El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
For the Better Half
Written for the HERALD.

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1t 10 an old joke, but will bear retei-
ling that there are three ways OF quick-
ly disseminating Information, tele-
graph, telephone, and sell . woman.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, besides dress
ing exquisiSely, has . remarkably &C.
eurate memory for names and faces
and these two amiable qualities are
likely TO give . woman 9aeendom ss
blood royal come Into.
Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Ferdin-
and Peck, both rich and prominent
ChicaRoans, are vying with each other
for social triumphs In Psris. Mira.
Potter Palmer IL there as one OF the
United States commissioners to the ex-
position, Mrs. Peck 10 the wife OF the
commissioner general. Both entertain
lavishly and both are popular. Mrs
Peck rides In an automobile and has
the privileges of one of the most ex-
elusive of the Paris automobile clubs,
and Is automobiles are the rage in
Psris, che scores one ahead OF Mrs.
Palmer whose horses and Hveried
servants are not so uptodate as the
automobile turnouts. But Mrs. Palmer
has cabled back to Chicago for her
magnificent silver dinner service and
IL . dinner service ahead o; her
rival. Mrs. Palmer gives two dinners
. week entertaining twenty-eighs
guests each time and has one stately
reception q week. Mrs. Peck does NOT
give quite so many dinners hut has
mors"as homes'which are jollier. Mrs.
Palmer was invited by the King Of The
Belgians to . garden party In Brus-
sells, bus the King Of Sweden
singled out Mrs. Peck for his
er 10 friends with the Castellsnes but
the Turkish ambassador gave Q dinner
In honor OF Mrs Peck. Fret one
triumphs and then the other, and the
outsiders enjoy the tilsing, and those
who are privileged to do so enjoy the
hospitAlities of the American hostess
ees. Mrs. Peck is said 90 be delight
fully democratic and TO have Won
special favor with Madame Loubet,
the wife of the president OF France,
who herself lie democratic.
The only way to eR. corn when
green corn Is In season, lie on the cob,
and the only way to eat corn on the
cob, lie, according TO the New York
Sun, to assume the position ef a flute
player. According TO many eplcures,
green corn should be boiled with. the
inner husks on. The outer husks
should be stripped of and the inner
ones pulled back while the silk lie
carefully pulled of, then the iuner
husks folded up about the corn again.
Also IL 10 sald that 10 put the corn on
In cold sailed water and let this come to
. boil and boil from six to eight mtnu-
ties, 10 tie best way Of cooking IL tender
and retaining She davor and milk.
Old Sol is said 10 be a. good Q hair
tonic - Any that the drugstores sell,
Old Sol In com binstion with his fret
aid TO she Injured partner, Fresh Air.
Long sRo the girls of Greece would cit
on the city wslls summing and airing
their tresses, which was modest for
probably choose the back porch for her
Sonsorial airings, for IL 10 as true today
- In those ancient days, that to Gun
and air the hair gives IL new life. It
should NOT be bound, pinned, braided
or tied, but allowed 10 hang loose. Ii
10 . mistake too 70 20 to sleep with the
hair fastened up; It should be-looseened
and allowed to ges breath OF fresh
air In ths night season at least.
The latest lingerie bulletins are that
10 10 not good form to have colored rib
bons In the underbodice when thin
frooks are worn as they call attention
10 where attention ought not to go.
Another is that the under things
.hosld match, everything he trimmed
with the same lace or embroidery and
have the came color of ribbons run
through. Dainty women make sets to
match, come trimmed with valencien-
mes lace run with pink ribbons, some
with French embroidery with blue.
others with blonde footing
and pale green ribbons or
swiss embroidery and white
.bbons; skirts, uuderbodioes aud all
made with the same kind OF uffles and
Insertions and headings. One womao
Who makes all of her own clothes but
her tailor made frocks. WAS taught her
stitches in France, and besides her
rolled seams and fairy suoks, she has
forty i've different fancy stitches, rang
ing from common Cat stitch, to little
embroidered Rsrlands, wish which she
finishes the hems, seams, and bands OF
her undertakings. She deems IL .
crime to sow . stitch of her lingerie on