The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-04

and fashion plate.
Have You ever watched two people who
are ever 50 fond of each other as they meet
in the puthc thoroughfaresl How they
kiss each other with their eyes. devour
each other with their voices AID aim st
embrace with the hands. None Of the
kissing Is done with the lips, but the kissing
is there Just the same, if you have the eyes
to e it.
The andy little cape is the greatest Pos
slbie boon 10 lovers, IS it not! just watch
the next couple you see stroiiing along
| broadway. She in q jaunty cape and
Medici collar and he in his winter ulster.
Tney are walking circumspectly IN the way
that all the world would have them 90.
Suddenly comes croSswalk, or a curb, or a
carriage block, or some other stun ling
place foE the feet Now note what happens.
In AN instant up goes the fellows hand
under the girls cape aud underneath that
sheltering garment there is gentle squeeze
and the young womans elbow is lifted
safely over the stumbling block.
| The girls have grown very sanitive in
| these days or progressive culture. Things
that the world of women used to do freely
are now pronounced very nasty. When a
wuman shampoos her head, instead of put
ting up her hair an a semI-damD condition,
she allows it to become dry and fluffy, let
ting it hang loosely about the head for
hours; no hasty drying in front of a CRATE
Is good enough for her. A few women have
even gone to the length of buying gas
stoves with heating 81 paratus attached, in
| a Hat leet Of metal upon which they can
spread out their locks to dry and invigor-
ate. And so, if she has a cut, O bit of rag
viii not do for it as Of yore; there must be a
bit OF absorbent cotton to bind upon the
wound. This absorbent cotton is obtain
aole at all dlspensarles and drug 81 torres. 1t
Is cheap, light; antiseptic, non-heating and
a little of it goes a great ~ay.
The neat little English snort coats hold
their own, introducing variations ny way
of different trimmings. Elder down at
neck and wrists and for a muff lining is
C 1mfortable and pretty when one sallies out
of an afternoon for constitutional on the
boulevard, where the wind it bio VS. always.
The way to darken eyebrows and lashes is
! by the apple ton of alcohol In its use
one must be careful not to get particle in
the eyes, as it will sting and tingle, smart
| a d burd, if it do no worse. 1t is a pity to
shade the features, for nature has provided
an exqisite ha mony Of color 'twixt eye
brows and hair hat is destroyed by med
lag with their tints
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, the president of
SorOsls, Is devoting Lerself 20 literary work.
1t has until lately been the dream Of her
life to go upon the stage in plays that were
| beyond her conception whea she was the
its seal upon her that the actress is spoiled,
although the charming, beautiful, viva
| CT us, moonlight beauty remains, and the
pen is more powerfully welded than ever
the actress scepter could hope to be.
Have you seen the cunning muffs that
| Me- ork women are carrying? They must
symb 'lize something or they are not truly
fashionable. Once they were little, just for
show-tlny, flow er-bedecked absurdities.
Then they grew very large and were for
warmth ouiy. Now they have taken on
divers shapes. The Otrro muff is in the
form Of tambourine. TIE Carmencita, not
to be outdone, is drum, the heads being
open and re outside material fur and rib.
bon. The Amelia Glover is shoped exactly
like slipper, open at the toes. So much for
being ia seuse
IL is incomprehensible why women will
make such fools of themselves over stage
heroes. They rave about them in public,
moon over their pictures IN secret, dream
Of them by night aud dog their afternoon
strols. All their spare cash is spent on
matinee tickets and flowers for the beloved
object. Once let a stage hero make known
that IN a certain scene he is expected tc
wear certain flower and there will be nc
dearth of the 9 sent daily by fair ladies'
In one of the popular Lyceum plays Her
bert Kelsey had to wear a tunch of violets
After the first nights performance the G
was always from one to dozen punches of
viole from which to choose.
Wilson Brrrett is another stage hero well
beloved by tue ladies'. After an absence
from New York last spring he played q
short gagement in an adjacent town,
How the girls hocked to see their favorite
from whom they had bean so long separ-
ated! Two New York damsels spent almost
a whole day at the theater, visiting first
the matinee and then the evening perform
auce, at both witnessing the same play.
Between drlnks-beg pardon l-between the
performances they ae tuti fiutti, cafe
glaces and caramels. rhapsodizing the while
on the grace of Barretts movements, the
music of us voice and the contour of his
| shaPely legs. According 10 their own tell II
it seemed hours and hours from $50 until
s o'clock, and often did they Quota in
spirit, if not in truth, the celebrated mes
sage from the governor of North Carolina
to the governor of South Ca DINA.
Legs are rarely stuffed under silk tights,
and, when they are, the deception is SO
glaring that, like the old lady's wig in
| Dickens story, no one is deceived thereby.
But every actress, unless exceptionally
gifted, makes up her legs for show under
the tights. They are cold-creamed, vasa-
lined, powdered and rubbed into "A gloss,
precisely the same as her pretty arm are
reated. The knees receive special atten-
ton, to keep them from becoming hard and
! bony. Never does an actress sink upon her
| knees except when doing her part, and at
rehearsals she provides pillow for the
drop scene, lest she callous her knees where
dimples should play.
The piano is once more the fashionable in
! strument. For Il time the harp held su-
premacy, and then the violin rivaied every
thing. But now lis the long-sufferi e,
time-honored piano. Those who manipu-
late its keys select costumes that "sitn well,
namely, those that are specially designed to
wear whea one is seated.
There are times when the earth does
nobly as a substitute for hell. One of these
times came about not long ago, in certain
very swell restaurant. The sufferer, at
least we will call him 50, since twas he who
tasted torture, had gone to diI with dear
young woman of his mot his wife's) &C.
uuainta ce. While they sat at meat, the
wife, who had been driven from her family
board by one of the exigencies of honse-
keeping, dropped int that same restaurant
for a oite or two of something. A light
luncheon was ordered aud her economic
soul rejoiced and was glad that something
had been saved from the household difficult
ties that had befallen her that day. OF a
sudden sue raised her eyes and there, full
under the glare Of the gasiight, too intent
upon devouring his fair companion to heed
aught Of anything. sat her noble lord with
feast of delicate viands spread upon
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