The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-02

Queen Anne was abandoned and dIligent
search instituted for a home whose halls
were Of sufficient size to afford tie side
board passage with elbow room.
Mrs. Hardy IS a piquant little dark haired
woman, and some of the best known writers
OF the country, men and women, bask on
Friday evenings, in the light of her firesiie.
Inc Ladies Art Association calls her its
literary member" and when she dispenses
Wednesday afternoon tea in its studios tho
bright faces of the guests are quite as well
worth looking at as the pictures.
They tell a story of Edmund Russell,
who, with his wife, has been an object of
id)latry to New York women inclined to
physical culture of the e ,thetic description
ever since the Delsarte craze set i'll. Mrs
France, HodgsOn Burnett, who is not noted
for success in her toilets as in her stories,
came to Mr.. Russell to ask his advice and
assistance about gown. The material she
bad chosen was a large figured brocade,
which Gu her short and, of a less distin-
gus Ell woman one would say, dumpv fig
ure did not promise results that were allur-
ing w hich Is the right side of this fabrics"
| asked Mr.. Russell This said the novel
ist. indicating it to him. you are mis-
takeu. madam" reioined Mr.. Russell.
| That side is prose, the other is poetry
but" said a lady who accompanied Mrs.
|
cut wrong side out, now, could I!n Mrs.
Burnett disobeyed the Delsarte teacher, and
It's question for his disciples whether or
not she chose the better part in having had
her gorgeous gown made with the conven-
tionally usual side turneI outward to the
world.
Mr.. William Blaikie, the well known
writer and lecturer, who is an enthusiast on
physical culture of q somewhat different
variety, has been visiting VaSsar. and his
comments are more pointed than gallant on
on the style in which the college girls run.
There are no women nowadays who can
run" he said to them when they owed
nm the track laid down in the gymnasium.
YES, Mr.. Blake, we cam" "Off with you,
then" and the girls were speeding round
the course, ambitious to convince him.
After Two Laps, he says, they were blowing
like porp Uses; there wasn't one who had
| any wind, and they all came down with
tnud on their heels, when everybody knows
| you can't run unless you get the spring
| from your toes. Mr.. Blake thinks the
curriculum of Vassar in this respect ought
| TO be reformed.
| Mrs. Jenness Miller's school of physical
culture will be open in few weeks now.
| Mrs. Miller has returned from the south
with poor opinion of the taste of southern
roses. They blossom out of DOORS she says,
IN January, but it is in the midst of snow
| drift, with an icicle hanging from every
| petal. Under such circumstances we'll
| bred northern roses would know enough to
| keep in doors.
She has had some curious experiences with
women on her lecture trips In one city,
| not in the south, two woman suffrage lead
ers, who write and speak constantly for
| equality of wages as between women and
| men, after realizing from three lectures
given by Mrs. Miller before large audience
| good sums Of money for the charity in
which they were interested, asked her after
! her third success to remit a third of her fee
because George Kennan was to speak for
| them the week after, and the advance sales
seemed to indicate that there might be sons
loss on him. Mrs. Miller, l believe, added
to her course a fourth lecture to an audi
ence Of two free of charge.
I5 would interest a student of human
nature to look o yer Mrs Miller's mail One
woman--the name was cut off this letter
| before | SAW iG-wriIeS that she has "such a
horrid big bone in her neck" that she can't
wear her dresses open at the throat, not the
leasl little bit, and she is 80, 50 miserable"
Indeed a general wall of lameutation APP
pears to be going up from the unhappy
sisters who can't wear decollete gowns.
Mrs. Miller proposes to do one thing in
her beauty school, for which, if successful,
she will deserve universal gratitude. She
dares to attack the task of taking that hDr-
rible high-pitched squeak out Of feminine
Americas voice. If she does that, VINO
knows, she may lure men back into society.
Her students are to learn to sit, TO stand,
walk, and to go up and down stairs correctly.
to breathe correctly, and to be graceful aud
dignitied in society. They ara to be
taught how to have firm flesh and
free and elastic muscles with a
| INIf xytnS 1oll Ba ov,I
supple for m )tion. The ar istic cultivation
an refinement of the body is probably the
dominant craze among women at present,
and 50 it seems likely that the school will
| succeed. So far it Is the ricn and fashion
able who are enrolling themselves for in
struction, and number of these have pro-
| posed to put the thing on foundation as
stable as that of the Berkeley Ladies' Ath-
letic association, which has just moved into
| the new $50 900 Nuilding, the only one of it's
kind IN the world.
Before Henry George sailed away for
| Australia he left something for women to
think about while he was gone. "Women, -
he said, in one of his most recent public ad-
| dresses "are the conservative force which
| holds back always and binders every
| change. Sometimes this conservatism
| blocks the wheels with good results, but
| oftener it defeats needed reforms. The
| world will not progress as it might until
women can be made ready for the forward
| move.'
Art critics are beginning to say that if
Abbey holds the first rank among illustra-
tors he has a good second In a woman.
Alice Barber is a name tn at has appeared
very frequently of late signed to strong
work in the Harper publications. One OF
the finest of recent supplements to Harper's
Weekly is of her drawing, and the strength
of the composition attracted instant recog-
milton. mo one else but Abbey could have
done that" said one art authority.
| E. P. H.
| IN FASHIONS REALM.
| New Gowns That are Delighting the