The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-29
THE DoINes OF WOMEN FOLK.
In the Week Between Christmas and
the New Year.

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NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-We have lapsed
easily and naturally into our normal tea
soaked winter condition, the mud and fogs
Of the early season-''so like dear London
promoting possibly an increased consump-
tion. 1t is not unlikely that from tie mild
1 o'clock entertainment may be evolved
very shortly as many varieties Of tea as
there are served wines at a swell dinner. il
was only yesterday that noticed the laden
tray carried by a pictureSquely gowned
Hebe who circulated at her mistress bid
ding through the crowded drawing
rooms There was first thu japanese cup
and saucer smoking with the just poured
beverage. Flanking this was the tiny cream
Jug and sugar Pot for the old-fashioned,
and, on the other SIDE an egg-shell saucer
bearing, for the Russian taste, several thin
slices of lemon. In front was a second
saucer holding tiny bits of vanilla bean for
those bent on experiment, and reinforcing
the battalion behind was a third saucer
holding delicate, dried peach leaves. II a
critical taste was not even then suited, there
was modest decanter, a thimolefull of
whose contents supplied flavor number five.
Hebe. as she paused before the newly ar
rived guest. waited until choice had been
made from the various brands. In truth.
Of the making Of many teas there will
shortly be no end.
One Of the newest things in drawing
room decorations reaction evidently from
the cold brilliancy of wuite and Colds a
taste for the warmest reds that can be con-
trived. Ward McAllister's parlors are fur
nished in these rich tones. The portieres
and widow curtains are deep, soft Grim
son. The chairs and couches are uphol-
stored in a harmonizing but slightly paler
shade. The carpet Is q creamy gray, with
crimson border. One or two small tables
and bric-a-brac stands have crimson velvet
covers. A large picture on the wall has a
wide crimson plush and gilt frame. The
bronze clock and candelabra and other orna-
ments fit in well with this glowing winter
interior. 1t would not be difficult to emu
merate many other examples Of the same
penchanr for red in furnishing.
Another fad which it might be hard to
account for is the sudden liking we have
developed for things Egyptian. Fashion
able folk cannot be assumed to feel any in-
terest in Miss Amelia B. Edwards OF her
archaeological researches, and yet il is a fact
that the lotus flower and the sphinx are the
favored embems in recent decoration.
The chances are that it is an obscure de-
velopment of the not yet subsidized classical
mania. From Josephine 20 Napoleon and
from the Little Corporal to Egypt is a
journey the taking Of which is not
incomprehensible Whatever the cause,
we embroider Nile rushes with the sacred
Ibis wading among them for boudoir
screens we wear scarabRus rings and sus-
pend scarabeus pendants about our necks,
and when we want a clock we hunt the
bric-a-brac shops through until we find one
in silver with Ra, the hawk-headed man,
wac stands for the sun, supporting it on
one side, and Osiris, the mummy, type of
the struggles of humanity, on the other.
One of tue clocks was bought recently for
Nine de Stuers, who is connected with the
Aston family. 1t was in silver and bright
bronze, and rested on the back of the bull
over it from behind. The raised work on
the silver took the shape Of hieroglyphic
inscriptions.
To one of the cityis fashionable literature
classes a young man accompanied his
mother, intending to join. The fifty students,
it happened, were all women, and objected
somewhat strenuously to the presence of
the solitary being of the opposite sex, who
beat retreat in as good order as was pos
sible. "But they treated you, after all,
more courteously," said a young woman to
whom the experience was related, than
men sometimes do women, when lone
creature in petticoats invades one of their
gatherings. AT Bellevue hospital recently
young girl who is studying medicine in the
city entered lecture room one morning.
The young ge tlemen present Kissed as soon
as they noticed her presence, but, though
her cheeks became crimson, she sat out the
lecture 10 had come to hear" Last winter
was, believe, made somewhat notable by
the fact that during its progress it did not
once happen that a woman medical student
was Missed at Bellevue.
Now that the Christmas trade is over, IL
may not be out of the way once more to
state that the only chance woman has of
realizing anything worth whilc from the
connection of all the hand-painted satin
trihes which sell 50 largelysis to invent
novelties, even if they be only slight varia-
tions on the prevailing styles, and to de-
velop a business gift for marketing them.
There is one woman who supplies several of
the largest dry goods houses in New York
and Brooklyn. She used to live on Long
Island, and to send in, perhaps, $500
worth Of toilet sets, sachet cases, etc., TO
two Brooklyn stores. Little by little it APP
peared that without fail she could be relied
on every season for something attractive
and new. Her orders increased, she began
to give out work to other women, and now
she has been obliged to move into the city
and to keep quite a force Of women at work
The year round. She makes herself respon-
sible for the designs and the finish, and
already she is immersed 10 plans for Christ
mas 1870 H T. H