The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-27
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
Sayings and Happenings Here and
There in the Feminine World.

can. She is bred upon pure native stock, but
she is to all intents and purposes an inter
national girl Half the debutqntes this win
ter are of this variety of girl, and very
interesting variety it is. They speak Eng
lsh, but they do it with a French or Ger
man accent and they haven't at all our
frank aboriginal ways. They look pretty,
BUTT Is with an odd foreign prettinesS, that
tempts Us To dub them, a'deaicrs IN all sorts
Of wares do their choicest stock, imported.
They are curious, English-Cl ntlnental-
American hybrid girls.
This is the process of their growth. They
are born in the land of the free, etc, and
here they live until they are perhaps IA or
Is years old Then mamma takes them
abroad, just al the formative period OF their
lives, and establishes them in pension or a
private family There the foreign nursery
man prunes them and trains them on trel-
lises, encourages them in this direction and
checks them in that, doing his best by late
| cultivation 10 eradicate the effects OF run
ming wild in our rank new soil. BY and by
when the young woman is old enough TO be
introduced mamma goes after her and
brings home the finished product
Mamma brings "A foreign wardrobe at the
! same time and she gives a tea or din
ner or a dance to let people see this exotic OF
hers.
You know that she is an exotic the min
/ ul- YOU SET eyes on Htf. one mas lOHb Ilt
ease, the freedom and the liberty of the
| American glrl, she has not put on quite the
| primness of the jeUne nile, out her bearing
| IS the oldest commingling of the two. There
| Is the natural lmpuislveuess funnlly toned
| down by the required re traint. She does
not dash into festivities with the confidence
Of young queendom, fearing nothing, sus
! pecting nothing, enjoying all, pushing her
| mother into tie background, as young
| America has done sometimes. She stands
| demure i'll her Worth VII beside mamma
until a partner presents himself, ana as soon
as the dance is over is conducted straight
| back to mamma or chaperOne, nothing of
the sex male being permitted to exchange
dozen words with her away from the safe
| convoy Of that friend. She is under guard
ianship, strict guardianship, ana the multi
plicatiOn of the guarded type is altering the
whole complexion OF the social world. They
are very pretty, these comical, little America
| foreign girls, that step in the unaCcustomed
harness so gingerly, letting their heels fly
in spite of themselves in an involuntary
caper sometimes They are very amusing
with their small prudieries, for the unaf-
| fected unconsciOusness of your real Euro
pean damsel who wasn't allowed to learn
| young that she was person of Importance
| doesn't come by grating. They are an in
| teresting study but the faster they increase
the more certainly we are approximating
| foreign ways in yet another particular; the
real power in society. she who is its breath
of life, is not the bud, but the young mar
ried woman who regains the freedom given
up by the girl
THE PRETTIEST OF THE JOSEF HOFFMAN,
stories has not yet been told. The little fell
| low is as sensitive as he is fond of music, and
| the failure OF Gerster at her first concerts in
! New York this winter had depressing in
| iuence on him when he was told of it at the
| time. He had a childish worship of the
| voice of the great singer, and when he was
taken to hear her on her temperance at
| one of Campanni's concerts a week or two
ago, when she demonstrated that she could
| yet sing, even if not as formerly, his de-
| light knew no bounds. He clamOred TO be
taken behind the scenes, when ne took Gers
ter's hand, looked up at her with his quaint,
chivalrous courtesy, saying: The spring
has come back, madame, the lark sings
again. dropped on one knee kissed the fin
ger he held and would have run away Gers
ter cried over the little boys tribute and her
eyes were wet when she reappeared on the
stage.
A pair of tiny buskins was privily ex-
hibited by a New York storekeeper the
other day. They were lined with white
goats fur and finished with white satin on
| the outside. They buttoned with real gold
| buttons, and there was a cord and tassels
twisted of gold thread somewhere about the
top They were for the only baby that
wears such things. the pride and hope
of the Gould family, Edith Kingdoms little
boy.
THE BUsTLE is DECADENT.
He that hath eyes to see, let hun behold
1t on the wane. Its decline and fall off. to
quote Silas Wegg, may be noted from two
things mainly. With people who know
how to dress it is going, if not gone.
With people who do not know how to dress
| 1t is bigger every day. All fashions run to
extremes, grow monstrous, when moribund
A hustle was put to good use yesterday
The horse car was crowded, and a school
boy who was anxious about his geography
lesson, having no other chance to open his
book. laid it carefully on the shelf formed
by the spreading draperies of the woman
VINO chung to the strap in front of him
She was none the wiser and he learned his
maps.
The return of Tennie c. Clafiin, as Lady
Cook, Viscountess of Montserrat, has re-
| vived good many old stories in Brooklyn,
| where she and her sister, Victoria Woodruff
now Mrs. Biddulph Martin, were brought
into undesirable prominence in the DAYS of
the Beecher 1ilton scandal. Mrs. Beecher
| and Lady Cook met face to face upon the
street few days since. Not muscle in
Mrs. Beecher's serene face moved, and it was
thought she did not recognize the woman
| VINO Has Dceu III EtRltIlu LOT fifteen wears
Lady Cook has not altered greatly, either.
Her hair has turned little gray since the
days when she got herself elected Colonel in
the National Guard aud rode down Broad
way at the head of 600 negro troops, but she is
as vivacious as ever and as full OF tales of
the wonderful things the Cooks and the
Martins mean to accomplish in America
Mrs. Tilton, who lives i'll great retirement in.
Brooklyn, is said to be out of health and much
agitated by the revivals of Old memories.
Lady Cook has learned to dress while abroad
and her tea gowns and her bonnets excite
respectful applause.
MRS. sYLVANUs REED SHOWED HERSELF
a shrewd woman when she secured Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland's services as as
sociate Principal of her school. The Presi-
dents sister has dropped as completely out
of newspaper mention as if she had never
presided in the White House, but her name
still has power in the select circles from
which private school pupils come. In spite
of her schoolroom duties Miss Cleveland is
seen very frequently in the queter gather
ings OF society. She is as pronounced
blonde as her brother Her eyes are blush
gray, and the very best of New York dress
makers do full justice to her graceful figure.
In class she is always very quietly dressed,
but there as elsewhere She gives the impress
sion of a woman Of position, or as an en-
thusiastic pupil puts it, "A queen every inch
| ~ her = Miss Cleveland tn "a casual oh ar,-.,