The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-21

VI NeiSh.. -NoV D4C or 1T. Pdpa, Tor good
| reasons, doubtless, gave neither of them tho
sealSkln jacket she had decided on before
hand. One fancies her sisters ornaments
are richer or more unique, or something
else Than her own. Every day since that
great one of peace and good viii there has
oeen running fire OF singing words be-
tween the sisters The truth is that the
thlng Is overdone. and tie money value of
Inc gift Is counted on more than the feeling
that prompts it.
The great weddings which are max
ing such stir in society are the occa-
slons for curious exhibitions of human ma
ture
I've got to buy an expensive present
Tor the BRIDE and a new gown for myself
10 appear in, and | don't care two hair
pms Tor her," l heard pair of red lips com
plain.
But when your wedding comes off"
suggested the prudent mamma, ''she
VIII be able TO make you splendid pres
emit, you know" and that settled the mat
ter.
The dear public would stretch its innocent
optics to the utmost ii it knew some of the
doings behind the scenes What, for in
stance, would it think of the richly dressed
mamma VINO calls on some artist girls, sup
porting themselves bfavely by their dainty
work, who We're school friends of her daugh-
ter, but of course have never been adj
mltted to soclety--calllng and casually re-
marking:
Dear Geraldine will be married next
month, you know. You didn't know9 Then
I'm glad mentioned it. You will have
time to do some of your beautiful work for
her-she will be so delighted
The unsuspecting girls are in a futter.
They're going to invite us, Oh' The paint
lngs are executed in their best style, and
sent in early, to give dear Geraldine pleas
ure. The girls watcl i'll vain for invita-
tons to the wedding, They have done all
expected Of them in helping to launch the
child of fortune in the most approved man
ner. But the day before the wedding a
note comes from the bride. inviting them to
call that afternoon and see her elegant pres
ents, graciously adding that theirs do not
suffer by contrast. The girls don't go.
IN the stores one will find a special induce
ment to buy plain silk stockings in solid
colors, since fancy hosiery is more fashion
able. \ tip to fair shoppers is to repIenish
their stock with splendid stockings at the
smallest. outlay. Almost every lady can
embrOider and nothing ls more becoming
than an embroidered stocking. The plain,
sold-color, sewing-silk article can be got at
reasonable prices. So can knitting silk that
washes like white cotton. A few spools of this
and several pairs of stockings can be trans
formed into a stock of hosiery, looking dol
lars when they costs dimes. You want to
cut pasteboard Just the size of the de-
sired stocking. Double your measuring
tape and cut your pasteboard just half the
number of inches, slip this into the stocking
and embroider upon it. The pattern must
60 all around the leg, and to have a good
effect the pattern should be graduated in
size and reach Just to the calf, the pattern
being smallest on the instep and around the
ankle and letting itself out as it ascends
Two shades Of green, two of rose, few
stitches in one direction of the darkest green
ami III the other of the lightest, fill up tie
space between with the two rose shades, the
deepest at the bottom, then YOU have a
pretty bud. Cut off the rows between and
at regular intervals put dot of chalk, on
a black or dark stocking. Then buds an
inch or two apart and graduated as the
stocking swells are very pretty. On a blue
stocking. two rings interlocked, the one of
darker blue, the other of lighter blue than
the stocking, look very well. Graduated
dots in graduated shades make a snowy
stocking.
Speaking of stockings naturally leads to-
garters. Almost every very fashionable
girl and woman possesses a pair of gold
clasps Just l ow. Some of them are set with
stones that make them very valuable, and
in almost every case some sentimental in
scription is engraved on them At the
close of a recent concert at Chickering Hall
there was found blue elastic with hand
some gold clasp in horseshoe shape. Inside
it were the words "Dickeys Punkey.n How
touchingi ''Dickey's Punkey'' never APP
piled for it and never will.
Already the c-stumers TO, the masquerade
have laid in characte' dresses that show the
way the season will go. Mythology has
been ransacked. All the deities on Mount
Olympus are to be Represented in undress
uniform One man exhibited a dozen boxes,
somewhat larger than cigar boxes
"What are these! asked the visitor.
Costumes
I'm the name of decency, what cos
tumesW
Different kinds"
Then he went on to display tiny cap of
feathers, with the head and beak of a bird
in front, eight little drop-latch pieces of
feather work depending from belt Chat
was a skirt, piece of feather stuff sitting
up like a hustle and a lifelike tail bristling
from it; four little wings TO attach to the
shoulder blades and ankles-there you
WERE He had eight varieties. He vowed
that with a fleshing, which is the name for
a silk stockinet corset cover, and pair of
tights, they would be the sensation costumes
of the coming balls. There was the robin
the canary, the cardinal. the nina, and the
dove This coStumer says that for the
French ball, some time III February, he is
to furnish seven young and lovely girls
with their borrowed plumes, and they go as
an aviary.
A woman who had been for many years
in the lace department of a store-So it is
related bv Police Inspector Byrnes-lately
saw a well known rich woman several times
flcbiug from her stock when her attention
was called away. AT length she went to the
proprietor, and he protested she must be
mistaken She insisted, and begged the
shopkeeper to let her expose to him, in quiet
way, the sort of thing practiced by the
klentomaniac. He consented. The next
time the customer appeared at the lace
counter word was conveyed to him and he
lowered about Miss Attendant took down
box after box, and when her back was
turned in search of another kind of lace the
DIoprietor saw some suspicious movements
on the part of good Mrs. Customer lie
annroached the counter. Quick as wink the
clerk picked up my lady's muH and passed
II over madam's head, as she sat on one Of
the stools, into the hands of the astonished
man. Snugly tucked into it were two
Valenciennes handkerchiefS worth $40
nniece. Mrs. Customer was invited into
rrivate room. There she vehemently as
serted that it was a blackmailing plot
which she would denouuce in public and
legal manner She cried loudly that her
husband should be sent for at once, and as
he happened to be a business man in the