The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-10

man peculiar to New York. She al
.vays suggests largeness and squareness.
And squareness is not virtue in wo-
man. The feminine figure, to be correct.
should be described by curves. Then, this
woman Invariably has a pronoun-
ced aquiline. nose, extremely thin, and
rather blue looking. A big mouth. that
when it opens, shows large teeth that are
set far apart. And her clothes, while de-
cidedly in the fashion, seem to be put on
her with clampng irons or hinges, but
they certainly are not held together by
the ordinary hooks and eyes. She is top
ped by a bonnet of the hearse-like order
the plumes of which wave in fashion
that say: "AH men are flesh" | have
never been able to understand why TINS
woman lived. Availability is certainly not
her excuse for existence, for she is inNa-
riably positive and positive to the last de-
gree Usually. she is spoken of as haV-
ing a small income and belonging TO an
old family. She is to be found, however
among the newly rich who have come TO
this big city, have plenty of money to
spend and long to get in with and be
counted among the famous " four nun
dred"
They believe that this lady can help
them to get where they want to be. She
accepts their invitations to dinner; she
sits in their opera boxes; she borrows their
carriages; and she does not hesitate 10
hint for and get from them valuable pres
ents; but she never introduces them to the
people they would like to meet. She VIII
announce with pride last night my
cousin. Sallie BluebIood, dined informa'ly
with us and her husband, who belongs 10
The real old Blueblood family. was so full
of fun!' but she never tries to mix water
and oil by bringing together the new
friend on whom she is sponging, and the
old ones among whom she is counted pau
form but still as "one of us. sometimes
Madame. the newly rich, is clever enough
10 read her character and in very snort
time drops her; being certain that she can
alone more easily obtain her object in life
han if she were hampered by lot OF I'M
desirable hangers-on. This type OF woman
is invariably the one who will undertake
arranging a Christmas tree, or a festlVal
of any sort for some society; she says, with
a certain amount of truth, but she says
it to herself alone. that she has right
since she has worked so hard, to take a
few special toys that she wishes TO send
away for gifts, as a sort of wage, but she
ish't honest enough to mention this to the
committee and so she may be numbered
among the polite thieves. She wants 10
belong to no society unless she has charge
of the funds. oh, of course her accounts
are invariably correct, but, stu she man
ages to get, either as a percentage from
the people with whom she spends the
money or in some round about way, what
the darkies call "pickings and stealings.
- In a deal
of that done about which the world at
large doesn't hear. All New York, now
ever has heard of the latest Inert - the
sable cape. At a very fashionable iunch-
con not long ago, the bride IN whose
honor it was given, was the last to leave
Her hostess went up in the dressing room
with her and to their horror instead OF
the superb sable cape which she had worn
and which was one of her wedding pres
ents she found a tattered mink one, nav
ing inside il the name of cheap 1urrler
The hostess, who had not lost her beher
in humanity then, suggested that there
must be a mistake A note was written
to each lady present asking her If, by mis-
take she had taken cape which had IN
IT the name of a famous English furrler
An answer came from each one; in every
instance the writer stated the sort OF cape
she wore; and in many cases there hau
been worn capes of fur, capes or velvet,
coats of cloth trimmed with fur, or fur
The next afternoon the pretty bride
wearing a coat of cloth and carrying IN
her hand a very simple muff, was walking
down the avenue with her mother she
suddenly clutched her parent by the arm
and said in a husky voice.
There's my cape"
The two ladies quickly walked up to the
wearer Of the sables. She was a girl OF
good standing who had been present at
the luncheon, but whose people were not
wealthy enough to have bought her such
n cane as the .one she was wearing The
mother said to her with much tact:
Miss Highbred. did you not by mistake,
take my daughters cape yesterday
Miss Highbred drew herself up very
stiffiy and said:
] know nothing whatever about her cape.
The little bride, losing all control Of her
self said
why you have 1t on
The Young woman gave her one naughty
look and annouced:
You are crazy; the cape that am
wearing was sent me by cousin in En-
what can they do? There is nobody
who saw her take the cape. She went up
stairs with others, and a maid helped her
assume whatever she picked up as belong
ing to herself. Nobody is Willing to swear
to the sort OF cape she came III, tiiouSh
every woman is convinced that the sab-es
which she wears with such effrontery
were a deliberate theft.
A curious case came Immediately under
my own eyes. A hairdresser, who had
been brushing my hair for many years.
also brushed the hair of a friend. one day
when she was brushing this friends hair,
a young girl called who was intimate
enough to come into her hostess dressing
room; soon after her arrival superb
bracelet set with diamonds and rubies
was shown. a present from loving hus-
band to his pretty young wife. The hair
dresser left The room once or twice to get
hot water or fresh towels, but was never
alone with the bracelet.
That evening it was discovered that this
bracelet, which had cost over 5000 was
missing. A detective was sent for. and
with the usual stupidity of his kind, he
insisted that the hairdresser had taken IT,.
For two weeks she was followed and, dur
ing that two weeks, inquiry was made as
10 whether she had spent more money
than usual. At the end of the two weeks
the owner Of the bracelet heard that her
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