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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1904)
A Kevr Field for Girls.. - .HERB k an opening for a ena ble young1 woman In almeet vry country town. This ia in the com bined profession of catering, and Qua cooking. One upon a tlm In oar village ladies personally superin tended their family baling and wer proud to be known as "famous cooks. That day Is rone, and with. K much of the de licious food that few servants save chefs can attempt, and. as well, much of the entertaining that was wont to provide a "groaning table" of good things for the obsolete tea-party, superceded by the wafer and cap of bouillon of an afternoon, tea. Many women would stEI be more hospita ble If. In their country homes, that did not Imply disorganization and discomfort extending from the kitchen on throughout the house. A moderate priced caterer who could take entire charge of the function, would be a boon tf them. Our. village are supplied with bakeries plenty ef them. But the product Is usually poor. The best cakes, pa try and breads, furnished at reasonable prices, will find a market ready for them, while- orders for salads and ices might be taken, and if wetl filled win J often ant often repeated. These state ments are not theorising; they ares, the result of observation that has noted what women with but slender equipment have achieved and can gases what better prep- -araUoa might effects The fact cannot be. stated too strongly that, outside the larg cities, there. Is an enormous unwerked field for suck provision as is here Indi cated. Harper's Baser. Variation Is CaUtasT Cards. ITU the- return to town, after a summer of mora or less isfor nudity, comes the necessity for W Ifj:.jcl calling cards and envelopes, cor- ' respendeuce cards and similar so . ciat requisites. More pronounced tltua ever this autumn is the evidence of the growing costooa of retaining- the same card plate throughout one's life instead ef adopt ing every nevr fancy of the Inventive fad dist. .Mora, and mora are the conserva tive, women, retaining the old plates they used- In the first days of their matronage, and. many engravers are running off, year after year, cards from the copper plate they mad twenty and twenty-live year ago.-. . .. Th type ef the hour for cards ia the old English, script or shaded Roman type, and . many . young : matrons are having plates made in that style. Intending to retain It always. Jt la substantial . looking type and, Us. t ha most expensive of all style. The. old block type, which enjoyed such a reign of popularity two years ago, is sel dom seen now. except for men. The card of an unmarried woman is un changed in size for the approaching sea son, but the matron's card ia larger than that of mat winter. . In th oblong styte It Is two Inches by three, and. an exag gerated card is. three Inches square. Tbs latter size Is, also used for a double card. . either for a matron and her- daughter or for a man and wife. A young girl not yet out In society has her nam engraved npon her mother's card. " A fancy ef the day Is t leas the prefix "Mr." and "Miss from tb nam. For Instance, Kiss Smith will not bar merely Miss Smith j her cards; an will hav Carolyn Blots Smith. If such Is her given name. And Mr. CL A. Johnson will hav his social pasteboards engraved Osorg ' Augustus Johnson. - . Ttie correspondence card this so, hv stesd of beUg a lag aqnar to fit hsta th regulation ate envelop. Is an Inrh shortsr on. one side, mating lk ohlnng. Envelope . ,. with Oh Oxford Sap eosa tn sines to fit . them. Very young girls. If lefr to ehoos their own plates, will be apt to select a mu.dk . be-flourfsbed script that resemble a eopy ' book advertisement for a school of pen v .manshlp. But this her mother will not . let her do. as only th person who want to be conspicuous win adopt this style. A flourished card Is used by the earn woman who wear rings over her kid glove. Mourning card remain th sara this season, with a broad band ef black tor a husband, mother or father and a border for mors distant relative. Act a Bote! Intra tANT a bright young woman Is M spending th summer at seasido and mountain resort and making kvv?5j money there. She Is the summer V 'r hotel Introducer. It I no new occupation, but mora women than ever ar holding such places this season, simply be cause ther are more places open to them. New hotel ar being built an the tune, ' and th men who put their money In them don't leave anything undone to jnake their " places as popular as possible. That Is where a clever, bright woman makes herself generally useful. If she Is an agreeable personand she must be it she wants to be successful there are great possibilities in her place. Bne watches for new arrivals and tries to -make them com fortatte. Her first duty Is to Introduce them te th other boarders. That Is her chief duty. Everyone who goes to a summer hotel y knows that the first few days after arrival . are not very pleasant unless yon know someone there. A man manage to worry along,' but a woman Is likely to be lone some until someon formally Introduces her. Once the lea la broken, thing go along Vogue for Old IUST as the world of women had become resigned to Dlrecioir, 14 1833, and Uout XVI styles in frocks, th most, important firms .manufacturing china and crockery . determined upon a renaissance of the highly colored and strikingly figured tableware of the same periods. s For a decade or more fashions In deco rated china !,avt run toward forget-me-not and similar small or Idealised blooms. The more conservative tastes demanded the - finest of Austrian ware, pure white china, banded with gold or some rich combina tion of gold with deep blue, red or green. But nowthe most vivid of color combina tions were entered npon th scene, don in what the promoters of the vogue call "every day subjects." They fit the dish to th course. Por Instance, a soup set - mnjr show a decoration of fresh, crisp looking vegetable to suggest Its com ponent parts. Turkey sets ar made up) from a great platter shewing a barnyard scene, with a bug turkey, tail outspread, for th central figure, all don In natural color. On th center of each piat t a smaller turkey, without tb bwcotte sur ' rounding. . Th platter for th nan eours show a nuhmarin scene, with shOs and weeds and fish, while each plat I decorated with a stag! fish. Gam plate carry out th asm ide. with a different bird on each . f th twetv plate and a hunting seen on th platter. Th fruit and nut plate ar particularly rick and autumnal fat their oohning. and vary dainty ar th Jars, decorated with, roses at th brUhant mix mm smoothly. 