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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 401, 14 January 1904, Page 6

Hyaexioaß defee* to the education meflcan women Ss their in their-youth con-g^nar'-"facility in other lantlflrir'own.,''Many girls tongue or two in Vti»».lbrt- of their studies, but it is •imply eye skill that v they secure, ability to*, read and language;. ivith degrees of exeelieiig*. -' , comes it I*-. €ie exception when they are not almost helpless, ssy»-sarper's Bazar. An English girl is not considered educated until she la fluent in at least on*o'oiher> than her native language, and often speaks two or three easfly* jyEfcrip abroad illustrates and •mphaedEs the fact that Americans are ve*y provincial in the matter of languages. In a group of foreigners takfri at/raiidom, German, French and Italian, together with English, the hardest-tongues .to learn, %Yri3l3£is; among its members; His not until an Americas* joins the group that the talk througi-courtesy to his or her 11mbleeosaesi restricted to English. In Sweden, French, German and EngEsh are -obligatory studies In the curricula. ....The. kindergarten children are taught the language in delightful fashions, the girls with classes, .'lfce.,, 'boys with games and I «•• Hks.. MAKING CAKES TO ORDER. «£pjisabt» Hm S> Upoa Workaws br ; of WmmHtonm tm Walk- ***!- ins StlaJka. «. m *Taahiom» change in canes, as they do in everything else," said a manufacturer who knows all about the fashionable trade up town, aaya the New York Tunes. "Last year our customer*, were calling for rough wood in its natural state, without any ornamentation. They wanted canes, made almost as-thin and as light as whangses. So many cheap imitations had been made of silvermounted smooth-wood canes that men of fashion would not look at them. This year we are returning to 'Vailve*,,mounts, but in design* made to Hr wilr~bw almost out of the question for importers of cheap German silver to imitate. In umbrellas the handles of rough wood still hold favor with the men. It Is no longer fashionable to decorate Kthera with initials. A.man, likes an umbrella that he can .pick out at sight'from a bunch of others at his " cJub r or elsewhere. Some men will have the crooked handle so that they can hang their umbrellas on a/ hook in a hat rack, and we have to manufactory a few of them to meet the demands of the trade. Women always go in for something odd, and usually expensive.''

WANT WAXED PAPER-BAGS. Customers of tb» Grocer laad*t C»on • Bavteff Thalr PnrclUMM* Fat "*" }• l-pittTliem. - "I should like to get my hands on the man who began to line the ordinary paper bag of commerce with waxed paper," said an np-town grocer, reports the New York Times. "Women will not have their orders sent home in anything else now. The coarse brown paper bags that our mothers used to get _juc<*-*Umo«- out PK keep a thing dry she asks to have Jit sent in a waxed paper bag. If she wants to keep it moist she also wants a waxed paper bag.. Tea and coffee go into waxed paper to keep them dry and fresh. A nice head of lettuce calls for waxed paper to keep it moist. Cakes, candies and confectionery of all sorts must be put in wax paper bags. Sugar and flour are about the only tbings for which we can use the old-fashioned bags, It was one* only a fad in the trade, calculated to please somewhat fastidious customers who wanted to carry a small parcel home without soiling- their" gloves. Now it is a demand in the business, even for delivery orders." Tfce u Fc* ? " Ttw&e. 1 Until a comparatively few years ago Fez, the capital of Morocco, had practically a monopoly in the manufacture of the Turkish national headdress named after it—the **f«"Z? —as it was' supposed that the peculiar dull crimson color of the tassefed skull cap could only be obtained by using the dye made from a certain berry largely fpturn in the neighborhood of the city, which is also much used in the dyeing of morocco leather. Now, however. France and Turkey, and to a certain extent: Austria, actively compete with Fez for what is still a very lucrative trade.

Dollar for a. Senate Seat. Senator Pettus. of Alabama, ihe other da; disproved the preraiJine-tle-ory that all seats^inJlheJtnir«T S;a-: p> ■rpensirc and that tliat titer a millionaire's cl» J ». te secretary of "sTinte «>fburiL of cue dollar in a b cover tbe entire exi recent unanimous elecui represent* the "fee «»f of siate for his *ervic-«---. fwji this is a record iu Lpriee for seats in the Tclrcrapkr. covering a;>paHdegranhj were ■eil Stales last year. mn umber 100.

■fnd- , -.v!lH Wuiea f-:;:!!e.)uB Rieiji.t'en's private nx-resaM Bng-, that the tisvi gift a \vfl Bo had rhi'oe ctis::i:'-c vi at a \. b. l.c-i ; -feei«%r luWirU.iier. j«-i.cQ to come t«S ihek:>owleiig<s ofjEhc quecuy and she sent a l .%overeign for each of the newly-arrived little Britons, as an assistance to the" mother in her embarrassment of family>treasures. This had happened about 40 years before this correspondence, and quite early in the reign, and had cost the queen's private purse about .£3OO a year ever-since. Of coursc.at is nor in all cases of the kind that this •bounty* is sent to the mother. It is only in those who are poor and"apply for it, but as the majority of people are pour, and somehow these little surprises seem generally to overtake people who cannot afford theni, . the queen's bounty for triplets had come to be regarded almost as a matter of course."