The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-14

small The hight is oftener under five
feet five than over It, The eyes are apt
to be hazel or dark, and are always bright
and tender. The eyebrows are some what
heavy, and strongly marked and the
lashes are long The complexion is singu-
larly clear. The face has great regularity
OF feature, and the average of beauty is
high. Washington and New Orleans are
the only American cities in which one
may see the women walk with Spanish
grace. On this account Connecticut ave-
nue., when Easter bonnets cluster, is
strangely pleasing The Washington girl
is apt to know politics. She is thoroughly
devoted TO society. She dresses as we'll as
the New York woman, with moro of
southern lightness to her clothing. If we
could have a show-as we have a horse
shown which women could be compe-
tenty judged point by point, I do not
think that the Washington girl would class
so high as the New York woman or the
Chicago woman; but 1 believe that most
men would prefer her.
One of the girls, says Harper's Bazaar,
who has just unpacked her well-flled
trunks from Paris has disclosed to view
the loveliest hair pins imaginable. They
are novelties here, and fill long-felt want.
What girl likes TO have short hairs stray
Cling about her neck? When they curl
naturally that is a different thing. Now
the latest tip from Paris is to wear pins
which are so shaped as to gather up and
keep in place all wayward hairs al the
back of the head.
These pins come in different designs, and
those we have just seen are of both the
expensive and inexpensive kind. One was
a plain gold band with a lovely little dia-
mond daisy in the center, which looked so
pretty nesting in the hair Another was
bp1
and still another was a wreath of pearls
and turquoise. This girl who has
brought over all these pretty things says
that many of the French women wear two
pins of this sort-one at the back of the
hair, and one on top to keep the Pompa-
dour puff, so much the fashion just now, in
place. These pins are made on a fiat
band, with a clasp like a safety pin. If
any one of the girls should have a pretty
bar pin, IL would not be either an eXpen-
sive or difficult matter to have it made
into one of these hair pins, which are now
so much the rage.
One of the daintiest things in handker-
chiefs is from Arabia. 1t is made from the
sheerest of linen, has a narrow hem daint-
lily stitched, and on the outer edge of the
hem is a border composed of tiny lacelike
points, almost imperceptible, and appar-
emily worked on to the handkerchief. Hand
work is to be found marvelously cheap
nowadays, and these little handkerchief
are only a dollar each.
1t was at well-known Broadway con-
fectioner's, says the New York Tribune,
where there is a soda fountain and always
a stylish and thirsty crowd, composed
chiefly of women. 1t was upon one of these
women, pretty and young, that
the eyes of two of the later corners were
fastened.
q There was something peculiar about her.
1t was not in the make of her gown, which
was all that fashion, good taste, and a
skillful tailor could make 1t. That was all
right; only. at one side it had the appear
ance of being pulled up on her hip suf-
iciently high to show pretty silk. petit
coat below 1T.
What could be the matter? The eyes of
the two women were glued upon 1t.
Il have it," said one, and she fairly clap
ped her hands. do you see that, my dear?
That girl is wearing the new false hips,
as sure as you're born, and in the crowd
one of them has been pushed up and has
pulled her gown with it,"
And she was right. But the girl of the
modern hips drank her soda with an air
of perfect self satisfaction and a clear
conscience and history does not relate
how, when, or where, or the moral effect
upon the young woman, when she discov-
cred that at last the world knew her as she
really was.
One of the New York daily papers, in
commenting upon street novelties, says
that demand has sprung up in London
for the sedan chair as a vehicle of fash
ionable travel. One firm it is said. is
busy in the manufacture of these relics
which of recent years have proved useful
only as ornaments or on the stage. The
new chairs are not to be decorated as of
old, with paintings or gilded mountings
but the colors popular for the decoration
of ordinary vehicles will be used They
will be painted black, dark green, blue
or maroon, with light yellow, green and
red for trimmings. The chairs will be
very light, and the promoters of the
scheme are said to expect their profit from
the use of the vehicle for evening parties
dinners or other gatherings where the
distance to be Travelled is not great. 9th
er passengers will not be carried, and the
interior of the chairs will in this way be
kept particularly clean, and wraps or
dresses of light color are not likely to
be soiled. One of the guests at the Brad
ley-Martin ball last winter was very anx-
ious to go from her home to the hotel in
q sedan chair, on the ground that such a
method of conveyance was the only posi-
BILE one appropriate to the character she
portrayed But her family and friends
persuaded her that, in spite of the pro-
priety of the sedan chair, the journey
down F1tth avenue would necessarily have
to be undertaken under such strong police
protection that the plan would lose it's eff
feet. Evidently in London no such curl
osity exists. The new horseless carriage
attracts nearly as much attention as ever
and one made in the form of a T cart.
with bright red Wheels invariably at
tracts as many spectators as a torchlight
parade.
The funny woman, in spite of her bril-
liant conversational qualities says the
Woman's Home Companion, is rarely
social success. Unbridled wit and tact are
inimical. The wag who is bursting with
a mot will hardly ever repress it Just to
preserve harmony. Now, when one wants
a dinner party to go off pleasantly and
smoothly, one does not feel safe in in
viting a guest who may. in a moment of
eXuberant fun, create one of those Jaw
full pauses" so dreaded in society, or limo
Gently enrage some eminent parsonage by
a telling home shot" Genius for humor
is like any other sort of genius-you must
take it as you find it, and it is a very
difficult thing to contine in a strait-jacket