The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-20
FAD;S AND FANCIES.
SOME OF THE TsINGS WEIGH
INTEREST THE FAIR SEX.

Less Humorous Character Why
American Girls Are a Success in Eng
laud-Other Matters OF General In.
terest.
They say, says Paris letter in the New
York World, that at times Worth shuts
himself up ia his cabinet de travaille and
does not emerge until he has finished Great.
ing for that particular season. know not
whether he creates all these things In seven
days or in seven weeks-it may depend
upon his muse.
Re has many strange customers TO deal
with. There Is a certain woman of rank
note and unlimited whealth who is said 20
pay him $4,000 a year to dress
her from her head TO foot, 40 70
speak. In some instances he is forced
20 make things which he himself does not
approve Of. One of his crosses at present is
that he is forced TO succumb to the vanities
of an elderly duchess and dress her like a
16-year~old girl
A strange suit was recently brought by
Worth against an English widow for ouite
large sum, representing clothes furnished
Toe evidence showed that among the ex-
travagances of the widow she had dainty
Nile green night dresses costing $50 each.
This, Worth declared, was not his taste,
Possibly you may recollect saws Clara
Belle in the Cincinnati Enquirer, that /
have often condemned the custom of after
noon calls on the part of gentlemen. Ex-
cept in the case of engaged couples such a
custom is not TO be encouraged. There il
but one conclusion to reach when gentle>
man calls to see lady in the afternoon
to-wit: he desires to be alone with her.
Possibly you may say that that is the case.
too when he calls In the evening, True:
but in the evening he always runs the
risk OF meeting some one else But an
afternoon call presupposes certain
understanding and hence is always open to
suspicion. Only few days ago rumor
reached my ear that one of these afternoon
calls had been working mischief in
wealthy uptown home. 1t seems that the
aged lord who does the carving in the house
has young and very attractive wife, who
is inclined 70 be a bit frivolous. Well. the
aged lord being a reasonable sort of q fellow
"a man of the world and a good fellow.
too-made no particular objection to a
harmless little filtration on the part of his
young wife. All he asked and all he ex,
pected was that the proprieties should al
ways and on all occasions be most strictly
observed.
Men, my dear sisters. are great stioklers
for the proprieties. They spell them with
q capital P and lay stress on them when
they pronounce the word. You should
always respect this weakness in a man.
Father Adam suffered from 1t. He didn't
object so much to the loss of few summer
pippins, but he did object to what might be
said by the Miss Grundys of the Land of
Nod. Well, the aged lord came home on
this particular afternoon and found man
In the house, or, rather, was about to find q
man in the drawing room. There was con.
sternation. Suddenly the caller had what
he conceived to be a happy thought. He
threw eff his coat, raised the lid of the
grand piano and pretended to
be tuning 1t as the aged lord of
the manor opened the parlor door. But a
glauce at the young wife told the caller that
she wasn't as cheerful as she should be
under the circumstances.
THE piano-tuner, dearie," stammered the
wife, as she met her liegs at the door, aud
made q tremendous effort to wheel him
around and to lead him into the reception
room on the opposite side of the hallway.
But no, he wanted to converse with the
tuner concer aing the new pitch, which had
been adopted by American orchestras for
he had very thorough knowledge of
music which this special tuner did not hap
zen TO have. Well, the upshot of the mat
ter was that tuner-this special tuner.
blurted out something about having brought
the wrong key, or having forgotten his
fork-and rushed out or tho house. All.
me, that harmony should go easily degen.
crate into discord, that sweet bells should
so easily become tangled!
"Why is it that American women who
are not able TO get very much recognition
at home can go 60 England aud make for
themselves fame and fortune9f
This question was propounded to Lady
Henry Somerset, says the New York
World, who laughed little as she
answered: 81 have often wondered why 1t
was that Englishmen of whom we never
hear at home can come here and be made 80
much of by American society people.
~ think" she continued, ''it is an ex-
emplifcation Of the old adage that the
world accepts you at the valuation which
you place upon yourself. For example. a
man who is very remotely attached to a
very remote branch of royalty in England
comes over here and represents himself as
MY Lord somebody or other, and the very
kind people of New York believe all he saws
and treat him accordingly.
Then, too, you must remember" said
Lady Somerset, that Americans are not
the only people who have 'fads' The
Anglomaniao craze over here has been SUD-
plemented by a craze for Americanisms on
the other side. 1t has been the fashion
among certain class of English society
people to take up American artists. Any
thing that was American was the fashion,
and for the time anything that was Ameri-
can seemed to be amusing The American
women who have gone to London for the
purpose of entertaining have, l think,
usually created the impression that they
represented the best of American talent
There was no one to dispute their claims
II a lady appeared advertising herself as
the greatest whistler in America the
English people were willing to believe that
she was the greatest whistler, and therefore
very we'll worth going to hear.
The fad has to great extent died out
think that an American woman who goes
to England now for the purpose of appear
Ing before the public will need to do some
thing that is instructive rather than merely
amusing. English women are coming to
the front very rapidly"
The result of Lady Somerset's two
months travel in this country is that she is
much pleased with Americans. She thinks
IL Is good thing to be an American citi-
zen, she says She doesn't blame those who
are for being proud of it.
But there is one thing that she cannot
comprehend, and that is the capacity of
That historical vessel the Mayfower. She
says that for size, compared with that
goodly ship. the Teutonic must be only q
JOKE; otherwise how could she possibly have
carried all the ancestors whose names are
claimed to have been on the passenger list!