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


MOSES and wild flowers.
Funerals are undertaken as well as
weddings and parties. Not long ago they
padded the walls of a room from ceiling
to sub-base with lilies, and made a
canopy overhead of the same pure bios
SONS. In the center stood the coffin of a
young girl covered with pail of maiden
hair and violets.
Miss Bates is the young woman who
was sent, with four others, to decorate
the California state building at the
worlds fair.
1--WE devoted many patient hours, y
saws Mrs. Langtry, in a recent interview,
Ito the study of harmoni ing tints. A
blue eyed person never looks so blue eyed
as in blue dress, whereas the strong
blue of the fabric might have been ex-
pecte1 10 dim the fainter blue of the eye.
But it does not. A woman with full red
lips, attired in dull helioCrope, with
amethysts, has all the coral taken from
her mouth, which wears instead a nght
heiotrope tint, and with this tint the
flesh of her cheek is also touched. Tur-
quois blue darkens dark eyes and adds to
their brightness Experiment and veri-
fication should be as much valued BY
women as by the Comtist philosopher"
The May number of Scribner's has two
articles of special interest TO women.
r One is "Womanliness as a Profession"
by Aline Gorren; the other is on Work
ing Girls Clubs" by Clara Sidney DAY.
idge. Miss Gorren's paper may be de-
scribed as an essay; Mrs. Davidge's as
a descriptive article" Miss Gorren
aims o show that if American women
are Unconditional, it is American men who
IA w
American male" she says, lis cold
creature outside of his business and his
politics; one who courts and marries by
instinct, but in whom the hlghtS and
depths of these delicate matters are as
vet in the rudimentary STAGE For this
reason she contends that the marriage Of
American girls to foreign noolemen is
not altogether for what their titles give.
Some of the marriages may turn out I'M
happily, and so may marriages among
Americans. LAS a lover" she thinks,
the European has several points in his
favor beyond the American and the
American girl has never been slow TO find
this out"
AS a lover, perhaps, but not as hus-
band. If common report is be to believed,
the American husband is the model hus-
hand of the world. Practically, in Amer
lea. Miss Gorron says, we nave no social
intercourse between men and women:
After the unripe boy-and girl period has
been passed and both sexes have entered
into consciousness of themselves, each
goes very much its own way. The woman
of the new fashion meets men In business
Offices, in the varied exercise of her new
ayocations, but it is as one good comrade
meets another The married woman
among the large mass of Americans has
for masculine society her husband. This,
again. is as we wish it to be. But 1t may
he that an unnecessary alarm,
a false Puritanlsm, TOO much
seek. with us 10 pre-
vent the natural, mutually improving ln-
tercourse of mature men ana women:
Those attractive and womanly women OF
the French salons were what they were
because the men of their time made them
so They stocked their wits, not from
hooks but from the talk of the men VINO
On .hered about them to enjoy an inter-
Change of ideas They learned how 10
live from life itself They had the subtle
Intuition of the relative values and posi-
tions of things that is the fruit OF the
higbest feminine culture; the commas
sances generates, which French author
pronounces indispensable to any womaniy
effectiveness.
In supposedly serious account OF wo-
mems patients is a remarkable one ac-
credited TO an English woman. Inc
patent is entitled, "Train support ana