The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-18

i, tion-that is, it has string run in the
back which, after pulling the gathers
into place, is hauled around and tied in
front. 1t opens down the front and has
cuffs and collar firmly on it, and when
it and the rest of them come home they
look as smart as possible, though the
shirtmaker, being of his century, charges
81 apiece more than he would for making
a masculine shirt. This is not because
they required less material, but because
they were made for woman.
Now begins the occupation of a man.
The lovely woman has a cloth skirt and
a cutaway coat to be worn with these
shirts. A shirt is put on. and the first
thing heard from her dressing room is
call for Charley to come and see what
makes the collar tickle so. After Char
ley has examined the collar and has as
sured her it's because it's we'll starched,
she lapses into silence. Then she says, in
low and very pleading voice: would
you mind putting the buttons in for me?"
He doesn't mind, and after that he ties
her scarf as it should be, sticks the pin
in after the proper fashion and then she
shows him the little tab with her initials
on which she fastens to the band of her
skirt. Charley rather SCOTS at this, but
after she's all dressed and he sees her
beautiful delight in the shirt that is really
and truly like mans he wouldn't object
to accepting the position of lady's maid
to every charming girl who has a really
rightly shirt"
The newest hat seems to be somewhat
after the shape of that worn by the lady
warriors of Egypt, which consisted of
one bird put just in front, with his wings
shaping towards the sides and a collec-
ton of the tails and wings of other birds
standing up in the center. This doesn't
sound as if the new hat were pretty, and
yet 1t is, but 1t does impress you as being
distinctly Egyptian. 1t must be entirely
white. For that reason brunettes will
look better in it than blondes. Did you
ever think that, while they seemed to
have fancy for wearing the sacred bird
and the sacred flower on their heads in
Egypt, there exists no record of hats? Do
you suppose they went out in the burning
sun hatless, risl<ing freckles and tan, or
do you imagine that they staid at home
and had everything come to them? And
will you please tell me how Cleopatra
could have had joyous life unless she
bought new Easter bonnet? To be sure,
Easter wasn't in vogue then, but there
must have been something that corre-
sponded to it. Eve undoubtedly made
herself a bonnet of violets and tied it on
with ribbon grass that was in perfect
harmony with her fig leaves and the del
icate ferns that formed the fringe on the
edge of them. Eve certainly was a woman
of more or less good taste, else she would
not have chosen that fig leave shade for
her first toilet. That particular green is
so especially becoming to a clear white
skin, and yet when she had so many col
ors to choose from, she was woman enough
and artist enough to select the proper
tint! Adam took what she did and illus
trated in this way that from the very be-
ginning, as the typical man, he was an i'm
itative creature.
vet man ie oil Tt1ara re
so many things he can do that prove
this.
He can wear a stiff linen shirt and but
ton it with his fingers without breaking
the linen or his finger nails, where, put
In the same position. woman would call
a glove buttoner into service.
He can loop four-in-hand scarf so that
1t is perfectly even shows that it has been
tied by hand and not bought ready made.
He can get the links in his cuffs with
out licking the back of the buttonhoes.
He can find more fault in half an hour
upset household quicker and make more
women cry than any other living animal.
He is gifted with a greater knowledge
about everything than an encyclopedia
and is more willing to disseminate 1t than
a book agent.
He believes in himself implicitly and
that's the reason he gets the better of
everything feminine.
he is man, and he regards that as
an excuse for every folly he commits.
And really, between you and me, 1 don't
know but 1t is. But, then, l haven't
what the suffragists call real spirit.
am what they would describe as a down
trodden worm. However, l was built that
way, and you can't change your spots,
can you? And from the very beginning
I was spotted as a woman, and nobody
who knows would ever credit with being
VII 81 W in ri
English or vertically is Bah.