The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-29
WHEN WOMAN BATTLES.
Bah GIVES some EAs FOR BATH
ING SUITs.


Wauer-A Smart Girls Oceanc Cos
tume-The French Id "a of a Bathine
Suit-A Dangerous Bathing Picture.
The social BIackmail- Woman's Lit
tie Superstitions-Th, Story Of an
Opal There Such Thing as Luck7
Things We Ought to Do.
(Copvrf0ht)
NEW YORK, May 2S.-There was a time
when everybody who went to the seaside
included bathing dress in the outfit, as
certainly as they did bottle of perfume.
Then for while bathing got to be bad
firm. Now, when womankind is given
over to athletics, when she can swim like
the proverbial fish and float about and do
all sorts of queer things in the water, her
bathing suit again becomes a question Of
great Importance. There are two classes
of bathers-the woman WHIP knows she
looks we'll in the water, and consequently
| goes in as fearlessly as mermaid, and the
ore who. knowing she doesn't look we'll in
the water, puts on a smart bathing get-up
and paddles around near the edge without
even getting her skirt wet.
A GIRLS BATHING SUIT.
clever in getting herself up for anything.
has made study Of the opportunities at
| forded by the ocean, and she looks as smart
! in 1t as she does when she is immaculate in
white linen shirt and close fitting coat
| She describes her mode of dress in this wav
Most women have an idea that it is only
| the plump girls who show Off to advantage
III the water. Now, they are immensely mis-
taken In this. Unless they are very carefully
dressed they grow f1abby as soon as thew get
into the wet element, and become ANYTHING
but charming objects. 1t is the slender girl
| who has the best of it, for she can nut on
the amount OF clothes necessary, and still
retain her shape, and if she Is a good swim
mer she gives to the lookers-on the impress
sion OF being some sort Of light bird fying
just over the tops of the waves III tell
| you how dress: first put on a white silk
undervest, and over this a pair OF stays
that have worn great deal, and which
consequently lend themselves easily to my
figure. By-the-by, out Of these / draw all
the side bones.
WHEN SHE GOES BATHING.
Then put on the suspenders that are to
hold up my long stockings, which are not
OF silk OF Isle thread, but, fitting me per-
fectly, are OF yarn, and cost me rather more
than silk would, but they wear a great deal
better, and look better, after they have
gotten wet. Then comes my bathing dress.
the under part, that is the knee breeches aud
bodice, all being In one piece. have
sailor collar, and my sleeves reach
just little above the elbows The
short skirt which is then buttoned
on has its fastening hidden under
the white canvas belt, which 1 can
draw in pretty well, and which have white.
80 that attention may be attracted to the
smallness of my waist. About my hair?
Well, as | expect to be properly dressed in
half an hour after come out of the water
you must know 1t isn't my own hair which
you see, for wouldn't risk getting that wet
az 1t would take too long to get it dry. l
plat my own hair in fine braids, and pin it
close to my head; then I tie to it two braids
that have their ends fastened with narrow
black ribbons; when these are placed, put
on my cap, which is a black stockinet-one
lined with rubber, and which has sewn IN
der the edge just the suggestion of fringe
of hair, SO that the hard look which comes
from the bare forehead showing is lost
When am out in the water,
MAN CAN CATCH ME
by the belt, throw me around, and I never
lose my good looks. My costume remains
absolutely in place. 1t is natural for the
crimps to come out q little, and yet as
tell you, half an hour afterward. my own
hair beautifully curled and looped, perfectly
dry, makes every other woman who has
gotten her hair wet get into an exquisite
state of fury. No, don't care for white
suits, or pink suits 1nothing is 30 smart as
the entirely black, and nothing is so much
liked by the men; and, after all, when we
dress for the water, it is the men whom we
desire to please"
THE FRENCH IDEA.
Another young woman, who doesn't in
tend to let nasty, rough creature like the
ocean get above her ankles, has a bathing
suit that certainly was conceived in France,
for In no other country would il be possible.
IL consists Of long black silk stockings, over
which are worn knee breeches Of rose
colored cloth, each confined just below the
knee by black band, which will suggest
garter. The skirt 10 a killed one Of pink,
striped from the waist down with black.
The bodice is blouse one, cut V>shaped in
the front and back, and with black stream.
ers depending from the point at the back.
The belt is laced and pointed one of black
leather. On the head is worn a Tam hat
made OF the pink cloth caught up on one
side with a rosette of black As NV
lady come to the beach, she will wear over
this q long black cloak having hood lined
with pink, which will be thrown Off with
much expression and handed to the attend-
ant maid. Whether she will hang this on a
hickory limb cannot be vouched for. but
that her mistress will not go very near the
water may be set down as a certainty. A
bathing costume like this, 30 often seen at
places like Irouvllle, as well as the other
French watering places, may be counted
among the novelties here, but the wearers
Of them do not hesitate to tell their init
mate friends that they are assumed entirely
so that the figure may be displayed, and
that there is no intention whatever of ever
seeing what the salt water is like
Not very modesto Well, nc, it isn't very
modest; but, then, modesty cannot be set
down as q special feature Of fashionable So
ciety in New York. The woman who
has a beautiful figure seems to live to
show it, until absolutely one yearns for a
mere feminine outline, not exactly the
shape that fashion calls her own.
A DANGEROUS Kodak PICTURE
You hear good deal nowadays about
blackmail, and you think it isn't true, Well.
now, IL is. And a very innocent affair has
been the cause of making a young girl and
O married man wretchedly unhappy for
this entire winter. The girl, young and
pretty, was, last summer, swimming and
playing around with her brother in the wa
ter. Just near her was young married
man whose wife has the reputation of being
extremely jealous. On the shore was aplous-
looking chap armed with a kokak The
romping Of the water grew more bolster
GUS. Benedict, the married man, caught the
young girl in his arms to throw
her into a big wave that was
coming her way; SO she kicked and
screamed as only girl can, and during this