The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23

sitting down She began to peel OFF the
OVerCoat and the other coat came too. She
was so occupied with seeming Indifferent
and at ease that not till her shirt sleeves
were bare almost to the wrists did she
realize what was happening to her. Then
she made a wild struggle to get into her
self again But she couldn't separate the
intentions of the two coats at that late
date She did manage to push them both
on again. however. and then she sat down
and tried to look as if she had merely
changed her mind about taking of the
oVCrcoat But her nerve was broken. and
il ever girl wished herself home in a
girls rig and safe from observation she
did
A recent paper in weekly periodical
ON a suitable allowance fora young woman
of good social position upon which she
may make fair appearance in her circle
puts the sum. after considerable eE-
PLANTATION of the reasons leading to this
conclusion, at $500 year, says the New
York Times. 1t is possible to escape NOR
LITIGATION on this amount, though it is adj
mitted to be difficult Fifty dollars added
takes away much Of the drudgerY, for
that will cover the outside necessities, as
stationery. pCrfumerH, toilet articles,
flowers for sick friends, materials for
fancy worl; for charitable purposes, car
fare and postage, which the writer rCa-
sonably insists must be counted as neces-
stiles
-Four hundrd dollars a year still more
relieves the effort and 5000 puts girl in
comparative case, although. of course,
even this sum needs careful and thrifty
administration to accomplish its object if
the young woman has to meet many so
cial demands.
1t is. perhaps. a moderate misfortune
for girl to be obliged to attempt too Sc
we're an economy in her yearly CXpCudi-
turc Three hundred dollars, for example,
means such a stretching of dollars that
the process becomes vitiating, and some
times develops a miserliness that is none
the less unpleasant because it is OBJ
trusively frank
The world at large is never interested
in individual economy, fact the
"thrifty' young woman occasionally for
gets.
Now that repOusse silver has come into
such general use for toilet articles, says
the New York Tribune, milady seeks
something more recherche, as her latest
fad is 10 cover her dressing table with
gold backed brushes, with the rest OF the
parapheInalia to match. The smooth,
shining disks of highly polished mctal arc
beytlled at the edges. and have the mono
gram and crest in raised gold. The tor
tOise shell comb is q particularly pretty
little affair, with a strHight, shining back,
the crest and chiffre serving as a handle.
DO YOU know what | always use to
comb my hair with' said a woman of
society whose long, thick locks were the
admiration of her friends You will
laugh when YOU hear, but there is really
nothing like it for disentangling long hair.
1t is nothing more nor less than one Of
those long-tOothed stable combs. You
can get very nice looking ones at the best
harness shops, and my new maid says
that she has never used anything that
gives so little pain and annoyance.
Man milliners and ladies' tailors are
common, but barristcr sleeve cutter is
indeed novel typcof social development.
1t all arose from a question at law be-
tween two rival claimants for a sleeve
cutting device. Claimant number one
held a patent for the device which claim
ant number two copied, but claimed to
have improved upon And to prove TO
the worthy judge and Jurors the truth of
the matter the bewigged barristcr took
the chart-like arrangements and cut a
sleeve by each in the presence of the
court Questions of this kind and law
StlJS over INC III VI SONuS uCI1OilSIfdut
the need of women on the bench. for the
fine points at issue are not within the
province of the masculine understanding.
At woman's club the burning ques-
ton was advanced, says Clara Belle in
the Cincinnati Enquirer: Suppose YOU
should find letter in "a wOman's
hand in your husbands pocket,
what would You do?" The qucs-
ton was to be answered in writ
ing that the ladies might not Influence
each other, and you should have heard
the pencils scratch and seen how des-
pcrrte they all looked just to think of
it, There We're all sorts Of answers One
woman was going to confront him with
it, another would 80 home at once to
mother, another would leave the brute,
still another would not say Il word but
watch. One little woman decided to
read it first, to make sure it was inn
proper. But one little person wrote this;
Il never look in my husbands pockets
unless he tells me to. If he told me to and
/ found such u letter, ] should think il
must be all right and should let it alone.
though if found it made me uncomforta-
bic | would ask him about it and | should
believe whatever he told me" Now there
was q wise little woman. As she ex-
planned afterward. it doesn't do to monkey
with your happiness, and if there is any
thing wrong you want to be awfully care
full not to find it out.
In an article on home millinery a Lon
don journal endeavors to impart to the
amateur in cold print the f1eetinq, in
tangible essence Of a successful "bow. E"
as follows:
"When making a bow, never skimp your
ribbon Three yards should be allowed
if you wish to trim fair-sized hat Never
cut the ribbon until the bow is finished
To mike a nice fmll bow Of six or eiahL