The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-09

AAces sne must ride thirteen miles to the
agency, and there is no town within seven
teen miles. Miss Howard has a grant of
eighty acres from the government and
has ten Indian girls living in the house with
ner. Her work is really an industrial prof.
ect, rather than missionary or an educa-
tlonal one. She is making brave effort TO
organize employmentS which shall furnish
work TO the Indian women. The girls who
return from Hampton institute. she writes,
have learned some of the WAYS of civiliza-
tlon, but there is absolutely no Incentive
Tor them to go on with the new life they
have begun. For the Indian boy there is
always the farm, but for the girl there is
nothing. Housekeeping in Sioux cabin is
TOO simple to furnish much occupation, and
II she wishes to sew there is not a rag or a
scrap on which to employ the needle.
Miss Howard is taking advantage of the
TACT that the strongest desire of the Indian
who has come in contact ever 50 remotely
with white people is to wear white peoples
clothes. The girls who live in the house
with her are taught to cut and fit make
buttonholes. The garments which are
turned out at this little home factory are
put on sale at moderate prices, and their
teacher hopes that the beginnings of bust
ness are being established which may in
time grow to supply a larger number of
women who are sorely in need of it with
something to do.
Miss Howard SCOTS at the idea that she is
in her self-decreed Punishment in any need
of sympathy. She has filled her home with
the thousand and one refinements that are
necessaries of life to the cultivated woman,
and sends east in triumph photographs of
her pretty sitting room. She says that the
hight of an Indians ambition is to own a
trunk, and when the red woman has
achieved a mountainous Saratoga and
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description she possesses, she sits down in
the middle of her cabin and smiles in serene
Sioux satisfaction.
How many pretty things there are for the
woman with $4,000 year and a carriage
Take spoons. It's in no way necessary to
be torn with one, even of the most precious
metal, in your mouth, but if one could only
be sure of having, say coffee spoon, with
handle surmounted by daisy enameled in
colors to put into ones mouth after one was
born.
Spoons are assuming individuality. Peo-
pie who are fastidious are beginning to
discriminate between them according to
their decorations for different courses at
table almost as carefully as they 10 between
their chinas. The soup ladle is apt this
winter to have for its bowl the semblance of
fluted shell, or a fairy boat, or the inverted
of round, nodding tomatoes etched on the
handle Bonbon spoons, ice cream spoons,
and coffee spoons are the duchesses and
countesses of the court of spoondom. The
bonbon spoon affects the antique 1t has
large. circular and almost fiat bowl
with short handle expanded into
large, fiat and quantity fashioned
top, sometimes reproduced exactly from
medieval French and English models, and
ALWAYS with wealth Of Iatail
work expended on its wreathing and twist
ing patterns To be dainty and lavishly
costly is the object in life of the tiny coffee
spoon. These ends are accomplished by
turning the handles into flower stems, each
surmounted by different posy. In a set
just finished for a wealthy lady, the bowls
are of antique silver set in narrow gold
rim. The buttercup, the dandelion, the
field aston, the violet, the daisy, pink AID
other native flowers are mounted on the
handles, and enameled in colors. Gold and
silver are twisted together to form the
stems. The cream ladle corresponding has
its bowl fashioned in the shape Of a wild
rose.
Coffee spoons with miniature MONKEYS
for heads, after the model of the old apostle
spoons, are favorites just at present at the
afternoon tea spreads of Gotham's
bachelors.
The newest cream spoons are of medium
size and have oddly designed heads, which
look as if a scrap OF lace or a fairy hand
kerchief had been thrown over the end of
the handle to protect the fingers from the
chill.
Sugar tongs are being made to initiate
turkeys claws.
There are spoons designed so classically
that you eat your soup with one decorated
with Venus born of the sea, who is drawn
in her shell by dolphins; cut up your roast
with knife on which Hercules is capturing
the wild boar, and your game with another
on which Action, who has been changed
into stag is being devoured by his own
dogs; are served with your salad from a
spoon On which Paris is giving to Venus the
golden apple, eat your dessert while gazing
on Bacchus feeding panther with grapes,
pick your nuts in view of the second labor
of Hercules and drink your coffee to the
tune played by the Bacchantes wnen they
taught the infant Bacchus to dance.
But these delights are for the woman
with $780, 600 year and carriage.
The same fortunate individual has all her
toilet articles, even to what "Ravvy" in
''Ermine" calls 'teeth-brushes, mounted
| in silver. Last fall | met a pretty little
lady whose face was puckered into per-
| picked frown.
81 don't know whether to buy a silver
backed bonnet BRUSH" she said, ''or an
overcoat for my husband"
A few days ago our paths crossed a
second time. Which was itw was the
query.
"The bonnet brush, Of course, and I'm 50
| glad it's been mild winter,n this with q
| benevolent smile.
The silver brushes, combs, trays and
boxes in beautiful repousse designs certainly
make a brilliant foreground to a woman's
| toilet mirror, but they are very difficult to
keep clean. A silver set, which makes any
pretensicns to completeness, can hardly
contain less than 100 articles, and the sets Of
! Mrs +. w. Vanderbilt, Mime. LAMA, Mrs.
| Langtry and others who have made hobby
| of collecting, count up many more. Matte
Sheridan, the busy little society reporter
who writes for six different papers, hadn't
| once been to bed until Lent came in before 2
| o'clock in the morning since Thanksgiving.
| Miss Sheridan'S hobby is her silver collec-
| ton. ''I'll give you a silver box" said a
| friend, ''if youth shut up your eyes by 10
o'clock seven nights in succession" "Let me
have the box in advance said Miss Sheri-
dan, 'a1d III begin the first of March"
There's much to be done with the modern
woman by means of judicious silver tempt
ations.
The little ring stands are among the clev-
crest of recent novelties. For the writing
table comes a coil of bright colored candle
cord running up to burn at the heart of a
/ silver flower, over which, when the sealing
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