The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30


the construction of the first ladys shirt
waist was begun, AT least a dozen at
tempts were made before the difficulties
OF fitting were overcome. At length Miss
Nelson struck envy to the souls of her
friends by appearing in her new shirt
waist, in which she fairly luxuriated be-
fore their envious eyes. She did not
retain her lonely eminence of comfort
very long, however, and this season the
same tailor who then made the one waist
for Miss Nelson has made 5000 waists
and is still at work OF course, that is q
mere drop in the bucket compared with
the millions which are sold in the stores
Not long after the evolution of the
shirt waist the same tailor was furnish
ing tennis outfits for the Columbia stu
dents when second brilliant idea came
to him. He suggested to a certain MIR.
Lee that a pretty girl and IA stunning
blazer would not be a bad combination
Mr.. Lee thought so too. He put the case
in that light to his friend Miss jackson,
and, presto the young lady came out in
the varsity stripe and blaze of glory.
These successes opened the way to
what has become great movement in
woman's fashions, the modelling of femi-
nine garments after the masculine ones.
For instance, this same tailor was one
evening watching some members of the
Racquet Club dress for dinner when he
said to one of them:
"Why wouldn't your wife look well in
gown similar to your dress suit2"
"She would replied the gallant hus-
band. make her one"
1t was done. The suit was of plain,
dark cloth. The skirt was perfectly
plain, because the resemblance to the
mans suit was to be carried out as per-
fectly as possible, and trousers are not
trimmed. The coat had silk-faced lapels
and WIS cut away with claw-hammer
back. A white waistcOat and white shirt
completed the outfit, which was quite
popular for time.
When Rhoda Broughton was young
girl she was very poor, moderately plain,
and altogether infamous. AT the begin
ming of her career (Which was then so
small a thing as to be barely perceptible
TO the naked eye) she and a likewise
young, likewise impoverished, and like
wise unknown cavalry officer fell madly
in love with each other. 81 think, my
son, that it is time you were sent to In
dia," sagely remarked the father of this
youth on hearing of the state of affairs.
So the cavalry officer dutifully sailed for
India, where in time he became a pOrtiy,
liver person of Importance, while
Rhoda remained in London to write
stories of poor, talented young girls whose
y
invariably went of to India just at the
most exciting and sentimental part of the
narrative.
No end of international discussions, says
the New York Tribune, have been held
on the subject of the respective advan-
tages of the American system of checking
ones luggage and the British hOld-fast
theory that IL should be taken with the
| traveller on the top of his cab. English
men contend that it is better to submit to
the Inconvenience of the delay at the sta
tion than to trust to the punctuality of an
express company. In this as in many
other national differences MIR. and Mrs.
| She a Briton of the most uncompromis-
| ing type, and she a Yankee born and
| bred-had continual, albeit friendly, dis
cussions
"Why, my dear" said the New Eng
| land lady on one occasion, after the re-
spective merits of English and American
travelling facilities had been rather warm
| ly advocated on either side, ''take this
one matter of baggage alone. If you have
your check you are all right"
''What good will your check do you II
you have not got your trunk2' replied
her husband, unconvinced. ''Never part
with your luggage is my principle; put it
on the cab and take it with you,n he re-
peated obstinately, while his lively little
wife gave an eXasperated sigh over his
British denseness. Don't you remem-
ber," she argued, "the time when we
went TO your sisters and you could not
find your trunk to put on your hack2"
eyes, it did happen once" confessed
the Englishman reluctantly
We'll" she exclaimed triumphantly,
''you see, am right; if you had had
your check you would have had that at
all events" and her spouse, silenced, but
not convinced, gave up the subject.
Shortly afterward they went to pay
visit at a country house where there was
large house party. There hosts were
particularly punctilious people, and the
laws of the establishment were conven-
tional and strict. Alas alasl the care
fully packed boxes were not forthcoming
through some error in the express Office
Poor Mrs. S. went to her room when the
dressing-bell rang, in an agony of impa-
thence and nervousness, wondering aloud
how ever she could appear in her travel
stained garments.
"Here is your check, my love-" re-
marked her husband with a grin. "You
have always that, you know, so you are
bound to be all right" Words failed the
lady, and, doubtless, her American SUI
premacy would have been forever lost
when, luckily, her trunk, at that most
crucial moment, arrived.
Adjoining the white house, says the
New York Times, are the Conservatives;
SIS, 900 was expended in building them,
and every year congress appropriates
50 600 for their care. They cover nearly
an acre of ground and are filed with the
choicest and rarest blooms for the exclu-
sive use of the mistress of the mansion.
A large basket of flowers is placed in
the center of the dinner table every day,
and a small bouquet to match is laid be-
side Mrs. Cleveland's plate.
The cammelia is her fryorite flower,
but she is also very fond Of pansies, roses,
and orchids. The pansies that are propa-
gated in the white house Conservatives
are raised from seeds having a market
value of SIS an ounce, and the white
house collection of orchids deserves more
than a passing mention, as it is one of the
finest in the world.
Many of the varieties bear blossoms
closely initiating different forms of ami
NAL life. One of the prettiest is the but
terly orchid, whose flowers counterfeit
with wonderful fidelity the beautiful
bright-winged insect. Another looks ex-
actly like big tropical moth. Besides
these, there are the bee, spider, and lizard