Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-05


devious ways,
Through proud resistances and scori
Under light laughter, sober-mouthed dis
And cool-browed insult and neet-footec
For j did see with eyes that looked through
Ever some brightness in the night anc
day;
Was thine above the jargon OF the way.
And now, that | do stand before thy face
/ know that ! have run and won the race.
Humphreys Park, in Appleton's,
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German Woven Work
One Of the things in which the Ger.
man woman differs from her English sis.
ter is that every German girl when she
reaches the age OF seventeen or eighteen.
is sent away from home to some family
long way off, who send one of their
own daughters in exchange This eX-
change lasts for about three years
This girl is treated as one of the fam
ily, is styled Fraulein. but in every other
respect Is mere servant. She has to do
al the work of the house, scrubbing.
washing, cooking, mending--in fact. ev-
elythiug that a domestic servant is re-
ouired to perform.
This does not leave her with much Ieis-
IRE TO play, and the outdoor sports of an
English girl are quite unknown in Ger.
many. \ German lady on being told
that English girls played tennis and
hockey expressed her contempt for such
fooprv and asked who did the house
work. On being informed that no Eng
fish girl or matron would dream of turn.
ing 10 and doing tie cooking. etc. she
gasped out: oh, Lordi What a lot of
lazy hussiesH
Every German woman has all the work
of her home on her shoulders. and by
this is not meant the lower class women
No German lady thinks Of having more
than one servant. who gets about IS a
year and does the rough work, her mis-.
tress doing all the cooking and mending
1t is 4 sight to see the lady in a Ger
man town going to market She knows
what to buy and what to pay, and every
Wednesday and Saturday you may see
her tr0tting off to market with her serv-
ant behind her carrying huge basket
and examining the comestibes with a
critical air
About the only ray of sunshine she
has, apart from the Kaffeeklatsch, is the
visit Sunday to some kaffeegarten
anglice tea garden, where she and her
lord and master, surrounded by their
olive branches. sit under the shade of a
Ieafy tree and drink coffee and MUNICH
cakes or sour milk to their hearts de-
lisht.-Gentlewoman.
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Colors in Harmony.
The combination of colors in dress dis
plays more forcibly than any other one
point of excellent or bad taste of the
Wearer. OF course, it cannot be expected
that every woman shall possess a true
eye for harmony of tone, because this
faculty is Unborn and cannot be acquired
hut there is a certain color sense-as it
were-that all women can cultivate.
For instance, the new wistaria shade
and pale pastel blue are lovely in COM
bination given the right quantities, such
as hat of pale wistaria felt, trimmed
with pale violets and a touch of pastel
blue. But a blue hat decorated with
viOlets will look fiat and cold, so that a
touch of black would be necessary 10
give it life.
Pure violet and pale blue simply clash.
A deep shade of prune harmonizes with
pale blue, and so does a pastel blue and
a blush violet.
Blue and yellow are effective together
A dark blue cloth may be ornamented
with touch of sulphur or mustard col
or, or braided with gold. and will be eff
fcctive but yellow frock decorated
with navy ribbons will not be a sue
cess.
d
on frocl will be pretty. and so will a
LeghOrn hat wreathed in cornfiowers.
Deep blue and dark red are Il safe
combination; the former, however, must
predominate. A blue dress may be
trimmed with red, not a red with blue
Pale pink and pale blue come under the
same rule, the pink must be in lesser
proportion.
Tan, which is really orange mixed
with black, looks pretty with almost any
shade of blue. and the gray blues are
effective with a touch of tan.
There is an attractive, undecided
green that has a touch of yellow in it
that harmonizes with the new wistaria
ana helIotrope tones, also with certain
tlnts of old rose
The genuine shades of heliotrope COM
6lne pretty with the dull pale yellow,
OiIVe green is particularly successful
When put with copper color Faint
touches of she'll pink will brighten olive
green and the same delicate tone will
De effective used as a lining to a cop
perry brown. Emerald green with pale
hlue Is often pleasing in effect.
Gray is attractive when combined
WIN pale pink rose color, pale yellow.
iPiuan or burnt orange. All shades of
brown on the golden. chestnut. chOco-
nate or leather shades may be safely
combined with either blue or green.
Duc regard, however, must be given
III selecting the shades TO go together.
4 good plan is to take bit Of the
Drown material when buying trimmings
ana keep testing with the various shades
% green that will be found in the store
before making n selection. If the buyer
"eks confidence in her own taste the
salrSperson viii always be ready to give
an opinion.
\ few rules to follow are these: When
Two colors do not look we'll together
separate them with white whenever pos
Many persons possess an idea that
VERY combination can be toned" with
hitcE This is a mistake.
Black lowers the tints when placed in
contact with them, but it becomes dull
"a itself, besides imparting a certain
amount of dullness to the colors. White,
on the contrary, takes tinge of the
ceolorS it seeks to modify, thus lessen
ing the dead whiteness and at the same
lme lessening the intensity of the tones
"-th which it is combined.
.biack and white is always n safe com
olnaton and a small proportion of any
CHOSEN color will not destroy the artistic
erect of these twO.-ChicagO Daily