The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-18

maiden.
WELL 1 do like him." said the twit-
ted, in a tone of defense. Il know he
is kind of girly, and his legs taper too
much, and he loves to rig himself up in
fancy things and look pretty, but all
the same he's a good enough actor, and
I like romantic plays. They make me
forget the butcher and the grocery bill
and the children's fiannels. Yes. there
is certainly something nice about him
and I always come to see him in the
dress-up parts"
Just before Phillips Brooks sailed on
his last trip abroad, a friend rallied
him about discovering a new religion
and bringing it back with him.
You had better be careful. Bishop;
1t might be difficult to get new reli-
gion through the custom house"
L think So" observed Bishop
Brooks; we may take it for granted
that any religion popular enough to i'm
port would have no duties attached to
it,"
Mrs. Glen Collins, who was Miss Ma
thalie Schenck, one of the bridesmaids
of Miss Cathleen Nelson when she
married Reginald Vanderbilt and
whose romantic meeting and marriage
TO Z. Glen Collins filled much space in
the newspapers at the time it took
place, has just returned to New York
with her mother and little child. Time
was when Miss Schenck was almost
stout, then she became almost thin af-
ter a severe iIIness ,ov, che r+.;,- -,
happy medium, and was never more
handsome She lunched at Sherry's a
snort time ago in plain street costume
topped by one of the latest Partisan
creations in millinery, brought direct
from Paris. 1t was a large hat. with
considerable width, and while it extend
ed out at the back and slanted down at
the front, these details, so exaggerated
IN hats the past season, were much
modified. The hat projected we'll over
the brow, but with a notable lack of
downward slant.
Mrs. Collins costume was a smooth,
dull, black cloth, with walking skirts
perhaps three inches from the floor a
ooX-like lion coat, closed i'm the front
ana coming a bit below the ton of her
belt. 1t had coat sleeves and was Sc
verely plain. Both coat and skirt were
trimmed with bands of the material cut
at intervals into picket points. the
points being some two inches apart.
this breaking the continuity of the
bands The strips of cloth were from
haIf to an inch in width, and were
stitched at their edges and also several
times through the center, each row of
STITCHING hpinpr oh
inch from the next. There was sug-
sestlon of black velvet piping to some
OF the bands, which, nevertheless, may
have been given by the turning of the
smooth cloth, the light being dim and
the observance too cursory TO be GER
tain about this
Some eight years ago Professor An
pleton of Brown University was noted,
among the college students of Provi-
; dence, for his fondness of being asked
original questions in his specially.
chemistry. And many time he did
offhand, settle the doubts and clear
away the difficulties of his admiring
pupils.
One morning, however, the professor
was put to his wits end by the follow
ing query of precocious freshman:
What twofold chemical change did
Lots wife undergo?"
Professor Appleton hesitated, sur
rendered, and finally asked the ques-
toner for his answer. Thereupon, with
, the most winsome naivete, came the
reply; "She turned to rubber and then
turned to salt"
Society has taken to wearing night
caps-not the Old-fashioned kind but
exquisite creations of muslin and lace
p deliberately trimmed with ribbon.
Countess Fabbricotti, the famous so.
{ ciety beauty, and one of the latest re.
T cruits to the ranks Of titled milliners, is
2 responsible for the quaint revival. The
countess discovered for herself the be.
coming properties of dainty little moi
? caps frilled with lace and decorated
2 with dainty ribbons, and now she is
teaching her assistants how to max,
nightcaps for her customers i'm SOutl
Motion street.
THE revival of the nightcap has beer
. extraordinarily successful" said thu
countess. when first introduced tn,
D little caps of lace a few weeks ago
I never thought they would have such {
D vogue.
. "Of course, the old style of nightcal
E was terribly unhygienic, but that can
e not be alleged against the little cap