The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-26
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 80 1897.

a
While their work has been able and their
success undoubted il is just to say that
they have not contributed originally 10
medical science. There are a few women
collegians in law, in literature, in the pull
pit and in other professions, and their
helpfulness and enthusiasm have been es-
peciauy noticeable in educational and phi
lanthropic work. In all these fields of
usefulness the work of college women,
taken by and large" has been good, hon
est, competent work, about like that of
the average Industrious man, but it has
been deriVatiVe, not creative; complement
tai not brilliant, Offering little opportu-
nifty for sex celebration on the part of
those enthusiasts who believe that wo-
men have needed only a diploma for con-
querins all the world that men have left
unconquered.
Hundreds Of colege-bred women, how
ever, have been. and are, capably and eff
GENTLY engaged in teaching, and a few
have gained a certain distinction as presi-
dents and professors IN colleges for wo-
men, but no great and original educator
has come from among them. Occasional
ly a determined young graduate gets
ioothold in a newspaper Office and usually
keeps it with credit to herself and her
higher education, yet the few women edi-
tors of eminence have not been college
bred, and there is nothing to be gained by
concealing the fact that the college wo-
men who have undertaken Journalism
seem as yet to have no influence in sweet
ening the flood of sensationaIism and nasty
print for which the newspaper women of
the country must bear their share of dis
credit with the newspaper men.
kissing Games of Long Ago.
Ye poor little children of to-day,
Oh, where are your childrens parties
hey?
nh xL;tl. -. ..---a
The kissing games of the long ago?
Copenhagen" and pillows and Keys"
And "POstoffice" and the likes of these.
Why, bless me, all you do is to dance,
And bow and scrape as they do in France,
And the girls and boys of eight and ten
Have all the manners of women and men,
And they scOrn the games we used to
know,
The kissing games of long ago.
Many's the time in PILLOW and Keys"
Have I kissed your mother, wee Louise.
And Oft in 'Oats Peas, Beans" did she
Promises to marry the likes of me.
And many's the time she stood in the
With letters" awaiting your dady's cali
The boys and girls weren't women and
men,
And we sconred at "dancing parties"
then;
Oh, better parties we used to know
With the kissing games OF the long ago.
Copenhagen" and Pillows and Keys"
And 'Postoffice" and the likes of these.
John Leonard Merrill, Jr., in I'm Which
Hearts Lead"
''What do you think I saw a woman do
in the lobby of the theater last night?'
said a girl in a blue shirt waist to one in
a duck suit as they came downtown in a
cable car together, says the New York
Sun.
I'm sure I'd hate to try to guess" an
swered her companion, and every man
opposite took care not to rustic his paper
when the reply came.
why, she had on one of those long jew
elled chains, one of the very latest out"
explained she of the blue shirt waist. 1T
was such beauty that my attention was
fastened on it, so noticed that she wore
what l took to be an Empire lorgnette and
a dainty little gold bonbonniere attached
to 1t. Imagine my horror when she de-
liberately stopped in the face of every
body, pulled a little mirror out of the lor-
gnette opened the bonbou box, and took
from it a tiny puff, and looking at herself
in the little glass proceeded to carefully
powder her face. Did you ever hear of
such a thing?"
81 do that myself now. It's the swell
thing to do In the days of the Empire
the women all carried these little mirrors
and powder boxes and always touched up
bit before going into the opera.
The Empire hand mirror and powder
box, to be worn on a chatelalne, are the
latest thing out Any one would know
that you were just home from the coun-
try. You haven't had time to catch on to
all the new fads, have you, you poor dear?
You should see my mirrow and powder
box. The mirror is about a big as a sill
yer half dollar and folds into what looks
very like a short-handled lorgnette 1t is
made of solid gold and embellshed with
precious gems and enamel, and the pow
der box matches 1t. You can't imagine
what comfortable fashion it is to know
that the shine is taken off your face be-
fore you go into theater and really l
think the men like the fad as well as we
do. OF course, all the mirrors and pow
der boxes aren't so rich and expensive in
design. They come made up in steel sill
YER and plain gold, or you can get them
worth hundreds of dollars. There is no
excuse for the poor, the rich, or those
with moderate circumstances who are
without these necessaries, for they are to
be had at any and every price
Really, I don't see how we did without
them so long, and the leading jewellers say
that they find it almost impossible to sup
ply the demand and"
Here we are at Goldsmith & Silver
wares interrupted the girl in the blue
shirt waist. do let's get off and look at
some"
There are to be sweeping changes in the
shape of fur garments this year. and the
styles are richer, more beautiful, and
more varied than ever before. Best of
all, they are convenient too, for many of
the most fetching designs admit of the
utilization Of old garments.
The fur capes which have been popular
so long have had their inning They
have been made long and short and broad
and narrow and plain and fluffy until
now it seems absolutely impossible to