The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-19
FADS AND F0LLIES.
eoME OF THE THINGS WHICH IN
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Trousers of the Future 49, A Few
Cosby Stories OF General Interest.
Now the trousers of the future, says the
World, are to be purely 'woman's gar
,aents. not those designed by and for men,
cut down and adapted. The trouser idea,
ugder the magic of wom4ns Imagination
and poesy, wrought out by heT deft and
dainty fingers, shall be as far removed from
its present prosaic expression as are the
heavens from the earth, as woman's clev~
erness from mans stupidity. Every woman
will interpret it according to her own
fancy, and there will be a variety and
beauty and individuality instead of homely
repetition in rough worsteds, cut and
stitched by the Thousand in precisely the
same fashion.
Every advanced woman knows that
trousers originally belonged to her sex. and
that skirts were worn by her subject, man,
in primitive times. But woman's superior
itv wrought her ruin, for, pampered and
served by her masculine inferior, she grew
Iuvnrious in her tastes, fral and delicate,
unril she finally lost her prestige and STAN
ina and submitted to the garment before
which YOU must bow your head before you
don it. The trousers idea for women will
Te enriched by all the ancient splendor of
design and ornament peculiar to it before it
was degraded by man. 1t will be brought out
in exquisite material, Respondent with
dazzli,fg Draidings and broideries; it will be
frilied and futed and paniered and pulled.
l. will take on wondrous grace in cut and
qraa shGDeline's of fit. IL will be draped
AMI foIncei and shirred and tucked. 1t
will be subllmized. idealized, immortalized
IN slort, wO,nanlle !.
There will be girls il the future as there
are now of the Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
order, who will not believe in decollete
gowns, and will be shocked at piano legs
that are not done up in pantalets, who
will cling to the uncOmmunicatiye gowns
somewhat after the antique Grecian order.
Why is it that real pretty woman has
so much more generous and liberal ideas
about modesty than one to whom nature
has been charY with charms. Probably it
is through the divine arrangement of a wise
Providence that most of the women who
di3beieve in exposing their shoulders or
legs spare the world tine revelation. And
their dress will lie of white samite or some
other guostly poeiicai web, broidered very
dehcately atout all OF its borders with gold,
and the precious sanity creatures who
adopt it will stand about in the new regime
i'll stained-glass attitudes, with uplifted
browS and palued, grieved eyes.
There Will be perverse women, too, who
will still cling to the skirt, but it will be a
skirt shorn OF its glory, its frills and TRIP
peres made somewhat after the style worn
by Ma,Gyan women. Women doctors and
hygiene enthusiasts, would-bo literary
stars, club women, and W. Z. T. U. devotees
will probably fad this garment congeaial
10 their IDEAS OF eaie and comfort.
A feminine reader thus writes to the
Tribune: "By-the-by, will you not make
paragraph Oh little children's Taste in sto-
ries' With ali the cOnfessedly SUPERIOR tale.
writing of the present day | find it most
difficGlt to find stories that really interest
my 3-year-old daughter, who is a most en-
thusaStic listener, however, whenever the
subject matter appeals TO her fancy. Tho
little creatures want things that begin,
Once upon time not with conversation
plunging IN DledtGS res. They want, too,
or at least my little girl does, realistic,
very-day happenings, and they don't want
surroundings left to their imaginatons. A
Pc picture of what might take place in
then own daily lives, with any amount Of
detail, will always be the most taking kind
OF stoy Tor young and intelligent mind
AS Tor fairy stories, there is an element of
ettermath-the disappointment of knowing
that the fascinating histories are not and
cannot be true-that destroys the interest
Al least, this Is nv experience. | wish |
had 5 melody elSe's"
This letter, read aloud, provided the text
for discussion on childreu's books; and
another lady, who had written more or
lie for little people, remarked: 81 think
the writer is quito ri ght about the doubtful
popularity OF modern fairy tales But |
fancy the re i reason is that children are
much keener critics than we give them
credit Tor being, and where their minds
have beel fed by the rare tales of Hans
r1Ha hn 1vf,y fN,A Ii
Cling Of the marvellous and the common-
place in the st ries OF the brothers Grimm,
and the fascinating 'contes' of Laboulaye
cir uall i1tellects naturally find the fan
cles Of everyday writers inferior, whereas
whatever relates to the everyday life of
their own world can be made interesting
through association, ana they adopt these
children of the imagination Immediately as
pIaymates and friends of their own"
Il WONDER said one of her audience. ''if
the children who are blessed with the ex-
ceient and redundant literature and beau
ttUl illustrations that the poorest of them
obtain SO readily nowadays will develop
higher intellectual and artistic qualities in
Consequence. In my own childhood we had
preserved among the family archives one of
the old New England primers, beginning
with "A for ADAM and its grotesque little
Moodcut representing Adam and Eve with
the distich,
" In Adams fall
We sinned ALL
and so on to 2, which had
g Zachariah he
Climbed a tree
His Lord to see
and the picture showed with few coarse
INES a little Zachariah, in modern trousers
chmolng up very small woolly tree. | re-
member how we used to laugh over the
funny, quaint little pictures, and feel quite
proud OF our more advanced literature In
THESE days our children'S hooks are quite as
Hhineasurably superior to what had as
enid as ours were to those of our grand
motlers. question, however, whether the
INDIVIDUAL has greatly protited by all this
t'ogress. For my part, | fell rather in
teilor than otherwise to my grandmother.
VINO was very cultivated womaa, aud
uount II my children will develop any
greater ability than have myself, although
tShoud be very glad to see such result of
'u0ir uhdoubted advantages"
ms attractive evening toilet has low
Goulce and trained skirt in apple green peau
nc sole, kerchief folds forming bertha in
SSnlue chiffon, relieved with q large dragon
~ ~ II multlcolor gems. Short sleeves, also
D. cullIon, each being differently draped
-; au oi GIT ribs, yelled with bouillonues and
p.CAeo out ruching of muslin, dotted at the
WIN TUFTS of lilies of the valley; side
Tvs s"s ana dropping loops in MORE pink rib
-, ~, cli ciet OF the small flowers round the
pGSnot, at the back of which rise an osprey
uuuQlng ostrich trim A visiting dress