The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12

all the women who entered the room
where the concerts are held with their
hats on were requested by the ushers TO
leave them outside with the maids who
were In attendance. The men. however,
particularly those who occupied boxes,
were permitted to carry their silk hats
with them. And not only this, but they
almost to a man carefully placed their
hats on the top post of the clothes tree
that stands in each box. IT is needless
to say the beauty of the ball room was
not enhanced by these impromptu decora-
tons.
Madame Coupon, says the New Orleans
Picayune, came slowly out of the fashion
able physicians consulting room, her rich
siIk-lined skirts Tustlfng at every step
and prescription held between her pudgy
fingers.
Certainly, DOCTOR" she was saying, 81
will send the prescription down and have
1t filled a once, but the idea of telling me
to walk two miles every day is the most
absurd thing in the world. Why, haven't
walked two blocks in ten years I'm
afraid, after all, you don't quite under
stand my case, and how easily / am ia
tigued" and she passed with heavy step
on to her carriage.
The doctor smiled cynically.
"Rich and lazy women" he remarked
for the support of physicians"
looked up inquiringly, and he went on
'Did you ever Think" he asked that
one of the chief causes that enabled doc
tors to set up carriages, massageurs to
open bank accounts, and complexion wash
makers to become millionaiFes was the laz-
mess of women? There isn't a physician
in the whole country doing a good prac-
tice who hasn't dozens of such cases
Women with fiabby skins, black luster
eyes, and lifeless hair flock to him COM
planning of sleeplessness, nervousness
headache or indigestion. Nearly always
IL Is a plain case of too much to eat and
not enough to do, and if the doctor gave
candid opinion he would say: NV dear
madame, you are suffering from chronic
case of laziness and my prescription is to
go to work.
"Of course he doesn't make any such
unpolitic remark. He knows women dote
on drugs, and adore being dosed so he
gives some harmless prescription and adj
vises the bicycle or golf or something of
the kind. If he can get his patient to take
the exercise she gets well, and goes
through the length and breadth of the
town sounding the praises of DIR. Curealrs
pills, other anaemic and lazy women fol-
low in her wake to his door and his for
tune Is made.
I'm my opinion, the besetting sin of wo-
count for the way they congregate i'm ho-
ties and boarding houses except the fact
that they are too lazy to keep house? Be-
cause they dread the worry and work of
seeing about meals and dealing with in
competent servants, they deny themselves
all the sweet privacy of a home Yet
there Is no other such deadly and relentless
foe to a womans good looks and health
as the boarding habit. Once let woman
acquire 1t, and not all the lotions and beau
tifiers in the world are going TO enable her
to keep her figure and her complexion.
Handkerchiefs next season will be gau-
der than ever before. They will be of all
colors of the rainbow in solids, stripes.
plaids, polka dots, and figures Even
white ones will not be plain, for, when not
heavily embroidered, they will be lace
trimmed-not with one edge of lace as
heretofore, but with several lace frllls
placed one above the other, and on both
sides of the handkerchief, for the fashion
able article has neither right nor wrong
side.
Many samples hown have centers of solid
colors-colors, not tints-with borders In
contrasting colors, plaids, checks, polka
dots, and pronounced floral designs. Other
handkerchief appear TO be thin bits of
coored muslin over which small flowers or
leaves are strewn. To careless observer
they seem nothing more or less than hem
stitched squares of printed lawn. Close
inspection shows a linen of the daintiest
quality with a regular and generally
highly artistic design, stamped as distinct
ly on one side as the other. Black. navy
blue. scarlet and brown handkerchiefs en-
broidered, in white, black, or contrasting
colors are to be used by travellers and
should always correspond in color with the
toilet. Travelling handkerchiefs should
never be lace-trimmed.
Beautiful little hands and feet, says the
New York Tribune. are becoming a ira
dition among us, the positive young wo-
man of the period having large, useful
extremties that are sometimes although
rarely handsome, but never pretty and
winsome. like the dainty members that
stirred the susceptible masculine hearts
Of their fathers and grandfathers. But