The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-10
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ling Tho OmlnOuS TurQuoiS - The
superior Young Woma1-Fun over
a New Game at Which Clever Peo-
pie Can Play Best.
NEW YORK, May 9-You are nothing
to-day if you haven't keen appreciation Of
flowers. You must appreciate the redness
of one rose, the dead whiteness of another:
you must be able to discriminate between
violets, and know to dot the good points
of an orchid. If you are going to make
call on some woman Of whom you are fond,
you stop by the way, get bunch of roses, a
single orchid, or lily, whatever indeed hap
pens to be her favorite flower, and then,
when you go in, you tell her how, long be-
fore the material body got there, she was in
your heart, and you have brought her the
flower that she would have chosen.
NEW THING AT WEDDINGS.
If you go to a wedding you carry as
beautiful bouquet as possible, tied with
long, satin ribbons, and in the loops are
hidden your own visiting card, with your
best wishes for the bride written upon it.
This you leave as you go 60 out, if it is a
house wedding; If it is church wedding,
with no reception after, you hold your bou-
quet while you are IN church, and then as
you come out, drive rapidly TO the house
aud have your footman leave it
at the door. It's a pretty custom
that works well in two ways You
have the advantage of the bouquet
while you are on exhibition, so to say, and
the bride knows that you remember her
wien you leave it behind you. OF course,
enormous sums are spent on these bridal
bouquets, for very large roses, orchids or
gardenias are used for them. The roses are
not made up stiffiy, and are tied together
with broad white ribbon, while yellow or a
curious shade of green are given over to the
other flowers. II your costume happens to
be some peculiar color, with which none Of
these shades harmonic, then it is permit
ted you to have any ribbon you please,
there being a prejudice, however. against
the dark shades.
THE OMNIBUS TURQUOIs.
Apropos of dark colors at a wedding
being unlucky, | am reminded of an odd
superstition about the turduois and how l
saw it verified last week. A beautiful tur-
quois had been given to young lady and
she sent it, with a number of other jewels,
to the bank while she was to be bird Of
pass lge. She was taken very i'll, months
went by and the jewels were never required.
week ago she was able to go out in the
the sunshine, and concluded to get
some of her rings, that sac might
have the pleasure of looking at
them. When the turquois was taken out
of its box it had turned the most positive
green imaginable. This would not have
seemed strange if it had been an inferior
stone, but 1t had been bought at world
famous shop, and an enormous price had
been given for it. You know the theory
that when the possessor of a turquois is in
i'll health that it becomes sick, too, and
loses its colOrs. Now, it has been given to a
woman who is In perfect health and she is
wearing it, while everybody who knows
about it is eagerly watching to see if the
stone goes back to its heavenly hue.
THE SUPERIOR YOUNG WOMAN.
There are people who are above this sort
of thing, and the superior young woman is
one. Tell her a story like this and she
giares at you until you wish she could be
sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor
until she outgrew her superiority, and be-
came an ordinarily inferior person. Moth
ing suits her. 1t she goes ou5 for q walk
with you she refuses to look in the shop
windows at the pretty things, she declines
to see the nice babies or agreeable dogs, but
she holds her head high up in the air and
says: II am out for rational exercise,
and propose to get it. u Ask her to have
some sweets and a glass of soda water,
and she says: THANK you, no. But if you
care for it | will wait while you get it." If
you can imagine woman, made of flesh
and blood, waiting while you drank soda,
your imagination is extremely good. Tell
her about novel that is immensely anus
ing offer it TO her, and she puts up her
lorgneyte and calmly freezes you by saying,
Thank you. But after all, from an in
telectual standpoint, what will gain from
IT, You don't like to suggest 1t is just
possible certain amount of pleasure may
come to her-for pleasure seems to her
very frivolous and undesirable thing.
SHE DOESN'T GO TO THE THEATER.
unless she can see something really improv-
ing, and as far as can be discovered the
only really improving things that have
come to her are those nasty plays of Ibsen's.
The superior young man is an absolute in
centive to sin, for she makes everybody
nate her. AS young woman she is insult
terabe, as wife she makes her husband a
pluable creature, and really the only time
when she is in her proper position
Is when she is the chief parsonage,
IN still way, at a funeral Then
the world regards her with complacencY.
haven't the slightest doubt, though, that she
beIIs the spooks all about the examinations
she she has passed and how well up she is in
Treek and Latin, and it may be that the
future punishment of some people VINO don't
vote the proper ticket will be to have close
acqualntlnceship with the superior young
women IN the unpleasant future booked for
tnem. Nothing more dreadful could come.
THE INSIGNIA OF A DRY DINNER.
have you gotten any dinner invitations
Win bit of blue ribbon tied in one corner
mat Is the hostess's way of telling that
Inere will be no wines served, and, really,
after all, it's better to inform you of this be-
iorehand and to let you know that you will
nave to come down to Apollinarls
water, not having even a glass of
cIaret to take with your dinner,
so so, give you an opportunity to decline.
"hen Will people understand the real mean
ing OF temperance, and when will people
comprehend that the taking away Of glass
Oh hight wine and the giving a lumber OF
ice water will not reform single drunkard
ana will make no end Of dyspeptics! Have
You ever lived with anybody who had the
dyspepsia, and didn't you feel that you
mated your kind after a week CT it, Well,
tbs is apt to be the result if the nation Ii
given over TO ice-I mean melted ice in the
shape Of water
II GOTHAM HAS THE BLUES.
New York is dull-inexpres5ibly, insult
ierably dull A few dinner parties are
ueard OF, more card parties, but the same
moan Is made everywhere, that tho season
mas come 10 al end. Why in the world
u9n't New York women follow the fashion
Of the French aud English ones, and when
tAey drive o the park, stop their carriages.
yet out at some given spot, selected for the
purpose, aud walk for a little whllel There
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