'When there ar no a axiom ra ' to make comfortable, the girl Introducer can find plenty to do. Bbe can suggest game to pass away the time, on to pis sen, and ah can get up trip to Inter esting points. Sh acts a a sort of guidei to th hotel. If she can play th piano or sing sh makes herself mora valuable. Such a young woman greatly Increases) th popularity of a summer hotel and ha her own vacation for nothing. When th season ends sh comes beck to town, and may possibly have a little bank account to show for her summer occupation. On bright girl, who la doing this work hi a CatsklU hotel, geta fa a week for It. The work I pleasant and sh ha Just a much fun as the persons who are paying dearly for it She has the same food mm they, and ha a pleasant room beside. Sh ts making money by being, agreeable. - Two EnnaTlna Asnerseaat Girl. HAVE returned from a months reaidenc fat America," i says a writer In the London MafL art I r uc(iui t? frjUW - Philadelphia, Chicago and many other cities of the United States. I have had the pleasure of meeting some of the most charming women in these cities It has 'ever been my good fortune te be Introduced to. I have found the 'American girl' better traveled, more Ingenuous, far lea re strainedcertainly not vulgar than bet English: sister. "I. am not speaking against my own country women, but let us be Just. Surely we have In this couatry many, many unde sirable persons of the female sex who dres vulgarly, talk loudly and are altogether what a lady should not. be. This dasar of person la to be met in every country. "But, sir. I affirm that the average edit cated American girl is a most engaging and delightful quantity.' " ' ,. Style Dishes All this is shown In old. English ware, remarkable for the brilliance of its glass and ' the 'fidelity and naturalness of Its colorings. Turkey sets come also in blue and white ware. Instead of the natural colorings. . A brilliantly glased German ware is also popular, but It is not as soft In Its color ings as the old English. Th china la neither white nor cream, but a pal yellow, and the animals and German scenes painted , upon it are done in th gaudiest of color ings. Each piece of Gentian ware carries a motto done in German black letter script. Cauldron war is not new this season, but th patterns shown are decidedly novel, the newest being a huge bloom resembling a hollyhock done in deep rose pink. A dinner set of this is gaudy in uncompromis ing daylight, but at th evening dinner, with softly shaded candle light falling ' upon it, it is most effective, , Pretty nursery set ar Just now en Joying a brisk demand. The sets consist of twelve plates, each setting forth a fairy tai or Mother Goose rhyrn fat color illus tration, with Individual pitchers and bowls to match. ' AU th better class shops report that 'par whit china holds its own for th breakfast 'serrtc. Th excuse, offered fbr . this Is odd. If ever th taste is sensitive to bad color combinations. It is at the morning meal; thertors, nousarnive of the better elae avoid colored dlabe of any sort for that menL Th most extravagant fancy In tabia ; war at th moment calls for th mm. gram not blown Into th glassware, but eat la along with th pattern. Table Maens nd TWrTs. SFOKB the season's routine of hounekeeplng begins, every good housewife goes carefully over her drawers of table linen and towrfs B to make certain that sho ha sitffl- clent of everything to keep the family property equipped during the winter. Thht Is the season, or perhaps even a Utile ear lier, when the shops are displaying towels and table linens at reduced figures to max room for the new stork. And, after all, there Is so little, change In such necessi ties from year to year that the economical woman can make her purchases from th old stocks rather than to wait for th new patterns and. Incidentally, the nevr prices. The only marked difference In towels for general use Is that the fringed towel hi very little tn evidence; It has been super seded almost entirely by the hemstitched towel. Tho fringed towel was never so practical as the plain hemmed article, and the small particles of hemp and bits of. string which would come off the fringe proved to be too much of a nuisance for every-day folk. For ordinary family us a grass-bleache towel Is shown In the shops this fall. It Is an Inexpensive towel In white, with art Inch hem, finished In machine-made fancy stitch, and having a border In bars of red or blue. Until it is washed tho towel is a little harsh, but after 'a good boiling It become absorbent and soft A pure linen crash, which comes by thai yard and was really Intended for stats crash, is being sold for roller towels fog kitchens and for bath rooms, where ther ar children. It is unbleached and la do. signed In fancy patterns In white mercer Iced threads. Its durability I Its most commendable feature. Bath ' towels seem to grow larger each year, until some of the outputs of th factories at present are sufficiently larg to wrap oneself In and be quite well cov red. In the unbleached form the so larg towels are being sold In quantltes. Even the old Turkish towel Is seen mora fr. fluently with a small hem or wltii a aelvag edge than with fringe, A very rougtt ecru-colored bath towel Is being displayed tn drug stores for persons who like a streaw uous rubbing after a both. The surfao is as rough as stiff straws and could not b used on the face. Monograms on towels are smaller thlg year than they have been in farmer sea sons; and the woman who can afford It has every fowet hand-embroidered in whit linen on one corner. The plain face towel, hemstitched and embroidered, either wlla a monogram or with a single initial, all in white, is In good form. - Tea towels have plain edges with a bor der of bine or pink on white, and In th natural' shade of linen the edge is of a lighter tint. Tea toweling Is sold by the yard rather than In Individual te'felu. Patterns In table- cloths and napkin a following th designs found In the novelty china, the largo flower effects. Lilias and orchids, chrysanthemums and rose nut wreath patterns ar found on many of the cloths, and tb Uttle polka Hot is still in evidence, especially for breakfast us. ' A dinner cloth In doubt damask with a brood hemstitched edge shows th empire pattern. Napkins continue In their gen erous dimensions and 'follow th pnUnma) of the cloths. A lunch cloth in natural rotor linen of the finest texture has napkin to orrt spond, and la effectively used with a aeatfer piece of chrysanthemums or Jonquils, car rylng out th various shades ef brown. a4 tan. -