The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-09


did nobody had near so elegant a time!"
and she sighed agsin.
A luncheon given the other day. says the
New York Tribune, was delightfully."- sug-
gesttve OF the coming spring time. The
table was decorated with logs of silvery
birch with the bark on, which were hol-
lowed out to receive a charming arrange
ment Of "violets pied,n purple. yellow and
white, growing out of a bed OF moss and
ferns. The center log was with the length
Of the table, and the two others thanked 10
at either end, while pale green ribbon laid
on the table held together punches Of the
violets at each plate.
A new and very lucrative opening has
lately been offered to young women of
| talent through the fashion of drawing room
entertainments of various kinds; and many
q young girl who would shrink from the
ordeal of public hall finds courage TO face
the kindly audience of a private house-sn
audience which is always SO easily pleased
and complimentary. Recitations, planta-
ton songs with banjo Accomplishments, and
even dancing have been equally popular
with more serious music. While many
wOuld-be hostesses daplore the exJravagant
scale of the entertainments OF the day,
which make more modest functions seem
tame and uninteresting, they must admit
LueAh AhN NA III C6ELdAu QlEENLlOus
does a vast amount of good, and that it is
both the privilege and the duty of the rich
to develop talent and wit by offering just
such opportunities.
A young widow in Atlanta ia preparing
to enter a convent because her lover, una
ware of her first marriage, has declared
that he would rather die than marry
widow. As the first step toward holy life
she wrote poetry in profusion. Converts
cannot yawn too often or too wide for wild
ows who write poetry.
ParRsols, like bonuets, range from very
serviceGble affairs to the most delightfully."-
useless and airy fairy creations. White
crepe embroidered in colored silk is over
white saJiu, and bordered with white mara
bout feathers that grow on pretty white
chickens. Printed chiffon canopies edged
with double ruffla have handles of carved
ivory. Beautiful handles of carved wood
are in use. White Dresden handles are on
canopies OF white China silk and crepe.
Sunshsdes take all the flowers and furbe-
lows that belong TO the parssol, and carry
them OF so bewitchinglY that the result in
dollars and cents is quite as serious as the
materials are light. CanOpieS of silk in
neutral colors have dounces Of pink seal
lops that, when the parasol ID closed, makes
q great bouquet around the handle of
twisted wood Another pretty effect on
closed parasol is given by the wide border
fiounce of lace, which falls back over the
tight-rolled canopy like the faring skirt or
one of the new gowns. Ebony handles are
ornamented with gold chains.
Are hoop-skirts coming? l hope not.
But wider skirts, says Clara Belle in tho
Times Democrat, are really here. We
shall have to move out of town, hang our
hnEharH1o c1Ofhas ~ h. trir 10, 4
move into bis closet as we'll as our own.
What shall We do when we want to 60
down to Boston to Sister Maria's wedding,
and take only one evening gown with US?
We can borrow Johns dress-sUit case, and
do 1t very nicely il we have an empire
evening gown, but whsu 1t comes to
a triple expansion, wired skirt, what
about trunks, anyhow Here are
our dressmakers making our summer
gowns, with all the skirts wired to a stiff
yards at least, because they swear that
orinolines will be ell the rage at Saratoga,
and how on earth are we ever to get to Sara
toga after we have got the gownss They
won't go into any of the trunks we have got
or can get. Pause, o, pause! Let US think
just few very necessary thinks before you
make any more of the new gowns. Suppose
we take the sleeper to Bar Harbor or Sara
toga or wherever we are going. If we have
our travelling gown cut with the wired fare
We shall have to sit up all night. We GER
tainly shant be able to take that skirt off
and put it anywhere and we can'e
lie down in it because it will Jump
up and smash a hole through the
upper berth. A state room will be as bad.
l suppose we will have to sit
down in the midst Of the skirt, let 1t cave In
about us and so spend the night, as it we're,
in a collapsed drinlung cup. Good gracious
II the skirts are surfened out with crinoline
they don't even collapse. They will be like
those things German mothers strap their
babies into. When the babies get tired
trundling the widespread frame about they
curl uD their little legs and hang in the
belt Is that the way we are doomed TO
take our rest in the coming time-to curl
up our little legs and hang in our beltl Hor-
rtble! Yet these dresses are being made,
How are we to get into theml Shall we
climb up the sides and let Ourselves down
over the top! Or shall we lay them down
on the floor and crawl in?