The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-10

stage seemed to consist of number
Of large diamond blossoms which formed
:, crown. None Of the .prin,a donnas
stockholders. Nine. Nordica was the
only singer ever honored in that fashion,
aud it is not likely that there will ever
be another. If anybody got one this
year the prize would, according to ali
precedents, 90 to Nine. Eames. Nine.
Nordica got her tiara for singing Isolde
In German, and Nine. Eames might DOS
ssibly be thought deserving Of one for
her performance of Sieglindc
Apropos Of the beef controversy at
Washington, Town Topics recalls to
mind q great trouble that many years
ago occurred in New York over the i'm
portation of Limburger cheese. In those
days the New York nostrils knew not
Iimburger. The neighbors of the en-
&terprising importer called upon the police
t. t. deliver them hem from is the odor. The po-
seentedsa dead body. When it was dis
covered that the SMELL arose from
cheese, the health board was colled III.
1t ordered the nOxiOus food to be pitched
into the North river. The owner brought
suit against the city, aud the city had
to pay for the uneducated sense Of smell
OF us employees.
The statement that dyed hair has uone
out Of fashion in New York seems true
enough, judging from the appearance Of
the majority of women. The hairdressers
say that the demand for hair dyes has
diminished until that branch Of their
business has practically come to a stand
still. But the disuse of these articles has
not reached the stage which reports of
hO 6n0IS IN
initiated to believe. "The average per
son who thinks a woman's hair is dyed"
said a hairdresser to q New York Sun
reporter, never has that suspicion unless
the wOman's hair happens to be yellow
May Irwin says that all light-haired
women are not blondes, and her own
peroxide locks. bleached until there is
not color of any kind left in them, are
proof enough of this. The women who
dye their hair brown or black to keep it
from turning gray are numerous enough,
although they never get the reputation
which comes SO promptly to the woman
who turns her hair yellow. She is dis
covered On the spot and nothing she may
do will ever conceal her device from the
public. The dark-haired kind, however,
go unsupported. That has to be taken
into consideration when anybody at
tempts to say from the appearance Of a
is large proportion of them with col
ored locks. Those who are noticed are
all blondes, with the exception Of several
women in New York nowadays who dye
their hair purple. That style was pop
ular in Paris several years ago, and it
survives here i'll several cases that inva-
riably attract attention. But it is true
as a rule that the humber Of women
with dyed hair is smaller now than it
was several vpHrS a9U1
In this age of wear and tear Oh the
nerves, anything to make your stenog-
rapher more amiable and agreeable, if
such thing be. possible, is worth con-
sidering. A rubber thimble has been in
vented to protect the fingers in both piano
playing and typewriting and is now on
sale here. The tips of the fingers are not
only nerve centers, but one of the most
sensitive parts of the body. Consequent
~, the finger nerves receive many severe
shocks in practising or typewriting. The
new thimbles are made of very thin rub
Der to fit the ends of the fingers and will
lessen the shock to the nerve centers
The speed also is increased 10 per cent.
are kept from becoming callous and the
nails from splitting.
Thistle latest bit Of club gossip
from the New York World is a frag-
ment of conversation which affords a pc
culiar example of the manners and talk
of our best society. That the man at
fords a contrast to Sidney is plain, and
that the lady was trapped into an explo-
sive is also plain. The lady is a young.
fashionable and conspicuous matron who
belongs to the hunting set. She has dis
inguished herself before at Bar Harbor,
Baltimore and Newport with her quaint
originality. 1t may be presented as fol-
lows:
Scene I. At large party. Mrs F.
is pointed out among the assembled guests
Scene II. Chesterfield is presented to
Chesterfield Nows)-I am told you are
Mrs. r docking pleased)-Ah!
Chesterfield (smiling)-But 1 don't think
Mrs F. (coolly)-Ah!
Chesterfield (still smiling)-I am told you
Mrs. F. (nterested)-Ah.
Chesterfield (calmly)-But l don't think
Mrs F. without smiling)-Ah!
Chesterfield lfrankly)-And that you are
clever.
Mrs. F. (stifly)-Ah!
Chesterfield (rudely)-But don't think so.
Mrs. r. (testily)-You lie.
CONSERVATION among the guests? Not
the slightest. One hears such strange
things nowadays in the highest and most
exclusive circles.
Sixty-four hundred men have been
>hoveling snow from the New York
streets almost continually day and night
since February y. The principal ave
nucs are almost cleared. but the side
streets are still blocked for traffic. These
men have been paid II cents an hour,
and the carts which have hauled the
:snew and dumped it into the river have
been paid so cents an hour as long as
they were willing to work.