The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-11
ALL AROUND Bah.
SHE PORTR AVS FAIR WOMAN IN
RER VARIOUS BAUNTs.

SHE PORTRAYS FAIR WOMAN IN
RER VARIOUS HAUNTs.
Toy shop Activity-Mothers with On
ruly Comprehensive Appearance
of American and English Women on
Rainy Days-My LadY's Horse Car
Behavior - The Fascinating French
Madam on Her Promenade-Tne Pc
culiar Ways of Dressm skers-A Long
Suffering Modiste - Women, Bony
and Plump-Human Pincushions-A
Female "Dream" in Mournful Grape.
The Belongings of One Woman's
Animal"
(CopVrioht.)
NEW YORK, Dec. l0.-If there is any
thing that makes me absolutely more of an
idiot than my family and friends usually
credit me with being. it's the shops full of
Christmas things Idon't mean the jewelry
shops. nor the bric-a-brac places. nor the
lace and silk palaces; but mean the toy
shops. can fall down and worship white
woolly dog done up in blue ribbons, and
can stand for an hour and stare at a me-
the table, and has on its tin coach women
who are enough sight better looking than
those usually seen on really, rightly drag.
want every doll. I love all their belong
ings, from the tiny parasols that protect
their compilations to the satin corsets, that
really must be healthy. for they don't
squeeze their figures bit never feel like
stealing except when l am in a toy shop,
and then, really fail to see why can't
take something home without "paying
for it."
CHILDREN WHO NEED CHLoRoFoRNING.
watched two dolls dance yesterday; one
OF them gentleman In evening dress, and
the other a lady. whose full tuIle skirts
swept the floor as they waltzed and reversed
as the most fashionable couple would do.
One inQuiring child wanted to see where
the music was and when she was told it was
under the dolls pettlcoats, she said, 30, |
am so sorry that dolls are so improperm
You know, really, children like that ought
to be chloroformed. Another, a small man,
beautifully dressed in velvet clothes and
with rich lace collar desired an expensive
mechanical toy. His mother said he could
look at it. but she declined to buy it. When
they got out the shop the young man
stretched himself out on the pavement and
yelled at the top Of his voice. In a minute
big crowd was around him, he pointed to
bis mother and said: "She's cruel TO me!n
The sympathy of the crowd was entirely
with the boy. He refused to get up until
be was promised the toy. He got it, and
then went home And when he got home
an irete woman broke it all to pieces with
hammer and gave him such old-fashioned
treatment that he very politely says just
now, Thank you, don't care TO sit dos n;
I'm more comfortable standing upn Wasn't
be little besstf like children, but like
them very tender and young; and if l had
one like this around me, | think it would
result in manslaughter. or boyslaughter, or
whatever it might be called. 1t is to be
hoped that during the time when the toys
are on exhibition we will have good
weather, for a woman is hardly able to take
care of herself on rainy day. and much
less to pilot three or four children.
LADIES OUT ON RAINY DAYS.
As rainy day outer, tho American wo-
maa is not a success. She lacks the cour-
age of the English girl who doesn't care
how she looks, provided she is comfortable,
and who. feeling perfectly secure in q good
storm-coat, goes through mud and water in
broad soled shoes and galoshes, certain of
coming out all right. She strides over a
crossing and don't mind the soft rain drops
on her face. Now, the average American
woman does not look we'll or course, il
she goes in for comfort she puts on a short
skirt, a long ulster and a felt hat, and takes
an umbrella But she is very uncertain in
her grasp of it, She takes 1t by the ex-
treme end, and it wob les to and fro as
the. wind liSteth, or else she grasps it way
up by the top, presents the appearance of a
perambulating mushroom, while, as she
can't see anybody, the looksrs-ou chance
having their eyes knocked out, or else
their digestions punched in. After she has
walked for block or two, she usually
concludes to get in car and her
umbrella is wildly waved to stop it;
then she makes the effort to get
on the platform with the umbrella still
open. As the car was not built with this
idea in view, the conductor yelis to her:
shut thatW She stands perfectly still and
says something about reporting him. while
the nearest man closes her umbrella and
after that she cslmly enters the car, sits
down by somebody who has had the rheu-
matism and lets that vile umbrella drip on
him until he almost has a nervous chill.
Instead of putting her money in her ulster
pocket she's got it in her Dress so when the
conductor comes for it she unbuttons the
coat, squirrns around TO find the pocket, has
the whole car interested in her efforts, and
when the money Is found gives 1t to the uu-
fortunate conductor in way that suggests
that he ought TO be glad that she was here
instead of making her pay for the privilege.
Then she takes out her handkerchief, makes
dab at her face, looks all around the car
with her best smile, and says, with a pro-
longed sigh:
80, I'M so TIREDp
This expression of weakness affects every
man in the car, absolutely permeates the
being of each one, and my private opinion
Is that if any woman did this the second
time the men would have a row as to who
should have the privilege of letting her UNI
orella drip on him. When she gets out, it's
fun TO see her cross the street. She is used
to being helped by a man. When she is
alone she grasps her skirt in one hand, looks
aronnd, stands on her tiptoes, gets to the
middle of the street, sees a wagon coming
ard runs back; then she waits Irresolutelv
for some time ana then rushes across the
street at the risk Of her life without any
regard for appearance or else is helped
over by some man who knows the ways of
women and feels sorry for her
A French woman will never make her
self so ridiculous. She lifts her skirts in a
dainty sort of way, gives full view of a
perfectly fitting boot, a sugges ion OF a
black silk stocking-but she only allows
that to be a peep-she gives a coquettish
glance up and down the street, and then,
with the quicknsss of bird, sh, gets over
the bad places and is safe on the other side.
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