The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-30
BAB'S EASTER GREETING.
a PRETTY WOMAN WITH AN
EASTER B MET.


Good Time-The Easter Gown and
Fonnet-W omen Whom Men Like
Some New York Men Who Ought to
be Framed-The Orchid Among
Women-How Easier Brides Will
Look-A Womanly Easter Wish.
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NEW. York, March 2s-There are sun
shine somewhere and music and flowers for
to-day, and, as a natural sequence, there is
the Easter bonnet. think woman with
becoming Easter bonnet on, walking with
man Of whom she is fond, is about as
happy creature as there is in this world ;
and for that reason one of the few rights
that l claim for womenkind is the Easter
bonnet. Give it to her, fathers and hus-
bauds, even il you do have to forego little
supper or box of cigars for yourself. Don't
laugh at her when she has it on, but take
her face in your hands and greet her, as
they do In Russia on Easter day, with low
ing kiss and happy announcement that
Christ has arisen!" You havn't right
not little bit of a one-to keep an innocent
pleasure from a woman; and the woman to
oae who is apt to look for any other kind.
DIFFERENT IDEAS OF A GOOD TIME.
Though, by the bye. what a queer word
pleasure ISL There are people who think it
is pleasure to make great deal of noise, to
laugh very loud, to tire themselves almost
to death, and to shout themselves hoarse in
an effort to sing I'VE won't go home until
morning" There are people who think it
is pleasure to pose for the multitude and
to utter inane nothings, finding satisfaction
in vanity. Queer, isn't it7 There are
people who think it is pleasure to be in
tueir best bbs and fuckers, and to sit stiffly
aud formally at table, utter
stilted remarks to their neighbors, and
come away announcing what a beautiful
time they have had. That's queer, too.
Now, what's your idea Of a pleasant time I!
Mine is to be with the people like, to hear
some good music, some pleasant talk, to say
"how do you don with pleasure and good
by" with regret. Not to have a crowd, not
to have noise, not to have men behave
like educated donkeys and women like
circus riders. Perhaps my good time is a
quiet one, but it is the sort that strengthens
you mentally and physically.
THE EASTER GOWN AND BONNET.
You won't have good time OIL Easter if
the new bonnet is unbecoming and the gown
doesn't fit. The week before the average
woman has looked as if she were in bad
temper. That's not a pretty look, for it
makes the wrinkles comes, shrivels the skin
about the eyes, changes the mouth into q
hideous shape, with the compression of the
lips that gives it an air of severity Now
every blessed woman has had plenty of time
to get her Easter gown and bonnet, but the
general one has just concluded what she
will do the week before, AMI the most
obliging dressmaker in the world hasn't
learned yet how, when she has 500 frocks
on hand, to make the 501st in a few hours,
not only becoming, but well fitting. The
sweetest milliner you ever talked to can't
toss up bonnet like an omelet; and the
consequence is the disappointed women are
complaining of dressmakers and milliners,
and calling them everything that is dis
agreeable, covering the alphabet of un-
pleasant words from Alpha to Omega.
THE KIND OF WOMEN MEN LIKE.
A disappointed woman is always a great
mistake, that is, the one who sho her dis
appointment. She will cry-ergo her nose
will be red. She will be cross-erqo, her di-
gestion will get out of order. She will sulk
ergo, the man unto whom her heart goeth
out will desert her for another woman
whose face is wreathed with smiles, even if
it is framed in a winter bonnet. Men do like
woman to be prettily dressed, but, above
all things, they prefer that she should be
pleasant. So that when it comes to a ques-
ton of sulky women in new clothes, or
pleasant ones and old clothes,
they are certain to choose the
latter. Men hate sulkiness in women
They count 1t as their own preroga-
tive. Personally l have come to the con-
clusion that what a man really likes is q
thoroughly good, healtay, violent temper
that wears itself out in words and is ready
to be sorry afaerward. There is a type of
man who likes dishes thrown at him, but he
Is special rather than general. There is
another kind that is best governed by a
violent attack of Mysteries, but with this
sort Of man the game is not worth the
candle. But anything throwing plates or
hysteria-is better than the sulks.
THE ORCHID AMONG WOMEN.
The orchid show has been and gone. 1t
was interesting and curious at the same
| time. The curious part was to see how the
women naturally drifted to the most ex-
| pensive orchids, and these were by no means
| the most beautiful. Do you know that the
| first bunch of orchids ever carried in New
| York city was borne by that most perfect
| gentlewoman, Mrs. Thomas Francis Mea-
| CHER, on her wedding daya Mrs. Meagher
| was one of the three sisters of whom Thack-
| cray spoke in his letters as being not only
| the pret.iest, but the most charming and
natural in their manners of any among the
American women he had met. Two of this
trinity of beauties are dead-Mrs. Barlow
and Mrs, Crawford-but Mrs. Meagher is
as lovely and as charming to-day as when
| Ihackeray saw her, and is that best type of
the flower garden of American women,
| gentle, dignified and considerable, the orchid
among women, the gentlewoman.
HOW EASTER BRIDES WILL LOOK.
The Easter weddings are going to be
many in number, but all of kind. The
bride just now Is after the French style.
She looks as If her widest dissipation had
been view OF the geological gardens, and
the only books she had ever read had been
those illustrated by Kate Greenaway. She
is married IN gown high in the neck, and
with sleeves that come, in Valois fashion,
down over her hands. She carries a white
ivory or kid prayer-book framed in silver,
and she looks as If she were frightened to
death-not because she was getting married,
but because she is among SO many people
for the first time in her life. AS picture
nothing could be more absolutely delightful
and it has the effect of causing the wicked
| old men about town to weep bitterly, pre-
| sumably for their lost innocence.
MEN WHO OUGHT TO BE FRAMED.
1t has usually been the right and pleasure
of fair woman to cry at weddings, but