The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17

The main summer sports are of course
thing of the past. sThe lawn tennis young
girl and the croquet girl must adopt those
other forms of sport that may be enjoyed
winter or summer in New York, aud
those already mentioned are the leading
ones.
But the cold days are coming. and they
will not be the dreariest of the year to the
eleesome girl athlete Her bowling club
will once more get under way, and let it be
known that there are some very expert girl
bowIers in Gotham. The toboggan will soon
tobog again and toboggan and New
York girl form team that plays the deuce
with a young mans heart. Then there ls
the skating on Central park lakes, and snow
shoeing expeditions into Winchester county
for New York ladies' providing thore is
any snow; and there are any number of
ways by which the New York girl athletes
will keep in training, so to speak. during
the winter to come. Football is also one OF
the sports the New York women now in
dulge in. Be it understood that the fact
that she devotes some time to
physical exercise does not prevent her from
enioying a little frivolity. On the contrary,
her training enables her to go through long
receptions without fatigue, and when her
male partners at the society balls that
she attends are dull and heavy eyed and
tired, she is still rosy and fresh aud ready
sort to brandy in the morning to steady her
nerves either.
She is not that sort of girl.
There was time when in the cafes up
town you could see women indulging in late
dinners, made up of all sorts of indigestible
things, with champagne or some other
drinks, frequently inclusive OF brandy aud
soda. That was the time when young
women found it convenient to keep as late
4 he Themselves when
after-theater parties broke up long after
midnight, and when heavy heads appeared
in the morning. That sort of pace couldn't
last. however, and it didn't. A reaction
followed, and everything is changed.
If you scour the uptown restaurants now,
saw about midnight, you Will find the men
as usual over their brandy wine or some
thing else But few womenl The fair sex
has found that late hours and late suppers
are not what they seem. So the sterner
sex wander from restaurant to cafe alone
and despondent. They drink brandy at the
Hoffman house and talk pugilism with
Billy Edwards. They drink whisky at the
st. James and talk theatricals. They drop
in at the Fifth Avenue; drink more whisky
and talk politics, or perhaps they drop
down to the Morton house to drink more
brandy and talk with actors out OF an en-
oagement, or to go over to Sixth avenue TO
NAV billiards and enjoy social converse
and bad whisky with some gentlemen Of
gamblingproclivities. At the end OF such
a night they vote that the world is "goin'
TO the dayvil, doncher know" and submit
to being brought home in cab or street
car according to the state OF their finances.
And the Young man wakes up in the morn
ing pale, hollow eyed, fatigued, disguised
with the world, envious Of MS sister, who is
ROSY. full-chested, clear of eye and thor
oughlv content with herself, as she well may
be- Then he goes and drinks more brandy
and absinthe 10 put himself in proper
frame of mind and smokes nunberless Gig
arettes as he reflects upon the wretcnsd
condition OF things generally and OF him
self in particular.
| ,srior 70 her brother, and Will probably
Continue so, II neither change their method
Of living, for the girl has the best method
Va DAVID WEcHsLER.