The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09
SITTING ROOM AND SIDEWALK.
A Few Points About Women and
Their Gowns.

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New York, Jan. Given a sunny,
brisk not too breezy afternoon and they are
out in full force.
They are women and their gowns.
Perhaps, rather, gowns and their women.
In either case they make a pretty display.
Walking is the fad of the winter and a
very respectable fad it is. Head up, shout
| ders back, dress not too long, low heels,
bright cheeks and flowing hair, young
| woman IS never any more attractive than
she is on Fifth avenue any one of these
| bright winter afternoons.
And the gown. The street dress of the
| winter is phenomenal in its simplicity. 1t
| is always i'll quiet colors, it doesn't allow
much trimming, its drapery scarcely calls
attention to the fact that it is draped at all,
and yet somehow it gets there all the same
There is a good deal OF art in a successful
gown nowadays, art of the style that CON
ceals art too.
That is Mrs Jimmie Blaine-begging her
| husbands pardon, Mrs. James G. Blaine,
Jr.-coming out of the pretty restaurant of
the Woman's Exchange. She wears
| golden-b brown cloUh walking dress, tailor
made, but not too masculine in its tailor
cut, with long black bears fur edging the
| full front draperles, and the trim, military
| tailor coat The hat has WIDE brim of
| black velvet with a folded crown of the
golden-brown cloth, and a bunch of half
long ostrich plumes. Mrs. Blaine has a
light quick step as she turns down street,
swinging knitted silk change purse in her
hand.
There is another woman whom people
have heard of ont for a walk not a block
away. Annie Russell who is making all
the theatre-going women of the city weep
in the title of Elaine" at the Madison
Square, is a pretty creature by daylight
| in vol nc in bat
white trailing robes on the stage. She is
wearing a gobelin blue cloth this afternoon
that sets of her far skin and babyish llaxen
hair Ii has q panel of cream MORE en-
brodered in gold, extending down one side.
The blue draperieS are caught up by u
heavy girdle in white and gold upon the
other side, and she has an English jacket
buttoned about her of the blue cloth Dor
dered with silver fox. On her head is a
little blue turban thrust through with a
golden arrow tipped with a white quill.
AT THE CORNER OF FoRTIETH STREET
there is young girl whom people turn
their heads to look after, standing on the
curb waiting for stage. She wears a short
gown in bronze green camels hair, the skirt
opening in half dozen places to show soft
dull gold folds OF silk beneath. The cor
ners of the cloth are turned back and en-
broidered with gold cord. The short wrap
Of bronze green velvet matches the gown,
as does the poke hat in the same color, with
steamers falling below the waist in green
and gold. She is a remarkably pretty girl
with curly black bangs and blue ewes, and
she is quite well aware that the two dude
let's promenading up and down the block
I behind her think 50 too.
The farther up the avenue toward the
park one gets the more pretty women and
pretty gowns one sees. That quiet little
figure done up i'll a sealskin and lowed by a
| It.,N a -
esuse, who is seldom seen ON the street. She
has on n dark silk of some description that
I one might look at if her heavy da!k hair and
refined face with its clear, not unhealthy
palor, did not serve as reminders that the
"Black Crook, " in which her twinkling feet
first captivated the public, came out good
many years ago.
There Is a pretty cloak whose wearer does
not mind the sharp wintry air rafting
down the avenue on top of stage. There
is a laughing face atop of the cloak with
fluffy golden curls flying about it, and the
cloak itself is a dark, mahogany red affair
that covers the girl under il from head to
foot II is lined with white fur-long white
goats fur-and there is the nose of an ugly
little pug dog thrust out from It's folds. She
is a nice looking girl, but not one of our
Semi-toregn, trench-educated debutantcs,
or she wouldn't be on the drivers seat of a
Fifth avenue stage without n Chaperoue
| u plenty
l more gowns: but for a last glance look at
2 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt coming down those
{ ! brOwnstOne steps after an afternoon call
She Is talliSh young woman, brown haired,
? very pretty and well formed. Her gown is
: a black camelS hair, a tailor made affair
; with an intricate pattern in silver cord, EN-
e. brOidered around the petticOat and on the
t apron draperieS Black jacket and black
' tailor urban, embroidered with white, finish
} the tout ensemble.
/ There is somebody coming in gray. with
Q black boa and muf and an exquisite hit e
. French bonnet She carries herself in
I stately fashion like Ada kehan but there is
no time to stop and see.
THERE Is A PLAN AFOoT
for "A hotel for self-supporting women which
promises better things than resulted from
= A. 7. Stewards mismanagcd scAcme Mrs.
, Candace Wheeler, 10 whose efforts was due
the foundation of the New York Exchange
, for Women's Work, begun some ten year,
ago, is interesting herself IN The project
! with the hope that il II succeeds. other
, cities which have initiated the exchange
idea will take up the hotel project also
. Mrs Wheeler's scheme looks to the fn,ma.
i ton OF stock company to put upa substan-
l.. tlal fire PROOF building, conveniently stu
a ated for women who work down town L.
cost not more than S225 600. Instead of
being under such absurd regulations as kept
& to benefit, the new hotel. if built will he
e patterned rather upon the club idea. with
all its rules made by a joint committee
d of the inmates and stockholders The
;, hotel will be planned 10 accommo-
. date not less than $50 occupants ana
g will be homelike in its fittings with open
e fires and conveniences that the feminine
$ heart loves. Mrs. Wheeler is looking to the
j comfortable housing OF the more intelligent
{ working women who earn from small TO
t moderate wages and for whom the exchange
! of a cheap. clearinghouse lodging in favor
= of IA sunshiney, homelike apartment with
. congenial surroundings would mean re-
) moval from purgatory into paradise. II
the money is forthcoming-and some people
e of means are said to be interesting them
q selves-the project is not unlikely to prove
/ a paying investment as well as a means of
1 doing great good.
1 a beautiful bracelet which | saw the
p other day was a good illustration of what
1 originality can do in the way of iewelry
The trinBet was composed of some fourteen
, gems, varying IN size, color and lustre, set