The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-16

and they are dividing the massive clumps
and carrying away roots by the barrow
load for back yards and front yards and
country house boarders. Hamllton's holly
hooks are another treasure, and the dozen
or more bushes which toppled to their fall
all winter on the edge of the cellars which
speculative builders are digging in the
fine grounds have been seized
on this spring as of more value than many
orchids, ahd borne off in triumph to testify
to the long descent OF han dozen danes
who will dance at the centennial ball. II
one asks You what is your favorlts flower,
point him to the bachelors button or the
larkspur, or the cinnamon rose, or the old.
old Sweet William. These are the fashion
able flowers for the minute, aud you must
make them ND in the big, man colDred,
ho est bouquets, with di ,centra aud red
and whit psonies and lemon lilies ana
yellow datiie5 in which our graa.-grau
mothers delighted. Verify there are fash
ions even III gardens.
My lady lives among her early republic
curiosities. Her duties are bee minE al
N st as onerous as those of the curator of
museum. H eth not a woman part il the
glories of this great ald growing country?
Hath she not forebaa and polished they
not snuff boxes, drinking caps aud powder
horns! II .th she moi blttoas Of silver and
silver gilt cut from continen al uniform
Hath she not knee buckles and shoe buckles,
and is there not an elaborate wrought old
cloak clasp which has tumbled about in bl-
reau drawers for generations a ID might
have gone into the clutter hole twenty
times? Has she not the odd little brass
money scales with who great-grandsire
weighed out his shillings and-stly, didn't
Aunt Jane write last week that there was
silhouette Of great great-ulcle knocking
about in the garnet at home? Surely too,
there used to be an old blue plate with a
design of the landing or Lafaye to in che
family farmhouse up the Hudson for which
travelling bric-a-brac dealer offered s.
six or eight years ago. These things are
proofs Of birth and must bs exploited. There
must be table made ex 1res 'ly to hold
them and it must have honorable place in
the drawing room. The cabinet maker il
z 5tting used to such commissions. Take
any small stand, u little white and gilt table
preferably, and have a glass cass con-
structed OF the exact shape Of the top. Let
it be six inches deep or thereahoats and line
it with some bright plush or ribbon Spread
out your antiques in this receptacle and
you will have added to your room the most
fashionable of all bits of furniture.
Never was there such a rummaging for
old pieces of brocade. Since Miss Effl3
Beekman Borrowe got pictured in the Cen
turn a scrap from the gown which her
great grandmother, Mrs. James Beekman,
wore to Washington's Inauguration ball,
every fragment to be fished from attic
chests has gone up 200 per cent. in value
My friend Marion gave an afte noon tea
simply to exhibit a corset Of the year 1870
1t was made of home woven linen, coarse
and ugly, and bu5ke1 with thick piece Of
oddly carved wood, but it made the after
noon go Off with eclat. Another good
woman has child's frock made of the first
calicl ever printed in mill in this country,
and she's sending out cards for a reception
on the strength of it. Yet a third matro1
has banked for two months on toe fortune
contained, socially speaking, in a graz silk
gown dropping TO pieces and short waist ID
enough to have belonged to Dolly Madison.
Yes we wrangle over the cent Annial, but
we're Interested. We may go so far as to set
up ornamental well sweeps on our lawns this
summer.
A good many people, they say, are hurry
ing off to Europe, because they are not
asked to distinguish themselves at the CEN
tennal ball Maybe aud yet perhaps the
early opening of the French exposition is
responsible for the exodus. At aay rate
the flight is giving sudden impetus to a
new summer business for women, the chap
eroning of travelling parties Of girls. l hap
pen to know four or five women personally
who find this a lucrative and very pleasant
occupation. One of them is young teacher
who earns something like $4,000 year in a
girls high school and goes Off for the warm
months with half dozen pupils for recrea-
ton Another is young widow who used
to travel for pleas ire and now takes two or
three girls a season over the route she
passed four or five years ago in her honey
moon. Sometimes her charges ask to be
taken to the very church where, before she
was married, she had her first tete-a-tete
with her lover.
OF all the changes which have taken
place in the hundred years of the life of the
republic, one which is very mars is never
spoken OF, the revolution in fashionable
shape Of women's shoulders. Look at
Bythe's portrait of Mrs. John Adams
painted when she was 30, the one with the
triple string of pearls about the thro 1t.
The shoulders are curved downward in full
oval. Girls in her day were trained to let
their arms hang pendant, to depress the
shoulders and to poise the head high up on a
swanlike neck. Look at the painting of
Lady Kitty Duer, the friend Of Mrs John
Jay and one of the bellies Of the Inaugural
ton ball, The points Of her shoulders drop
downward until the line of the arms seems
only a continuation of the line Of neck and
shoulders. Look at Mrs. John Jay herself,
the wonderful American beauty, who looked
so much like Marie Antoinette that tho
audience in Paris theater once rosa to their
feet to do her royal honor. She had slop-
ing shoulders, and 30 had pretty Mrs. James
Bsekman, who served President Washing
ton with lemonade gathered in his presence
from her own lemon trees.
Gould you find n sloping shoulder to-days
Fashion no longer considers the long droop-
ing line elegant or beautiful, and fashion,
within compaI atively recent period has
evolved, by accelerated development, the
full, square, high shoulder, bigger framed,
smacking OF the gymnasium, which is the
present ideal. Square shoulders are almost
shoulders like Mrs. Langtrv's or
Mrs Cleveland's, the wife eff the ex-Presi-
dent being very passable type of the we'll
built American girl Square shoulders are
classic, and we are in tue midst Of Greek
revival. square shoulders, in short have
won the day.
How is it that having worshiped Frances
Folsom Cleveland on pedestal for two
years and over we now begin TO fad fault
with her dressesl The answer is simple
enough. There is a little wrinkle in gown
ing hareaboutS not observed in Washing
ton. Whel a mother and daughter are
"a broad sunni wing themselves with arm II