The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-30

IL lies at the bottom of all beautiful dancing.
You must practice continually. Nearly
everybody exolaims when tell them Of my
| long practice hours. and thinks that | must
get dancing enough on the stage. But not
only must the body be kept in state of en-
| tire suppleness, but in time of peace one must
| prepare for war. Skirt dancing may not
always be the thing which attracts the pub
| lie. Ia year or two more we may all have
to be ready 20 do the difficult toe dancing
of tie old ballots, which is a much more
serious matter. Many a dancer who
appears to advantage owes more
than she would confess to her twirliug
| skirts, aud would not dare go on the stage
at all in the regular ballet skirt The new
serpentine dance illustrates this capitally.
The charm OF it Is all in the art OF the
dancer who wears it.
had originally no idea OF being a dancer,
and even when did my first solo dancing
thought only of the pleasure of IL. When
| the orchestra would strike up, would dance
out on the stage with no idea at all OF how
| was acquainting myself, but only that
here was good music and an opportunity. to
dance. But this stage is passed long ago
and l can no longer dance unconsciously,
but try TO do my best every time.
Since my early training in the ballet
had no master. l arrange all my dances
myself, aud am convinced that l could not
make them pleasing In any other way. I
take the music and compose the dance TO it,
| trying to put into each one some idea how
ever slight. Thus. in the Marguerite dance,
l dance entirely to the bunch OF roses
which hold as imagine a young girl
dancing from pure happiness would do. To
dance a set of stereotyped steps invented by
another person would efYectually take all
the feeling out of the performance, in my
opinion.
Princes Marie of Edinburgh, who was re-
Gently betrothed to Ferdinand of Hohenzol-
lern, Crown Prince of Roumania, is one Of
| Queen Victorias cleverest and prettiest
granddaughters. All princesses are beau
tiful, as all princes are brave and handsome,
| by courtesy, but in the case of Princess Marie
it is the simple truth that she is really loves
| ly. lnheritinR much Of the ready wit and
bright intelligence of her mother Princess
| Marie is likely to hold her own even in the
troublesome little kingdom OF Roumania;
and her influence over the impression
able Prince Ferdinand is sure to be
| great. Moreover, the match is one which
| will give great satisfaction to the queen
whose sole scruple about the engagement
was that her pretty grandchild was lower
| young to marry yet" The betrothal cannot
| but be other than beneficial to Roumania
as 1t allies the little kingdom more closely
to more than one great power. The prince
who is tall, fair and distinguished looking,
i 40 hLlAADAo huu SOllcWudb TOIudnLlC III ben-
permanent, and as Princess Marie has been
most excellentlY trained by the Duchess Of
| Edinburgh, who is one of the wisest of moth
| ers, there is every reason to believe that the
marriage will prove completely happy.
| Would you believe it, there are some good
housekeeping, church-goinR ladies of the
past regime who have never learned that
hoop-skirts were out of date, aud who at
regular intervals make the lives of the shop
keeper burden by ordering a new supply
OF that antiquated article. And there is
always one forthcoming, the hustle makers
turning out an occasional batch for these
consumers. Why these dear, good women
should continue to adorn themselves with a
cage is not known, but it is strongly sus-
pected that no one dare whisper 10 the su
preventative souls that the hoop-skirt went
out thirty years ago. And it will be just
like them TO agitate the horrors into use
again.
Generally speaking, The three golden ages
OF dress we're those presided over respect
| lively by Agnes Sorel, Nine. de Pompa-
dour and Josephine de Beauharnais. OF
these, perhaps the first (decoratively con-
| Sidered) was the best. Dear to the artist
| are its dashy and romantic costumes en-
riohed with beautiful designs and broideries
of gold and silver. The ''surooat' of
| gracious memory, the "9ardecorps," a
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high peaked head tire.
The Queen tells story OF private view
day at the royal academy, with Langtry
for its heroine. The Lily - it seems came
late, with the pomp and ceremony and fine
clothes that the occasion demanded. She
wore dark blue merveilleux gown, a big
black has and her hair in the old
Langtry coil. She was literally mobbed
| we are told, by the aristocratic
and bad-mannered crowd. Women
walked round and round her with their
lorgnettes leveled dead at her, and one
loudly dressed and titled dame said very
audibly as she stood just behind Mrs. Lang
| try, NOW we've seen her back, let US come
this way and get front viewl' This was
| more than even the "Lily'sn seasoned nerves
could stand and she moved away, followed
| by perfect rabble of men and women, all
of whose remarks must have reached her
ears.
The latest invention credited TO an Ameri-
can woman, says the New York World, is a
ball dress covering, intended for those who
must walk to the scene of festivity. This
| ingenious woman had her cloak made In
| very light silk-hnished waterproof, like
deep bag gathered In two banda This she
put on under the long petticoat and but
toned round the waist. When the first band
was secured Jne entlre Iengtn was gathered
up over the gown and fastened again at the
outside. This time 1t covered everything
else, inclosed the soft, crushable gown and
secured it from all harm. The top of the
cloak was formed Of a pretty cape. like any
other macintosh, with deep collar to oor-
respond. The whole affair is on the princi-
pie of the ''crawlers' made for little chill
| dren.
A "bore bell" is the latest necessity of
busy men and women. 1t Is an invisible
bell, arranged ON the floor near the victim
Of too laxative caller. When the guest
has talked enough the host or hostess quietly
puts a foot on the secret spot In the floor
and the servant appears at the door with a
telegram or important message, which must
be attended to at once. The caller natu-
rally bows himself and the victim is saved.
For an evening gown dainty dress is Of
heliotrope and pale yellow striped crepon.
The bodice is arranged with a yoke Of hello
troDe silk covered with an applique en-
broldery Of flowers in shades Of hellotrope,
pale yellow and pale green. The skirt is
drawn up over the bodice under a band or
heliotrope ribbon. Around the bottom of
the skirt is a double quilting of heliotrope
and yellow satin RIBBON, and on one side is
a panel Of heliotrope silk yelled with deep
founces Of cream lace.
The fiirt is terribly handicapped when she