The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-15
THE ADORABLE FRENCH.
BAB's RESPECTS TO MEN AND
WOMEN OF NAPOLEoN'a LAND.

1OOlS OF tnS 1IupTSSSlOnlSbS' ECDOOis
At the Russian Eath-Ars the French
Fast Livers7-An Animated Chat
Between a Blonde and Brunette.
A Sweet But stolen Kies-Heredi-
tary Traits-Sunny 5ouled ssrdou
and Storm-tossed umas-Camille
Was Not Angelica Peechy Story.
Do We Care for Advice When We
Really Pay Well for that Luxury
CCopprioht)
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Nobody seems to
be any body nowadays. unless she can talk
about French plays and the individuality
of French writer's. The most curious thing
is the present fashion in French women. l
reached America, and that it does not meet
with favor in London. The French woman
who is counted adorable, who gains the
most admirinR looks as she breakfasts at
one of the fashionable restaurants, appears,
to be exquisitely Saxon, more like
rejuvenated corpse than anything else
can think of. In the first place, she is as
thin as a lead pencil; her color is something
between a saffron yellow and a sulphur
green; her head is a Titan red and in a
state of looseness that ia possibly artistic,
but suggests its falling down every minute.
Her gowns are very smart, but she is much
given to wearing long, loose wraps, that
she discards as il she were throwing off
the outer shell and permitting the world to
look at her soul. You must not imagine
that she has any Of the languor Of tie old
aesthetic school; dear, no, she is as animated
as possible, and her eyes sparkle as if they
Ia - Ara hA ic he ~ Df h.
impressionist school; she is counted thor
ough fin de steele, and is adored by the
morbid novelist OF the day.
rs THE PARTISAN CRAZE UPON Usl
The British matron despises her--she
looks at Der, shrugs her shoulders, and then
mutters Ia an undertone that she thinks "a
dose of medicine had better be administered
to that young woman" but In few hours
she is surprised to find that her own English
men are forsaking the clear complexious
! and dimpled curves that belong to the tight
little isle, and going mad over the idol of
Paris. Some time ago, at the Russian
bath, heard very, very thin girl, one
| who weighed ninety pounds, and who was
rather above the average hight, say she was
| coming there every day until she lost ten
pounds. aud | thought TO myself: 1.-THE
craze OF Paris 10 upon Us. the Worship OF the
angels has reached usl" For it 10 angels that
they adore. Ii is not Swinburns's or Ros-
| setLi's sinuous women. long and 1.-THE, but
| instead il ia the absolutely thin woman,
| whose bones seem TO stand out as IL In de-
| fiance of dimples and curves. What is it,
| Are the French people living 30 fast that
they make the skeleton at their feast q
| womani A witty woman aud clever
| woman, bat nevertheless q woman who
seems TO have had all the health burnt out
| of her by the excitement Of the century.
| Women are very odd but they are interest,"
ing. / heard two talking the other day
and this was their conversation one was a
blonde, the other brunette. The blonde
| spoke first
She gave polite yawn as she said:
| 81 tried my very best to be knowedgea-
BILE about something. Everybody went in
for knowledge SO much that l thought
| ought to have what the woman suffrage
| people call a soul above chiffons,' but !
don't seem to have succeeded"
| "What did you doP asked the brunette.
"Well, of course, l wanted to be original,
so l didn't
GO IN FOR THE BROWNING RACKET,
or hypnotism or Buddhism, but / thought
and thought until came to the conclusion
that l would resurrect the semi-colon.
| Everybody who wrote letters TO me used
dashes and periods, and all the people who
wrote books said what they had to say in
| what a reviewer would call short, crisp
sentences. l read up in the old English
| authors, and | took to writing the most
delightful letters with beautiful semi-colons,
made with curly tails, and in their proper
places. Now, what do you suppose the
result wasl The world at large Is SO ignor-
ant, that a snip Of girl, who has never
even been married, wrote and told me that
she lost the noun in the beginning of the
sentence, never found the vorb, and all
that she really understood in the letter was
that was trying some new fad, and that
she didn't propose to represent the dogn
THAT wasn't very nice," answered the
brunette; but what did you take up after
that? What filled the place occupied by
the seml-colon?"
1.-THE proper arrangement OF English as
she is spoke, or rather as she should be
spoke. studied books on it. and a man
told me I spoke the finest Saxon he had
ever heard. Somebody said this was q
doubtful compliment. but think she was
jealous. i devoted one entire afternoon to
explaining TO a very handsome fellow that
later on was correct. l explained It in
this way. For instance, would say, The
mail will come later;' naturally that wonld
be o question of time. But il said, Later
on we will have our coffee would mean
naturally after a series OF dishes at the
table. as we'll as a lapse of time-one sup.
| posing the passing Of time alone, the other
q sequence OF events really took deal
| of trouble about this, and what do you sup
pose that impudent boy didW
81 can almost guess" responded the bru-
nette.
YES" answered the blonde. "He said il
| wouldu't be question of later or later on,
but be would kiss me at once, and he suited
| the action TO the words. SO, / have stopped
studying the English language and its pc
| ouliar .ties.n
''BoNNETs ARE MORE SATISFYING"
said the brunette.
20, that goes without saying: but still /
felt that must have an intellectual fad, 90
took up heredity. It's immensely inter
esting to work out how the follies and sins
of our ancestors come out in us, and how,
though my father and mother may have
been angels as far as temper goes in
hertted from some remote ancestor who
! used to thrash bis wife and all the servants
when be wasn't In a pleasant humor, a
somewhat spicy temper, which keeps me
from being namby-pamby. There's a girl
here about whose birth there has always
been little doubt and the doubt no
longer exists in my mind. | watched the
movements OF her hands the other day and
they were exactly like that OF somebody
else whom she sought TO be like. It is the
most marvellous thing in the world how a
| gesture, a method OF speaking one word, or
/ q peculiar look will be transmitted when no