The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-18
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
FADs AND FoIBLEs OF GAY AND
PRETTY WOMEN.

Running To-The Latest Bracelet
Fad-Feminine Fashions in Jewelry
When Women Trod on Men Have
the Times Changed Our Men?-Is the
Modern Man ObliginR7-H How High
Living Affects Men and Women
The New Swell Evening Gowns.
Copyright 1917
NEW YORK, Jan. I7.-If you saw the
smart girl Of the period on the street just at
present in New York, you would say that
she had cut her hair, and you would be
properly indignant with her for doing this;
but she hasn't She is simply like the chill
dren, she is making believe. Instead Of that
she has taken her back hair. curled the ends
Of it. tied it with ribbon, and has it pinned
up in such a way, such an insidious way,
that she has managed TO fool you just as she
has a good many other people. If there is
one thing in this world that man objects
70 it is woman having short hair, and
must confess that l agree with him about
this; but when she can gain the rather
youthful effect without having her locks.
like Samson's, sacrificed, then she is to be
applauded. The woman who can gain the
effect without breaking any Of the bylaws
of femininity is the woman who is going to
get along in the world.
THE LATEST BRACELET FAD.
No end of fashionable girls are having
their baud bracelets taken apart and the
jewels set in gold fllets for the head. But
the other girl, who doesn't propose to sacri-
fee her jewelled bands to a popular fancy.
is calmly and complacently enough wearing
those of limitations. In realty, paste is
always to be deplored, but when it comes
60 setting real diamonds, real rubies, or
emeralds in fiat band of gold that is in
vogue to-day and may be forgotten to-mor-
row, nobody can deny that the woman who
wears the imitation is for once in her life
wise.
FEMININE FASHIONS IN JEwELRY.
To be thoroughly in the fashion, as far as
jewelry is concerned, you must cover the
third aud little fingers of each hand with as
many gems as you possess, or as will reach
up to the knuckle. We are nothing if not
Egyptian, and as the gentle Cleopatra and
her numerous girl friends, who are now in
teresting mummies in the British museum,
had their hands decorated in this fashion,
1t becomes necessary that we should do
likewise. The butterfly with which Cleo
patra's drapery was fastened is being imi-
tated in many colors and made to form a
broad girdle. The effect is really extremely
picturesque.
WHERE EVE AND CLEOPATRA DIFFERED.
Did it ever occur to you that while they
wore the sacred bird and the sacred flower
on their heads in Egypt, there seems to be
no record Of hats? Did they go out in the
burning sun and never wear any hats, or
did they stay at home all the time, and
have everything come to themi And will
you please tell me how Cleopatra's could
have been joyous life, unless she had
new Easter bennett To be sure, Easter
wasn't in vogue then, but there must have
been something that corresponded to it. l
am sure Eve made bonnet of violets, and
tied it on with ribbon grass that was in
perfect harmony with her fig leaves and
the delicate ferns that formed the fringe on
the edge OF them 1t has always
seemed to me that Eve must have been a
woman OF more or less good taste, else she
wouldn't have chosen the fig leaf gown for
her first gown. unless she had been sure it
was suited to her skin and eyes. The study
of Egyptology is like the measles, you never
know how it is going to end. 1t has forced
me back through centuries of women to
Eve, and at present am looking for the
most accurate account Of the woman before
Eve, Lilith.
WHEN WOMEN TRoD ON MEN.
1t would seem as If in the glorious days of
the past Il believe that is the proper way to
speak of them) that womankind was given
to expressing itself; repression was an IN
known thing. If you dislike anybody you
had them thrown in the river, or poisoned,
or stabbed; and il you liked anybody, you
adorned them with the wealth Of the world
People about whom you didn't care sou
you simply let get along as best they could,
and political economy and the labor cues
tion were things that troubled nobody. |
think that woald have been the most COM
l.. 4x,h -
bad, or Indifferent, seemed to run every
thing, and Caesars and Mark Antonys were
lying around loose, waiting to be trod
upon.
is THE MODERN MAN oBLIGING2
We have changed all that now; the aver
age man goes to an evening affair, gobbles
up all the terrapin and champagne he can
reach, brings woman piece of pink ice
cream and glass of claret cup that tastes
like castor oil and shoe polish and lemons
mixed together, and then he wond 4rs tn t
she isn't satisfied, and he says American
women demand too much. l would like to
see him help an English girl to her supper.
She would eat right straight through
the menu, never let him get MOUTH
full. force him to cut up her bird for her,
aud then, if he mopped his fevered brow,
she would say she was afraid young
Jones had been drinking a little too
much, when perhaps the truth of it was
young Jones had been working too hard.
The average man here has gotten an idea
shat the average woman doesn't want any
thing Co eat, that her delicate appetite is
one of her charms; but the sooner he gets
that notion out of his head, the more GER
tain will he be to see good looking women.
healthy women, and happy women.
WOMEN AND HIGH LIVING.
So-called high living agrees with women
much better than it does with men. 1t
makes women beautiful, and it makes men
beasts. That sounds a little harsh but
regret to say it is true, for a man who is a
slave to his stomach, who is Incorporate in
what be eats, is much less agreeable than
the man who is Incorporate ia what he
drinks. For the last takes various phases.
and the first takes but one, dyspepsia. If
you have ever had man about you who
mas had dyspepsia, you will not only believe
in personal devil but in fire and sulphur
and everything that the Presbyterian
church teaches. Only ministering angels
can satisfy him, and the only thing for him
to do is to get himself to a sanitarfum and
let the doctors inoculate him with a deadly
poison, for he is a blot on the face of the
earth.
THE NEW SWELL EVENING GOWNS.
The new evening dresses are all in cloth.
1t cannot be denied that they b we the
virtue of originality, and then, too, the
slight train falls gracefully, the figure shows
TO good advantage, and soft rather than a