Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-10

There are not many things which it Is ad-
vantsgeous to buy in the Belgian or German
towns, but among the few are amethysts and
amber, linen and laceS, onyx buttons, and
some very beautiful as well as very gu int
china. This linen is joy to the eyes, and for
what we would consider ordinary prices can
be obtained such articles as thrifty housekeep
ers look at longiDgly in New Y ork, but dare not
think of purchasing. In the hotel where we
are staying the sheets are pure linen, the cover
lids down, the towels damask. the table cloths
fine as best" at home, and the curtains lace
with ruftied borders inside others of cretonne
The table service Is exquisite china-part of
Minton, part OF it the product Of the greatest
native manufactory. And it is not Clipped.
The house is over an hundred years old and
many of the servants have been in its employ
twenty-hv or thirty years.
The English take home quantities of linen
and whole cases of china and faience from the
Nuremburg and Ludwig Vessel manufactures,
but the Americans have the fear of the Gus
tom house before their eyes. and are
obliged 70 leave the things for
which they ardently long and which at
Copies of old carved furniture, tall clocks. and
spinning wheels are common. and excite the
wicked passion of envy in many breasts. But
what is the use when one must live in exile to
enjoy them. Still the possibilities of such
things are certainly element of happiness
in life abroad. Lice OF common qualities Is
not Rppreciably cheaper than in New York
but in the fine real handmade manufactures it
is little more than half the cost at home and
is certainly temptation to those who have
money to spend. The fine Mechlin and Ouch
eSse or Genoa point laces are the passion of
the hour, and the usual sets consist of large
clerine collar, a long, narrow collarette, which
can be used as a barbe, cuffs, and a few yards
(say three) to be used as founces across the
front Of dress, and which are in two widths
the lower one wider than the upper. Long
slender leaf patterns filed in with tiny roses
are the favorites, the mesh fine, the ground
well covered. Spanish lace is as fashionable
q home a in
price, though it is certainly cheap. A large
f1chu or small mantalet can be obtained for
twelve marks (Sy Of kind that would cost
five or six dollars with us; but the Spanish
point is higher, and offers few Inducements to
purchasers, probably because it is more Of a
novelty.
There is a total absence in England and on
the Continent of the pretty neckerchiefs of EN-
broidered and lace trimmed null which have
been so much the vogue in New York, and
made so dainty an accessory to morning toilets;
and we have been wondering where they could
have come from, and If it was partly local
fashion. There are fashions certainly that do
not reach far beyond the limits Of the SPOT
where they are born, and this may be one Of
them. The esthetic sunfoweF, for example,
which in London spreads its monstrous pro
portions over fans. parasols, dresses, aprons
and bonnets, is absolutely confined to the
region Of the utter, the "too-too" and "con-
summate," and is not seen anywhere eIse-at
least to an alarming extent. Perhaps it will
travel to New York, and with the red bronze"
tangled hair, the leg OF mutton sleeves the
hieldshaped fans with cent very long handles,
altogether most too too for anything idea
which we have had in years. and Mr. Oscar
Wilde ought to be imported to give it the
requisite tone in society circles. Mr. Oscar
what Dundreary was to the drama, and what
would Dundreary be without Sothernf too
too" drearY.
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