The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13
Wornan's
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! while, we chaperoned one another and
went y the hotel. There l began to re-
! wise M opinions of the American wo-
men L bad once thought impeccable. The
HTst nlght we went into dinner we natur-
ally were the simplest black silks we had
IN our trunks. The women beside us were
Illeralg explosive in crimson tulle and
yeiIoN satins, inquired of the head wait
er lfstAere was to be one of those lunacies
| that hotels call hops but he said no. and
as my eyes wandered over the gorgeous
costumes in the big ROOM 1 wondered
what they were for. Later l found out
Those women sat out on a huge yeranda
| III thelr silks and satins, their decollete
necks, tffAr diamonds and their feathers
with the hir of those girls who parade for
you at Paquin's while you study the
dresses hey wear but that their employ
| outright
"Fhese women looked like secondhand
fashlonplates, for, while they might have
i looked dressed in a ballroom. they were
made p seem dowdy under the fickering
eiectrlG lights and with a foggy breeze
playing about their shivering threats.
some q the men were in evening dress,
out offers were in blazers. The latter. l
thought, had some sense, for"
| NOW, there you are forgetting your
| self, interjected her listener 'TWhv
| shouu not all the men have worn evening
| dress. Would you have your husband sit
| down TO dinner in fiannels?"
Nonsense! replied the other. "You
| know that isn't what mean, What I am
driving at is that in a miscellaneous hotel,
! where all sorts of company, transient and
! otherwise, is, mixed Unfortunately
around the table d'hote, it is pure affecta-
| tlon and bad taste and nonsense to put
/ on your best clothes. The men might.
grant you that; but woman in silks who
brings into the dfning-room of a summer
| nopeI the dress she would wear at a New
York ball in midwinter is simply out of
her mind or unspeakably vulgar, that's
| all. On the whole, 1 believe it's vulgarity,
1 and I'll tell you why. Imprimis, as l sat
| on the veranda and studied them, l could
hear their voices whether they were two
/ feet away or twenty"
Stuff put in the housekeeping Amer
1 lean Now you are talking English pref
udice, which you've picked up in London"
Don't be absurd, Fanny" observed her
/ friend, with some severity. TT doesn't
require prejudice to know that a woman
| who shouts her private affairs and her
| gossip to the sixty or seventy people on a
public veranda is making a fool of her
| self. However, the main point is this:
! When Ii o'clock came they all, men and
women, excepting the men in blazers,
| started off in high excitement to the ball
| at the club. The club, you know is
private affair, but strangers are admitted
| as spectators, and may even dance, if
] they come in evening dress and pay dol
lar at the door. Fancy availing yourself
of that privilege! My friends cousin, Ted
dy W., came round and made us dress
and go with him. He said a lot people
we knew were sure to be there So we
went. Then 1 saw my decorative abb
| surdities of the veranda. They didn't
know soul. They had no one to dance
with save themselves. They were snub-
| bed, and quite rightly, / thought, by the
regular subscribers of the club. They
were like fish out of water, and yet they
seemed to enjoy it. Next day l came
| home. l couldn't breath the air with
those people another hour. Why? Be-
cause they are intrinsically vulgar. They
go to a fashionable watering place be-
cause the cottagers have made it fash
| ionable. They know nothing of the real
society of the place. They sit all day
reading the newspaper reports of dances
| and dinners they can never see, they gos-
/ sip about their betters when they are not
reading about them; they talk as though
| they were intimately acquainted with
| life which they would give heap of their
disgusting money to get even a glimpse
of; they talk in ear-splitting tones; they
wear costly costumes which are ridicu-
| lous on a summer hotel veranda, and they
go where they are not wanted, hattering
themselves that because they can dance
in the same room with swelldom for
dollar they are part of swelldom them
| selves. Ughf'
"Josephfnew said the woman who had
| been listening to this speech. "Josephinew
and there was solemnity in her voice.
| What on earth do you mean? Why,
| never heard you talk such downright
| snobbishness; really, you must forgive
me. but no other word will suit. Why,
where is your Americanism gomez"
"Americanism fiddlesticks,' rejoined the
| critical one. ''What has that got to do
with good taste and good manners? You
know I'm not snobbish you know I would
turn my back on any one who was. That's
why l turn my back on the summer re-
sort American women of that particular
kind. They seem to me the vulgarest
and most complete snobs l ever knew"
Lace. SAYS the New York Commercial
Advertiser, is undoubtedly going to be the
rage, the distinguishing feature of the
season in dress this winter In fact, IL Is
so already. We are wearing lace on our
parasols our bodices, our skirts,
our capes, lace petticoats, lin
gerie overwhelmed with lace. Lace, in
fact is on everything that regard for the
fitness of things will permit, and some
times even the limits of the congruous
pose there is any possibility or danger OF
the supply being cornered by any enter
prising dressmaker, but the demand prom
ses to be so great that 1t would not be
at all surprising IL an advance in price
should result therefrom. At any rate,
happy among women is she who already
possesses a treasure box filled with old
point lace and the debutantes and wall
flowers shall pay her the tribute of rever-
ence and envy. For the rest the lacemak-
ers of Europe ought to be kept busy and
reap a golden harvest from that now
making for the modern woman of fash
ion insists on having the handmade va
rieties of lace, while the more intricate
the pattern and the greater number Of
years spent in netting it the more highly
she values it.
Most men, says the New York Press,
spend all their spare time teaching wo-
men how to take care of their money, so
they say. Some Of them even go to the
trouble of picking up any loose change
they may find around the house and put
ting II in their pockets for safe keeping
AS a general thing, men are more care
full where they keep their loose change
than are women, but once in a century