp" and
Nine. Severine.
baby show has just been he'd in Pekin,
where 200 Chinese babies were exhibited.
They wore satin bouses, embroidered with
wonderful birds and bees and flowers never
seen on land or sea. The little boys were
shaven and the little girls had their hair
stiffened and polished. and dressed as though
for the grandest function, with little bird
cages and fringes of beads and paper atop.
There were great tinklings of metal and
much shining Of green Jade A new fashion
in infant headgear showed halo of stiff
ponpons that rose above the infants somber
eyes. Others wore huge rosettes Of silk on
each temple, like a Joss, and one little girl
had name of black silk queue strings hang
Ing down from the back OF her head. Even
the baby complexion had been looked after.
On the smooth yellow cheeks appeared the
most lovely patches of pink rouge put on
quite frankly in the Chinese fashion. The
rosebud mouths were touched up, and the
| narrow brows beautifully penciled.
An Imperial Oddly
The empress Of Austria, who Is much
broken In health. is lover of flowers. She
wants her Vienna gardens to be as luxuriant-
| ~ grown as those of the Riviera. Her apart
menS display an unequaled wealth of flowers
| from the imperial hothouses. Her bedroom
and toilet rooms. bathing-room and boudoir
have hundreds Of pots. vases and glasses
that she buys Unfortunately in her travels,
and all are filled with fresh flowers every day'
| In her bedroom, just opposite her bed, and
| in range Of her vision. is statue of Niobe.
yelled and weeping, made Of bronze covered
| with green patula. This statue is ensconced
| In rare plants and shrubs behind which green
| incandescent lamps give fairy light
The servants who meet her majesty in the
hcSse, the garden, or the park are ordered
to look away and let her pass unnoticed She
| must not be bowed or curtsied to-. AS to see
Ing her; that would be difficult, since she
always holds up an old fan that has served
her for years when any one approaches. She
is followed in her walks by her Greek master.
VINO walks close enough to her heels to be
a abe to read TO her; For. this reason, and
because the strain OF holding up a gown il
too great for her, she wears comparatiyeiv
short skirts. She does not wear corset, but
over delicate cambria jacket skirN with
braces. and an over this black silk-,ined jacket,
always the same in shape, but of an endless
variety in thickness and warmth. Her hair
is p.aited and the plaits lie round her head