The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-29
NO NJ ANS " ORLD.
4 Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.

e,od Advice to Girls-Bismarck'
last Waltz Something About the
summer Grill atrimony in Nor
.rov-How Woman Obtained the
cross of the Legion of Honor-A
curious Matrimonial Advertise
r,ent-How to Cook Water-Three
witty Say1ngs-The Woman Who
Invented the Mother Hubbard-other
Matters Worth Reading.
n1Aad a perfect lover once" she sighed;
Yes lust before 1 married you,
Who listened when l spoke, and tried
To answer all my questions too.
$50 courteous and so kind-so good!
ned never think man could e
A. tbOughtless and. indeed so rude
AS YOU too often are to me.
"Tbe level of my love, once won,
Ne used to swear could ne'r grow dim;
He would not dream that any one
Could whistle when | spoke to him.
off he had faults he kept them hid.
should have married him; Yes true,
And that's exactly what l did.
NV perfect lover, sir, was-you."
From the Chicago Times
There is a good English word, says
cood Housekeeping, which formerly had
several beautiful meanings, and which
we have nearly lost the use of these lat
ter days-'lady." Its downward course
NAV have been traced for nearly twenty
Years bv newspaper Jokes too familiar to
hear repetition. We thought we had
reached the bottom, when, some time ago,
a witness in a divorce case testified of
the defendant that, ''She was very much
of a LADY, when she wasn't drunk" But
since then even lower depths have been in
evidence.
II is such pity! I think we should at
least bemoan it's loss decently and pass
some resolutions of coincidence. 1t was
such a beautiful word, and we do miss it
so.
do remember-not an apothecary, but
two sisters who, when / was a child,
always seemed the personification of the
word "ladylike" to me. They had gentle,
ouiet WAYS of doing things, and low
voices l couldn't explain why it was,
hut somehow for years afterward | never
heard the word lady without thinking
of the Misses d.
One thing that made them seem differ
emit from other people was that they
wore their hair only waved in in front
and plain behind at time when it was
the fashion to have the head look like a
last years birds nest in the wind.
Let US hope that twentieth century
usage will restore my lady to her own
again.
The lack of a pound or two more Of
flesh, says the New York World, is often
literally all that stands between women
and her kingdom.
Embonpoint is, however, rarely DELHI
erately courted by an American woman
For some mysterious reason, however
scrawny she may be, the last thing one
will succeed in doing is to persuade her
that she needs more flesh.
So deep rooted with US, so widespread
is this fear of becoming stout, that it
might almost be classed as a national
anti-fat instinct.
Yet a little fat is a great beautifer, I
recall more than one face that blossomed
into unexpected beauty as its owner took
on flesh.
went to school with girl whose large
aquiline nose was the bette noir of her
childhood; but at about two-and-twenty
she began TO grow decidedly plump, and
the Objectionable member forthwith lost
its beak like aggressiveness; the back
ground afforded it by an ampler padding
of flesh at the temples, by well rounded
cheeks and slight doubling of the chin
brought it into correct focus, making it
handsome feature. The woman who
seeks to become at once thin and clearer
of complexion is attempting what is well
nigh an impossi bility. The thinner one
becomes, the 0uller, the more Opaque
grows the skin. Colorlessness is not fair
ness 1t has been claimed by good au-
thorites that for every added pound of
flesh the skin becomes perceptible frac-
tion lighter"
Corpulency is not desirable; but it is
better to become a trifie oVerplump. if
thereby one preserves bloom and fresh
ness.
The women of Europe in the middle
and upper classes frequently retain their
attraciveness of person well into old
womanhoOd-but they generally grow
pumper as they grow older. The beauty
OF la belle Americaine-and very beauti-
tul she is for a brief seasons sadly
ephemeral. At little past middle life
While we retain the alert movements and
the proportions of young womanhood, we
wear faded punched, furrowed, brownish-
pale faces that would be put to shame by
the countenance of a German grandam
Of so.
The Mother Hubbard wrapper
was designed by a woman
10 little country village in
New York state She made three or
Tour of these garments and sold them to
The people in the village. A buyer for a
clothing shop was passing through the
village and saw the garments. He gave
an order for same to be shipped to his
nrm. The woman who invented them
now employs two or three hundred wo-
men. For the name Mother Hubbard she
receives certain sum, and has literally
lald by enough money to keep her from
want even though the demand for these
ARTICLES of feminine attire may cease any
day.
When we were children" remarked
70 the New York Tribune delightful old
tauy, who carried her 20 years with arts
tocratlc grace, "little girls we're always
TAUGHT to carry fan when they went
INTO the drawing-room. Always carry
your fam my dear, was my mothers last
Injunction when | went out 1T will keep
you from feeling awkward and looking
CONSCIOUS and | have often thought
What an excellent fashion it was and what
pity 1t is that the Importance of the fan
mas so greatly decreased. In my day to
manage a fan OrOperlV was considered a