Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 72, Ed. 1 Friday, February 12, 1897 Page: 6 of 8
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NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—As the opera season begins to wane
the feminine opera-goers give society final glimpses of smart
evening clothes, with all the accompanying glitter of diamonds
and rustle of silks and satins.
With the memory of entrancing music still in one’s ears,
it is hard to write of fashions, however fascinating, and yet
the gowns of the women present are quite as much a feature
of the evening as the liquid voices of the celebrated singers.
After all, what are they but hirelings, paid to amuse the pub-
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A Story of Browning.
An English magazine once offered
Mr. Browning a large sum for a poem,
which he refused. The offer was repeat-
ed and a larger sum named. This met
with no better success. Then the pro-
prietors sent a blank check and asked
him to fill it in to his own satisfaction.
Even this failed. He said he could not
bear the idea of people turning over
the pages of a magazine and finding
him. That savored too much of the un-
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consideration, happy in having com-
pleted his allotted task. If he went to
bed and slept, and gave his over-ex-
hausted system a chance to recuperate
and recover its tone and energy, there
is not the slightest doubt but that he'
would be immeasurably better for it.
In the old days we heard nothing of
such diseases as nervous exhaustion,
paresis, and the thousand other nerv-
ous troubles of fin de siecleism, which
are to be directly traced to overdoing
things and to the stress of life. Sleep
will go far to repair ravages of many
of these conditions.
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Our Curious Ways.
A Frenchman was staying with us
last summer, and at lunch was some-
what amused at the drink which I was
preparing. He remarked:
“You American people are ze funny
ones! First you vant a strong drink;
veil, you take whiskey for to make it
strong, you take vater to make it weak,
lemon to make it sour, and sugar ^to
make it sweet. You then stir it all up,
and say, ‘Here is to you,’ and you
drink it yourself!”
Unnecessary Steps.
The woman with few conveniences
in her kitchen, or the one who does
not have things arranged so she can
reach them when wanted with little
trouble, has little idea of the many,
many weary miles she tramps every
day while about her kitchen work,
which might easily be saved if she had
planned to have things wherever need-
Every kitchen should have a set
of shelves just over the table to hold
salt, pepper, spices and all the small
things needed in the preparation of a
meal. A row of hooks just below the
shelves hold potato-masher, egg-
beater, large spoons, etc. The shelves
may be covered with oilcloth and have
a denim curtain hung in front of them.
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or do not breakfast at the hour of
eight./
The heads of comparatively few fam-
ilies understand that the young mem-
bers require more sleep than they do.
They forget also that young people
who, as all young people will, like to
sit up till late at night to go to thea-
tres, parties and other amusements,
should be encouraged to lie in bed in |
the morning instead of being told that
they are sluggards if they find that
they cannot ‘‘awake the morn.”
Especially for those who are work-
ing with their brains should long hours
of sleep be insisted upon. Professor
Tesla, probably the greatest living
electrician in the world at the present
time, has been considering this ques-
tion, and he gives it as his decided
opinion that men may live for two hun-
dred years were they to sleep most of
their time.
That this would not be living in the
higher sense of the term, no one w'ould
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OF SLEEP.
Repose Is Necessary to Health and
Plenty Should Be Mad.
The question of sleep is always an
interesting one, scarcely less absorbing
than that of eating, which probably
occupies the thoughts of the world to
a larger extent than any other subject
which could be named. There is no
doubt, from a hygienic point of view,
that it is even more important. Every-
body invariably over-eats, but compar-
atively few over-sleep.
In the hurry and turmoil of life, in
the struggle for existence, people are
too apt to endeavor to lengthen their
days by stealing a few hours from the
night. Physicians preach adequate
rest, but as much heed is paid to their
sermons as to those of their spiritual
brethren. Perhaps one reason for this
is to be found in the fact that few
people like to be called lazy, the term
which is always hurled at the head of
b those who do not rise with the lark... £ it' however, the inherent
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to the seaside and getting up earlier
than their usual hour in order to make
their day longer, they would go to bed
and sleep for two or three days. There
is not the slightest doubt but that
then they would “come up smiling,”
as the saying is, with renewed energy,
refreshed vitality, the knots in their
nervous system unrolled and its creases
smoothed out.
