Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-08-13
a WARMwEATHER HINT.
women should Look Cool, No Matter How
Warm They MAY he.

means look so, and thus make yourself
grateful spectacle to the people who
are broiling around you--a point of re.
pose to weary eyes, an oasis In the
desert; as the Orientals say, n rose of
pressure and nutmeg of delight"
III VIII Halter your vanity and please
your friends, 1t does not require money
TO do it, it needs only taste-that is TO
say, little knowledge of the laws of
esthetics. Choose cool colors for
your gowns. Wear blue; IL will make
you look cool if you are at fever
neat Why is this? Because IL is
tne color OF cold things-of winter
ciouds' OF the sea, of icebergs, of snow
IN shadow, of darkness falling into
night. In. symbolism it signifies the
air-the wind which bloweth where II
hsteth-the azure air. It's analogy in
music is to the runs and trillsof Haydn's
sonatas-water falling over stones
while Its opposite, scarlet, suggests the
not blare OF trumpet. If blue does
not become You choose color related
TO it-green-not yellow-green, but
gray-green, like wood moss-or violet
the last color OF the clouds before night
settles down.
DO not go in for severity of line in
your garments. Form appeals to the
intellect in winter, when the mind is
oraced for exercise. In winter the
senses are inactive. Did you never OBJ
serve how plain, shabby garment,
which looks well enough in cold
weather, becomes utterly impossible in
summer? 1t is because the senses wake
up with the heat and peremptorily de-
mand to be pleased
Besides this, severe forms are not in
harmony with summer. Nature is now
shifty-multiform, infinite in variety.
These things should be suggested in
your dress with flowing and broken
hnes-cascades of lace, loose ribbons,
Whatever breath of air may catch and
STIR Thus gratified, the eye will be
content to miss the forest leaves and
the windstirred grass. Thus art will
be in tune with nature.
AT the same time avoid garments
which appear to have required an eff.
fort to make, or which seem complex in
construction, for the effort will impose
itself upon the eye and too many ideas
will induce fatigue. The wool EN-
broidered crowns now in the market,
for example, suggest labor to which
the ornamental effect is totally in
adequate, and they are, therefore,
tiresome. There should be an appear
ance of simplicity, single idea in
the design, however great the variety.
For illustration, if color appears as
lining let it appear as lining through
out the garment, and not as other forms
oftrmming also bands or flounces- for
thus you multiply ideas and sacrifice re-
pose.
If you choose figured gown do not
let the pattern be of geometric solids or
of intricacies of any sort, as designs
treated perspectively or in naturalistc
detail, for these speak to the mind, not
TO the sense.
1 remember gown last summer of a
black ground strew charmingly with
purple clover. The eye rested upon it
with delight, and children were heard
besieging its owner to wear her "clover
gown" The reason japanese designs
are so pleasing is because they speak
simply to the sight and require no eff
fort to understand.
The Orientals know what is agreea-
BILE to the senses Study them. They
make great use of embroidery, but the
-, a, Al,
appears no effort in it, and the effect is
therefore delightful. Besides, much of
IL is on thin cotton cloth, which cum
ningly makes the breezes visible. The
subjects, all contrived to please the
sense, are of clouds and waves, wing
ing butterflies, moonlight on water,
and reeds bending in the wind, and
they are just sufficiently suggested to
set in play the imagination.
For your parasol choose a bamboo
stick, and PIT by the one of black with
its trimmings of silver which bear the
marks of the furnace. Do not believe
that what the shop-keepers say is the
fashion is good enough, but when you
go shopping take your taste with you
along with your pocketbook.
Excitement means heat Do not pant,
nor exclaim, nor swing a fan violently.
Keep your nerves cool
Ice knocking about in a pitcher is as
effective as drop of several degrees in
the mercury, and other sounds suggest
GOODNESS. The tinlxle of bracelets may
call 10 mind running water, as flashing
gems give the look of it. A music box
is tolerable ON hot day; the mandolin;
not the organ, is in tune with the time,
and sonatas, not oratorios, fall CRATE
fully on the ear. If you would have
the tones of your voice in harmony
with the time, they must express hope,
ioy, or even misunderstanding
but nervous impotence. Though you
NAV feel neither of these emotions you
must sacrifice to one of them to pro.
duce an effect.
For the rest make your setting har-
monious. Do not give the eye any la
Dor: it wants to rest and luxuriate.
Take down from your rooms all the
bold reds and browns and replace them
with soft, mild blues and graye, and do
not weaken when you come to the
question of discarding objects costly or
beautiful in themselves. If you mean
TO produce an effect you must sacrifice
to your ideal. Do you not remember
what repose there is in pictures which
are painted in light cool tones? ! need
only to mention Corot. But If your
rooms must be dark let them be all
dark, with no strong contrasts, for a
room should be composed like picture
and be subordinate to the individuals
within it. Cool accessories will suggest
themselves. Japanese screens allow
the passage through of every zephyr
and make summer music at the gentles'
touch; lattice work appeals to the
imagination, and thin stuffs from the