The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-03
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A Few Things Of Interest TO the
Fair Sex.

WelI-When Men and Women Kissed
in Public-The Female Brain Smaller
Than That of the Ma1e-Adornments
of a Bath Room-olive Schreiner's
New Story They Could Not Live
Apart-Other Matters of General In
terest.
Olive Schreiner has written a new tale
for women to smile and cry over as they
have over her other books. 1t is called
1.-THE Woman's Rose" and is the story of
two women, rivals in a settlement princi-
pallv composed of men. All the men had
sworn by one woman until the other and
Younger one arrived Then they trans
ferred their allegiance, and the majority
pronounced the new conner the prettier
The girls hated one another, or thought
they did, but when one was leaving the
settlement there was to be a ball, and
but let Ralph Iron tell her story.
when I arrived and went to the wait
ing room to talk off my mantle, I found
the girl there already. She was dressed
in pure white, with her great white arms
and shoulders showing, and her bright
hair glistening in the candlelight, and the
white rose tasted at her breast. She
looked like a queen.
Il said Good evening" and turned
away quickly to the glass to arrange my
old black scarf across my old black dress
Then | felt a hand touch my hair. Stand
still, she said. I looked in the glass
She had taken the white rose from her
breast and was fastening it in my hair.
How nice dark hair IS; it sets off flowers
so. She stepped back and looked at me.
1T looks much better there x
Then they came in and swept us away to
the dance Il never saw her
again. Years afterward l heard she had
married and gone to America; it may or
may not be so-but the rose-the rose is
in the box still When my faith in woman
grows dim, and 1t seems that for want of
love and magnanimiJy she can play no
part in any future heaven, then the scent
OF that small withered thing comes back.
Spring can not fail US.
The most noticeable thing on the prom
enade Just now, says the New York Press,
is thenew and gracious carriage of the
ladies and their essentially feminine and
Couruy gowns. All the swagger, the
taiIOr-made smartness, the aggressive
ness, has gone. The square shoulders
have learned a new and gentle slope that
is very appealing and suggests just the
kind of helpless delicacy that calls out a
great lot of Chivalry and Difference in the
masculine demeanor. The head of the
fashionable woman is more proudly
poised than ever, the chin well drawn in,
the head thrown back, with just q trace
Of hauteur on the neck, but the whole
body bends Just a little forward from the
hips, as if the chest were leading the
way, or as if the great fulness in the back
of the skirts were heavy and the bend
forward We're necessary to adjust the
equilibrium.
1t is a most gracious and patrician post
ure, with its mingled pride and gentle
ness, and when done up in velvet and
Sables suggests the queenliness of the old
portraits from which the gowns and the
pose were copied. The wonderful thing
about it is the cheerfulness with which
the American woman readjusts her phys
ical being in happy accord with the mode
that happens to be in vogue When the
square shoulder prevailed in the tailor
made Jacket, fitted like mans, it was
surprising how many women YOU met
with shoulders as level across the top as
those of Phidias' Minerva, or the Venus
that PraXiteles chiseled with her
Woman,S face of longing and her goddess
figure of majesty. But now as my lady
takes her walks abroad it is surprising
to see how many of those once square
shouldered maids and matrons have the
SIoplng shoulders.
The slOping shoulder had q run of about
zoe years. Girls were trained to let their
arms hang pendant, to depress the Shout
ders, and to poise the head up high on
the neck, as the girls and women try to
do now Generations of sloping shout
kefed women transmitted to their pos
tellty the swan-like curves that were
considered the acme of grace and beauty
until Du MaUrier and Vedder and Fur
mss the English womans tailor, and the
beloved Danish princess of Wales who
pared to the English public most beauti-
ful white shoulders in their bridal white,
all helped to inaugurate the reign of the
square shoulder, which now is passing
INTO decadence beneath the Anne of
Austria collar and the Louis Kill bodice.
How well Maud carries herself this
year, said the mother of half-grown
glrlrather enviOusly to a friend Of the
New York Tribune, whose daughter was
most beautifully erect.
Yes; | must say she has greatly i'm
proved, answered the other complacent-
y and l take great credit to myself
ABOUT 1t. l tried everything, dumbbells,
calSthenics, braces; nothing did her
any good until finally the happy idea oc-
t"Ted TO me to test the moral effect OF
-,"liiVS. gave ner very pretty frOCkS,
discarded the loose blouse waist altogeth-
ef and had everything fitted with the
greatest care. And it really wrought a
miracle. Like every true woman, she
IO!es pretty clothes, and she soon took a
trlue IN the tit and appearance Of her
iIDChS, while l spared no pains in show
lug her how the nicest-looking dress may
We quite spoiled if worn by a dowdy
Iound-shouldered person. Certainly the
prescription has worked wonders, and !
10 not believe If ! moderate my tactics
now that | have won my case. that | will
nnu That l have fostered an undue love OF
apparel
A secret wedding occurred three
oays ago under most unusual cir.
ttunstances at Columbus, o., says
sHe Cincinnati Enquirer. The
most peculiar feature of the strange
natrlmonial event is that the contracting
laIIes had been married to each other
nodIiy twenty years ago and quite re-
venIIy separated by divorce. The groom
o was dohn Walsh one of the best known
, %Iu most respected citizens Of Columbus
~, IHe bride was his former wife, Josephine
"uose friends are among the oldest and
gSu FAMILIES of the city. Mr.. Walsh is
iTu extensive real estate dealer, and has
IN peen one of the wealthiest men Of the
a9rlh side. Mr.. and Mrs Walsh occupied
n C5egant home, and their married life
So Sg,'llI Oh recent date, seemed to be ali sun