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March 3,1888.]
Our Bureau Drawer.
ITS CONTENTS.
‘ ‘ What does it contain ?’ ’ say rather, 11 What
does it not contain?”
The bureau drawer of Woman’s Chronicle, like
the top drawer in your own bureau, gentle reader,
will contain things of interest to your feminine
self only. Already it yawns to receive the waifs
of thought as well as the treasures in its friendly
depths. And, like the ribbons and laces that
cling to each other in an inextricable embrace, it
is difficult to say what a more or less vigorous
stirring up will produce. You know full well no
one could peep into your bureau drawer without
mingled feelings of interest—and horror. Woe to
the collar-button that seeks a surreptitious hiding
place in its chaotic depths. “Who enters here
leaves hope behind;” and the masculine mind re
coils at a personal investigation. The distinctly
feminine contents of Woman’s Chronicle Bureau
Drawer may be of interest to this same masculine
mind, and, even though he disapproves, he may
still at a safe distance contemplate with an inter
est akin to curiosity, but woe to him who rumages
in search of anything belonging to him.
A gold thimble, with the owner’s monogram in
diamonds, is a favorite birthday or wedding gift.
A physician says: “If a child does not thrive
on fresh milk boil it.” Few children can stand
boiling.
He was fond of singing revival hymns, and his
wife named the baby Fort, so that he would want
to hold it.
Os all quarrels, the most senseless, the most
bootless, the most worrying, is a quarrel with your
circumstances.
Postmaster Vilas has decided that female clerks
may marry and still retain their clerkships. A
wise and just decision.
Many of the more artistic tea gowns have very
long wing or angel sleeves, which fall open from
the shoulders and are lined with changeable silk.
A gentle Quaker had two horses, a very good
and a very poor one. When seen riding the lat
ter it turned out that his better half had taken the
good one. “What!” said a sneering bachelor;
‘ how comes it that you let your wife ride the bet
ter horse?” The only reply was: “ Friend, when
thee be married thee’ll know.”
An eastern correspondent, speaking of a recent
luncheon having table decorations in pink, men
tions the ices, which were in the form of pink
roses, and had natural rose leaves and stems, so
that one seemed to be eating a flower. They
were served on pink plates, and formed a beautiful
ending to a charming entertainment.
A novelty in table decoration, says an eastern
art exchange, is the new crystal bubble globe
glasses. They are hand painted and filled with
the same natural flowers that are designed on the
glass, such as cyclamins, violets, forget-me-nots
and marguerites. A smaller bowl of the same
character is placed at each guest’s plate and taken
away as a favor.
A material called “Jewel Stain,” for producing
the stained glass effect in windows is said to be
the most satisfactory of'any invention in this line.
Ordinary windows can be given the stained glass
effect with a little skill and a trifling expense.
The work is said to be one of the most interesting
as well as gratifying of home pursuits.
At this season of the year every housekeeper
looks with interest to the time, not far distant,
when the obnoxious stove will be removed and
WOMAN’S CHRONICLE.
traces of winter comforts or discomforts removed
with it. She mentally calculates on the spring
changes she will make in the home domain, and
the art journals on every hand furnish numerous
thoughts to tax her taste and ingenuity. If the
purse responds but meagerly to her plans for im
provement, then it is that her inventive faculties
are called into full play, and, with the suggestions
offered, the spring cleaning, regarded with horror
by the masculine head of the house, is robbed of
much of its terrors. What woman can resist
thinking of the newness, the fresh draperies, and
the fragrance of cleanliness that comes only with
the spring renovations.
A ROYAL BRIDE’S TROUSSEAU.
The following interesting information regarding
the preparations for the marriage of the young
emperor of China is gleaned from Shanghai papers.
Thousands of hands are [already busy on the
bride’s trousseau and wedding presents, which
have probably never been equaled in splendor and
value. Up to a month before the wedding the
fiancee is presented with ten piebald horses with
complete trappings, ten gilt helmets and cuirasses,
also pieces of satin of the first quality and 200
pieces of cotton material. The bride also receives
200 ounces of gold, 10,000 ounces (taels) of sil
ver, a gold tea service, consisting of teapot and
cups, with lids of silver; tea service, two silver
wash basins, 1000 pieces of satin of the best qual
ity; twenty horses with complete trappings,
twenty horses without trappings, twenty saddles
for pack horses and mules.
The parents of the lady received 100 ounces of
gold, one gold tea set, one silver wash basin, 5000
pieces of silk, 1000 pieces of cotton material, six
horses completely harnessed, helmet and cuirasses,
bow and quiver with arrows. Each parent re
ceived one court dress for summer and one for
winter, one for everyday dress and a sable coat.
The brothers and sisters of the bride also received
rich and costly presents.
