The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-20
LACE DEPARTMENT..

fullness and care winning with young
Miss" the position in American literature
OF which even the severest critics OF ante
bellum history cannot rob her.
The old days are gone forever and the
note of modern progress has long since
sounded in the old plantation dell But
ever and anon in the bustling activity
and heat of the day glimpses of the old
life are revived in some graceful chate-
laine who unconsciously reproduces in
vivid colors the unforgotten types of
young Miss" and "Old Missus."
Venus has not left the Parisienne I'M
lowered, says Paris letter but believe
that the peculiar charms for viii h she is
famed are in some degree due TO the
French corset 1t is garment to won
der at. French dressmakers say that
the waist measurements of English and
American women after they have lived
in Paris year are all changed, notably
the distance to the belt line is heightened
and the bust measurement is several
inches larger round. A new make of cor
set has wrought the miracle.
But 1t is not necessary TO jump to the
conclusion that the waist has been
pinched or the abdomen displaced. Paris
has too much medicine and art to-day to
need resort to such ignorant devices.
Tight lacing is thing of the past in
Paris. The dressmakers who rule the
mode give an ease of TT round the waist
that few years ago would have been
thought permissible only to old women.
The present CAPABILITIES of the garment,
however, are due to art and the knowledge
of anatomy.
What is to hinder a physician that oc-
cupies himself with the fluctuations of
the pulse in different stages of Irritation
there is more than one doctor of the
sort in Paris-or even what is to hinder
the most serious physician in the land,
for that matter, from studying the corset
to see where the body may be little
pressed without discomfort, and where it
must be free 1t cannot be the dignifed
part of medicine to disdain TO ameliorate
what is not be destroyed at a coup.
An "up-to-date christening" which
was recently held at an English country
house in sporting county, is thus de-
scribed, says the New York Tribune, by
an American girl in one of her homo let
tiers:
emily is up, and has taken to riding
again, and is in her habit from morning
until evening, when she slips into a lovely
tea-gown for an hour or so, to appear re-
splendent later on in gorgeous dinner at
tire. The house is full Of people, all of
the hunting set Of course; so was not
in the least surprised when / was told
that the baby's christening was to come
of at the next meet ana hunt breakfast
which was to take place at H hall 1
shall be sure of my godfathers and cod
mothers if | combine the two said Milly.
and think IL will be good send of for
baby she added, with all seriousness.
Ana so, Just before they started the
child was baptized and chrstencd, all
the party except the clergyman and my
self being in habits or boots and breeches
1t was reallya very pretty sight, how
ever, with the two godfathers in their
pink coats, Miss s., as go1mother, in the
nattiest of habits, with Milly standing
by similarly attired, and the little pink
shred of humanity in long lace robes As
soon as the ceremony was over the entire
party took horse and scampered away,
leaving the small NJ. +. II OF the future
to his nurse.
by the way, what do you think these
queer people do in the evening" The men
actually kuit--that is, some Of them do.
My most, sir Frederick, says It rests him
after a long days hunting to take up his
knitting; and he has just finished a baby
blanket for his small son which is quite
lovely And Mr. X is teaching me how
to knit those nice-loOking knickerbocker
stockings, with the fancy check tops. The
way you do is 10 have two balls of wool.
and knit first with one and then with the
other on the same needless