The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-30
W 0 M ANS WORLD.
SOME THINGS THAT MAY INTER
EST THE FAIR SEX.
A Few Points About Flirting-rhe Way

tions About the Dance-Other Mat
ters of Gsneral Interest.
Upon dropping in the other afternoon to
have a chat with a careful uptown mother,
was amazed to find such an immense
stock Of dainty underwear lying on her bed,
says Clara Belle in a New York letter In the
Cincinnati Enquirer. There was quite
enough to stock ladies' furnishing store,
and what was most surprising to me was its
exquisite quality, especially the underskirts
and stockings, the former being in most
delicate tones and textures, hounced and
garnitured with lace, and the latter most
coquettishly clicked and embroidered,
i've been buying the girls summer un-
derweaE." exclaimed this careful uptown
mother. 81 suppose you are rather startled
at the quantity. variety and beauty of tones
and textures, but there will be a presiden-
| tial election this year, and that invariably
seems to make men coy and hard to please.
| Instead Of writing love letters, they are
placing bets on their favorite candidates.
I've two girls to get rid of yet, aud have
| determined to make them as attractive as
| possible this year. If you were a married
woman you would know what sticklers
men are for pretty underwear. No matter
/ nOW ubdbl1 I'LL huAlo may Obt IL 10 Is
carelessly thrust into a cheap stocking
TOO large for it no young man
will turn his head to take a second
| look at it. Or if girl slips and falls,
or catches her skirt on a nail, and makes a
show of a nest of plain white skirts with no
lace on them, a young man is very apt so
| take dislike to her; but let his quick eye
catch a glimpse of something pretty,
| coquettish, piduant daintily made up with
| insertions and ruchings and rutfles, run
| with baby ribbon in soft colors, and at once
his imagination is piqued, and ten chances
| to one he will take violent fancy to the
| girl and say to himself: There is a little
rosebud! 1 caught glimpse of her dainty
| petals, pink as a sea she'll and soft as down
| She will make sweet little wife for mep
and the next day. If the girl is bright, she
| follows up her advantages by putting her
best foot forward. 1t may be true,
as you say, that our mothers didn't
trickery in getting our husbands. But
my dear Clara, men have changed; In those
| days they looked upon love like an attack
of measles something to be gone through
with, but now they make preventive meas
| ures; they don't want to catch the COM
| plant. They look upon marriage as "a bore,
| don't you know and If a young man has a
| fortune he refrains entirely from making
| love or flirting; In fact, he avoids the so
| ciety of young girls entirely, putting his at
| tentions in quarters where the question of
intentions is never raised. Hence my deter
mination to do all in my power to make my
girls go this summer. They are stylish, but
not pretty, and their figures are their prIn-
cipal stock in trade. You'll be delighted to
| see Maud in her Princess gowns; she is a
| dream of statuesque length; she is one long
roll OF loneliness.
Apropos of flowers a friend Of mine, says
the Ladies Pictorial, always applies the
| fellcitous term ''bouQut man" TO an admirer
who is not exactly declared lover, but who
has made it manifest In a more elaborate
way than the mere offering of a rose in
June" that he is in proposing frame OF
mind. Girls often give themselves little airs
in the matter of flowers, affecting to regard
| the gift of them as an everyday compliment
which may beexpected from the merest so-
quaintance; but experience shows that the
attention has usually deeper meaning; and
| was lately much amused by true story of
two girl friends who used to buy each other
expensive bouquets. and v han they, were no-
ticed would say meaningly that they had
been ''sent to them," o little prevarication
| which proves how much value Is really at
taohed to these tributes as tokens Of con-
quests.
The other night, says the New York
| Times, New 7 ork man entered his Brook
Ign home with a promsing-looking pack
age, wrapped in paper, in his hand-at least,
so his wife thought as she met him and in
| Quired its contents. "Wait and seen was
| the reply, and he unrolled the wrapping,
disclosing at last pretty lamp, fitted with
| large porcelain shade and most approved
| burner.
His wife was little disappointed.
Another lamp she exclaimed. "Why,
I've banquet and piano lamp, library
/ oN,,Ia "a or, trun h,,k
| boudoir lamps. really" s
mot so fast" interrupted her husband;
"this lamp is not for you; it's for Ellen. /
went downstairs last night and found her
sewing by the light Of a poor gas burner,
l asked her if it hurt her eyes, and she said
%. no. / knew better, and bought this
| lamp out at tb ecorner for the kitchen"
His wife, the next day relating the in
cident, added. "Mr. - thinks that
woman who works all day as a cook or
housemaid does should be very well
looked after-should have a comfortable
bed and sleep In a well ventilated room,
even if we hang one less picture on the
parlor wall. 1t is when she is In the best
condition that she is capable of good
work. he says, If the matter is looked at
merely in the light OF policy" .-..-.
Ouch unusual thoughtfulness on the
part of the man Of the house may give a
hint to some housekeepers. Too many
| u1lbbTebSoS, CAREFUL III hlA ObuoT
of their homes. give scarcely thought to
the comfort or convenience Of their SER
| wants.
The shopper Of genius, according to Hdr>
per's BdzGr. is the woman who knows what
! will just f1t the vacant place-no more, no
! less. She is never carried away by the idea
that she must buy the most expensive article
she can get. People tell her "the dearest is
the cheapest in the end" The true shopper
takes broader view than that. The best
not the most expensive-is the cheapest.
The best for her need is the most appropri-
ate and that does not always mean the most
costly. Sometimes it does, quite as often it
does not. If any article will al Ways be USE
full and flt, though it last a lifetime, it is
worth sacrifice to obtain it. But there
are cases where 1t is really better to get a
cheaper thing-a more flimsy one, If you
like. Perhaps the need is passing one;
perhaps the fashion Of it will die away
perhaps the best might "swear att other
belongings; perhaps ''the best" might be Of
so decided nature that it would rasp its
owners nerves before it was worn out, her
conscience never allowing her to give away
| or burn what cost so much money.
A dance should come from the heart. It
| is like a song; it loses its best effect when
you do not feel like it yourself, Even in
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