The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-17
BITS FROM CARRIES PEN.
Mr.. wHITNEY'5 WIFE HAS A TALK
WITH WORrE.
The Dear Girls Dance With Flowing
Hair-A Count of No Account Meets
Bis Match - Good News for the
Freckled Girl

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Hair-A Count of No Account Meets
Bis Match - Good News for the
Freckled Girl.
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NEW YORK, Aug. l6.-At last the world
begins to appreciate the merits of the
freckled girl. For two or three seasons
she has been slowly advancing until now
she stands in the very front row. The poets
and artists have taken her up. and the glory
OF her red-brown hair. the cream of her
ivory skin, with its artistic flecks of burlt
umber, and her big long dashed hazel eyes
eyes with no bottom to them, somebody
says-are fruitful themes for pictures from
pen and brush. She wears gowns of old blue
with trimmings Of dull red, wide hats with
dropping plumes and long classic dcaperies,
for the freckled girls form has-so the poet
says-''a lissome grace" Sing hey for the
freckled girl.
Mrs. Whitney, the wife of the ex-secre-
tary, who has recently returned from a
long stay abroad, says the report that Worth
Is going to revive crinoline and hustle is all
nonsense. Mrs. Whitney interviewed the
great dressmaker himself. And he showed
her silks and woods and brocades, all as soft
as IutN COutu Oo
The more can follow the outline of the
figure the better results l obtain" said Mr..
Worth to Mrs. Whitney And the
change of style from very bouffant drapery
to these straight classic gowns is the real
reason why SO many American girls are
trying to develop their figures"
Mrs Whitney says that the long cloaks
will be more worn this season t an ever
before. She has several of them. One is OF
black thread lace, trimmed with ribbons,
as only Worth can put rib ons on. An
other Is of heavy white drap d'alma, with
creamy marabout feathers fluffed all over
1t. And still another is of rich wine-red
velvet, trimmed with bands of black Per-
sian lamb, and lined with pale green silk.
This last is for carriage wear in the fall.
Other pretty things which Mrs. Whitney
brought home are deep collars made OF
dainty tinted ostrich tips, and capes of filmy
Lace gathered into full case ldes, IN king a
very feathery effect. One of the most striking
dresses among Mrs. Whitney's new ones is a
black suran silk with embroidery done in
straw, real yellow straw, sown in and out
with needle. making realistic patter of
wheat heads. A wide black straw hat is
worn with this dress, and the hat is trimmed
with big punches of wheat
The latest craze in hair Dire sing is not to
dress 1t at all, or at least to give it the ap-
pearance of not having been dressed.
A 6let is bound round the head Greek
wise, and from that the tresses float uncon-
fined, very much as Mary Anderson wore
hers during the dance of the "Winter's
Tale"
The first two who wore their hair this
way were Miss Grace Wilson and Miss Amy
Bend, who appeared at a lawn fete recently
by Mrs. Haveneyer. with big hats, Maud
Muller dresses and floating hair. Now as
both of these very handsome girls have
pretty, curly hair, the effect was bewitch-
ing; SO much so that the fame of the style
went abroad, and the Long Branch girls
heard of it. OF course, to know was
to do, and so at the West End hop the
other evening, certain you e lady made
up her mind to make a sensation, and she
did She led down her hair. which is very
abundant, but, alas very straight, and her
maid spent two hours getting it into the
proper condition of waviness by means of
hot iron. 1t was beautiful when she fin
lshed, and the young lady started
for the ball with the keenest sense
of satisfaction. Since that night
size has been firm believer
in the depravity of inanlmate things for,
while she was on her way, nasty mist
blew in from the sea, and when she reached
her dressing room her beautiful fluffy curIs
had all Strengthened out, and hung lank
and mott all about her face and neck. And
If you'll believe me, some of those other
girls hid behind their fans and giggled
Well, she had to put up her hair and pin on
false bang, and she wasn't bit happy all
the evening.
Another girl who let's her hair hang down
and lets the corner of her mouth drop and
lets the whites of her eyes turn up, and
who wears cape draped Hamlet wi Sc and
Romeo shoes and a fifteenth century ha ,
| and who walks up and down the shore with
melancholy stride, is the stage-struc<
| miss who is practicng in order that she
| may present herself before Boucicaul5
| or some other judges of histrionic
merit Ia the fall. She confines herself
almost entirely to Shakesperian work, of
| course; for she means to "do the legitimate "
| She means out the woes of "Ophelia, "
| nothing daunted because some unappre-
| clatlve boy from the pier answers he. with
a dismal cat-call. She shrieks the con-
| standardization sentences of Lady
| Macbeth" But once in awhile she descends
| to comedy, and the very waves receds in
terror as she stamps up and down the sands
| personatipg "Pe5rucchio'sn Kate
There is at a Newport hotel the heaviest
swell in all America. Not an ocean swell;
a would-be English swell. Nobody knows
who hei is. But the daughters of the Rhode
island farmers think they know, for he has
been arodnd among them, picking out the
Drettiest ones, to whom he has told wonder
| full tales of his ancestral acres and likewise
his titles.
These innocent damsels have all of them
read more or less of counts ana princes who
have gone a-wooing rustic lasses, who have
taken them to live III m gnificent palaces
and bought them ton or so of diamonds
and of the unheard-of coultry girl who be-
comes all of sudden the bowling success
of London season. This is the way the
''DuchesS" fixes it up: and where is there a
country Qlrl W hO HASN'T read the stDuchas
This imitation nobleman at Newport IN
derstands all this and takes advantage of it,
He has made golden promises to more tnau
one silly GIRL who probably is dreaming vet
that he will return to keep them. Some of
the New York girls discovered his little
game, and one of them, rather more saucy
than the others, determined to have some
fun. So she got herself up for the part,
took basket on her arm and managed to
meet the young man during one of his coua-
try rambles. Her Alteration Of shy mod
esty almost caused the girls who were
hidden behind tAe trees watching TO have
spUSms. They managed to control them
selves, however, while his highnesS told the
young lady how beautiful she was and how
she deserved a better fate than to milk
COWS and feed poultry on her fathers
farm These little hands should have da-
monds upo them" ne said, tenderly, as be
lifted tie shaDely members, which had be-
come brown and calloused from tennis and
rowing, Instead of from milking COWS and
making butter. She simperei ives, sir.n
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