The bride’s hats are the most remarkable ar
ticles among the rich trousseau. The winter court
hat has a rim of sable; the crown.is made of red
velvet, from the center of which rises a button
composed of three parts, each of which is orna
mented with three oblong pearls of great beauty,
and seventeen ordinary pearls, while in the center
of each part another splendid pearl, set in gold, is
surmounted by a gold phoenix. The button is
surrounded by seven gold phoenixes, of which each
is inlaid with seven large and twenty-one small
pearls and cats’ eyes. At the back of the hat,
below the button, a gold pheasant is placed with
one cat’s eye and sixteen pearls. The tail of the
pheasant is divided into five parts by 302 small
and five large pearls forming a pendant, the center
of which is mace of lapis lazuli surrounded by
pearls. At the end of the pendant a big coral is
suspended.
The collar is fastened at the back to the hat,
outside of which is bright yellow material, with
velvet ribbons embroidered at the ends with dia
monds.
Three gala court dresses are of a dark blue
color, with borders of gold embroidery, with large
dragons embroidered all over the dresses, while
down the front are sewed in gold the words
“Wanfu” (eternal happiness) and “Wanshun”
(eternal life). The necklaces and chains are of
enormous value, composed for the most part of
pearls, turquoises and diamonds. A handker
chief, which is worn in the belt, is green, richly
embroidered and trimmed with tassels of jewels
and yellow ribbons. A gala apron of red-blue
satin, trimmed with otter skin, embroidered in
gold dragon fans, and skirts of many different
kinds are also included in this gorgeous outfit.
The future empress is keeping every trade brisk
throughout the empire.—[Chicago Herald.
Notes About Women.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is preparing a
life of St. Augustine for spring publication.
Gilt is the special fancy in beads, aigrettes,
embrcideries, passementeries, etc.
Yellow or pink roses without foliage are placed
around hat crowns.
Edith Kingdon, Goulds’ baby, is taken for
a daily airing in a $ 150 baby carriage.
The printed Bengalines introduced last year
promise to be the fashionable material for next
summers dresses.
Black watered silk princess dresses are popular
for elderly ladies; they may be worn either with
or without train.
Heliotrope is passe, and the desirable spring
shades are apple green, pale Nile green and the
grayish green or minionette. Indian red and Siam
red are also popular.
Miss Sallie Kennedy is one of the most success
ful real estate agents in Washington. D. C. She
succeeded to her father’s business on his death.
During one week recently, she is said to have
realized several thousand dollars in commissions.
Miss Frances Willard proposes that the house
in which the poet Whittier was born, at Haver
hill, be purchased from the people who now own
it, who are not of his family, and be held as a
point of interest for literary pilgrims to visit. Mr.
Whittier is pleased by the suggestion, and will
give SIOO toward the purchase.—[Harper’s Bazar.
The death of Miss Mary Parsons Hankey, of
Staten Island, is particularly sad, as she had just
entered upon what promised to be a brilliant
career. Miss Hankey, who was just twenty-four
years of age, was the first woman to graduate
from Columbia College. She took her degree of
Bachelor of Arts last summer. Her course of
languages at Columbia included Latin, Greek,
Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Italian and Span
ish. She was a good musician, a clever draughts
woman, and withal a practical housekeeper. At
the time of her death she was teaching in Mrs.
Sylvanus Reed’s school in New York, where Miss
Rose Cleveland is an instructor.
Mrs. G. I). Croly, better known as “Jennie
June,” is one of the few women who have had a
through journalistic training. She began her
career by writing for the newspapers, and she
has worked in every department of a newspaper
office except the composing-room. She is a very
hard worker, but she has won the reward that
does not always follow hard work—good pay.
Mrs. Croly was one of the founders of Sorosis,
and was its president from the first until within
two years, when she handed in her resignation,
much to the regret of the several hundred mem
bers of that society. She is now editor and pro
prietor of the long-known Godey’s Lady’s Book.
—[Harper’s Bazor.
Mrs. Candace Wheeler, through whose efforts
the New York Exchange for Women’s Work was
founded some ten years ago, has a plan now for a
woman’s hotel in New York. She wishes to form
a stock company, with a capital of $200,000, to
build a fire-proof house so arranged as to give
each occupant a room with an open fire. One
hundred boarders at six dollars a week would
make the hotel self supporting. Harper’s Bazar
says: “There is one suggestisn of Mrs. Wheeler’s
which proves that she understands the people for
whom the hotel if designed; that is, to have it
managed like a club with a house committee of
the inmates and the stockholders The great
trouble with the experiments that have been made
in this direction is that their rules and regulations
have been made by outsiders who do not appreci
ate the position of the class of women for whom
they are intended. Mrs. Wheeler’s long associa
tion with art students and art workers has shown
her that they are young women to whom life is
something more than play, who are infused with a
serious purpose, and do not need to be treated
with the restrictions of school-girls.”