The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02
VARYING FEMININITY.
R,b On Princess AliX and Mrs. GEORGE
Gould.

uby won't This Young Person Put Her
D-ide in Her Pocket and GO Out as a
,yorssmaid P-American Maids Are
ubat are Wanted, and the Wages Are
LEAST $50 a Month-rhe Inadequa-
of English, Irish and French At
..,dants-The Making OF a Home in
.e.srlife-one of the Foundations of
Love.
Nsv- York. Dec. THE advent OF the
-, car has made everything Russian
. ain fashionable. Womankind has al
/ rs had a leaning for the land Of snow
. ,.cause II is essentially the land of lux
Women like to think of wrapping
A themselves up in black sables and being
arm and lovely and comfortable. while
-. rest of the world is shivering. There
A 4. ubere the woman is very like the cat
haven't you seen Mistress. the pet cat,
arm herself thoroughly in front of the
Gre eat some thing good and then ST.
- tbe window sill and lick her chops
4 ,or the benefit of the poor starving toms
,rro are out in the cold? But to return to
pussia Which they say everybody does
,rbo has ever been there. The fact that
,se new czarina is going to have blue.
Green and yellow silk stockings. has made
,bese colors fashionable, and the woman
,,bo is in the swim tells with glee of the
many colors that she possesses in the fine
silk and how perfectly they fit. being
made so that the large toe has a sep
orate stall for itself, and the rest of the
foot fits in the lower part of the garment.
For. tnasmuch as the stocking reaches al
most to ones waist, it can truthfully
enough be called a garment.
How many of the women who initiate
,be rretty princess in her extravaganza
will initiate her in her housewifely vir-
ines? 1t is said that she can cook good
dinner. that she is expert at sewing a long
seam. and that she joys in doing bits of
fine embroidery or knitting, not bits of
" lace. not untidy tides, but good warm
stockings. warranted to keep comfortable
N the feet of the poor and the Woodworking.
n There is a great deal in having these
vomanly accomplishments. They become
srcb refuge for one. Just think of the
. lows and sorrows that the fine combric
A needle sews in the long seam. Think, as
Won place the needle each time, what
refuge it is, and how, because you must
watch it, your lips are closed and you
# do not say the unkind words that other
H wise would be so easy. We, who haven't
titles. are rather inclined to think of titled
people es sitting on tuffets and doing
4 nothing but drinking curds and whey all
the day long.
Why. if you will take the trouble to
read the history of the mother of the
young Princess Alix, you will see that she
had TO economize, just as does the wife
. Of any clerk: that the baby's long dresses
we're made into short ones, and that the
present of little money from her mother
was not only gladly accepted, but it was
used to furnish the dining room with new
chairs The history of this gentle lady
makes good reading for discomfort Ell
women, for they see then how, although
she was among the high and mighty of
the earth, she had to think and plan and
manage so that her own family might
make proper appearance. You, who are
4 Disconnected, get this book and read it,
and l think sympathy will take the place
A Of discomfort until you begin to remember
the good that has been given to you, and
not that of which you have been deprived.
Just now the most interesting people in
New York are those who, by aid of So
ciai magnates, by the help of money, and
"
the swim. Money will not always do it.
There must be the helping hand, and
there must be the continual report of
4 gorgeousneSs possessed. Then commences
the striving. The keen desire to be invited
TO this house. the eagerness to receive a
bow from some woman whose social posi-
/ ton is fine, and the continual craving
TO be talked about and written up. This
was never so well displayed as at the
boxes to be stared at, to be talked about,
ana to have their frocks described in the
i morning papers. No matter how people
may look at it, it is vulgar, and some Of
the bloom is taken off the peach when
woman so entirely becomes public prop
erty that men and women stare at her
IN the most open manner and criticise
her IN perfectly audible tones.
The most conspicuous woman at the
recent Woman Show, for that is what it
amounted to, was Mrs. GeoI So Gould,
ana men and women didn hesitate To
discuss who she was, and who she had
oeen as they stood in 'front.' of her box
ana looked at her. Men remembered
When she was the favorite actress at
DAYS theater. and told the parts they
nad seen her take. Women put up their
lorgnettes and stared at her, wondered
as to who made her frock, and as to
me, 1t seemed horrible; but, evidently,
she liked it, or she wouldn't have sub
united to it. Undoubtedly her stage train
ing stood her in good stead, for it made
her able to face a large audience, and a
very critical one. We used to be more
careful about cur women. Men liked to
ueheVe that the beauty and the charm
were kept for those who were near and
uear' and for the immediate set in which
ohe went, but nowadays the women have
,dken the reins, and they are so hungry
ior admiration that it is welcome from
ANYBODY, and may come in any form.
somebody wonders what the next gen
erauon will be like. Perhaps it will be
exactly the opposite. The cycle will
swing just as far as it can go. and then
1t WIN come back with a rush. and the
meH-pred, quiet, well-dressed and we'll
hammered woman will be counted the
're whom 1t is most desirable to know.
ne oonnets are gradually getting fur
.ner and further back on the head, until
.uey seem to be nothing but a bit of gilt
eIlhg stuff with couple of strings They
are not pretty. Nothing is beautiful that
toesh live up to its intentions, and a
SoHn4t Is supposed to cover the top of the
medu and suggest that it is keeping it
arm On the other side, just now, they
e. wearing prim little Dutch cap that