Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-05

The other day was admiring a large
| and beautiful diamond docket lady
wore; she laughed and said that it was
an old-fashioned earring. Earrings
used to dangle down in prodigious
lengths from the ears, and some of
them were no light weight to swing
from a dainty ear; you would have to
look long for an old-fashioned "set''
of jewelry in the shops today. Brace
lets were also considered an indispen-
sable part of attempts at elegance, and
some were made of jet beads strung
on elastic cords. Kid gloves were
ridiculously short at the wrist, and
fastened with one hook; for more
common wear there were thread or
cotton gloves, puckered into a band
and "cat-stitched" across. Some dear
old ladies kept on their black silk
mitts when they went out to drink tea.
My dear, does your mother have a
second best" dress now of bombazine,
or Thibet, or all-wool delaine? What
color is solferino? AS for your own
made with low necks and short sleeves,
and even then you would have worn a
little flannel sack or a long-sleeved
apron. Your mamma protected her
shoulders with a Sontag, a garment
long since relegated to oblivion. |
doubt if you could buy Shaker at a
Fifth-avenue milliner's now, but Shak-
ers were once a la mode for suffering
little girls, whose poor little ears they
pinned forward and whose vision they
cut off, except when looking straight
ahead. A child crossing a railroad
track was in deadly peril BUNDLE
bees sought shelter under their capes,
whether Of silk or Bingham, and alto
gether they had but one advantage
they We're easy to trim l doubt if ia
shion will ever call them out from a
past where they worked so much woe
You who study the birds so much
cannot classify one I know; it is made
of silver or steel perhaps, and has
little round red velvet cushion in the
top of its head, into which you may
stick pins ad libitum, with no fear of
rebuke from the editor of Dumb Ami
mails. Its wings are spread for flight
and its bill opens and shuts, but other
wise it leaves the scheme of ornitholo-
gy behind and becomes a mere appara-
tus for screwing on to table and
holding a long seam ''taut' in its bill
while ven sew. The sewing-bird has
taken fight because long seams are
sewed by machines or avoided by
weaving cloth in SO many ways and
widths, but seamless sheets and tubu-
lar pillow,casing. so familiar to you,
are comparatively recent additions to
your linen closet.
Here is a Fluid lamp" it is extreme
" simple in design, with no chimney,
and with a round cotton wick, whose
light was extinguished by putting
brass cap over it; the cap (when it
had not come on was hung to the
lamp by a piece of chain. What the
fluid was. | do not know, but it was
used in pre-kerosene days. This scrap
of black leather is part of the top OF
an old-fashioned baby carriage before
the era of perambulators; it was
drawn by means of a handle with
crosspiece on the end. and when the
vehicle was not in motion it rested up
on a V-shaped prong Of iron: some
times the prong, like that of a big
double tooth. broke off, and great care
had to be exercised. when the handle
was dropped. to see that the baby did
not roll out head foremost. Not even
a self-respecting doll would be seen
riding in one today. nor could be seen,
for where could such carriage be
found?