The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-14
CARRIE CARELESS NOTES.
CHARACTERISTICS OF .HH SMART
SUMMER FLIRT.

The Flower-Show Giri-Ths Hunting
Gir.-rhs Ibsen 0irl-The Lorgnette
Girl-The sash Girl-Ths Girl With
the Invisible Cog and Many Other
Kinds OF Girls.
(Copyright)
NEW YORK. Sept. lS.-The chrysanthe-
mum craze is with US again aad likewise
the chrysanthemum girl. In all the pretty
summer towns are being held flower fairs
for some local charity, and the society girls
who were about to come back to the city
are lending their suggestions and their
presence, their pretty gowns and their
smiles. all for loves sake. For love of what
we will not state There ars peopls I'M
charitable enough to think that IL is the
fondness for appearing in picturesque
gown. However, we will give them the
benefit OF the doubt.
Some Of the sweet girls have returned al
ready. They have been sent on as elvoys
Co get the houses open and the servants
back. and put things generally in running
order for the return of the family. | met q
couple of them the other day. They were
IN a cab riding at full speed, and they kept
leaning out enjoining the driver to hurry.
Hes gone around the corner" said one
of them. 1--WE shall lose him sure. It's
provoking of you to be so slow"
"Sure, ma M the driver answers, some
what wrathfullY, IL can't go no faster. Tne
beast is run off mis- feet already
Being curious about the matter, | awaited
developments, and discovered that these
young ladies' were trying to run down a
young fellow on bicycle. OF course they
succeeded, and through purely feminine
tactics they drove him out of the road and
made him upset. And then what did the
little humbugs do but begin to apologize
and declare that they thought he was their
brother Tom all the time Perhaps you
fail to see the connection between this sort
of performance aud house cleaI lg, and
| must confess that do too.
The rage for the coming winter promises
to be Ibsenism, with Mrs. Irving Winslow
as the charming impersonator. Her chief
properties will be Beau Brummel coats and
Josephine gowns and tho odor of violets
That's all that's needed. She has only to
attire herself, keep her voice down TO the
gentle English pitcl, assume the McAllister
drawl, use her lorgneete judlciously, smile
now and then in u slow, lazy way, with q
becoming droop OF her white eyelids, and,
Lord bless You, she might talk about pha-
lacterdeFms and paralelograms, and every
body would listen enraptured, and declare
it too perfectly lovely for anything.
The lorg aette grows to be more and more
al instrument of feminine warfare. It's
powerful one, too, if rightly used. I saw a
little by-play at Larchmont the other day
which amused me immensely. A pretty
girl in a sweet gown of blue and white
pique, with a big lace parasol, had sauntered
ou5 aud seated herself on the grass under a
big tree. Not fer off was ono
of those young men who think
themselves absolutely irresistible. Evil
IDENTIFY he made up his mind to in
terest the young Indy. So he began circling
around her, each time getting nearer. The
girl paid no attention to him, but went on
calmly reading her book. At last be stopped
directly in front of her and was just pre-
pairing an elaborate bow and an equally
elaborate speech, when the young lady
calmly lifted her eyes, placed her lorgnette
in front of them and looked at him. The
youug man continued in his prepare
tory situation aud the young lady con-
tiuued to look. The continuance of that
steady gaze was oppressive. The young
man began to grow embarrassed. He tried
to say something, but it was miserable
failure, and he was obliged to retreat,
covered with confusion. No sooner had he
turned his back than the young lady
dropped her glass, calmly took up her book
and went on reading as though nothing had
happened.
elaborate couture has come back and Is
growing in favor every day. Curls and
frizzes and putfs are being worn. A bit of
smooth hair is not permissible under any
circumstances. Somebody says that crimp-
ing pins are coming into fashion again.
doubt it. They are too uncomfortable and
our girls are altogether too adept in the
manipulation of curling tongs.
There is a tremendous rage just now for
ri. fan fbar fri mi n
and full quillings Of lace. They are pretty,
TOO, and give soft and beautiful effect to
any costume.
The pretty fashion of wearing long wells
he S been revived. Delicately tinted gauze
is purchased by the yard. twisted carelessly
around the hat, and tied in a soft bow at
the side or under the chin.
The passion of the American woman for
appearing to be learned Is amounting to a
craze. Oae of them has evolved an enter
tainment which she calls a progressive
conversation party" A square is made OF
five rows of chairs placed five in row.
They are fastened together with wide bands
of ribbon. Each row of chairs has attached
to it O delicately embossed card bearing a
topic of conversation. The guests sit down,
the hostess taps a bell, the congregation be-
gins and critic passes up and down the
line to determine who talks the best and
wins the most gold stars.
At Commodore Gerry's reception on
board the yacht Electra the other day there
was most surprising display Of diamonds
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Orme Wilson,
Mrs August Belmont and Mrs. Paran
Stevens We'd with each other in splendor.
An Englishman who was present remarked:
1T was the most extraordinary sight l ever
saw. Every woman at that table wore a
coronet except Mrs. Astor's daughter, and
she wore two"
The young ladies up at the Catskill house
have doffed their sashes. There's story
about it. Old Jed, the gardener. is not so
bright as Daniel Webster is reported to have
been His remarks have an unpleasant
directness about them sometimes. A group
of pretty girls were standing about him the
other day, wearing wavy colored sashes.
(Which is the prettiest of those girls,
Jed, asked one of the brothers.
The old man looked them critically over,
rolled lis quid reheclively into the other
cheek and answered. "N aal, dunno ez-
zactly but | should say the one with the
WALLER belly band was about as peart as any
on 'em."
A bright aud pretty young Madison ave-
nue. girl whom knew came back from Bar
Harbor one morning last week. She had q
number of important missions; but she put
them all aside to 90 down town and bring
home from its temporary residence at the
fancer's King Charles spaniel, on which
all her affections were conferred, at least she