The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-17
THE TRAILING SKIRT.
They Find Little Favor with People
Who Like Cleanliness.


Who Like Cleanliness.
BROOKLYN, n. Y. March 14.-Of course
it was inevitable that should hear early
and often from my recent "mother-in-law"
communication. That now and then an
editorial funny man would misrepresent
the printed words. expected. but when 1
read that Eleanor Kirk says that all
mothers-in-law are angels and all sons-in-
law demons there was a certain unmis-
taxable tingle in my blood which reminded
me that l was very human, and that per-
haps IL were a man there might be
hardness and strength Of the BIZ
cepital muscles which do not now enjoy.
In other words, that might realize the
ideal OF Charles Kmgley's muscular chris
tian. But joking aside, what fun or what
profit can such misstatement afford either
70 the author or his readers! To me It shows
distressing lack of brains and a feverish
desire for something TO fill up with. Hap
PLY for both men and women the day for
public Misrepresentation Of women and
their utterances is nearly over, and sweep
ing congratulations that have 30 long
been INDUCED in by conceited and all
sufficient man will soon be things of the
past. A good man is a good man and
thanks be to heaven there are many of
them, and when they are strong and re-
itoOAo hOn ultimately SDlouuiu lucy are huu
how we do love them. A bad woman is q
bad woman, whether she is a mother-in-law
or an old maid, and now am going to say
what did not say in my much criticised
article, that sober and respectable mothers
ln-law in the world to-day will
outnumber, by at least one or two.
the sober and respectable men. Is
this not sol How many mothers~in-
law do we know who have trouble in find
ing the keyhole or the bellknob? How
many come staggering home by day or by
nightg The fact is, the unpopularity of the
mother-in-law is largely owing to the fact
that she has objected to having her daugh-
ters distressed and disgraced by such con-
duct. But | think had better stop, and
right here will give little poem from last
weeks Puck, which, perhaps, might better
have given before:
1t doan' pay to do much talking
When you're mad enuff to choke,
Kase de word dat stings de deepes
Am de word OATS neber spoke;
Let de other fellow wrangle till de
Storm am blowed away,
Den he'll do pile OF thinkin' bout
The things you didn't say.
have found that the often asked for re-
cipe which gave last week for the ST. Denis
rolls was all right with the exception of
their mechanical arrangement Instead of
making four tiny biscuits Of the dough and
putting them together, long sheet of dough
is rolled out upon the board and tin cutter
divided into four parts, but which does not
cut clean through the dough, is used. In
this way the bottom is solid and the top di-
vided. The whole roll with its four little
separate rolls is no larger than an ordinary
biscuit.
In reply to the many questions which
have been asked me about the wearing Of
| demi-trains upon the street, can do no bet
ter than to quote the words Of popular
lawyer and a true gentleman.
Zone sloppy day last week." he said, II
walked through Fourteenth street, and as
my wife. who is not at present very we'll,
asked me to keep an eye out for pretty
costumes. l did SO. The sky was divinely
blue and fair, but the streets were mass of
mud and the sidewalks nasty beyond
description. After stepping on the backs
of several gowns, | began to notice
a trailing skirt. l then con-
cluded to see the manner Of women these
we're, who were not only recklessly ex-
travagant but abominally dirty. AS the
result of my observation will say that the
faces and general manner Of all these
women correspond to my idea of what ac-
cording to the fitness of things should be.
There was not single face that l would
have liked to see In my house, not a woman
that should not have been ashamed to own
as a relative or friend"
As stepped out of Broadway store the
other day was just in time to see woman
parting with her trained pull-Uaok skirt.
1.-THE brutem she exclaimed. "He did not
have the decency to say excuse me-"
The "brute" took backward stride and
said with flashing eyes: "a woman who
wears mop rag on the tail of her gown is
| not entitled to an apology. Such rags are
made to be stepped on" l wanted to say
amen, but l Ike silence and passed on,
happy in the consciousness Of an easy fit
ting, light weight, swing clear gown, which
was also very pretty, if 1 do say it as
shouldn't.
beseech the girls who have written for
hints about the Cleopatra girdles not to
buy them or make them. On the stage
these barbaric belts answer an artistic
purpose, but in the drawing room or in the
street they are simply hideous They are
made of black velvet studded with great
| white pearl beads and bordered with a
| fringe of large and small beads. These
| girdles have become 'the go" among few
| who wish to Initiate Bernhard aud Fanny
Davenport and have not sense enough to
know that neither of those actresses would
think it possible to wear such stage adorn-
ments in private life. These belts would bs
| pretty for amateur theatricals or for mas
| querade parties. ELEANOR KIRK.