The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09
THE aILDBD CIRCLES OF GOTHAM
The Nudity Craze has not Experienced
any Abat ement.

The Nudity Craze has not Experienced
any Abat ement.
New York, Dec. S. TO Judge by the
opening OF the German opera, the nudity
craze has inexperienced any sensible abate-
ment sisce last winter. The styles of the
dresses are different. The generosity Of
their revelations is about the same. Indeed
from several indications, should imagine
low water mark to be just trifie lower,
and a little nearer the level of that famous
season in Paris some ten years ago, when u
writer in La Vie PdriSiennc described a ball
at the Princess Metternich's as "a surf of
torsas foaming in pillows of silk"
The tea fight always open the social cam
paign. as the conflict along skirmish line
always opens a battle. have the assllr-
ance of a most distinguished and scientific
campaigner in this field that the tea fight
will be made more seductive for the male
sex this winter than it was last, when it al
most required oxen and mainropes TO Sc
cure the presence of a corporal's guard Of
men at these gatherings. Exactly what
shape the seduction will take | cannot say
with authority. | should not be astonished
to learn, however, that it is kept on ice and
not dispensed in tea cups.
If anything can establish coursing as n
popular sport with our first society, the
raid of Mr.. Bergh's society on the Hemp
stead Harrers will certainly do it, When
the sport was tried on last year it met with
but little favor. Now everyone is enthusias-
| tic over il, at least every one who aspires 30
polite consideration. As matter of fact,
If were q rabbit, | should infinitely pre-
fer beng run down by dogs to being butch
cred in a battue Tire dogs themselves see
to it that there is no prolonged cruelty in
the sport. Nature has provided them with
an instinct for very expeditions killing. For
real cruelty of brute to brute, commend
me to the manner in which cat disposes Of
a mouse Yet, Mr. Bergh's society has not
yet, as for as know, endeavored to put an
injunction on pussy's prosecution of the vo-
cation for which she was specially con-
structed. Perhaps he will essay it, now
that the atrocty is pointed out
Apropos of the Hampstead case, I was
much gratified TO note the distinguished
good humor and exemplary placidity with
| which August Belmont, Jr., bore his
| part in this trying crisis. A great many
men might quite justfiably have lost their
| tempers on such an occasion. But Mr. Bel
mont's urbanity is, j suppose, hereditary.
| He gets, it, fancy, from his father. His
| argument in favor of coursing and against
the cruelty theory of Mr.. Bergh was en-
| pbatic and ought to have been conclusive.
| 1t consisted. in brief, in the statement that
| coursing was sport extensively practiced
by EnBHSn BeHJieiilel, anu COulu uOb, LueIe
| fore, be either brutal or inhuman.
With the announcement of the assemble,
at Delmonicos the now familiar wall goes
| up against the restricted space of the ball
| rooms. As one more caustic than gallant
| wit puts it, they will soon have to have a
mothers gallery so that daughters may
| find room on the floor to dance The mod
istes, however, are happy. A full Delmoni
| co ball is hundreds in their pockets, just al
| presentation day in London circnlates q
small fortune among the milliners for tbs
repair of damages. 1t would, in fact, be
money In the Delmonico purse IL the estab-
lishment were double in size. What is NOR,
likely, | hear, is the establishment
| of another more spacious anc
splendid Delmonico's uptown, wher,
there is hungry demand for some
thing of the kind.
One of the newest evidences of metro
politan snobbery is the cockading of coach
mems hats. The hatters' shops now dis
play regular line Of cockade tiles FOL
the Jarvles Of the Avenue. Gen. Sickles
may have set the fashion, for his coachman
has long sported a cockade But Gen.
Sickles has right 10 the use Of this garnish
ment. How many of the others who apply
it can set up their military title TO its use
ALFRED TUMBLE.