The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08

woods Of the most benighted and bar.
barrie State in the South, and all Goth
am credits her with being fully as styl,
ish and as tasteful as the glass Of fash
ion and the mould of form she &C.
cepted as a husband.
'But why multiply instances when
they are as innumerable as the stars
that fill the skies or the flowers that
bloom in the Southern groves and gar,
dens? Why prolong list which might
be expanded into feminine census
and wardrobe inventory of the South?
With both eyes blindfolded and my
right hand tied behind my back with a
strap of blue lustering ribbon I can
name, of my own personal acquaint-
ance, a thousand women and young
girls south of the Potomac and Ohio
rivers, who, in all the attributes of cul-
tivated and refined taste in morals,
manners, art, literature and costumery,
are the radiant peeresses of any thous-
and that can be found from Winnipis-
seogee to Iuba Dam. I say it, and I
am willing to leave it to any compe-
tent jury of my countrymen or coun-
trywomen, Northern or Southern, and
to stake my scalp, my worldly goods
and ills, my debts and my single-bles-
sed freedom on the decision.
THE JEWELS OF THE SOUTH.
"Such daughters ofthe Sunny South
land as Mrs. Charley Hoyle, Mrs. Joe
Carr, Mrs. Jessie Lansing Ray, Mrs.
Jeff Clark, Mrs. ABBY Chouteau and
Misses Matte Blow, Hildergrade Ster-
ling, Sybil Rex, Mary Dameron, Clyn-
tie Evans and Mamie Broadhead, of
st. Louis; Misses Matte Harrison and
Mamie Lamb, of Hannibal, Mo-; Mrs.
Ed yard Wilder, Mrs. Tom Gaylord,
Mrs. Bette Vance Rutherford, Mrs.
Allan Houston, Mrs. Sallie Marshall
Hardy, Mrs. Harry Gilmore, Mrs. Kate
Sharp Foster, Mrs. Sterling B. Toney
and Mrs. Currie Duke, Kate Eaches,
May Tompkins, Louise Berge, Bella
Lloyd and Matte Yandell, of Louis
vile; Mrs. John G. Carlisle and Miss
Marguerite Walker, of Covington, and
Mrs. Rosa Fertnec Jeffrey, Mrs. Charl-
ton Morgan and Miss Susan Preston,
of Lexington, Ky; Mrs. Adolph Dahl
gren, Mrs. Joe Washington, Mrs. Van
kirkman and Misses Harriet Marshall,
Carita More, Fanny Rhea McAllister,
Sadie Polk Fall, Mamie Rogers, Mar
garet De Moville and Annie Clare, of
Nashville; Mrs. w. C. Foulkes and
Miss Hattie Ensiey, of Memphis; Mrs.
Stephen D. Lee, E. H: Trahue and
Miss Louise MaldeE9Hb My efh 4ahfS1iMsfsses 4ahd misses
Nellie Foote, Mona Winter, Olivia Ar
.lington and Maggie Peet, of Alabama;
Mrs. Thos. Kennedy, Mrs. Jamison,
Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter and Misses
Susie Richardson, Cora Townsend,
Temmie Cage and Lula Bohn, Of New
Orleans; Miss Fannie Gordon, of Geor-
gia; Mrs. Mamie Paul Adger and Miss
Lucy Simonton, Of South Carolina;
Mrs. John Y. Staples and Misses En-
ma Blakely and Katie Scales, of North
Carolina; Mrs. W. F. H. Lee, Mrs. Liz
zie Henry Lyon and Mrs. Mary Dear
ing, Ella boswell and Lou Buckner, of
Virginia; Mrs. James Carlyle and
Misses Winnie Beckham, Cornelia
Denver, Nancy Norton and Katie
Riggs, of Washington, and nine hun
dred and twenty-five others of the
thousand I could name are, individu-
ally and collectively, capable of uphold
ing gloriously the fame of their sunny
native region before any tribunal un-
der heaven, where taste-taste in its
highest, purest, most delicate phases
and forms-is the standard and test.
wIPING UP THE FLOOR WITH THE
SLANDERER.
"This fault-fnding correspondent is
New Yorker, and New Workers are
intensely localistic. To them Manhat-
tan Island is the world, and the universe
is bounded by the North River, East
River, Fulton ferry and the aqueduct.
He makes the mistake of setting up
the New York standard Of taste and
dress for all creation, regardless of eli.
mate and countless considerations o1
circumstance and surrounding. He
might as we'll set up an iceberg as the
model of palm tree or a polar bear as
the pattern for a gold pheasant or g
peacock. The light, fluffy muslins anG
broad-brimned gypsy hats, with theil
bright ribbons and plumes, are as ap
propriate among the orange groves anc
palmettoes as the tailor-made clotl
suits on Fifth avenue or under thu
elms and Naples of Central Park. The
furs which are proper and lovely il
New England or Dakota would b.
monstrocities in Florida or Louisiana
and Madison square dude would b.
far funnier on a bucking broncho at /;
Wyoming or New Mexico roundup
than the widest type of cowbo,
could ever be on Broadway.
"Let the blasphemer who decries tn
gay tintings of Southern girls dresse
as the tawdry gaudiness of the barba
ric negress' demand that the hummin.
birds, parrots, orioles and macaws O
Southern forests shall strip off thei
gorgeous plumes and array themselve
in the sombrc feathers Of Northern
thrushes, cat birds and barn owls. LIE
him call on the magnolias, Grape myr
ties and jessamines to lay aside thei
dazzling bloom and perfume and do