The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-03

a glimpse of it peeping from underneath a
| petucoat would Instantly be reminded of
| the Dahomey village at the worlds fair
| or the cOuchee cOuchee, and yet IL is said
| that these brilliant plaids VIII be much in
| Fogue Tor morning wear at the seashore
| and in the mountains This summer AnOth-
| er rather conspicuous but less heshy pat
| tern has a black ground, with immense
| heliotrope plaids. Whether one lays in
! supply OF the changeable or shot silk
! stockings in dinty delicate tones, or buys
! a lot of hosiery with gay cOlored tops and
! black bottoms, or takes a fancy to the
| Dahomeys, is a matter of taste, but it is
absolutely essential for woman to own
| countless pairs of fancy silk stockings If
she would be well dressed.
Mrs. DR.. Evans, the wife of the president
of Hedding College, out in Illinois, should
| be revered by her sex as a philanthropist
and a discoverer worthy of every honor
the sex can bestow. For years, being
| woman she does not state the exact num-
| Der, Mrs. DR.. Hedding has made a careful
| study of dress, especially feminine dress,
and her researches have extended from the
| fin de steele mOdiste's shops to the hero
| glyphtcs of the catacombs. She has delVed
/ into the habiiments OF all climes and of all
| ages. and the result of her Investigations
| has been most wonderful discovery.
Woman not only was the first to wear
| trousers, but invented them as well. This
Mrs. Evans asserts with the utmost conf
dence, and is prepared to exhibit her proofs
at a moments notice. Her explorations in
literature and at historic sites have dis
closed another fact. that man looked upon
the trousers, saw that they were good, and
forthwith appropriated them to himself.
She adduces as corroborative detail the
| fact that among the most ancient nations
| the trouers are still worn by the women,
| while the stronger sex goes gallivanting
| about in skirts, more or less abbreviated
| to serve the exigencies of circumstances.
| If this be true, women should no longer
regard masculine raiment as a badge of
| authority, but should rather class it as 1t
belongs as indicative of mans tribute to
the superior inventive genius of the brain
| feminine.
| Whatever may be said of the methods of
| the Salvation Army, there can be no doubt
that 1t numbers among its officers some
| very remarkable women. Miss Eva Booth,
third daughter of the autocratic gen
eral' is now, perhaps, chief among them.
Her energy is certainly tremendous,
though she is slight and fun of nerves"
and speaks in the softest tones. Miss
Booth is only about 30, and she has been
actively engaged in ARMY" work for
over fifteen years. Al IA she was selling
the War Cry in the streets of London,
and since that time she has filled every
grade and rank in the army from cadet
to commissioner. About a dozen years
ago the army mad an exciting time with
the London East End rough The leader
OF one OF the worst gangs was a rufhan
who had a leaning toward broken bottles
and loaded sticks as missiles. 1t was dur
ing the heat of the conflict, and when the
young warriors of the Salvation Army
were getting decidedly the worst of II,
that Capt. Eva Booth turned confidingly to
this youth and assured him that he must
take care of her She explained TO him
that he was stronger than she, and she
| actually succeeded in making him call off
| his followers and escort herself and her
| companions safely home. subsequently,
| when she lay at deaths door, this youth
| pawned his vest and bought a bunch of
| white grapes. which he brought to the
| door of her sick room in the most Chester
| heldian manner. Little things like this
| happen frequently in books, but it is a
novelty to meet one in real life.
| other day between my youngest grand
| daughter and one of her friends will serve
! to illustrate the spirit of the times as ex-
a writer in the New York Tribune 'ST6e
| only thing that makes any difference is
| whether you are rich or not said the lat
and who cares if a person has any grand
| rather or not, or even knows Now, /
| maven an idea who your grandfather was,
| although you consider that you belong to
| an "old family" He might have been the
! Great Mogul, or he might have been a
navy for aught know or carer NY
grandfather was minister to England for
| years, said my little granddaughter with
great dignity, for she had been brought up
| Miss Pert, whose knowledge of diplomatic
| titles was rather vague, only minister 1
| even have been an Episcopalian"
| But 1t IS when certain number Of the
most arrogant and most snobbish Of these
| mercenary children get together and form
a set of multi-millionaires and their sateI-
| lites, arrogating to themselves a superb
| GRITTY over others, and constituting them
selves juvenile smart set, as it were that
the irony and pity of it all (for despite The
absurdity of their assumption ii representS
the set that is considered the most desir-
i able by other young people, and has there
| fore an immensely strong social influence)
are mostly to be deplored. For NOTHING
| could be more shallow or less likely to de-
velop intelligent and desirable American
men and women than what appear to he
| their sole aims and ambitions-to drive a
q G nwo ,IA
| social power among ultra-fashionables. to
| wear fine clothes, to be considered smart
| by their contemporaries, and to look for
| ward to a future bounded north, south
| east and west by the confines of VANITY
Fair; Truly we may be said to have set
| up the Golden Calf in our midst. and IA
have taught its worship even to the chill
dren." 0''-'
- There Is no doubt, says the. New York
| must exist, should be English. In Eng
| land there remains enough of the old
feudal kinship spirit to make the moneyed
man OF the family connection willing to
! provide reasonably for the less favored
| members of, his circle of relatives. An
Englishwomsn living modestly here in
| New York frankly states to her friends
! that her income Is derived from remit
| tances regularly sent by a second cou-
! sin-an English lord, and not one of the
| superlatiVely wealthy ones either His
| interest in her case is the more re-
| markable to the Indifferent American rel
| aAAFNs brSdNScs AAAStB the relationship Is
remote. and, second he has never seen
| her and never will, probably. She came
| here from Canada, where she was born
| and has no desire or idea Of going to
England, and there is no apparent prob
ability that her noble kinsman will visit
| these shores. She is childless widow
! with. therefore, the possibility of a MIN
| Cling of descendants removed yet her
| titled English second cousin considers her
| a legitimate object for regularly and cour-
| teously bestowed bounty. The remit
tances are invariably accompanied by a
| cordial letter Of interested inquiry as 10
| her health and welfare
The same spirit of Difference to the
| claims of blood are noticed in letter
| printed in London paper the other day
! where the correspondent, invelghing
| against improvdent marriages, cites the
! case Of his own family connection HIS
/ four brothers, who could have lived as
: befittad their social position very easily as