The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-30

we stu mean to 90 on kissing
Neither of Us mean to say,
Take, oh! take those lips away"
London Truth.
The American woman, SAYS the New
YORK Times, is nothing If not adaptable.
The fiat has gone forth that no longer is
the light reddish golden shade the fashion
in hair, but that deep auburn is, instead.
the correct style. Presto, change! and
those very women whom we admired a
few months since in the shade Of hair
then fashionable we admire all the more
with their present coloring. This matter
of changing the color of the hair is serious
only in so far as it induces a spirit of
falsehood, for only let a woman admit
she has used some decoction to produce
such results and no one would say aught
in blame, but when she Indignantly denies
the charge needs must some comment be
made
Peroxide of hydrogen certainly does not
injure the hair, while it does produce a
golden tinge-" bring back the color" as
some say. Washing the hair in soda keeps
it light, but is apt to crack the hair and
make it too dry. A shampoo of the juice
of one lemon, the yolk-not the white-of
an egg and five drops of household am
monia gives a capital gloss to the hair,
brings out any gold tints there are to
bring out, and prevents the hair turning
prematurely gray, The saddest results of
trying to color the hair are seen in the
autumn, when people return from the sea-
shore. The salt water acting on the soda
and acids used makes the hair perfectly
llfeless and dull, and it takes many weeks
before the original coloring can be re-
stored.
Mrs James Brown Potter was one of the
first women to start the fashion of Titan
locks. Her hair, originally of a beautiful
chestnut brown with gold streaks, lent
itself easily to the artificial aids. which
did in this case what they promise for all
brought out its red gold tint.
Women with any gray locks at all should
never be deluded into using any prepara-
ton of the sort Mrs. Potter is said to have
used Tannic acid which plays a part in
most hair washes. will turn the hair gray
If there is the slightest predisposition
therto.
In the days of long ago. says a writer
in Demorest's magazine, for Janu-
airy, and in fact now, in Franco,
the great ceremony Of the wed
ding was and is always preceded by the
almost as important function known as
the .betrothal. In America announcements
of engagements are often made al big din
ners or supper parties; but never until TINS
winter has the betrothal rite been fixed
as a necessary part and duty of an en-
pagement A week before the wedding the
most intimate friends and the relatives of
the contrs citing parties are formally
asked, by engraved cards, to be present at
the house of the brides parents, to wit
ness the plighting of the young peoples
troth. The company assemblies at the
appointed hour and groups itself about the
parents of the young man and woman,
who stand at one end of the drawing
room. At a signal the grOom-to-be ap-
nears with his future bride on his arm,
she wearing a white gown and cornet of
white flowers in her hair Advancing
mn the room, when they arrive at the
group of parents, her father takes her
hand. and in a clear voice announces her
engagement and wedding-day, also his
corIaut with the part nj Ialt-
ner she has chosen. The mother
of the young man performs the
same Office for her son, then kisses
and congratulations follow, and, at last,
under a big wishbone of flowers, the be-
trothed salute each other on the lips, he
slips the ring on her hand, and the butler
announces dinner. This is a great and en-
l,Iernatfc feast, set forth on heart-shaped
table. and served in all manner of good
luck devices. In many country churches,
last autumn, marriage banns were spoken,
as they yet speak or ask them IN English
and Canadian churches.
That black is the latest fashionable tint
for 'cheveux TENTS is the last word from
Paris. A noted American beauty who
seems to possess the secret of eternal
youth and good looks, and who, since the
davs when her childish head was crowned
with the curly brown locks with which
nature endowed her has been successfully
a blonde doree, n blonde cendree and
Titian beauty-has now the blue-black
tresses that in pure Irish type of beauty
IS so effective with blue eyes and fair
skin. 1t is a most rehned-looking con-
junction if the hair is arranged simply