The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-07

another l do like to see it in black and white,
and so / quote little something that was
written to me: 81 trouble you to spell out
these few lines that | may tell you of a
charming courtesy paid to us yesterday at
the hands of one of our cloth, as the church
calls it. / went to the matinee of Cleo
patra'-to see Miss Davenport-and she had
ordered God Save the Queen to be played
on our arrival. Now, can good-fellowship
and gentle thoughts go further than thisl
felt SO grateful and quite overwhelmed. |
have received SO many kindnesses from
American actors and actresses, and this is
the last. felt / must write and tell you,
because you like hearing kind things and
love to tell them.n This was a letter from
Mistress Madge Kendall, most charming of
l actresses and most loving of woman. Crit
else it yourself.
SHE HAD TWO OPINIONS.
The time of year has now arrived when at
all the women's clubs and societies they read
! articles on how to dress BEAUTIFULLY. They
are. excessively positive-they damn the
corset with large d, and they go over the
old story about petticoats being hung from
your shoulders, and various other things
strung around your neck until the woman
dressed to suit them ought to look like O
Christmas tree. | heard young woman
the other day tell how there had ceased to
be great men because of corsets, how women
were losing all their beauty because of cor
sets. how morals were at low ebb because
of corsets, and how all the ills of humanity
might be traced TO corsets. She was
VERY NICE LOOKING GIRL.
She had on fine tailor-made frock that
fitted her like glove, and because like to
get at the very essence of everything |
thought l would ask her her experience l
had been growing very blue; I knew how
0OOd | vyifh and 7 I'D
| would be an angel without them. So
said to her in faint way: 'tWhen you
first took them off wasn't it rather uncom~
fortableW Took what offg' said She
why your corsets," said /. She looked at
me with an air that only woman who has
written very moral paper can attain, and
she said: why, never took them off at
ALL" looked at her, and a vague idea of
Sapphira went through my mind, and she
said: why, | pay almost as much money
for my corsets as do for my frocks! Why
| should be loathsome if / went without
them"
l kept quiet little while, and then
asked: "Will you tell me what you wrote
that paper forp "Well." she answered, sit
was a sort of an experiment. thought
/ would like to see what | could say for the
other side, and it was interesting to know
how many of the women would believe
that meant it." Now, that's
lovely woman to perfection. If
it hadn't been that / wouldn't give a
straw to kiss a woman: should have fallen
on her neck and embraced her; but instead
did it as they do it in platonic friendships
intellectually.
HOW TO WEAR A CORSET.
Apropos of corsets, the American woman
is dreadfully sloven about them, and
the first time she goes to have her frock
fitted to her, either in London or Paris, she
becomes conscious of the fact. A corset
needs to be made for you just as your frock
does; then it is healthy and wise, and you
save money and become wealthy, because it
doesn't wear out so soon. When women
learn that it is worth while paying SIS for
corset to wear with $500 frock, they will
be better dressed but regret to say that the
average one spends 81 so on her stays, and,
If she is very slender, doesn't think 1t worth
while to give that much. And the conse-
quence iss Well, they are too big
for her ia the bust ana lap over:
they are too long for her on the hips, and
come up to high under her arms. One can't
generalize about them. but take a woman
who weighs about 1856, who is 5 feet 3 In
hight, and she wants a corset that is toler-
ably long over the stomach, short over the
hips, low in the bust, and which fits her
there, not squeezes her in so that she looks
like q pin-cushion; not SO loose that two
hard Jumps are formed by their folding, but
fitting her, which means allowing her room
enough to be comfortable, and yet not so
much room that she wobbIes around. If