The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-18
DRESS REFORMS.
Bah Listens TO The Arguments Ad-
VanCed By Their Champions.

New York, March 17-Lent is a very
improving time. One is asked to join all
sorts of clubs and societies.. and there S
no doubt about it that one does learn a
great deal One learns how to listen with
ones eyes shut when the Egyptologist
talks about what all the queer hero
glyphics meant; one learns to stare
straight into vacancy while the woman Of
the present talks about the woman of the
future, and one learns to be quietly enthu-
siastic on the subject of dress reform.
have been to see them. l mean all
the dress reforms, and it does delight
my soul to hear them all talk-by them
/ mean the dress reformers. Somebody
who has been living on overdone beef, on
much pastry, on many preserves, gets up
and tells about the corset being an inven-
tion of the devil, and pretty gowns being
impossible with brains. Then the speaker
meanders of and says: What will the
coming generation be when the woman Of
to-day is satisfied to merely look prettyE'
And sit there and think of the handsom-
est, healthiest, happiest babies / have
ever seen: babies born south of Mason and
Dixon's line, and whose mothers were
best satisfied when they wore white null
gowns and blue sashes.
THE DRESS RETGRMER EEGINs.
love to hear the dress reformer talk A;
l like to hear her damn the corSCts, OBJ
iect to pretty underwear, and consider as
a work of the devil a dainty dress.
like to hear her object to wOman's hips,
that something which is so essentially
feminine, and which were made broad
and strong that they might carry bur
dens. The dress refOrmer doesn't be
lieve this she wants to have everything
strung from ones shoulders, | never
made a speech in my life, but I wish
somebody would speak for me, and say
that nature (the dress reformer prefers
TO say nature instead of God would have
made women with narrow hips and
broad shoulders if it had been intended
that her burdens should be carried from
them. | once saw a refOrmer in her
nightgown, and she was a sight, She
had it made out of some indicated mate
rial, the odor of which was not pleasant,
and it was straight up and down, entirely
suggestive Of utility and not Of beauty.
think If the takers would get up and
say that women eat improperly there
would be a great deal more good done TO
the coming generation. They need less
pastry and more mutton. They need
fewer fried things ana more roasted ones
They need better bread and butter, and
less tea; perhaps / ought to say, less bad
tea, for good tea hurts nobody They
need to devote a longer time to dining and
less to reforming the world. Oh, Of
course, l believe in reformation; but |
think, like charity, it ought to begin at
home; and the woman who wants TO keep
a man in of an evening, is more apt to do
it by having good dinner commencing at
O'clock, and lasting until 8, than by all
the preaching in the world. After 9
o'clock he feels so comfortable that he
don't care to go out, and a woman must
be fool who can't entertain a man who
has had good dinner
THE FooD ON OUR TABLES
don't belong TO any society at all-but
If somebody would only start one for the
propagation of good food, l would be will
ing to help and to work that it might be a
success Bad food has made more trouble
than anything else in this world. Over
done meat, expressive butter, weighty
bread and badly set tables are enough to
drive me to murder II doesn't cost one
cent more to have a decent dinner than it
does to have a bad one. 1t is true. il may
take a little more time and thought, but
that time and that thought is well given.
But / was talking about what one learns
during Lent. / belong TO a card club. and
l have learned how brave is lovely wo-
man, and how she will rush in where
HOyle himself would fear to tread Some
nights we play whist. The other night I
was asked to take as a partner young
woman who said she knew
little about the game and was
willing to learn. think she
was given as a partner to me because |
had the toothache and they thought she
would act as a counterirritant. After
she had lost three tricks by throwing
away low trumps, she very calmly put
n L. Ii F-.T1.
nounced that dreadful old saying that
she did not believe in sending a boy to do
a mans errand. After this she said she
had gotten her cards mixed and her
methods of strengthening them was to Law
the different suits in piles on the table SO
that anybody who had any sense at all
could guess what her hand was She al
ways forgot the trump, and when the
game was ended, I heard her telling a
man knew that she didn't think it was
ladylike to understand game too we'll
VIII you please tell me what right that
woman had to come in and spoil every.
body's pleasurei Lovely women, is
fear me, selfish.
AROUND THE CARD TABLE.
Another card club that belong to al
ways plays poker. This year we had
two new members, and these two have
caused every one of US to be murderers
IN our hearts l am perfectly certain
that deserve 10 be hung, if intention
means anything One fool Of a girl was
overwhelmingly tender-hearted five of us
were playing, and jackpot had beer
opened for twenty-five cents. I dom,
ask anybody to believe this story, it is
too much like a fish one, but it is true
The tender-hearted young women opened
it and three people came in; then thC
soft-hearted one started to bet twenty
five cents, but dpew back her chips and
said: "No, girls, won't let you lost
your money; I've got hand that cam
be beat, and l am going to throw i
down" What do you suppose she had
Naturally, the only hand that can't b,
beat is royal flush. That feminine don
key held a straight, jack high. l was the
proud pOssessor of four queens, another
woman had flush and the thirC
one had a full house There is no US,
telling what we all said, but the tender
hearted one cried, and the rest of us ad
vised her to resign and join a kindergar
ten, where she could play with blocks.
! saw her about q week afterwards
when she was playing hearts with som,
men. l declined to Join the game, becaus,
knew what the result would be- Nobod'
could convince her that she must get rio
of her hearts Oh, dear, no! She wa
very happy when she had gotten all thir
teen and couldn't possibly understand
why she had TO pay out her chips for tina
privilege. The gaWe was stopped afte