The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-07
AFFAIRS or WOMEN.
T9ING5 CRAVE AND GAY THAT
INTEREST THEM.

INTEREST," LHGDd-
Something About the Latest fashions.
4 Romance Connects With Biting
ringer Nails Something About
niteful Girls--RoW to Grow Old
Gracefully Other Matters Of Inter
est.
There Is an attempt being made, says the
J9enublic. by some women to dress in char
octar. This Is in rather questionable taste,
for street costumes at least. A gown which
I saw last Friday quite startled me with its
conformity to the Mephistophelean idea.
The skirt. of some dull, shimmering black
,naterial. chung closely to the figure. A
tipbr.ftting bodice of the same, over which
vas yyorn a sleeveless jacket embroidered in
Ix1 gold. The hat was an exact copy Of the
.an of Mephistopheles, and with it was worn
q blacK-dot.ed face veil. l must acknowl-
adre that the conception was well carried
ont for the air of diablerie was most pro-
,,o,pced, The impression was not altogether
,,laosant. but then who cares besides the
,,earer. and she has succeeded in attracting
attention.
"How many clever ideas come into ones
head while lying i'll in bed" was said to me
nv a relative, who was i'll the greater part
81 last summer. She then went on TO tell
me how she carried out one of her own. She
called it an ilvalid'S tablecloth. A napkin
was never large enough to protect tie bed
clothes from the tray and dishes, so she had
taken pieces of heavy linen, making them
as long as the bed was wide and about
twenty inches in width. These she had
Stitched and embroidered The result has
been something useful and pretty, as well as
novel. She sent the first one she made to q
fair. and had been much pleased to receive
several orders.
Chrysanthemum lamps are all the rage
The prettiest are of cut glass, supported by
quite a slender stem, and with the shade Of
white or yellow silk, fringed SO as to re-
semble the flower from which they take
their name.
Some of as pretty gowns as l have seen
this year are worn in Men and Women"
at Proctor's Twentv>third Street theater
Nothing could be in better taste than the
visiting costume worn by Mrs. Delafield in
the last act. AS it was quite simple in
style. maybe you would like to attempt q
reproduction, so | will describe it. The
straight skirt of lavender faille was finished
by sache of the same. Over this was
worn q coat of purple velvet, opening over
a vest of soft crepe OF course, the skirt
was long and the sleeve high on the shout
ders and they were finished at the wrist by
a.puff of the crepe.
To be really fashionable just at present
you must possess some piece of jewelry in
the shape of a heart. Beautiful heart
shaped pins and rings are shown, composed
of turquoise, surrounded by pearls or
diamonds. If you don't care for jewelry
you must have "a heart-shaped frame for the
picture of your dearest friend and place it
on your dressing-t table. Tables and mirrors
Of this shape also find favor.
In the embroidery line there is no design
so popular as the heur>de-lis. One large
linen house he's been unable to supply the
demand for fine handkerchiefs, embroidered
with this dainty design.
pretty addition to a dressing table is a
cut-glass candelabra. These come in pairs
of two branches each, or one of five
branches is equally desirable. The new est
ones have gold and silver sockets for hold
ing the candels. Now that many ball
rooms are lighted with electric lights and
dining rooms by caudels, the pretty woman
prefers to make her toilet by candle light
and hence their use on the dressing table.
Theater jackets, like afternoon tea Jack
cts, are made Of surah this season, and are
in great favor with English women, saws
Hdrper'S Bdzdr. Mrs. Dorothy Stanley a
few evenings since sat bOnnetleSs in n box
at the theater. her beautiful hair as simply
dressed as in Millais' picture, and her
bodice a jacket Of cream white surah,
trimmed with black and cherry ribbons.
The neck was rounded low in front on q
plastron Of lace set with diamonds. A
demi-trained skirt of black silk COM
pleted the toilette. Her mother, Mrs.
Tenant, wore a similar Jacket of
hlUa vol trim ,nI xrvifh
quolse passementerie, and a black lace
skirt. nauve surah jacket, made after
late French model, has the edges cut in
square tabs, trimmed with very narrow let
pasSementerle. A scarf of embroidered
nauye chiffon, starting at the waist line in
front, passes over the shoulders, crosses in
Inc middle OF the back, and returns under
the arms TO the point of the 'front.' The
Sleeves have high puffs of chiffon at the
TOP banded with jet, and doubled ruff of
chiffon trims the neck and wrists, and
passes down the front. Such boaices are
either closely fitted in the back, or are laid
Ia 1olds under belt; the fronts are partly
loose or have all their fullness held in a
dart on each side.
10 grow old gracefully, says the New
iorK StdT, is said to be extremely difficult
4or women, and for some men. And 1t is
not to be wondered at; to acknowledge that
9ne is Old, really old, and out of the race,
!aiu aside, as it were, and fit only to sit at
tne nreslde and listen to gossip; to blazon to
sue world that one is no longer able to go to
paiiS and late dinners that one is incapable
VI =; gong about as much as formerly, that,
y. ~ TACT, one no longer cares for it, is hard
Iu,n9 Tor most women to do. But onca the
gun Is crossed and tho uplands of old age
are are reached, everything is calm, comfort
S So!e content. There is then no need of any
hypocrisy or subterfuge. no excuse
vi not doing this, that or the
U.neE thing, everything is under
rY'ou, no explanations are needed, and
a ~ SqueStons are asked. Old age has come,
; alu mat Is the excuse for doing or not do
rs certain things One does not go out of
II H o mouse for amusements at this age but
,bi que mas lveds an unselfsn life, sympa-
r mtA,ug with and helping others, doing the
soou mat comes to ones hand to do, it will
e aJ" De paid back tenfold. The homo of an
v Iu1lIy woman should be the resort OF the
lug and the iniddle-aged. If she has
- -I q vile and mother, who 50 competent
| H. give advice to those women younger
S 'aal herself who are going through the
+ experiences that she has been through,
s1Fn .oSperlty has not hardened her heart to
t55r'elIhg, nor sorrow embittered her, she is
m. oLe 10 whom the younger women will
for. lor sympathy III their Joys and for co n
''i' III their sufferings.
AHe suede glove contjDueE m he tha n Ioua