The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-26

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/ cOction. Il sounds like fairy story, but in
three years she bad sold barely enough TO
keep soul and body together when car
| riage drove up one morning and lady
! bought a black bonnet that was as chic as II
was unassuming The lady bad business, it
seemed, with decorator who lived next
| door and something about the small stock
| of headgear had caught her eye in passing
| The lady was Mrs Astor, and the sale was
! to the milliner the beginning Of better for
tunes Ii was the one chance that comes to
some people, not 70 everybody, in a HE
| time Mrs. Astlr mentioned her discovery
| quietly to a few people, and the milliner
has tiny parlor now on the avenue, and Is
| going to Paris for the second time for her
stock in trade this spring.
Mrs. Whitney is esteemed good shopper,
| and Is accompanied on some Of her excur-
sions this winter by Mrs. Cleveland. Some
times her daughter Pauline, VINO is slim,
pretty girl Of II, is her companion, and
specially when she & es TO buy
a blnnet-she is attended by ex-Secretary
Whitney. Mrs. Whitney buys the best of
everything, and is very pleasant in her
treatment Of saleswomen. She is not al
ways easy to suit, having a critical eve for
color and penchant for daintiness, but if
she disarranges a stock without buying she
is sure to apologize.
Mrs Whltney's social successor in Wash
ington, Mrs. Morton, imports nearly every
thing from Paris, but she has wonderful
eve for faces, and remembers from one
visit to anoi her the saleSwomen who have
waited on her, often recalling to them some
little incident which they had supposed alb
solutely forgotten. This makes her ex-
tremely popular.
Mrs. Potter is known as a purchaser at
many establishments. end is neither liked
nor disliked especially. / remember a
couple of seasons ago, being in quite swell
establishment when Mrs. Potter was trying
on hats on the other side of an ample
screen. She evidently supposed herself
quite secluded, but it was another case of
tie ostrich which runs its head into the
sand, the arrangement of mirrors being
such that every turn of her head
or movement of her long white
fingers was reflected for the benefit of half
a dozen more or less curious observers in
the main room. Bandbox after bandbox
tied with ribbons was carried behind that
wall of bamboo. There was low-toned con-
versaton, a mysterious rustic of tissue pa
pers, and then behold, in spite of the at
tempted privacy, a chic little toque In black
lace and buttercups would be nodding and
bowling, as it were. for the express benefit
of us outside barbarians. When her selec-
ton had been made Mrs. Potter did herself
up in the ample folds Of big black null
veil and departed silent as the sphinx and
wholly unconscious that she had been OBJ
served Her shopping was conducted on
different principle from That of Mrs. Lang
try, and tnat the methods of the Lilly told
better at the box office, 1t is necessary to be-
lieve
Her Lillyship wanted always great deal
of attention, but her manners were 50 gra-
cious that there was a sort of competition
behind the counter who should do her bid
ding. The only time | ever personally en-
countered Mrs. Laugtry shopping she was
buying silk stockings in light evening
shades, and was the only woman on a
sweltering June afternoon who looked as if
she had her temper or temperature at all
IL der control. She wore wnite and the
flowers in her belt showed no signs of droop-
ing She had secured the best sales
woman IN the department for her attendant,
and before she matched the color of her
event < stume she had interested the buy
ers on either side of her in her hunt for
peculiar shade of, | think it was, blue To
one young girl with blush rose complexion
sho made a direct appeal, and when she
rose from her seat--sittinC is more social
than standing when shopplng--the young
girl and her mother and everybody within
noticing distance, felt somehow that the
Lilly was a very delightful sort of woman
".
This sort of advertising must have had an
influence on the receipts in a quiet bus eff
fective way.
I always enjoy watching actresses buy
hats, and can testify that Miss Marlowe
doesn't know great deal about headgear,
but that Ada Rehan does and is as critical
of effects as any woman in the city. The
women who are most dislked in the estab-
lishments are those who order large guam
Titles of goods sent home on approval, and
then return~them unused and materially
damaged. One milliner felt highly elated
at securing for a customer q woman whose
name is a passport to favor among Meal
listers 400 but her joy was turned to la
mentation when the lady "tried ON at her
own home a number of choice hats, and
then sent them back, more roughly treated
tlan we're Mrs. Frank Lesliss French chef
doeuures when they were thrown upon the
tender nercies of the custom house inspect
ors and found them cruel
Mrs. Paran Stevens is a liberal buyer
The Goulds are very quiet about their shop
ping, but are liked in the stores, especially
Miss Nellie, who often gives flowers to
young girls who look tired, and sometimes
looks up an address and sends holiday re-
membrance. Mrs. Abram Hewitt has a
weakness for lace, and fine pieces are re-
served for her now and then in the stores.
Through the working girls clubs, and the
little silver cross and purple ribbon of the
Kings Daughters RIGA shoppers and those
who wait on them come sometimes into
closer touch than formerly. Mrs. C. p.
Huntington is one of those who show much
consideration.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.