The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-30
FASHIONS F0LLIES.
SOME OF TIE THINGS WEIGH
INTEREST THE FAIR SEX.

orasses-A Few Points About Stock
,ngs-Little Cosby Stories That May
r,+erest the Feminine Mind - 4
wrought or Two Relative to the
Latest Methods of Dressing the
Hair.
"What superb figure" exclaimed the
Nav York Sun man on the veranda, as
s,snder woman with full Juno-like bust
and magnificent hips strolled down the
lawn.
"What superb dressmaker she empIoys"
resnonded the wife at his side, who had with
womsn's quick instinct noted the scraggy
throat above the stylish collar, the thin
bonv wrist beneath Its weight of bangles
ord drawn her own inferences. The splendid
craature turned and passed again. The
6gure was that of goddess fresh sprung
from Jove himself. The face, thin,
vrinkled and haggard, surrounded by
faded gray hair. The wife smiled a
malicious ''Itold you So" The man whistled.
Verify. the fashionable modiste deserves a
,,1sce among the immortals, not only for
artistic feeling in color harmonies and COM
binations. but for the scuiptor'S cunning in
The arrangement of lines and the fashioning
If sbanes and forms. The human form di-
vine Is only a clay model to the artistic
modiste. She presses it in here, packs it out
there shapes it cleverly to her liking. II
she doesn't by taking thought add one cubit
n the stature of her model. she adds most
convincing and deceptive semblance of it
nv the arrangement of studied lines and
draDeries.
is unfortunate that the dressmaker's
ideals do not coincide with those of uudis-
nuted artistic excellence, that they are in =
spired by Noahs Ark wooden women rather
than by Phildean goddesses and Grecian
nymphs and sirens. The dressnaker's
modelling clay is cotton batting or horse
hair or even the wooden shavIngs known
as excelsior. With it she works her mira
cles. Are square shoulders the fancy of the
momentg Ali her women have shoulders
like cadets. Are hour-glass figures the thing?
How uniformly she produces them! Are
Eoglish waists "in" Her women out
English the English in slenderness. Or
are low busts desirable? No woman comes
from her hand without the beautiful length
of line from the point of the shoulder to the
bust curve. The only thing that really
peases the artist the thimbel and shears is
a hopelessly stout woman. Flesh is agrees
i've and combative; if pressed in here it will
bulge somewhere else with disastrous effect
to symmetry. But she sdoesn't quite lose
heart even at this, bat laces it in, buttons it
down, shuts it in a compress Of steel, and,
if she doesn't die, sends her out into the
world looking ten pounds lighter and sew
eral inches taller than she is-all of which
is the stout woman's delight.
Having noted, says Clara Belle in a New
York letter, a remarkable absence of chill
dren at the different watering places near
this city, so much so that l was influenced
to ask an explanation of a married friend
with a large family, this was the answer
she gave me: Our children, my dear, are
all in the country on a New jersey farm.
They are better off there, and | am sure we
are here You see, my dear, children are
an awful incumbrance to us fashionable
women at summer watering places. Hotel
keepers and boarding house keepers don't
want them around at any price. We are q
nervous people, and the laughing, chatter
ing and scampering of children annoy us.
Then again, my dear, a daughter OF IA has
as many eyes as Argus, and ears keener than
cats. She sees everything, hears every
thing. If her father comes home from
poker party little the worse for the cham
payne, or il coquette with young man,
she is on the watch. 1t Is astound-
ing! Why, would you believe it,
our Madge, upon being refused a
OF necessary economy, tossed her pretty
little head and replied: "Of course we must
economic when papas poker losses reach
$1,000 in one nightm | was dumbfounded!
How she knew it. Easy enough. Tom
jackson won the money, and his son Brew
ster ls a beau of Madge Sea- So this sum-
mer resolved to put my children out to
grass. 1t leaves me free to shift about from
one summer resort to another, and it will
Go them good, too!
novelty among bodices, says HGrper'S
Bozdr, has the back short and round at the
waist line, with the fronts falling long and
square cornered i'll what are called mantilla
fronts. Many other bo1ices have the sheer
fabric draped across from the sides and
without seams. Marie Autoinette sleeves
are IN great favor for summer gowns, both
Tor day and evening wear. They fall
straight to the elbow and are trimmed there
with deep full rufiie, either of the dress
material or OF lace. For evening dresses
Two deep ruff1es of lace form sleeves, and
may be set full in the arm-holes or else
ADDED at the elbow of transparent sleeves.
Lace and foulard ruches bordering the foot
OF skirts are widened at intervals, giving
the effect of festoons.
A pretty morning gown has a skirt of
dark blue India silk, with rows of hem
Btltchlng across the bottom. With this
sAIrt wear a silver gray silk blouse waist.
LOU must nave gray gown, says the
dasnlon writer in the New York World.
Ihere IS no other course open to you if you
expect to be in the procession this fall Not
only must you have gray gown, but you
must be symphony in gray. Shoes. gloves.
ueS' parasol, all must match, aud this COR
seous array will cost you from 81 up to $40,
accorelhg TO the taste, time and ingenuity
yo9 can give to 1T. This is fashions edict,
0uo IL pehooves you to look about.
-. "A very good quality of tweed can be OBJ
o opIneH lor small sum, and, if you are at
uTess, with loose, blazer-shaped waist and
pain SKIRT. can be fashionsd-an for the
SUN SUN OF "a. Silk shirts are TO be worn with
ouis. but, IL you do not care to 20 to the
eAPonse Oh buying silk shirts, a very good
fuo OSl'uee can be found by using silk shirt
tt' Inese come ready-made in the
TICS oaos IN ali colors at the cost of 81 so each.
AnsS are easily made at home, however.
anu, pY buying one silk shirt front to serve
pattern for the others, any woman
r mII1 spark Of ingenuity can make very
ST. and pleasing variety for use this fall.
obid pale, poetic gray, which was fashion,
aote ~ the spring, holds its own in August.
O. wiz reign supreme in September and
tba I.' But the August gray differs from
me-, "u ~ gray In That 1t is more poetic and
more ldealized, 80 TO sneak There - a
summer and sheen and a shine about n
tn aIcn oid not appear in the spring grays.
iaS3tp rIng grays were made of broadcloth.
r1a tos GIoeh, cashmere or some other like
n1e..a ilai' which will also be- used next
e.u; put the August grays ara of the