The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-08
GIDDY CARRIE CARELESS.
THE LATEST FADs TSAT GOVERN
MEN, WOMEN AND THINGS


Tires-The Wealthiest Woman in the
United States-What Yellow Carriers
viii Do for Girl-How to Develop
the Bust According to Latest Ad-
vices-An Inscription for an Enxage-
ment Bracelet Kindergarten Fad.
(CopVi0ht1
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-CordiaIity in greet
ing is the proper thing this season. LASH
tude, languor and indifference have gone to
the wall and, in their place, is gracIousuess.
gush and welcome. With both arms out
stretched your hostess greets you, beaming
with all the effulgence that nature will
permit. she is glad to see you, glad all
over, and she shows it as openly and undis-
guisedly as if she had not been taught for
the past few years to conceal her
affections, likes and dislikes under a cold
SO ciety hauteur. The woman who under
stands her business greets you as if she had
not another friend in the world, and had no
wish to make any beyond your own sweet
self.
There are people of whom one never tires.
no matter how often one sees them, nor
how intimate the association may be. There
is about them that air of perpetual charm
and variety that makes them delightful
companions. They are sure to be good
tempered. There is never any fear of find
ing them in pet, nor a prey to some ILL
humor wholly unreasonable and inexplain-
able
They are pleased when you are pleased,
and interested in what you have to say.
They are so sympathetic that your ills and
troubles become their own, and your friends
become so dear to them that not for the
world would they do anything to
rob you of them. Sometimes with
these bright, sweet natures you find
the added charm of originality, and
when you come across such one, treasure
it and preserve it as one of the pearls of
your life for seldom, indeed, the talent
originality and good nature found COM
bined in one mortal frame. A nature that
is so 80 richly endowed is three-fold talented.
1t has the talent of magnetism, the talent
of keeping good-natured and the priceless
talent of originality which, as Rudyard
Kipling says, it is not the discovery of any
thing new, but Is rather, new way of
looking at old things. And that makes it
| all the more delightful.
There are women who, he they ever so
| busy, look as if they had never done stroke
| OF WORK in all their lives. When they work,
they work all over, but as soon as the toll
some hour is past, they sink thoroughly to
have you not seen the woman who is the
personiflcation of ease! Who looks as If,
and who really has, tasted nothing bat
sweets ali her life. You must have known
her, the petted child of love and fortune
whose mission it is to eat bread and honey.
sweetmeats, and jam all her life loDgl 1t is
well that there are few such people upon
the earth, or this would be sadly business
like, work-a-day sphere.
fNnO0ra mi Pala 80
the pretentious name of book just
launched upon the public in the old world.
1t embraces the history of Palestine from
800 until now, and gives many a pretty
flight of fancy and fiction as well as hard
facts. Never were people as ready as they
now are to receive everything il the line Of
literature; and tine subject treated need not
be of great nor all-absorbing interest. If
it is printed in good, cold typo, it is pretty
sure to 60. Titles such as my Wife
Friend" Kissed Her Too Soon" "A
Fatal Lover" Murdered at Last, ''Gay,
But Not Giddy," and kindred others, find a
greedy sale.
1t is estimated that the average New
York family spends IS weekly in newspa-
pers, magazines and paper books; all 60 be
disposed of when once read. Besides this
sum a large amount is yearly invested in
books for the family library. 1t is the
golden age for newspapers and all period
icals, that is certain. But whether it is
the golden age for literature is a question.
Hetty Green, now of New York, is an ex-
ample of what womanly smartness and
frugality can do. Beginning with paltry
$4,000, she has added aud accumulated un-
til she has now fat $50, ZOO, 900.
The fortunate girl is the one who has a
yellow garter given her by the bride of less
than year, And why is she fortunates
Because it ensures for ner lsddie who shall
be her own true love and her husband ere
another twelve months has elapsed. The
yellow garter must be worn by day and
night and never removed save when the
art of cleanliness requires it. During the
first six months that it is worn
tine young woman will see her
own true love and become des-
parately we'll acquainted with him. The
next three months sees them engaged to be
married and the last three months of the
year bear a wedding chime in their echoes.
Dear, sweet matchmaking young matrons
give yellow garter to all the young girls
of their acquaintance whom they wish to
see welded and, then, they do all in their
power TO further the cause by introducing
every eligible man OF dear Jacks acquaint-
ance.
The moonstone is the luckiest stone in all
creation if obtained by gift. unexpected
and unsolicited. A certain newspaper wo-
man declares that she would never dare to
go upon an assignment without the moon
stone ring that was given her at the begin
ming OF her literary career, and which has
accompanied her ever since in all success
full expeditions. Never has she known fail
ure with it upon her finger. And never has
she been successful when it was forgotten or
mislaid.
II second moonstone is given from any
other source, it should be at once given
away TO some dear friend, or the mystic
charm will be broken. Wherever you see a
person wearing single moonstone you may
be sure there is some superstition attached
to it.
1t is the ice kings harvest, as well as that
of the ice queen. He does his part in att
tendance and attention, and shs does hers
in actual work. Just notice at the next
ice carnival, or skating tournament if this
is not the case.
The dear, sweet girl is helped into her
muffers and skates and is almost carried
down to the house. But once there, it is
she who becomes the blithe, strong one, and
he the clinging ivy. 1t is she who fits about
cutting pretty figures and dancing upon her
ice wings. 1t is he who is merely, borne
along as companion and escort to the gay
creature who seems an incarnate spirit Of
gaiety. Sometimes, she will seat her escort
in chair and, then, with long swift strokes
with the sharp steel runners, she pushes him
blithely along.
What shall do to develop the bust?n is
the question most frequently asked of