The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-19

New York. April ls.-As there are we'd
dngs and brides and suggestions OF briaes
and weddings everywhere. one is forced
10 wonder what the new woman viii as
sumo in place of the wedding veil. Natu-
rally. she won't wish TO wear that friv-
olous white tulle thing fancied now. Tor
1t is too feminine. Its very origin IS es-
sentially womanly. 1t is claimed for II
by the orientalists that 1t Is a remnant
Of the eastern canopy. but it is also claim
ed for it that it had its origin in the
behavior of Penelope, who when she was
asked by her father whether she would
leave him and go with her husband, did
not answer, but drew her veil over her
face TO hide her bushes; this silence was
equivalent to the Yes which is said by the
modern maiden, only more audibly, and at
the altar There is no doubt about II that
the most becoming veil is the soft one or
shimmering tulle, that is cream white in
shade, and cloud-like In effect. A bride
wants to seem envelOped in it; II must
fall behind her and fall in front Of her,
like part of the heavens, surround her
until she really seems a something en-
tirely too good for everyday food, or an
ordinary man. The lace veil inherited
from our grandmother, which is frequent
" bought from a smart secondhand
shop. is expensive, but not becoming. 1t
makes a girl look matronly, and it will
suggest the lace lappets worn by her royal
highness, Queen Victoria of England,
lady for whom 1 have the utmost respect,
but whose appearance is not suggestive or
a bride.
Although you and would think a bride
looked awful in anything but a white veil,
opinions differ The happy Roman bride
hid her bushes under a veil of deep yell
low. The Persian maid intensified her
modesty, as painted on her cheeks, by
wearing a veil of rose color; the Greek
girl went her one better, and made her
bushes look almost fierce by wearing
Veil of bright red, while the young LADY
of Turkey put bushes and eyes ana every
body else under cover, that IS, as Tar as
seeing anything was concerned Dy as
suming a veil of brocade, seeded with
pearls. The last named, may be magnlh-
cent but it suggests economy. lhlhk OF
a cirl in a brocade veil.
think of a newly covered sofa! But
wherever the bride Is there should De
some kind of veil, although personally
/ should prefer the brocade or the Iurk-
jsh lady TO the black one worn by the
Spanish girl II may be coquetush, buI
ii certainly will bring bad luck, never
could fancy a bride without a flesh veil.
Even down on the Bowery, the young
woman who hires a white satin gown
not quite new, orange blossoms that nave
been used before, gets new ven by pay
ing little extra -
You and / are inclined to soon at the
girl who hires her white satin wedding
frock. There is a good bit more sense IN
that. however, than in getting one after
the fashion of Miss Shabby Genteei. She
has very little money ana an imnense
capacity for getting into DEBT. she reaus
Of the gorgeous wedding frocks worn py
women who have millions OF their own
and who wed millions; then she elects 10
,..lr ae that
Bullion as she can; so, instead OF putting
her money in a neat little walking SUIT
chat will be of use to her afterward' she
buvs a cheap cotton back satin, INES IL
with canton flannel, gets a gorgeous
tiara of orange blossoms, a superb ven,
white kid gloves, white SILK sloeklhss
and white satin slippers, and the eonse-
duance is, in a months time, MISS ShaDDy
Genteel has nothing to wear. she Is not
invited to houses where white satin rs
the rule, and in time she reallzes eNdctly
how foolish she has been, while she mas
the doubtful pleasure OF wearing ner olu
frocks and weeping over her iolly, ~
course a wedding frock can always De
cut to advantage to make Dapy clodh'
but-Well some people are sentimental.
During the days or GOOD queen AHne , ~
was the thing for lady never 10 De quite
we'll Although the ladies OF those Gays
drank and ate until they hid their merry
cheeks, not TO mention noses, ui ,S
powder and rouge galore, stil neaitn was
counted a vulgar blessing, ana those OF
the court never confessed TO possessing
it. 1 only wonder one thing, ana th9I Is
how did the men behave in those days
or have they changed, or were they par
ticularly angelic during the reign OF Soou
Oueen Anne? / think they must have
been. or else the ladies of the era would
not have had so much pleasure IN Deihg
not quite we'll Nowadays, II a woman IS
i'll, unless she is staring death IN the
face. the average man regards II as
nersonal insult He flies from illness as
he might from an invading army, and ne
is a great deal more AFRAID OF pa4
those new guns that shoot a mllllon peo-
Die at once. When he asks how you are,
it is in an aggrieved tone lmposslnle 70
describe, and if you happen to have enough
strength left TO argue little, ana men
ton to him that you think II strange
he did not send you few flowers, or
some dainties he remarks, "Oh, well, II
YOU We're really dying l would PROBABLY
care a great deal about II all because, OF
course, am really very fond OF you, pnt
when you are only a little bit sick, Wen,
it seems so unnecessary, and / would
rather not be around. Then, too, why
didn't you ask for what you wanted!
From the standpoint of the corner, we
die once in our lives. But woman dleS
a hundred deaths from headache, and
heartache, and rheumatism, and diseases
that verge on pneumonia put don quite
reach it, and everything else that Is UNI
pleasant and not dangerous. And these
occasional deaths are the ones when she
would like to have little thought given
to her When she is absolutely dying she
don't care. She is not troubling herself
1t is while she is living that she would
like to be remembered; when she is under
the weather, as were those ladies' IN the
days of good Queen Anne, when. perhaps,
morals were not quite as good as they are
now, but manners were a great deal bet
ter History tells us that during those
days the Duchess of Marlborough fire.
quently had straw laid in front of her
house so that she might not hear the car
riages go by when she had the headache;
and that once, when she was near gar
rison, she asked that the morning and
evening shooting be stopped, as it hurt
her head. And 1t was stopped. | would
like to know just a few things. DO you
think the stock exchange would stop its
huilaballo because some woman had the
headache? Do you think that the abom-
Unable express wagons would stop running
at night because some other woman had
the heartache? Or do you think a man
would stop a game of billiards because
some woman had a wretched cough and
was nervous? There is nothing quite as
exasperating TO anybody who is kept
awake by illness as the sound of a game
of billiards. Next to il, in order. comes
the noise made by man who is prac-
ticing a horn that is TO be attached TO a
four-in-hand in the early June days-both
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