The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-19

but Indifferent reading. That blessed
word "sycophancy'' has lost much of its
charm as the abracadabra of the amateur
socialist; and even "Ouida," conscious
and accomplished artist in ideas as she
mas often proved herself, is singularly un-
fortunate both in her title and her in
stances.
The one touch of humor in Ouida's ar
ticle, and that is a very acidufated one,
is where she describes an accomplished,
serious, very intellectual and very agree
able woman, who, in the presence of her
queen, becomes a wholly changed being:
Her face beams with an imbecile radi-
ance, her smile is nervous, her eyes are
excited, her whole person is convulsed
with an ecstasy of desire to be especially
singled out and conversed with by her
sovereign"
White satin bands for the neck, with a
large bow at the back, are in high favor.
One way to arrange them faShionably Is
to pin the middle of a yard and a hall
length of Pinch soft satin ribbon at the
back of the dress band, bring it around
to the front, where it is crossed in easy
folds, and passed again around the throat
to tie in big haring bow with short
ends at the back. jeweed pin of some
sort holds the folds in front.
There is an ancient legend, says the
Philadelphia Times, that says a woman's
living heart was once imprisoned in a
milk white stone, and the throb of its
passion and its pain shone through the
naI-opaque surface, and made 1t dart and
Hash, and fiutter with flame color, and
rose and violet and golden tints. Some
times it beat high with hope, and the sur
face was radiant with Hght; frequently
sorrow oppressed 1t, and its rays were
fainter and less glowing. There seems
no more beautiful or more fitting asso-
citation for the lovely opal to have. 1t al
most has life in its center, and no matter
how small the stone, if 1t be of pure orig
IN the colors are as perfect and as vary
ing as in larger specimens.
DO many women of society smoke ha-
bltually?' said quiet little lady to the
New York Tribune writer at a luncheon
party recently. II have been out of it
all SO long that ask for information, for
1 do not know whether smoking is an
accepted fad nowadays, and one that
shocks no one, or if it is only INDUCED in
by women who are supposed to be rather
fast, and is disapproved of by the ma
jOrity."
We'll, it is and 1t isn't" said the friend
to whom the question was addressed. ut
certainly is an accepted fact in a way,
but L can hardly say that it has received
as yet the sanction, of Mrs. Grundy.
know number of charming, refined wo-
men VINO smoke at home or at small din
HeI partieS, where they are among their
lnttmates, women who would not pro-
woke comment or shock the Philistines of
society by taking a cigarette in a mixed
doSEIlDidRe.
Are you talking of smoking?" inter-
rupted dignified looking matron on the
opposite side of the table. ITO me it is
typical of all that DIS worst in modern so
cial life. That it should be accepted as
right and proper by the world at large
betokens decadence in the society of to-
day that to me is truly lamentable If l
should find myself" she added bristlng
with Indignation, lat any social gathering
where the women were smoking, I should
leave at one. We want no Jardine Ma
bile manners in our drawing rooms"
After all, it Is pure prejudice" said
another woman, for the conversation on
the subject now became general 81 nv
self do not smoke. nor would 1 allow my
daughters to do SC, but 1 do not see any
thlng particularly heinous about it, or