The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-12

strips about an inch wide, and sews them
together, forming long strips of varied
colors. This is pleasant work for a sum
mer afternoon, and the maiden makes a
pretty picture seated with la ge box
overlooking with daintily co!ored silks, aud
while she chatters away and easily sews
them together her attendant cavalier winds
the long strips into good-sized balls. Not a
very different picture from that her grand
mother made while being assisted to wind
a skein of worsted. At the end Of the SEN
son there will be several large balls. and
then these are sent to be woven into a soft
pretty rug that will grace the hardwood
floor of our maiden's room.
Speaking of hats, perhaps the latest de-
vice Is the roll Of velvet around the @ own
with full rosette or tall of lace at one side
from the centre of which rises an aigrette.
This is the style of trimming oftenest ac-
corded to the white felt sailors that ara a
recent Introduction. The felt Is fine aud so
white that it looks cooler than straw. rhgs,
felt hats promise to be very popular at the
summer resorts Indeed, they have a sum-
mergirl air about them that at once classes
them as out-of-town hats. Certainly they
are most unsuited to the city streets. They
demand an elaborate costume.
Probably it is in recognition of their
character that the have been selected to
display the long wells, or scarfs, which have
made their annual midsummer appearauce,
There is soma mysterious connection in the
mind of the milliner between midsummer
and floating hat scarfs July being selected
for their advent. Last year tissue yelling
and tule were the approved materials, with
black lace occasionally seen. This season
figured crepe and gauze chiffon dehcately
appliqued, or traced in inn alton of ap-
Mi md lorUp-ipnshp6
the prettiest. The scarfs are wound about
the hat, forming its olly trimming save a
Quill, a wing or a whole bird at one side
and half hidden in the folds.
After drapirg the hat the scarf falls at the
back to an unprecedented engtb. Some
measure yard and a half or over from the
brim Of the hat; Others possibly not more
than a yard. They are rot less than half
yard in width. The wider the hat brim the
longer the scarf is the rule, apparently.
The quantity draped about the hat is very
liberal Pale pink or blue scarfs, with
birds of exactly the same TINT OF of white.
are dainty upon the white felt Black felt
hats have scarfs of gray, with black quilts.
There is nothing like Self-possession in all
emergencies, says the New York Times.
Not long ago a clever woman was dining at
a handsome board IN an interior city. She
nau never, as III D6pp6ueu, seen lime Juice
offered In the course af a meal When the
bottle was banded around, some salad had
just been served to her, and without giving
the matter any thought she assumed the
liquid to be sauce 1tqltGnte for the salad
and dashed few drops on her lettuce
hearts. In an instant she became aware, by
that sort of intuition which Is In the air at
such times, that she had done something
wrong, and whel she saw her neighbor
adding some of the contents OF the bottle to
his glass of water, she OWNED at once what
her blundsr had been.
The meal progressed and she finished her
salad With apparent relish. Her hostess
pressed more upon her, and she accepted a
second serving. Then, with a little air of
not having everything quite to her liking,
she looked up aud down the table and sig
nailed the waitress; The lime juice,
please" she said, nonchalantly, and as if
salad without lime juice were an UNBEATABLE
dish. TINS bit OF adroitnees a once sat her
in niche among the company as an cpl
cure Of occult and unquestioned knowledge.