The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-01
GIRLISH FROCKS.
This Years Dresses for Young Ladies
Stunning Ones.

smakers-EarrinEs are Vulgar
Nowadays-The Tailor-Made Fash
ions This Woman's Great
Admiration for Mans Muscles.
What viii You Do This Summer
Country BoardinR-House Expert
ences of Past ssasons-Woman's
Letters.
CPublished1
New York, March 3l.-I feel like saving
'Hurrah for the girl with the new
dress!" The new dress is the right of
the young woman. Some day she may
have vote; some day she may be a sena-
tor and make the laws for the nation, but
/ don't think anything Of this sort viii
give her as perfect a pleasure as the pos
session of a new frock. OF course there
are frocks and frocks But the frock of
this year is the girliest Of all. 1t fairly
runs riot with laces. 1t gets wildly ex-
cited with ribbons. 1t sways to and fro
and announces that it is lined with silk,
and it fits in at the waist and comes out
very broad at the shoulders, so that the
smallness Of one and the breadth of the
other is most pronounced. I like a girl
with new frock. it tends TO make her
amiable. 1t is her right. il is what men
should work for, and do really think
man enjoys seeing his ducats 60 for some
thing so positively feminine.
THE SEASONS LOVELY FRoCKs.
This year the new frock has a touch Of
green about it. This isn't meant to ex-
plain the girl Oh, dear, no. IL only
means that she is young and tender, and
altogether charming. A woman with
new frock can accomplish much. 1t
makes her believe in herself 1t causes
her to be amiable to all mankind, and
makes her so loving that she will yield an
inch with the certainty of getting a yard
The new frock tends toward diplomacy.
The wearer of 1t disarms her enemies by
her amiability, and makes her friends
love her more than ever. She finds il
difficult to be disagreeable when she is
enshrined in the newest stuff, the most
becoming color and a cut that is supreme
in its perfection. 1t is queer how much
cut means A bingham cut by master
hand ! mean that to be masculine, be-
cause there is no doubt that men are the
best dress-makers, has an air of its own,
an air of smartness unknown to the most
magnificent brocade, if the scissors that
shaped it were guided by an apprentices
hands. You and l and everybody else
have seen people in brocades who looked
AihN obA4 lAAAOfsos dhh ElAAo III GQbADuG.
those delicious pink and blue ones, that
looked like angels
HOW TO DRESS.
If there is any one thing a bwoman
ought TO know, it is how to dress herself
and yet, somebody who is very little over
5 feet, with a waist that would require to
be Rugged in sections, and a general de-
velopment under her chin that hints at a
dairy, will elect to wear black brocade
with huge bouquets Of pink roses upon it,
and nobody has the courage to tell her
what mistake she has made. If any
body did say anything she would cry
that kind of woman always cries and
says that the material was handsome,
and she couldn't help being fat. She has
funny fashion of wearing a let belt
Now, any kind of belt will make her
look larger, but she ought to abhor Jet as
she does poison, for anything that
sparkles makes its background appear
twice as big.
Then, too, it is possible that, having a
large fat lobe to her ear, she sticks in a
diamond solitaire, and she ought to know
that she should never wearany stone that
glitters Pearls or turquoise belong to
the stout woman; all the stones that spar
kle to the slender ones By-the-by,
speaking of earrings, aren't you glad to
see that the women who count themselves
the elect no longer wear theme They
have at last discovered that a pretty ear
doesn't need a jewel to attract attention,
and that certainly one shouldn't be put in
an ugly ear to draw the eyes Of the look
ers-on to its defects. The only earrings
/ ever heard of that l thought must be
beautiful were those worn by Salam DO I;
and, if you remember, they were followed
pearls filled with equisite perfume, and so
swung on spirals of gold that they swayed
20 and fro, and dropped the scent on her
beautiful bare shoulders. Evidently, in
those days, the art of dressing was thor
oughly understood.
wOMAN's SHIRT FRONT
By-the-by, am going to say something
that maybe you won't like. 1t is this
that, for the spring and summer, in the
mornings, in the mountains, or when
travelling, there is no girl who looks so
perfectly well dressed as she who is tailor
made. 1t is perfect nonsense TO say she
looks like man. She don't. The Amer
lean woman couldn't look that way if she
wanted to. She is built in the most femi-
nine fashion, and, consequently, coats and
shirts only intensity this, and while they
give her kind of rollicking look. tbey
increase, rather than take away. from her
femininity. The other day / was talking
with a fashionable shirt-maker in New
York, and i asked him why he
charged dollar apiece more for wo-
mans shirt than he did for a mans.
With many bushes, he said: "a man is
just straight up and down, you know, and
lady, well, lady-you know-a lady
has curves, and a mans shirt wouldn't
button on herr l thought that knocked
over the whole theory of masculine be.
-longings, taking away from the sweet
wOmanliness of woman. Probably the
most feminine woman in the world are
the English ones and they are the ones
who first saw the desirability of the com
Portable cloth skirt just escaping the
ground, of the clean shirt the pretty belt
and the easy fitting cutaway Jacket
ADMIRATION FOR STRONG MEN.
There are no women ID the world who
are so entirely governed by their men, nc
women who worship them so abjectly, nc
women who so dread being left withou,
one, and no women who 60 in for the So
called masculine get-up as they do Once
in a while one of them breaks out anC
writes a disreputable book, but usually
that woman would be perfectly happy Il
some muscular specimen Of mankinC
would give her a good Jhrashing for hel
bad behavior. The worship of the En-
glish woman for muscles is most amusing
They don't consider brains compare with
them in man. and a whole household
will koOtoo to the great big fellow who
has won boat race and count of no mo
ment at all his rather delicate brother
who has achieved first bonors In