The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-20

out flrst-rate digestion and a proper in
ternal economy otherwise, beauty is not,
Besides. il has been truthfulIy remarked
that wine drinking In the smart set Is shock
ingly prevalent among women, even with
those who are unmarried and should De re-
strained from going beyond sip or two of
champagne.
Here lie a true story in point: A young
girl of not more than %, while on a Yacht
ing party one day last summer, took per-
ceptibly too much to drink. Everybody
supposed that it was an unfortunate acct
dent But during the subseouent winter
at a ball given in private house a similar
misadventure happened to her, her condi-
tion being such that two young men, who
had been on the yachting party aforesaid,
were Obliged TO hide her away upstairs
taking turns at guarding her, so that she
should not escape and make an exhibition
OF herself. or course, however, the story
got around.
TOO MUCH CHAMPAGNE FLOWS.
There is champagne at dinner parties,
champagne at balls, champagne on the lawn
at fetes champetres-always champagne &C.
oompanied by other tempting drinkables,
with which the young women are piled by
beaux Who have more than commonly taken
more of the same than was good for them.
Any observant person who will take notice
OF the fashionable women on coaches at the
races or on festive occasions at Newport
will remark that they quite usually exhibit
symptoms OF having partaken too freely
from the bottles that are kept continually
popping. What wonder that young married
women have frequently to powder their
noses.
Do women dress TO please the men or to
satisfy the criticism of other womenl That
is much mooted question, and probably
1t will never be decided. Presumably it
is somewhat of both. General condemna-
tion will not kill a fashion. The men all
laughed the "Greoian bend" to scorn, but
the style ran It's course. They made IN
limited fun Of the ugly masses of Zulu hair
called 'chignons" which women fastened
on their heads while ago, but they held
their own. Bustles, likewise, notwithstand-
ing the ridicule of the comic papers, and
similarly with the new tangled suspenders
for females But, though men make fun of
women's fashions in the abstract, they en-
courage them in the concrete. Is not every
man particular and even anxious that his
womankind shall be dressed according to
the fashiona
STOCKINGS THE FAIR ONES WEAR.
A great manufacturer of women's stock
ings told the writer that these articles of
apparel were sold now in the same sizes as
hitherto. Without going further into the
ulscuSslon OF 80 ueIlcaEe subject the Infer
ence to be drawn may be left to the reader.
1t is stated, and probably with truth, that
the average American girl of to-day is
taller than twenty years ago; Furthermore,
that the girls Of the eastern states are big
ger than those Of the west, 80 that one
often sees them looking down upon their
partners in the dance. After all there need
be no hesitation left In speaking Of the
clothing for the neither female limbs, even
though it were OF carriers, inasmuoh as wo-
men are no longer ashamed Of having legs
Do not the new fashioned gowns exhibit
them almost as plainly as il the wearers had
on tights?
There has been a revolution In thinking
as to this point within the last generation,
and grandmorhers nowadays vainly try to
convince their granddaughters that they
should always sit with their feet close to-
gether on the floor, so as to convey an i'm
preston that they are built solid from the
ground up, like the ladies OF Noah's family
who come In toy arks
When the fln-de-siecle American girl sits
down at the table, she eats a hearty meal,
not being ashamed to have an appetite, like
Lord Dundreary's young lady, who ate
nothing to speak Of in public and gorged
herself In private. This Is another matter
which ideas formerly acceptad have been
overthrow. II the yankee young woman
has grown one inch in bust measure In the
last ten years and over an inch around the
hips, to what proportions will she have at
tanned a century hence, her feet becoming
steadily more sensible in size and her hands
smaller?