The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-08

woman in Milan who is too beautiful
must wear her face under a veil. The
courts will not protect her from being
kissed by strangers.
Most people. says McClure's Magazine.
suppose Annie Laurie to be a creation
OF the songwriter's fancy, or perhaps
some Scotch peasant girl. like Highland
Mary and most of the heroines of Robert
Burns. In either case they are mistaken.
Annie Laurie was born I'm the PURPLE
so TO speak, at MaXwelton house, in the
beautiful glen of the Carin-Glencrain.
Her home was in the heart of the most
pastoIally lovely of Scottish shires-that
of Dumfries. Her birth Is thus set down
by her father. in which is called the Bar
AT the pleasure of the Almighty God
my daughter Annie Laurie was borne up
on the 18th day of December, 1889 years
about 8 O'Clock in the morning, and was
paptzed by Mr.. George -, minister or
Glencairn."
Her father was Sir Robert Laurie. first
baronet, and her mother was Jean Rid
Maxwelton house was originally the
castle of the Earls of Glencairn. 1t was
bought in 1911 by Stephen Laurie the
founder of the Laurie family stephen
was Dumfries merchant. The castle
was turreted building. In it Annie Lau-
RE was born.
There are indications. says the Phila-
delphla Times, that the American woman
IS gradually growing taller and larger.
more tall girls in Philadelphia than ever
before. A few years ago the fashionable
SKIRT length taken in the fashionable
uressmaking establishments was forty
Two inches, and forty-two inches was the
length used for all the model gowns sent
over from Paris The model length has
now increased to forty-fiVe inches, and
the increase in other measurements is in
proportion. The middle-aged American
broader across the hips and shoulders
and stouter and thicker through the
arms; but the college graduate, the uni
Versity woman and the debufante grow
more gracefully vigorous every year The
typical college graduate is from two to
TOUR inches longer from the waist down
than formerly. Her waist is getting lon
ger. her chest fuller, and her limbs mar
rover. The middle-aged women grow cor
puIent and clumsy through ndolence and
indulgent habits of life. while the ever
increasing tendency toward athletic sports
and outdoor exercise is improving the
younger of the sex. The statuesque Juno
type may yet express the American wo-
man.
After much study and looking about.
says Harper's Bazaar she Determined unon
regimen She instantly gave up sugar
IN tea or coffee and milk at any time For
Two months she took for breakfast
luncheon, and dinner only beef-steak and
TOAST. and now and then spinach and let
tuce; always oranges--oranges in plenty
She drank with this clear coffee or tea
sometimes she took claret. She limited
the amount of water taken through the
day to one quart, or at most three pints
Some of this she drank hot before on.
after meals. Often she squeezed the Juice
of lemon in it. When the two months
were over and the flesh had begun to
diminish, she ate other vegetables and
fruit, corn, peaches. celery, but never
any vegetable that grew under ground
potatoes, onions, parsnps, turnips or
beets. She never ate-and this was her
most important rule-she never ate any-
thing fermenting in character, any pears.
plums, grapes or sweets. Because bread
has fermenting quality in II she always
toasted it dry. Pudding she never touched
sauces nor cake. If any food led to datt-
lency in any form she knew at once II
was a food to be avoided. By and nv
after the first few months she allowed
herself now and then an occasional sweet
or an ice, but never as habit
Echoes from the Vanderbilt-Nfarl-
borough wedding are beginning, says the
New York Times, to bark back from the
other side. They almost forgive us for
marrying the catch of the season here in
New York, because we made such fuss
over it. What to these transatlantic
chroniclers seemed the most un-English
proceeding in connection with the affair
the cheering of the crowd which
they say with undisguised amazement
was Vociferous when the duke and his
best man arrived at the church The fact
that the Queen and Prince of Wales sent
congratulatory kilograms on the day OF
the wedding is duly and obsequiously re-
corded.