The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-01
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK
Grave and Gay in the Changing Days
Before the Early Frosts.

Crave and Gay in the Changing Days
Before the Early Frosts.
NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-The unusually
rainy summer has produced curious result
in giving some OF the spring flowers a second
season of blooming and fastening the
opening of the autumn posies, so that the
unusual spectacle has been presented in
places of May dandelions and October
chrysanthemums blooming side by side. A
chrysanthemum party was given at aristo-
cratic Nahant on the rocky Massachusetts,
coast some days since to welcome the great
golden early corners. and as the fete was
quite novel one it is likely to be initiated
both on larger and smaller scale at Lenox
and elsewhere during the autumn. These
cards of invitations w htch were sent out
were bordered with pale purple chrysan-
themums ike so many giant thlstles or
like punches of willow plumes. The guests.
who reached Lynn, the nearest railway
station, by special train, were met by carts
decked with green boughs, with now and
then maple branch waving twiggS of the
deepest crimson. White and red china
asters were stuck behind the horses ears.
A combination musicale aud garden party
was the entertainment of the afternoon The
decorations of the large hall and the music
rooms were chrysanthemums, eked out, for
lack of the fuller bloom of coming
weeks, by their first cousins, the gorgeous
china-asters. Quaint, dark Egyptian-like
vases were filled with brown and red or dull
orange blossoms; low antique blue bowls
contained those that were pure golden or
pale yellow with crimson blotches on the
under sides, while marble vases held tall
stalks unfolding in lilac and blush pink and
softer colors Upon the lawn the same idea
was carried out, chrysanthemums and asters
in pots just removed from the gardeners
BEDS being ranged in double and quad
ripple rows to border paths leading to the
tents i'll which tea was served. The plants
had each dozen or more great heavy
petaled blossoms, while huge bouquets of
buds spoke OF the approaching success of
the florists forcing. Under the tent avn
inGs the whole middle OF the tea table was
! a rectangle of white aSters set erect as if
| growing. By each plate lay two or three
long stemmed sprays of chrysanthemums
dull red half shading into yellow, being
TO lowed by white and this by deepest gold.
These sprays were tied by ribbons and,
matching them, the name cards were
painted with nymphs and graces sporting
among tall bushes of chrysanthemums.
Cottages n
village of the BerkshireS have been in er-
ested this summer in the appearance of a
young girl who has alighted from farmers
'carryalP occasionally to deliver berries
for tea. Tall, straight, brown-curled and
somewhat sunburned, she had suca large
| eyes, such prettiy curved mouth, sucn
winsome ways and such sweet toned voice
! that more than one felt passing impulse
| to inquire into her history and see if some
! OF the things, which people call ''advau-
] eagfs9 could not be thrown in her way
Last week there came to one of the cottages
another young girl who cried, "Ohl Isabel u
when she caught sight of the berry picker,
'is1his why you couldn't find time to ioin
the'coaching party to the White mountains
or even 10 write line to your frends9 ~
Dlllgenu inquiry on the part of the COT
tagers brought out the fact that Isabel is a
Wellesley girl whose father has found life
for year or two back somew what hard sled.
ding and who has organized quite au indu.-
try this vacation to help pay her bills
during the next school year. Bluebsrries.
whortieberries, raspberries, blackberries,
all IN their season, she has picked, and hired
dozen or more boys and girls to pick for
her. These she has retailed to cottagers.
shipped to New York and Springfield and
when surplus has threatened to accumu-
late has put up her wild fruit in cans. 81
long as the wild Strawberries lasted she
tempted customers with the woodsy bits of
righteousness in birch bark baskets or
dishes plated of oak leaves. Feathery
grasses, sweet fern and bayberrv, blosso
OF the wild carrot, cardinal flowers and
clematis she has tied up in graceful punches
and sent cityward along with her berry