The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-05
WOMANS WORLD.
FEW THINGS OF INTEREST TO
TIE FAIR SEX.

Weists-A Few stores That May Be
FOUND Worth ReadIng-Other Mat
ters " orthy CT a Notice.
suddenly girl turned pale and struggled
from her swee, hearts arms, says Clara Belle
in the Times Democrat
MY darling" he cried. speak, what is
~ but her pale lips refused 10 move. At
last she walled:
you have changed your pomsde, you
have changed your perfume or somsthing-
and he, he used that kind! All, l can
never forget him. Leave me! leave me
Now know what the awful fascination
YOU exercise over me was. 1t was that
scent. the scent he used, but now am free.
Leave me, sir"
Muttering q deep curse beneath his black
rnugtache be left, but after a while he re-
turned. 81 have some now that hope you
will like better" be said, his voice wonder
fully soft and melting, and 80 it was they
we're reunited.
Felix differs greatly from Worth, and dis
tinctly favors the crinoline, says the New
York Recorder.
IL like the introduction of crinoline,"
SAYS he, because the time has arrived for
some novelty in wonan's dress. The tie.
back has held sway too long. Nothing new
could be introduced with such a skirt, aud
so the crinolines had to come. People were
thoroughly tired of the old tightly-drawn
skirt which has been worn for the past three
seasons. And there was only left one choice
out Of two-the crinoli or the big hustle.
Mrs. Cleveland set the style of going
bustleness when she was in the white house
five years ago. But she must wear the
oriuoline now or be sadly out of style"
The head designer in one of the largest
dry goods aud dressmsking establishments
said recently:
II cannot tell you how glad I am over the
Introduction of the crinoline. 1t gives tue
nodists such fine opportunity to display
costly laces and artistic drapng.
"Do you see that gown there" pointing
e. a vision in purple satin and white lace.
That one garment Is worth nearly 81, 900.
The silk with which 1t Is lined throughout
cost 81 per yard. It required eighteen
yards. That is the smallest item. The
satin, as you see, is Of the heaviest quality
aud the lace flounce cost exactly $2S7 per
yard. There are ninety inches OF lace in
the tlounce. 1t is put on almost plain so as
to show the pattern.
Now If we were making such dress ac-
cording to the old style we ould be obliged
to cut the lace into pieces to fit the shape Of
the tie-back, for it is too deep to use as a
skirt-fool hounce merely. o, the crinolines
are giving the dressmakers beautiful OPP
portunities to spend their customers
money!
~, for one, favor the crinoline with nv
whole heart. II women were to wear the
skirts which they wore during the war
fully five yards around-lt would please me-
for then | could MAKE Creoitable showing
when madam gave me cGrte-btdnche for
ball gown. Mrs. Abraham LIncolns finest
reception gown in her last season in the
white house was six yards in circumfer-
ence. How mucn l would enjoy making
such voluminous dress for Mrs. Grover
Cleveland 10 wear at her first drawing
rOom."
A Fifth avenue dressmaker sighed lit
tie when asked her opinion of the crinoline,
and said:
Really, favor it because it gives me
an opportunity to do so much for slender
women. l shall use it with them whenever
l have occasion. With the crinoline can
gown a thin woman until she is grace
itself.
''But fear that shall have difficulty in
persuading my fashionable customers TO
adopt anything radically different from
what they have been wearing. They are
women OF great wealth and of such high
social standing that they are observed
everywhere they 60 and in everything they
do. To rush suddenly into the extreme of
any style would expose them TO ridicule, and
ridicule is what q fashionable woman
breads more than anything else. Moreover
many of my patrons have fads Of their
own.
"There is Mrs. Paran Stevens for ex-
ample. She is in mourning now, and out
of society. But she buys a great many
house gowns. Her idea Of fine dress Is
always an empire role. 1t must be cut
decollete aud be- somewhat clinging in the
skirt with a snugly fitting waist. Mrs.
Stevens would never pad her shoulders nor
don the big hoop skirt. If l were to sug-
Rest 1t to her she would stare at me in dis
gust. Then she would exclaim:
"'How unspeakably vulgarp and would
sweep out of the shop.
The lamented Mrs. Whitney was another
who liked to preserve the outline of her
figure and who would never even permit
me to fiounce the inside of her dress skirts
for the full effects which have undoubtedly
been sought this fall
'Debutantes and the younger of the society
matrons may gayly wear the crlnoiine, first
IS a novelty, and then, because they have
become the fashion. But do not predict
that the woman who are the backbone of
society-the August Beimonts, the Cornelius
Vanderbilts. the elder Mrs Astor and the
Olu6TB VINO lehu Tue SUBSCRIPTION llSJ at the
Charity and the Patriarchs' ball-will fol-
low suit"
1t is one of the most hopeful signs Of the
future, says the New York Ledger, that
the waist of the average woman is growing
much larger. There has been not q little
speculation as to the reason, but it would
be much more fertile field of debate, the
question why they should not grow larger.
With physical culture, Delsarte, tennis
and advanced ideas in diet and hygiene. the
woman of the present day is far ahead of
the woman of a half century ago. She is
emancipating herself and getting out of all
narrowness, physically and mentally. 1t
is not too much to say that with physical
Improvement, mental gain is sure to
follow with great rapidity; and once let the
idea take firm hold of the minds of the
ssterhood that they may grow and ad-
vance, improve and take their position in
the front rank of the worlds workers, aud
1t will take stronger force than tradition,
whalebone and buckram to coustrain their
powers. It has been said, and with great
show Of reason, that women will never be
at their best until they have grown out OF
the constructing bands OF fashionable
costume. Once freed from such narrow
environment, the heart as we'll as the head
VIII find room for development.
It's curious fact that most generous
spirited, broad-minded women have fair
sized waists. Those with disproporttonately
small waists, hands and feet are apt to be
narrow-miuded, persimonious and unchar-
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