The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-20

too cheap, you may be sure, a narrow scarf
| often costing 500.
Point d'Alencon which is a French lace
and point d'Angleterre. which is a Brussels
lace, come next in value A lappet Of point
d'Angleterre, which was in Mrs. Stewards
collection Is esteemed one of the choicest
lace treasures in this country. Another
| piece Tor which Mr.. Stewart paid S45, 900 is
a copy OF the cOunterpane OF point d Aleu-
con, which was made for the royal bed
chamber when Napoleon married the
Princess Maria Louisa. It is dotted all over
with designs of the imperial laces. Neither
of these points is as fashionable now as in
former years.
Very few people know the difference be-
tween point lace which is made with the
needle and pillow lacs which is made with
| booolns, 'the bones" as Shakespeare called
them. Nalenciennes is a pillow lace, and
there Is more real Valencielnes worn than
any other lace manufactured, and more
limitations of Valencienues are scattered
about the world than of any other lace
known. Like Sairey Camps curls which
could not be called false, so Valenciennes
imitation deceives nobody. Valen-
clenneS reigned all through the Maltese
lace craze. By and by Cluny drove
| out the Maltese. but it could not affect
| Valenciennes. Next came duchesss lace.
| Duchesse is still extremely fashionable, but
II is not used for the same purposes as Val
elcienne5 and does not encroach on it in
anyway. Cashmere lacs appeared and then
Spanish blondes, but ValencienneS stood its
ground Torchon spraag into popularity,
IL was cheap but not bea ltiful, and soon de-
cnned. Then came Breton, and then
Mechlln. This is a pretty lace, but SO deli
cate as to look fiimsy. 1t was voted too
expensive considering its effectiveness and
point d'esprit took its place. but Valenclen-
q VIZ mo- 1.
underwear. handkerchief, collars and made
up lace goods it has never seen a rival
Nalenciennes is queen, but duchesse Lace
IS prime minister. 1t is too expensive for
! many purposes, and will not wash re-
peateoly, but for fichus, vests, pompadours,
and the various bodice ornaments of fash
lonable dress, it is at the zenith of it's popu-
| larity. 1t is one of the mos effective
| trimmings for an evening gown, showing
over silks and velvets beautifully. 1t is
| combined with the point laces, and hand
kerchief of point gaze and duchesse often
| costs $50. DuchesSe and point gaze flounc-
ings cost sometimes 500 yard.
All these are pillow laceS. So is Chantilly,
| which is a silk lace and the most beautiful
| of black laces, some of the patterns being
| almost equal to point gaze. Chantilly is
very successfully initiated, the limitations
! being equal to the poorer quality of the
| lace, but the best founcings, scarfs, etc. :,
are inimitable. Blondes are cheaper than
| Chantilly, and the handsomest blondes are
the Barcelona ecru, white and black pat
terms which have bold dash of grace about
| them. Guipures are in favor at present
| and are serviceable and inexpensive.
| There are not many lace novelties, in
| spite of the lace mania. Vandyke features
are brought out in all the new goods made.
The Irish point lace, which is not point at
| ali, but pillow lace, is quite pretty and
| very popular. So is the Carrickmacross
which is pretty thread guipure. So is the
La Tosca, which comes in Vandyke pat
terms. The hand-run Spanish and other
foundations are machine laces, the flowers
being woven and then outlined by threads
| put in by the needle. Some of them are
very pretty and they bring much higher
| prices than those which have known no
| other touch than that of the loom.
| The high bred woman is known by the
way in which she adapts her laces to her
| occasions. She doesn't put on at fifty laces
which are suitable oaly to twenty-five. She
! distinguishes between the seasons and the
| hours of the day. In the morning she wears
| Valencinnes. In the winter she wears point
| d'Alencoe. With delicate summer muslins
| she chooses light soft Lille and Arras laces
With rich sedate evening velvet she puts
| on duchesse or strongly marked Bruges.
| Lastly she believes with Ruskin that 'the
| real good of piece of lace, then, you will
| find, is that it should show first, that the
| designer of it had a pretty fancy; next that
| the maker of it had nimble fingers; lastly,
| that the wearer of it has worthiness or dig
nifty enough to obtain and common sense
| enough not to wear it on all occasions.
SHOULD NEWSPAPER WOMEN MARRY
And if SO, should they marry newspaper
mens This Is what the New York Woman's
Press CLUB talked about at its last meeting.
If this be treason, make the most of it.
Maybe | was not meant to tell, but the
evening was interesting. Nearly all the
newspaper women appeared to think that
under favorable circumstances they should
marry, but as to whether they should con-
tinue to be newspaper women after mar
riage opinions were divided. Miss Elizabeth
Bisland, who went around the world for the
Cosmopolitan, and who, by the way, is
even prettier than her pictures, thought
that the married woman should cease to be
the professional woman. To her mind the
chief good of the opening of professions to
women was that girls were no longer
obliged to marry for a maintenance, but
could maintain themselves till the right
man appeared. When he appeared they
should become wives and mothers as in the
old days.
This view seemed to be all but universal
with the unmarried Some of the married
members had different ideas. Mrs. Flor
ence Finch Kelly, who is becoming known
as a novelist, believed that woman was
only one-third of herself until she was q
wife and only two-thirds of herself until
she was a mother, and that it would be a
pity if the world got only the work of the
undeveloped, unmarried and childless
woman.
Mrs Estelle Hatch Merrill who is ''Jean
Kincaidn of the Boston Globe, quoted some
body's opinion that an intelligent woman
who could earn money to pay expert. intel
ligent help could supervise her household in
fifteen minutes a day and was inclined to
agree with it, She believed that the good
comradeship, sympathy and community OF
interests between newspaper men and
women made an excellent foundation for
happy marriages,
Mrs. Mary A. Bryan, who is said to be
the best paid woman editor in the city,
thought that the few women of exceptional
genius should not marry but should hold
themselves free to fulfill their mission in
the world. This might have no applica-
ton to average professional women.
Grace Greenwood was afraid that If
literary men married literary women the
women would lose credit for mnch good
work that belonged to them, the world
being inclined to ascribe all the talent to
the husband. She com amended the example
of the Brownings, who did not SHOW each