The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14
WOMAN'S WORLD.
4 Few Things Of Interest to The Fair
SeX.

Plctures-The Nod @ IN Mourning-ROw
Baby Peary Arrived by Way Of the
North PoIe-somo Good Stories of the
Times.
1t is queer. but the expression tab
IeaUX wants frightens 10 one, while
Giving pictures has in the very sound Of
II a piquant suggestion Of all sorts of in
discretions. AS a matter of fact, says
Clara Belle in her letter from New York
10 the Cincinnati Enquirer, the latter
phrase is only A translation of the former
We are told that living pictures were be
ing INDUCED in sub rosa by our very
SWEETEST girls. BE that as il may, photOg-
raphy has had an immense and new inn
petus from the sudden interest aroused
by the living picture craze in the artis-
tic value of the human form, particular
~ the female form. One or two of the stu
dos devoted TO high-class photography
have fitted up rooms for special posing
which means living picturing. such
room is kept at rather a high tempera-
ture, that the pretty danes may not catch
cold, and in one or two there is a matron
in constant attendance during the posing
presumably to protect the photographer,
because the poser is always guarded by
the presence of her chaperone.
To tell the truth, it is an ordeal for the
photographer, for the posers are as cool as
cucumbers about it, That is because it is
all in the interest of art and they regard
the photographer as indifferently as if he
was only part of the Photographic para
phernalia. A good many of the wretched
fellows wear gloves, because it is often
necessary to alter the angle of an elbow,
or the turn of a wrist or ankle, easy
enough to do in ordinary posing. hut in an
especial room at a high temperature, with
a matron and a chaperone present, and a
nj V "a fV,
of the sort-well one uptown photogra-
pher has gone out of business with nerv-
Gus pIostration.
Besides the Dianas and Venuses there
are lot of women simply wild TO show
their stockings. 1t does not seem to be
the beauties outlined by the stockings, be-
cause they never want to take their stock
ings off. What they want is to wear a
dress of ordinary length and lot of lace
petticoats, and then sit down on an ordi-
nary chair, put one leg over its arm, so
that the dress is pulled in a happen-so
fashion, showing a trace of garter on one
leg and a generous vista of under curve
on the other. For the rest of her-that
really does not matter much.
She filings herself back in the chair and
holding aloft a cigarette, puffs imagin-
airy smoke into the air This is a favored
pose. The photographer puts in the smoke
when he finishes" but the girl supplies
all the rest. Another way to show that
restless leg is to stand by a chair, rest the
arm on the back of it, facing the open
side and bend the knee on the seat of the
chair. This pulls the dress up from the
other leg. There must be awxwardness in
the lines of the dress, though, Of course,
there is none in the lines of the leg. This
awkwardness gives piquancy to the ex-
posure, because 1t seems unstudied and b.
accident. Sitting on the arm of a chair is
also much in vogue. Place only one leg on
the arm and the skirt is drawn tight over
1t, as is riding habit. Here the resem-
blance to the habit ceases, for besides ex-
plotting the covered curve of this leg, the
skirt is we'll lifted from the limb that gives
support with the foot against the floor.
1t rs the inside and under part that shows
in the shadowy recesses and setting
which serves for a background and set
ting, but not in any sense a covering
Sometimes she prefers to sit on a very
low stool Then she leans forward, lift
ing the skirt on one knee, and puts her
elbow on that knee This bothers the pho
tographer, especially when she wears a
low-necked dress and when she takes the
pose on stool put on a table a little
higher than the camera. She leans we'll
over, and looks right straight at you, and
you actually haven't the face to look
straight back.
stool, and fastens her garter, while the
camera takes her. This shows both legs
and one garter, Photographers tell me
there is a special desire, for some reason
or other to show the garter. Sitting on a
stool, and crossing one ankle over the
other knee, with body thrown back and
hands behind the head, is a good pose
only 1t has been done so much. girl
who can dance and kick likes to take her
self doing it, One photographer charges
$40 dozen for high-kick pictures, be-
cause so many plates are spoiled in try
ing TO get the highest point"
All women want to know something
about little Baby Peary, the first white
child ever born amid Arctic ice. Here is
what Baby Pearys mother herself told
a New York Times reporter about the
baby and the event:
And now about the baby: She was born
Sept. y, 1898, at Bowdoin Bay, Inglefield
Gulf. That is on the west coast of Green
land, n degrees 40 minutes north latitude.
The day was delightful We had no fire
IN the house. and the windows were wide
open to let in the sunshine and the de-
lcious perfume of the flowers At that
time of the year il was light up there
from a. m. to p. m. The days RAPIDLY
grew shorter, however, until we were
plunged into the long arctic night, and
that was the time dreaded on the baby's
ANNONAl+ just lLllh OF liz consecutive
days during which the sun never shines
for moment, while the temperature is
from 20 degrees to 40 degrees below zero.
To be sure, there was a full bright moon
most of the time but nothing can re-
place daylight, and the gloom seemed in
terminahle. Baby never appeared to
mind 1t, however, and took her outing as
often as the weather permitted. Her
father bought two dogs, q little Esquimau
sledge and fur suit, especially for her,
and when the temperature was only q
degrees below l put on her little otter
boots, or 'kammiks,' wrapped her in a
deer skin, and sent her for a ride o.
three or four hours down the bay on the
ice. The coolest weather she ever went
out in was % degrees below zero, but
she only staid about an hour, as l was
afraid she would get chilled
she was never sick there a moment
not even with collie. which DR. Vincent
thought very remarkable. He fully ex-
pected her to die before the winter was
over, as he considered II a physical i'm.
possibility for a white child 10 live and
grow without light. But a baby never
had better care than mine had, for ] at
tended to her myself, and gave her much
more time than l should have been able
TO here. She had perfectly regular hours
for sll.r