The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31
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SOME THINGS OF INrEREsT TO The
FAIR SEX.

Clara Beliefs Letters-lhe Latest
Wrinkles From Paris-A Few Refer
ences to the Girl at the Summer Re-
sorts-Other Matters OF General In
terest.
1t has at last leaked out, says Clara Belle
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, that some
women do not pay their dressmakers' bills,
yet they have secured an arrangement by
which the dressmaher is willing to let them
have all the changes they want. OF course,
a dressmakers best advertisement is on the
back of her customers. 1t is understood
that a woman shall make known her dress
makers name as often as possible. She is
even to drum up custom for the modiste.
l"Mention my NAME dear-madame will
perhaps give you better attention" means
more thaa you fancy. 1t means
that your fair adviser pays for her
seasons gowns at the end Of the
season; that when she pays she is allowed a
! discount on her bill, a percentage on each
order that comes 10 mentioning her
name 1t amounts to just this, that you
pay part of her bill, for of course madame
/ is not going TO lose anything. If bill
proves especially difficult to collect madame
| offers to take back the seasons gowns, max
ing for them an allowance on the bill This
| plan is eagerly accepted by the wretched
society woman. The seasons array of
flnery, representing. perhaps, five or six
hundred dollars worth of stuff aud lace
and embroidery, to say nothing OF the
making, is bundled back to the madame
and she forthwith takes off a hun
dred or two hundred of the bill. OF
course, madame makes enormously by such
a transaction. Some Of the gowns
she renovates slightly and sells for
1 &c hat MARI Rn9kO
| as "a copy OF Mrs. IS gown, worn this
season at the - ball" Andthe parvenu,
who would die If she knew she were wear
ing a secondhand gown, sails off delighted,
having paid probably more than the first
price of the dress, Other gowns madame
cuts up. The material she has cleaned,
though the dress is often SO slightly worn
that the stuff is perfectly fresh. This stuff
she uses IN the manufacture OF new gowns,
charging the buyer, OF course, for
new goods. More often than any one
knows. madame 30 serves secondhand
the very dress to the very customer
from whom she bought it. The unfortunate
society woman thus practically pays
twice for one gown. Meanwhile she re-
CARDS her tyrant as a darling for having
given her easy terms. Somstimes the
transaction is on single gown instead Of
on the seasons collection. Mrs needs
| a new dress for such and such fete. She
flies to her modiste, she tears her hair, she
swears she has not q cent, that her husband
has forbidden her another toilet, she begs
and implores Madame in time consents to
accept the gown completed and sold to the
poor creature few weeks before and worn
perhaps for three times, as one half pay
ment on new costume, providing
the new gown ordered be a
handsome one, costing as much
as the other dress Thus is the poor lady
trapped she can get terms on au expensive
dress, but on no other. The hard-pressed
society slave turns over gown for which
she paid $500, and orders a $200-toilet pay
ing for it the first dress and 500, or
practically paying $500 for S10O-dress
which is only at most only 800. Not only
the shop girl is poor, nor is her poverty so
pressing as the poverty of the society
woman, for the shop girl can confess her
lack of means in dress and living; the un~
happy society woman must keep up appear
ances. s9id $500 for gown. Two hun
dred Is really not an extrayagant figure for
madame to charge, nor does such price
command gown which will get any men,
ton. 1t is easy enough to pay 5000 and
even then not, make any special show in the
extravaganza throng.
The Partisan woman, says the New York
| Worlds Paris letter, has turned her atten-
ton from laces aud embroideries TO scarfs.
She buys them in quantities and uses them
| in characteristicaily French fashions.
| White India silk dresses made in princess
effect, are decorated with black lisse soarfs,
brought from the shoulder aud falling to
the knees in front. Sometimes these are
accordion plated and sometimes grace
fully draped and hanging loosely. but
caught here and there with iewsled pins.
AS foot trimming to many gowns the
scarf is used. 1t is of a shade contrasting
| with that of the dress and put on in full,
puffed effect. The back Of many gowns,
| especially those with the vatican plat,
have a hlmy scarf over drapery-narrow
scArfs bind plain silk sleeves. They also
form very becoming covering for the
head, and are so soft and light that they
don't disturb the hair. The most exquisite
scarfs are Of black lisse, with brilliant
interviewer jeweled effect They are also
made Of shot and glaze silk, with deep
fringe.
The daughter of one of ouE. literary men,
| says the recorder, owns On interesting au-
tograpb album.
Almost every arts. prominent in any
branch has written therein something be-
sides his name. Perhaps what strikes the
reader most is the mediocrity OF these GEM
| timents, although few are as frank as Patti,
| who SAYS:
IA beautiful voice is the gift Of God" or
as laconic as Lawrence Barrett's "Remem-
Der me-"
A young girl. who is a very small lioness,
was invited for personal reasons TO join this
august company; In her stage fright at
the responsibility this honor conferred she
looked wildly about for an inspiration.
Shakespeare lay open on the same table at
Macbeth" Her eyes fell on the lines
which she desperately Inscribed as at least
homage to the delight home:
This castle hath pleasant seat; its air
| Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses.
To her sstonishment this haphazard quo
tation was itself quoted and shown about
ever after by the literary papa as "the best
thing in book, by Jove!'
! A camping party at the thousand Islands
agreed among themselves that those who
| found fault with the food at any meal must
! cook the next one. At a direful breakfast
| the stew happened to be composed of almost
equal parts Of meat, potato and salt. The
first person to taste it, young st. Nicholas
Club man of peculiarly sensitive palate,
shrieked:
! "Whew, il this stuff isn't salt" A dozen
| feminine eyes we're raised to his-"but,"
with scarcely perceptible pause, II like it."
In recent book says the New York