There are certain women in society
today, notorious for preserving their
youthful appearance, who obtain this
desideration by remaining in bed for
one day in every seven and endeavor-
ing to sleep most of the time. The
brain worker who feels the necessity
for sleep at what he considers a wrong
time invariably takes coffee, tea or in
more advanced cases, opium, coca and
other -poisonous drugs for the purpose
of keeping himself screwed up to con-
cert pitch. His work invariably shows
the strain to which he has subjected
himself, but he always ignores this j to kill 25,000 people.
Tte Most Powerful Poison
When snake venom is concentrated
by removing the albumen substance
and retaining the other two, what is
left constitutes the most powerful
poison known to toxicology. It has
been reckoned that a single thimbleful
of it suitably applied would be enough
lie for a season; of no real, vital interest, personally; not one-
half so much so as Mrs. Asterbjlt in the box, with her famous
necklace of diamonds, and her splendid French gown?
Every one goes to the opera to see and be seen, and for
that purpose the most lavish expenditure is considered war-
rantable. , ..
How, after all, even our greatest people, those with the
sense; the delicate lace but softens the pretty skin, without
hiding its beauty.
Never has there been worn more elaborate evening wraps,
nor in so many handsome varieties as this season. Fresh, new
ones appeared every night, either matching or harmonizing
with the gown, many of them quaintly old-fashioned. A superb
cloak of white brocaded velvet, enveloped a tall blonde, con-
verting her into a snow queen. It had long hanging sleeves
and draperies of velvet thickly embroidered in silver. At the
centre of the back of the collar was a large bow of white satin.
Full pelisse white chiffon edged the collar, slee'Ves and down
the front of the cloak. The lining was of; ermine. Could any-
thing be more chaste? A magnificent opera cloak was built of
burnt orange velvet, appliqued with heavy cream lace, and
decorated around the shoulders with large turquoise and rhine-
stone cabochons. A broad border of ermine is separated from
the Velvet by a narrow ruche of pale yellow crepe.
An elderly matron wore a cloak of odd coloring in heavy
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A Doll’s Wedding.
A doll’s wedding is one of the' most
interesting of parlor entertainments
which may be arranged by the chil-
dren in aid of any popular charity.
The tickets should be in the form of
■wedding invitations, written on the
tiniest of stationery, with an affixed
price of admission, which may be as
small as you like. Build a large plat-
form by placing boards upon carpen-
ters’ horses, low enough to allow little
children to see over, and so that peo-
ple may be able to see all around it.
Partition this platform off into rooms,
like a great mansion, by nailing laths
at the corners of the rooms and hang-
ing portieres plainly across. No out-
side walls are needed because they
would hinder the people from looking
into the rooms. To furnish the rooms,
of course every girl contributes her
doll and furniture. There may be an
entrance hall with a hat rack, an um-
brella stand, chairs and tissue-paper
palms in small vases as jardinieres.
The next two rooms can be arranged
as dressing rooms. There will be a
doll man-servant in one in a dress
suit, and in the other a doll’s lady’s
maid in her white cap and apron. The
beds should be piled with doll’s wraps
and coats. The drawing room will have
the piano and some chairs, but the
chief thing is to have pictures on the
walls and lace curtains to indicate win-
dows, and a mantel banked with flow-
ers, under which the bridal party will
‘ stand. Have a man doll sitting at the
piano, with the bridal presents ar-
ranged on the top. Lastly comes the
supper room, with doll waiters in at-
tendance, and a large table beautifully
laid with lace and satin, and set with
china, silver, flowers and all the pretty
cakes and bon-bons eaten at a wed-
ding. In the drawing room the wed-
ding is going on. The doll bride is
in a white satin dress, with a train and
long veil, and the groom in evening
dress. Near them stand two brides-
maids and the maid of honor, all car-
rying baskets of flowers. In front of
them stands a clergyman in a black
gown. Near by stand two couples, the
the parents of bride and groom. The
g'uests may be mostly lady dolls, dress-
ed in the height of fashion, in gay silks
and laces. It is easy to make dolls
stand by means of wire standards bent
into any shape and secured to the floor
by stout matting tacks. Just try such
an enterprise, and see what sport can
be gotten out of it.
