The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-20
FER DOWNY COUCH.
Bab'S Description Of Nilady'S Metro
pOlitan Bedroom.

Tot Would be a Great Improvement
on Handkerchiefs - y Professional
spanker for Indolent wives-What It
/ is That Makes Successful Dinners.
I New York City. Jan. 19.-These are the
I days when the grip. or the colds that re-
T semble IT, are abroad and womankind
I is wishing that, as she has 10 cry. she
might bottle her tears as they dropped.
slowly and gracefully. into bottles Of
I cut glass, having gold shoppers. set about
with precious stones. That is what the
I ladies of Pompeii used TO do and no
well-bred woman of that day. or that city.
/ thought Of sch a thing as weeping into
| a handkerchief. There can be no doubt
/ that the woman who wished 10 he thought
/ graceful could practice a lovely pose.
/ with her tear bottle. before her mirror.
and then. when she sealed it up. she could
send this bottled grief 10 her best young
man. in a registered letter. with a little
/ note. saying; you have all my heart.
and these are the tears I have wept for
/ you since you left" The tear bottle would
/ be an absolute proof, and the maiden.
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outside OF the envelope. in very large
/ letters. Glass; please don't stamp too
hard" These were undoubtedly the days
of romance. 1t was said that some very
| fetching young women who lived then and
who appreciated the impression made by
a bottle of tears. and stiu did not like
to have a red nose. used TO get their
ola - do
and gave them physical culture by admin
istering. to the said slaves, good sound
whippings, so that they might have some
thing to cry about.
Nowadays we weep in handkerchiefs.
1t is just possible that they may have
magic in the web of them, but the way
they disappear when they visit a French
laundry is something past description.
And the way a French laundress can
assure you that you only had five hand
I kerchiefs In the wash. when YOU remcm-
/ Der coming ten, is most beautiful. She
is cool and collected when among the linen
| squares returned to you is one trimmed
with coarse lace and having somebody
else's initials upon it. This. she will
| pleasantly inform you, is yours and at
! last you are forced TO keep it, because
you cannot get any other
The handkerchief nowadays-that u.s.
| the proper handkerChief-is large in size
fine of texture, has a tiny frill of real
! lace about it. and your initials very small
ones, embroidered quite simply far down
in one corner l never cold understand
| people having black handkerchiefs They
| We're not pretty, they were not useful
and they would look like dust cloths
However they are out of fashion long
ago, and nobody grieves for them.
nf hot or
| handkerchief should never make the ac-
| quaintance of starch, that abominabe
| stuff that has ruined so many pretty ones
and that it should be only folded twice
The laundress thinks differently, and so
she makes it as stiff as possible folds it
in the size of a postage stamp. and is sur
prsed that you don't like her method
feel positively certain that we will go back
| to the tear bottle. There are so many
| good specimens of glass and china to be
| used for this purpose that it seems al
most shame not to have the beautiful
materials developed in the graceful vase
shaped affairs
How many people that you know look
pretty when they are asleep? OF course
baby always looks like an angel but
people don't keep babies all their lives
Those women who have studied the sub
ject say the grace and beauty Of the fig
| ure is increased by the position taken
one. It is said that the best position
in which to sleep is slightly to one side.
with the body stretched at its full length.
| The Russian soldiers, credited with being
/ the straightest men IN the world claim
that their fine figures come from sleep
ing in the shape Of the letter S, but insist
that this way of sleeping must be begun
early in life and persisted in After all
| what one sleeps on really concerns the
! sleeper very much more than anything
else. You would not like to think of the
| Sleeping Beauty resting upon husks and
covered with coarse linen. While you can
perfectly understand the dainty court
lady. whose skin was so representative,
that she felt the rose leaf under forty
| silken spreads
The idea of luxury in the bedroom is
| the result of generations of ease and
wealth The nourean richie never appre-
ciates it. She is apt to put her bedroom
in the hands of professional furnisher.
| and the result is a cross between the
| royal apartments at some of the Contin-
| entail hotels and a funereal couch. His
/ idea is to have a huge four-poster in the
center of the room, reached by four steps.
The chairs are in harmony with this
awful bed, and not one of them for an
! instant suggests such a delightful thing
as loafing. The foul fiend, in the shape
| of the decorator, then puts gloomy cur
| tains about the bed, three feathers on
| the top of each post and finishes up by
! giving you a dressing table 50 heavy
| looking that it suggests your preparing
on it the poisons Of the Borgias rather
! than all the silver belongings, bottles Of
| sweet scents, and bowls of perfume that
! belong to the lady of the nineteenth
century. A woman's bedroom ought.
/ first of ALL to look restful. 1t should
/ have lounges and chairs that seem to
/ hold open wide arms, and invite you in
/ their dumb way to repose. Ones bed does
/ not want to be in the middle Of the room
and IT does not want to look so funereal
that one feels as If one would like to ask
/ ones husband to turn Mormon, and allow
! two or three Of the wives to sleep with
one so that one would not dream of spooks
and wake up with a cold chill
The prettiest bedroom that l know has a
chippendale bed in it, which stands against
the wall, while from the canopy top fall
curtains Of boiling cloth embroidered in
/ the most exquisite manner; those on the
I top having popies upon them suggesting
/ that sleep may came to the eyes. while
/ those at the foot are bright with morning
/ glories, inviting the beautiful sleeper to
wake and see the sun. Inside, the cano-