The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-21
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4 Few Things Of Interest TO the Fair
Sex.

mans Standpoint-Coa Language
in High Life-other Matters Worth
Passing Notice.
Another Englishwoman, who has got
some crude notions of America and Ameri-
cans, and who probably proposes writing
a book, has an article in the Queen in
which she advances some novel notions.
Speaking of the southerners she says:
''Many of the southerners, who have re-
tanned their wealth, imagine they form an
American aristocracy, and rely, as l said,
on traditional ancestry and coinci-
dence of names as evidence of tie of re-
lationship, dating back to the early Colo
NAL days, between themselves and cer-
tain noble families of England. These
claims of lineage in reality are very alb
surd and vague. Doubtless, there may be
a vast number of people in the United
States who are descendants of the adven-
turous second sons of the English aris-
tocracy and gentry, who emigrated to
Virginia long years ago. But, in consider
ing the stirring times, the death, disease
and political upheavals that marked that
period, interchanging and scattering the
settlers, one is inclined to doubt the au-
thenticity of coincident names as estab-
fishing a definite American branch to any
special family tree in England"
If in olden days, says the New York
Tribune, milady "swore her pretty oath
by yea and nay" the modern dame of
fashion, with the frankness of her world
and period, uses the "big, big d" quite
openly. Smoking seems to be an accepted
fact among the young married women be-
longing to the smartest set, and swearing
is the latest development. 1t is no un-
common thing of late. to hear pretty
women use among their intimates very
strong language indeed. Curiously
enough, however, and fortunately, too,
for the general good, these little indulg-
ences are confined to the vie intime" of
the inner circle, while to society at large
the modern woman of the world is a
model of cold property. There has grown
up in Londen-and, of course, New York
has adopted this innovation-a latitude of
speech and action among the truly initia-
ted of certain set that is somewhat ap-
palling to those who hold the old-fash-
toned standard Of what a lady may and
may not be.
One hears a great deal about feminine
extravaganza in dress, says the New
York Times, and its deterrent effect upon
the manageable young men, who shrink
back in terror from the altar when they
consider what it costs to dress a girl ac-
cording to the dictates of modern fashion.
Therefore it is interesting to read of a
certain Miss Pharser's new gown, made
in the year 1876, which cost 81 $40, and of
which it is recorded: 1T rights Sir
Carr Scroop, who is much in love with
her, for marrying her, saying his estate
will scarce maintain her in clothes"
Verify, there is nothing new under the
sun. Not in centuries has there been
made gown so respondent as that worn
by the Medicis queen, wherein were en-
broidered $500 pearls and 5000 diamonds.
And what belle in the last cycle has been
arrayed so resplendently as that Nine. de
Montespan, who wore at great court
festival "a gown of gold on gold, broid-
cred in gold, bordered with gold, and
over that gold frieze stitched with gold
mixed with certain gold which makes
the most divine stuff that has ever been
imagined"
We all know, says the New York Sun,
the girl who writes, 81 want to come to
the city and earn my living; what chance
have II" She writes US from Timbuctoo
and from the country town where we used
to live ourselves. She can do most any
thing, you know" to earn money, from
painting plaque to writing editorials on
the eccentricities of the tariff; and the
town she was born and brought up in,
where everybody calls her by her first
name and likes her, where she has sunny
little room all to herself and new gown
whenever she cries for it, won't hold her
any longer. Now here is an answer to that
girl that a woman wrote, who knew what
she was talking about. There should he
a special act of congress passed providing
that this letter should he printed, framed
and hung in every country school house,
every village seminary, every small city
high school. The woman's name is Mar
tina Evarts Holden, and the ambitious
girl of whom she writes had written to
her
II felt like posting an immediate an
swer and saying, Stay where you are
I didn't do it though, for knew it would
be useless. The girl is bound to come,
and come she will. And she will drift
into third-rate boarding house, than
which if there is anything meaner-let us
pray. And if she is pretty she will have
to carry herself like snow on high hills to
avoid contamination. If she is confiding
and innocent, the fate of that highly per-
secuted heroine of ld-fashioned romance,
Clarissa Harlowe, is before her. If she is
homely, the doors of opportunity are
firmly closed against her. If she is smart,
she will, perhaps, succeed in earning
enough money to pay her board bill and
have sufficient left over to indulge in the
maddening extravaganza of an occasional
paper of pins or ball of tape. What if,
after hard labor and repeated failure, she
does secure something like SUGGEST No
sooner will she do so than up will step
some dapper youth who will beckon her
over the border into the land where trou-
bles Just begin. She won't know how to
sew or bake, or make good coffee, for such
arts are liable to be overlooked when a
girl makes a career for herself; and so
love will gallop away over the hills like a
riderless steed and happiness will fare
like a light in a windy night.
'Oh, no, my little country maid, stay
where you are if you have a home and
friends. Be content with fishing for trout
in the brook rather than cruising a stormy
sea for whales. A great city is a cruel
place for young lives. 1t takes them as
the cider press takes juicy apples. sun
kissed and favored with the breath of the
hills, and brushes them into pulp. There
is spoonful of Juice in each apple but
cider is cheap The girl Of whose success
you read is in nine cases out of ten the
girl with friend at court who gives her
the opportunity to show what she can do.
Without such friend the path Of the
lone girl in great city is briery uphill
track"
Mrs. Potter, the actress who graduated
from New York drawing room, is hav-
ing a successful season in Calcutta. Soon
after her arrival in that citv sayS tho