The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-27
FEMININE FADs AND FANc1Es.
Lady Aberdeen-Tne Paderewskt Fad
House observation-disclosures

| Il A1uANAN u r Us N u FAN EIHS
Lady Aberdeen-Tne Paderewski Fad,
House Decorations-Chappi
| Copyright, 1891. by the United Press.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 26-Lady Aberdeen,
who is creating no end of excitement in the
social circles of New York, wears her hair
hattened like the couture of the ancient
Egyptians- She has a genial Irish face.
with strawberry and cream complexion.
She is to superintend the exhibition of Irish
manufacturers at the worlds fair. The
Earl Of Aberdeen, her husband, is what
women call grand man. He is stately.
well put up, and chivalrous in manner
1t Is very strange thing" said a clever
| society woman to me the other day ''that
sensible women get so wild over a man like
Paderewski. the musician. He presents a
very ordinary appearance, being short and
unkempt; his hair is long and straight, ana
his eyes washed out and stolid. If he we're
| not the great and sought after Paderewski.
he might be taken for a dime museum
freak. But the women go crazy over him;
| mind you not at all over his art, for the
best critics soy he has mighty little of that,
but they have morbid fascination for him.
his conversation is superficial and lacking;
his manners are stiff, conventional and any
thing but interesting or briliiant-and yet
he is the rage.
"If he accepts all the dinners. luncheons
aud Sgppers that are extended to him, let
alone the refreshments thrown in at his e.
citals, his board bill will amount to very
little during his stay in New York. So
wildly and crafty do the society folks press
upon him for only glimpse of his face that
the wiseacres say: 1t locks much like
| good-by McAilister, welcome Paderewski
| Verify, the Four Hundred have forgotten
their stomachs in pursuit of higher things"
While still under the wooing sireuic fasci-
nations OF Paderewski, recall to mind a
queer ipcident connected with this same
Paderevsski fad. to use much hackueyed
expression.
It appears a very swell society girl he-
came so enamored Of the timber pianist,
that she embroidered sharps, flats, minors
and majors. all over her hose.
"It is not always money which makes the
| decoration of the home beautiful, 4" said Mrs
| Jack Bloodgood, in course of a pleasant
little chat with the writer. "Do you know
three-fourths of the science in being able to
harmonlously ornament house is good
taste. have seen many women with Grip
pied purses whose homes were
| realms of everything that was
beautiful in art and fancy. Dainty
embroidories which can be made with ones
own needle by little careful and patient
| industry; clever sketches of wood, flower
and stream; bits Of color here and there,
! unexpected and startling, emphasizing
warmth and welcome. o! tell you, after
all. it is generally the women with the
| crippled purses who develop this grandest
| of all talent in woman, good taste, delicacy
and refinement"
Mrs. Bloodgood has just gotten back from
| a trip to London. She says that English
women as a rule have not the exquisite idea
| of decorating and choosing household brio
a-brac that American women have.
| The chappie in New York is the bore and
| at the same time the amusement Standby
| of the average society girl. As the old say
| ing about the canine goes, "He answers his
| purpose. He does 70 try novelty on" One
thing about the "chappie" is the tenacitv
| and earnestness with which he clings to life;
ana in this respect he differs, Of course,
| from the canine and my simile is at fault,
for a good, sensible dog soon gets tired of
being made fool Of and dies in disgust
: Chattering of ''chappies.n a bright Madi-
son avenue girl who is continually brimful
| of animal, not any other kind of spirits re-
Gently tried to scare away 'chappis" from
| her immediate environments, as on all con-
| venient and inconvenient occasions he was
inevitably her shadow.
She sent him one cool November morning
to the drug store with prescription TO fill
| telling him it was medicine she sought,
knowing full well it would poison him il he
tasted it.
She waited anxiously some few hours
| afterward, feeling conscience struck and
| not half as mischievous as she anticipated,
expecting every minute to be told of his de-
mise. when of sudden his presence was
announced.
He Informed her that he had asked the
drug clerk for the medicine and that the
clerk said it was hair restorer and conse-
! quently he 1.-THE chappiel took the liberty or
| bringing the right medicine and at the same
| time he had taken the nalr restorer nome as
| a keepsake.
| The girl grew again respondent as she re-
| allied her position, aud the chappie grew
more and more attentive In his childish
way. Two DAYS later the climax was
| reached in most unlocked for way. The
| chappie came earlier than usual one morn
| ing and impIored the servant to rush" his
! card ND to his adorer's boudoir, where she
| was still under the ban of Morpheus. She
came quickly down. he asked her ii she
had taken any of the medicine he left with
her. She replied yes" He then informed
her that he had mixed the bottles and that
she had been drinking "hair restorer."
She became much troubled and excited
over this news, and it is whispered IN the
upper circles that this high bred conven-
tional proper "bud" so far forgot herself as
to hiss 'you ass" aud then-and then she
sought the advice of O physician, and the
household census tells the questioner that
she still is counted among the living.
That is one way to get rid of ''chappie."
How flowers do talk What volumes of
sentiment they breathe out How VIVID
and picturesque are their delineatlonsl
Nothing could be more suggestive. lhsy
outweigh and distance completely all YER
bal description. .
The subtle society woman, charming,
penetrating and perceptive has 'nveIgled
from the flowers their secret. Her sex have
| aaraa6 IN become affinites with them, and
40 now the craze is to be known by one IN
dividual blossom. Il is not meant that even rem
n cns.er shall embrace the affection OF the
Queens only one is allowable perfect full
bloom plosson-the pet of the family con-
servatorY.
Mrs Cbauncey NJ Depew, the wife Of the
famons orator. has sought out tie Camells,