The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-18

du oAtIANdSanU way OF wearing mowers,
but if a social leader says so, Of course it
will go.
Dolls for those Harrison babies are just
now the order of the day. IL the casual
mention by newspaper correspondent Of
the finding Of a rag-baby on the mein
stairway of the white house the day itsnew
tenants moved in has had half the effect in
other quarters Of the country that it seems
to have here, those children can stock doll
city ia week or two, Rag babies indee1l
A crippled girl in Brooklyn is dressing
court lady for the little Marthena The
cripple herself interests me more than her
doll. | have seen her day after day for a
year past when | have happened TO pass
through n certain street in the morning.
She is always at the window and her face
always wea s the same pathetic, troubled,
wounding expression that hauuts one with
lingering sense of tender iiad OF pain.
Her gray-blue eyes, the delicate curve of
her lips, something in the turn of the head
and the very facial conformation suggest n
mute appeal And yet she is, when you
speak to her, as cherry as chipping-brd.
ii rs is a strange story: Her father was
German who brought her to this country,
leaving her mother at home until he could
support the two of them. III course of "a
year he saw his way clear to completing
his household and sent for the absent wife
to come. She left the inland German
town but she never reached America, nor
could any trace of her, from the time she
corded her boxes and said good-by TO the
village folk be found. The father studied
the newspapers, trampe1 from city TO city,
died of a broken heart The crippled
rich peoples children play witt. She has
supported herself for five years. She is "A
doll artist and seems TO have peculiar
genius for turning out pretty babies, She
is laying by tidy surplus and-well, that
Harri on dolly. IL Is big aud brown
haired. She is putting Josephine gown
on it copied very accurately from the orig
inal. The dress is of watergreen silk. en-
broidered with the Bonapartis flower, the
white violet, and it has all the modern ac-
complishments of walking and talking ba-
bies. | believe it is to have Come nara
cloak and a hat with plumes. She will
send it to Washington next week, propa-
bly,.
IN AN OLD FRENCH HOUSEHOLD
in New York there Is carefully cherished
an heirloom. 1t is slipper worn by
Marie Antoinette in the last days before
the French revolution. II was one Of the
few precious relics in the baggage of court
lady who fled with her husband, when the
storm broke, to Louisiana. She left the
tiny faded blue foot covering to her daughter
with the injunction that it should go down
in the family and always to the eldest
daughter, if she never allowed herself TO
have corns.
1t is a pretty slipper and, kept in the
jewel case Of dainty Frenchwoman after
Frenchwoman, 1t is perfectly preserved.
For two generations the family have been
New Workers, not at all well to do, but
mindful of ancient traditions. Get the en-
tree of the very dingy house in very diugy
side street, and bright-eyei, black-haired
little woman-she gives music lessons-will
seat you under a photograph of Gerome's
picture, Napoleon Questioning the
Sphinx" and talk to you Of art endlessly.
Ask to see the family treasure and it will De
brought out reverently.
It must be about No. 2 in length, but it
is very narrow and very high heeled. The
material is a brocaded blue satin lined with
soft white silk The sole is "A coarse grained
leather and there are three satin straps over
the instep fastened with a paste buckle The
toe is rather pointed and is embroidered
with silver threads. The edges are bound
with silver braid
As 10 the co Idition restricting its inherit
auce it has always been regarded strictly,
they say. Tne women of the house have
taken wonderful care of their feet that they
might be worthy TO inherit the slipper Of
the unhappy queen. For hundred years
there hasn't been pinchng shoe worn in the
family. There are two daughters growing
up now to claim tho relic and both Of them
have feet a. perfect in shape as infants, the
family tradition having accustomed them
to such frequent bathing and constant at
tention to their carefully shod pink toes.
Elsie Leslie, il she IS not looked to, will
be spoiled for life by the long run Of Little
Lord Fauntleroy." The part is too long,
too much of nervous strain for a mere
child. Tommy Russell relieves her oftener
than at first, but she has played too long
and too often and looks thoroughly worn
out and i'll.
dearest" is far pretter Off than on the
stage In her own room at the Gedney,
with her short hair loose about her, the
brouzy lengths just turning up in round
curls at the ends, Kathryn Kidder Is very
fair, and she seems Ns ulsophisticated, as
inn cent OF all knowledge Of evil as a
child. In her widow dresses Of black and
white she makes herself look behind the
footlight 40, but she is barely 20 aud very
modest in her aspirations. Sne is taking
French lessons and Camille" lies on her
dressing table. Ask her if, like ali actresses,
she would like TO play ii, and she will tell
you yes, but she never expects to be "a BILE TO.
Her mother, on the contrary, Is full Of con-
fldence in her future, and wants TO see her
in a part that calls for emotion and gowns.
Kathryn Kidter doesn't make up, her com
plexion won't take it, and she is a delt
needle woman, making good share Of her
own clothes. Il. +. III.