The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-06
N CONAyS WORLD.
FEN Things Of IIteTeSt to The Fair
Sex


v,nod Room for Themselves in New
v,rh- Oddities of Famous Widows.
+5..+s on Hand CuIture-Other Mat
+srz Worth ReadinE
several widows Of great generals re-
lima. ;l New York leal queer lives and
IN drou things, says the New York
Mid one of this class makes her
bome ia a down town lptel, and to save
rumble and expense aswen as linen, does
n.rt of her own laundrT work. Admiring
l,s;5.nts in the neighborhood always
i,rov the location of ler room by the
T,n5.yerchiefs, collars and cuffs that cling
rotbe window pane early in the morning.
Noone ever sees the linen set. hung on
tra glass or peeled of ''bone dry" but it
istf'rre every morning that the distin-
ouisbed lady is in town, and it as charac-
teristica feature of her attire as the white
s,ots and red necktieof William Walter
Phelps
A second soldiers widow is a pussy-cat
svmnathizer. Any hot night that she
banDens to be in town she may be seen
stroiljng along the deserted streets of
That section of the city made famous by
p Hopl,inson Smith ard A. Janvier, with
a garden-pOt of water in one hand and a
stock of paper cups in the other, calling
in soft. persuasive tones, Here, pussy,
pussy, pussy"
The third grande dame of singular pro-
civities has an owlish fancy or quiet
Gloom. She lives alone, although album
dautly blessed with kith and kim and the
rooms in her stately house are in such
perpetual low light that the visitor finds
il necessary to advance with his or her
hands outstretched She is never with
ont diamond ornaments, although it is
said on authority of personal'observatiOn
that she spends half her life in her dining
room. sitting in her stockings reading the
daily papers
The wholesale milHners, says tho New
York Times. are getting their autumn
stocks in readiness for inspection by "the
trade" Among the new felt hats are
sailors of broad brim and low crown.
Cream tan, and other pretty brown
shades are noted, bound and banded
with brown, generally in darker tint
than the hat. Alpines of hiedOus hues
are in store. Straw sailors are being
banded about the high crowns by rows of
velvet baby ribbon, or narrow folds Of
velvet, each row or fold meeting at one
side in very small bow. A nOticeble
black turban is coiled round with thick
rope Of black and green stems.
Derby gloves of chamois have the big
gest Of red buttons and are bound in red.
Other chamois gloves have shirred gaunt-
let's like the dog skins Silk gloves have
long wrists of hilloGk weaving Chill
dren 5 white silk gloves come with round
gamtlets of white, plaided with blue or
other color.
On North State street, says the Chica-
go Tribune, there is a bright and happy
young woman who has made a success of
herself as an assistant to a fashionable
house decorator. She thinks the employ
ment a capital one for girls, and wonders
why more of them are not to be found I'M
rolling wall papers and cOaxing undecided
clients to let her suggest schemes of col
Oring for their rooms She says she
began as a bookkeeper but was advanced
as soon as her employer found that not
only she could, as well as any man, per-
suade the customers who. did not know
their own minds to take precisely those
goods which the establishment wished to
get rid Of, but also had an eye for color
and patience to find just the thing more
NtlNA ILl4ibN ptOplG u1O III Alillu.
1t is a pity some other Chicago girl is
not doing the taking little pastel dinner
cards which are brought to this town
from Philadelphia A certain artistic
maiden there found that her graceful and
apparently careless sketches OF children's
heads or flowers or butterflies had caught
the fashionable fancy and her hands are
full doing orders for this and other dinner
giving towns.
And there is Miss Mary d. Bates, the
now celebrated illustrative designer
whom the California commissioners asked
to present to them her idea of the illus
tralive work that would best represent
their state at the worlds fair. She began
1er now important business as q designer
ol decorations with a stock in trade-as
she herself put it-of "a pair of scissors
and reel Of wire" Now she has seven
Young women to assist her IN making
houses gorgeous with flowers and drapery
Tor weddings or balls. She lends money
10 other women TO enable them to raise
!he sorts of flowers She most needs, and
IN many other ways finds the power of
iRe!lpng less happy sisters, which is the
brightest reward successful women know.
a correspondent writing from Paris,
says the New York Times. is enthusiastic
over young girls bed draped with white
lace over rOse-colOred silk Undoubtedly
.Ae result Is Il delightful one, for nothing
Is more dainty and graceful than that
combination Of white and rose. The
lovely dotted Swiss that is this season n
great tayorlte may be treated in a similar
way. fulled curtains, frilled spread,
anu a round bolster finished with big
ose'les converts the plainest bed into
uSlEhJiul object. and. when added to one
vi Jne popular white-and- gold sort means
. very dream of giri-like beauty and
freshness.
" "hen win people learn, says the New
I.otN Tribune, that it is not necessary to
we with ones richer neighbOrs in order
~ entertain delightfully."- Every one
-.N'9 change, and an original effort is
mrs much more appreciated than a
ayyI mutation. A lady whose house is
o-@a5 popular, but whose face, combined
, mt.H her charming tact, is her fortune,
80 even has an assistant to her neat
Fe'-'f mald III her dining room and yet
gives the best luncheons going, and
, - jolly dinner. She thinks
lung 81 entertaining from sixteen TO
'.I5eel people at time.
90 ~" ever can such a thing be dOne2N
H.. ',,'lel an anxious hOusekeeper, who,
la'. AurIha of old, was numbered with
,.. cares whenever she exercised hos
.A-.F. Nothing can be more simple if
sur c'-lS' As sensible methods are carried
GO. whenever I have a luncheon" she
60 y make point Of having at least
s-r,..,' In the first place, it is much
r..,-iUO vi pelng a success if there are a
+yef OF people to on te,ftain each other