El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-03
For the Better Half
DeSpiSe d.6redtneSS,
Written for the HERALD.

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Despised6reatness.
There was man in our town
And he was wondrous wise;
He went to card clubs every week,
But never got prize.
He was a handsome man and rich.
He had a taste for art;
He knew his Homer Virgil. and
His Shakespeare ali by heart.
But all the ladies in the club
Looked on him a chump,
And Stunned him, for he never could
Remember what was trump.
Chicago News.
White serge skirts are pretty for
wear with silk or lawn blouses, The
skirts should be made up with
alpaca braid sewed to the wrong side
to protect it from the dust.
Certain clever damsels make TO
themselves card cases from the long
unsoiled tops of old party gloves, lin
ing them with silk Of the same shade or
in pretty contrast, and binding the
thread. Simple machine stitching
with silk q shade darker would do for
q finish.
The chrysanthemum fever has abated
somewhat along with the decline of all
things Japanese from the extravagant
preference that has prevailed for q
dozen years or So Not that chrysan-
themums, Japanese pottery, and silks
will not still find admiration for their
loveliness, but the japanese ''faa" is
dyir z out,as London itself admits.
The American girls who are queen
ing it in foreign lands are too many to
be told. The daughter of the Letters
is first lady in India and another Amer
lean girl is second lady in Khartoum.
The English ambassadress at thu
Hague is an American woman by
birth, English by wedding bonds only;
and plenty more of the ladies of En-
glands diplomatic corps are American
girls. The colonial secretary's wife is
American and many colonial govern
ors have United States spouses.
Queen Victoria as supreme head of
the Anglican church fasts on Good Fri
day and on that one day in the year no
meat is allowed in the royal household.
The queen and her entire household
attend church in the morning and the
day is spent as if 1t were Sunday. In
Madrid the Good Friday services at
court are much more elaborate. There
the whole court goes into mourning
riages do not pass through the streets
of the city and the day is one of the
royal mourning.
: 1t is French fancy to make q
simple frock dressy by adjoining it
with two resets and a band of velvet
ribbon OF color to match the hat
trimmings or the color of the pattern
in the muslin. These resets are pinned
across the breast with the band loose
enough to fall with the fulness of the
front, or they mark q yoke or may be
put on at the shoulder and one at the
belt on the same side. Or, with a
longer band, one roset may be pinned
to the left shoulder and the band car
ried diagonally across, the other roset
being fastened at the belt on the right.
An Illinois spinster, proprietor of
dairy farm, took the advice of drug
gist and painted her cows with Paris
green in order to get rid of lice. The
cows licked, off the poison and all but one
(cow) .died. The story reminds one of
that episode in the life of the dear
Crawford ladies whose COW fell in
lime pit and to their great distress lost
her coat. They felt that she suffered
not only physically but also her
modesty was being shocked so when the
captain in jest suggested that they put
the animal in flannels they accepted
the idea in sober earnest, and a few
days after the little town of Crawford
had the pleasure of seeing the sedate
old COW walking about in gray
An interesting case that was brought
before the French civil courts where
milliner such marchioness for pay
ment of her bills Is amusing too as dep
monstrating how triumphant is folly
with some women. The bill for four
years amounted to $15. 900. The mar
chioness wished to pay S12 600 and no
more. that being $4,000 a year and
plenty to her ladyship's notion. She
made the interesting statement that
her January hats cost her S24O. there
being eleven in all, while in February
she had only S185 worth. The mar
chioness further prays that in the year