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silk, the ground black, covered over with large red and purple
chine flowers and crossbars of black velvet.
There are deep cape frills, collar and cuffs of deep mauve
velvet, with a lining of the same shade of satin. Dull orange
colored lace trims the neck, mingled with pelisse frills of black.
A regal robe is of white satin embossed with a raised pat-
tern in royal purple velvet. Enormous revers and wide sleeves
of ermine are lined -with purple velvet and finished along the
edge with triple frills of purple and black gauze.
All manner of oddments are indulged in in the way of
collars on these cloaks, from the Catherine de Medici ruche to
the soft frills.
A handsome robe of scarlet velvet, a perfect flame of color,
was built in circle fashion, bordered its full length down the
front, with wide bands of white kid, richly embossed with
a pattern in black and gold. Over the shoulders fluttered a
short, circular cape of scarlet velvet, picked out along the edge
with the same black and gold pattern; a towering Catherine
de Medici collar of black gauze sets up about the face to a
wonderful height.
Any number of wonderfully lovely things are seen m the
way of short opera capes, worn more especially by the younger
set, to whom they are wonderfully becoming.
A hip cape of turquoise blue velvet is built in ripple style
as full of folds as possible, and bordered deeply with ermine,
curved at the top, separated from the velvet by an edging of
cut jet, among which rhinestones glitter.
A collarette of ermine sets off the shoulders, topped off by
a thick ruche of white mousseline de sole, built in a huge bow at
the back, standing high against the hair
There is such an air of snuggery and comfort about these
huge cloaks, they make the women look like pretty birds nest-
ling among their softness. f ,
Gray forms the basis of color for many of the handsomest,
combined generally with white, yellow, or dark, rich furs.
Entire long cloaks of sable or ermine are inexpressibly
beautiful, and were worn by several wealthy women to whom
their enormous cost was nothing.
Aside from the glitter of gems worn in the hair, there is a
large "diversity of decoration. Aigrettes are used profusely;
so are clusters or a single plume, matching the color of the
costume. , , ,
Snoods of ribbon are Mforn by the buds who must eschew
diamonds for a time, and infinitely pretty they are, wound
about the head in such dainty fashion. MILDRED B.
words, worn generally with skirts of white or pale tinted sat-
ins, setting off their rich daintiness.
A pretty-fashion among the young set is the wearing of
real lace chemisettes, half low, above the decolletage of the
bodice, with elbow sleeves close to the arm. There is a certain
piquancy about this fashion, which appeals to one’s artistic
Word Building.
The players form a circle, each one
being allowed three lives. Someone
names a letter—let us say “d.” The
player on the left adds another letter,
which will help to form a word, and yet
not complete it. Thus she may. not
say “o,” which would form the word
“do,” but ‘‘a,” having in her mind the
word “day.” The next player on the
left may say “i,” thinking of the word
“daisy.” The player who is compelled
to end the word loses a life, and when
she has lost her three lives is out of the
game, the winner being the one who
remains in longest. Any player add-
ing a letter which the others all think
impossible to help to form a word may
be challenged, and, if she is proved in
error loses a life.
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Accessories of black feather fan, diamond mounting on
gold stick, a black aigrette worn in the hair, with diamond
mount, a black velvet necklet with three diamond ornaments
fastened upon it.
Bodices of beautiful, creamy laces abound, lovely beyond
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capacity of all the vital organs to keep
on working for a period out of all con-
sideration with their accepted power
of lasting. To this habit of resting as
much as possible, and sleeping long
hours, must in great measure be attrib-
uted the long life of the negro, in spite
of the unsanitary conditions under
which they invariably live.
People forget that the proverb “Early
to bed and early to rise makes a man
healthy, wealthy and wise” was in-
vented at a time when the telegraph
was undreamed of, railway trains not
heard of, the telephone as far off as
the sun itself, and the thousand and
one necessities for hurry and rush, as
well as the implements designed to fa-
cilitate these wearers-oUt of the nerv-
ous system had not come into vogue
at all. Placidity was the order of life
at that happy time.
