The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-19
W 0 MANS WORLD.
a FEW ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE
FAIR SIX.


Matters That Are Worth'e Little At
tention.
Girls, says the New York Times, should
avoid conversational risks. A couple OF
New York msidens. who had been enter
tanning an ultra-elsgsnt gentleman of an
older set than their own, to their immense
satisfaction, said in their simple eIultation,
after he had withdrawn to the hall and, as
they supposed. left the house: ~ thought
he'd never 90. didn't your A remark in
which the young man, who had not yet de-
parted. failed to detect the compliment.
Perhaps, too, be saw a chance TO impart a
useful lesson, for he promptly returned to
the drawing room and exclaimed, PLEASE
don't say that yet"
IL says little for our intellectually and
resources that almost all social functions
have TO be mixed up with eating, says Clara
Belle in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Stop
and think how big part woman's digest
i've apparatus has to do with her social
career. She neither eats TO live nor lives to
eat. She eats to entertain or is entertained
TO eat. So does all her family. While
mamma is doing the afternoon act of "tea"
with the special professor friend, or the su
periutendent who wants TO talk over what
his school needs, or the lecturer that the
club wants to coax into talking" for them,
the daughter is arranging to take dinner
out with Charlie. Mamma would not dare
face that interview In the afternoon with
out "uean to sort of help her along. Maybe
she wants to get "a big contribution out of
che OLD fellow she asks ito drop in for q cup
OF tea" That is one way Of getting him.
She could hardly work il any other way.
in Ia
sound OF asking mau to drop in" to tea.
lea becomes the means of which you train
up the bashful man 20 having courage to
come to dinner" sometime, or a dance"
where supper IS an attraction il the girls
are not. Or the society woman can start a
'sympaticame" with a man that way. There
IS the chance to show yourself in tea
gown" after all only another name for q
wrapper, which permits you to wear a
wrapper, and which does not all interfere
with the effect of the gown upon the man.
You can accomplish an atmosphere of
''aloneness" with a man, and not have him
suspect that you mean to-if you have tea
to sort of help you through. You may have
a regular from 8 to 5, )" and thereby you
allure the man you want into your house,
and IL you are half the woman you ought
TO be, il can turn out 1--we to seven" for
him, aud you attain the otherwis imposs-
BILE "tete-a-teten call from him.
Or shall | say him! Hardly. 1t is the
daughter who has him, and she takes din
ner with him when they really want to be
"by their lones.p Or may be it is he who
is willy and takes this means of seeing the
girl after whose heart be is. OF course he
invites the mother or the chaperon too
That is all right. They will all go to the
theater after. Mamma is sure to want
to put powder on her nose, or to see il
her bonnet is all right before they
aka ~ f1r he - -
will be left all alone with her; all alone.
Because. of course, since the mamma Is
along, he has had q private room for the
dinner. Even shy or well equipped girl
has melted a little after two or three
courses and the wine with each. By the
time it comes to champagne she is likely to
be almost susceptible. Also is has been
noted that after glass or SO of the third
wine mamma or the chaperon is very
likely to take that little trip to see about the
powder on her nose.
Here eating is certainly not mere func-
ton association with the desire for living.
1t is a necessary accompaniment to q social
how shall l put it-stratagem. So, too,
with the young man who really hasn't any,
thing to say to the girl, but who has had
the number of invitations to her house
which demands some return from him. A
dinner, of course. Never mind if she is
stupid and they bore each other awfully.
At least, there will be the dinner to eat, and
the courses will suggest talk. maybe, and
anyhow maybe the wine may give them an
idea or 80. but even If it does not, there will
be the dinner. They may be a little
at loss between the courses,
but a good waiter always judges in
these matters and sort of "hurries." BY
the way, do you know the story of the
waiter who came in with the fish to find his
fare" kissing the lady with hima Che
waiter paused aghast. The fish poised
above his head and his eyes starting In
deed, he seemed so broken up aoout it that
the gentleman was irritated into exclaim-
ing:
"Well, my good man. did you never see q
girl kissed beforew
Never before the fish, monsieur; never
before the fish ;" walled the waiter. But of
course if you have heard tho story you
ought'nt to hear it again; and if you hadn't,
well, you oughtn't to have read it, 80
theres
And now to the actual question, says the
New York Times, Are we or are we not TO
have crinolinel Ernest Redfern of the
well-known firm laughed when the question
was asked him. "The crinoline," he re-
peated quizzcally, 'Ive seen no crinoline.
It's all newspaper talk. The agitation about
it over here all comes of you Americans
looking ahead aud anticipating coming
fashions. The English don't do that. IL
the cEinoline does come it will not be
adopted in England till il has beonue