The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-10
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For cultured person to relinquisl
his wonted mode of life, to dwell in
three roomed. cottage, to be clad i
corduroy or fustian, and to fare stump
tuously every day on beans, cabbag
soup, and black bread would not be
/ return to the simple but to the sordi,
life. one can live a simple life JUS
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A curious method of utilizing an in
strument hitherto regarded merely as
a toy has been devised by lace-makers,
who at the present time are employing
for their own purposes the continuance
Familiarity known as the "kaleidos-
cope"
The optical principle on which the
Kaleidoscope depends is well known
and extremely simple, small mirrors
heiug so arranged as to multiply the
images of a few little bits of glass of
different colors which are jostled about
as the instrument is turned on it's axis,
so as to fall into different arrangements
with relation to each other.
In this way patterns exquisitely SYM
metrical and beautiful to the eye are
the tube through which one looks. on
the whole it seems surprising that no
body until recently should have thought
of using them for ornamental purposes;
but the lace-makers have found that in
this way they can obtain unlimited
new designs.
So many thousands of combinations
are possible in the arrangement of the
bits of glass that one might turn the
kaleidoscope for a year without seeing
the same pattern appear twice. The
saving of imaginative ingenuity to the
designer is great, and one may rea-
sonably expect to see the instrument
used before long in the making of wall
apers, carpets and oilcloths, the ad-
apted toy affording suggestions for col
or schemes as well as for patterns.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet recently ordered
from a well known couturier a guam
tity of beautiful robes, including EN-
pire evening gowns and all lace APP
parel at fabulous prices. At her de-
parture the chief of the house was
heard to say:
"Ah! These American richessimes.
They never dispute our prices. What
shall we do without them?"
And, in fact, it is known in Paris
that French grandes danes are offered
costumes often at half the price which
Americans pay without question Resi-
dent Americans are beginning to object
to the wholesale exploitation of which
they are victims. 1t is said Of more
than one that she gets a French friend
nearly of her height and figure meas
ured and studied for a dress, which.
with very slight rectifcation afterward
in skilled hands, means a perfect fit
and exclusive design at an important
reduction.
Another grievance is that one grand
couturier, under tacit contract to give
exclusive designs, frequently repeats
himself, and with little regard to map
propriateness of dress in age and char
acter. At q recent reception two AM
erican woman and one French found
to their horror that all were dressed
alike, though each had had her dress
made especially for that particular oc-
caslon. One costume was in velvet, the
other two in cloth, which was all the
difference, though the ages ranged
from 80 to CO..
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"Why is it, Mary, that after eating a
first-class dinner at your house one
never feels sleepy and stupid? Every
where else I go and even in my own
home, if we have dined especially well,
always have an overpowering desire
to throw myself on the couch for a
nap, and all the other guests usually
look as though they would like to do
the same"
The woman addressed looked up with
a smile of appreciation.
ut is so nice of you to say that, be-
cause it is something I have really
made a study of, and you are the first
person who has ever remarked about
it. I do it by keeping pure air in the
room, and promise you this is no easy
task in my small apartments. But /
accomplish it by throwing the windows
open wide, top and bottom, for at least
fifteen minutes in cold weather both in
the dining room and wherever we are
to sit afterward. During the meal there
is always a window open in some other
part of the house, and when we move
to the sitting room one of the dining
room windows is thrown up. SO long
as one has plenty Of pure air to breathe
there is little trouble with indigestion,
and that is the only thing that makes
a person feel heavy after a good din
nor