The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-19
Bah IN WASHINGTON.
SHE LIKES THE STREETS, TIE
DARKIES AND IS HAPPY.

r The Woman on a Bicycle, However,
She Does Not Like-Cressiag After
the Flow rs-A Symphony in Pale
: Blue-A Word for the Darkies of
Washington - Bab Would Like to
Own C Jlored Baby-The Pavem ents
of tie Capital City From Which
Many Of Our Towns Can Learn
Somethilz-A Woman's Idea Of 3
Mean Man.
NEW YoBK, July 1S-Did you ever
travel on a railroad passl did once, and
although other railroads may say to me:
Gone 70 US at reduced prices" do you
know l am quite honest and honorable
enough to keep on paying my fare on the
railroad that once gave me pass
RIDING on A PASS.
At this time Of the year am always hon
est, and may as well tell the truth-the
pass was not meant for me, it was for some
body else; but that somebody else having a
pocket full of passes, said, why payr' aud
I said because I can't get ont Of it; and this
pass was hurled at me, and l road ninety
miles for nothing, aud | felt as if l owned
| the road, as if were director and president
/ and all the vices that are included in that
| and, the consequence is. when l arm going
/ any place even il the other road is nearer
| | slll go on the road on which | Oncs had
! pas and pay my way in the brightest and
! most shining ducats you ever saw. think
! the difference between getting a pass for
| the theater and a pass for a railroad is
that after you once nave had a pass to the
/ H. eater you never want to pay, and after
! you once have had q pass over tue railroad
/ you always want to stick to that road be-
/ cause you feel IL has been extra civil 20 you,
| v bile the theater has only done its du J.
| Funny, isn'till
THE WOMAN on BICYCLE.
think the most vicious thing | over saw
| in all my life is woman on u bioycle-aud
Washington is full OF them-I had Thought
that cigarette smoking was the worse thing
| o woman could do, but have changed my
mind. dou't know why | think i: Is vi
cious-it Is just one of those queer things
that l cannot explain, but II | had boy
who WAS going to be married, and he came
to me aud SAID, Mother, she is the incest
girl in the world, and she rides a bicycle
with me.n l should say, II forbid the
bans,n and should get up In q church and
| do it, and would be the worst noLher-in-
law that ever lived until the bicycle was
broken. You don't like it, my friend, any
more than | do. 1t may seem to you jaunty,
| it may look to you charming, coquettish
but doubt it. But how would you like 10
see your mother ride a bicycle or how would
| you like to see your grandmother ride BIZ
| cycles Don't you think it is making her q
| little less grille, II she is young enough TO
be called Minnie, Don't you think it is
making her little less sweet if she is called
Lilly! And don't you think it is taking
away bit from her dignity If you Gall her
Dorothy} know you do. You can imag-
Inc girl, who, for fun, you call Jack, or
Tom, or Dick, on bicycle, but not a wom-
an you would want TO kneel down before,
and say: BLESS me before | go out in the
world" You eau ask that Of woman who
has committed a woman's follies, but you
cannot ask il Of the woman whom you have
seen IN a divided skirt on bicycle, oh, no!
OF course, this is just what you aud think /;
but after all, what you and | think, and
what some other mans wife thinks, and
what some other woman's husband thinks,
and what all the rest think, is what after
all decides what is right and wrong in the
world,
DRESSING AFTER THE FLOWERS.
The latest fad among the smart women Is
to dress after a fiowey-it seems to you an
easy something. That is because you are a
man--it is because of your experience in
trousers, waistcoats, blazers and white shirt
| fronts Now, dressing after flower means
| having your underwear match it, having
| your gown the same hue, having your bon
| net trimmed with the flowers, using always
the same flower and having your parasol IN
harmony, and slippers that are at least near,
! If they are not the exact color. know two
women who have gone IN for it. One has
made up her mind that she will dress al
ways as a violet, always meaning for the
| summer time, and the other as a forget-me-
not. They are Intimate friends and drive
| together, and the pale blue and the pale
mauve make the latest French contrast.
! The violet young woman has chiffon, china
silk or Crepe gowns OF pale violet, trimmed
| with white or black lace as she may fancy
little coronet bonnet made of violets, with
star just in front. that is of JET that spark
les almost like black diamonds. Her para
sol Is pale violet silk, with white point lace
| butterflies on 1t. Her gloves are violet un
dressed kid and her shoes are of violet I'M
dressed kid, and she wears pale violet silh
stockings. For underwear she has violet
silk vests, violet brocade corsets, and pet
ticoat of white linen lawn. tied with violet
ribbons. The perfume she uses is that
wondrous one which smells like real violets
not dollhouse violets, but those that have
come from the woods and filed the air with
an odor that is as blissfui as il is indescriba.
bic.
A SYMPHONY IN PALE BLUE.
The PythiaS to this Damon Is gowned al
ways in pale blue. She wears gray sib
stockings, gray addressed kid slippers, white
lawn, petticoat tied back with blue ribbons
blue silk vests aud blue brocade stays. Hel
bonnet is as dernure as only forget-me-not
can be. 1t is a little close-htting one oil
chip, like that favored by the Princess of
Wales, and has forget-me-nots just in front
while the gloves are of white undressed kid
and the parasol of white crepe None of
their adorers send them anything but for.
get-me-nots or vtolets. Orchids are cast
aside III disdain. roses are nowhere, and each
woman feels that unless she can live in har
mony with her flower life is absolutely not
worth the trouble. To my way Of thinking
the young woman who selects a rose as her
typical flower will have a much easier time
of IT, because roses bloom all the year round
violets have short season, and forget
me-nots only last month or two. Queer,
isn't itl
GOOD DRINK FOR SUMMER.
1t is such an easy thing In this world to
} some people to forget. IL seems as if a great
sponge of the present came and blosted out
everything OF the past except the disagreea-
BILE, and somehow that always lives with
them. My friend, if we want to get rid OF
that we have got to stop looking backward
} aud just look forward. We don't want a
glass of champagne. What we want Is a
glass of hope, and after we have gotten alb
solutely full of hope. we can get along mar
velouSy well Hope is a good medicine-it
is good drink-aniIt is a good stay for
one always, whether one be a man, or wom-
an, or ghost.
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