The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-16

side il is, too. II Mrs. Langtry. for eX-
ample, were TO lose all her money, and
turn milliuer she'd sell stacks Of bonuets to
! :, ciety people and all sorts Of people. who
would 90 to her from curiosity. Her SHOP
would no dlubt be one of the fastest in
| town. But, continuing tne hypothesis,
/ which everybody hOues, or should hope,
would never become an actually, Mrs.
La glry as q milliner would undoubtedly
retain the taSt aud TO some exteat the
habits of Ms. Langtry, the rich woman Of
the world aud actress. The Jersey Llly's
fon1ness for a lemon squash is well kao IN
u her llul mates; as miiiuer she would
undoubtedly be apt to have a lemon squash,
which is indeed a mos Innocent and praise
worthy drink OF the - lftes1' claracoe',
served now aud then in the back paglor Of
Ter shop. If she had lemon sQuashes why
shouldn't her customer!
And If the Marchioness Bouze, a festive
woman of tie world, who liked gin slings,
Tor example, SHOULD lose her mo ey AMI be-
come mlllinsr anu 90 on liki z gin slings,
II would be quite natural for her customers
70 have gin sings, and after a while any of
them who wanted gil sling with an unob-
truslve but positive yearning would get into
the habit OF going 10 the Marc -iOness of
Bouzs's bonnet shop 10 get the slngs,
whe her she wanted bonnet or not. The
nne ladies who have gone iltO our trade
have demora,iZ9d TT said a well-known
New York modiste day or two ago. land
the 'miliner's sideboard of which you as <,
and of watch am ee to say 1 have heard
good deal, is one result of this introduce
ton Of arls. cratic habits into the trad e.
OF course there are two kinds Of women
who tippe-the rich and the very poor.
The middle classes are not addicted o drink
ing between meals or ct meals either for
that MATER, il this country.
Pm not saying that the ladies who go
into trade to make living haven't perfect
right to do so, and that many of them are
Il t entirely estimable persons. But they
are responsible for the mi liners sideboard.'
Look at Mrs. Bassett, for instance, the veil
Engllshwolnan, granddaughter of Sir Jere-
miah Homtray, who has Just ope Ell d mil
linery store in New York. S 9 has a tea
served TO her customers. That's very nice,
and very popular thing to do, but the
distance from tea to cold tea in miliiner's
back parlor is not so great that some of
Mrs Bassetts rivals may not go to serving
the Latter before long. You see women take
TO millinery as ducks TO waters. Ole of the
young Pri Icesses of Wales was taught our
trade-you know roy families have the
girls taught to do something-and Miss
Amy Hewitt, who is now Mrs. Norvin
Green, served a six months apprenticeship
in millinery. Mrs William Astor's young
est daughters were taught lace-makiug and
embroidery, and one of them is said to be
able to turn out with her own hands al
pref Y bonnet, if she wants TO do it, as she
can buy on my shelves. The Princess de
Sagan is a mlliner. You have only 10
look at the gus on Fifth a enue to see
that, and the number of ii led womsl who
have, at one time or another, In Paris or
London, gone into the business is sim ply
astounding. Pm not blaming them, either,
you understand. But am saying thai 1t is
the introduction of this element into the
business that has brought about the 'milli-
nel'5 Sldeboard.'
DO l ever notice the odor of liquor CT of
wine on my customers breath? Certainly
do. And the perfume OF their Turkish
cigarettes is very familiar, indeed, to me-
''W omen gamble at Long Branch and at
Saratoga, and the gambling woman is
nearly always tippler. Tipping has been
an attendant of gambling ever since the old
days when John Chamberlin and john
Morrissey ran rival gambling houses here,
and Chamberlin set out for his pa .rons-he
has since beco ne a hotel man, you know
a free lunch that b th in its soli and LIQUID
features was gorgeous. 1t is free lunch of
| that kind that catches woman every time
| and | shouldn't be bit surprised if the
modistes all had free lunches going before
very long to bait customers wi IN if the
competition 1es on increasing aud ia hion-
able women continue to go into trade"
| oOOIt dlUSI SjOI mas OeSQ WTlGUen ABOUT
the heiresses and million heile ssas who 90
to get ''lunchn and "a bottle" or a "fizz,"
or vermouth, at a famous confectionery il
the great hotel block bounded by Twenty
third and Twenty fourth streets and Br Dad
way. "lf the women choose to tipple with
their sweetneats whose business is it, deah
boy~ There has been a great deal of ex-
aggeration about the stories of drunken
women of fashion" and lunches that con-
sisted Of a ladyfinger and magnum of
wine. But that such conf ctionery exists,
and that women of the world go there and
get drinks at small tables in the back room
there is no doubt. why should 1T thev?n
say the proprietors; ''they could go to Del.
monico's, or the Brunswick, or Mount st.
| Vincent, or Dorlon's, or Clare's, and order
all they want" And so, forsooth, they can
and do.
Among the millinery shops at which
refreshments of some kind or another are
openly handed to the customers are these:
| Lanolettes, Redfern's, Kate Reilly's and
Louise & Co.'S. The names of those places
where more concealment is m tde of the
refreshment practice are legion. Even the
man'cures and chiropodists have got to the
| sideboard stage.
Do women tipple? Well rat herl
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