The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-05-18
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small suiteY in the Sherry Building is
$4,000 per year
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Brass tea kettles, or in fact, any ar
ticle of brass, with the exception Of
Benares ware, can easily be cleaned
in the following way: First wash the
brass well in suds made of equal parts
of ammonia and water with soap. This
will remove all dirt from the article,
leave it free from grease, and give 1t
a semi-polish. Then an extra polish
may be put on with good brass pol
ish, says Woman's Life. If the brass
looks hopelessly furnished any good
powder that is used for cleaning silver
or brass, if moistened with vinegar
and applied vigorously, will remove the
tarnish and leave a shiny surface.
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We have been long accustomed to
take our orders from Paris as to what
we must wear, but it is a little dis
concerting to find that the long arm
of French tyranny can reach also to
our dinner tables. But the fiat has
gone forth that soups must henceforth
disappear from our bills of fare; that
is to say, If we have a sufficient sense
of decency and religion to make us
wish to do what is right. Soups must
disappear altogether, not only from
great dinners, but also from small
ones. Denegerate wretches who wish
to indulge in soup must henceforth
crafty their degraded tastes in seclu-
sion where the stern eye of fashion
and "the correct thing" can not over
look them. Oysters must be followed
by fish and then by meats, There must
be no liquid break in the order OF pre-
cedence
After all, the soup custom IS not
long established one, and there are no
very sacred precedefits behind It. Let
it go in peace. it is said that soups
came in with the bath tub, and we
may now hope that the connection is
not an inseparable one. That soups
have now fallen under the ban is due,
so it is said, to the fact that there is
nothing Ito them" They have no nu-
tritive value to speak of. and they are
accused of an Injurious effect upon
the faces and figures of women.
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Jersey dollhouse strawberries at SO a
box-just IL berries IN a box-are the
most expensive and most delicious ma
tive table luxury to be had. A club in
st. Louis ordered 100 boxes of these
berries for dinner the other day. They
were shipped from New York.
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You ask me what 1 consider the
most generally popular fancy work,
said a noted dealer in art-needle-work
recently. zone can only judge of such
things by the sales; these are sort
of thermometer, as it were, of the few
er-heat of any fashions hold on the
public. Now, judged by this thorough
ly practical test, nothing quite enjoys
the favor of the centrepiece.
"Of course, toward summer, EN-
broidered blouses and belts are mucl
in demand; but, for all-round stead!
popularity, season in and season out
year in and year out, nothing quite
equals the centrepiece. You hear oc
casionally that it is no longer used
but I have never seen the time whel
we could not sell every attractive de
sign we turned out many times over.
Naturally there are centrepiece
and centrepieces, and the style, shap
and size run a distinct gamut o
fashion. Sometimes they are lace al
fairs, battenberg or renaissance o
combinations of cluny and hand-em
broidery. Just now those of filet lace
made up with rich squares in sati
stitch or broderie Anglaise, are in tn
greatest vogue for the women who ca
, afford their somewhat exorbitant price
Another revival is the big. old-fashion
ed looking mats in the hand croche
which is all the rage.
"Then in embroidery there are doz
en- distinct types in which centrepiece
may be developed. For the last fer
years there has been a strong leanin
to the all-white work, and we ha
hardanger, eyelet work, satin stitcl
Roman cut-work and even the simp
outline. This gave rise to the extende
use of mercerized cotton, as white EN-
broidery silk soon turns yellow. NOV
however, though the popularity of II
white centrepiece Is in nowise dimil
ished, color is decidedly in again ar
we have all sorts of brilliant effects
= the quaint Biedermier, shadow stitcl
ribbon work, Saxonia and that O
> standby, the regular floral design wOrl
ed in Kensington stitch and shaded
natural tones.
probably the favorite embroidery
the moment, however, is the Walls
chan, or peasant embroidery. This
equally in demand either in all-whi
p or in oolors, and is particularly like
for table appointments because Of Il
= ease and rapidity with which 1t ms