There is little doubt that, were the
fashion of sleeping holidays introduced,
they would have a marked effect on the
life history and happiness of the gen-
most aristocratic lineage, pose for the public, even though they
may.profess a horror of public prints; still, what a disappoint-
ment there -would be if the society columns should ignore them.
It may sound extravagant, but it is nevertheless quite
true, that women live upon admiration, and well-put flattery.
After all, what do women care so much for their personal
appearance, unless it be to evoke admiration, both from their
male and female friends? It’s all legitiihate enough, and yet
no womahsjikes to admit it, even to herself.
But to return to the subject of opera clothes; they arouse
envy and vexation of spirit in many a poor maiden’s breast,
whose only fortune is her beauty.
One encouraging thing I have noted, how closely we are
verging to artistic feeling in dress. No more stiffened gores;
no more superfluity of ungraceful skirts, but a long gain in the
outlines of general dress, to which even the most indifferent
must be susceptible. It is lovely to see the graceful contour
of the figure, outlined softly, in a refined, suggestive way, by
clinging folds, in most cases perfectly plain,* though the occa-
sional skirt is rich with laces and floral di aperies.
Bodices are laden with everything lovely in the line of
decoration, and nothing seems too much overdone, though this
does not imply that the few perfectly plain waists are not
wonderfully fetching, for they gain in effect by contrast.
One of the sweetest, girl-pictures I have seen during the
opera season was a young debutante, a richly tin-
whose wavy black hair was worn a la Merode, bant
over her ears, and brought into the
the neck, in an oddly pointed chignon.
Her gown was a dreamy creation in pearl-gray,
draped separately over a silk skirt, and over this an overskirt
of chiffon pelisse, banded over with narrow silver embroideries
from belt to hem.
Full pelisse bodice, with oval decolletage, caught across
the shoulders with straps of fragrant looking Mermet roses,
with a crenelated bertha of embroidered gray chiffon falling
across the back and bust. A narrow band of the silver em-
broidery passed around the smooth oval of the upper arm,
while the remainder was hidden beneath long suede gloves of
silver* gray.
A. soft rose-pink velvet girdle, from which swung a chate-
laine of roses, among which dangled the dainty fan, and jew-
eled scent bottle, attached to slender gold chains.
It is a remarkable fact that the known beauties pall, very
often, before a piquante-faced girl, whose features are not at
The locomotive shilling is an excel-
lent trick. To perform it properly you
should keep a shillii^ in your poeket
on whicn there is some peculiar mark.
Before beginning you should slip this
coin in some place where it is not likely
to be seen or discovered, and then an-
nounce your determination to perform
the trick. Borrow a shilling, which
you must mark quite openly with the
same mark that is on your own coin,
hand it round to the company so that
they will be able to recognize it by the
impression, place it near the edge of
the table, give a loud knock upon it,
and at the same time make a sudden
cry to startle the company, which, if
you are quick and dexterous, will pre-
vent them from seeing you whip the
coin quickly up your sleeve. Having
thus disposed of it, you say: “Well, it.
is gone. Did you see which way it
went?” Of course they will answer
“No.” You will endeavor to extract in-
formation as to the whereabouts of the
shilling, and at last you can say to the
person, from whom you borrowed it:
“Well, look underneath the vase; per-
haps it is there.” On lifting the vase
up, of course the shilling you hid will
be found, and as it bears the same
mark, the perplexity of every one will
be increased, and your fame as a con-
juror will go up five hundred fold.
The fashion of treating walls in other
ways than by papering them is grow-
ing rapidly. The high artistic sense
now exists, even in small, remote com-
munities, with a realizing sense of the
value of backgrounds. Consequently,
walls receive the first and most care-
ful attention of the decorator.
Walls hung with dainty stuffs are
undeniably pretty, and may be made
as durable as one could wish. A most
aesthetic hanging is plain burlap of
the usual creamy brown tint. A wall
covered with this looks as though hung
with pongee silk. A lovely wall of this
sort has a picture-molding of gilt aftd
a wide frieze in wall paper of green
leaves picked out in gold, giving a
touch of restfulness to the room that
every one felt at once.
