The National tribune., 1908-07-30

circles of New York and a few of tn
other large cities a project is on foot t
form what is to be called the "Nations
Assembly" which viii consist of a Ger
tain number of society people from Ger
tain cities. The entire membership c
the organization will be limited to 1000
a man and his wife counting as two peo
pie. and as 600 of this 1000 are to
New Workers it will be seen that tn
other cities have a rather poor showing
No longer will the phrase "She belong
to New York or Boston society b
heard, but she belongs to the Nationa
Assembly," We are told that beside
New York, Philadelphia and Boston
Washington, Richmond, New Orlean
and few other old Southern cities vii
be represented. but the West is to b
entirely ignored, and Pittsburg, in spit
of its wealth, be given the complete "g'
by" as they say. The idea of the "As
sembly' is to revive the spirit of thu
ancient patriarch days, when the fash
ionables of all the Eastern States me
at the several great functions of the
year. The main consideration to mem
bership viii be rank and birth, bu
wealth will not be entirely left out OF
the matter. Each member must have
an income of at least $4,000 a year
not derived from trade. A splendid bal
given in New York will inaugurate this
undertaking next Fail or Winter, anG
after that grand balls will be given
every sGason in one of the favored
cities, at which all the 1000 members
are supposed to be present. Whether
this new idea has driven out that OF
demonstrating the list of the 400" OF
New York is not known. Nothing late
ly has been said about that. More
heart burnings than ever will probably
be caused by this new organization
Well, our leisure and wealthy class
must busy themselves about something
and such matter is as good as any OF
its kind, and better than some.
A very select little cooking school in
New York is presided over by Miss
Belle Bruce, a Scotswoman of refine
ment and good breeding, who came to
this country several years ago to seek
her fortune when that of her family
had taken wings and flown away. Know
ing how difficult it is for the daughters
of wealthy men to learn anything about
practical housekeeping in their luxu-
Tious homes, where a corps of we'll
trained domestics attend to everything,
Miss Bruce bethought herself of open
ing a cooking class for the benefit of
such girls. At home, like so many
women of her nationality, she was con-
sidered a famous housekeeper, and was
noted far and wide for her skill in cook
cry. Her class has been a great sue
cess. 1t consists of just eight young
ladies, all of them daughters of mil
HenaireS, and she teaches them not
only how to make and bake bread, pies,
and cake, to broil a steak, prepare and
cook vegetables, but also how to wash
dishes properly, to keep dish towels
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and silver, to keep an icebox in prop
er condition, etc. These young ladies,
who in their own homes hardly button
their own shoes, have to do everything
for themselves when under Miss Bruce's
instruction. They roll up their sleeves,
displaying the soft, pretty arm, put on
the big apron and peel the potatoes or
beat the eggs, if such is necessary for
the dish they are about to prepare They
take the greatest interest in their work.
and declare they really enjoy it better
than anything else they do. Mrs. Elihu
Root, Jr., the fine little bride-house-
keeper we told The National Tribune
readers about some time ago, was a
pupil of Miss Bruce's just before her
marriage, and she says she thanks her
a thousand times a day for the inval-
liable lessons she received from her.
A great many women will be heartily
glad to hear that a few sensible Phila-
delphia society women have started a
crusade against the quantity of false
hair worn at present, declaring that
unless women discard their rats, puTs
and switches they viii be entirely bald
in few more years. These ladies
have themselves adopted the simple style
of parting the hair and allowing it to
lie fiat to the head, using no false hair
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own hair to make it stand out and ap-
pear thicker. Each of them Ia en-
deayoring to persuade her woman
friends to follow her example, and with
such success that they triumphantly
proclaim: that the day of the pompa-
dour is over, and the simple fashion Of
hair arrangement of 1863 about to re-
turn. There can be no doubt that the
large rat or roll worn under TIE
pompadour is heating to the head and
injurious to the health and strength of
the hair. Every observing person must
have noticed how many young girIs
have thin, poor hair nowadays, and
how crowded the hairdresser's estab-
lishment always are with girls and wo-
men Of all ages, having treatments" to
and make more luxurious
their poor little thin tresses. The hair
receives a great deal of attention these
days, even people in moderate circuIn-
stancs feeling they must go just SO often
and have It shampooed, with tonic
rubbed In, etc, and yet a really con-
spicuously fine head of hair is seldom
seen. Every sensible woman would be
glad If some fashion for arranging the
hair would be adopted which would
allow her own hair rest, and which
would require little or no false hair.
If some such style should be adopted
by our fashionable women it would
very soon be followed by all others. and
If 1t were the fashion," would look all
right.
1t would seem as IL the annoyance to
which our very wealthy class are sub
Jected by the numerous applications for
help might at least be restricted to this
country. Should a foreigner, conspicu-
Gus for his large fortune, visit this coun-
try, neither those connected with our
charitable institutions nor any others
would think for a moment Of applying
to him for pecuniary assistance, or,
should such a thing possibly be the
case, public opinion would at once pro-
nounce it as entirely lacking in pro-
priety and courtesy. To beg of your
guest is 70 outrage most iagrantly the
canons of good breeding. Yet poor
Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of Pier
pont Morgan, was actually obliged TO
leave Berlin, whittier she had gone to
enjoy the picture galleries and to study
the model workmen's buildings which
they have in that city, on account of
the perfect ocean of begging letters
from those associated with every posi-
BILE kind of known charity which were
poured in upon her. Immediately after
her arrival one of the morning papers
of Berlin published the statement that
she would soon come into possession of
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