The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-25
IN A GIRLS BOUDOIR.
PICTURES OF THE DAINTY TEMPLE
OF A FASHIONABLE BELLE.

Well of Hope-Magic From a Ball OF
Glass-Man Solves a Woman's Mys-
tery-A Chapter on the Language OF
the Hand-"Bab" Has Her Faith in
Palmistry Shaken-What the Hand
Really Tells-Hands of Well-known
Actresses and Writing Women.
Some Hands Which Make the World
Happier.
Copyright, 1871
NEW York, Jan. 24.-n you happen to
be the chum of fashionable girl you will
have an opportunity to visit her boudoir.
At the first glance you will conclude that
you are in a temple, and so you area tenn
pie dedicated to the worship Of the beauti-
full Although when the night time comes
she has plenty Of light 70 see just how to
make her toilette, in the daytime a gloom
pervades that apartment that suggests not
religious darkness, for you are certain TO
stumble over the stools, but darkness that
has tendency to increase the violence of
your temper and the versatility Of your
language.
A FASHIONABLE GIRLS BouDoIR.
The room that has come the nearest to
should be has dull purplish looking carpet
on the floor and couches. low stools aud
cushions galore all about the room. the
cushions are heavily embroidered in gold
with most mystic-looking figures that may
be construed as either Egyptian, Hebrew,
or Chaldaic; but anyhow you are not sup
posed TO know what they are. The curtains
are curious black ones embroidered in gold,
allowed to fall and keep out the light of day.
The dressing table, which looks like an altar,
has a curious altar cloth for its cover,
and priests vestment, bought at some
auction sale, for the drapery in front. The
mirror is framed in silver, and under it are
tiny hanging lamps that look exactly like
the Ikons that the devout Russian puts
under the picture of saints All the toilette
paraphernalia is spread out, and just in
front is a low stool, upholstered in black
and gold, upon which the fair mistress may
sit while her assistant at mysterious rites
brushes her hair. Belsnazzar-like, there is
handwriting on the wall only in this in-
stance the notices are those OF encourage
ment, the one just over the toilette table
reading, "Get patience, sweet maid, If thou
wouldst be lovely"
1t is rather a spooky room, and the visi-
tor therein has a sort of feeling that she
had better not speak above a whisper, and
that materialized ghosts are likely to appear
at any moment. On low shelf near one
of the couches is a collection Of books on
woman" how TO increase her beauty, how
to make her attractive, her faults, her
virtues, her tiny vices and her large ones.
CRYSTAL WELL OF HOPE.
In this temple her ladyship must concen-
trate her ideas. To do this she requires one
thing, and that is her crystal, and this
stands in a purple velvet case on the table,
When she comes in she calls her maid, whose
French name she has twisted into lras, and
ms no Ua Of " . ID
brought, and she begins to look in it.; she
drives every thought cut of her mind
until it is an absolute vacancy and
then she declares that whatever thought she
wishes will come to her. l am a tolerably
orthodox person, never having had any
tendency TO spiritualisin, pessimism aRnos>
ticism, or theosophy, but, being flied with
optimism, which l take to be the religion OF
hope. But, being woman, / thought
would like to try 1t and see what the crystal
would do for me. Acting upon the advice
of my friend, thought nothing,
JUST LOOKED INTO THAT CLEAR BALL;
then, after had looked for a while, it
dawned on me that had looked once before
in a ball, but that ! couldn't tell where il
was. stopped looking and said this, and
was advised to think of that, of that alone.
and | would sec in il the ball. / looked and
looked intently, thought and thought with
desperation; staring in that great glope,
seemed to see beautiful large room, room
full of pictures and with cabinets in the
centre, in which were lovely porcelains and
great number of the crystal balls. / saw
tall, slender, scholarly man, and beside him
a small, delicate looking girl with braids of
yellow hair down her back, who held in her
hand crystal. To her the man said, ''No,
that was made in the east thousands Of
years ago; they can't make them here ~
and then knew who it was know that
was the little girl, and I remembered
where had first looked into the crystals,
first wondered about them, and who at first
told me the story.
WHERE MANS MIND is SUPERIOR
The explanations Well, my friend in
sisted that it was magic, but somehow ever
since had my fortune told | haven't be-
heved in magic, SO went where / always
60 when in trouble-to man. asked him
to explain it to me, and he said, "What do
you remember bestf' and | said. "Thlngs
that happened years ago. Every weli.n
he said; "had you ever touched a crystal
between the time you first saw one and the
day You held the other in your handg You
had not. Your mind was blank, You
have wonderfully retentive memory, and
IN endeavoring to think where you had
first seen the crystal the mind photo
graphed the time and place and the eve
saw the mental photograph. If you had
y a
you would have seen just the same. 1t was
simply the action Of memory, and Won
would never see in kthe crystal ANYTHING
that hadn't happened" So the magic is
explained away.
PALMIsTRY is SOMETIMES sHAKY.
Nobody gives a party nowadays unless
tney nave specialist in. don't mean one
to cure the aches and ills Of humanity. but
one who Is the best among the banjo play
ers, the best among the palmists, the best
among the comic singers OF jugglers.
Enormous prices are paid to these people.
but an immense amount of Innocent
amusement is gotten out Of what the do.
IL is interesting to note the opinion the diff
ferent palmists have OF you. Within the
past week | have teen told that | had a
violent temper land no woman was ever
more easily duped or deluded in the worldl.
that should never marry, and if ever
had to earn my living l had better
paint pictures. In my early days l took
drawing lessons until my drawing teacher
said there was 10 use in my mother wasting
her money; and as for painting pictures, /
can't even put transfer picture on a vase
correctly. If l am to start a new school
and throw the palnt-pot at the wall, l
might make success, for am pretty cor
rect in my aim, but otherwise | scarcely
think l should earn enough to buy the
license for my dog. This same INDECENT