EXTRAVAGANCE RUN MAD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13664, 31 March 1908, Page 2

EXTRAVAGANCE RUN MAD.

i AMAZING MONEY-SPENDING j>' | FEATS. ■ It< is a sign, of tine times that quite young girls think £#)0 a\year allowance barely possible to present a decent Appearance. -<Th^iir. mothers Were passing rich on £50 'a yeaj 1 . v. Pos-haps it fs^jnVttoilet accessories, more? than in ahy ptb>t direction, that the feminine sjogiidthrift lots herselt • go. The Emprds&Poppaea used to R top. a troop, of asses, to supply milk for Tier baths. The ultra-fashionable woman of to-day does not stop at baths of milk. She daily empties whjofre bottles of costly '&£s&. mt& J h%JM®t. or marble bath, and pays literally any 1 price.fca^new -and.dis^nctjye of 'whicji she caii retain a nnS&opoiy. The wife of a Chicago millionaire has a small faotory at work for her distil- I ! ling scent frami a; $$&*# >* , wa^r-lily. loftke^ Mn^)«)f th^j . lilws to make^dfo^-'wn'cftij&ottte ot tae^j perfume, which is valued at the incred- j lble, sum of £25 a drop. . ' i It recently occurred to an AmeriM^ tiftfl bedchamber — it would be profanatioi; to call it bedroom— in the world. Bo in his new house he had a first-floor* room constructed, elliptical in shape, 76 feet long and 22 feet wide. The walls he had panelled with cos^^S^SS?^ woods at the trifling cosi^o*'«|SsßQO. ' The' panels were hung with purple and i gold< Genoese velvet at £1 15s a yard. Ttape are twenty-eight, panels, $<nd for eaciji ten yard^ of vedvat i were^sed. To adota the ceiling special artists wore | brought from Paris, and these decora- i tio^cost nearly £4000. The chairs are/bf solid cai-ved ivory, with ebony j and} gold inlay, the chimney-piece cost £1230; the washstand, £^0;; .on 6 cheval-glass, £730^ s^d^^th^^Mrnituep ! in proportion. crowning glory"] of amazing apartment is the bed. ! This* like the chairs, is of ivory and jeboiiy,^ marvellously carved; and it is said, that in order to procure a tusk large enough to "fbiin its head a special expedition was sent to j Africa at a cos'i of £40001' Tlie carviog 1 employed 1 theStimo of four skilled artists for 'two yeajps, and the bill for the bed alone reached a total of £38,000. Tne completed room represents an outlay of £15&750, or, say, an .income of about £1(£000 a year. — Chambers's Journal. WHATx MR. JOHN STEVENS, ' M..H.R., THINKS OF RHEUMO. Mr John Stevens, of Bulls, M.H.E. for' Manawatu, has a high opinion of Rhe'umo. Read what^hft whites: — "I had a severe attAc&bf Rb:euma«fem; hM was advised to try Rheumo. I did so, with most satisfactory reunite, .After taking two 'bottles, it practitKHy cured me.' I have no hesitation in saying that ,your remedy is jfcb.%. •best I have used." Try Rheumo yourself . If given a fair^trifid, i*-w^»o^M©kry:'tM«« Rbwu'. martismt €foiit, Soreticav »«d kindred diseases. All chemists and storekeepers sell it at 2s 6d and 4s 6d.

You need no^ JKiiiis ih' c tlie chest after eating; Pearson's Peptochlor cures indigestion. . Is, 2s 6d, and 4^ ,8, 8