The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-09

establishment has had its 500 salesgirls in
| black cashmere for a fortnight. Only the
| color was prescribed, the house furnishing
the material, and the women having it made
IN such shape and with such adjunctS OF
lace or braid or jet as suited them elves 1t
happens TO be a house which employs a
great many pretty women, aud the effect
OF the approach to uniformity is very good.
| have interviewed salesgirls in five other
| large establishments on the subject and IN
! four of them found every woman spoken to
ready to make the change on the same con-
ditlon, free gift of the cloth. ut would
show off the millinery so nicely" said one
| bright girl, who had a business instinct
before everything
1T would be tough ON young widows if
all the shop girls wore black" is what an
other set of people are saying. | don't in
the least see why but as there is no present
prospect for any such limitation OF any
| number Of women IN the choice of colors
the weeds need not tremble
| The newest thing in iewelry is a curious
combination of textile fabrics with the
| precious stones. A chrysanthemum pin
| has top made in imitation of the flower
| from mass Of yellow floss silk. Something
like hundred small yellow diamonds stand
| out upon 1t, being mounted on invisible
| gold wires buried in the floss. A daisy pin
presented to Miss Terry the afternoon he
fore she sailed on the Saale was constructed
i'll the same way. White silk formed tue
flower and small white diamonds made it
sparkle. The stem of the daisy, some 2 or 3
inches long, was of green gold copied from
nature. A bunch of hops is assuccesSful
design as any yet tried in this way. Emer-
aids are the jewels peeping from green silk.
The art" flowers introduced this winter are
sometimes jeweled An art rose to pin on
corSage or, after the lately revived fashion,
to put in the HAIR. initiates in its texture
the natural rose leaf Even when YOU
touch it you are supposed not to discover
that it did not grow in a garden Even for
fastidious people the art flowers are meant
to be satisfactory and economical SubSti-
tutes, in the ball room, for the real thing
Diamond dewdrops destroy the illusion,
however, though they are too pretty to
trown upon.
1T WAS JUST BEFORE Z O'CLOCK
few DAYS since when the diners in fash
ionable restaurant uptown lifted their ewes
at the apparition of two extremely pretty
girls at the door. Both were tall and slen-
der and rosy and both had faxen yellow
hair. They hesitated a minute and then
timidly advanced toward a table, while
the nearest waiter anything but timidly
advanced toward them. Pardon. ladies;
against the rules of the house. No
ladies unattended admitted at this time of
day"
"But-we came to get dinner" falt-
cred one of the girls, only half comprehend
ing.
Don't serve dinners to women without
men with them after dark" said the
waiter still more brusquely. His, tone was
audible throughout the room and his man
ner equally unmistakable as he waved them
back.
The color flooded the checks of both as
they stood irresolute and then, a little
dazed, retreated.
Come now, | say, that's an outrage" ex-
claimed a young man who sat at one of the
nearer tables.
Cant help it, it's orders" returned the
waiter, whose attention was speedily d-
verted by The entrance of an athletic youth
with lot of yellow jonq Ills in his hands
The ladies. two sisters, had been escorted to
dinner by their brother who had left them
block from the res aurant to get couple
of bouquets at florists while they went in
advance and pre-empted a table for the
meal The athletic youth laid down the
jonquils, made one jump for the waiter and
accomplished "A knockout a la the old time
Sullivan. Some of the fashionable diners
appauded, but the fact remains that the
waiter obeyed orders after all.
f. P. H.