The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-25
THbo1No OF woMsN FOLK.
Some me Gossip From the World OF
Femiuiue Affairs

Mrs. Wiam Todd Helmuth, before the
City of Pas sailed for Europe on her last
voyage. Ferybody knows that yellow is
the color colors at the present hour. In
the niddls Of the table was set huge
greenish Dol filed with golden marigold.
From the owl extended to each plate
broad yellg ribbon, to the end of which
was fastene5y cresent-shaped silver pin
Q cluster 0 yellow rosebuds. the soup
plates were cured with greenish yellow
sea moses, Il dinner plates were marked
with yellowbands, the salad bowl and
plates were deep yellow strewn with
japanese lii in red orange, the desert
and fruit plies showed green ground
sprinkled witbuttercups and daisies, and
the bone plas, olive dishes and bread
plates were gr,ed with chrysauthemums,
coreopsis, datelion and other yellow
blooms in odd I'd attractive designs There
we're branchespf the yellow-green foliage
Of young mapletwined in the chandeliers,
and the candle with which the table was
Lit had yellow SIX shades. When the ices
were served theiproved to be contained in
large yellow rose from which the stamens
and heart petal Id been cut, tied together
IN threes and noteprived of their own rich
foliage. These II roses were brought to
table In yellowish representing garden
hat tied about nth green ribbons, the
thorny stems an fresh leaves dropping
over the edges. he dinner favors were
tiny hats Of the SINE pattern filed with
candied fruits andposies. Tho hostess wore
skirt of lettuce geen silk with little pinked
ruffies set about til bottom. Over this fell
skirt Of pale pllow null, embroidered
with tiny sprigsof flowers in the same
color. The bodicexas of green velvet with
surplice vest and sash of yellow NULL
When the guest I the day was driven to
her train at the OInge station the carriage
was one bank Of ytlow roses.
Sorosis people gshered in numbers on the
deck of the City oiParis the day that Mrs.
Helmuth sailed. he lady was candidate
for the presidencyof the famous woman's
club at its recent lection and lost the office
to Ella Dietz ClyIer, the successful officer
having a.pluralitiof one. Mrs. Helmuth was
brough into sone prominence at the time
the woman's cngress held its session In
New York a yea and half ago, by rescind-
ing the invitations she had sent out for a
reception to tlh delegates on learning that
three members of African descent would
necessarily be included, whereupon Mime.
Demorest threw open her house, showing
special d1urtesy to the colored women in a
magnificent entertainment. Mrs. Helmuth
defende( her action to the more liberal
club women, who criticized it on the ground
that he father who was a southerner
would hive closed his doors on her mad she
done Otherwise, and she preferred to re-
spect thi feelings OF her own family in pre-
fence tobhose of outsiders. Whatever loss of
prestige Mrs. Helmuth suffered on this &C.
caslon vas more than made up by the
gratefulway in which she took her defeat
in this leaued contest for office, jumping
up withla smiling face the moment after
the votewas announced to invite the club
to perhaps the most elegant breakfast that
has beer served in a private house in New
York fr years. Sorosis appreciated the
little attention and flocked to the steamer
deck tdbestow vinaigrette on its enter
tainer bE way of good-by. Sorosis runs to
vinaigrettes and diamond badges When
it wants to make a gift to member it pre-
sents one or the other or first one and then
the OTHER the vinaigrette when member
high in favor braves a sea voyage, the
badge when an officer resigns or her term
expires. Mrs. Clymer got the viniagrette
when she went abroad five years ago, and
it is supposed she will get the gold S studded
with jewels when she lays the presidential
gavel down. The vinaigrette is silver, with
the monogram on one side.
Laura G. Holloways large musical club.
the Siedl society, the latest organization
mothered by a woman, is finding great
favor in the eyes of the sex masculine
which begins to look to it to set fashion
for married women of remaining in town
through the summer with their husbands.
Just previous to the big dinner with
which its 400 members opened the season of
Wagnerian concerts at Brighton Beach a
week ago man applied to Mrs. Holloway
to be admitted as a member. The rules of
the society compelled "A refusal, but the
gentleman was anxious to make the club a
gift of money, saying that since every
woman who could raise the funds deserted
her family in June and was ashamed to be
seen on the city streets again before fall,
he thought it high time that the abandoned
members of the household began to encour-
age every scheme which had in it the DOS
sible germ of fashionable summer season
In town. The club badge is the letter s in
silver in sixteen century scroll. Its head
quarters at the Brighton hotel are COSTLY
furnished and in them it possesses what no
other woman's club in New York or Brook
lyn has yet aspired to, a rendezvous of its
own. Some of the best known women in
the two cities have placed their names on its
rolls, and it looks now as if the outcome of
the project would be the setting aside of
one near by season resort for the pleasure
of women and children. With private cars.
club parlors, babies nurseries and play
rooms. and with the prohibitions of smok-
Ing in the music pavilion, except in little
pen rallied off for men in the gallery, Mrs.
Holloway and the ladies have Brigton
Beach pretty much in their own hands.
Already some women of wealth, who were
packing their Saratogas, have laid aside that
pleasing occupation to see if the Seidl So
eiety won't make things just as pleasant a t
nome. Social meetings, receptions, and
gatherings Of women's organizations of all
kinds are promised throughout the sum-
mer.
There are strange stories going of the Sc
verify of the diet which fashionable women
resort to, in order to reduce their avoirdu-
pois. Mrs. Olive Risley Seward, so the
gossips say, tasted twenty days, and felt
only the keenest regret when the time came
LOT her to eat again. Mrs. Ravenhil,
Aathryne Kidder's young-loooking grand
mother, is said to contemplate an ordeal
somewhat similar Three days is the COM
mon limit of the starvation period before
dieting. On the first day you are hungry,
on the second day you are famished, on the
ehlrd day you are faint, but if you last out
the probation you care less for food after
ward and get on better on the heterogeneous
9let and the two meals, or the one meal a
gay 1t is wonderful how much it takes to
XIII women.
The contest over the question, Who
started the agitation for a national flower (?
70 kl.o@ A.