The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-03
F0ILIES AND FASHIONS.
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40 way the World Wags-The Latest
se5z in Gowns and Eonnets-A Few
No-as Showing the Direction Of the
Fashions.
An elegant dinner dress Of old brOcade,
.ys the New York Sun, with very full
-o,niers escaping from a jetted girdle, has
- and festooned hounces of black
f3r,,sssls net, while pale blue moiSSeIine
/ . sal evening dress completes the list of
+snrisred gowns, suggesting endless posi-
mites to carry out in different materials.
b. particular gown is made with tur-
!, ,oise and silver GALLON, bordering a low
korssge opening over a low gathered yoke
4 full sleeves of white chiffon. 4 heavy
ger I'd divides the bodice and panniers,
m Is knotted in Cleopatra fashion in
E-,nt. The skirt with its border of galloon
lens over a narrow front of chiffon.
/ Remember always in making the new full
ssrts that foundation skirts must be widened
4 the foot, too, many of them having two
$eadths of silk at the back, with two or
nee sets Of tapes to draw the fullness back.
f. outside skirst is tackled invisibly to the
Emulation to hold the Iullness in graceful
tass.
/ the panniers just now are made as soft as
ro,sible. with thin silk lining, but probably
I'm be later on lined with most stiff and
ygressive material. OF course every woman
|Tbo reads OF these new skirts will shut her
ms in scornful doubt, and fit her spring
|rown's skirt as tightly as ever, but wait
|rntil the roses come, and again until the
|aaves blaze with scarlet and yellow and
l. fan hot H.
hes fail or not.
Nothing is quite so unimportant--to some
|eeople-as time. Not their OVID time, but
time that is tie specials property of some
ole else. It is popularity Of women more
than of men. | don't know why, unless
from the fact that the majority of women
do not gauge life by the hours of which the
dav is made, writes Teresa Dean in the
Chicago Herald.
Not long ago two women called upon a
ne wspaper correspondent. Both We're per-
fectly well aware of the importance of her
time aud that there were certain hours in
which she received no one. The first lady
was told that Mrs. - was engaged and
could not be disturbed. She said:
please take my card to her. am sure
that she will see me.
The attendant said: you will have to
excuse me; my orders are imperative"
The lady walked away highly indignant,
and friendships chain was broken beyond
repair, for the most important links were
lost
The other lady was told that Mrs. -
was not at home. She said:
"On, | know what that means. 1t is her
busy day, and she is not seeing any one.
Will CINE in, and you tell her that Mrs
.- is here"
The attendant was true to her assertion,
and said
mo; she is really not at home"
The lady laughed and stepped in with the
words:
That's all right. You tell her that am
here | know her so well, and she knows
that she cannot lock me out as she does
others.n
The assertion was reiterated. The lady,
with keen appreciation of her own intul-
ton, and much amused manner, walked
into the reception room and seated herself,
saying:
We'll, row, you better tell her, or will
60 into her den myself"
She sat there twenty minutes and then
discovered that Mrs. was-not at home
She had gone out just before the caller ar
rived.
Some time and in some fashion, says the
Illustrated inlericdn, the young uuwedded
woman will be called on to make decided
stand against the invasion of the matron
upon her special province. There is scarcely
place left now for the sole of her slipper be-
tween the school and the strip of carpet
before the matrimonial altar. She's simply
driven into a corner and told to marry at
once or lay down her passport into realms
OF social gayety.
The arrogance of the married woman
her monopoly of society amuse-
ments is more intolerable than trade union
tyrannies. She won't hear to having uu-
paired bellies brought into competition VITA
her attractions. If they choose to chime it
must be with a conjugal clapper, and not as
merry, Independent thinkers, ringing dis
tracing little tune of minated freshness.
Girls are still permitted to have debuts,
but even on those great occasions the Young
matron- steps in, and, by right of double
bleSsedness, takes all the cakes and ale. TIE
Shy, sweet miss is left to cut a poor figure
indeed. Aud 50 on, from first to last.
The married woman opens the ball, leads
the german, occupies tie opera boxes, de
mands all the dinner invitations, fills the
victoria, receives at the tea, thereby squeez-
ing the girl into such small corner that no
one Is ever able to find her behind madame'S
oyercrowded engagement book.
Why parrots, says the New York Tribune,
are so prone to profanity, and take natu-
rally to the strongest of epithets, it is hard
to say-probably it is the emphasis that is
usually given to such expressions; but be it
as 1t may, they really seem TO enjoy the
swear words" as the children say, and
use the naughty expressions sometimes with
dramatic effect. A well>known artist whose
marvellous facility in initiating the express
SIons of the different | irds or beasts he
represents in his stories cannot, unfortu-
hateiy, be reproduced, gives a new parrot
story which was, as he told it, with the
very gestures and looks Of the birds, ex-
tremely amusing and even without the
advantage of such raconteur it is worth
adding to the numberless stories Of these
seemingly half-human creatures.
In a suburb of New York there lived two
maiden ladies, whose quiet home was
frightened by an intelligent and most ad-
brought-up Polly. to whom her
gentle mistresses had taught an elaborate
VocaD Ulary or the most carefully chosen
moral sayings and pious CALCULATIONS.
s,eashore for caange of air, they engaged
board at the house of an old cap
tain, whose cruising days were over,
ana who eked out his little in
come by 'takin' city folks for the
summer" Miss Priscilla. who made
the arrangements, was delighted beyond
measure to find an ancient parrot sitting on
lne clothesline post in the back yard, bird
who eyed the cheerful little lady with great
hSfavor as he stood huddled up on his
perch, with his feathers ruffled by the keen
March wind. The kind spinster, however,