The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-06
w OMAN'S WORLD.
A FEW rEINGS THAT MAY INTER
EST THE FAIa SEX

eating What IL the Latest in Gowns
Other Matters of Small Interest.
leave aside,n says Edward Box, sal
power Of a woman's influence over a mani
life if you will, and consider his helpless.
ness A man doesn't know how to take
care of himself. He is not quite as helpless
as a ship at sea without a compass, but the
simile can almost be truthfully applied, The
absence Of a wife from home has demon
strated to many = man how large and i'm
portant a part she is Of it, and Of him. The
right kind of q wife knows better what "a
essential to her husbands comfort than he
does himself-far better. He waits for i'll
ness to come, and then con6ats it, frequently
when too late. But the wife sees the symp-
toms and uses preveutives. Her keen in.
sight tells her tba. her husband Is unwell
when sometimes be Is not conscious of il
himself Leave a man alone, and be will sit
for hours in pair Of wet shoes. or wetted
clothes. Not so when a woman is near.
Women, we are told, know little Of bust
ness, yet hen business troubles come TO q
man what comfort a good wife can be.
By her efforts, more, perhaps, than by what
she actually aocomplishes. she brings new
hope, new courage. and points the way to a
AuW OcSAunAuRs
Verify, says the New York Sun, the com
ing man is going to be woman. She has
appropriated his suspenders, be has taken
unto himself her sash She is discarding
the thraldom of the corset; he is just Begin
ming to submit himself to its yoke. The
corset idea. as manipulated by the virile
masculine mind, Is robbed of its poetry, its
witchery, its charm. The woman's corset
q tJullso -
fitting and falling into the perfect curves Of
the womans figure. A man hasn't any
more curves than a carpenters square. The
woman's corset is dream of color, barno-
nious, symphonic, rhythmic. 1t is iridescent
with floral tints, glowing and shimmering
in a fash Of pink. IL is opalescent,
like Venetian glass, with sunset fires
cleaning family through wreaths of mist.
It is sprayed with blossoms, violets in
moss-green bed, or rosebuds in a cloud of
cerulean blue. II is frilled with frost-like
laces drawn up on dainty ribbons aud
hooked with golden clasps, jewel-set and
cleaning. Now, the mans corset Is as
black and sQuare-cornered and uncompro-
missing as an underteker's wagon. Ii is
about as much like the woman's idea as
mans backing box is like a woman's mani
cure case. 1t is made OF heavily corded
black coutille, strongly boned and buckled
to inpart an elegance Of figure and car
rage. perfection OF fit to clothing, and an
air OF soldierly distinction to its wearer,
Now, if the women's clubs want to do
half az much as they've talked about doing
for their sex. let them raise funds for the
importations of this corset from London.
where IL is made. Let them form secret
societies to charm men with mystic wiles
into wearing the belt. Let them look
aSkance a fha slauohv dot,ra of tho $500,
who doesn't wear corset, even as men now
rldicule the woman who has discarded it.
The universal adoption of the corset by
men will bring about the desired equality
OF the sexes sooner than coeducation or
woman's suffrage There can be no such
thing as equality until man is laced into
stays, has trailing skirt to hold up, and
no pocket in which to put his things. In
the fiutter Of the summer young mans sash
and the trimness OF the winter young mans
waistcoat is hope for the future of woman.
The adoption Of the corset means the abdi-
cation Of sovereignty.
MANY women" says the 7oilettes Maon-
zine, dress ns if the face was the only con-
sideration, yet we see the face once where
we see the whole person twenty times, as
across room or the street. Again, they
dress as IL they were half length portrait.
not considering what is below the waist
80 sne does In her short mirror, but she for
gets that what she adds above she cuts off
below, and were she TO look into a long
glass she would see by apparently shorten
ing her limbs she loses for mora HIGHT
than she gains by frightening her waist.
The shorter the woman the shorter should
De her waist. Imagine short, stout wo-
man with large head. wearing heavy
wreath of French flowers on il. and a
heavier wreath with great, dark leaves mix
ed with the flowers encircling her form at the
end OF a long corselet bodice. We're she tc,
look at herself in a long glass she could
hardly fail to see that she appears TO ba cut
of at the knees. Such a dress is simply
ludicrous.h The stout woman who laces
closely to diminish her apparent size makes
an almost tragic mistake. The form that is
squeezed In at one place must necessarily
putt out at another, and the bust aud thighs
gain additional prominence by contrast
with the small waist. IL stout womeu
would wear looser frocks and drape
the front Of their bodices with straight
folds and not define the waist sharply at all.
there would be an agreeable doubt in the
mind OF the spectator as to how much was
woman and how much dress, where at pres.
ent there is an altogether unpleasant GER
tainty.
The use of amulets for disease, saws the
New York Tribune, seems to belong 10
past age. vet, in truth, superstition is al
most as rife to-day as in the romantic
times when people discovered fairy rings In
the meadows, and, by every wandering
stream. the footprints of the water sprites.
Ii hardly seems possible that copper rings
or inlsid rings of iron or other base metal
should be worn to-day to ward Off disease.
Yet there are wise people. men of affairs.
who would scorn to show superstition
in great things, who are firmly
convinced that they owe immunity
from disease to some such token. We can
all recall some kindly grandmother of old
times who, as she tied her gold beads
around the neck of a grandchild, who. like
Leah, was "teader-eyed," half-apologet-
ically explained the exceptional favor:
Helen's eyes" A dignified gentleman. e
man distinguished in great public matters.
only few days ago twirled an iron ring
around his finger, and in explanation said:
That's for rheumatismm
A French paper has come out lately with
new, strange and simple cure for stout-
ness. 1t is one that will recommend itself
70 everybody from the abs olute ease and
safety with which 1t can be employed II
consists simply in never eating more th an
one dish at each meal, no matter what that
dish is. A person may consume as much as
che stomach can bear and satisfy the ape
tite without the least reserve. Neverthe-
less, nothing but one dish should be taken.
No condiments, no soups. no supplementary
desserts should be allowed. This is said by