The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-04
SOUTHERN GIRLS.
How They Drese, Act and Behave
Wherein the Charms OF Southern
Women Lie

How They Dress, Act and Behave
Wherein the Charms OF Southern
Women Lie.
From the 81. Louis Republic
GREENBRIER, WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
VA, Aug. 26.-Somebody inclined to speak
very plainly, said: "Ths Lord made the
White Sulphur Springs, and then the south
ern girl, and rested, satisfied with his
work"
This somebody was a northern man who
came down here, heart whole and fancy
free, and is now given over To the rule OF
small woman who tosscs her RS to the winds,
who forgets her KS In the prettiest way pos
sible,s but who thinks, but is not quite
''shLah, that she's fond OF bin. In the
meantime, he, poor soul, Is in agony until
she discovers absolutely whether abe IA or
not, but he win go back to his home fettered
with rose chains and swearing that when a
man wants wife this IS the only place to
60 and get the right kind
These springs are unliks any other water
ing place. Mamma came here and papa
made love to her. Betty Is doing the same
| now, and mamma remembers that grand
mamma said that Rrandpapa came in a
| grand coach, with darcy outriders, that he
| might present bis compliments to hor whom
she was counted tho belle Of the season A
| history OF generations can DO counted, an q
Betty-pretty, bright, winsome Betty-who
is dancing in the barn" thi, year in her
| dainty null frock, win next year havo
somebody else for her companion at the
smart german which she viii give and
where she will wear her wedding dress. AS
the seasons progress Betty's party will
| you realize how the time has flown some
body will be asking you II you have seen
Nancy, the belle Of the year, and who /,
Betty Pages daughter.
THE SOUTHERN GIRL IN SUMNER
There are three things which the girl Of
the White Sulphur Springs must do-she
must dance well, she must be even-tem
| pered, and she must understand the ooQuet-
| ry of the thimble. After the morning ger
man she comes out on the varanda with her
workbasket, a dainty little affair OF straw,
lined with silk, and having a fat. funT y
little pinclshion covered over with, white
lace; the Tumble, n little gold one with a
band of turquoise about 10, is put
on, and she begins to-no-not en-
bsoider doylies, not do fancy stitches
on silk intended for yacht pillows,
but soberly, demurely and meekly mend
| her gloves The man who cannot be fetched
by dance, who doesn't care for pictur-
| esque gown, who isn't interested in books or
music, falls q victim to this housewifely
act. There is nothing quite so pretty as
seeing pretty woman sew-aId these girls
have small hands th-t are white, they have
leakhed from grandmamma the art of fine
sewing, aid they realize the value of it. N
man Iced 90 with his gloves unmended, a I'D
| some of the uncertainties in the cottage
| known as Bachelors row. have be an
known to submit torn coats to these same
nimble fingers, although this mending, II
must be confessed, is done up in the
| sanctum.
| WHY SOUTHERN WOMEN ARE CHARMING
The charm of the southern woman is not
that she knows so much, is not chat her
gowns are the very latest style, or that she
aspires to any high degree of physical cult
ure, but that she is essentially a woman.
She is happy girl, she expects to DO m r
| ried some day, aid she expects to be
mother some day. She DOESN'T think a
this out, but still. if the question were to be
put TO her, she would tell you that it wa
the truth. She does not we n tailor-mad'
gown with the chic of the New York gill
but she is wonderfully bewitching in thu
white that she dOns in the evening, aud l.
which, just now, she looks a bit like pict
IRE taken from one Of t e old beauty books
She wears full, plain skirt, a bodice that /
cut round at the neck, showi & the white
firm flesh, and the sleeves are the veritabl
baby sleevci that are so exquisitely modes
and vet which show the entire arm A bou
her waisI is a white ribbon belt, and just ii
front is n buckle set with brilliants tina
grandmamma wore in her dancing days
Her hair is knotted low on her neck, and
just on one side is plated n great creamery
white rose. She will tell you that she hearC
that the beautiful girl who married the
Duke Of Portland inclined to wearing q
fiowet IN this way AID teen she renem-
bered that there was a picture home of some
aunt who WIS famous in her time. who had
her rose placed just 80 and from it she
learned the proper method Of arrangement.
Now this is a pc and ink photograph of a
real living girl WHO is going to marry g
New York millionaire.
THE TYPICAL SOUTHERN GIRL.
She has not the book knowledge Of the
New England girl, for she thinks Browning
doesn't compare with Adelaide Proctor; sht
has been told that Swinbu ne wasn't proper
for young lady to read; she doesn't care
for George Eliot bscause mamma said there
was some h ng very queer in Aor behavior
but adores Thackeray. and she thinks il
she ever had son. and the thinking makes
her blush, she would like him to resemble
Henry Esmond. She is very willing
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