The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-12

she had done with only an umbrella could
do almost anything.
The cabinet ladies' Of the Cleveland adj
miuistration, says the Sun, will include
three young and ambitious women, about
Mrs. Cleveland's age, who will fill their new
roles with grace and tact. Mrs. Wilson s.
Bissell Is musician of talent, who has
studied both IN this country and abroad,
and has all the charms and graces so much
admired in social circles. She is a fine
looking woman of the brunette type,
quite young enough 20 enjoy her
Washington honors and as this
tion Of babies, she is we'll prepared with a
little daughter a few days younger than
Baby Ruth. Mrs. Smith is a young and
attractive woman, devoted mother and a
gracious dispenser Of charities. Mrs. La
mont has fine repose and grace of man
ner, that excellent thing in woman" a soft,
low voice, and quiet self-possession and
serenity that will win where more am
bilious woman might conquer society.
There are three children in the Lamont
family, the youngest born during the Cleve-
land administration, and named by the
Presidents wife Frances Cleveland Lamont.
Mrs. Cleveland and these women of the
republican court are typical American
women, owing their prominence in the
world to the successes of their consorts, and
illustrating the wonderful adaptRbihty Of
the American women TO assume unfamiliar
honors with the grace which queens to the
manner born might envy. There is much
said of the American men who have left
the pillow TO take up the reins OF govern
ment, but it Is not less remarkable to see the
RraciOusness with which the American
school Elrl leaves her French exercises or the
American wife gives up the making of her
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high social places with grace and dignity
Helen Bridgeman, says the New York
Sun, has analysed the good dinner wom-
an" as one who must be neither too young
nor too old she must not be unpleasant to
look upon, neither must she be a beautiful
automaton; she must be quick, responsive,
interesting and vivacious, but she must not
mouopoliZe the conversation and cause
others to fight for their rights; she must
have in her the spirit of the bonhommie,
yet she must be the epitome of good breed
ing ard refinement; in fine. she must
be the most fascinating flower OF
a complex civilization" One , could
spell all this with four letters, tact, and
tact in its highest form amounts to genius.
1t is probably the hardest grace to cultivate
in the catalogue Of virtues, for it embraces
all the others. 1t is really the spirit aud
the letter OF the golden rule, and its corner
stone is unsel6shuess The popular woman
knows that every human being is happier
10 tell a good story than to hear one. 1t
belongs TO the general principle of being
more blessed to give than TO receive, aud
the good dinner woman, If one may be par
doned for using the numbering phrase again,
has this written as the first law in her deca-
logue. One of the few really gifted women
in this particular said in sudden burst of
confidence the other day:
Nobody knows what downright hard
work do TO earn my success. keep note
book at hand, and every quaint expression
every good story, every amusing thing
see or read or hear, which l think will work
up into telling sentence, down it goes in
classified order. Then just sit down and
cram for dinner as a school girl does for
examination. Want to know who learned
that FRONT Why, from the famous
Chauncey. They say he has scrap books
galore, full of manner Of jokes and good
things. But with woman IL is different.
You have to think of other people more
than yourself when the dinner begins. My
mind is just like my gown, after IL it Is once
ready think no more about it. l try to
find out the people am to meet, what they
are interested in, and then lead up to ap-
propriate topics, introducing them as
adroitly as possible, Ill in the gaps with my
nonsense, and get people to talking. That
Is the way to entertain them.
II once went down to dinner with a
famous man talker, and when we were