Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-16
TWO THINGS THAT MUST GO.
Washington Society Declaring War
Against LOw-Necked Dresses and
Punch Bowls.

Washington Society Declaring War
Against LOw-Necked Dresses and
Punch Bowls.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Between the
lOw-necked dresses and the punch bowls,
there can be no doubt but what Washing
ton gossips have had strong enough topics
to make conversation lively this winter:
and while good many are ready always
to point a moral and adOrn a tale with the
evils of either or both, many other g0Od
people see nothing wrong in the present
condition of things and wonder what all
the fuss is about. The punch bowl has
wrought disgrace patent to any one who
is not thoroughly soaked himself with its
attractive ingredients, to warrant the
strong condemnation it is receiving in
many quarters, but up to date the Jolly
bowl and its fringe OF thirsty men and
women has not been missed from any
sociable gathering of note. Take the re-
freshment table and the liquors out of the
attractions of any ordinary house, and
the hostess would have few to interrupt
her solitude.
LADIES' DECOLLETE DRESSES.
Many ladies who have young sons, and
whose moral sense has not become blunt
ed by the slick way in which vice is in
sinuating itself in every direction under a
guise of good form, are thanking their
stars their boys are not mingling in it.
end are hoping most fervently that a
healthy reaction will occur before thew
do. 1t is not likely the lOW-necked dress
would form such constant subject of
conversation, as it certainly does, where
ever a few women are gathered, il the
newspapers were not paying so much at
tentiOn to it. Neither the criticisms nor
the undisguised look of disgust which the
Af L..
woman creates, affects them in the faint
est degree. They were way beyond that,
unfortunately, before they came here, for
be it said to the credit of Washington la
dies, precious few who belong around
these parts are given to this vulgar dis
play.
AN AMBIGUOUS CLASS.
There are a number of women they
cannot be called ladies who are making
big show here lately, whose antece-
dents nobody knows anything of and
whose claim to social connections is Just
about as haZy. They have a supreme lot
of cheek and are famous as the leaders of
the decollete movement. Decent people
have no patience with the easy con-
sciences that allows women of this type
to actually form a social following, and
to give crowded parties and balls, which
nice people seem afraid to be prudish to
stay away from. There is one house here
with such an assortment of widows that
they could not be duplicated under the
sun, and yet when the assembled widows,
grass and otherwise, give dinners and
receptions they have no lack of guests
and lots of people of undOubted strict
moral ideas go, well, because they were
asked, and they swallow their scrupIes
by remembering truisn that the ''capi-
tai of the great nation is good place to
practice minding your own business"
The Canadian ExtradItion Treaty.
OTTAWA, ONT, Feb. 15.-It is under
stood that the proposed extradition
treaty between Great Britain and the
United States, draft of which has been
submitted to the Canadian Government,
will embrace the following Offenses :
Murder, including assassination, par
ricide, infanticide and poisoning, at
tempt to murder, manslaughter,
cOunterfeiting or altering money, or ut
tering the same, forgery, counterfeIting
or larceny, obtaining money or goods by
false pretenses, crimes by bankrupts
against bankruptcy law, fraud by
bailee, banker, agent, factor,
trustee or director, or member
or public officer of any compay, rape,
abduction, child stealing, burglary or
house breaking, arson, robbery with Vio-
lence, threats by letter or otherwise with
intent to eXtOrt, piracy as defined by the
laws of nations, sinking or destruction of
a vessel at sea, assault on board ship on
high seas and revolt or conspiracy to re-
volt by two or more persons on board
ship on high seas against the authority of
the master.