The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-02

--tbiItv Of war. Great and little ma
80 are squabblng among themselves,
81 noet-lovers are all wondering wao
iii initiate Byron and go to fight for
C.oscA In the meantime, nearly all the
snriug hats are red. You wonder al my
,,,pning from a subject of vital import
once to a mere question of fashion; put II
van will take the trouble, as ! did, to
st,dv M the history of colors' you VIII
- tba+ there was never a time when
mar ragged that red was not in vogue
told hat during the civil war in our
own country red bodices were very fash-
io,able They called them Garibaldls.
VINO does not remember the red liberty
can ~ The Terror? During the time when
mo had that little unpleasantness with
EupIand. who can doubt that the bright
Lus of the English soldiers coats-as seen
from their backs-incited each American
n greater deeds? Then, too. at this time
everv lady of importance, who regularly
attended the fashionable assemblies IN
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or
Richmond. would have counted her ward
ro6e as q very poor one unless there had
heAn in II a F6t biOtoNe' SUM -
han gown. So much for red.
Now. what effect does the blue have on
xouq The dark blue is depressing-it
s,geests domesticity. economy, but none
If the pleasures of life. As contrast to
!, take light blue; and without following
a line Of thought, you think Of the cold
skies. of the robes worn by angels, but
Won are unconsciously chilled. That pale
heavenly blue is too holy for US, who are
essentially of the earth earthly. Yellow,
that wonderfully pure shade, has no in
dividuality, oddly enough unless it is com
bined with something else. Put yellow
frock ON beautiful woman and she may
suggest sunshine, but she never brings to
your mind a strong personality. Put a
back and yellow frock on woman who
knows how to wear it, and with this
knowledge she can laugh at beauty for
as she moves around, and you see first
the bright yellow. then the dead black
(this is most effective in stripes the in
dfvidual woman stands out as attractive,
interesting, subtle, a little mysterious, ana
distinctly feline. Put white ana yellow
on a young woman and she looks like
Dresden statuette; she suggests TO you
happiness and gaiety; but you are con-
scious that. as yet her soul is sleeping.
Now think of the color of which it is
said there there are seventy-fve distinct
tints-purple The faint violet, lavender
or helotrope, call the delicate tone what
you will, is the color of emotions and of
experience. and the longer you look at 1t,
even if it is only in the form Of a bunch of
Violets, the more certain you become that
il is not adapted to the young girl but to
the young matron, or best of all-the
The Nprifa bla rOV1l OUFDlP
sures you thai it has will of its own; it
controls. And it makes the elderly ma
iron who wears it assume statelier walk,
hold her head a little higher, and causes
her to think Of herself a woman of inn
I0rtance. There is another shade of pur-
PIE that was affected years ago by the
Greek hetaire-it is that tone which seems
splashed with red until it Is neither purple
nor red, but mingling of both, resulting
in a color that tells Of wickedness, of
power of gaiety, of sorrow, and of every
thing that seems contradictory. Green,
the color of hope, should, in its light tints,
4 be worn by a happy woman. Whenever
She looks at it it whispers of something
better that is coming; but green in its dull,
dark, dingy hue, belongs to woman who
q thinks little, who economies much, and
who is rather desolate.
Pink is the color dedicated to the happy
q Young girl; it is really couleur de rose.
j means ignorant innocence; it means love
Without fear, and it suggests unbounded
faith. Can you imagine a woman who
doubted the love of her husband putting
on pink gown to tell him of her suspi-
81 aon? We all laugh al that character on
the stage known as "the woman with
past" and the critics count themselves a
very witty when they jeer at her for wear
ing black gown. But that black gown
Is just as certainly the expression of her
Indebtedness as the all-white one is SYM
lfaf fao ham Of .4sfl
But, oddly enough, neither white nor
Mack expresses anything until they are
assumed by a woman. The woman tri-
mphs over the colors without color. 1t
was Balzac who said hat a womaus char
acter unconsciously found expression in
The colors that she fanced. He thought
a q woman who wore yelloWsor, green would
he quarrelsome. She who put on black
4 without cause was not to be trusted. The
wearer of white should be coquette. To
me woman who was unhappy he dedicated
pearl gray. And lavender he thought,
should he worn by a woman on her daugh-
ter's wedding day. But Balzac did not.
al least to my way of thinking, discover
ell the subtlety that exists in the hello
trope tints; and neither did he find out
row colors influence women and nations.
How their influence is as strong as the
pressure brought to bear by the mysterious
waves OF thought that control the entire
world at one time. Those waves of
thought that have their birth nobody
knows where that roll from country to
country like the ocean, nobody knows
how; and that give way. IN their own good
ime' TO new waves and nobody knows
why.
By-the-bye. apropos Of brides wearing
white. are you aware Of the fact that the
giving OF wedding presents except by
one kindred or very intimate friends, Is
'hlng OF the past? Did you ever happen
10 think how vulgar IL was, this giving 70
every Tom, Dick and Harry. to whom you
send card 10 the church to witness your
uAuGnlers marrage. the privilege of say
MS On, dear. I've gotten cards from the
trays suppose l shall have to send them
present" When good taste insisted that
"eudlhg present should not be exhibited,
great many who only gave because Of
'ue BiorN gained thereby, grew less geuer-
GUS Then when people Of good taste only
4hoited the wedding presents 10 the la
ul.s OF tho two families and the brides
1naIus, and had AZ tneacaits removed
rom them, the state Of affairs became
proper, ana only those had the privilege