The San Francisco call., 1898-01-16

beneficial effects. Few persons real ize the stimulating qualities of this simple beverage.
 The density of eggs decreases as they grow old. If a new-laid egg is placed in pint of water into which two ounces of salt are dissolved it will inn mediately fall to the bottom. One laid the previous day will float a short dis tance from the bottom. An egg three days old will remain half way down the vessel containing the liquid. and a still older one will float on top. The surface of fresh eggs is like lime. that of stale eggs has a glossy appearance.
 If you have @ strip of fine fur and know not what else to do with it, work it in as vest to your best street gown, or a pair of cuffs, as fur cuffs and vests are counted as very smart. It takes a long purse to afford a whole fur jacket, but a smart little vest, col lars and cuffs are luxuries within reach of the many.
 subdued shade of peacock blue, plum color and olive green, with black. of course, are announced as the colors under which flesh seems least ostenta- tious, while Wedgwood blue, pale gray and almost any shade of red are to be avoided sedulously. Mauve and the higher tints of green are the two colors that, in decoration about the throat and shoulders are especially helpful in diminishing the effect of flesh.
 There is perhaps no other city in the world which spends as much money
 
 There are no women in the world who surround. smother and burden them selves with the amount or number of toilet accessories as the French women. A stranger walking through one of the big department stores like the Bon Marche will be struck forcibly with this fact. They will see there a thousand gaudy-I nearly said tawdry things, the use of half of which they cannot even divine. They are all color and paste and feathers and rags, silks and fringe and linen and lace, mock jewels and brushes and combs and po- mades, perfumes and savons and pow ders and braids, until the head turns giddy and the heart sick with the sights and the sounds.
 If woman undertook to make prac- tical use of all these devices, from her bath out to the putting on of the last scrap of lace or knot of ribbon, she would be obliged to give up all her time to it and would need several maids besides. She would have no time left for the cultivation of her mind, or for earning living, par example. say nothing of having Christmas days and other days to give to making others happy.
 To begin with the morning ablu- tions. There are at least a dozen sorts of washrags of different web and weave, for various times of day and for the separate members of the body Then the decoctions to be put aato the water are practically limitless-chemi- calls to make it soft, antiseptics, bags of medicinal herbs, powders and per fumes. Afterward come a line of po- mades and perfumes and rice powders, etc. For the hair, for the teeth, for the feet and for the hands there are special and branch treatments, each a master treatise in itself and requir- ing kit of tools and an expert work man.
 The French woman has more kinds of combs and crimpers and hair orna- ments for her hair than her American cousin has ever dreamed of. These things form display in the big shops