The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-15
" OMAN'S WORLD.
SOME TRISGs OF INTEREST TO
THE FAIR SIX.


Latest Wrinkles in Fashion-Dinner
Gowns With Crinoline - Several
Other Topics Touched Upon
Recently writer for the New Orleans
Rcayune interviewed five literary women,
none Of them distinguished for their good
looks, on a subject Of vital importance.
Each woman, in her own peculiar line,
has national reputation, and could afford
70 answer truly the question put TO her.
The question was this:
(which would you rather bs-smart or
bsautifulr
Said No. /: "Beautiful-because by the
mere lifting Of the eyes beautiful woman
can order all the world to her feet
Said No. 2: "Beautiful-becAuseb eauty's
mantle is larger than charity,s. 1t covers
social gaucheries, ignorance and any
amount OF stupidity" -..
Said No. 4: 'Beautiful-becsuss fame,
fortune, adulstion, lovely gifts, social
prominence. all come to the woman who ia
fair Of facet 80
SAID No. s.: Beautiful. Beauty is gold
90 a woman. A smart woman's fame may
not come to her until she is dead, but beauty
gets its tribute now, even laureled heads
turn away from the smart woman to do
reverence to the one who ID beautiful
In Q shop the other day an elegantly
dressed woman at the lace counter in a New
York store suddenly exclaimed to the clerk
serving her: 1--WE lost my purse. Where
shall / inquire for itgn He told her, and she
thanked him, adding, There are only a
few dollars in it, but the purse Is q gift am
sorry TO lose." And il was noticed by by
stander, &c she completed her purchase, that
the value footed up close upon $40, which
incident is cited to show how to-day's shop
ping differs from that of the very recent
past. A few years ago. to spend morn-
ing al this occupation, meant q purse
full OF enough cash to meet every
purchase. Charge customers were
confined 10 the comparatively
few people Of large means, and the T.. O. d.
method of doing business was rarely taken
advantage OF. Now woman starts out to
do 500 worth of shopping with car fare
and luncheon money only in her pocket
book. II she IL on the books OF a firm as,is
quite likely, for small buyers now keep
bilissrnnning much more than formerly
the goods are charged, and il not they are
sent up, g. o. D., at such time as she desiR-
nates. II she has bean tempted to a larger
purchase than she has money In the house
70 meet, or than she thinks her husband
may be provided with at night, she delays
tts delivery one or two days, or a week,
perhaps, 20 secure the necessary sum.
The only thing really the matter with this
country sage Clara Belle in the New Or
leans 1tnles-DemOcrdt, is that we have no
Occasions. socially or otherwise, where we
can wear court trains. To come to this de-
pressing decision a woman has only to 60
and see the new play, "AristocracY," in one
scene of which three American women have
Just returned from presentation to Queen
Victoria. They wear the prescribed court
dresses with long trains. q, the glory Of
those gownsl The glory OF having yards
and yards OF stuff a-traillng and a-trailinR
away after you'll And be it noted that the
regal chief actress does not become tn Q
gown a bit better than does the perky
sonbrette. The trains are quite apart from
the gowns themselves. The gown is made
with Just q graceful short sweep, a
sort OF demi-train. The "court" Fart Is a
regular curtain that falls from the waist or
between the shoulders, straight away and
unattached, to miles and miles off. Incident
ally it is OF heaviest stuff, whether to match
or combine with the rest OF the dress. 1t is
heavily lined with silk or satin. 1t seems
TO lie on the floor an inch or so thick, not to
speak Of the folds. At the fer, far end Ia
seems every bit as wide as portiers. But
whether it narrows to the waist or shout
ders, or whether it is just gathered in, or
whether it Is cut with bases and "fanned"
wonderful thingsi AS to their manage
ment, well, OF course, part OF the rehearsal
was to get the minds Of those trains we'll
known to the other actors concerned and
probably all the men at least can
be fairly sure where those yards
and yards are going to dispert them-
selves, and can, therefore, make love and
walk around and across the rooms and all
that with that air of perfect Indifference TO
the dresses, which before you think of the
reheBrsing fills your soul with respect for
the London aristocFacy, whether they are
real nice, moral people or not. The women
all make their entrances carrying their
trains themselves. This is a good idea, be-
cause the audience has to sort OF get used to
them, and certainly a woman looks more
stately with all that weight of graceful
drapery on her arm. During the scene
they just carelessly [don'5 you believe It'll
drop the other ends of themselves, and they
go of trailing lovely. just as II
they knew their cues as well as any
body. 1t is the stately actress who
at the close of most dignifled scene
with the wicked prince again places her
train on her arm, and thereby we see how it
is done, and give up the idea that it has to
be done by tbs dresser" and the author
and the manager, of the scenes She stoops
with sweeping, backward motion, catches
the train at arms length. gives a quick,
coSJ wi ~ w Nh0 WAlbtg dnd bOulbuOW OF
other has double reef Of it on her arm. and
after all you don't know any mora about
how it was done than you did before. All
you are sure OF is that il you had been do
ing il a wild end of she business would prob
ably have escaped you, swamped the
prince from sight and accompanied You
from the scene like Cyclone on wheels.
In one Of the smaller cities Of New York
last summer. says the New YORK Times, a
woman, whose windows commanded a view
OF an alley In the vicinity, noticed that day
after day, morning and afternoon, u nurse
with her charge in baby carriage would
stop there. 1t was the halfway point on a
street railroad line. and here came every
day with the same regularity stable boy
with relays OF horses for the use of the car
drivers The nurse would draw the carriage
just inside the alley, and there, with her
hand on 10 as II about 10 move, would stand
two and three hours gossipiug with the
stable boy, who was evidently an admirer.
Theaiiey was none too clean aud the horses
drew swarms of flies tit was hot- and close
besides. Often the baby frettef and cried.
but the nurse only jcstlad the carriage aud
hirted on. Finally. on the third or fourth
day the woman resolved to interfere She
put ON her bonnet and casually approach
ing the place, was apparently attracted by
the baby's prettiness. She stopped and
spoke 20 it and then pleasantly asked whose
child 1t was. The nurse, who was a good
nHtured looking girl evidently NOT con-