Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
OF INTEREST 70 WOMEN

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Mrs. Hoyle-'T told the new servant that
she must pay for all the things she broke"
Mrs Doyle-''What did she say?''
"She said she was willing to do that,
but that she wanted wholesale prices
Exchange.
Lady Wimborne's new 5book shop in
Dover street recalls to mind the number
of smart folk who are, or have been, con-
nected with commerce. The Duchess of
Abercorn has creamery at Baronscourt,
from which she supplies the leading firms
in Belfast. Lady Essex and Mrs. Hwfa
Williams are responsible for a laundry, and
Lady Duff-Gordon is at the head of one
of our smartest firms of dressmakers. Lady
Rachel Byng, daughter of Lord STAFFORD,
keeps shop for artistic needlework; Lady
Aneen Wyndham-Quin has a violet farm
at Adare Manor; Miss Frances WolseIey,
only child of Lord and Lady Wolseley,
manages a garden and school for gar
dening at Glynde; Mrs. BERTHE Dormer,
niece-in-law to Lord Dormer, is a milliner,
and Mrs. FitzGeorge, daughter-in-law to
the late Duke of Cambridge, has set up
business as a beauty doctor.-M. A. P.
After his first day at school my six-year-
old boy was telling me what his teacher
had taught the pupils. And She taught
US all about Mary's little lamb. Can you
sing it. mamma ?" I began to sing, Mary
had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb"
That's it, that's it"' he interrupted ex-
citedly, land it had white fieas, as white
as snow; but isn't it funny to sing about
feas?''-Good Housekeeping.
Another principle which obtains in bust
ness is simply the matter of keeping ones
word An article is bought and ordered
pypect 1T To he there You
may engage a maid, and there is no GER
tainty whether she will keep her engage
ment or not. At first 1 could not under
stand why, when 1 took a place, the en-
ployer would say. Now you will surely
come, and won't disappoint me-, or BE
sure and do not fail me-
One day asked, Why do you act as If
1 would not come? III keep my word"
And the reply was, II have had so many
disappointments." I lived to learn that the
merest whim on the part of either en-
ployer or employe is sufficient to cause
both one and the other to change her
mind
This is not right. If maid promises to
go to an employer and disappoints her
without good and sufficient reason, the of
flee from which she was engaged should
strike her name from their books And
when an employee is engaged after spend
ing time, trouble and expense to obtain a
place, only to be told that the lady has
changed her mind it would seem to be
intelligence office to request the discontin-
uance of such patronage.-Atlantic
The fashion of having visiting cards for
dogs has lately come into vogue in Paris,
and many society women who are pos
SCISSORS of toy dogs have not only furnished
their pets with full wardrobe, down to
handkerchiefs worn in a tiny pocket of a
blanket which is made to resemble a mini
ature box overcoat as nearly as possible,
but are insisting that the social side of
dogdom should be looked after The cards
are generally much smaller than mans
visiting card and it is customary to be-
stow the family name upon the pet-EX-
change.
An apparently respectable matron car
rying an ostensible baby in long clothes
was observed yesterday fumbling at a stall
in one of the big shops of the Rue de Riv-
oil, Paris. The observers of her move
ments were two detectives who had fol-
lowed her into the shop, thinking that they
had seen her before.
The men were correct in their surmise,
for the natrOnly person is a professional
thief, with many previous convictions. She
was seen lifting several articles of cheap
jewelry, and then walked to another
stall, whence she distracted some pieces
of velvet and silk. AS she was leaving
the shop the woman was arrested. At the
police station she protested that she was
the wrong person and began to cry. The
ostensible baby also cried, and the police
Supefll lenQeni, DellS evidently a IdCner,
lifted the veil off the infants face and
spoke soothing words to the child
Looking more closely at the baby, the
police official noted that its eyes were quite
dry and its face bereft of trace of life.
Tapping the infantine visage, he found
that it was made of cardboard. The bogus
baby was a receptacle for stolen property.
On it's body was contrivance which, when
pressed, made the dummy infant evolve
cries. The receptacle had inside it a stolen
bracelet and the piece of velvet and silk
distracted from the shop.-London Tee-
graph.
Ball dresses in London are now being
made particularly low at the back. Touches
of silk tulle are put in the sleeves, and
the front is ornamented with silver or
mother-of-pearl spangles. The Louis the
Fifteenth style of bodice is much affected,
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