The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-09

had shown, however, astonishing powers
of endurance up TO that time and many
OF them, including the Americans, de-
clared they could have reached their des-
I tlnation had they taken heavier soled
( shoes and no knapsacks.
/ 1t takes all sorts of women, says Jan
nette Walworth in the New York Nail
and Express, to make 4 world. Only all
OF them don't like to be called women,
and great many of them don't deserve
TO be-
The duchess of Athole for instance.
She was lady in waiting to Queen Vic
torla, and was at Balmoral with her
majesty on one occasion when John
Brown was sent to summon her into the
Z royal presence. Meeting her Unexpectedly
he sand "Hoot, ma am; yer Just the
woman | was looking for" The enraged
duchess complained Of the indigniJy TO
her mistress, who simply asked her
what she was if not a woman" Queen
/ NirJOria, however is not without
her own ideas of class distinction.
She is not at all kindly disposed toward
/ paryenus. Lord BrasSey, the son Of the
great railroad contractor, was, through
political considerations, made lord in
waiting to the queen. She conceived a
great distaste to HIM, and he has re-
signed 1t is said her majesty could not
forget the fact that his father had worked
his way up from the. position of day
latorer ana that his mother had once
upon time peddIed matches in the streets
OF Liverpool.
/ One does not often hear of such freaks
of fortune in the tight little island. On
this side of the water now, where very
large oaks grow from very small acorns,
nothing surprises one.
! in,
! York Times, is announced that must have
/ originated with some woman whose
! beauty was not even skin deep. The wells
/ are of cream color, and usually real lace,
/ but the net is covered over with large cat
| erpillar scrolls and festoons, beneath
| which Helen of Troy herself would be
/ ugly.
/ Another new small mode is the substi-
/ tuition of Frenchwomen OF flowers for the
smart little bow or rosette that has here
/ tOfore furnished our folded neck bands.
| Stylish Parisians arrange a full-blown
! rose or bud quite six inches apart on each
side Of the front and repeat the tower in
/ hat or toque worn with the costume
Most young couples. says the CONNER
mercial Advertiser, think that so soon as
/ the betrothal vows have been plighted
and papa's and mammals consent has been
/ obtained that their path is smooth and
straight before them. That there may be
other difficulties in the way of the we'd
ding has been discovered by several anx-
( ious couples during the last few weeks.
August is especially the time when
ministers take their vacations and per-
haps that is the reason why weddings are
not so numerous in that month as in the
other eleven. However that may be,
many of the young people who did
intend to be married in that
month have been confronted by I'M
usual perpleXity in solving the question
of who should perform this interes ing
ceremony. In her tying visits to the bou-
doris TO take peep at the wedding tinery
the society reporter has been a sympa-
thetic listener to several plants of this
kind. 1t is really great disappointment
to the yourg people of church 10 be
obliged to call in q strange clergyman, when
they had fully set their hearvs on ha ing
a man who knew them and had more than
a passing interest in them and their for
tunes.
! A curious custom in Russia demands
/ that a bride shall prepare a small trous-
seaU for the ProOm's wear, and for the re-
cent imperial wedding at Peterhof the
4 cars daughter duly regarded this ma
[ tional observance. With the exquisite
/ and extensive rousseau prepared for the
/ bride were some tne shirts and other ar
/ ticles of mems wear for the Grand Duke
4 Alexander, including a gorgeous lounging
/ gown Of cloth Of silver that, from its de-
4 scription, must have been more splendid
/ than comfortable.
Mrs. George j. Gould's pretty features,
familiar to most New y orkers. have never
/ been prettier than this season in their
/ framing of yachting dress. A late picture
shows the fine oval of her dark face, her
/ grey eyes and long lashes and her very
black hair surmounted most becominglv
with a sailor hat Mrs. Gould has enter
tanned many distinguished guests at the
! Dormers, her place at Cowes, and on board
/ the A talanta, ami all chronicles agree that
she has we'll upheld the worldwide repu-
tation Of American women for smart
dressing A favorite yachting dress has
/ been one of red linen, over loose blouse
/ OF black satin, EN- broiGered with the At
Atlanta flag. Another handsome white
/ linen sailor costume is made of a blue
/ serge collar, with white braid and black
sailor knot and waistband. Still another
pretty costume worn is of navy blue
serge, trimmed with white cloth reyers
! and embroidered with red and gold an
chors. The skirt has the same trim
mings al the edge. The cap and vest are
I of blue and white stockinette. For dres-
sier wear. Mrs. Gould much affects
{ NlulllSD StlLONSs Which, III COLQDl-
nation with black lace, or black and gold
braid, or velvet, are very effective for
her brunette style.
She was such demure old lady, saws
I the New Orleans Times Democrat, sitting
at the sunshiny end Of the wide balcony
at the summer hotel one never would
/ have suspected she laid the foundation of
her HUSBANDS fortunes with her knitting
! needles But she told me herself in
confidential moment that when she took
him for better or worse he was merely a
manufactures Of hosiery in a small way.
a, T. Stewart was his chief patron. and
he was only making a good living from
his business when Stewart told him a
fortune was his for the having could
he produce a stocking with q seam.
less heel All such foot gear in that
day was woven in a fiat piece and
then sewed together down TIE back of
the leg and sole of the foot, and il was
this heel seam that was bitterly com
planned of by the tender footed. The
/ young manufacturer took the hiatt, and
yet his every effort failed until his wife
. came TO the rescue. She showed her bus
band the system by which an expert with
The knitting needles turns her heels, and
. she not only encouraged, but actually
aided him in applying something of the
same method TO his machinery. They
worked together al IL faithfully until he
aaf ma "a o., t.ssg4,.,.