The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-09

I ing on hand II wanted Just before the
i dinner hour the maid OF honor in waiting
I stands in the corridor outside the queens
! private apartments to receive her as she
I comes out. She carries a boquet, which
on entering the dining room she lays be-
I side the queens plate Her place at this
meal is next 10 the gentleman on the
I queens right hand. unless royal guests
p are present. when she is differently placed.
After dinner. unless otherwise COM
manded. she retires TO her own pretty
/ apartments. but must be in readiness to
4 answer a summons at any moment to 90
/ 10 the drawing room 10 read, sing, play
I the piano or take a hand at cards. The
queen. by the way, is fond Of cards, and
I a small stake is always played for. Nor
I viii the queen touch any but freshly coin
I ed money. so such members Of the house
hold as play with her have 20 be provided
with COIN that has never been in circula-
| ton
The maid OF honor usually makes a
brilliant marriage and the queen sends
her for wedding present an India shawl
out Of the perennial stock.
A question in social ethecs, says the New
( York Tribune, that is now a good deal
discussed by fashionable mothers is as to
whether boys shall be admitted or excIud-
ed from the girls dancing classes and
parties The ultra-fashionable people
form TO bring youngsters of both sexes
together until they have been formally
introduced into society. The advocates
Of this fashion contend that dancing
should be regarded simply in the light of
a school exercise, and treated as such,
while other mothers land these are gen
orally the matrons whose sons are to be
considered) argue that dancing and chill
dren's entertainments should be consid-
cred as recreations, and that it is absurd
ito put ideas into their heads" by empha-
sizing any more separation than their
schools and lessons naturally bring about.
Whatever may be the merits or de-
merits of either point OF view, however,
it seems that it is more fashionable now
adays to exclude the boys from their
sisters classes, and IL remains to be seen
whether this will encourage independence
on the part of girls or induce timidity and
develop the ingenue. Neither condition
is quite desirable. as a frank, unconscious
good comradeship between children of
both sexes seems more natural and con-
sequently more unaffected, and in better
taste.
Any young woman, says the New York
World, who respects herself desires ar
IDENTIFY to have a flower peculiarly her
own, which her friends will always as
ISOLATE with her and her admirers always
send her. Unfortunately, the number OF
flowers is limited. There are violets and
roses, mignonettes and pinSs, orchids and
lilies of the valley hyacinths and mar
guerites but there are a good many more
sorts of girls than there are of flowers,
so that some damsels are forced to wear
the flowers which others also claim as
their own.
The wise virgin. in choosing her flower,
considers her general style, both Of APP
pearance and of manner. If she is a tall,
a hau oil r.F
Saint Cecilia sojourning on the earth
for a brief period, she should choose white
roses, not creamy ones, but pearly white
ones Of the sort that never open very fully.
There Is something suggestive of affairs
and dim religious lights in those white
roses and the young woman who desires
to suggest those things will do well to
adopt them.
OF course, brilliant red ones belong by
right divine to the stately beauty No
woman who is not sure of being as bril-
liant and perfect in her line as the red
rose is in its should invite comparison
of their respective charms by wearing II.
Pink roses are less exacting in their
requirements. A girl needs only to be
fairly fresh, sweet and dainty to wear
them effectively. Cream and yellow roses
require a slightly more poetical style of
beauty than their red and pink sisters
not exactly the beauty of the cloister, as
the white ones do, but a cross between
that and the mere charm Of the drawing
room.
The young person who aspires after the
unusual, who longs to suggest Burne
Jones pictures or something equally weird
and out of the ordinary, selects orchids
as her own. The girl who likes to be
thought of as the old-fashioned, droop-
ing, slightly consumptive heroine chooses
lilies of the valley, hyacinths and other
waxy, sweet cloying things. No vigor-
ously healthy girl should ever wear these
flowers. They make her robustness seem
vulgar and her high spirits bucolic by
their heavy, sickly sweetness.
The mignonette is for the clear-eyed,
not ravishingly beautiful, but adorably
sweet and womanly girl. And carna-
tons are for every one. They are going
to be very popular this winter. They
come in colors to suit every one. They
are yellow when occasion and ones
gown demand yellow. They are
white and pure and cool They are
always fresh, natural-looking, spicy
things, capable of expressing both delicacy
and strength. 1t is not to be wondered at
that they will be fashionable. The only
thing that prevents it is that they are
vulgarly cheap and have the lasting quail
ity which might recommend them to ple-
bians.
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