The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-13

grasses that could be found. The good-na-
| tured farmers also offered their fields as
/ lawful plumber, and each day the urchins
would come fiocking to the hotels with
armtuls OF timothy, oats, rye, wheat and
1 cookie shells.
] The boys were paid 10 cents for their aft
/ ernoon's work. and would have thought
themselves well paid at half that sum. On
the evening OF the entertainments the young
women dressed themselves as flower girls,
with calico skirts, simple jackets aud blouse
waists. Then, with some kind of a forlorn
! old hat upon their heads, so as to give a
! plquant effect to the pretty face underneath,
they would load themselves with large
wicker baskets filled with punches OF the
grasses and start out from the flower booths
to sell the grasses at 25 or even 50 GENTS a
| bunch.
These wild things make ever so pretty
ornaments. you know, aud help to carry
memories of the summer through into the
dark, cold winter and the idea at once be-
came popular one. Many Of the women
expressed themselves as delighted to get
| the graceful waving grasses which they
had neither the time, strength nor inclinn-
| ton to go forth into the country to get for
themselves
And so Modieska is responsible for hav-
| ing turned many dollar into the charity
funds
days may pride herself upon the possession
OF real accomplishment. OF course, no
woman is afraid to buy her ticket any more,
nor is she ignorant as to how to check her
baggage nor manage about her bed III the
sleeping car, nor her drawipg>room chair.
But IL lsn't every woman who knows about
travelling in comfort
One of the things which every woman
| who understands herself always provides
when she goes forth strange countries to
see, is an Ell route tea tray. 1t has little
| compartment for tea, another for sugar, a
third for butter, a fourth for milk fifth
for crackers and sixth for cold meats
Besides that, there is a little spirit kettle
which boils eggs and makes tea all at once.
You understand the eggs are not boiled in
tho tea They are fitted in a little compart-
ment all their own, and can be taken
| out at the end of three, four, five or ten
minutes, as the young woman may desire
them hard or soft. The en- route tea tray
has little clasps along the side so that il can
be fitted to a window. The front of it lets
down and makes the cunningest little table
imaginable. There is place in the top for
plates, knives. forks and spoons.
The girl who understands herself takes
care to have one Of these along, and when
she gets one .out, hangs it on the window
and begins operations, she expects to hear
people say:
There is a woman who knows how TO
! travel"
DO you realize how popular skirt dancing
! ISL And have you any idea how much more
| popular ii IS going to be next summer?
| Fancy all the swell girls of the country,
| rising upon invitation, and swaying bend
| ing, housekeeping, kicking and prancing.
| Yet, this is exactly what is going to take
| place. The girls are practicing for it now,
and next summer thev will be as nearly
| perfect as any dancers usually afforded on
the variety stage. The dancers are usually
taught in pairs. Two young women OF OPP
posite types of beauty, yet about the same
| night aud build, are selected aud initiated
into the mysteries of skirt dancing in con-
| cert with each other. The kangaroo
| dance" OF DR.. Bill fame, promises TO be one
| of next seasons favorites
| Lenox Is dull, In spite of all that the old
| time residents who go there every year can
do to enlivel it. 1t is certainly dull, dull,
| dull
| Mrs. Whitney is responsible for this.
Early in the season, before Lenox began TO
be rival of Newport, a faction Of New
port women headed by Mrs. Whitney, and
Endorsed and encouraged by her, declared
| that they would not permit Lenox to nip
the Newport season In the bud as it has
dane for two or three years past Accord
ingly these ladies set to work TO prevent
such calamity. Balls that were prom
ised for the mid season were put OFF until
| later lawn parties, tennis meets, coaching
expeditions and all the lovely fascinating
trips which society so greatly enjoys. were
postponed until September. So Lenox,
you see, hasn't been in it, and WON'T be
until the Newport ladies see fit to permit it.
Lenox isn't ruined by any means. and
isn't going to be ruined. Nor is its popu-
larity going to wane. Ouly Lenox will
have to learn TO know its place Its place
is as a resort in the late fall. after the New
port and Saratoga people have grown tired
of those places, and are willing and anxious
to go to the mountains. Lenox's day comes
then, and not, as heretofore, while the sum
mer festivities were at tho hight.
The old-time cottagers at Lenox, who
went there the first of September, as has
been their wont for years ard years, can
count in their ranks some very discon-
tented young women. 10 is in vain these
| young damsels stand before their mirrors
and cast admiring gances upon their ruddy
| cheeks. bright eyes and well-rounded figures
The summer has done much for them in
the way of looks, but whyfore all this
beauty ii there are no men present to APP
| preciate iti
Many of the girls have been heard TO say
| what is the use of looking well and bloom
| ing if there is no one to see us!'
But the day of Lenox will soon come, and
may the Lenox girls continue to look gay
and blooming, and may there be plenty of
men there to see.
Before the seashore girl goes to the noun
tains there are ever 50 many things that
she wants-thtngs that have come out
during the summer and which were not
absolutely necessary at the time she started
for the seashore. they are:
Shirt studs. set with gems to match the
gown with which the shirt is TO be worn.
Boots TO match said gown and said gems.
A Chinese tea gown SO shear that it can
be drawn through finger ring.
Three little love rings. fastened together
on the inside, and SET with diamonds, rubies
aud moonstones on the outside-these are
the lucky stones for fall.
And more than these few trifies, she wants
her fall gown made by a man tailor who
will be clever enough to provide two sets OF
sleeves, which are capable Of being adjusted
by means of hooks and eyes into an armhole
at five minutes notice, so that dress can
suddenly be transformed from a dinner
gown into ball room robe.
| CARRIE CARELESS.