Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-11-03
MUST Shine IN APUNCH BOWL
Latest Fad With Respect to
the Chrysanthemum.
THE BOWLS NOW MOST FAVORED
Wonderful Deep, Round Ones
4..- OF IndiaWare.
Great, Big Silver Punch Bowls Arc Also
Quite the Thing-How tho Flowers Must
be Arranged Other Matters Entertain-
ipgly Discussed In Bab's sprightiy Letter.
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Now York, Oct %. just now, when
chrysanthemums are in their ragged
but great glory, nobody dreams of put
ting them in a jar Or glass or fancy
vase. Oh, dear, no. They must shine
from punch bowl. Their stems must
be cut so that they fit in a careless,
artistic way, for while the leaves are |
often taken from the flowers yet quito
as often their foliage is framed all |
about them. The bowls most favored |
are those wonderful, deep, round ones
| of indiawarethe quaint blue ones |
with tho lovely ladies from Japan
walking up ladders on their heads or
coming down in sideways fashion
fine cut glass bowls, or best of all.
great big silver punch bowls. These
| glitter and seem to reflect almost like
u mirror the white or yellow beauties
| that are the flowers of the season.
There is something dignified about
chrysanthemums, not to wear, but to
| put about a room or to use to decorate
table. They have an odd way of
standing up as if they wished each
visitor 10 realize that each one of them
had special dignity of her own, and
she wanted you not only to realize it,
but to feast upon it. The chrysanthe
mum, to my way of thinking, is a
healthy looking flower. Even when it
is bit droopy, it simply droops its
petals, permitting them to blow away,
though they never curl up or manage
to get an unpleasant odor, not they
They simply disappear into that famous
. innocuous des,letude, which is the one
phrase that will carry one man down
through posterity.
A girl ! know has just come back
from Sweden, and as she is a victim of
hay fever she thinks of going to live
there. The reason why? Because there
the doctor never sends home bill.
But when you are cured you write out
what you think the bill ought to be
and forward the ducats to him. If you
have made a wonderful hit in wheat,
if you have been made viceroy of India,
if the President of all these United
States has concluded that you are the
proper person to be Ambassador to
England, if any good luck has come to
you, then you write on visiting card
! $1,000 or 5000. / cannot imagine
higher than $4,000. But if you have
, had a hard time of it that year, If
! there have been q good many mouths
to feed and they are tired of oatmeal,
or il your oldest boy is beginning to
! see the charm Of dress suit and white
! kid gloves when he visits the young
woman who is making fool of him,
why, then, after a long illness you send
! a modest card with your name written
: on it, and underneath it you put 30
: cents or 75 cents or whatever seems
suited to you, not to the doctors good
: reputation, not to the DOCTORS ability,
y but perfectly adapted to that thin little
. pocketbook, which looks as if it had
: been to the circus and had been trod
y upon in moment of airy persifiage by
the largest elephant.
A thin pocketbook leads to despera-
l. ton. If | wanted to make a woman a
!. saint, if I wanted her to care for the
i poor, make the sick happy and we'll,
o give to those who are hungry and make
e the little children all as happy as
& happy could be, I'd make that woman
d rich, and then I'd teach her how to
Il spend her money. Do you ever think
}. that the rich people are, after all, ex-
i, tremely kind? The average wealthy
& of them from frauds, and the one true
a request among them must be treated
e like the fakes or else we will have an
q anarchistic government, which means
lack of repose entirely. -. +,
When | say repose, | mean it in a
variable sense. Some people consider
" sleep repose, there are others who drown
n themselves in a good book and considei
d that repose, while there are still Others
e who trot around from here to there and
l. really haven't the remotest idea Of
l. what repose is. Repose, as it used tc
l. be known, was dignity, and good dig
4; nifty. There are only few specimens
7. of it to be found now. 1t is as rare as
d real old Sevres china and requires the
" same amount of care ~,
J. An elderly lady-she speaks of herself
st as elderly, although she is so years ole
complains of the folly with which
the girls of today talk. "Why," shs
said, twhen l was young, it was con
l. sidered vulgar to be purse proud, ane
a the people who belonged to the rea
81 Knicherbocl1er circles, especially thost
sr who were very wealthy, were taught az
IN soon as they could understand anything
i. that it was extremely vulgar to make
TO- any display of their belongings or t.
talk about their possessions. Then,
too, the old 'noblesse oblige' wer'
taught very early that because the.
were what they were they must b
gracious, tender hearted and loving t.
every one they met, but today the girl
talk about the value of being rich, thu
advantage of having rich friends, wha
can be got out of Jack So -and-so ant
how much can be obtained from Mrs
I'd Black Diamond. To me it is horrify
n ing. l could not tell you just what
ce think it is, but the women who sci
1t their immortal souls-poor wretches
90 are not any worse than those who Sc
as life in its hard and mercenary way AM
is make no effort to find anything that j
On sweet, desirable, gentle or kindly i
no their behavior or in their thoughts. "
. "Whose fault?' That was asked @
great man, and, with surprises
looked at the question, he said, 9Th
nd mothers, of COURSE And we VIII
by looked at him wondered that tn
sci mother who thought she was doin
zee right found, with toss of her prett
M head, that it was too much trouble t
think about. Generalizing, most thing
Tor are too much trouble to think about.
The eyebrow pencil or the light blu
pencil to outline the delicate veins, tn
L. exact shade of rouge or Just the cleai
va white powder that gives an ivory whit
h. look, all these are of Importance, c
nf great Importance, but the smallest {
If the babies-well, it is a darling. 1t sit
"a in the carriage beside its mammt
wearing its white cloth coat trimme
with ermine and its great white bonnie
CHI rich with little ermine tails and tn
no. high white ribbon bows until MANN
ow and the baby make a lovely picture
ay Ten years from that time, when th
~ baby is Ii, an awkward age and do
-, cidedly in the way, he discovers thu