The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06


his hand he touched minute button on the
inside Of the ring and made it the exact size.
saying as he placed il on her finger: "Y on
see these rings are made in this manner for
the reason that they are worn by so many
different people; it is a great convenience
The young lady sailed out Of the store
burning with indignation, and the reason
she did not fly was because she didn't have
the wings. What did she thinkl You know,
and it Is only necessary TO state that she did
not wear the ring. Another girl has it now,
but this time the jeweler was not permitted
to touch the button-the young man did it
himself.
1t is hardly probable, says the New York
Recorder. that the leaders of the dress re-
form crusade themselves expect the radical
measures which they suggest to be adopted
in their entirety. That they will succeed in
simplifying women's dress and abolishing
some Of its exaggerations and serious evils
many women hope and believe and are
ready to aid in their accomplishment by
precept and example.
81 am willing, said q woman discussing
the matter, "to give up oorsets and adopt
more hygenic stocking supporter than the
garter, If one can be provided, and now |
always wear a walking skirt which clears
the ground, but why, she asked, plaintively,
may not have, indoors, the frou-frou of
my silken petticoats and the graceful sweep
OF my pretty house gownsF'
This is question large proportion OF
her sex win ask as well. Dress with most
women is a sentiment. and there is no senti-
ment about tights and trousers.
If, however, through this agitation the
family needs in the matter Of dress could be
slmplided, il the perpetual shopping of our
women could be IN measure done away
with, what burden would be lifted from
many an over-burdened shoulder. The
"weariness of Clothes" as a clever woman
puts it, is the eternal getting and making
and altering and finally buying over again.
Strong. wearable fabrics, the best in the
beginning, fewer, artistic and more perma-
nent designs-these are reforms to which
there would be little opposition.
The reason why good many things are
done is that it is possible TO do them. This die
tum doesn't seem at first to have any mean
ing, but it means this among other things:
There is no reason why woman should
wear q little red lobster for a lacepin, except
that it is physically possible for lacepin TO
look like lobster. There is no conceivable
reason why a woman should wear ear rings
that look like coffee beans, except that the
jeweler who took the curious notion of max
ing ear rings to look like coffee beans is
quite capable of manufacturing them aud
no reason for most of the peculiarities of
fashion, except that women are well taught
while children at table to take what is set
before them and ask no questions for con-
science sake. What is set before them
among the minor offerings of the autumn is
a low-cut shoe with big leaf or flower in
bright glazed kid or patent leather for its
adjoining. Being a novelty" and much
like other novelties the shoe will probably
be taken and, to do it justice, it opens a
wide range Of possibilities.
The girl W no wears an oak leaf on her
shoe and the girl who wears rose will be
very different individuals, and there may
come TO be as much in individual slippers as
in individual perfumes. By their foot
flowers you shall know them.
When a woman has got her bonnet and
gloves on and is perfectly ready, with her
parasol in hand, she always goes back, says
a cynical person, ''to mirror to take last
fond farewell. Every woman does this, but
few are honest enough to confess it. For my
part" continues this frank as well as cyni-
cal individual, II don't mind telling you
that l myself am not satisfied with one last
look; invariably take four. The first is
for myself, that's fair; the second is for my
brother or-or some other young man,
that's nothing bug just; the third IS for my
friends, that's only generous, and the last is
for the women ! don't like and who don't
like me, that's human nature. If the fourth
satisfies nae, then, assure you, never take
any more.n
Mr.. s., who had recently married a
second time. says the New York Tribune,
brought his wife to New Haven to visit
s1me of his old haunts. Meeting in the
street an old friend who was one of the pro-
fessors. he invited him to return to the hotel
to call upon his wife; the professor, not
knowing that No. had been replaced by
No. 2, acquiesced with pleasure. my dear,
this is Prof. ." said the bridegroom
II had the pleasure Of meeting you a num-
Der of years ago, Mrs. s." began the
visitor, but how you havs changod!' The
pause Of establishment Oh the part of the
lady lasted only second as with ready
tact she realized tie situation, and assum-
ing the eegis of her predecess or, gave the
worthy professor no reason to suspect he
had made lapsus lingu1.
One OF the taings that fashion means with
q good deal of emphasis this autumn is the
corselet waist. And in this instance she
shows her hand without hesitation, because
she expects no opposition. Yet the corselet
is sure to be misapplied. If worn properly
the peasant bodice should not find place on
gown of auy dignity, nor is il meant for
any ceremonious occasion. All its asSOcia-
tions are with the work -a-day life Of every
day. Il is properly more or less orna-
mental corset, worn over a white smock
thai is part OF the underwear, however,
starched and stiffensd aud made to put on a
bold face outside. See Swiss woman make
hay in it. ard you understand it is COM
Portable and natural contrivance for attain
ing the same end for which man strips to
his undershirt to keep cool while harvesting.
Ii is in its origin deshabille and, it ought
to be confined to such simple and homely
uses as are not too widely removed from
labor in the sweat Of ones brow.
At ell summer resorts, saws Clara Belle
in the Enquirer, low shoes are. of course,
greatly affected and no matter how un-
shapely the ankles may be, the women,
young aud old. persist in wearing them and
the shoes themselves persist in coming un-
tied.
One husband informed me that it was a
common thing for him to tie his wlfe's shoes
six times in one evening.
"But why do you do it," said 1, with a
oAizZical look, for l happened TO know that
the lady in question had pair Of the most
exquisitely turned ankles in town, and thai.
the husband in question was insanely jeal-
GUS of her.
My question put him on his mettIe at
once.
"If l had my way ;" be exclaimed, 81
would oblige all women to wear button
shoes. The beauty OF q woman's foot
has something highly mysterious and
powerfully fascinating about it. The deli
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