The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-26

shape Let the material be as costly as
you please-no properly understood hat or
pie and singie-minded in the impression
IL produces. Overabundance Is the aboIni-
nation Of desolatiOn. and confusion OF idea
has been the death warrant OF many
blameless bonnet For consider, the OBJ
Ject OF its existence Is 10 surmounts 10
crown and frame human countenance.
And II that face be beautiful already,
what possible collection OF beads. straw,
fur. moss, pl0Vers eggs, pink roses, and
plumage Is likely 70 draw closer attention
10 the lovely and delicate lines beneathF
And II the face be irregular in shape,
faded or muddy in color. unfortunate in
length or size or breadth. what eoncatena-
ton OF the animal. mineral, or vegetable
kingdoms Is calculated 10 lead away the
critical eye TO some happier point in the
Wearer anatomy No Ineodore. No
mans headgear must be simple in outline
and simple In effect. It mustappear the
result OF a decorative Impulse not the
madness of a naturaf history museum.
And IL must-it must be personal The
properly trained woman" said my aunt
sOlemnly, would no more accept bon
net which she had not devised, suggested,
or selected, than she would accept nus
band because that was the style of man
people were marrying this spring"
Russia's young empress, says the New
York Tribune, has created CONSERVATION
at the court OF St. Petersburg by dis
countenancing the use of tobacco by the
ladies with whom she is brought into con-
tact. She is credited with the observation
that a cigarette in the mouth of a woman
is as bad as an oath in that Of man; and
has requested that neither her ladies in
waiting not yet the ladies' of the court
should approach her as long as there is
the slightest aroma of tobacco about their
clothes or about their persons. Now, near
ly every member of the imperial family,
and in natural consequence well-night
every lady in court and in society at st.
Petersburg is addicted 10 the use and even
abuse of cigarettes, the Grand Duchess
Vladimir being conspicuous among the
number.
The widowed czarina, like her sisters,
the Princess OF Wales and the Duchess Of
Cumberland, never favored the use OF to-
bacco by ladies, but in spite of all the in
fiuence which she welded over her hus-
band, Alexander III, she did not venture
openly to object to 1t on the part of the
members of her court. That the young
do so constitutes proof not only that her
influence over her husband is of a pre-
dominant nature, but also that she will
not hesitate to use ii for the execution of
her ideas, irrespective of any prejudice or
obstacles that she may encounter.
There is only one other sovereign in Eu-
rOpe who manifests a similar aversion. TO
tobacco, namely, Queen Victoria, who has
ry the late Gen. Sir Henry Ponsonby, to
address letters to her various cabinet min
listers complaining of the aroma of tobac-
co with which the official documents and
state papers submitted TO ner Tor sigma
ture were impregnated. The Prince of
Wales is always miserable when he stays
at Windsor with his mother, on account of
his not being permitted to smoke, and the
one reason why he leases a mansion every
summer at Ascot for the race week a an
expense of 500 900 or $4,000 merely for the
few DAYS is that her majesty declines to
permit him to use the castle for the time
unless he promises that there shall be no
smoking on the part or himself, his friends
or his attendants.