The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
NO NAN'S " ORLD.
4 Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.

Book by Mr. Benson, the Author of
"Dodo'' Suggestions Relative to
weddings-A Girls Experience at
Cooking SchooI-A Society Woman's
Experience With Portrait Painter
A New Method of Washing Dishes.
The Worth of Dresses From an In
surance Compeny's Standpoint.
other Matters Worth Reading.
What is the money life of dress, is a
question that not long ago puzzled lawyers
and furymen, says the New York Times.
woman owning a number of expensive
and handsome gowns had them practically
mined by smoke and water through fire
in her home There was an insurance
covering wearing apparel, but the matter
of satisfactory adjustment of values had
n he taken into court before it could be
settled. Here the legal wits fought a
royal battle. Dressmakers and society
women were produced as experts by both
contestants, and in the course of the tes-
tfmopv some interesting facts
about gowns came out. From
many witnesses the conclusion
was finally reached that wearing
an evening or dinner dress ten times
practically exhausted its availability in
fhe original form; after that it was only
worth the value of material which could
be utilized in other ways. In the case in
question it was finally decided, as the
contestant admitted the gowns for the
most part had been long, laid aside be-
cause she had not been socially active for
some years, that they had settled to
merely their material value, and iudg-
ment was finally rendered on this basis.
The marvel is that it was ever settled
atall, every seperate woman being capa-
BE of a different opinion IN the matter.
Women work out their salvation in gowns
as they should in religion, individually.
and the life of gown admits of so many
qualifications of making, care, and en-
vironment that it is next to impossible to
express a standard opinion of it.
The so-called ''higher classes" in Eng
land are not only adopting what they are
pleased to term American ideas with
ayidity. and Out-Heroding Herod in their
application, says the New York Tribune,
but they account for their widest eccen-
tricities and latest fads by simply quot
inc American precedent as raison d'etre.
authority at sufficient distance to avoid
contradiction, and that nothing will be
deemed too extraordinary for belief as
emanating from this country. One of the
latest freaks-the original idea of which
Americans, as usual, have been held re-
sponsible for-is a travelling troupe of
players composed of Every smart people,"
who travel from town to town acting pro-
fessionally in the small local theaters
and paying their expenses by their re-
cepts and the hospitality which they &C
tually beg from the surrounding country
houses.
1T is not given in all instances, how
ever said pretty New England woman,
who was relating this latest amusement
OF the English aristocracy; 'for at the
country house where l was stopping nv
hostess was very properly indignant
when she received a viOlet-scented, crest
bedecked, dashing and ELUSIVE scrawl
IRON Lady Mary --, whose acquaint-
snce she did not possess, calmly asking if
She and her maid could not be put up' for
cOupLA Of nights. I must say that the
re0uke, which the writer must have felt.
was well deserved when Mrs. c. in a
courteous Eell-bred note, regretted that
sne coulG not have the pleasure of re-
celying Lady Mary - under such cir
cumstances'
You can imagine my feelings when
heard OF this most fn-de-siecle per-
Torrance spoken of in all directions as an
American fashion; and even my hostess
an ideal English mauron, sweet, whole
some and good. leading an ideal life of
useIuIness and refinement in her beautiful
country hOme-insisted with mild but ex-
aSperating obstinacy that America was
responsible for much that is Objectionable
IN modern English society. Not your
people, am sure, my love- she was good
enough to say, for / am told that in Bos-
ION you nave quite the old English ideas;
Dul there IS certainly much to be re-
EIeJied IN the tone which pervades the
fashionable London society of the present
oaJ' Tor certainly every extreme idea al
ways seems to be called American ,"
y once believed should like to voter
S Sala thoughtful young woman to the
new York Evening Post. at has been
"v moments when my blood has been hot
O'er some injustice from which other
a mollen and children have been suffering,
FUSED FUSED II seemed to me, by the fact that
rnty nad no compelling or persuading
W. ,G! .,t III making the laws and conditions
~ ~ b,niigs under which they lived. But
Nueh mat petition that is circulating
same into my neighborhood. and | began
use W see that q vital interest in politics
W., mouu mean (for me at least) to have nv
t III ana blood at the boiling point all
vi. IlIne, | feared that | might grow as
~, 9OeIlcdl over wrongs as the writer of
Inc Heavenly Twins"
another young woman, who supposed
% SHe uaa most positive and courageous CON
llt.ions on the subject, and had her mind
stor u 70 sign the petition, tells funny
fbS n VI Delhg overawed by two women of
,,is ga school who lived in the same house
as ecu, ner They SO gently, yet so firmly
~ - Le0u IhaUlG would be very unwomanly
" encourage those unsexed creatures
" ~ wanted to vote, that | knew should
AZ r onte lose caste with these social rulers
4 .al5 guIte narrow world when did the |
11, u, I'll thing. | was almost an invalid |
~, me winter, and quite dependent on
~ ~ohanly women, who believed |
, ,,t'AselVes inner clay than many of their !
49,, argument had no effect. I could |
I, J'o.ier convert nor pervert them, and so |
,r"1u tDat wicked petition came l was
iii.HNly' not at home' / felt, of course.
,r'I 9lIe VINO had intended to be a martyr |
'i-u uehleQ her faith in the most common |
. b-' way Though 1 publicly sent for
.Ii'o g laPef atterward and told my friends |
oit mad done so, I've not recovered my
1911 respect vet" ~
.st, tI.lrq young woman, fresh from a |
.F ,'Ionaole boarding school, who has |
,'r lllug manners, an unusually pretty |
NM NM ana perfectly useless education. J
o I-' ner fathers failure in business is |
.,',, 10 make her wish better one, con |
Ee.Iat,Gi,lihl me mat The women who brought /