The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-05


than she did last year up where a zero tenn
perature is considered moderate.
She attributed her discomfort to the fact
thst in Greenland she was perfectly pro-
tected from the weather by her dress, fur
case that had no gaps to let the body heat
escape. The outside temperature is not
OF so much account il the
heat is solved. And this prac-
tlcally is in the Esquimau dress. Ankles
wrists, neck, and ears have no gaps for loss
OF heat, as in the costumes in which mod
ern civilized men and w0men-particularIy
women-undertake to endure cold Weather,
The body Is continuously protected in the
fur suit OF the polar regions, and this
rational dress permitted Mr.. and Mrs.
Peary, as the lieutenant describes in his
lecture, TO crawl into their fur sacks at
night and sleep warm and comfortable in
the open air of an Arctic night, with the
thermometer registering from So to SOY
below zero!
According to Mrs Peary again, marriage
among US southerners must be good deal
of a failure from the Esquimau husbands
point of view. She tells of his disgust
with her "lsZnessn when he brought In his
FIRST skins and threw them down with a
Rrunt at her feet. She paid no attention to
them, as be found when be returned some
time afterwaId, aud he again drew her
astonished to find that this white Woman
from the SOUTH did not intend to follow the
example Of her Esqujmau sister and fashion
the skins into wearing apparel for herself
and the men of her party.
As Lieut.. Peary had described the process
OF this garment-making-the chewing of
the skins to render them pliable, after
which they are sewed-the value of the
Esduimau wife's complaisance may be
realized. Generations of such complaisance
on the part of these little brown women
have developed the recognized iron jaw"
OF the feminine Esquimau.
1t was on Third avenue the other day
says the New York Times, that the facs Of
boy not more than years old, with
cigarette thrust between the little lips, at
tracted the attention of a woman who was
passing. The chIld's puny, sickly appear
ance-for he looked as if nothing more than
cigarettes was needed to break his slender
hold on life-made the woman stop in the
hope that here was an opportunity for
word in season.
Don't you know, -" she began, "that you'll
never grow up to be big, strong man if
you smoke those bad cigarettesl You'll die,
and you don't want to do that, l know"
Nav, l won't die nuther,n said the
young smoker without taking OUT his weed.
What would your mother say if she saw
you!" was The next query.
20, she lets me-"
A chubby little chap of 4, round checked,
mere baby, stood at the elder ones side
during the talk. The woman turned to him.
''Y our little brother doesn't smoke cigar
ettes You are setting him O bad example :"
The younger boy smiled, but said nothing.
Nav, he don't smoke cigarettes, )" spoke
up the other one, che smokes a pipe.n
And the woman fed abashed before those
terrible infants.
The average man, SAYS Clara Belle In the
TtneS-Democrat. is by no means at his
best at the o'clock tea. Somehow he
seems so out of place when he tries to hold
tiny cup in his big hands. He simply can't
drink without Utrning his toes in. The
very best of men have this failing. A girl
may look very nice and lovely on the low
divan, slipping tea from a dainty cue, but
she ought to remember that the man will
have great deal more time TO notice her if
he is little comfortable, too, and that he
isn't going to be if he has to sit on one of
those low things and look out for an egg
shell cup. Give the man a chance, my
dear, give the man a chance.
met woman pacing down the Broad
way shopping distrlct with that fierce fever
Of chase III her eye which betokened that
she was out shopping, says Clara Belle IN
the Times Democrat. | had something to
say to hCr, and told her so.
Come along with me, them" she said,
land We'll combine gossip and business
I'm going to the empty shop
The term struck ms es peculiar, but my
mild curiosity turned into amaze nen5
when she switched Off from the sidewalk
into the most cOufusedly crowded shop |
have entered. Standing room was at
premium; no one but woman with a ter
ribly fixed purpose could have made head
way through that mass Of eager, str ggling,
gossipinRifemiuinity | followed in the wake
Of my energetic pilot, and finally reached
! the objective counter. That counter, by
| the way. was heaDed high with flimsy sum
mer fabrics, and this in the middle of jan
uary. But I'll tell you something about
! that later.
"Whose little joke is it?' asked my
| friend, "to call this the empty shopN
"There is no little joke about it." she an
swered. "When we began our fall shopping
all re shops In town, where any one goes,
! you know, were so crowded that there was
no use going to them, don't you seea Then
/ some one discovered that this shop was
simply empty, and you could get waited on
| in an hour less time than anywhere else.
Women who found this out told everybody
else about the empty shop and so it be-
came the most popular place in town. To
| be sure it takes longer now to he waited
upon here than anywhere else, but it's the
! proper place to come TO, and that makes up
for great deal Of lost time. don't you
see"
| The male reader wants to know about the
mystery of those summer fabrics. You
men don't read the only interesting thing in
! the newspapers, the dry goods adver tise-
ments, or you might learn something. This
something you might learn is that all the
| big New York shops begin their sale of
! spring and summer goods immediately after
the holidays And really don't know what
! one would do for decent gown after Lent
unless one began shopping for 1t now.
! suppose you men don't know that the fash
! ionable womans neglige waist maker de-
clines to receive orders later than February
| for summer blouses.
! One feels tempted to leave to the industri-
! Gus protest of the daily press the question of
| high hats and bonnets worn in the parquet
| of a tbeater, writes Mrs. Burton Harrison
! in the fourth paper of her series THE Well
! Bred Girl in Society" in the February
! Ladies Home Journal. But in this sea-
son of extraordinary wings and rampant
bows the nuisance has sprung up with re-
| doubled force. distinguished actor re
Gently remarked that duri the first act
| of play New York was flocking TO see in
| it's first week, he was so transhxed by bon
net that appeared in the seats behind the
orchestra as to well-nigh forget his part.