Hangings and draperies have an
enormous effect upon the roopa, and
can either make or kill. Too often it is
the latter. Don’t despise the portiere
because the material may chance to
be simple and inexpensive, provided it
be in good taste. Every day we have
bargains offered us in soft textures
anff fabrics, in lovely tints and tones,
that lend themselves readily to grace-
ful folds and gathers.
When there are several doors in a
room they give a bare, unfinished look,
but concealed by rich, heavy draperies
in winter, and light, airy ones in sum-
mer, they give height and dignity to a
room. An old lounge can be converted
into a thing of beauty by removing
the back piece, recovering the seat and
making two large, firm, square pillows
to stand upright in the back against
the wrall, divan fashion. Odds and
ends of furniture can, with ingenuity,
be made to emerge from their dull
chrysalis state into gayest butterflies.
A new cover here, a little drapery
there, a pretty old scarf tied on the
back of a chair, and the change is
marvelous. But in all this there is a
happy medium, and often a bare, scan-
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all faultless, and yet who is so inately chic, and so altogether
sweet as to attract admiration, where the real perfect-featured
beauty sits unnoticed.
To offset this girlish gown of gray is one worn by a grand
dame, who had all the vere de vere stateliness. The gown in
question had a skirt,—en train, of mauve Duchesse satin—a
lovely shade of roseate mauve—and over it fell a white chan-
tilly over-dress, with odd application of black velvet leaves,
slender and long, grouped in sprays, and forming at regular
intervals stripes downvzard, arranged so as to start from the
top in such gradation as to spread out at the hem, which was
rich with a lace-bordered finish.
The bodice,—all but the front stomacher and elbow sleeves—
was of the satin, overlaid flatly with chantilly, embroidered
in smaller velvet leaves, like the over-dress.
The bodice was decollete and pointed, with sleeves and
stomacher of reddish violet velvet, and a wide, crenelated chan-
tilly bertha fitted to the decolletage.
“Mummies.”
Let two or three of the gentlemen be
swathed in sheets until perfectly
shapeless, leaving only one eye ex-
posed, and labelled: “Please do not
touch.” They may be seated or stand-
ing.
The showman then invites the rest
of the guests into the room, and spins
a yarn about obtaining the mummies,
but being under a difficulty as to their
identity; therefore, he offers three
prizes (real ones) to those who can
give the correct names of them.
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tily furnished room is preferable to one
overloaded with a miscellaneous col-
lection of cheap furnishings and so-
called bric-a-brac. There is so much
trash that serves no real purpose save
that of occupying space that one would
like, for the moment, io be a modern
vandal and sweep to destruction the
flotsam and jetsam of many years’
shopping.
I would prefer a very meagrely fur-
nished interior, with a good foundation
of walls and carpets to build upon; it
has its advantages, and suggests an
unlimited area of delightful possibili-
ties.
Burlap, as a wall material, has come
to stay, though it was first regarded
by the trade generally as the fanciful
fad of an artistic few. Burlap has
found a place in the decorative world
entirely its own, a place that, up to
the present, time, can be taken by no
other material that has been put upon
the market. Its practical advantages
almost overbalance its decorative ones.
Where there are any wall discre-
pancies it is always safe to try the
burlap, which can be had all ready to
apply to the wall. Of course, to all
swell decorators this is an old. story,
; but there are no end of people of small
means who can avail themselves of it,
and those who have done so have
come to regard burlap as the salvation
of their rooms. Colored burlaps are
shown in large varieties, but none are
so really pleasing or artistic as the
self-toned.
In making fringe on linen towels,
napkins and the like, a prettier finish
than overcasting the head is made by
drawing out two or three threads and
making two rows of machine stitching
through the space.
Russian embroidery (cross-stitch) on
Russian crash, with a combination of
crewels and embroidery silk—the for-
mer predominating—is especially ex-
quisite.
The new Bargamen art thread is
: even prettier than baby ribbon for
tacking spreads of dotted muslin,:
cheese cloth or any dainty fabric.
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