The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-21

Nlcolinl was both her guardian and ply
sican. and the following incident illustrates
MS Jealous and watchful care.
La Diva had just returned from her
daily drive exceedingly thirsty and asked
N. Nieolini for a glass OF water. Nicolini
was Mortified.
'what.' he cried. ma mignonne. you
Know that you are going to sing to-mor-
row night and that water viii chill your
blood. o, no. forbid water"
rhen give me taste Of wine." pleaded
thirsty Patti.
"Winer' replied Nicolini Ma mignon-
ne you are going TO sing tomorrow night
ana you know that wine will heat your
blood No. l cannot permit wine"
Please, cannot 1 have something wet?'
pleaded Patti, with parched lips.
-Nicolini pondered long and deeply and
at length with his own hands carefully
prepared for the great singer a soothing
draft of magnesia.
Correspondent Curtis writing from "a
pan 10 the Chicago Record. says: The
new silk season is approaching, and in
formation received by brokers at YokO-
mama promises the most abundant crop
that has ever been known. The weather
mas been very favorable this spring: the
mulberry trees are everywhere in SPLEEN
ca condition, the eggs and worms have
been usually free from disease and in
sect pests, and another fortnight of such
conditions will insure the largest yield
On record. Some well-informsd people are
predicting an increase of at leest 50 per
cent. over the last crop, while the most
conservative estimate 20 per cent. A few
samples have already arrived on the mar
ket and indicate that this years produce
ton viii not only be superior in quantity
put IN quality. too. The japanese middle
men, who buy the silk direct from the
farmers and sell it to foreign export mer-
chants. arc expecting a total crop of 49,
OV) native bales, of which one-third will
be required for native consumption. The
iemainder-about 10000 native bales. or
60,Om shipping bales-will be available for
export. This will add a great deal to the
prosperity of Japan and bring much-need-
ed money into the country.
st. Louis has a genuine example Of the
new woman in Miss Constance Mcguire.
who is secretary to the newly appointed
city counselor, Mr.. Marshall 1t is said
by Miss Maguire's admirers that she will
soon dissipate any prejudice against the
advanced class she represents by the
charm of her winsome presence.
OF course, she rides a bicycle She wears
nloomers' moreover and she makes no
falnt-hearted effort TO conceal them be-
meath short skirts or long basuues. She
wears sweater and jockey cap, CATERS
and gauntlets, and her hair is cut short
and curls crisply about her ears.
Besides being a new woman and a BIZ
cyclist Miss Mcguire is a horsewoman for
whom rails and bitches have no terrors
an oarswoman whose prowess Is well
known, skater, and an all-around ath-
lete. She can even manage sailboat in
such way as to command the admira-
ton OF experienced shippers. She is more
over fond of books and fond of feminine
finery-when she discards the sweaters
and boomers
Altogether. Miss Mcguire Is popularity
regarded in her native town as one Of the
best apologists for the new woman who
has yet appeared.
An elderly gentleman. says the Phila-
delphia Times, whose duties required his
| presence in Washington during the ses-
| sion OF congress, had taken quite faith
| erly interest-as elderly gentlemen will
| in a young woman who boards in the
northwestern part OF the town.
He had sent her books and flowers, and
had called on her until really. IL he were
not an elderly gentleman, people might
have made remarks.
Not long ago he appeared in the board
ing-house parlor and asked for the young
woman. She came in. Her face was a
little flushed and in one hand she carried
! an open note. She walked up to the elder
| ly gentleman.
mfr. So and So" she said. distinctly,
you say you would do anything for me.
Do you mean it?"
He looked somewhat surprised, but he
stood on his colors.
Certainly" he said. what is it you
want?"
The young woman looked him straight
in the face, and then, as she turned to
leave the room, she said-and everybody
heard her:
Il want you to bring your wife to cali
on me-"
The idea, says the New York Sun, that
the fan and it's coquettish use originated
with Eve in the Garden of Eden seems en-.
tirely consistent with its significance in
the hands of the summer girl, providing
she has become expert in the art of using
1t. When considered from a practical
point of view, IL is simple instrument
for producing a cooling breeze, but as
means of conveying silent love messages,
il is certainly a poem without words. A
young girls summer outfit is not COM
plete without a variety of pretty fans for
use at all times of day and evening and
the dainty empire fans are perhaps the
prettiest of all. Excellent copies of these
made of fancy paper, are sold for very
small sum, but the real beauty has tor
tcise-shell or mother-of-pearl sticks, and is
made of shell, exquisitely painted in fig
ures framed by scroll Of glittering pail
lettes. A Louis XVI. fan of black net Is
very effective, with a painted silk medal
lion set into the center. the edge being
also of silk, in scrolls which spread out
on the net. Silken medallions are a feat
ure of all the newest fans, and small
fans of scented wood and painted guaze
are very quaint with their Illuminated
sticks shutting up in the form of an ivy
bough. Feather fans are much cheaper
than they were, and those with ostrich
tips turning down from the top are the
latest fancy. A real novelty is fan of
white net, scalloped on the edge and a
satin medallion in the center, on which a
dainty Columbine is painted, and from
this shining lines of gold spangles radi-
ate. The white sticks glitter with gold
and silver stars.
The Empire fans are small in size, but
not In price, as the ivory, pearl, and
ebony sticks are inlaid with gold, while
the mounts of hand-painted ribbon are d.
vided by another strip of inlaid pearls.
black lisse fan, spangled with golden
stars. is very effective with black even
ing gown, and fan de luxe is in natural
ostrich feathers mounted with mother-of-
pearl sticks inlaid with gold.
.s--ha+,s ono If the lambs - said an a.