The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-05
THE Do1NGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
What Does it Cost Young Girl in So
ciety to Dress2

DO4NNIo Ut w OMGIIN T O11Es
What Does it Cost Young Girl in So
ciety to Dress2
NEW YORK, March Stake the case of
this seasons debutantes sitting down for a
Lenten meditation amid the wreck of mus
Inns and the crash Of tulles considering the
transitory nature of all things earthly-and
the need of a new Easter wardrobe.
Reckon the number of swell dances to
which she has been, divide the number by
two and you have the number of tulle
gowns she has had. Multiply two hundred
by the number Of tulle gowns
and you have the approximate cost
of the tulle gowns. Simplicity is the infexi-
BILE rule for the debutante Yes, and white
tuue gown goes slip and skirt upon skirt
of tulle, one outside another, bullet dress
fashion, until the requisite airy, delicate
butterfly appearance is produced. Add rib
bon sash, gloves, etc. and there is your
500. One crush, two average dances, three
small affairs with care and the tulle gown
is tulle tatters. There is $500, say, for
winters beginning Reckon for other more
or less formal occasions three or four other
white gowns There has been very proba-
bly, an embroidered India muslin, gown
of ivory cloth with delicate tracsry of gold,
a soft white silk of some description and
maybe dotted net over silk. These come
to from $500 to 500 more. The debutante
has been to several afternoon teas. That
means a couple of plain petticoats, one
in copper color, the other in cadet blue, say,
with draperies and bodices of Lincoln green
and French gray. Put down 5000 The de-
butante has been walking and calling. That
means a couple of tailor gowns. Put down
$3.50. She has been to the theater. That
means very possibly something in silk the
color of wild rose petal; loose wrinkled
waist, the folds meeting in point in front
setting off the girlish slimness Pink satin
ribbon fastened on the left shoulder with a
Marguerite clasp, carried under the right
arm, then hanging loose with lace fan dang
ling from the end; string of pearls about
the throat; pink bonnet. Put down $125.
An afternoon reception costume, a dinner
dress, lace gown or two for all sorts of
wear, nondescript useful gowns.
Put down $500. The bills mount
Up and yet no mention has been
made of hats, bonnets, wraps, jackets, coats,
parasolS, underwear, shoes, gloves, laces,
etcetera, Put down not less than 81 900,
and call the total $1,000. 1t looks a high
price for winters enjoyment, but papa,
who foots the bills, with more or less cheer
fulness, has very possibly paid more for a
picture or horse.
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN
to be held in Washington this month will be
The first gathering of its sort ever held OF
notable Englishwornen will be present Helen
Taylor, the step-danghter of John Stuart
Mill, who has served on the London School
Board and has made some valuable contri-
buttons to the literature of social and politi-
cal economy; Mrs Millicent Fawcett. the
widow of the blind Postmaster General, to
whose Influence was largely owing the ex-
tensive employment of women in the Eng
lish post offices, and whose volumes on
political economy contain much that is
worth reading; Mrs. Dixie, the owner Of
the Despatch newspaper, and a well known
lecturer, and Henrietta Mullen, Girten
girl, and now on the London School Board.
Nine. Bagalot, of Paris, stands for the
prison work, and Italy, Denmark, Sweden
and Germany will send representatives The
Collegiate Alumnae, the Unitarian Wom-
ems Conference and other organizations of
women will have delegates The Red Cross
will be represented by Clara Barton, the
temperance movement by Miss Frances
Willard, the Women's National Press As
soclation by Mrs. Marion Mcbride, of the
Boston Post. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
Lucy Stone, Miss Anthony and Lille Dew
ereux Blake, with other prominent leaders
of the women suffrage movement are ex-
pected. Miss Grace a. Dodge, of the New
York School Board has been asked to speak
on usual training. 1t promises to be note
worthy gathering, representing the progress
of women along many lines.
CLEVER YOUNG WOMEN
is building upa business of somewhat novel
character in New York and Brooklyn.
Travelling agents have long made good
thing out of antique furniture picked up
on excursions in the wllds Of rural New
Hampshire or Connecticut, inducing farm
ers wives to ransack their attics and bring
out mirrors that only wanted regilding, or
brass-handled chests of drawers In want of
nothing but polish and varnish to fetch
round sums from modern worshipers of
bric-a-brac gone by The best hunting
ground for such things, curiously enough,
has been overlooked almost entirely. New
York and Brooklyn, as things go in this
great country, are ancient cities There
are low browGd Dutch homesteads within
the limits of the former city, and old houses
on Second avenue, in the Washington
square region and on Fifth avenue itself, in
New York, which only need to yield up
their treasures to delight all the lovers of
last century carved oak, mirror-front ward
robes rare spindle legged monstrosities
and choice bits of buhl. This young woman
has begun a series of tours among the
stately old mansions sunk to second class
boarding houses, or gone yet further on the
road to neglect and decay, and when she
finds relic of past grandeur, she rehabilit-
ates it snd introduces it to an art lover or a
curio lover or a person ambitious of the
repute of an art or curio lover-witn money.
An old ebony cabinet, inlaid with mother
of pearl an old dressing table, with tray
of Sevres let into the top, an old chair COW
cred with French lowered satins Of the
early years of the century, these are grand
dukes in Punishment to he restored to their
lost estate. 1t is pleasant business for a
Young woman with some knowledge, q good
eye and better Judgment, and she makes 1t
profitable.
This is going to be flower season. The
French posies that are ready to bloom on
hats and bonnets are the most exact copies
of nature yet attempted. There are carna-
tons, cowslips, mignonette, hop blossoms,
wood MOSES, roses with buds and throned
leaves, trailing arbutus, spring beauties,
coral sprays, laurel punches with spec mems
of nearly all the spring and summer bloom
ers. Fruit and vegetables fortunately have
gone out OF date In millinery. Tomatoes
and caulifiowers have lost their place on
feminine headgear, though chestnut bnrrs
are pretty substitute.
Il is rather audacious of certain makers
of cosmetics 10 use Mrs. Cleveland's reputa-
ton, even in the guarded and cautions
way that they do. Does the "estimable
lady of our honored Chief Executive" use
so-and-so's such-and-such, and has she au-
thorized so-and-so TO say that she doesi
E. P. H.