The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13
PERSONAL,

EDGAR FAwCETT does not admire Walt Whit
man. He says that Leaves of Grass" is the
dullest and most tedious book he has ever read
HENTY IRVING was 30 years old Monday and
he celebrated the anniversary by playing to a
s., 900 house at the Boston Theater that even
ing.
THE Boston Globe says that the resemblance
of Henry George to Shakespeare does not end
with his face, as ''he can make on paper Much
Ado About Nothing"
HENRY CLEws Of New York, has received a
letter from the Duke of Marlborough in which
he says that he is finding London rather slow
now in comparison with New York and New
port"
A ROOM is being prepared at the Johns Hop
kins University Baltimore, Nd, for the use of
Moses Ezekill, the famous sculptor, who is to
execute a bust of the late Charles D. Morris,
Professor of Latin and Greek at the university
HENRY C. BALL of New York. is the only Re-
publican remaining in the Consular service of
the government. He is Minister to the Central
American States, but will doubtless soon lose
his head. as a good New Jersey Democrat is
after the place.
GEN SHERIDAN is said to be growing very tired
of the constant iteration of his name in con
nection with the Presidency, and when an ac-
quaintance approaches the subject the soldier
becomes positively rude and turns on his heel
and walks away.
PRINCE NAPOLEON has made another addition
to his numerous relics of the first Emperor in
purchasing a locket given by him to a Venetian
beauty Of high rank in 1909. 1t contains por-
trait of himself made with his own hair With
the portrait is hastily -scrawled bilet-doux es-
tablishng its authenticity.
HENRY c. KELSEY is Secretary of State in
New Jersey, but he is also one of the best
known of the outsiders who take an occasional
f1yef in Wall street, and manages pretty gen
orally to be on the winning side of the market
Over in New Jersey oillce-hoders may come and
60, but Henry c. Kelsey hangs on almost for
ever He has been Secretary of State for nearly
twenty years, and for ten years of that time his
office worth fully $4,000 per year. His
present annual salary is $4,000, and he adds to
it by being Insurance Commissioner for the
State, Clerk to the Court of PardonS and filling
half dozen other places that altogether make
him the Pooh Bah of New Jersey Democratic
politics. He was the editor of little country
weekly up in Sussex county, New Jersey when
and in his newspa per days be used 10 be glad
enough to take part of the pay for his suhscrfp-
lions in farm produce and patent medicines.
Mrs. ANNE JENNEss MILLER of New York, is
the apostle of the dress reform which does away
with petticoats bands and bustles and permits
the feminine body some of the grace of outline
and movement which IL was intended to have
by nature. But she does not call il dress REFORM
for the butterfly brand of wOmanknd Just nat
urally loathes anything in the nature Of a reform
IN clothes. She calls IL the Correct Dress for
women And as she wears il. there can be no
doubt of its correct ness. Sh, IS tall hand
some, Juno-like woman who would look well in
anything. And really there Is nothing in the
least suggestive of crankiness IN either Mrs
Miller or her designs for dress. II her models be
come generally adopted peiticoats VIII be swept
from The face Of the earth. Tnat doesn't mean,
however that We shall see the female form a.
vine going unanimously about ia trousers. The
trousers VIII be- there, all the same. IN place II
petticoats. but yeiied from prOfane eyes By the
gown. you would be- surprised, said Mrs.
Miller a. group Of ladies' HON she was in
STRUGGLING in BIER dress theories "how many
fashionable ladies ~ Washington are going
about lu trousers " But IL must be remembered
that these byRieuic substitutes for petticoats
ARE not called trousers They are called leg.
l'ffes, aud when IL comes - matters Of dress
there rs ever ~ much M a name, juliet Gapulei
10 the contrary notwithstanding. The future
viii b. able 90 damOnsfate whether q woman IL
that she has things Ike frOusers though not
called Trousers. uDoa her pefron " not.