The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21

! be more attractive If they had little of
the sweet primness of yore?
Touching Amelia Bars suggestion"
says a writer made in the American Wo-
mans Home Journal, that after a certain
age an unmarried woman should have the
right to chance her title Miss to Mrs.
think that a change more needed at
| present is title to distinguish the mar
ried from the unmarried men.
Il appeal to women IL this isn't so.
1T is the wish of every parent to bring
up a daughter in the straight and narrow
path. When we bring out our daughter
! she is introduced to every one we think
| it proper she should know. Our gentle
men friends are all presented as Mr.. So
and So There is no distinction between
married and single men.
| You will probably say, Why make
| distinction between them? Here is the
point: How is my unmarried daughter to
| know whether or not she is introduced to
married man? All men are known to
her as Mr. and unless a man comes
forward and fatty says he is married, how
| is she to know?
AT present if a man is introduced to
a Miss he knows she is unmarried but
she-how can she guess his state?
SO If a change is to be made, please es-
| tablish a distinction between the married
and unmarried men,
Despite the so-called frivolity and ex-
travagance Of what is commonly known
as the smart set" their is a great deal
Of method in their Madness" says the
New York Tribune. AS long as they are
| avovedly in pursuit of pleasure they do it
| consistently, and their intolerance of long
| boring functions in the way of entertain
| ments has certainly affected a much need
ed reform in many directions.
| he
from the long, dreary array of many
| courses, with tiresome waits between, have
| become delightful entertainments without
| more than six, or at the most eight, cours-
es in all In fact, the dinner-givers this
winter have actually We'd with each other
in reducing their feasts to a minimum
of courses and service.
My dinner the other day for sixteen
| people took exactly an hour and a half
to serve and l had only eight courses"
| said a society woman recently.
Il did better than that last evening""
| returned her friend. II had only six
courses and we were only an hour at the
table,
1t goes without saying, however that
short dinners are perfect both as regards
| the menu, the service and the decoration.
| There must be no evidence of economy
| shown in these epicurean banquets. The
| contrast to an habitual diner-out in GO
Ing from a smart modern up-to-date din
ner to one of the long conventional enter
! tainments which are still affected by those
who have not yet "caught on" to the
latest Innovations and who consider
| quantity may atone for quality, is very
! great, and, of course, greatly to the dis
| advantage of the latter.
The same distinction exists in lunch
cons. 1t is happily no longer Fashionable
| TO have them too long, most welcome re-
| lief to both hostess and guest il would
| is STR
| women still cling to the long drawn out
wearisomc affairs that they have become
| accustomed to.
Small checks rival the smooth-face cloths
| and have the advantage of novelty and
| requiring little trimming. These checked
| stuffs favored by the tailors are cloth, not
| wool, for wool with it's looser, softer weav-
ing is not practical for their models.
There is something very smart in a suit
| of checked cloth in huntsman's green and
| black or dark red and black, and they
| are generally made with trimming of a
plain color
Carnival time has commenced at Nice,
| and is near at hand in Paris, but here 1t
is, Of course, a totally Questionable event
| ond no one bothers about a dress. On the
| contrary, along the Riviera King Carni-
val is the excuse for the gayest balls and
festivities of the season, and incidentally
| for the most brilliant costumes-just al
the Midi Is the garden of Paris. and sends
US most of our flowers and early vege-
tables Paris is one big dressmaking es-
| Enlistment of that gay winter resort and
returns the favor with boxes of gowns and
| millinery.
Indeed, If 1t were not for Nice the cou-
| turieres declare they might well close
| during January and February, for the So
cial season here is being pushed more and
more into the spring, after the London
custom.
Flesh. saws the American Queen, Is TAX
en- off any part of the body exactly in
| proportion as the muscles under the fatty
| deposit are regularly exercised, just as
well exercised sinews always gather
| firm smooth molding Of flesh about them.
| When therefore, a woman feels or can
see that from her hips down the girth OF
her limbs Is extending, the one positive
| check on further growth and reducing in
luence is walking. Regular, everyday
walking will positively reduce the flesh
of the lower limbs, though, as every one
knows or ought to know, bicycling viii
| do Il better, or, rather, more rapidly. But
| walk or bicycle with all your will and II
| Is doubtful whether a large bust or abb
! domen will decrease In the least. They are
| moved by q set OF muscles Independent OF
| those the Leg sets In motion when either
walking or bicycling.
| Exertion with the arms only can affect
the bust, while the abdomen is influenced
| by two gyrnnastic motions any woman can
take night and morning on her own floor.
! She must lie hat on her back. stretch her
! arms out above her head and. with her
| hands grip the end Of her bed or the
| bottom OF her dressing table Then put
| ting both her feet close together she
should strive TO raise her lower limbs TO
| the exact perpendicular without bending
her knees. The FIRST morning TO do this
| ave times will tax all her strength and
| bring every s!new. from her finger tips TO
| her toes, into play The following morn
| ing, raising her feet eight times will be
| sufficient effort, and the next morning she
can easily do II fifteen times.
When the body has been exercised rs
! above described. let her wheel around
thrust her tees under the bureaus bot
tom. and on that leverage raise herself
into sitting posture again and again. II
is possible, W practice. 10 eventually 20