El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
For the Better Half
Written for the HERALD.

the HERALD.
the best choice. All sorts of fan cy
papers are brought out each year and
purchased by the unknowing ones.
This years variety is of color with q
border of white, an utterly unsccept-
able style to people who pretend to pay
any attention whatever to the proprie-
ties. Monograms and crests in gold,
bronze, silver Or color are allowed at
the head of each sheet and on the en-
velope flap. or the sensible plan of
having ones address prettily and mo-
destly engraved at the of top OF
each sheet, Is commended, but plain
paper is always in good form: A
woman who tries to be extra nice about
her stationery has three sizes of paper
and envelopes, q very small size for
notes of sentence or two, small size
for longer notes and little letters and q
third, big size, for long letters. Two
sizes however, are really all that one
needs, little paper and envelopes for
notes. and q large size for letters.
Bishop Potter who has always until
very lately opposed the rigid interpre-
tation of the canons of the Episc opal
church with regard te remsrriage af-
ter divorce, has now joined the ranks
of the those who insist upon the most
stringent enforcement of the church
laws In regard to the question. Authori-
ties in the church differ in opinion as
to the degree of the church's prohibit
tions from those who argue that the
innocent one of the married pair may
marry again. those who think that II
the divorce be granted for causes aris-
ing after marriage, remarriage tor
either of the divorced ones should be
denied by the church, to the extreme
ruling that under no circumstances
sha all the church sanction the remarry-
ing of divorced persons. The Bishop
at the last convention of his diocese re-
ferred remotely to scandals In his own
diocese that had brought him to re-
alization that with the law allowing 80
much freedom in the MAXI and un-
making of marriages., 1t is the CHI uroh's
duty to mail tain to the utmost the ga
credness of the relation by refusing its
couutensnce to the breaking of ties
that itself says no man shall put asun-
der.
The long coat is promised again this
winter-not shaggy rough ulster, but
an elegant affair Of pale broadcloth,
braided and furred and silken faced, or
of velvet lined with silk and edged
with fur, but as these coats are highly
impractical for any ordinary wear.
being much too heavy for walking,
only those who ride in carriages will
have.much to do with them. If ones coat
be not very long, 1t must be very short.
says Fashion and the same rule ap-
plies to capes. The long coat is not
without its use, however, even for the
woman who has to consider thrift as
we'll as vanity. A long full, empire
coat made with sleeves loose at the
III - Il lv,k cd
to be very warm, fs almost an economy
as we'll as q luxury, saving as it does
ones street wrsps from being bundled
up ignominiously and put on the floor
of some crowded dressing room regard
less of dust and wrinkles and saving one
from colds, rheumatism, neuralgia,
nerves, bad temper wrinkles snd
Doctors bills. These coats may be
home made-sfter some reliable pat
flannel and ribbons to brocade velvet
aud furs can be wrought into very
pretty wraps.
In these days women get very few of
the quaint titles of reproach, compli-
ment or affection that were once her
portion. ''Hussy." vixen" sjade,"
bsegsge shr e s, "%i II ,hs.s vir
some of the many epithets that hav
almost disappeared from our speech
and writing though Shakspere and
many writer's since, up to our days
used them continually. "Hussy" Is q
corruption OF house wife and when it is
meant kindly it implies that the girl Is
sportive and frolicsome, when used in
scolding however it means she is worth
less. A vixen is female fox and SO
it's application to women is usually un-
kind, implying sharpness OF temper and
cruelty, though it has its playful use
too. A jade is q mare and seems to
have been brought into comparison
with women to give the idea of worth
lessness though just how, it's hard to
see unless the term was used origin ally
of the tired out old mare: A shrew is
q femcie mouse and allegorically q
brawling, scolding woman and today
one is tempted to revive
tit so picturesquely describes
the woman who nibbles her way
with continual sharp seedlings and
nsPgings through all the days of life
but it is q word almost forgotten ex-
cept as it comes up in Shekspere's
plays. "Wench" has special mean
ing in the United States--a negro girl
Originally it meant q little young girl,
then it went into evil company and
wac used only of bad women until
in our land slave owners
gave it q particular signi-
fcsticn. In our country 1t Is
never used except of young negro
women but one hears 1t often applied |
to them The habit of likening women
to animals survives In these days in
the frequent use of "Puss" as term |
of affection for little girl, and some
times she is likeued to bird or |
goose. We greatly lack in our lang
uage some title for women generally, |
like the old fashioned Mistress"
LADY" or the quainter Madonna"