Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-30

BODY creams OF putting tnem IN jar
or a glass or Fancy vase. Oh, dear,
no! They must shine from a punch
bowl. Their stems must be cut so that
they fit in careless, artistic way, for
while the leaves are often taken from
So flowers yet quite as often their
foliage is framed all about them. The
bowls most favored are those wonderful
deep, round ones of India ware-the
quaint blue ones with the 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
a 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
q table. They have an odd way of
standing up, as il. they wished each
visitor to 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
it 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 ia
nous innocuous desuetude, which is the
one phrase that will carry one man
down through posterity.
A girl l know has just come back
from Sweden, and as she is victim of
hay fever she thinks of going to live
there. The reason why? Because there
the doctor never sends home a bill.
But when you are cured you write out
what you think the bill out to be and
forward the ducats to him. If you have
made wonderful hit in wheat, if you
have been made viceroy of India, If the
president Of these United States has
concluded that you are the proper per-
son to be Ambassador to England if
any good luck has come to you, then
you write on a visiting card $1,000 or
$4,000. 1 cannot imagine higher than
$4,000. But If you have had hard
time of it that year, if there have been
a good many mouths to feed and they
are tired of oatmeal, or if your oldest
boy is beginning to see the charm of
dress suit and white kid gloves when
he visits the young woman who is max
Ing fool of him, why, then, after a
long illness you send a modest card
with your name written on it. and I'M
derneath it you put so cents or Is cents
or whatever seems suited to you, not
10 the doctors good reputation, not to
the doctors ability, but perfectly
adapted to that thin little pocketbook
which looks as if it had been to the cir
Gus and had been trod upon in a mo-
ment Of airy persifage by the largest
elephant.
A thin pocktbook leads to desperation.
If l wanted to make woman a saint,
if l wanted her to care for the poor,
make the sick happy and we'll, give to
those who are hungry and make the
little children all as happy as happy
4 could be, I'd make that woman rich, ana
then I'd teach her how to spend her
money. Do you ever think that the
vi of oil oytr 1E
kind? The average wealthy girl gets
hundreds of letters a day, most of them
from frauds, and the one true request
among them must be treated like the
fakes or else we will have an anarchistic
government, which means lack of repose
entirely.
When l say repose, I mean it in
variable sense. Some people consider
sleep repose, there are others who
drown themselves in a good book and
consider that repose, while there are
still Others who trot around from here
to there and really haven't the remotest
idea of what repose is. Repose, as it
used to be known. was dignity, and
good dignity There are only a few
specimens of it to be found now 1t is
as rare as real old Sevres china and re-
Quires the same amount of care:
An elderly lady-she speaks of herself
as elderly, although she is 80 years old
complains of the folly with which
the girls Of to-day talk. "Why," she
said, when l was young it was con-
sid'ered vulgar to be purse proud, and
the people who belonged to the real
Knickerbocker circles, especially those
who were very wealthy, were taught as
soon as they could understand anything
that it was extremely vulgar to make
any display of their belongings or to
talk about their possessions. Then, too,
the old 'noblesse oblige' were taught
very early that because they were what
they were they must be gracious, ten
der hearted and loving to every one they
met, but to-day the girls talk about the
value of being rich, the advantage of
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