The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-07

Inc NUMBER OIL bridesmaids and uSherS,
says the Ladies Journal for October, at a
wedding, is altogether optional. At any
large jewelry shop pretty articles for
bridesmaids souvenirs may be found.
Among them are bangles upon which the
initials Of the bride and groom may be
combined in monogram, lace pins,
prayer-books bound in white, card cases,
etc, For the ushers, scarf pins, pocket
stamp boxes, cuff buttons and pencils are
IN order The bride usually presents her
bridesmaids with their gloves, as does the
groom his ushers. The groom furnishes
the flowers for the bride and the brides
maids and the boutonnieres for the
groomsmen and ushers. The cards of in
W'ation should always be provided by
tAe family of the bride.
very Disconnected gentleman is the
ola habitue of Newport this summer, says
me New York Tribune, and he airs his
grievances without disguise the new
people and the foreigners being his
chief causes of complaint
ron my honor" he grumbles, II am
ieft out of half the things goin' by these
nterlopers., / should like to show them
INST Of cottage people of fifteen or twenty
years ago; not one of their names would
pe IN 1t; and as for these legation fellows,
call it perfectly disgustin' the way
every one. runs after them. They give di-
Iectlons at the balls as if they owned
everything and everybody, and these
mushroom folk don't know enough to
keep them in their proper place. 1t was
NOV so very long ago either that we were
Cohsiderin' whether we should ask these
people to our dances and dinners or not,
oul now by jove, it is whether they will
cohdescend to ask us
with the revival of the birthday ring
a special stone for each month, as the
Iegend indicates-a feminine mania has
@Ilsen in regard to settings, says the New
York World
T.. IS no longer the proper thing to mere
~ make the purchase of the birthday
TTnEy however expensive, at a jewelers..
neCldedly newer and more unique is it
10 huy the unset stone-diamond, pearl
..,uRy, sapphire, emerald, onyx or agate, as
,ne birth month may dictate-and have
mounted as taste and purse may sug-
sgsty Fortunate are those young women
"Hose artistic friends can suggest to
mem a pretty little design for the set
ing others, less blessed, are ransacking
onr libraries and old magazines to find
articles on gems and jewels from which
oilglna and beautiful ideas may be
Silver has come into great popularity
az the proper metal for these birthday
..nss-especially for agate, sardonyX and
uhe moonstone-and much fine work in
unique settings and beautiful .chasings
mas been done
Whether jewelers. approve the fad or
MOI IS theme not to be entered upon
lashiy, but the feminine lover of precious
ones has not touched the top hotch in
iiNasures OF this kind until she has chosen
I'r own birthstone from a glittering pro-
uson, has suffered mentally over the
,Hoice of appropriate design in setting,
ana has awaited patiently that delightful
moment when the stone OF her heart, in
we mounting Of her own invention, shall
SHINE upon her finger.
lena THE London Beauty Is 81 years
vvI1. She Is the best dressed woman In
london. She Is so shallow and brilliant
says the CornhH Magazine, that one feels
sHe ought TO make a great name. Her
,'luty Is perfectly preserved. An excel
l'nt digestion and heart and conscience
which haNs tgiyen her no sort Of trouble