The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-07

the collection OF new series on black
background. Black is more becoming to
her, and Jacks name will not be in such
conspicuous position.
Sand in the shoe, says Clara Belle in the
Times Democrat, has been used good
many seasons. but it is still fetching. 1t IS
| no longer in good taste 10 let him take oil
the shoe. The long-skirted girl is not chic
and soubrettish, as ives the short-skirted
girl, but is delciously maidenly and modest.
| She is in distress long before she says
word about the dreadful sand. Even then
she does not say a word. She begins to
| limp little, and her pretty brows tanRle
/ up in sweet suffering, but she only bushes
and says Nothing" when he asks what is
the matter. Presently she just can't stand
it another minute. Every step she takes
goes right through him, and he says:
Your shoe hurts you, and you need not
say 1t does not" Then she assents doletully
that it does. or course, he orders her to
sit right down and let him take it OFF.
Whereat she bushes furiously and refuses,
not grossly, but only in q pretty, helpless,
frightened way.
Possibly he is one of those dreadful fell
lows who knew her last season when every
thug was quite different, and he says, 30
| come, don't be foolish; sit down and take ID
of. won't look il you don't want me TO. !"
| This Is the time the girl must be firm. Sne
can look at him with gentle horror and
| say, with the sweetest sad dignity in the
world, Indeed. it does not hurt at all. l
| was only jesting." Then she must stick to
it and go on talking. letting her voice
tremble little and smiling bravely, and
walking on the poor little foot very hard
| and determined, and the tears brighten her
| eyes little while she keeps them smiling.
| He will be the most miserable man for
miles around by the time they get home,
l..
| Only the girl must be firm about 1t at once.
II he is not one of the men she knew last
year. when everything was quite different,
| she can after aw lie consent to see what the
matter is, if only he will walk on and pre-
| tend nothing is the matter. This, OF course,
he does reluctantly. The advantage Of this
way over the old is that there need not be
any sand in the shoe at all, and yet one is
not exposed to the suspicion of having pre-
| tended. 1t does look so horrid Of girl to
| be making a fuss over her shoe, Just for
nothing in the world but to have 1t taken
off and show her stocking. This way no
| one knows whether there is any sand or not
| in il. Indeed, it is much better to have
| none, for sand wears out the stocking so.
II she wants to show the stocking she can
| find her foot so tender when she comes to
put on the shoe that she just can't; 80 she
| lets him come back, and says dolefully that,
| il he does not want to wait, to go and leave
| her-that she Knows in a little while she can
get it on, and. OF course he explains
that he would rather die than leave her.
After awhile she can let him very gently
try to get the shoe on. OF course it must
be fauldess, and the stocking even more
| faultless, though Katie Flipp assures me
| that a pretty darn on the top of the little
toe, very nice darn, in silk exactly match
| ing the stocking, is very fetching and
| speaks well for the deftness Of ones fingers
| n
really competent maid il one is to do this.
| There are other gems besides the precious
| opal, says the New York Times. which gro W
dim and fade with age. The pearl, II shut
away for any length of time from the air
and light, is said to lose its luster; but this
may be restored by wearing it again. The
popular notion that pearl is injured by
water is not altogether correct. A hawIess
pearl is not injured In any way by moist
ure. 1t is only when pearl is cut in half,
as those set in cheap Jewelry usually are.
that it is dangerous to put it in water, or
| when it has a flaw In it, so that the water
can penetrate the inner layers of which
| the pearl is composed. All pearl necklaces
should occasionally be taken to the
| jewellers to be restrunR. They are strung
| on fine wires of gold or platinum, which
| are made SO light in order that they NAV be
| invisible, that they become easily weakened
by wear; and if the string breaks the
chances are that the wearer will lose many
pearls unless she is exceedingly fortunate.
| The moonstone is another gem which is liza
bic to be affected by moisture and become
darkened and lose its luster. At least, this
is true Of the cheap Ceylon moonstones,
which form the largest quantity sold In this
| city. A large moonstone with a fine lustea
is worth more than double those cheap
mooDstones, some of which have little more
luster than glass.
There Is a funny story, says the New
York Sun, told of man who visited for a
| long time in the house with the woman he
adored and, owing to the nssiduous atten-
ton of his hostess, found no opportunity to
declare his devotion. In sheer desperation,
| as he was about to depart, he scrubbed on
his menu card "Will you marry meg' and
sent it TO the lady in the drawing room.
Tell the gentleman yes" was the mes
| sage returned.
All of which reminds one Of the fact that
| few hostesses appreciate that the funda-
mental principle in the art of fine enter
tanning is to gracefully leave your guests
| alone, after having given them the freedom
! of your castle and provided them with
| every comfort and convenience possible
I within its environment. Every one remem
| bers the unutterable exhaustion of visiting
in a household where the hostess, with the
| klnQIleSC ana Desb InOClVeS IN bn6 world, de-
mands the complete sacrifice of ones indi-
| viduality and inclination to the pleasures
she provides and the plans she formulates,
where the hurried round of drives, visits
and banquets precludes all possibility for
rest, where the letters you ought TO write,
the books you like to read. and the sweet
self-communion which all but shallow
natures enjoy must be neglected for want
of time between fete and festival. Can you
ever forget the long, hot afternoons, when
| existence was tolerable oaly in the coolest
! ofnegligees. and discomfort forgotten only
| in the lightest Of summer novels; but when
| your hostess, from a mistaken sense of
duty, insisted on entertaining you with con-
versation In which you were Obliged to
share OF seem ungracious and ungrateful7
The theory Of entertaining is nowhere so
thoroughly understood and 80 exquisitely
carried out as IN England country houses,
where the guest is taken in as one of the
family, left entirely to follow bis own bent
through the long mornings, and only ex-
pected to be on duty at the full-dress pa
| rade of the formal dinner And this idea
may be carried out even in small households
where only one maid. and perhaps that one
incompetent, is included IN the menage, if
the hostest is hospitable enough to receive
her guest as one of the family. The least
sign Of effort. either in the preparation
of meals or the provisions for enjoyment on
the part of the hostess, unconsciously de-
| e., Ank - SvNNz ola hav-