The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-08
THE MODERN.
WOMAN

BY woman who loves dainty toilet
accessories the huge new bath powder
puffs of swans down, fully as large in
circumference as a head of cabbage,
will be hailed with delight. Set in a
handsome bowl of cut glass, one makes
an attractive ornament for the bath
room and fills long felt want among
woma nkind. Correctly, the powder
should be applied after the bath, while
the skin is still moist, but with the
old time diminutive puffs this was
quite impossible.
| These puffs are all imported from
| the other side, or at least the skins are,
| for the reason that there is trick
about the curing of the swans down
| which Americans have not as yet dis
covered.
Another novelty which has become
quite a fad among Anglo-Americans-
| invented, it might be said, by an Eng
| lish woman, whose race is known to
| have very pronounced ideas on any
thing relating to the baths the float
| ing soap bowl.
This article could never by the wild
est flight of the imagination be con-
sidered dainty. It is an ugly looking
wooden receptacle of primitive shape
and finish, filled with soap of well
known English make Familiarity known
to every one from his childhood up.
The special advantage claimed for the
bowl is that cit floats" A bundle OF
fibre resembling an exaggerated shaw
ing brush accompanies it for scrubbing
the body Women who have INDUCED
in the new fad are quite enthusiastic
over it's many virtues.
One of the slickest swindling games
played on a woman was that by which
the maid in the womans dressing room
of a new Broadway hotel is out S.
Early one evening a man rushed up
to her, saying, Won't you loan me
your hand mirror moment? My wife
has something in her eye. I am stop
ping here in the hotel, room $40; it's
all right"
The man was we'll dressed and had
an authoritative manner about him, so
the girl handed him the mirror with
out question. When an hour rolled by
and he failed to return she started out
to hunt him up. There was no such
person in the room mentioned nor was
such a man found anywhere about the
place. The girl had to replace the mir
ror and was out SIS in consequence.
If a woman wishes to be very smart
these days she should have all of her
manicure implements toilet brushes
and clothes brushes mounted in turtle
ebony with absolutely no suggestion of
ornamentation. Utmost simplicity
marks all of these feminine imple-
ments and the substitution of this
beautiful wood for silver is absolutely
refreshing at d time when silver
mountings have reached the bargain
counter stage.
In INDUCING in ebony, however, a
woman should learn to know the real
article. Two things are to be looked
for, weight and the grain of the wood.
Ebony is about three times as heavy
as the ordinary white wood most often
used as a substitute. There is a de-
cided grain to the wood with superb
markings resembling the back of a tur
tie from which it gets it's name. Most
beautiful is that of the medium brown.
though even with the darkest shade
the grain is always noticeable.
And still the rag rug of our grand
mothers is with US, this spring rep
resenting a charming evolution that re-
moves it far away from its original
prototype. Under the alluring name
of Shaikai it has evolved into a most
effective floor covering. Upon a ground
of reseda green. spears of Roman
colors pierce the background to hall
its width. A graduated set of shafts
will form the decoration for one end of
the rug, with perhaps one broad de-
sigh for the other. In price they range
from SO for the by up to s35 for the
by 10 feet.
II won't resign under fire. the sena-
tor pugnaciously declared. And then
if we draw off the attack" Then I
won't have to resign ''-PhiIadeJphia