The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-15

like blazing miniature sun.
Only small proportion of the gowns
have yet been completed, but one of the
ladies under the immediate chaperonage of
Mrs. Aston will wear, so dreSsmaking Cos
sip has it. a superb gown of pale green
crepe de chine, embroidered with magnifi
cent scarlet and golden lilies. With this
costume is to be carried large fan of del
icate green gauze painted in a design Of the
Louis XIV. period and with carved sticks of
mother of pearl inlaid with gold.
Mrs. c. o. D. Iselin is coming out
in cream brocade with great bows of
satin ribbon, and as for the debutantes,
Miss Wetmore, who is expected to be as
much of a success as anybody, is known to
be treasuring white gauze, with skirt
upon skirt, ballet fashion, a gold bodice
and tiny little sleeves like curled leaves A
young married lady, who prideS herself on
her exquisite complexion, is planning to set
it off by symphonY of silver gray crepe
with silver fringe. A very slight blonde
debutante will wear pale green with gar
lands of sweet peas, and two pretty sisters
from Brooklyn have already received from
Paris their pink and blue striped brocades
with skirts Of gauZe.
About the smartest toilet l have yet
heard of is to be worn by rich and regal
dame whose costumes are noted for a
sumptuousness that is far from unbecom-
ing. The material is superb golden
brocade that has in it a hint of the pink of
the morning sky. This is cut in princess
style, very decollete, and is to be worn with
the family heirlooms of lace and fortune
in diamonds.
The ball will make very evident the COM
pleteness of the conquest achieved by costly
fans. One of point lace, painted by Bellan
cour and another painted by prince and
given to the grandmother of it's present
owner in Venice, are two of which have
heard that will be there.
At the Woman's Press Club of Sunday
afternoon, if you succeed in getting ad
mitted to Mrs. Croly's parlors, you will
meet not uninteresting group of women.
That is Florence Finch-Kelly in the arch
way, under the curtain, slight and dark
and thinking may be of the husband who
was out in the woods of the northwest all
summer trying TO catch a grizzly bear for
young Hurst, the irrepressible of San Fran
cisco journalism. Such are the ''assign-
mentsn of reporter. Mrs. Kelly used to
be on the Boston Globe, and has written for
the Sun and for the Golden Gate papers.
She published a novel last spring, and will
have another out in a month or two.
The strong. sweet-faced young woman on
hassock beside her, talking bicycle is
Mrs. Josephine Redding of the Art ANA
telr, who is one of the most successful
editors and most enthusiastic wheelwomen
of the city.
Quiet, in bonnet and veil, but you know
how merrily she can flash though, sits
"Bab," who has no equal in her own bright
vein.
Not far off is Mrs Frank Leslie in black
silk and jet, who delights to call herself a
newspaper woman and says she is so busy
that she writes her syndicate letters be-
| tween midnight aud 8 O'Clock in the morn
| ing, sleeping only four or five hours nightly
and feeling, if occasionally she gets sever
hours rest, fit to jump over the moon. On
| the sofa at her side is Mrs. Margaret Raven
| hill, who is Kathryn Kidder's grandmother
| but who, with her white hair and peachy
| cheeks, is the handsomest woman in the
room. Nelson Wheatcroft, she says, ha
written a play for Miss Kidder, who is rest
| ing for the present, but Will be on the stage
| before long as a star with her own com
pany.
Each one who enters pays her respects TO
| Grace Greenwood, who smiles so kindly OF
| the younger aspirants for journalistic hon
ors. 81 adore freedom" is her laughingly
| uttered sentiment, land always want to dc
| Just what they say | mustn't"
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, of the Munro pub
| locations, is Just back from the south anC
holds out her hand to Matte Sheridan, the
| best society reporter in the city, whose vel
low curls hide her tiny figure, of whom
| everybody makes pet and who always hal
a good time.
| Mary F. Seymour of the Business
| Wonad1l's Journal, sits as fresh faced anC
serene as if she couldn't indorse a check OF
the right end to save her, but when thu
| club begins to talk of practical matters hel
| sound sense comes constantly into play
| ''Olive Harper who, lame as she is, trav
eled in the east, where hardly western
woman had been before her, tells how she
came to write her novel, ga Fair Califor
MAN." and Anna Randall Diehl, the presi
dent of the Shakespeare Club, is picture o
matronly dignity.
Helen Watterson of the Evening Sun i
telling her neighbor that the chief difficulty
she finds in newspaper life is that she hasn'
any wife to keep her wardrobe in order anc
help her on, and Margaret Manton, who's
cheeks are pink and whose hair is short anC
dark and curly, takes notes while Jenn.
June stands by the piano and asks for atten
ton from the club members.
The Press club will have a room dow
town presently which will be open all day
and where women reporters can drop in T.
write up their copy. 1t will serve Afternoon
tea one day in the week and promises to cal
out most pleasant aSsemblages OF clever
people. A practical feature is to be an in
surance department with funds for tn,
sick or burial of deceased members.
date for a reception to Miss Amelia b, Ed
wards will be announced soon.
The Seidl Society, whose president i
Laura G. Holloway, and whose objects arr
musical and philanthropic, makes many in
teresting and some pathetic discoveries
One of the attendants at a course O
lectures on Wagner, which has been give,
recently under the society's auspices, was
Young seamstress who stitches all day TO
small wages and takes singing lessons In the
evening. This girl is said to have as fine
a contralto voice as Anna Louise Cary
RAYMOND, and to be an enthusiasts
in sber devotion to musical study
but the drudgery of her daily toll so wore
on her that she would fall asleep at thu
lectures, unable to enj y what she had 81
denied herself to hear. The club has beer
good-uaturedly laughed at for naming it
self after Herr Seidl, but the metropolitan
opera house director has taken much inter
est in struggling students of music, and hi
beautiful wife has given a good deal o
money with the quietest and unostentatlou
kindness to help along girls with talent bu
without means.
One of the interesting things in th
Christmas novelty trade is the success 0
the bright little woman who put On tn
market bon-bon boxes concealed in tn
skirts of puritan parents, or Quaker aunts
or old farmers, CT people OF any quain
variety capable Of being done up in odd ant