The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09
HOLIDAY NEWSJOTTINGS
FIRST.PICKINGS FROM THE BOUGHs
OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

Worker Can Make at nome.
NEW York, Dec S-The latest thing in
purses is adapted to cash and candy. 1t
recognizes the two wants Of the pretty girl.
Il brings together, so to speak, the end and
| the means sweets and the wherewithal to
buy sweets. 1t is round silver bon-bon
box with the pretty girls monogram en-
graved atop and the meshes Of her change
purse hanging in silver network below. 1t
makes the pretty girl independent Of the
world. II is a comical little absurd little
purse, devised with an eye to your foiblss,
you daintily gloved, daintily shod, fresh
checked, cbattering, candy-loving matinee
girl.
Christmas is coming and Christmas novel
ties are TO the fore. One of the newest of
the new things is the mourning umbrella
These are the days when one matches,
matches from top to toe Would the tall
Pompauour crook in silver, bright silver,
set with pearls very probably, would such
an umbrella comport with Grape, think you (?
The mourning umbrella is just as tall, it
touches your shoulder, reaching the full
hight of the style. 1t is just as LOUIS
Quinze, for if there are any women who are
particular about their dress appurtenances
is just as bright as the silver, but its bright
ness is a dusky CLEAN. The stick of the
mourning umbrella is studded its full length
with the coaly specks of dull and shining
jet beads.
After Christmas the young girl will wear
a new sort of chatelaine. II is a chatelaine
of ribbons, grandmother used to wear it, ard
of a snowy afternoon in winter when a
caller comes to the Preside it will give the
GIRL cha crIU in nj
is meant for house gown accessory, bit
of picturesqueneSs, for decorative effect
only, though it may be put to its old time
Uses if any young girl should be so prosaic-
ally minded as to think on plain sewing. 1t
should match the house gown in color and
be fastened to the belt. 1t has five long
pendants of inch-wide ribbon painted with
birds or butterflies, feather stitched with
floss or left plain. Scissors weight one
Streamer, needlebook hangs from one, pin
ball from a third An English walnut
makes nest for the thimble at the end of
the forth ribbon and dress artists differ as
to what should go upon the fifth.
Silver has had its innings. Silver and
ivory is enjoying its turn The silver back
combs and brushes and hand mirrors which
suggested last winter the desirability of at
tending to its toilet to every bowed down
and unkempt Christmas tree are no longer
the favorites as against the field. Long odds
may be laid on ivory-white ivory or better
yet. yellow ivory veined with brown
carved as only the Chinese know how to
cut it, and inclosed in an openwork frame
of wrought silver or silver filagree An
ivory comb, with such a silver casing has
the oldest effect imaginable and the oddly
is what takes. Hand mirrors are some
times gotten up very deliberately with
handle OF ivory carved with pattern of
daisies, and handful of daisies in enamel,
instead of silver, joined by the tips of the
petals, crossing the ivory back.
When one gives ones picture to ones best
young man, one gives him, not photograph,
but pastel The colorless presentments of
the sun pictures. so unfaithful since the
progress of ''retouching,n are banished in
the days or months of romance, making
place for delicate, poetic faces rising out of
soft gray mists with tender, shining eyes.
If the young man appreciates the portrait
be is supposed to set it in a frame of ivory
cut into the semblaDce of a wreath of flowers
before he exposes it TO view upon his desk.
Ivory picked out with gold is prettier, ivory
and silver go very well. A ieweled frame
of enameled nowers-lilies of the valley,
rosebudS, Parma violets-cOrrespond to
the floral image under which he pictures
his lnamorata, is the finest, and the coStliest,
of all.
If it is the best young man who has given
his portrait to the pretty girl she does not
frame it to stand upon her desk at all. That
is no longer the way. She circles it with
an oval rim of gold and hangs it about
her neck by ribbon, not in sight, mind
you, in the good old lovemaking way.
Providence is kind to woman who persists
in carrying her pocketbook in her hand.
The immense wallets OF leather a foot long
have disappeared. New wallets for winter
promenading should be nearly square and
rpifa small still dnac r, r,raSant oDa
with tiny watch in the corner, but the
latest wrinkle is very small VIVA grette
fiat in shape and inserted i'll q silver medal
lion at the top, for use III malodorous
horse-car, or, possibly, to cover ones grief
or surprise at the cost of goods. A pocket
book foT the queen of ones heart is heart
shaped, covered with chamois skin and
painted with fight of swallows, the birds
OF good omen. 1t might be taken to typify,
however the modern connection ietween
love and money. a few of the latest cash
keepers are disguised as small, daintlly
bound books to put the cash snatcher off
his guard. They say that Ella Wheeler
Wilcox carried the first of these greenback
volumes, laughingly calling herself a
gilt and embroidered with roses, and all of
them so far have been bedight most fanci-
fully.
In holiday bric-a-brac one should remem-
Der that bisque, which is always with us,
changes its colors each year, All of this
seasons designs are in very light tones,
mostly in white and gold. The dark-colorei
pieces are left over from last winter. Bisque
just now adapts itself to Louis Quinze fur
nishings. Arcadian shepherds and shepher-
desses, court ladies and gallants masquerade
before us joyously. Bisque frankly and I'M
blushingly records our complete repudia-
ton of the medieval styles SO long in favor
AMI the open apostacy of our return to the
frill and furbelows. the charming, rumpled,
picturesque coquetry Of the Pompadour,
Watteau and Boucher era. Bisque powders
the hair of its DANES and puts cooked hats
on its gentlemen.
BY that same token white marble has re-
turned to us again. We have banished
it to art galleries for years, but this Christ
mas we shall invite it home. We have not
liked its smooth, positive whiteuess in the
half tints of our Rsthetically furnished
rooms, but il Is the very thing to stand out
boldly against pink, blue and gilt that smile
from wall and ceiling now. Marble busts,
marble heads of maidens, marble groups for
pedestals, marble center pieces and even
such small articles as marble paper weights
will be the art fashion ere long. Take the
back seat, is what marble says TO bronze
We have reached the jumping Off place
in realism in tine holiday ideas for picture
frames. A group of babies playing with
flowers is one Of the new things in pastels
Tho rhuhhv facaS and dimnled fingers n a