The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-04
UMBRELLAS AND THEIR USES.
Some Suggestions as to the Right
Way TO Carry Them.

Way to Carry Them.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Although the uninitiated make no pre-
tentions whatever to the wisdom that
forecasts the state of the weather for
days to come, it is fair to suppose that
they are right when they predict that We
will have a good deal more rain within
the next month than we have had during
the last two. If this is true land it UNI
doubtedly Isl, then it follows that UNI
brellas will be in demand and their
smooth, silk covers will follow their US
ual fashion of getting lost whenever Off
duty for a few hours, while their un-
lucky owners try in vain to roll the UNI
brella itself into the slim neatness it dis
played when they first saw it in some
store.
But these, and several other minor
grievances connected with umbrellas, are
as trihes compared with their behavior
when in actual USE There Is only one
man in a hundred who knows how to
properly carry an open umbrella, and the
woman who can accomplish the feat is as
yet a pleasing dream. Almost every in
dividual who starts out in the rain I'M
furls their desired shelter, seizes it firmly
by the handle hold that same stick out at
half an arms length and goes calmly
down the street. .,ow all umbrellas, at
least all those in common use in this
country, are circular, and the stick is ex-
actly in the center; II follows as a mat
ter OF course that when the happy holder
OF this circular tent pOises its central pole
$50 to speak, about foot and half in
front of them their back is absolutely GER
tain to receive the tiny streams that run
continually from the sloping sides. Five
minutes observation ON the first rainy
day will prove this to the most incredu-
lous umbrella lover.
Again, when a man calamity shelters
a woman from a sudden shower he in
Variably elevates his arm about TO the
level of his shoulder and then contrives
with the most solicitous air to send a
dozen little rivuets coursinR down the
woman's outer sleeve until she is in an
agony Of embarrassed discomfort.
When a car Is hailed, or n store is en-
tered, the last state is worse than the
first, for then the saturated umbrella
sheds little pools Of dirty water on every
inconvenient spot chat is inconvenient
for puddles). and IT never fails to rest
conhdingly against the skirts Of we'll
dressed women or the light trousers Of
fastidious men, Altogether the umbrella
Is not an unalloyed pleasure when IN use
but little more care and attention might
lessen some Of It's glaring imperfcctions
For instance. II the handle was always
carried as close to the body as grace ana
comfort would permit; If two people never
shared one without walking arm-in-arm.
and II when closed and wet they were
held aloof or safely slowed away In a
corner expressly provided for them When
"a woman carries an umbrella she never
dogs 1t except at an angle which varies
with her proportions and the surround
ing circumstances.
II sire has only her skirts in the other
hand the tit is apt TO he interesting.
but IL she is struggling with a package
or two the effect Is such that she usually
needs the whole sidewalk to accommodate
her But the rainy day dresses are on
the way. and It Is more than likely that
the women of this season will soon show
what can be done with an umbrella when
both hands are free.