The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-01
FRISKY CARRIE CARELESS
TELLS SOME SECRET ONLY THE
MOON is SUPPOSED TO KNOW.

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| Maids That Are Altogether Too Dressy
"A Literary Woman's Experience
| What the Chic Girl Looks Like-Coun-
try Cousins Who Come to Town.
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NEW YORK, May 30.-Ol dearl how
| pleasant it is these moonshiny evenings to
wander forth into the park or to step out on
the veranda for minutes outing and air
ing after the confinement and closeness of
overheated parlorsl Nobody is there except
the man in the moon and one other fellow,
and nobody, except these two people, can
tell exactly what is going on.
Miss Fair Beauty has a score of admirers,
and she loves to take them out one by one
and in the light of the moon listen to their
declarations and their observations. She
cannot marry them oil, and, probably, she
| does not care TO marry any of them, but
she loves to have them all devoted to her
and ready to dance attendance upon her
every wish and within.
Some day from the ranks Of the cavaliers
| who have folio wed her forth into the light
of the moon she will select one who shall
be the "Slave Of the Ring, and whose pride
and pleasure and duty 1t will be forever
more to lead her wneresoever she wishes to
| go, whether it be under the sun by day or
| meath the moon and stars by night Like
the sculptor and the clay will these two be
| to each other. The one modelling and de-
| signing, the other attaining each moment
| the highest degree Of beauty which the
hand of the sculptor can give.
Do not think because Miss Fair Beauty
goes in for athletics, studies Egyptology, is
up on Russian history and speaks a smatter-
ing Of japanese that her mental condition
| has undergone any change so far as sensi-
tiVeness to masculine impression is con-
Icerned. She has merely learned to discrimi-
nate between wheat and chaff, between gold
and dross, between silver aud tinsel, be-
tween snoddy and ingram, between good
for something and good for nothing, that is
all; and Miss Fair Beauty's Charlie must be
good and honest, and clever and noble, and
earnest and true If he is not rich he must
be capable of earning the money to become
rich, he must have executive ability, and
within him must dwell that faculty which
has in its grasp the element of success
Miss Fair Beauty and her sister Miss
Smart Girl and her cousin Miss Blue Stock
ing are all capable of knowing good thing
when they see it, and consequently they are
picking out for moonlight companions the
very best men to be found anywhere, and
the Miss Nancy young men and the girlish
young men are going begging for Sweet
hearts. They can't get them at all. The
kind they want won't have them, and those
that will have them are so far down in what
is now the girlish status that these top lofty
though top light young men don't want
them.
Bar maids and lady's maids, kitchen
maids and mattresses are apt to be very,
very chic. A little while ago women were
complaining because it was so hard to keep
the maids well dressed aud neat enough to
answer the bell, wait on company, carry
wraps to the carriage or perform any of
the numerous and nice offices which
are part and parcel of maids
possible duties. Now those same women
are complaining that the maids are becom-
ing altogether too elegant. Fans complaint
in "Old Fashioned Girl" that her maid
looked SO much like her own self that when
she went out of the basement door for an
afternoon, all the swell fellows who came to
visit the family we're tipping their hats to
her ,mistaking her for the mistress, is finding
many a parallel right here in town every
day.
Mistresses engage maids to serve for
s12 or SIS month, and the rest of the pay
is to be given in old clothes. The old clothes,
instead of being of the kind generally de-
signated TO the old clo' man, are in reality
only cast Off clothing, and are perfectly
| good in all respects, except that they have
become too well-known to be longer popular
| WIN tno IR6ElQlOu5 OWQ6r.
Miss Dolly, the maid, takes them, puts
them on just as she has seen her mistress
wear them, arranges her hair as her mistress
has hers, draws on pair Of musquetaires,
| also discarded, spikes on her hat with
4-cent pin Sthe exact imitation of a 81 one
worn by her mistress), brushes up an old
pair of her mistress's gaiter tops. puts some
glass rings on her fingers, hangs tin chate-
| laine at her belt, jabs a Rhinestone pin
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sallies forth as large as her mistress and
twice as natural and vivid.
When some short-sighted young man
passes, if he is a near and dear friend Of the
family and frequent caller, he recognizes
the gown and salutes and salams in a way
to make Miss Dolly giggle for week every
| time she thinks of it, and to drive her mis-
| tress wild with modification if she could but
know. The tinsel aud gilt and glass dis
play all are allowed to pass inspection as her
own property worn by herself
Another kind of maid scarcely less morfi-
flying and disagreeable, though easier to
| handle, is the one who goes about the house
performing her duties in low neck and
| short sleeve gingham dresses. She will
wear regulation respectable dress for sew
eral days, and then, suddenly, at the most
unexpected and mortifying time she will
appear in one of the decollete achievements.
The mistress never knows exactly when
these gowns are to be donned, and each
time they make their appearance she is so
mortified and shocked that she can scarcely
| voice her sentiment. One of New York's
| best society women, one who owns a coun-
| try place aud entertains in very nice fash
ion with abundance of good food aud we'll
| trained and we'll regulated cuisine, tells the
story of her discontinue in this line, thus:
81 was seated, said she. lone day upon
| the front veranda at our country place,
| watching the people drive past, for it was a
pleasant afternoon, and many were on their
| way to Prospect Park. / noticed that the
| people in the carriages seemed attracted by
| something about my house, but /, with
| pardonable vanity-you know it is pretty
house-thought that it was the beauty of
| its archi. ecture which engaged their atten-
| ton.
But their gaze was so very steady and 50
| prolonged that l wondered what point of
| view it was that arrested their attention.
Was it my new style of bay window or the
| dear little tower that had had built on the
| southeast corner of the house'
As the carriages continued to drive past
and the occupants continued to stare. / re-
solved to go out to the road and take a look
| for myself in order to see what could form
| so attractive a feature about my premises.
| did 80. And what was my horror and sur
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