The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-07-16

share of deg. This monkey. Frisky, is
a gentle. sad faced, long-tailed scrap of &C.
centricity, devoted to catching flies for fun,
and making pins travel. He can carry d
colony of pins all over the house, sticking
them in an orderly manner, first in one
room, them marshaling them into another.
from chair to chair and sofa TO sofa, in the
most comicsl manner.
So far cats have made but modest social
progress, and only the Angoras are received
in the best circles wonderful fellow
standing two feet high on his bare paws.
with a coat as white as fresh-fallen snow,
is the most fashionable feline in New York
and is owned by Mrs. William King. The
most fascinating tur Of this smart pussy
is his large and perfectly ruby red eyes. He
is graciously paraded for envy and admira-
tion before guests, and given the particular
ownership of a gilt-framed chair, uphol-
stored in pale blue satin. that serves TO set
of his fair beauty to perfection
About once in five years the mode oil
fancy work chops and changes, and out on
the breezy piazzas of country houses just
now white-handed ladies of high degree are
mildly busy and enthusiastic over some
novelties in handicraft They are not EN-
broidering centrepieces, tea cloths, and
doilies in colored silks. That is a dead and
done-for fashion, and lace is in its place.
The chatelaines OF summer houses and their
guests have all taken lace making lessons
or are either busy over the finest renais-
sance patterns for hand ruchings, boieros,
or collars, else the coarser, easier style and
stitch is spent on pieces for table decora-
ton. The lace work is carried usually in
bag knitted of a great number of coiored
silks, with the mesh of which small bril-
liant beads are worked, and all the women
draw the finest of black silk mittens on
their hands when the dainty tasks are be-
gun.
Women of large artistic ambition have
gone in heart and soul for tapestry
work They hardly venture any bigger
pieces than will cover a chair seat or up
holster a sofa cushion, but some of them
do truly excellent work with their woods
and big needles. They work at frames like
those at which our grandmothers worked
their wonderful wool and silk embroider-
les.
Now that the first flush of interest has
faded from the business of knitting
things, golf hose. waistcoats, etc, the girl
who must do something with her fingers
is making truly lovely jackets of ice wool.
This is an English mode, for in that coun-
try no woman can wear a shirt waist with
out wishing just a shadow of shade of
something under it. The ice wool jackets
of cream, pale rose. or heavens own blue,
and thin as a cobweb, is just the thing.
Nearly every young girl now carries round
with her a passepartout box, and makes
by this simple method picture frames for
her friends. and the most fascinating form
OF picture frame to present your hostess is
wide cardboard frame, with small pho
tograph of yourself in the centre, and then
small, artistic blue or platinum prints on
the frame round you, showing glimpses OF
those hooks about the country house or
lawn, or tiny views of the place you most
admire. This. the giver has mounted in
passepartout, under glass, and sends TO her
hostess when the visit is over.