The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-03
GAY CARRIE CARELESS.
wHAT THE GIRLS DO WIEN THEY
GO OUT FOR A RIDE.

! The Newest and Nattiest Thing in Rid
ing Habits-What it Costs to Take a
Ride on Dobbin-Tableaux That Are
Very Pleasant Affairs-DeAr Little
Carmencita and Her Naivete-Otero is
Leading Butterfly Life-Mrs. Stone
wall jackson In the Pulitzer Building.
DR.. Tanner Once More-Why BIZ
vorcsd Women Continue to Keep
Their Husbands Names.
(Copviohtl
NEW YORK, May 2.-"Up In the morn
| ing early" is the motto for the fair young
miss Of Gotham, who wishes to do every
thing that is charming, and who is also
DESTROYS Of doing it ct the most delightful
time. Early horseback rides are just the
thing this spring, because the dozen or two
countesSes and baronesses who favored New
York with their presence INDUCED In them,
as soon as the weather afforded. Now, one
sees every girl with the pluck and the
money to indulge in the sport scampering
along in her best possible fashion, on the
prettiest horss she can procure, upon the
roads that lead out from the city.
Riverside and Grants tomb are the popu-
lar drives and rides, because there one can
get nice breakfast and enjoy the luxury of
knowing that one is in a thoroughly aristo-
cratic part of the country. All the swells
from sweldom go there, and all the riding
masters take their pupils cantering that
way as soon as they can be trusted to keep
their seat in the saddle.
- "A young lady'ssmount costs nowadays, if
her outfit is according to the best fashion
able advices. The very cheapest habit will
spoil 500 bill, and if one goes in for ex-
tras, why, 300 more can easily be spent.
The skirt aud waist, at least the former and
preferably the latter also, should he Of
doeskin. The boots must be patent feathers
with tops that reach-nobodY knows how
high; and the suede gloves, vest and minor
appointments are all so expensive that a
Worth costume must be very nice indeed
before it can equal the riding habit in price.
For early morning trips the derby crush
hat or the comfortable little peak cap may
be worn. Later the tall hat and regulation
veil must be the invariable headgear.
Very charming it Ia these braoing morn
ings to mount Dobbin and tear along the
road side by side with cavalier who uu-
derstands his business and knows when to
Iced and when to follow, and who knows
again when one must be tired and who sug-
gests stopping for gentle walk along some
and the cocktails-Vermouth, of course,
and the absinthe afterward to settle the
nerves are served just before broadcast as
an appetizer. Then comes the more digni-
fed walk home, and half an hour later in
my lady's boudoir, there is the massage and
the tening down exercise which makes the
skin all smooth and lovely, and which keeps
my lady young and fair.
TaoleauI are very popular forms of par
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variety to the somewhat tiresome dances
lasting all the evening. For each tableauK
or fancy dress party, the guests assemble in
full uniform. There are Juliets, Portals,
Ophelias and the popular characters from
all the latest society plays There are also
Romeos, Claude Melnottes, Halnlets and
warriors bold that have been famous in
song, story and upon the boards. Beautiful
tableaux are produced early in the evening.
to the delight of those not taking part, and
later. with their war paint on. the fanoitul-
ly dressed creatures mingls altogether in
the may whirl which 10 doubly attractive
because of the added charm Of unusual
toilets
Saucy black-eyed Otero is leading a but -
terdy life in this great city, and it is said
| that she does not want to go back to Spain
for even four months, which is her allotted
period for an engagement over there. In
her beautiful little fiat on Twenty-third
| street she holds high carnival with the
young men OF the town, after the theater,
and she entertalns them sumptuously Of a
Sunday. She Is strikingly pretty, of the
boldly handsome type that one scarcely
knows whether TO admire or to fear. Speak.
ing no English at ALL she never travels
about the city without maid to do the
talking. and the maid invariably accom-
pauies her on the short horse car ride which
she takes from her house to the Eden Musee.
where she dances She is fond of handling
our money and takes delight Ia counting out
from a beautiful white portmonnaie the ten
cents requisite to convey herself and maid
across town. Is 1t not an evidence OF foreign
thrift when 80 great an artist as Otero and
one who is making as much money as she
should care to avail herself of the yery
plebeian method of conveyance known as
the horse cara Many an American actress,
with less than half Of Otero's pay, would
scorn to step foot in anything more common
than hanson.
"Say something nice about me in the
newspapers, pleaded Carmenoita with me
as she held my hand at tie door of her
house, on Twenty first street. and urged me
to come again. "Say something very
pretty, will you not9" aud Of course 1 said
/ would. II could know what would best
| please the Senorita l would say it, and say
it gladly, for she Is the dantieSt, sweetest,
most absolutely bewitching little beauty
who has ever been behind the New York
footlights-at least chat is the verdict of all
the men who see her, and the women own
up to almost as much-and that is saying a
| great deal.
A new fad has arisen among divorced
women and that's, that they shall keep their
| husbands name, even after the courts have
decided that they may legitimately go back
| to the ones they answered to in maiden
| hood. As Mira. Lisle Carter says: "Why
should l not keep my husbands name
| What have l ever done to forfeit itqn But
few months ago every woman as fast as
! she obtained a divorce Immediately took
her own name, but now, as proof of her in
nooence, she keeps her husbands and de-
clares that she will not give it up.
Any woman who has attempted to trans
act business or to obtain favors or credit
| from business people knows that if she is
| able to prefix the title Of Mrs to her name.
half the point is gained. Men have more
regard for woman who has man behind
her to defend her rights and interests.
| II a woman is Mrs. it is sort of introduc-
| ton. It is a statement, that she is not
alone in the world looking out for herself.
with no one to become indignant, should
her rights be denied. Though the husband
may be, as is the case with the divorce,
merely a name, yet, all the world knows
| that there is a great deal in name, and
that great power is carried along with
certain titles