Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-18

' Every woman in the world nurses
her fad, as every man rides his hobby,
said bright young clubwoman as sh
) gazed meditatively into the CLOWN,
CRATE. why, even Aunt Susan B. An
thony, who prides herself upon neve
: doing anything modern, has fad wei
established"
Aunt Susan" calculated severa
) other women who were grouped about
Think of Aunt Susan with a fad"
why should like to know wha
est she takes in making rugs and bee
quilts!"
"She calls it industry" laughed the
clubwoman's mother Don't | re-
member how her busy fingers used tc
ply the knitting needle, and what
counterpanes grew apace when as 6
child she taught me about the little
busy bee and told me how Satan finds
some mischief still for idle hands to
do'?"
"Pshaw! Just a woman's fad" in
sisted the first speaker. why, she
cribbed patchwork patterns from every
wood and tiled floor she saw, and be-
lieve she watched even the pavement
for fear some unusual combination of
stones should escape her when she was
down here last year, and as for rugs,
why, she studied every one she saw
with all the interest of a modern rug
fiend.'
1--WE been thinking" said a young
woman listener. Il certainly have no
fad. | never had time for one. You
know, as soon as | left college | took
up that course of historical reading,
and kept up my music, did the home
marketing and belonged to the club
and league
oh you!" almost shrieked her
mother and sister in the same breath
Haven't we made dresses for little
Indians, basted aprons for little ne
groes in southern sewing schools and
given you our very clothes before they
were worn out for all sorts and condi-
tions of waifs?"
why, that is not fad; it is benevo-
lence," the second sister answered,
calmly.
Eyes, sure enough" responded her
, mother; but you have lived it and
thought it and slept it until | have
heard you envy your very friends their
tnreadbare garments.
: well, I've got my fads, and glory
in them" said the first speaker who
had been busy cutting out monographs
from old letters and envelopes. "Ev-
cry one in the world has a minute of
time and finds hours when, as George
Eliot says. The world looks like a gar
den of cabbages, with the cabbages
all cut 1t is of those times, if no
other, that well-roundCd and devel-
oped fad makes life worth living. Mrs.
b., the well-known literary woman,
said the other day that she never had
time to nurse a fad What is her curiO
corner, for which she has all but
fought and bled and died to get al IT,
cles from all the known and some un-
known countries of the world, but a
fad corner. | suppose busy women
like Marietta Holly and Mary j.
Holmes would scout the idea of a fad,
a
other at Brockport, N. Y, beguile their
weary hours in gardening,
"Candance Wheeler, the veteran art
Connoisseur and business woman, knits.
The daughters of eX-Mayor Hewitt have
mania for learning how to do things,
and recently they even learned to shoe
a horse, not only hammerng out the
! CHI hut hau fn
the horses feet.
"A eng list of American women
have become experts in the use of rifles
and pistols. Among them are Mrs.
John Jacob Aston, MRS Havemeyer
Mrs. Alfred Seton, Mrs. Seward Webb
and Mrs. Valentine Mott. All of these
women, by diligent practice of their
pet fad have routed the ancient creed
that bulls eye must be the size of a
bar door for a woman to hit 1t"
Automobiles have had fascination
for Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs ever since
they were first used.
Almost everyone has a habit of COL
lecting something. The teapot fad is
pretty common. Mrs. Charles T.
lDdlitb tOllttLlOn III NHitdBO 10 Oile vi
the largest in the country-or was I'M
til half of her lot were lost in the fire
that destroyed her house several years
ago. She still has several hundred.
Mrs. d. harry Hammer mas 10000
buttons which came from all over the
world and many Of which are interest
ing as souvenirs Of various wars Sew
eral Of the buttons bear crests Of dis
tinguished families, among which are
those Of Gladstone, Sir Robert Napier,
Lord Raleigh, the Duke Of Argyll,
Count Hatfield, and the marquis of
Lorne.
Mrs. Franklin McVeagh collects
palms. She has one, a dwarf palm.
which is said to be $50 years old.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Jr., collects
plates, and owns more than two thou
sand exquisite ones
Mrs. J. ogden Armour has harbored
a mania for boxes ever since childhood.
and has two hundred, among which are
big and little, new and old ones.
I'm the home Of Mrs. Alice L. Will