The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20

The southern girl, says a writer in the
New York Sun, is many-sided She is met
tlesome and sentimental, practical and fan
ciful by turns, apt to dance divinely and
to fiirt, and to be not over careful nor over
industrious, but she never forgets to say
her prayers, and she has unshakable faith
in humankind.
In man she believes implicitly. She may
not believe all the rapturous things he
says to her, but she credits him with gem
erous impulses, thinks him capable of all
the higher emotions, and values him as
comrade, as an admirer, and repository
for romantic confidence. If he tumbles out
of the niche where she has put him, she
wonders, but is willing TO regard the
case as an exception and to set him up
again. after due scolding and punishment.
She has unbounded confidence in his abli-
ty for smoothing over rough places for her
and removing any obstacles that may arise
in her path. Men are always good to wo-
men,she thinks; her father is, and so is her
brother and her cousin Jim.
The southern girl enjoys with all her
heart. She likes music and motion and life
and color and plenty Of nice people about
her saying pleasant things. She likes all
this but she is seldom mercenary. Reared
usually among simple surroundings, the
greed for money has not entered into her
soul 1t is possible for her to have attain
ed her 10th year and never to have dined
outside of a private house in her life. She
likes the person who pleases her. indie
pendent of his extrinsic surroundings, and
at any time will slight the attentions of
good match" to devote herself to the
man whose waltz step suits her and who
has power of entertaining.
She is ingenious and tactful, with all
her dwadling ways and languid airs.
She can turn her last seasons ball dress
upside down and inside out and make
it look almost as good as new, and she
can darn the parlor curtains almost as
well as grandmother could, and change
the furniture round so that the SHABBY
spots will be in the shade. She can
arrange a dish of fruit to resemble
poem, make an evening bonnet out of
next to nothing, and, last but not least,
she can rattle off nonsense with an in
fectious delight that makes her the lie
of whatever company she is in.
The southern girl or woman born in
the murky atmosphere of the late SOS,
imperfectly educated, debarred from ad-
vantages which her parents craved for
her, will give the stranger an impression
OF culture which, perhaps, critical ex>
animation would not bear out.
Courageous as she Is in an emergency,
however, in her effort to accommodate
the family needs TO the family traditions.
the southern girl often is whimsical in
her notion of facing facts A southern
woman who has lived long in the north
recently went to a young dressmaker in
fhanr Ia A., ,kX H. l.
girl with dimples and wonderful dark
eyes came forward to greet her.
Yes, / do sewing" she said, "but /
want to set you right about something.
was at the window just now and heard
you ask if this was where Miss B., the
dressmaker, lived. / knew you must be
stranger, because everybody mere
knows us, and would know that | was no
ordinary dressmaker"
Of course, the visitor offered to with
draw, and expressed regret at her APP
parent intrusion, explaining that she
must have misunderstood the directions
she had received.
Oh, no, there is no misunderstanding"
she was told. II shall be glad to do your
work. and will try to please you, but
maker"
The girl made the gown in question,
am made ii artistically.
The southern girl Is a paradox. with
h...
ner capacity for unselfshness and alb
suruity, with her pride and scorn of
petty meanness and her serious striving
AFTER the economical. She will buy flow
ers Tor the table even IL the larder is
Empty, and ii she gets a windfall la the
form OF legacy she will put half of it In
marble cross for the church and the
oSner halt In some jewel for personal
@uorhment, even though new curtains and
oaipets and whole every day gowns
are crying need in the household
me new woman finds little encourage
Inent in the south. She sends out her
piplng notes the northern suffrage So
oeues and offers petitions to the state
assemblies, but the popular voice is
tasalhst her, and sometimes 1t comes out
usdt the woman's suffrage association
u lhe south so much talked about, have
membership only sufficient to furnish the
necessary officers.
Ma gloves, says the New York Press.
&c necessary part of the costume of all
mOileh' The American maid or matron
"ouId no more go out habltually without
ssito'e s than she would walk without shoes.
10 He knows, too, that gloves are expensive.
NY are 70 be always slightly and COM
~ 'dole, and she has become keen in find
lug out where she can get the best glove
'S ire Tor the least money.
4 mere are certain shrewd traders who
women well gloved at small EXPENSE. and
a. the same time of bringing profit to the
ealers' Gloves can be bought for five
ents up TO As cents a pair-good servicea-
es 'e KID gloves, new and fair to look on
you DO not look toe closely.
n Inese gloves are collected from the glove
1otorles The articles have been sent to
,a'se stores 70 be sold. and have proved to
~ directive. Then they are sent back 10
e factory, and the factory sells them to
ene damaged-glove man. who sells them
asaln TO his customers for what they vii.
,tns All reputable dry goods merchants
WI Try on gloves for customers, and Il is
osslnle that out OF dozen pairs there
'i,y DC one that will give way. and be de-
r, leu ny the customer This pair Of gloves
ny 20 the factory as n matter Of course
co., Nere are only one or two OF these deal
d. n New York, and IN Brooklyn They
not advertise their gloves. but allow