The age-herald., 1900-08-22
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Items of Interest from Various Sources

Items 0f Interest from VdrlOuS SOuTCes The country seat of Count Boni de Cas- tellaine, husband of Anna Gould, known as
 the Chateau du Marais, was sold at public auction last Saturday, together with the land and household goods to satisfy cred itors. It is Count de Castellaine's most cherished and most sumptuous country palace, and has been in the family for many generations It is considered one of the most valuable .-.s.orical castles in France.
 The creditors brought suit in the courts and the Count was granted three months
 delay. The Count succeeded keeping news of the proposed sale from the Paris papers
 and .4e general public, having letters sent
 announcing the auction only to persons
 who were considered probable buyers, and
 who might be relied upon not to give the
 matter publicity.
 Count Boni says he is glad of the relief
 afforded by the forced sale but the Count
 ess, who spent the greater part of her
 honeymoon in the Chateau du Marais when
 she came from America, is deeply affected.
 She was at the chateau several days last
 week, gathering together books and trink-
 cts dear to her, and the report Is that she
 was in tears nearly all the time. The
 Count is quoted as having said to her
 when she returned:
 Never mind; it cost too much to keep
 the place up, and now we shall have the
 money with which to do all sorts of thngs'
 Mrs. o. H. P Belmont has set a new
 fashion in bathing. One day last week she
 was among those sporting in the waves
 that dash upon Bailey's beach. There was
 nothing unusual about Mrs. Belmonts
 bathing suit itself, but there was consider
 able comment caused by the fact that she
 wore long silk gloves which reached her elbows and carried large parasol with the same air of nonchalance that she would have exhibited if she had been using this protection from the sun while driving l on the avenue. It is now expected that | the exclusive beach during bathing time will be thickly dotted with coaching para sols.
 A woman who has large proportions should never allow her dressmaker to cut the side breadths of her gored skirt with tiny darts at the top. The gores just below the waist line should be so narrowly curved and closely fitted as to obviate any neces- sity for short hip darts, which invariably leave a full, ugly, outward curve at the point where the dart seam ends. When ever it is possible, the seams of the skirts | designed for women of short, full figure should be covered with straight lines of braid, passementerie, insertion, rows | of stitching, extending over the seam lines l from belt to hem.
 One of the prettiest girls I know has been adding to her entirely too slender in- come during the past year by the sale of a confection which has become popular | that she thinks seriously of going into the business on large scale, says a writer in the Washington Post She is a Southern l girl, and there is scarcely Floridian in l town who hasn'e at time another 1 bought one of her dainty boxes of bene- seed candy. It is a Florida dainty, she says, and utterly unknown in the North; but, having once tasted it, I can't but won der why the hundreds who flock to Florida
 every year have never brought it home to
 us. The girl who makes 1t here tells me
 that she buys the seed in Florida, and that in St. Augustine one man has a monopoly of the bene trade. He sells her the seed, but only on condition that she does not make sell a bit of the candy south of Washington The seed are raised like flax seed, and the candy they are put into is old | fashioned molasses taffy Completed the | bene seeds give to the taffy a taste quite unlike anything the palate has known be- l fore. It is impossible to describe it, but l bene-seed candy is so good to eat that If l the girl who makes it sets up her proposed | shop over near Dupont circle, l am quite 1 sure she will be one of next seasons fads