The morning news., 1892-02-21

has 70 90 through life looking up, and moth
ing Is so becoming to eyes as that Her
lashes show more, and so does her hair.
There are curves Of chesk, chin and throat
that look their prettiest to . man who must
glance down TO them. A small girl Is more
easily held and more easily kissed. IL Is
nicer, too, 70 have TO lift her face up by the
chin, and It Is more epicurean and satisfac-
tory to reach down TO the rpturued lips
Everything about a small girl is likely TO
De provocAtion-ihe Unexpectedly tiny
hand, the distracting morsels OF feet, the
little head. the little nose. A small glrl can
be fascinating even in temper; she can be
delicious when she cries; she can even be
lovely when she pouts; and none Of these
moods sets well on a big woman. Then,
too. the man in love 10 inclined TO pet names,
and he wants TO call his girl "Birdy."
whether she weighs 2O0 or not, yet he is not
lnsensible 70 the appropriateness OF the
title when given 70 a real little thing
A man likes TO feel big. by comparison at
least. A really large man does not object
to seeming almost giant beside the girl OF
his heart, and it is almost necessary to the
Short mans vanity that he shall seem big to
the little creature he is going to marry. Ii
is very fetching to have ones girl say:
PLEASE, dear, my neck gets so tired
you're so tall. DON'T you know what that
means! Well, get bit Of a girl and you
will find out. On the whole the small eirl
has the best Of it.
such gay season as it promises to be,
with huge fiowered challies, silks and gren.
adlnes, such gay striped tatfetas and change
able twills and brocaded crepons. Such
season for laces OF all kinds-point gaze,
| point d'Alencon, point de Genet, applique
point, Oriental and Geneva laces. Even
novelty goods in wool come with a lace bor-
| der, white on dark blue or gray, and all
manner OF bright stripes. Sometimes the
materials cub on the edge in pattern and
appllqued down into the lace, or a little
cord covers the jointure. All kinds of
| rough wool goods have a bit of the lace in
troduced somewhere with happy effect.
And gold, too, brig items the piainest of
wool gowns and enriches the handsome ones
as only gold can. The chiffon frills that
were embroidered last year must be beaded
and spangled and wrought with gold edges
now.
With the coming OF the sun blue is the
color thnt prevails. The blue of the sky
such sky as we imagine we are going to get
In April, with the wind whisking the white
clouds across the face of it and the tree
buds thrusting themselves in silhouette
against it-looks out from all the new ma
| terials There are blue ohiffons, too deli
cate in their beauty even to look at, and blue
India silks, dotted with butterflies and rose
buds. and whitey-blue cloths with blue vel
vet ribbons laid against them, and blue
muslins with gnarly brown twigs inlacing
their borders, and blue batistes checked
with sliver-Rray, and blue chambrays
crossed with yellow, giving the very essence
OF imagined spring-not always the real
artlcle-in sky and food Of sunshine.
Violet and heliotrope shades are going to
be more fashionable even than last season.
| VVnDldnif vVrifa if dny-r, h. o.,
not too obvious long to escape observation,
Tor the wrong women always put them on
and spoil the colors and themselves. Green
and white rank high, and will rank higher.
The combination presents designs enough.
but less serious ones than the heliotrope.
probably.
Some one, says the New York Sun. has
called woman "the genius of epistolary
communication" aud indeed the gift of
graceful letter writing is one peculiar to
women, handed down from mother to
| daughter through the mystery Of heredity.
Certain regulations govern these apparently
spontaneous productions. even as Brown
ing sonnet In all Tvs mysticism conforms to
the requirements Of verse structure. In the
first place the note elegant is not written
upon the convenient "correspondence
card" but upon small sheet Of thick cream
paper, either glazed or rough, according
as the writer's taste inclines The sheet has
at the top the street and number of the
ladys address In plain letters, the
name OF her country home. or the town in
which she lives, If it is 80 small as to be
without numbered houses. Tie sheet is
folded once and inclosed in square en-
velope, and is more elegant and ceremonial
If sealed with wax. As to the chiro9raphv.
that which is most ilIegible is most stylish.
III woman cannot correct her unfortunate
habit OF writing 50 that people can read 1t
In any other way she uses quill pen,
which generally brings about the desired
result. The great feature of the
stylish hand is that it has no curves.
but Is sharply pointsd and the let
ters are closely crowded together.
The reason why this style Of writing is
considered elegant is that 1t cannot from Its
formation be written hastily. Any evil
dence OF haste is considered inelegana.
whether it manifests itself In a careless
toilet or careless note. Thenote begins on
the first page, skips to the fourth and fin
ishes up by being written across the sheet
on the inside pages. This is one of the
things it is well for a man to remember, for
sometimes the words of the fourth page are
not read at all as the signature is on the
third and complications arise thereby.
One thing for woman to remember ia
that she can never afford to write careless
note, for some one Is certain to see it and
judge her by 1t just as she is sure to meet
the man for whose opinion she most cares
when she goes out in her old bonnet.
The woman who wrote in her haste upon
her visiting card. Come with pleasure, in
answer to dinner invitation, found the
gates OF society closed against her ever
afterward as one too busy or too brief for
civility. Authorizations and numerals are
as bad form In the note elegant as a derby
hat with dress suit.
81. B. Randolph. Brunswick, Ca, writes:
81 was under the care of nine different
doctors, but not one did me the good that