The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-19
THE MODERN WOMAN.

Antique shops are now being ransacked py
women seeking for old bracelets. Nothing
Ia too quaint or too old.
One dealer has sold moFe than 800 brace
lets In the last few months, and o recent
new lot Of forty, just imported from tho
other side, went In three weeks. At this
shop there is at present a beauty In the
shape Of q broad band fully an inch In width,
made In the same fashion as were tho book
chains Of twenty-five or thirty years ago.
The favorite bracelet In the antique 10
made of filigree silver gilded, and many
women who possees neck chains and other
ornaments made OF this material when II
was fashionable many years ago are having
the paSts reassembled and turned into
bracelets. They are gold plated, and
perhaps amethysts or some other semi
precious stones enhance their beauty.
Old coral is also In great demand. A
good string OF real coral sells for from $40
upward, according to tho color and size OF
the string.
Some Of the prettiest lamps for country
houses this season are made out OF old
pieces OF pewter into which fonts have
been placed for the oil. One stunning
lamp was constructed from a queer. squatty
vase In the shape Of q loving cop. 1t was
Of pewter and the font was made In imita-
tion OF the metal, the surface showing
above the body OF the lamp being quite
plain and unornamented. An engraved
glass globe, also al antique, did duty over
again and the result was charming and
unusual.
While IL Is q common notion that shop
girls and other young things are the main
consumers Of pie and other indigestible
foods In restaurants and that older folk
eat the substantials. quite the reverse Is
true, according to the manage OF an eating
place in the shopping district.
Nothing but pie OF the good, old
fashioned sort will suit middle aged women
customers. while roast beef sandwiches,
girls, be said. "In fact the former con-
sumo more pastry than all the young girls
and men combined. -
some day a friend demonstrated with
one pie eater concerning her particular
fondness for the supposedly indigestible
unutterable scorn upon the questioner and
a.Well, I've eater pie three times a day
for nearly sixty years and never had an
attack Of indigestion in my life. 30 ! don't
see why l should spend much Thought on
my stomach at this late day..
One sometimes hears the remark that
what you like can't hurt you. This is a
mistake, 30 far as certain things are con-
cerned-electric fans, for instance.
There never was anything that required
the exercise Of more Judgment than these
refreshing but sometimes deadly articles
Of household use. Physicians declare that
this summer there have been cases with
out number of rheumatism which are
directly due to sitting in the draught Of
electric fans.
Some Of my patients have laughed at
me when / lay their rheumatism to this
cause and declare that it was not the case, '
down before one Of these fam when the
body is perspiring..
sfhe cool air strikes the surface, closes
the pores and drives the blood back, Great
ing q physical condition which in nine
They are effective In cooling the atmos-
phere in a room. but should be placed near
the inlet Of fresh air so that they will do
more than fan the old air back and forth
without benefting the inmates to any ap-
probable extent.
"A person should never sit in the direct
path OF the breeze
Calling cards for children OF two or
three years are now used. They are small
and are lettered exactly the same as their
mothers. Those for little girls are an
inch and a half in width and two inches
and and t 2 quarter s + n he len ogIn o %si and Tor y a a small 8
inches In width and two and a quarter
inches long.