Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-01
be at the French cooks, ban. verr m.

be at the French cooks ball Very many
OF the young women who accompa-
nleo the chefs were doubtless artificial flower
makers, for their dresses of cashmere and
wool were overlaid with flowers of the finest
ARTIFICIAL character-howers that would cost
more to purchase than the material for q reg
ular evening dress"
DeDutanteS sometimes wear fringes of deli
cate blossoms, but only natural fowers are
now sanctioned for young girls, and the pref
test artificial trimmings has therefore a soma =
what antiquated appearance like a hackney
ed or worn out idea. This absence of CAV
ornamenIation, however, puts the Young girls
al disadvantage IN crowded assemblies, be-
SIDE the more brilliant young married women
who may not only display their more matured
charms more freely, but use every means to
enhance their attractiveness. 1t is the Young
married women in society this winter who are
the bellies, who dress with regal splendOr, who
carry about with them not only dozens of gor-
geous bouquets but flowers whose value is in
creased by having jeweled flies and insects
atIacned TO the leaves. One young married
iauy Is said to have received Jewels worth
Sl,5OO conveyed in this way through flowers
presented for one ball alone, so that Mrs
Langtry,s case, even if true, as stated, would
h;s. nor De singular; Young girls naturally feel
bitterly when they find themselves deserted
wnHe gay. Splendidly dressed married women
who have carried Off matrimonial prizes
not content with that, are constantly followed
Dy train OF adorers. They NAV, il is true
revenge themselves by getting up mild firta-
tlons with neglected husbands, but this recoils
upon their own heads; besides, 1t is not the
role OF q fashionable Young husband To anDear
neglected. He admires his wife all the more
the more she is admired by other men, IL is a
compliment to hfs good taste and he can
always step in with his superior air of prOprl-
etoTshlp, ana take her away from an influence
Mhcn becomes obvious or too predOminating.
BESIDES, 1t IS elderly bachelors who are the
most devoted slaves of handsome Young mar
rled women. The chains they have been
AFRAID to wear in youth for love thew nut ON in
age from vanity, and gain nothing in return
put the very doubtful pleasure of seeing
another mans pretty wife wear their costly
noral, ana perhaps other and still more valu-
aDle, glfts, and be allowed to ealfher carriage
fetch her fan, and pick up her handkerchief
FEATHERS AND FUR.
No greater contrast could possibly be af-
I0rded than the dress of a girl at ball and
the same girl the next day in the street or at
nome ,r,aI me temperature Is the same, or it
may De twenty degrees colder at night than it
is the next day or the day previous But at
night her fair form ia exposed almost to where
the vltal current springs from the heart to fill
the arteries and flush with red the lips and
cheeks. Such covering as she has is light and
vaporous as down, and receives little addi-
tional warmth from her underclothing, which
at the most Is gauze-like and often with no
cambric and lace
In the day she is clad from head to foot in
cloth and fur; cloth to her throat and upon
her head; fur to her feet and aronnd the tons
of her boots. She cannot get enOngh of fnr
ana considers 1t hardship If she cannot have a
sealskln sacque or paletOt as well as n fur
trimmed coat and pelerlne cape. Her cloth
dress Is not only made of heavy broadcloth: it
ls trlmed with killings and folds and draperies
until the weight of it is far more than any
man would carry, and puts a pressure upon
Lhe vital organs which they are not able to
bear; and which is in outrageous opposition to
the lnsu1hclent covering and the gOssamer
fabrics of the evening before and possibly of
the evening to come.
Mafr n
but their clothing is uniformly tOo heavy
1he styles of making heavy cloth and velvet
dresses with their folds, fiounces, draperies
ana other trimmings are so many insults to
common sense, and when, too, there are added
the trains, the interior massing of ruffies to
support the trains, and the long Weightv
cloaks made 1.-THE richest materials and lined
WIN plush ana fur, one shudders and sees
with amazement the burdens that will be as
sumed Voluntarily If you only make people
pay for bearing them instead Of paving them
Tor doing the same thing. 1t Is MANY wears
since this question of the weight of women,s
clothing was brought before the public and
the necessity urged for the production of
fabrics that combine warmth with light
weight. To considerable extent the want
mas been met by the manufacturers of soft vet
light weight cloths which are so thick and
warm as to need no lining. These make
healtllul coats and clOaks, and with tailor
made dress of pure wool, simple in design but
perfect in fit. such as were obtainabie before
tallofS hegan to copy current fashions, form
an excellent winter costume. But fashion is
nothing II not progressive. II works for the
attainment of an object only to cast it aside
and fashion for the million means the
reproduction of the follies- of the
few in moro disastrous forms and
ways by the many. With fur-lin and plush
lined silk in fashion for cloaks, who would
wear cloth? So the soft warmth and sanitary
influence of the woven wool is neglected for
cheap figured or satin finished silk lined with
cheap thick skinned fur or cottonry plush
ana the plain, sensible, well made, untrimmed
dresses nave given place to heavy braiding
and frogs and paniers and triple capes and
aprons and Overlayings and punching of cyerv
description, until the good is taken out of the
pest things and evil put in its place, and the
latter is preferred TO the former The fact
that perfect health is unknown among women.
that they are becoming more and more untitled
FOR the duties of wife and mother-Which
whether able or no the majority are called
upon to perform-and the Widespread misery
which results from this failure in the proner
1ulnllment of function, eXcits no aDnarent
alarm, stimulates no one to vigorous self
examination or the adoption of better and
truer methods as the rule of life Even tigbt
lacing has reappeared with other violations ~
an unwritten law, and the unnatural corn
preston at the waist, coupled with humn he
nina aifected by few, forms earicature
which would soon disappear if the foolish
women who allow themselves to be r,Dre-
sented by 1t could hear the comments II ex
cites even among the brainless men of their
own stamp,
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