The record-union., 1899-01-01

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1t is perhaps getting late in the
season for mothers to leave their
baby carriages with the babies IN
them outside of stores While they
go inside to make purchases; still
it is difficult to tell what the weather
or the women will do. The practice OF
leaving babies over iron gratings is a
bad one, people who know say. The
gratings are put in to allow the light to
get to underground apartments, and the
bad air to get out. This bad air, COM
ing up all around the little ones, IS
very unhealthful. If children must be
left outside the shops. the mothers
should be careful to see that they are
well placed.
Love is queer thing, and people who
go into the philosophy of it learn, as
many people do who make study of
many things that they know less when
they end than when they began. An
Eastern girl belonging to one of the
finest old families in her State was en-
gagged to be married not SO very many
years ago. but for some reason, no one
knew why, the engagement was bro
ken. No one gave a clue as to whether
the man or the girl broke the engage
ment, or whether there was a reason for
1t that was worth while or not; but at
any rate the young woman considered
1t a serious enough event in her life to
warrant her going into mourning. She
was apparently normal young woman,
with no idiosyncrasies other than n
giving a little too much thought to her
self and her own affairs, a weakness to
which many people are subject. But
anyway she put on deep Grape, and all
her friends, while they mourned this
peculiar action of hers, also mourned
that her young life was ruined. But it
wasn't, as it happened, by that unfor-
tunate love, though the girl may not
have been supposed to know that. She
wore her Grape dejected1y until she met
another man, the one upon whom fate
had decided to bestow her for life. The
man was a widower, at loss without
q home of his own. Within a year
after his wife's death the girl had left
off her Grape for her lost lover, the man
his bands for his departed wife, and
the two were married. Her friends
could only exclaim in surprise: did
you ever! Her heart wasn't broken,
after ALL"
horror party is form of diver
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young folks have enjoyed. Each young
woman is asked to bring the facsimile
of a pet aversion. These are put up at
auction, and are knocked down to the
highest bidder among the young men
who pay in beans that are provided in
little silken bags distributed among
them for that purpose. Not until the
young man secures his purchase does
he know whose horror" he has bought
It's possession gives him the right to
claim the first dance from the young
woman and the privilege of escorting
her to supper. Snakes, spiders, cater
pillars and mice are usually the arti-
cles sold, but occasionally young wo-
man suggests an abstract horror" in
a picture of an Arctic scene IMPLYING
extreme cold weather or some similar
Paper vests can be bought now in
place of channels skin They cost about
quarter as much as the chamois, are
equally warm and less bulky.
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A frieze of japanese pictures is eff
fective for finishing a bedroom or sit
ting-room wall if something simple is
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with folded leaves that stretch out
from twenty-five to thirty feet or more
can be had. This is easily applied
around the room. The corners may be
prettily cut off by spreading a Japan
csc fan across each to join the two
lengths of frieze. If a further Japanese
effect is wanted, grill on which are
pasted some japanese pictures put
across the upper sash, will be found to
impart a decidedly Oriental touch. A
screen or two with some banners and,
perhaps, fans or parasols on the wall a
japanese hanging lamp, with one or
two vases in which are chrysanthe
NUNS or cherry blossoms complete a
simple japanese effect.
At a tea the other day the slices of
lemon were OIGTeu Wilt d. pair Oh extra
long silver sugar-tongs to serve them
with The ease with which the tongs
We're used suggested an improvement
over the two-tined fork usually en-
ployed for this service.
Here is an idea for housekeepers. One
of them who has ideas about matters
and things has an antipathy for cream
in tea and never uses it. Many house
keepers do not take cream in their tea.
and do not believe in the lacteal fluid
in any form for tea. This housekeeper
does, but she takes milk in preference
to cream, for she says that the latter is
too rich to be good for that purpose.
For all others no cream is too rich for
her.
What may be called happy go-lucky
hospitality is well meant certainly, but
It is not always above criticism. The
sending out of cards to more people
than ones house will accommodate is
an unwise proceeding on the part of a
hostess, however she may dislike to
draw the line through anybody's name.
The high-class caterers of New York