The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23


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The Memphis girls latest fad, says the
New York World, is even more thrilling
than that adopted this summer by the
fair maids of the Quaker City.
These latter, 1t will be remembered
were making a brave endeavor to redeem
their city's reputation for slowness by
wearing for garters the brown, yellow
aud white hat-bands from the First City
Troops straw hats. Girls with sufi-
GENTLY slender waists used the bands as
belts, but the majority utilized them
otherwise, the result being that the ma
fortunate troop was soon without band.
But the Memphis girls go them one
better in the line of sentiment and ro-
manticism. One of them showed the
writer her mascot garter the other day,
and on 1t were securely fastened six of
the tiny bows found on the inside of mems
hats-a white one, two pink ones, a brown,
yellow aud striped bow.
You have to wear it every day for six
months, solemnly asserted the owner,
and II will surely bring you a proposal.
But it will have absolutely no power
unless the bows are stolen" she added;
and you ought to hear the men when
they miss that little bow from their hats
They actually seem to think their hats
will fall to pieces without it"
Railroad travel, says the New York
Tribune; has its pathetic no less than Its
humorous aspects. In a slow train the
other day sat a worn-looking, shabbily
dressed man with an infant in
his arms. The little one was wrapped in
an old lace shawl, and the ribbon about
its waist and in its cap had evidently
been placed there by unskilled hands. 1t
seemed contented as IL fed from its bottle,
and from time to time the man pressed it
close TO him and looked in its face with
dlmmed, tender eyes. A woman with q
kind face, who sat near, made a remark
about the beauty of the child, and the
father looked up with pathetic smile.
Eyes, ma'am, she is pretty. She's like
her mother That makes it harder to
part from her. Since her mother was
taken I've tried TO raise her myself. But
| had TO go to work eevry day and leave
her with neighbor. She didn't get the
care she needed and I couldn't pay for
better, so I'm taking her to my sister, but
/ don't know how can stand it without
her. It's a lonely thing for man when
he's done his work to know there's moth
ing to go home to-"
And then he buried his head on the
baby's and it was long time before he
looked up again.
Englishwomen of fashion, with the con-
servatism of their race, are only Just now
formally adopting the bicycle craze, after
the smart DANES of Paris and Newport
are probably half through with it. A
fashionable "cycling school" near Hyde
Park receives most of the pupils from the
aristocratic social ranks, and duchesses
and countesses spraw and tumble reck-
lessly from their machines in their efforts
to attain proficiency. No Englishwoman
permits herself TO be seen riding in public
Sle1,a Te IL
wheel. Part of their outfit is a tailor
made skirt, neatly rolled and carried on
the handle bar, to be quickly buttoned if
the rider dismounts. Mrs. Jack" Leslie
formerly Miss Jerome, a sister of Lady
Randolph Churchill, is a skillful rider, as
is the Duchess of Manchester. Lady
Jeune is said to be fond of the sport, and
takes early morning spins almost daily.
Mrs. Asquith has long been an accom-
plished wheelwoman.
You can't fool bride much in regard
to her husbands soul or body, can tell
you. l totally discredited woman who,
after this young wife had told her story,
related how a bridegroom whom she
| knew was not yet suspected by his bride
of wearing toupee. He was in mortal
| dread, says the New York World, lest
/ she should discover the concealed bald
] SBOb Ol1 HIS uCdu uCu duOkuGE WOMAN
told the anecdote of the bride who, on
| temporarily quitting her berth in sleep
! ing car, told her husband to stick his foot
| out between the curtains so that on re-
! turning she might not get into the wrong
berth. He did so. So did four other men
who had overheard her from adjacent
berths, and she was dun bounded to see,
when she came back, a row of feet pro-
jecting into the aisle.
tsStuff and nonsense - calculated ona
listener to the story. LAS if any bride
except a blind girl wouldn't know her
| hubby's foot among thousand"
We'll" he remarked as he took his
seat at the table, says the Indianapolis
Sentinel, and helped his wife to potatoes,
II saw woman on the street this after
noon dressed in suit of those boomers.
If that's what you women call dress re-
form, l want none of it around this house
Why, they're simply disgracefui. that's
all there is about it. | heard dozen men
talking about the size of her legs after
she had passed. They seemed to be the
only feature of her appearance that at
tracted attention. Men, too, whom l
always supposed we're pure minded And
that woman paraded down the street
with an air of perfect unconcern, with
her brown stockings staring everybody in
the face. It's simply outrageous"
Was she good looking, dearP' inquired
his wife, with interest manifest upon her
face.
"Why-to tell the truth-that isl
didn't notice particularly"
Then he hurriedly asked for another
cup of coffee.
81 do think that English girls would
marry anything out of the Eden musee, i"
said, according TO the New York Times,
a bright American girl just back from
London, as she laid down a copy of the
paper describing how the daughter of a
Surrey squire had married convicted
plckpocket out of an English prison.
Really, do you know" she continued,
''such English girls as l met had alb
solutely no thought nor ambition in life
except to get married, and, in view of
the fact that their matrimonial market
is decidedly overstocked, they worry
awfully about their futures OF course,
their mothers, poor things do the
best they can for them, and the girls are
perfectly shameless in the way they chase
men who are thought to be eligible par
ties One reads about the influences Of
Girton and Newman in women's Jour
mails, bit these influences certainly do not
seem to prevail in English society gener-
ally. Almost all the clever English
women met were either middle-aged and
married, or elderly daughters whom ma
ture had cut out for old maids. and had