The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-28
FASHIONS FOLLIES.
SOME OF TIE THINGS WHICH I'M
TEREST TIE FAIR SEX

TBhEST THE FAIR SEX
The Latest Wrinkle in Dresses
styles OF Eats That Are Attractin 6
Attention-A Few Bright stora q,
That Are Of More Than PASSING r.
terest-The New Ways of Dress,no
the Hair.
grumpy bachelor. just returned to
town from flying visit to two Fashionable
summer resorts, says the New York S,,,,
has been declaiming the extravaganza Of
our women. why, said he, ''would vor
believe it, many of these beautiful Great,
ures are apparently gifted with the protaar
power Of changing their garb at will
You meet one in the hall.
way and she will be clad in a whit,
surah with real lace tumbling down the
corsage, falling over her delicate hands
and encircling her white neck. You take
turn on the veranda and you meet tbe
same woman In pale blue crepon. After
dinner she will again cross vour
path clad in q lightblue foulsrd
opening on a tablier of the same na+a
rial in pink; then there were bouillonnes
think you call them, running across the
tabIier, and the sleeves were bouilIonped ALI
the way up; and in the evening the same
Gree of Modes will fit across the rorlo,
wearing a pale pink surah, yelled viii
chiffon, embroidered with flower spravs in
the same shade, tne cnt-out filed with chit
fon, WITH real flowers in her hair. in her
hand and at her throat. nv
Tho listonar lar kh;s
Censor rattle along for several rnin,,ta ne
and then astounded him BY Quietly ral
marking that woman's dress was 1evo.
more artistic and more reasonable in cost
than at the present day. She asked hin, if
be was aware that single one of Marie 40
MedIci's robes had 80 900 pearls sewed mon
it. He looked dazed and had nothing NO.
TO say.
| have few remarks to make unon tho
subject OF kissing, says Clara Belle in a Nav
YORK letter In the Enquirer. 1t has been
charged. and | think with some iuetioo
that we Americans do too much E;ss;no'
and when say kissing mean it. / don;t
mean on the forehead or cheek. a Ia Rnosa
But am proud Of my countrymen for one
thing. Unlike the English pentlernan tba',
are not much given TO kissing barmaids and
servants behind doors and on the stairwav
They seem to prefer pretty cousin. or s'vonr
wlfes sister" or even a daughters school
friend. However. we do hear of An COCA
slonal lapse. l heard Of one the othar
day. and the amusing part Of it was the
way IN which the culprit souirmed ont or
his difficulty. Being warned of the denoer
OF having too pretty a waitress in fha
house, Mrs. De M resolved to discharge
hers. The pretty Corkonian, with those
blue eyes so highly priced by artists. LOOK
ing as If they had been slipped into their
sockets with sooty fingers. had a oood
place, and was highly incensed at losing II
AS she left the house she turned and gave
her mistress this parting shot
Sure man, know why you do be send
ing me away. It's because your husband
Rugged me on the staircase
That evening there was an animated
scene upon the return of her dear. good
patient, hard working helpmeet. His ouicl,
Wit and ingenuity saved him, and this is
the way he did it:
NOW, my dear, 1t is all your own fault.
De NJ. PoN us
why, yes. You see, you've been in the
havtt of giving Mary your old dresses and
your corsets, too. Well, one night as was
hurrying upstairs ran against a female
form, and putting out my hand recognized
Dy tne feel that camel's hair dress of yours.
Thinking tlat you were merely plavino a
trick upon me, playfully encircled wha1
was perfectly sure was your waist. 1t was the
same sue, the same straight back, the same
graceful outline, and not until Mary be-
trayed herself by a smoker did become
aware of the mistake had made. Now. If
you will give your dresses and corsets to
the servant girls, you must expect such
mistakes to arise"
And that dear. confiding, trustful wife
promised she wouldn't do so any more.
whereupon they kissed and made up. Such
quick wit and ingenuity as that deserved all
it got.
The organizes and mousseline de sole are
works OF art, especially the black ground
MIN colored flowers, says the New York
recorder. A black ground has blue forget
me~not and green leaves scattered heresaud
there. Another, sprigs Of mignonette, look
Ing so natural that you really seem to catch
the perfume of the flowers, and just here
comes In neat idea of clever modiste. In
making up these pretty materials, all the
time while they are in her possession, and
W me not working on the organdies or
she has them in drawer
with tiny bags filled with the per-
tune matching the flower laid here and
there IN the folds Of the goods, and when the
gown is finished, wherever it has been pas-
nole, tiny bags of the perfume have been
Inserted, giving faint odor, which is sim
ply delicious. A very pretty mousseline
lad the eglantine flower and bud, with |
,reen leaves scattered here and there in |
lainty ssprigs. 1t is made over a
oundation of pale pink silk, on the |
lottom OF which is a hounce of |
he figured material; over this a |
,rettily draped skirt, caught here and |
here with rosettes of leaves of green gauze |
lobon. The bodice is made very short |
basque and trimmed with drapery of green |
'hitfon matching the ribbon and plating of |
he same edge, the sleeves being turned |
Jack on the order of a cuff. with small |
osette of the green ribbon. Similar |
osettes are placed on the shoulder and at |
he end of the basque.
A piazza tea was one of the features OF |
uourbau gayety last week, SAYS the New
ork Press. The veranda where the pleas.
mt party assembled was screened with
rown and cream-colored awnings Hang
lgs of the same waterproof canvas covered
be walls of the house under the piazza roof,
nd the rugs OF striped Japanese cotton in
rown and scarlet were flung upon the
DOR. Reed curtains rolled up and down
ke shades to keep out the sunshine, and
here were folding screens of mating and
amboo to break the wind. Long
'oxes of brown and cream-colored tiles
7ere set in rows upon the broad piazza rail-
1gS and filed with vines and scarlet flow
ring geraniums. There was low bamboo
ouch with cushioned sent covered with