The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18

rooms in order by the time the regular
seaside and country house season begins
Out-of-door eating promises indeed to be
one OF the features of spring and summer
entertaining never fully tested before.
Very recently an eminent physician said,
or is credited with saying, that open-air
eating is productive of many excellent re-
suits. 1t soothes the nerves and stimu-
lates the appetite; ii is conducive to lon
gevity, defers wrinkles and wonderfully
preserves and beauties the complexion.
Accordingly, numbers of al fresco dining
rooms are already up or in rapid course of
erection, varying in cost from many thou
sands of dollars to the cheapest, simplest
little vine-clad wire-frame screens. One or
two women have gone into the matter
on a most sumptuous scale, but every one
strives toward one end, to have erected
semi-Arcadian shelter, built of carved
marble or branching roses, whereunder on
all summer days, weather permitting, she
can eat three meals out of doors.
Germany is evidently going into the
dress reform movement with tn e thor
oughnesS it puts into other matters. The
Association for the Improvement of Wo-
mans Attire is to hold a convention in
Berlin this month to advance it's object.
Different garments for outside and under
wear will be exhibited. Not a whalebone
in the bodices of the gowns writer in
a recent number of Harper's Bazaar mourns
the fact that there are no styles for stout
women. Fashions do not usually come
from Germany, but Germany is advanced
in many deep questions, and it may solve
this apparently hopeless one A prize is
to be offered for the best spring costume
for a heavy matron of between 30 and so
years of age The prize will be $25, and
there will be a second prize for the exhib-
itor who is second best of half that sum.
Again are we called upon to chronicle
the infinite superiority of the famous
Washington girl, says the Washington
Star.
This time she has transferred the field
of her genius to New York city, where the
people think they know everything, and
about a thousand times as much more and
then some more.
She had boarded a street car uptown,
coming out of a store with her gloves off,
for some reason or other best known to
herself. Possibly it was a glove store.
Whatever it was, she had her gloves off,
and it was proper and correct for her to
have them off, or she would have had them
on.
There were not more than eight or ten
people in the car, and when she had TAX
en- a seat she began to put her gloves on.
her pocketbook a dainty little silver glove
buttoner and proceeded to button that
one on her left hand. In doing so the
buttoner slipped from her fingers and fell
to the floor of the car.
Immediately a chappie-looking young
man, with the Rock of Gibraltar in his
face, stopped to pick the buttoner up, and
having got it in his hands, he rose, smil-
ing, and, much to her surprise, offered to
button the glove.
For an instant she acted about as the
average girl would have done, and then
the Washingtonian genius came to her
aid, and, smiling kindly, she held her
hand out to him in compliance with his
request.
She sat perfectly unmoved as he took
about twice as long to it as there was
any need of, and as soon as he had fin
ished it she calmly held out the other.
He didn't quite expect this, evidently,
but he had his nerve with him, and, more
smiling than ever, he took her hand in
his and buttoned the other glove.
Taking the buttonhook from his unre-
sisting fingers, she took out her pocket
book to replace it, and. finding in il a
nickel, with the most innocent manner in
the world she handed it to the young
man.
With all his nerve he couldn't stand this,
and he promptly returned it, at the same
time making some kind of protest, which
she did not pay any attention to- but took
the coin back and proffered a dime in its
stead. This he also returned, with quite
a show of Indignation.
why" she exclaimed, with that same
beautiful show of artlessness, Il never
give more than 10 cents at home to have
my gloves buttoned."
Everybody in the car heard her say It.
of course, and before anybody had stop
ped laughing the gallant glove buttoner
ed.
1t has been said that Americans are a
nation OF rockers" and it is too true that