The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-27
BUSTLE OR ANTI-BUSTLE.
WILL THE CLEVELAND OR HAIR
RI5ON IDEA PREVAIL9


Anti-bustle Seems to Have it as
Against the Incoming Administra-
ton.
(Copyri0ht 1897
NEW YORK, Jan. 26-"Must the hustle
go?"
1t said itself over and over in my brain
as the elevator went up and up and l felt
that must be nearing Miss Kate Fields
eyrie in the Victoria. As q reasonably
valuable small boy of our family says,
Il ask you, ask you" Dared | ask
such frivolous question Of such a bright
woman?
''Oh, it's you, is itl 1 thought an inter
viewer must be man. Well, as you're a
woman you may take low chair. l had
just set out that high one for you.
What is the matter with you newspaper
peoples How many days is it since 1 was
asked is marriage failureF And then ii
was DO you believe in cremationP Well,
[ do. Excuse me if go on with my work,
won't you2 This is what l call Field s
folly,'n and the plant figure in the soft red
gown bent over a handsome travelling bag
which the white fingers were rubbing. 81
bought this bag in London and paid l
dare not quote the figures as | remember
them lest | convict a genius Of quite too
shocking extravaganza "lt's Of no earthly
use to anybody, the silver about it makes it
so heavy. "Well, the hustle:
Il think it an invention of the devil
81 don't know that there's anything else
can say to you about it, really"
" on seem to cover the ground pretty
thoroughly in a sentence
A pair of bright eyes twinkled and the
brainy woman who has done much for the
cause of artistic dress looked Us if she were
thoroughly in earnest in her combina-
ton. She picked up a pretty trife-
the room was strewn with bits Of dainti-
ness such as women love-and dropped it
into my lap.
"Heres a souvenir of-bustle"
you think, then, that obnoxious article
is doomedW
YES, no; how can one tell2 The dress
maker tried to put one into the last gown |
bought, it was in an imported French robe,
and she thought she could Improve upon it
with hustle. | soon interfered with that
little manipulation, though.
where's the use of talkingl In matters
of dress women have so little sense.
when you consider what they are made
-motherhood-women are failures"
That sounds worse than calling marriage
a failure"
"If marriage is a failure 1t is because
women are failures Mind you, | don't say
men are not failures too. When you come
right down to the truth, most of US human
beings are failures compared with what we
ought to be. But we are not discussing
men now. Men are hideous in their dress
but they are sensible and healthy. Women
are less hideous, but they are neither sensi-
ble nor healthy
"Do not fashions alter in the long run for
tine betters"
Fashions change for the sake of chang
ing and because the dressmakers change
them. Women are dressmakers' slaves.
They do not exercise any Judgment of their
own If the hustle goes it will not be be-
cause Of any reasoning on the subject, but
because the modstes think it is time to turn
wardrobes topsy turvy and handle money
for new outfits
"But | would much rather you inter
view me on temperance Won't you
have a glass of hot water." and the vivaci-
GUS writer and lecturer, who has been held
up before the public lately as a confirmed
wine-bibber and boomer, INDUCED in glass
of the aforementioned temperance bever-
age. sit is a misfortune sometimes not to
have brother to thrash a person who tells
falsehoOds about you. 1t hardly does to
hire any one to perform such a service. 1t
vexes a woman whose principal drink is hot
water to have it said of her that if she ever
gets tipsy she doesn't show it, Not that
pose as a prohibitionist, and not that | have
not engaged to lecture on the light whole
some California wines. But why need peo-
pie distort truth iuto hes"'
Mrs Frank Leslie has such a comfortable
way of diffusing warm glow Of selt-satis-
faction over her visitor.
Another card! Oh, tell the gentleman
am busy. lie must come again"
And in four minutes precisely; "still an
other! Oh, an interviewer from the -.
Ask him 60 call tomorrow or this after
noon. am too much engaged to see him
now"
"If you are so busy must be intrud-
"But can always find time to see
you"
Then one launches the momentous ques-
ton.
"Do | believe in the bustlel Why, Of
course do. A well-formed woman, that
is, a woman with small waist and well-ac-
centuated hips, can hardly dispense with a
little fullness at the back of her gown.
There's a hollow there, naturally, and
something must fill it if the dress is to hang
as it ought to- Oh, | can't agree with Mrs.
Potter She says her form is so perfec
that she doesn't need hustle Now, if she
doesn't need one that is proof on the face,
or the back, Of it that her form is not good
at all.
"Of course l don't mean a large hustle.
Just put your hand on mine. That's mere
nothing, now, isn't its You'd hardly know
there was anything there at ALL The big
hustle was dreadful, but that is very old
style. In the new dresses from Paris the
hustle isscarcely perceptible.
81 am to put you down as favoring a
small hustle"
mot a small one, a tiny one. Why
mine is not over inches wide and
inches long" and the lady measured of
something still smaller with her ring-decked
fingers.
"It''-the pronoun indicated its mysteri
Gus subject with sufficient dehniteness-'is
made Of horsehalr and covered with satin.
1t is just lttle pad. 1t is not in the least
heating or heavy or any Of the drendfu
things they say Of It,, and sit back against
it with perfect ease; see now" and Mrs.
Leslie recliue1 against the straight, high
backed leather chair, which is the throne
she occupies on her editorial dais, with non
chalant freedom
do you know saw an article about my
self the other day expressing surprise that
could write in hustle, with my corseti
laced this way, and my hair done up 50 aud
these French boots on. Why, since | car
do my work in such dress-it was very
French creation Of black with white trim
mings doesn't that show of itself that my
corsets are not laced any more snugly thar
they ought to BET Why, l couldn't gel
through with one-half Of what ! have tc
without system in my Office work and sys