The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19
BRIGHT NEW YORK CHAT.
a WoMAN'S CLEVER SKETCHES OF
METROPOLIS LIFE.

I
the New Color and the Aory of a
Fashionable Belle Which it Revamps
New York's New Theatre-A Qres-
ton of Different Ta5tss-Fhe Tale of a
Leak-A New Uss for Porous Plas-
ters-Powder and Saucer Rouge
Corsets and Tight Lacing-Does the
Over-lacsd Womsn Die?-Needs OF
the Modern Woman.
Copyright.
NEW YORK, Oct. lS.-The town Is given
over to one color-I do not mean red.
though considerable of that prevails-but l
do mean nauve. OF this dainty and deli
cate color t-ers are said to be- seventy-two
different shades. and TO start a man out to
match piece Of ribbon means either that
he Is devoted slave or that he will return
in fifteen minutes and make the cir blue
with his favorite language. Young women
who ought not to wear mauve look like
lemons in it, and those who can smile at
them AMI wonder why psopls who do not
know anything about art assume mauve
shades.
THE STORY OF NEW YORK BELLE.
An old story has been revamped and
lifted for drawing-room USE apropos Of the
color OF maUve. 1t goes this way: A pro-
| fessional beauty had dream wherein she
| was told that she would die at certain
time; being, like all professional beauties,
little particular as to her belongings, she
| concluded that she would select her shroud
| for herself; so off she trotled to the under
takers. She inquired with becoming
solemnity, What is the latest thing in
shrouds?" The polite gentleman who
1 all fA-
girls aud children and ladies who
nave never hal their hair bleached,
| nor been written up in the news
papers. nor have been interviewed and told
just what underclotheS they wore, we make
all white; but for married ladies and
widows and young ladies who have been
| guilty OF golden treises not their own, of
| looking too much on the rouge pot and hav-
| ing their photographs sold in the Shops we
make mauve ones" The beauty looked at
| him for a long time, then answered: MAKE
mine all whites" but she stopped and
thought-she saw him looking at her hair
| she saw him looking at her cheeks
and she added: you might put a dash of
| mauVe."
THE NEW FEMININE COLOR.
Now, whether alls New York is wearing
mauve because they do not care to intro
| duce the dash, aud Sd give themselves away,
| no man can say, but for the last week every
| gown in five has been one of the seventy
two shades. Even the dogs are adorned
| with huge bows of mauve and there is
| nothing more absolutely beautiful than to
see determined fox terrier doing gymnas-
| tics in the dust of the stree, with the view
| of getting that ribbon off his neck. My
| sympathies are entirely with the dog, for
| think a good dog, like fine picture does
not need ribbon adornmentS to bring out its
| beauty.
THE METROPOLIS NEW THEATER.
All the smart New Workers went to the
opening of toe new Garden theater and
laughed for two hours at the wild little
farce, Doctor Bill" that has delighted
London for 50 long time past. The the
alter itself, quite irrespective of its beauty,
which is undeniable, is a joy forever,
because the seats are SO arranged that
no matter how big the hat in front of you
may be, you can see over it. doctor
Bill" ITSELF is fun-rollicking, hilarious
fun from beginning to end. As the
| central figure there moves bewitching
| Sadie Martinot, who is so eager TO i'm
press on her neighbor that all men are alike,
and that the newly married husband is no
better than any other. When she an-
nounces that she can make the doctor hirt
with her, every woman ia the audience I'M
consciously mods, for the man who could re-
sist her sweet tones, her eautiful gowns and
her charming manner wouldn't be a man
at all. he would be clay and of the common
estl lowest kind. Although the play is full
of funny situations, to me the most
perfect piece Of acting was shown
when Miss Martinot, as Mrs. Horton,
the ex-actress, the new wife of the
Inspector Of the police, pays amorning visit
and does the fire lady as she conceives
her to be. She drawls out her platitudes,
gives dainty little shrugs, grows femininely
ecstatlc over her nerves, and has about her
| CafI in6 aIr IF hnfn ha -irnt hat
is delicious 1t is quiet piece of comedy
that half the audience do not appreciate,
and shows in its execution how much Miss
Martinez has gained by study the Frenc
stage. l am OF those people who like to be
amused; consequently, l found good in
everything, even in Doctor Bills perscrip -
tions.
| WHERE TASTES DIFFER.
The critics yearn for something analyti-
cal; they want TO exploit their pens and
splatter their ink about as to whether the
curl on mans forehead means that he is
10 the depths of despair or only that he
intends running away with his friends
wife that night. They want the frou-frou
of frock to hint of yelrnings for kuowl-
eige OF another world, and the pose of an
arm to signify deep and intense love that
is devourlng every bodv-even the your geSt
child of the family. For my own part, |
count this nonsense. | want to know
what the people are talking about and what
they mean. don't go tothe theater to work
out problems aCd to stick on the passinorum,
but to enjov myself. Sometimes the enjoy
ment takes the form of creepy murder,
sometimes of a love-story, and sometimes
of a continuous evening Of laughter.
TALE OF LEAK.
For years Now York has not had enough
water to wash In. That is to say, in most
houses the silver faucets on the third floor
we're snares and decisions. Now they have
water, and to spare, and the plumber is
singing as merrily as possible, and is as
happy as only a man can be no feels that
he has his fellowman completely under his
thumb. l assisted at the mending of. or
rather the stopping up of pipe the other
night, and the means used gave me an idea
of the possibilities Of the medical profession.
had never thought of applying anything
healing to a lead pipe, but now know
that it can be done. The leak started at
the mystic hour of II and drIpped down
from the third story into the second,
casually running lot of books. 1t took
} three women and one man to discover that
leak, and woman fonnd it!
NEW USE FOR POROUS PLASTER.
-