The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-14
(COntributed.)
NV FIRST fsOEr

MY FIRST BORN.
Seventeen years of shine and shadow,
Sir ee the rosy light of morn
Made the sweet June roses rcdder
In the hour that you were born.
How that brought to flesh and spirit
Such ecstasy OF pain
Such rapture of rejoicing
AS will never come again.
I remember how the tender
Rose of morning flushed the gray,
How the sun with sudden spIendor
Changed the dawning into day
How the dappled clouds went sailing
All across the summer sky
How the robbins trilled and twittered
When | heard my baby cry.
Seventeen years but l remember
Still the passionate delight,
or that radiant June morning
After all the weary night.
Happy born to woman nuture
1T may come to You to learn
With your own child for q teacher
Such n story in your turn.
If 1t ever does, my darling,
May the time be rosy June,
May the robbins trill and twitter
Such another happy tune.
And the Child that God shall give you,
al / ask isit may be
Just the daily joy and comfort
That my first bern is TO me.
MARY L. BRADLEY.
The Discussion of Crinoline which is INTER
essin- the Fnminine Mind at Present
The subject of The return of the old fash
oncd hoop skirt and the free use OF the erin
niine in dresses, is creating quite an excite
,ncnt in the feminine world. and, indeed.
has called forth much interest among the
l.,
short while since that Mrs. Cleveland had
emphaticaiy decided to have no crinoline
used in her dresses that de-
cision should have settled it
with the society women of our
land; and now comes the news that the
princess Of Wales positively frowns and is
yexed because it could be thought that she
Would support crinolne. This will, We feel
sure, be the death blow to crinoline. An
exchange says:
The princess of Wales has been APP
preached on the subject of the crinoline;
very indignant is her royal highness to think
that Il report has been circulated to the
effect that she is favorably inclined to-
ward the return of the 'biri cage Ac-
cording to an authority m0r@ or less
mendacous. she is of the opinion that the
return TO the hoop skirt means the farewell
to feminine grace and beauty. Whether
Princess May, of Tccll will be influenced
by tnfs mandate of her royal relative,
mains to be seen. but according to the
modiste. who is to preside over the intrica-
cies of that young lady's rousseau, the Teck
taste seems favorabIy disposed towards
pctticoats Of rather exaggerated circumfe~
ence. If this be the case, an interesting
struggle may be expected between the fol
lowers of the two royal ladies'"
SO our women had best go slow in follow
ing fashion, that the first lady i'll our
land, and Il princess, ignores. We give an
excellent contribution on this subject and
which our readers will no doubt enjoy.
omen i'm steel Cages.
Woman, the dangerous animal. has run
at large too long, SO she is threatened with
REIMBURSEMENT III her steel cage of yore
She is haunted by the probable return of
the oldtime hoop skirt, which sensible peo-
pie hoped was dead and done with once for
all.
Fashion, We find to our surprise is as
autocratic Il queen as ever: perhaps,
more whimsical, for in past years, when
d style came in vogue it very sensbly held
Tor some years. Now it is different
But it will not do at all to blame the mass
OF womankind for this changefulness. We
are mere puppets in the hands of IL few
SenSatiOn-loying DcoDlp' -