The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-09
GIDDY CARRIE CARELESS.
TIE PEOPLE AND TIE TIMES ARE
AT a DEAD RUSH.


tive Art-The Flower Show Mrs.
Custer at Hometown the Hygienic
Girl Goes to Bed-AIrs Leslie's Vene-
zuela Medallion - Mrs. Whitney's
Generous Brother - Jenness-Miller
Invents an Adjustable Gown"
CCOpWigltJ
Nrw YoRK. Dec. 6.-"The times are SIM
mering aud we must simmer with them"
so saws Crane, in 1.-THE Senator, and so say
We all OF us who mingle with the world of
naople and come to have an appreciation of
the busy hurry in which everything is NOV
ing.
All the girls we're simmering last week,
and not only simmering but actually
steaning after the last new dec orative fad
7lease don't expect much, or you may be
disappointed.
The fad was this. To obtain pitcher Of
any size and shape, the more odd and unique
enc better, then cover it with thick layer
of putty and orname It it by ,cking acorns,
horseshoe nails. broken bits of china.
pieces of cork, pencil stubs, stick-pins. cut
glass shoppers, seali 4 wax med2llions aud
charms into the putty.
coats of dull gilt, and, when dry. is ready
10 adorn the choicest corner OF the choicest
room in the house. When the girls first
prasped this new idea in all the intensity Of
It's decorative reality, SO great was the de-
mand for putty that all the artists material
shops laid in an extra supply, and then ran
far short of the demand.
The commonest kind of ink bottles are
transformable into harlequin perfume
casks. After the ink has been drawn from
their depths the bottles a Q cleaned and
palrtei in stripes running from the neck of
the bottle down TO the lower edge. The
stripes are silver, gilt, broAze. scarlet and
blue A coat of varDish is added to the
scene and then perfumery is poured in, and
there is your harlequin scent bottle.
Elliot Sheppard, George Vanderbilt, Jay
Gould, Seward Webb and all the other boys
were present the first night of the flower
show at the Madison Square garden. All
classes and conditions Of people were at
tracted by the floral display. Common
people went because they loved flowers, and
for few dimes could enjoy the pleasure of
gazing upon and smiling blooms that they
could never see anywhere else. M0neyed
people enjoyed it. because they learned so
much that was new to them in floral cult
walton.
The chrysanthemum was king, queen,
courtier and all the royal family combined.
Nothing like the size and beauty of this
flower has ever before been seen. A single
flower made a corsage bouquet, and three of
them were as large a center piece as table
could fashionably carry. Many Of the plants
were sold. One of them, the Mrs. Alpheus
Hardy, retailed for 8 500 per plant.
Society people are still regretting the fact
that William Waldorf Astor has leased q
house in London and is about 60 remove
himself, goods, chattels, big bag, little bag,
bundle and bandbox, entertainments, big
dinLers and all to that city. New Workers
do not wish lose 80 magnificent host, and
it Is hoped that Mr.. Aston will soon forget
the uuappreciative Anne lean public's
political snubS and return to the home of
the free and the land of the go'as-you-
please
When young woman has gone through
course Of figure development, rounding
the bust. hardening the muscles of the arms,
filing out the legs and making the flesh
firm, she Is not going to let the results of
her efforts be hidden underneath a frock
whose fullness conceals eli the beauty of
shape that she has been to such trouble to
obtain. Her dress must fit like the paper on
the wall, and she must look as If she had
been moulded into it. An evening dress of
the period suggests a pair Of tights, with
the legs MADE in one piece instead Of being
divided. The waist is more than skin tig hit,
being drawn to the last degree OF snugne.s.
and 1t extends only high enough to hide the
"bOsOms voluptuous swell,n which we have
all read about in poetry.
A well-known young society woman. vino
found her stock Of sensational enterprises
running low, actually undertook to wear
live asps for bracelets, after the fashion of
Benhard5 III CLEOPATRA 1t is we'll nigh
needless to remark that the fashion was so
unpopular that the woman had to abandon
itere she had fully tried its effect upon
| large assemblage of people.
| Mrs Custer Is one Of the most widely
sought women in New York society.
though by no means society woman, and
Permanently saddened by the sad death OF
the general, she frequently yields to the
opportunities of friends and goes forth to
Uec me the life and soul OF the circle that
sac enc ses to ter. Two classes OF society
nold out welcoming hands TO this gifted
| nay. The literary world, on account of the
excellent books that she has added TO their
ADrarles, and the social world, because her
IA ne ana family entItle her to enter its
domains
1t is said that Mrs. Custer suffers acutely
N writing Of her own and her husbands
var EXPERIENCES. Each pen stroke brings
JACK the past as wildly as if days and not
years had interviewed between it and the
present. After an evening of such scenes
win her dead hero and love Mrs. Custer
IIeS 70 her room to walk the floor TILL
morning light
Inc hygienic girl sheds all her clothes at
ntsAC and puts on night wrap to take the
pace OF the garments that she has worn
turing the day. The day garments are
lung up and aired, and put on in the
rniioFling fresh and sweet and unjaded by
TTlsutS personal association with the body.
ane union undergarments that extend from
a DuAle TO chin are doing good work in this
1WSisPect, compelling the nightly exchange.
gue gowns are heavy, warm and thick,
feu very similar to bath robes in fashion.
~ ~ - poor taste to wear bows and gee-gaws
a stue neck of night dresses. They do not
1WV4 i the eauty of a simple toilet
ha ,luo"s cannot remain single. And
Hbals the truth. There is something about
t III "a you-know-ho yourself feeling)
s ua' draws men to her for pity, sympathy,
sSIualVlce. A schedule, carefully tabulated,
marriages.
v. Under % years of age, one widow in ten
have expired.
vo G;oler % years. one widow in twenty-five
T1.s the prescribed time
va Guuer - years and above 35. they do not
s NO." az all, but buckle on the martial
Fei ,J[ as soon as desirable call is issued.
palaPe yeu heard that Jay Gould and Mrs.
NuAt4Ue tiVnu 70 TO ia ~, rtiad vary so0r