EVERYDAY TOPICS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 28, 28 October 1907, Page 3

EVERYDAY TOPICS.

i THE MILLIONAIRE WARDROBE. ..■;" Her wardrobe is a quicksand, into which , she pours dollars.by the cartload," 3ays Anna Richardson, writing of "Tho Woman of Millions" in tho "Woman's Homo Companion." .Last summer the wifoof the youngest scion ,'6f a late' railroad -magnate came home from a hundred now^frocks , and innumerable etceteras. 1 Newport to be dazzled by her fine .raiment;, but she suddenly went ill' for. motoring. From this, tremendous array" pf frocks she selected/ first, motoring raiment,.and then a few; gowns , particularly botbming-to :hor dark . beauty.' -<i These she 1 wore ,sp constantly that Newport began to ask if she really brought home so.much luggago aftor alLv'The others, to tho amount of 4000 dollars worth, she gave, away, simply ■because, her interest had veered from frock's to motoring. • ' . ■ ■ .',:<!,■. \ ■'. ' ■ ' 1: '■ . - : }j i, : - v •; ' TOO -MUCH SEWING. ' 4 iToo A much sewing has a tendency to make a gijl sad; it is never a great resource of.tho mad. .Many beautiful exhibits,at "the"recent display, of women's work in Sydney camo from tho Tho niany jWds of exquisite lace and insertion, and bunches of luscious fruit that lay on cottons and hung about.becoming hats bore evidence of patient, toil, as well as of busy looms. Filet lace,' ' with its square not open ground on which rich designs, generally,of leaves, are raised, is-decidedly artificial looking. ■•■',. ' ';■ DECORATIVE UNDESIRABLES. : It is, ..of course, difficult; exhaustively to describe .'.the above, for, just as "ono man's meat is another man's poison," what may be aVdecidcd undesirablo in one room might be perfectly suitable, and even desirable, in another, so that in a general way we hark hack tp.the old, yet eyer new "eternal fitness of 1 things" which is an unborn prerogative with some folks; yet absolutely lacking in ■others, and those, alas I the majority. Still, , there .are (says a writer in the "Queen") certain decorative undesirables which shoujd ; be/.absolutely-.taboo in even, the humblest homo. First and foremost comes a terrible orwtion of cheap bamboo and common littlo I chains holding several egg-shaped pottery receptacles for ferns (in which no forn can possibly grow). The votaries of this special ■undesirabjo, as the observant passer-by may see for himself, usually-place it in the-win-dow, thereby freely : advertising a lack of artistic tasted- Or tho thing may take the W.fciy,littlo better) form of a stand of sickly gr?y-grcoh .plaited-rush with, littlo tin-lined pockets . for straveling forns. Now^—and I look upon tho fact with joy—neither of these treasures will last long; Why, .then,.no:, get something at the same time more sensjblo iitid more artistic? Beautiful colours, and shapes, can' how- be had in glazed pottery for less monjy than : is asked for the aboyo undesirables. Another undesirablo is a cortniri class, of screon, a sort of combination of;drawn-mu3lin and enamelled white wood, the framowork being wood bars held, at the corners by wooden balls. Now, without claiming tho. gift of prophecy, it is difficult to Wok at this special undesirable, much less test its stability by a touch, and not realise that its life would be but fleeting. And, after a few short months of uso in a town, when we be-hold-jts'grubby muslin,,its' warped, distorted frame, to even brush against which sonds the whole thing prone, tho foolish buyer realises that it was not so very cheap aftor all.