El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11

Tn eubroideries. designs of lilies big
and little, purple, white ana yellow are
| the favorites.
The widow of the President OF the
Republic of Texas, Mrs. Arson Jones,
has lust celebrated her eightietb
birthday and is hale and hearty.
It no surprise to hear that Mrs.
Francis Hodgson Burnett is writing q
new book, The lady pleases the null.
titude and her last book. IA Lady OF
Quality" won her fame and money
both in thebook stalls and on the stage,
and 1t is not so very much OF book az
ter sll-hass squeamish places.
The girls who have been off to the
mountains, the coast and the fields and
have lived in shirt waists, short skirts
and rough bread-brimmed hats, are
realizing that it's going to be hard
work to put on stiffly boned bodices,
tight, trailing skirts and top-heavy
millinery again, now that she has re-
turned her winter in town.
The story is also told that James and
Lucretia Mott had long happy mar
ried life and he was always proud and
happy o,hear her eloquent talks on
the subject which so stirred her soul.
He would sit and hold her shaker bonnet
and beam at his wife in perfect content
with her as wife pride in her intel
lectuality. There are many stories OF
happiness and devotion. of the wisest
otherliness in the life-stories of these
same women who have battled so pa
tiently for what they consider the
right of womankind.
Herr Siegfried Wagner, the son of
Richard Wagner, the great composer
and director, is himself a composer
and director of growing fame. His
operas have received much cOmmepda-
tion and the proof OF his genius as
is given in the announcement
that managers are trying to get him
to come to New York next winter. 1t
is we'll known fact that all OF Europe
is glad to send its geniuses OF music to
our hospitable cities, where true must
cal inspiration generally is given en-
thusiastic and generous reward.
One of the liveliest discussions on
ron-political subjects that has interest
ed Paris lately is the question of Ham
let's true age and proportions. Sara
Bernhart began it by present. ting Ham
Iet-of course q thin Hamlet. Then |
there was French duel over the mat
ter and now the Revue Blanche pub
fishes a symposium of ideas from clever
Parisians as to whether or no Ham
ct was slim and whether or no he was
young man. Max Nordau says that
1is idea of the melancholy Dane is a
nan, red headed, clean shaver. stout,
hort and thirty. M. Louis Esnault
links he was tall. STOPPING. fair and
eighteen. One Signora Dilenta is
ure he was fair, fat and twenty-five,
While Madame Rachilde likes him to
De small, dark, subtle. and ugly, with
he experience of sixty summers or
es5.
These summer days the florists show
Is dsblias of all degrees of ragged
,ess, except the regular chrysanthe-
mum degree. and of lovely colors of
ose, lavender, ivory and white, then
With September, comes its cousin the
,hry little more ragged
nd reckless. The dahlia's history is
n interesting one. Something over a
ago little. a simple flower was
ound in Mexico and sent to Madrid to
he botanical gardens and baptized
'Dahlia'' in honor of the botanist
here. England took up the cultiva-
ion of the aower-Spain rather neg
Getting it, and developed it towards
ariety of color, and doubling its pet
Is. Lately there has been revival