The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-22


MN IN the way Of daring escapades. any
one Oh which would az once DESTROY his re-
spect Tor one OF his own unmarried country
women A transatlantic marriage which
was started by practical Joke, was that of
the young minister from =, who asked
MS ilVely neighbor at dinner how he should
ana make ms adieux to his hostess. as she
9id not speak French and his own
knowledge of English was of the slightest.
Quite seriously she taught him to say,
uoIy, Mrs. A., l have had a bully time -
ana ne repeated the absurd and dreadful
little speech with great distinctness to his
nostess, who at once detected the source Of
the poor mans blunder and naturally
greatly resented it Monsieur de F., how
ever, had sense of humor and far from
haroorlng a grudge against the impairment
young lady, was greatly amused by her
audacity, and thus in this instance began
the "wooing ONT"
Odd, isn't it. that there should be a fin
de steele neck just as there is mode in bon
nets, or style in gowns, says the New
OK Sun. Stranger still that the girl of
the period conforms her physical being to
the conventional idea just as she cuts her
draperies in the fashion. Now the fin de
Stecte neck at the end of the century Is not
at all what it was at the beginning, when
all the sweet girls wore low-necKed gowns
In the day time. Then the essential quail
ncauon or beauty was a sort of cushion
nSe pIumpness. No bones or suggestion of
bones must be traceable between the round
column Of the throat and the tumultuous
upheaval OF the too redundant bosom.
Now the neck must have subtle express
sion not capon plumpness, and this oxpres-
sion depends upon-bones. To be elasticity
beautiful the line Of the clavicle must be
visible at the base Of the throat, and the
hollow just above this that every Venus
has, and that some one has called a rest for
Cupld's kisses, must not be lost in too
abundant flesh, though the flesh be the
falrest and most dimpled ever barred to the
eyes of mortals.
There is jim de steele bust, too. 1t is
small, round, low, exquisitely chaste and
beautifully modelled. The important thing
IN dressing for the best expression of this
modlsh neck is TO wear everything loose
ABOUT the bust and to have corset either
cut entirely away over the bust or cut very
low. The French woman grasps the ideal
or the century neck and leaves
her corset, which is made to order if the
gown worn over it costs less than a shilling
yard, very loose at the top where it sus.
talns the bust, but does not compress or
push It out of place. No matter how low
cut Is the ball gown the effect is delicate and
A~SNSSS A. OAO AuAAACSS Va bu6 DE6dSU Is nOL
apparent.
The slender woman is the woman of the
mode. The ideal of beauty approaches
more nearly the antique standards, and we
are ouJ-gro wing the notion that the lowell
ness OF woman's neck and shoulders de-
ponds upon flesh alone. The anatomical
structure must be defined about the ankles,
must be guessed at the wrist and must
show faint line or tracerY at the throat.
Tnn nIlnh flooh taly 81 h.
ness of the modelling and the subtlety of
the expression of the throat and shoulders.
was presented some time ago with two
bottles OF rare old wine, says a writer in
the New York World. Friends came last
week who could appreciate it, and |
proposed to give them a treat The bottles
were sent for, and amid looks which my
guests vainly tried TO make unconce.ned.
one was opened. Wine? Never 1t was
plain, everyday unadulteratsd cold teal
Suspicion fastened upon the cook. She
came, denied. finally broke down and con-
fessed that on certain occasions when her
heart was weak" she had sampled the wine
and replaced it with tea.
You shall drink every drop of this tea,
now" said |, t linking perhaps a joke
would cover the entertainment. Amid the
laughter of my guests, cooked drained the
OIuSE JULIUS. DeIOTo Qluuer CQ0 waitress
whispered to me that cook was lying in
the kitchen intoxicated. l rushed there.
1t was too true. She had ''doctoredn but
one bottle. and |, as u punishment, had
made her drink the other bottle of good old
wine.
"How little we realiz9 our daily bless
ings,' said a young matron. who is rather
more thoughtful than the rest of her set
several of whom were lunching together at
Delmonlco's, says the New York Tribune.
Nv hen we have plenty of water, we simply
take it as matter of course, but just fancy
the misery it would cause if the water sup
ply gave out. heard the other day that
the Croton had not been so low in years,
and thai wells are going dry all over the
country. Even now, they say, it is not
very safe to drink the water that comes
through the pipes without boiling and filter
ing it Only think of all those poor people
in the tenement houses. What n:isfort-
une for them if the water supply should
become inadequate"
II should thInk they would drink vichy,n
lisped a fair convlve quite seriously. The
first speaker looked rather estonished.
Really, Elise she said, ''your remark
would do as pendant for that of the
French woman, who, when told that the
populace were clamoring around the bakers
shops IOr Dre4Q, ana JnaU Lnere was no
bread, exclaim ned, "Why don't they give
them cake, toenF' swell, and why didn't
theyl" said Elise placidly.
In certain boarding-school dormitory,
says the New York Times, there is, as there
always is, one obliging girl who was i'm
posed upon by the other five occupants of
the room in the way Of exacting small
offices. AS she had always buttons and
thread aud needle convenient, and was
never in a hurry. it got to be the habit of
the room to rely upon "Sue' in every
emergency. do, Sue, like dear girl,
mend this glove for me, I'm desperately
late:" or, My darling Sue, won't you sew
the buttons on this boot while l am doing
my hairs" and the like.
Sue was very much interested in a GER
tain church charity for which fair was
about to be held and greatly deplored her
lack Of time at school to make anything for
it. when a clever scheme occurred to her.
"(iirls," she announced one day about two
weeks ago. producing at the same time
little box with a slit in the cover, from
now on it's cent button for shoe buttons,
cents piece to mend gloves, and 10 cents
to do hair-the proceeds to go to my
fair.n The girls laughed and warmly Sec
onded the idea. Sue has been so busy that
her box is rapidly filling, but she has dis
covered that she has put a premium on
Iaziness. and placard has recently APP
peared in that dormitory announcing that
on and after Dec. 10, the date OF the fair,
her services are not to be had for love nor
money"