The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-24
FADS AND F0LLIES.
zoMB NEW THINGS IN woMENs
DRESS.

f. thinner CCStum0S-A Few Anecdotes
Which Drive Dull Care Eway-Lively
Gossip That is Calculated to Interest
tina Fair Sex-Wrinkles From Paris
and Suggestions From New York.
The dress reform fad is growing in noto-
.-;a,v In the recent and general discussion
3. ozariing the devisement of an ideal every
- dress for woman no mention has been
[-,sde of a much-desired garment that,
/, rce put on the market, would find ready
ole Thisis a summer jacket to correspond
h weight with the alpaca coat so univer-
ally patronizsd by men. Of a handsome
Duaiity of popGn, in negative colors-black
- navy-blue and bottle-green-well cut
- balf-ftting, hundreds of women would
lady purchase as a grateful addition to
their hot-Weather wardrobes. With a SIM
Iv made skirt and waSh-silk shirt, this
s15hair coat would complete an ideal busi-
+ -. dress for the woman who works in town
m summer and either repines ia close
bnttoned basque or droops under the ex-
rs warmth of q wooden jacket. The Jen-
rsss Miller idea of a business dress is fairly
#rood Il is not dress of any length,
Enough it may some time come to be dress
La irnDortance. Mrs. Miller says dresses
#should be assorted as to length into three
#cIasses-those that stop half way between
me knee and the ankle, those that just clear
the ground and those that trail. Most
women seem to be satisfied at present with
dresses assorted in two classes-those that
/ trail little and those that trail a great
deal. There is no prospect that the designs
shown will be used to any great extent by
ssleswomen or typewriter girls this sum-
mer.
Now, as I just came from a long chat
with one of my young girl friends who
gjyes promise of being one of the most sue
cessful summer girls, says Clara Belle in the
4 Fnouirer, of the coming season, I'll let you
4 into the secret of the delightful freshness of
4 her skin, the clearness of her eyes, and the
4 fascinating odor exhaled by her, by which
4 mean not the heavy, heady, Intoxicating
nerfuu1e known as double extracts but
that rarden-f1ower, outdoor smell hanging
\ about a vine-embowered cottage In May or
r June. The summer girl battles like a
man, or, rather, like an Englishman. That
is she sponge-Dathes herself three or four
b times day from head to foot, and then
uses only the finest cologne water, eschew-
ing handkerchief odors entirely. Che con-
sequence is that she smells like bed of
violets or sprig of honeysucle or handful
of sweet shrubs. Her hair, too, is kept
scrupulously neat and clean, so that after
waltzing with the boys on hot summer
i evening they say TO each other:
"Well. Kitty is not very pretty, but by
Joye. it always seems to me that Pm carry
ing around an armful of apple blossoms
when waltz with herr'
Now all this care of the person is a labor
"a big labor. 1t takes time and a great
deal Of it, but. bless your soul, it pays, and
it makes the summer girl sure of herself.
h That is big point. boat may upset, a
rrixr
break vet youth find the summer girl calm
II amid disturbance.
A neat little walking costume, says the
Herdld'S Paris letter, for town wear is of
Il yelling or foulard of vieux-rose, printed
with lit le white flowers. The skirt round.
lightly draped at the hips and ornamented
at the foot with volant with ruched head,
bordered with a little bias of white silk.
n The corsage, wibhout darts, gathered in
s. Ferbe at the point and crossed over front
y of black velvet, crossed with vieuxsrose
"a barettes bordered with little ruches edged
with white. A ruche of white edged foulard
e. trims the entire corsage. Sleeves very high
81 shOuldered, and narrow at the bottom, of
u print foulard. This costume is remarkably
81 light and airy, and exceedingly graceful.
A new thing in the way of capotes is of
q black rico straw, forming in fan shape. In
front, under the twilled bordering q gar
land of lilac resting on the hair. Behind,
strings and bow of velvet, attached by a
cache-pelgne of lilac.
Another neat little fancy is toque of
Parma violets graded in tones. with light
foliage. On the back Of the up, a bow of
ambergine velvet.
For quite long time large company of
young girls, under the charge of a lady of
Rail int he n
hc, appeared each morning at a meat
market on upper Sixth avenue, New York
and while the lady ordered the trades
people to deliver certain quantities of the
viands at her address the girls stood about
listening. The lady would explain the diff
terent kinds Of meat to the girls and define
for them the various ways of cutting. This
was a class from a fashio able boarding
school obtaining instruction in the business
OF marketing. One Of the class was recently
a telling friend why the practice of going to
4 market was discontinued.
i I'VE all thought it jolly fun" said she,
4 and it would never have been stopped if it
hadn't been for a girl who was reprimanded
one morning for casting eyes at some man
IN one of the club windows. She was
lectured by the principal for it, and it made
her awfully angry. She did everything
she could to excite feeling against the
principal after that, and one morning she
got beautiful opportunity to revenge her
self. We had been asked to write short
compositions telling what we had
learned about marketing. We read
these aloud in class. When it came
tnat bad girls turn to read
sne rose and, taking up her paper, an
nounced in very clear and cutting voice,
nave learned that the art of marketing is
10 always buy half as much meat as is
needed for the table, and to invariably pur-
chase second-class eggs This was all she
SAID, and when she sat down there was dead
silence IN the room. The principal of the
| SCHOOL dld not rebuke her, but merely called
up another girl to read. That was the end
OF the marketing class, however. The girl
VINO broke it up left soon afterward. and
10" notice that there are very few men in
we ciuo window when we take our monday
wax on the avenue. Oh, yes; sac was the
belle OF the school,"
Inc popularity of the modern bang, says
IHe World, is due to the Princess Of WaleJ
directly and to Mrs. Laugtry indirectly. In
Ioo' was in London when the young
princess started the fashion, which spread
IKE Wlldtire As well as I can remember
sue mad her hair parted round, instead of
Town. u, nearer the crown than the forehead
ne tresses we're cut and arranged in soft
toose rings, each thick enough and suf-
Iclently well curled to identify itself. Just
now this individualizing was accomplished
was mystery to the general public. Other
women the in