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

his wife a gown of scarlet and that every
mayor before Michaelmas next after his
election buy for his wife a scarlet gown,
upon forfeiture Of ten pounds; five pounds
to the use of the town; fifty shillings to
the poor mans box; and fifty shillings to
the use of the mayor. And that cir
wives shall! wear their gowns at the feasts
following, Christmas day, Easter day,
Ascension day, Whitsunday etc To for
feit twenty shillings for every default
i've shilling to the poor's box; five shill-
ings to the mayor; and ten shlings to
the use of the town." l wonder how
many women refused to wear their gowns
on those special holidays? Fancy being
commanded by the queen to wear a red
trock, whether a red frock were becoming
10 you or notl Nowadays, lovely woman
would object, and let her husband pay the
HE. Lovely woman must have been
humber in the days of Queen Elizabeth
than she is now, though. indeed. even
nov, when she goes to make her bow to
the Queen of England, she has to dress
a. cordlng to the laws laid down by the
Modes and Persians. And don't she, nine
times out of ten, look like his satanic
majesty, with that bunch of feathers
cooked up on her head, and displaying
every bone in her neck in the day time to
a public that is inclined to jeer at her
The average woman does not look well in
a low bodice during the day. And when
the average woman is the average Eng
lish woman, her neck is a little too apt to
be suggestive of meat sold by the pound
than anything else.
It's beautiful to see with what courage
English women will wear old clothes!
What lessons of economy we could learn
from them. They will cling to an old
gown as if it were a pearl of great price,
and fail to see why it should ever be
given or thrown away. It's queer how
a uya n
we indulge. The English woman is the
exact opposite. She is never so well
pleased as when she is telling you that
the dinner dress which she has furnished
up is really several seasons old As if
you had any doubt of it! When big
sleeves came into vogue, about five years
ago, the average American bodice either
had new big sleeves put in it, or it dis
appeared with other useless things, into
an innocuous desuetude. But the Eng
lish woman sow no reason why she
should either alter or throw aside a
bodice that might still be worn, and she
was to be met, travelling all over the coun-
try, and looking as funny as possible in
tight-fitting little sleeves when the women
of all other nations were assuming bal
looms. She is probably just beginning to
wear big sleeves now, for il a fashion
strikes her as good she sticks to it. If
you have any doubt about this statement,
just lOOk dl the pictures Oh the royal Ia
dies OF England, and all the royal rela-
tives. Every blessed one of them wears
one of those abomnable fuzzy pieces
that comes way down on her forehead,
and doesn't permit her own hair to show.
The Princess of Wales has to do this, 1
am told, because she's bald, but 1 have
failed to see why all the younger women
need initiate her in this outlandish mode
of arranging somebody else's hair on
their own which gives them a stupid,
weary look.
And how an English woman sticks to a
sailor hat! There is no coquetry in her
manner of assuming it. Its tilted we'll
over her forehead. and gives her a decided
ly hard look. But you couldn't convince
her, no matter how strong your arguments
were, that sailor hat did not look well
on a woman past 30, and inclined to be red
faced. The sailor hat belongs only to
youth and beauty. 1t can never be ex-
cused on the head of a woman who looks
over IS. 1t is true the French mlliners
have trimmed the sailor hat almost out
of all. recognition, but its impossible to
efface that severe line of brim which has
made many good-looking girl seem hid
eous. We've had a purple winter and
we're going to have red summer. Well,
a red dress looks very pretty with the
ocean or the mountain as a background.
A red bonnet may be very becoming and
red shoes very coquettish, but there is
one thing limited at against which every
woman's hand must be raised. and that
is-red gloves. To have ones hand to look
as if they had beeen dipped in a dyer's
vat is not interesting. nor is it attractive
And a sensible woman wants to be both
She wants her appearance to attract you
and her mentality to hold you. Imagine
making love to a woman who presented
you, on departing, with a red gloved hand
to kiss! That would he an abomination
And denominations and pretty women
ought not to be thought of together. Pret-
ty gowns and flowers. becoming bonnets
and fancy Shoes gay parasols and fancy
jewels, all these sound well, and do well
combined with women. But no abomina-
tons. They are the sort of things we
pray to be delivered from And one should
not only pray to be delivered from a pair
of red gloves, but should flee from them
as a terror Bah.