The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-17
REAL STYLISH GIRLS.
What Goes to Make Up a Swell Girl
Of To-Day.

Of To-Day.
Opinions Cleaned From Green Oh
i've" Isaac Truthful, Third and
Tommy Tweedledum"-How a Cor
rect, Up-to-Date DamseI Should
Dress and Behave-Beauty's Tog-
gerry Tends to Drain Her Papa's
Cheque Book - How the old-Time
Lady and Miss Spinster Regard the
Ultra-Fashionable Girl.
Copyright. 1894.
New York, June Damaging with the
other questions of the day there is one
that may be counted quite as frivolous as
the strawberry. And yet which is par
ticularly interesting to women. Though
it is best answered by man, I started out
to ask it with the intention of getting
some typical answers, so I first applied to
MIR. T. Green Olive, who, while he dresses
well, inclines little to the noisy, and one
almost hears him coming. Said l, ''What
is Stylish Girl2"
He looked at his patent leather shoes
as If for inspiration, and then, after think
ing bit, he answered me; "A stylish
K.
Is so well got up that all the men stare
at her as she passes by. Who wears the
very latest color, who keeps her waist
down to eighteen inches, and who would
rather stay in the house forever than
have to go out in a gown of last season.
She is girl whom all the men envy you
She is fashionable in her slang and her
dog, and when fox terriers are in she has
got one, and when bull pups are counted
smart, she has the fiercest looking speci-
men in town. That is my idea Of a stylish
girl"
THE GIRL IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE.
The next man 1 approached was the ex-
act opposite to Mr.. Olive. He chung to
the old fashioned name of his grandfather
and posed as representing the solidity of
the country. His visiting cards have upon
them, Mr.. Isaac Truthful, Third" 1t
was over an after-dinner cup of coffee
that ] asked him the mOpentous question,
and he said: "A stylish girl is one who
is so perfectly dressed that NOBODY ever
notices what she has on. She abhors
anything that is loud, she would as soon
put on trousers as smoke a cigarette. and
she would prefer to swear rather than
speak loudly. She is absolutely even but
never conspicuous. / think correct is the
best word to describe her. That is my
idea of a stylish girl"
Later in the evening, l met Tommy
Tweedledum. Nobody ever called him
Thomas in his life. AT present. he is gor-
geous in frock coat that reaches to his
ankles, and hat with pronounced bell
crown and rolling brim. Tommy Is an
authority on everything in the fashion
able world, and his smooth little face has
| some wrinkles upon it that prove there
may be worries, even In ordering dinners
or leading the cOtillion. l asked Tommy
the question He looked at me and then
he said Il DON'T like the word stylish,
but as we have nothing better to describe
that sort of girl, l will tell you what l
think she is. She would never make the
mistake of wearing an afternoon frock in
the morning, or travelling in a shabby Wis
iting costume. She is trig in tailor
suit at 10 o'clock, wears hat that has
no howers upon it, russell shoes, gloves
is made like mine with the collars and
cuffs on.
In the afternoon,
OUT DRIVING OR VISITING, -
She is gay in a silk gown with a fanciful
hat, an elaborate parasol and light gloves.
OF course, this is when she is driving
in victoria; if she is. on the box seat of
a coach, or if she is driving with some
chap in high cart, then she is tailor
made to degree, and it isn't the same
tailormade as the morning, for the shirt
perfection, that is buttoned, and without
trimming, so that the outlines of her fig
ure show to good advantage, is worn.
She abhors an 1S-inch waist,
which she considers an evidence
of bad taste. Her shoes and gloves fit
well, but are never tight. At dinner, her
gown is always low in the neck, and if
is going to a ball afCerward it is un-
usually elaborate, so that she will not
have to undergo being dressed again The
stylish girl is the one who is always fit.
You know she is not going to make mis-
takes in her clothes any more than she
does ia her manners. She has learned
the great art of wearing clothes which,
if she did not understand it, would make
all her handsome frocks useless.
MANNERS MAKE WOMAN.
Then, there is a style, you know in
manners, and l consider that part of the
clothes that she assumes for social pur-
poses. She knows lust how to give a
cool bow, and how to give cordial one
and she understands the drawing of lines
so well that she never, by any mistake,
gives the wrong bow to the wrong man.
Without eXaggerating it, she is up in the
last new handshake. and just now, while
they are still being worn among us, she
uses monocle in plain gold framing.
She never says anything against any
body, because she knows that is sas bad
form as it would be to wear thosehideous
puppies that are sold in the shops on the
side streets. She buys her toggery from
the best people, and she is certain that
they will not make any mistakes, be-
cause much of their reputation comes
from women like her. Take her alto
gether, the stylish girl is the proper girl
and the girl that does one credit"
Tommy's description wasn't a bad one.
THE NEXT MAN I STRUCK.
Was dignifiea old gentleman, who asked
me if by stylish l meant agreeable, or
} beautiful, or fascinating. I told him no
| thought l meant the girl whose clothes
were so successfully worn that she had a
special air of her own. He said that he
: liked to see a woman look nice; but that
ne thought a great deal more of her
being agreeable. and that when she was,
he forgot all about her dress. Evidently
the stylish girl was an unknown quantity
TO him.
A woman said: 1.-THE stylish girl is
that one who is as effective in cotton as
in silk, and who, if she wore a mealbag,
with string around the middle, would
tie that string in such a way, and arrange
the bag so successfully, that when she
appeared all the other women would
crowd around her to ask who it was that