The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-15

tenburg lace to put in your cabinet I'M
der some specially fragile piece of br.c-a-
brac. Here are tiny, tiny point edges to
outline a cambria handkerchief. There,
too, are Jacket fronts of real lace, and be-
side them are real lace borders to finish
the most becoming of wells. And there
are butterflies, some white and some
black, to be gotten by the dozen, and used
for decorating evening gowns. Fancy a
frock of yellow chiffon having upon it
eight dozen black lace butterflies! That
was dinner dress worn by a blonde, and
1t made her look as if she had come out
of one of Titans pictures, for the sun
shine of the frock Intensified the gold of
her hair, the blue of her eyes and the
wilderness of her skin
Do you remember an old picture where
in banqueting table is shown The ar
fist has carefully brought out the elabo-
rate carving and made his brush show
very plainly the square of linen damask,
outlined with heavy rich-loolSing lace; and
the lace in the picture is just such lace
as the busy worker makes to-day, though
now it is called royal Battenburg. In
France in the sixteenth century it was
counted so artistic that they called it only
1.-THE lace" meaning that it was the one
that delighted the heart of the housewife,
since 1t made her hospitable board a very
picture. How many people know that the
reason the eastern laces invariably show
geometric or floral designs is because of
religious law? The Koran absolutely for
bids the pieturing in any stuffs of living
things and so the Orentals have to take
refuge i'm curious windings of lines, blend
ing of flowers, leaves and buds, or where
colors were used, in startling contrasts.
There is vulgar streak in the woman
who is satisfied with imitation laces. IL
one has but a bit of real lace 1t can be
twisted into jabot. fared into cravatte'
or curved into a coquetush-looklhs cap
for the breakfast table.
The shopper, dropping laces, picks up
gloves only to discover that in the fash-
ion there are seventeen shades or tan,
twelve Of gray, though white and black
like the proverbial poor. are always with
us With cloth costume there Is worn
the tan. or the white glace glove with
four large buttons. For evening there
are undressed kid gloves in whichever
fashionable shade is best suited 10 your
costume, but the extremely long glove,
hiding the best part of woman's arm, is
counted bad form. Most women are
thankful for one English custom at din
ner. that is the serving of coffee in the
drawing room, so that it is matter of
perfect Indifference, whether, after dinner.
the gloves are assumed or not. remem-
Der seeing woman do the extremely Gu
rious and underlined trick of wearing
gloves while at dinner. The other women
could not help, although they were po-
lite. gazing at her in amazement; but,
as the giver of tine feast was a man,
none Of them felt bound to countenance
her in her faux pas and they all did
what any well-bred woman does when
she eats-removed their gloves. The peo-
pie who feed may do 1t in their gloves.
because. somehow feeding always sug
gests the rending apart Of the flesh with
the hands but people who know how to
handle knife and fork usually see no
necessity for keeping the hands covered
as they will not be touched or burned
A feminine letter? 1 am We much of
a woman 10 my hnger-tps. ana never SO
much Of a woman as when i have the OPP
portunityto enjoy the shops. There is a
pleasure past description in going to the
shops that understand catering not only
to feminine desire, but to the feminine
eye That makes me remember what the
famous artist Carolus Duran said: "Edu-
cate the eye before you educate the hand
The hand will become cunning soon
enough when the eye has learned to see.
whereas, if the hand be educated before
the eye, one may never see" Isn't that
an incentive to the shopkeepers TO make
the showing of their wares an art? And
who wouion't rather spend her gold where
she. personally. Is recognized and consid-
cred, and, to certain extent, catered