El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-21
For the Better Half
Written for the HERALD.

ton of one housewife. that women who
| do their own work and who are not
very strong, should have some sort of
q lounge in the kitchen where they can
last few minutes OF the baking or for
the dinner to get through it's main
bubbling and browning until time for
giving the finishing touches. There
is also no reason why the kitchen
should not have couple of shelves for
books or magazines, for there are plen-
ty of little odd periods when one is too
tired to hunt up book to read or
cannot leave the room for fear OF some
thing coming to grief.
Representative Lacey of Iowa has
taken q great interest in the attempts
| to save some Of our birds and has in
troduced and had passed bill through
States Fish Commissions duties to in
clude the preservation OF game birds.
The naturalists of the National Museum
earnestly deplore that fashionable and
gentle hearted women will not aid
them as only they can. Many Ameri-
can species of birds have been compile
tely exterminated, many species are
that they will not soon become extinct
and many others can only be saved by
immediate and positive efforts. If wo-
men would only give up the use of
birds and wings for their millinery,
they would not loose thousandth part
of what our country would gain by
their sacrifice.
Prince Can tacuzene, VINO ia soon to
wed Miss Grant, is having hard time
to find best man. he really ought
to have Grand Duke, but it seems di
ficult for any of his grand ducal friends
to fill the Office. 1t is said that q young
Mr.. Palmer, Mrs. Potter Palmer's son,
therefore cousin to the bride, will per-
form the actual duties prompt
ed by his mother whose skill-even in
the intricacies OF etiquette involved in
an international wedding when a Prince
is the groom-is never doubted. The
Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia will
be present and in name will be the
best man. Prince CsntacuZene is be-
ing generously entertained at Newport.
Chauncey Depew gave the young folks
. dinner. The Prince in return for
some OF the many courtesie-, has had
set of three silver cups made to be Of
fered rs a prize for polo contest for
the young fashionables at Newport.
At the convention of dancing masters
held in New York city lately, there
was an almost universal opinion among
the terpsichorean authorities that the
waltz is dying out and that the two |
step is monopolizing polite favor. The
dancing masters believe that this Is |
because the waltz is difficult and the |
two step easy to learn. 1t usually takes |
quite q while to learn to waltz we'll /
even with q good master and frequent
practice. but the two step can be learn
ed in an afternoon or so. The decline /
of the art of dancing is very much Ia
mented by the masters who remember
the good old days when they were busy
with misunderstanding the waltz,
fancy schUttishes, difficult polkas |
Vesuvianas, and elaborate quadrilles
and lsncers. Then the square dances
were danced accurately, with due rel
gard for the music's measures and the
pretty development of the figures
whereas in these days the music keeps
the feet going and that's about all and
the figures are carelessly carried out.
ELSIE MCELROY SLATER.