"The Tistaff."

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

"The Tistaff."

SO ME WOMEN'S WORK,

EmiLlsii women oi this generation have done some rather remarkable r.oik. it must lie confessed. M.-i- L-.-onow-iis, (.'atherinc Macpioid, Lady bras -y, and Lady Aim Limit have all aiapiiri-.l the reputation for adventurous travel, to gcthcr with a number of othe--,H. In political economy Mrs Fawe.-u ins madan enviable name ; :o bas Mrs Cron in history ; and so lias Miss Martin-au in both history and political iconotny. In philosophical thought Frances power Cobb lias achieved distinction. Mrs ■ lameson, Lady Eastlake, Mrs Haw.-is and Lydia Scott are only a few of the names that are widely known in the realm of art criticism, as Elizabeth Thompson of the “ Koll Call" and Kate ( Ire-noway are hnt two instances of a have number who have used their p. n-il at d brush e.X'-eptably in art its-lf. Only three or four iren of England have excelled the work of Ceo-pe Kliot. t’iiarlottc lironte, Emily Ihamte, Am'dia H Kdwanls, Anne Tiiackcray and ML-, Yonge in the writing of novels; the last through the youth of imr eadeis, having an especially wide influence. And if the poems of Adelaide I’roctor, Jean Ingelow and Mrs Crailc have not readied the very topmost intellectual heights, Mrs browning's have and so have a few of (Teorge Eliot's, and they have, at any rate, sueceeded in touching and warming the hearts of those that have been and always will be inaccessible to their so-called superiors. Women who have been able to accomplish so much with crippled means and methods of education and habit have a right to expect that their successors, to wham the royal paths have at last been opened, shall' accomplish a great deal more. Harper's bazaar. ’ Cii.niNi; Einohr-Nails. —Gilded fingernails are beginning to be seen in X-w A ork. Ahj reneb manicure came over a while ago to introduce the Art. He was a sharp fellow and knew bis business. He gilded an actress first,' without a charge, knowin 1 how well she would advertise him. Sure enough she did. It did not take society ladies long to find out what it was on her finger-nails, nor where the Professor's simp wm. They went there in droves. In a short time he time he had more custom than he could attend to and hired an assistant. He is doing a ru-hing trad--, and timing bis idea into gold for himself while 1 10 gilds the ladies. He charges Sr, for gilding both hands, and the work lasts as long as the nail goes—that is, as it grows out. they should be touched up every month. He'otdy charges SI for that. " There is no pain about it. Von can't get it off, wash and scrub as much as you have mind to. It's put on to stay. It takes lots of fussing and preparation, and two or three hours of tedious sitting' to hj ive it dune. The professor has his little shop m ;l n uptown cross street. A sign over the door reals “ Ladies Oilded.''