The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

two cards all sufficient one for Mrs Jones
and the other for the daughters and the
guest who happens TO be staying with
them. For an invitation to a tea or af-
ternoon reception, which she finds II i'm
possible to attend, the fashionable woman
sends her card by mail, so that IL reach
IS the house of the person giving the en-
tertainment on the day Of the function.
OF course a well-bred woman is not gull
" or the vulgarity of answering an invi-
tatiOn by scrawling accepts" or regrets
on card. A formal invitation TO a dinner
or dance demands an immediate and def
mite answer. A visiting card will not ball
ance dinner table, and having accepted
an invitation to dinner IL becomes a debt
OF honor TO appear in person on time.
An memorable rule is that cards should
only be sent to the person from whom one
received an invitation. If one receives a
wedding announcement one does not send
ones card to the bride, as the most impor-
tant parsonage in the affair, but to the
mother or person from whom one received
the invitation. If the invitation, however,
contains cards for the reception, and for
the brides TAT home" then ones card
must be sent to the mother, or whoever
gave the reception on their day. and also
10 the bride on her at home day.
In times of grief or joy among ones
friends ones card is still supposed to rep
resent them, only, in this case, IL must not
be sent through the mail, but delivered at
the door in person.
The old smile, says the New York
Tribune, of the pebble dropped into a lake
to make eVer-increasing circles is never
more expressive than when applied to the
Iar-reaching consequences of some triv-
ial act of daily life, or to some apparently
unimportant decision, which nevertheless
changes, not only ones future but that
of ones entire household as we'll Sion
ping to look into a milliner's window on
Fifth avenue would not seem an action
fraught with any results to speak Of
ana yet that simple circumstance altered
the destiny of half dozen people
What a pretty bonnet" said little Mrs
b., who lived a quiet life far from the
madding crowd on the suburban farm
where she had been born and married;
and going home that evening in the train
with her husband she required to 1t again
am so tired of making my own bon
nets, she said. Il have done II all my
me- and they look so very dowdy. | wish
for once could go into l.. IS and sit down
before a mirror and choose what is be-
why don't your" said her husband
and he little dreamed, poor man. what he
ty bonnet, and II you go and buy one l
viii give you the money gladly" So with
the adVce OF cousin in town, one who
moved in fashionable society, the coveted
hat was bought and carried home in tri-
umRh.
were with yesterday" asked a leader of
the ton of the cousin, a few days after
the first appearance of the bonnet: and
the remark repeated, filled Mrs. BIS
head with vanity and social aspira tions
she had already discovered the inconeru-
ity between her hat and Jacket, and A
becoming costume, made by a we'll known
aressmaker, was the sequence. The cous-
in, finding that her relative was Iikeiv
10 prove "a card" invited her for the first
time to fashionable dinner, whereat she
was much admired, and her husband
pleased and fiattered with his wife's siie
cess, was gradually persuaded TO sell
their country home and buy a little box
IN town IN a good" locahty-a house
which cost half again as much as his
farm of fifty acres as
For several years thereafter their life
was a social struggle, for the woman had
tasted of the fruit of the tree of Know
edge, and the man perforce must eat
Inc chlldren, poor little souls, gained in
euucajonal advantages what they lost in
air and sunshine, and became as woridiv
and accomplished as their mother could
q tss who would think" exclaimed
the cousin the other day, as half-vexed
ana half-amused, she commented unon
the onward career of her pupil. who Ione
since had distanced her former friend and
mentor, that Mabel b. s position an came
from the purchase of bonnetP
PARTISAN women put starch in the hath
70 soften the water, starch being cheaner
man borax or toilet vinegars. and more
trustworthy than ammonia, which. II is
SAID, induces growth of down on the
SKIN. The Partisan ladies' maids prenare
many delicate toilet waters. They have
materials on hand for meal baths starch
paths, HOVER baths, sea baths and medi-
Gated baths. What is regarded as a Iuxu-
rlous bath contains as many ingredients
as Christmas pudding. The bath tub
is lined with linen sheet gored So &c
TO mt the tub. The bath bag contains
perhaps almond meal or oatmeal, with or
rls root. and the contributions of AT least
a dozen bottles. The tub being filled oil
most to the edge, the bather gets in ANA
stays there until she is scented through
| and through. -
She was large and imposing. saws the
| new ork Times, and carried herself with
most distinguished air. Her stylish tai
lor-mace gown and jacket fitted To ner-
lection, and the long stole collar Of
Russian sable, loosened from her throat
showed splendid diamond stickpin hold
ing the fashionable satin neckband Her
hands were white and shapely, with care
iully Kept nails, and with only a single
hoop OF diamonds on one finger The
purse that lay beside her plate must have
come from Broadway silversmith n
was so rich, yet tasteful, and the gloves
that kept her purse company were
French and of the best quality All this
a later conner and her vis-a-vis at the
table in the crowded restaurant noted
Whlle the waiter delayed with a iun-
cheon order When he was back she of
the grand air was ready for dessert
You may bring me- she said, glancing
at the menu she held in her hand, "a
the puzzled waiter. "A meringiiav SSSs sSa
repeated, with confident emphasis AnJ
Yes, madam" he replied, and vanisbe6
with an alertness that bespoke a desire
for moments retirement from her eve
Inc meringue was duly brought and
partaken or, and ii was some small com
fort to the disillusioned vis-a-vis thai
as its consumer rose from the table sbs
took out hem-stitched handkerchies
faultlessly fine, to be sure, bur seentasd
heavily with musk
Unless gowns, hats and wraps are thor
oughly well made, says Vogue. no one
can appear smart in them. But MANY To'
men with small incomes might look Inucb
smarter than they do if they tried ~
md out what they were capable Of 40
lars on the experiment. Later on the re-
suits might become very proftable in
many ways. Self-distrust is the Stun
bling block toward success in dressing
The majority of women look with a sne-
cies Of awe upon what is made for them
ana sold to them, as IL IL were wrapped
in the most profound mystery.
They seem incapable of realizing that n
was planned and made by one Or ynora
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