The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-09

The Latest Fad Among Fashionable
Women of New York.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER

women of New York.
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
New York, July S1.-When the Queen OF
sheba went up to display her glories to
King Solomon she forgot something. In
all her wardrobe she had not pair of
jeweled stockings.
when she twiddled her tempting feet
before him, to the confusion Of his unap-
proachable wisdom, the fnsteps of her hos
iery should have been knit with precious
stones. Diamonds should have blazed
from the tops of her royal slippers. and
the clocks which told the brief time Of
she wise potentate's resistance should
nave CLEANED mystic red and wonderful
with rubies Of great worth
But the Queen of Sheba did not live in
the END OF the nineteenth century. and n
was left to Lily Langtry to devise the
She did It. That is one of the things she
mas been devoting her spare time I'd.
All the old-fashioned ways OF spending
royal sums or money on raiment had be-
cOhe tflte ana commonplace, and the Ter
sey woman gathered together a few too
cupWuls OF gems and had her hosier weave
mem In Wondrous patterns into the most
fabulous OF hose, and then she wore them
ana Tor a day she had new Sensation
Great Britain was dumfounded M tbis
Vasary or the Lily. Then New York Wo-
men rushed to their jewellers and clan,oy-
eu lot JeWeied insteps. And at the present
liriiiute nan a dozen New York firms have
books oii thelr
Artisans and artists, whose wives 90 on
advertised bargain days and look for The
pest thlngs IN the fast black for 10 cents
pair. are laboring away, day after dan,
working patterns of rich Jewels in DAINTY
fapfics or silk to ease the fair feet of tbe
wives of money kings '''0
A fashionab le-looking woman stepped
INTO her carriage, which had waited FOR
an hour, before a Broadway iewelrv es
taohshment. The jeweler watched her as
she disappeared. %
,Do you see that woman?" he said
she has diamonds embroidered in her
stockings" Al her
"Rhinestones?"
No. Diamonds; first water diamonds
we we gust nnishsd two pairs Of stockings
IoF ner with big patterns of diamonds
on the insteps. And she is far from he.
ing the only one. She wishes she nniebt
pc, out she isn't. 1t is getting TO be a Fad
a dl,og ine richest women in town-of
course, l mean the women who asnIre
10 splendor in dress and do not care a
snap or their fingers how much il costs
them-or their husbands
things?" eiHose
."of course they do, and the effect Of
all the jewels, embroidered thick on Az.
instep Is dazzling beyond conception II
IS the richest and most startling extravs
for centuries" N'4O"h
The tradesman went to plutocrattc-
looking safe and drew from its recesses
a plush box
IF you don't believe IN the d,arond
stockings he said, east your eve over
these" 'SS OVeF
AS he spoke he unfolded such a paar Of
stocKlngs as would have made Alexander
by. nv i'osiery shao-
They We're long, exceedingly long. and of
SILK SO sheer that you could have nassed
potn OF them at once through a wedding
ring. They were of the most delicate hlne
imaginable, with a dainty MONOGRAM wo1,'
en- at the top in shaded silk
'But the instep was the glory OF # all II
charmed the gaze with Irresistible mn enet-
Ism. IL glowed and pulsed in the fashine
light like a great angry heart ~ dr. TSS
a superb cluster were woven a thinhIa-
ful or the tiniest of rubies that eIittered
ana cleaned now like a hundred little
burning Goals, now baleful like the eyes Of
When the marvellous stockings were
turheu asain the humor of the cluster of
SENS tnere seemed to change. Each indl-
osu IA LLtle stone shone out as If envious
OF lts nelghbors brilliancy, and then. All
IN unison, the cluster sent a rich red glow
across the counter, like the warm. mellow
iIleh9iy beacon that CLEANS from rock
pound coasts across stormy sea.
II seemed as If all passions and all noe
Try, all music, all emotion and all human
history were chained alive In the boson,s
OF ohose splendid stones, which now were
t uelu cdplVe by a thread, to shine upon
the lnstep OF a woman's hose
The jewelers. voice sounded very, dr,
ana dwarfed when he broke the siiencS
He was smiling. Sets man to tbinIsInr
doesn't it?' he said
Then he went on talking sbor ..rL,
is only sample OF what VIII he sea, I,1
plenty before the summer Is over ana
can tell you that they are exnensjve
lux u re rms pair alone is worth 5000
anu we nave orders now in hand that will
magnificence." N0Ss anu
Where did the idea originator"
- win MIS-. Langtry, believe, and some
OF our customers who are taking a great
interest in the novelty say that she rets AZ
from the idea of the jeweled buckles thsf
go across the instep on low-cut slime.
t ~ that may be- she was the first
incredible celebrity. ny Win
Why would you believe 1t. there ara
.MentS women IN this city who have al
ready had these stockings made. and are
wearing them on every possible occasio.,
some nave even gone so far as 10 haze
uhelr monogramS embroidered IN iav1als
on 4n theIr ms cps, and others have had their
hosiery em6roldered with flowers up the
bic gem" Naiua-
II seemed too diamond-hecked n STORY,
70 be true, but other jewelers. who cater ~
the great world Of the Greater New York
declared upon their honor that il was a
fact. They had all heard of the Stoo,-
ings, seen them, and, in fact. some had
even made them. ou
one manufacturing jeweler grew very
enthusiastic over II ALL He had seen ~
marvel in the fullest glory. 1--WE have e'i =
customer" he said, who is the possess-
or OF six gorgeous pairs of jeweled stock
wMnz s4-Pare medical Retor....