The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-17
WON Ms WORLD.
a Few New Things in the Faihions
Bright stories.

| A Few New Things in the Faihions and
Bright stories.
Up in one of the hotels in New York
there dwells certain newspaper woman
who, like the bachelor of nursery lore. lives
by herself.
A few weeks ago the loneliness OF her
situation occurred to her, and she started
out to get a companion. All the flesh and
blood ones that she knew were open to some
objection. II she wanted them very much
they we're sure to be otherwise engaged, and
those who were available she did not care
for at all. And 30, with rare good reason
ing, she bought Chinese doll and paid 81 so
for it and took 1t home
"This is my proxy" she explains to smil-
ing callers, who sdmire the life-sized
Chinese baby seated in the corner lam
away so much, you know, that am obliged
to have proxy. Her full name Is Proxy
Ruth. Ruth is after the Cleveland baby,
you know"
At last accounts Proxy Ruth and her Its
erary owner we're both doing well, and were
living in singular harmony and unanimity
Of spirit
The little shoulder cape, says the New
York Sun, that we embraced so ardently in
seen now except at the theater, where the
cavalier and Henry II. shapes, with their
imposing collar, lined with ostrich feath-
ers. frequently lend piquant grace to a
pretty woman's toilet. The capes are usu-
ally lined with some CAV color, and the
smart little bonnet matches this lining in
tints. Among the treasures recently dis
played by a returned girl traveller from
Paris was cape OF black velvet, with a
wonderful Persian embroidered collar
sparkling with iridescent metallic
threads and jewels. About this
collar was band of sable and
from it fell founce of beautiful white lace,
creamy with age or coffee stain. The cape
was lined with pale blue silk And the
bonnet, when she sat very still and you
could look closely, you could distinguish
pale blue tint and rosette, blue aigrette
on one side sparkling with diamonds and
bit of yellow old lace, all of which may
have been a bonnet Any way, it had most
imposing strings OF pale blue that fell far
below the cape. And the girl who wore it
was of the most brilliant brunette type
with skin as clear as a child's, but as dark
as Spanish seRora.
The real objection to the girl of the
day, says Clara Belle in New York letter
to the Cincinnati Enquirer, is her insane
desire to get married. The very moment
Sle lS presented 10 I'll 6llklDI0 party bn0
begins her net-casting, and it's not agree
BILE, so say these club men, TO be eternally
engaged in wriggllDR out OF the matri-
monial seine. The girl of to-day detests the
word sentiment, and has but one question to
put to herself when a young man is pre-
sented t. her: "Can he take care of meg
It's a simple question, but it means great
deal.
But no doubt you are anxious to know
how the IN do without the
girl. Easy enough, they intend to cultivate
the women OF 80. There are plenty Of them,
for woman is 30 until she has passed
the 40 limit Now the woman Of 80 in the
old countries is the most charming of COM
panons, intelligent, vivacious, amiable and
inspired with an ambition to please. She
doesn't expect an offer of marriage. She is
willing to fill the role of friend, to be salts
fed with reasonable amount of attention.
She has all the young girl has, save the
complexion-that may not be quite 50 fresh
and transparent, but she is not bottomless
hopper into which theaser tickets, expensive
caLdies, gloves jewelry, invitations to
lunches, supper parties and dances, disap-
pear like snowfakes in the river. o. no,
She is a semi-reasonable being and above all
a grateful one-which the young girl never
u.s. She thinks her company is worth all 1t
brings and she tries to make it bring all she
can. The club man feels that be can learn
something from the woman of 80 She'll be
a liberal education to him without letting
him suspect it. The pert miss Of 20 has