The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05
CHICAGO BELLIES sUN-BA4Hs.
How Some Pretty Women Spend the
Morning Hours at Home
From the Chicago News.


From the Chicago News.
The leaders of society are never more
| beautiful than at 10 O'clock A. m, when the
men have gone to business and the children
| to school. All sit in the sun, back to the
| light, and fairly luxuriate in the golden
| food that streams about them. One has a
| flowing robe of black satin De Lyon, made,
| she said, from three old reception dresses,
and trimmed down the front with little
Iuffles of black lace set Oh a white silk
| tabier. She reads her paper with one arm
thrown about her head to tone down the
| sunlight, and bronze slippers with beaded
does peep out from her robe or press the
satin foot-rest into creases. ....
Another lovely creature on Prairie ave
nue. has her golden benediction at II o'clock
in black silk princess, with front bodice
and petticoat of dotted violet, ribbed with
narrow stripes of pansy velvet. A pin of
lapis lazul holds the lace about her throat
and old gold bracelets of antique pattern
clasp her arms just below the elbow The
manicure artist is admitted aud takes a
chair at her knees Before she gets her case
of instruments open the maid enters the par
lor with spirit lamp, small brass bowl. cut
glass dish, water bottle, and block of lettuce
soap. The lamp is lit, the water heated and
poured into the glass DISH into which her
pretty lldflt 10 pun W SOIbbU Bnb CuLltle
about the nails. The artistic spends an hour
polishing, trimming, and shaping, and
when she leaves madame is bundled up in a
carriage robe and goes Off for fresh air
Another lady on Michigan avenue takes
the morning sunshine in white corded silk
wrapper of the Directoire period, trimmed
down the front with double shell ruffle of
black and white thread lace, and fastened
at the throat with four splendid brilliants,
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in her tinted ears, and she has u band-mir-
ror, III which she studies herself until Some
body calls-the doctor, manicure, chirop-
odist, modiste metaphysieian, artist, or
coiffurer, for madame will wait on nobody
they must come TO me, she says. The mir
ror is "A gen. picked up in Paris loug ago,
and valued as a wedding tour souvenir. II
is circle of plate glass, three inches 10
diameter, framed in ormoll, set with small
coins of gold mosaic. Between the coins
are bits of enamel and the whole Is bright
ened with beads Of amethyst, India onyx,
cameo, turquoise and garnet The
handle consists of bamboo
stick, linked and fretted with ormolu
In the same hand that holds the glass is n
dainty, "mystic web of lace,n perfumed
with the oil of roses, and as she lies back
among the satin cushions of her chair it Is
like solving logarithm to tell what fasci-
nates-the mirror, the woman or "the scent
of the roses that hangs roundn tho lace
She looks at her eyelashes, her teeth, and
her brow; hunts for trace of silver about
the beautiful temples; wonders ii she is
really getting wrinkles, and worries over
blemlsh or plmpie not larger than the head
of a pin. II the doctors time has passed a
phone message Is sent for him Seven days
in the week this beautiful woman may lie
found in the sunny corner Of her sitting
room studying her glass, but you must be a
near or dear friend TO Get an entree
The post graduate spends the hour after
breakfast in pink and pearl flannel robe,
with her hair rolled in a Phidian knot, and
reads the morning paper, quite as often
lying on couch with her knees crossed as
in rocxing-chair.
Boys Corduroy Hats &c, Gents 75c., at