Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-27
NEW WYORKINSPRINGTIlIE.
A LEAP FROM WINTER COLD
INTO SUMMER HEAT.

Less Interesting Since Her Marriage
Professional Crltioism of Miss Viola
Aliens Refusal to Act.
NEW YORK, April 4.-After January
and February Of almost unprecedented
severity, a March which was all lion and
no lamb, and nearly three-quarters of an
April as cold as an ordinary March, the
season on Monday suddenly became as
much too previous as it had been back
ward. Last week heavy top coats and
fires were necessary for comfort. So far
this week New Workers have been un-
comfortably warm without either. With
nearly everybody-that is, every male
body clothed in heavy flannel under gar
ments, the upper often double-breasted if
not e-backed--yesterday seemed as
uncomfortable as an ordinary July dav. 1t
ought to have been; the mercury marked
81. Yetitis too early to change to summer
wear, and poor New York humanity has
to suffer and be the reverse of strong, for
the heat is anything but strengthening.
However, a 'c0ld wave" is said to be on
the way, and it is already perceptibly
cooler.
This matter of underclothing shows
how much warmer blooded an animal a
woman is than man. (Henry Bergh, you
know, talks of man and the lower ami
mals.) The average New York woman
wears no flannel at all; cotton or the
lightest Of merinO such as men wear in
summer taking its place. She cannot
wear anything more substantial, for the
contrast would be too great when she ap-
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outer garments, too, are much ligher than
a mans; in fact she is clothed in winter
less warmly than man is in summer.
While at all times a New York woman is
thus unseasOnably clad, many men wear
additional underclOthing when they don
evening dress, so that they will not suffer
from changing from high walstcoat and
buttOned coat to n low vest and coat
which cannot be buttOned.
The trouble with this arrangement is
that when one is in a hurry one is apt to
forget the additional under clothing. A
gilded youth at dinner party this winter
was observed to suddenly grow pale.
When asked what was the matter, he
cOnfded to his nearest neighbOr in "a Sc
pulchral whisper that he had omitted his
customary precautiOn. The dinner dishes
were consequently but Dead Sea fruit to
him, and he left the scene OF festivity
early lucIt dft Il lew men WHO are Hfl-
parently as warm bIOoded as women. The
late Clarks0n Potter was one. He wore
no underclOthiEg winter or summer, sell
dom or never dOnned an overcOat, and
wore low shoes all the year fOld His
death from a complaint due 10 exposure-
if my memory serves me aright--at the
comparatively early age of 80, is not cal
culated to make his practice popular
among men.
THE DULLNEss OF DEATH SEEMS TO
HAVE SETTLED
on the fashionable world. The last week
IN Lent was no more wanting in gayety
than every week since Easter has been.
The bachelors ball, which was TO have
been the grand event of the past Lent sea-
son, became diminished TO a small cOtil-
ion, which was given at the Hotel Bruins
wick last Monday. There have been no
other dances or receptions of any account,
and none are on the carpet. Only few
weddings have disturbed dullness which
has had no equal for many years.
The result Of the social stagnation will,
doubtless, be more than usually early
hegira to the country, and the Newport
season will begin propOrtiOnately sooner
and be prOpOrtiOnatelY gayer. Already
the newspapers are beginning to contain
the advertisements Of the country hotels.
The rural BOnifaces, indeed, expect the
approaching season to be a season of
plenty for them, and with reason. For,
fear of cholera will restrain the
customary European exodus, while
the same wholesale dread will cause
people TO fee from the place where
the cholera will land when il arrives in
this country, as the sanitaTiaus expect
it certainly will, sooner or later. How few
are going abroad this season is already
evident. The agents Of the various trans
Atlantic lines say that they never had n
poorer prospect before them. Other years
at this time thousands Of people were
booked for passage weeks ahead; now the
steamers sail comparatively empty with
small prospect of being much fuller. No
wonder their owners hail with Joy the
chance Of the English government en-
pioying their vessels in the event of war
with Russia, which now seems unaYoid-
able.
The small travel over the ocean this
summer renders the project OF a very
original individual even more doomed to
financial failure than IL would otherwise
be, which is saying great deal. This
project is 70 equip each steamer Of one Of
the transatlantic lines with a small but
select theatrical company, which will en-
ltyen the tedium Of the voyage by giving
dramatic entertainments every evening.
An application TO this effect has actually
been made 10 one Of the ocean lines, and
the protector proudly looks forward to the
time wnen every large vessel will have
its theatre and dramatic company. There
will probably be plenty OF room for a stage
in the saloon this season, but hardly
enough passengers 10 make paying au-
diences.
SOMEWHAT LUDICROUs ILLUSTRATION
or THE LOSS
Of popularity which follows marriage,
whether Of professional people or lay men
and women, 10 afforded In the case OF Rose
COghlan, the leading lady at Wallack's
Theatre. IL is said that the audiences OF
"Our Joan" have senelbly diminished In
size since the announcement Of her union
with Boston lawyer. Now, when II is
considered that, although called Miss"
COghlan, she was a widow with children,
and Is removed by quarter OF century
or thereabouts from her first youth, II
seems more than absurd that she should
have inspired enough tender interest even
In the hearts of callow boys 10 have her
remarriage inJure her professionally. But
so 10 seems 10 be. She evidently made a
great mistake In permitting the marriage
70 become public, and the mistake will
probably result in her retiring from the
stage far sooner than she Intended. Miss
COghlan. as she still Is called, expects 10
star In "Our Joan" through the country
next season, but even her friends must
acknowledge that she has not made the
best possible selections.