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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
JAMAICA SERVANTS.
The Government supports Fine
Schools for Training Negro Girls.

The Government supports Fine
schools for Training Negro Girls.
With the recent discussion of the annex
alton of Jamaica I am reminded of a most
charming sojourn on the island. To me-a
housekeeper-the domestic life of Jamaica
was a revelation. The atmosphere of
tranquility and harmony in every menage
was most refreshing Life in Jamaica has
the swing of a wen-regulated pendulum
the secret of this home comfort-it was
the well-trained servants.
Alas! ii must be confessed the American
housewife makes a poor showing beside
her English sister. When comparing the
resources of this country with tropical ia
maiea the humility deepens. We have de-
posted at our doors servants of all nation
alities, but chiefly Irish. Surely, Irish
homes and Irish mothers must supply bet
ter raw material than the African slave.
Yet, after a hundred years experiment
our system of domestic training has retro
graded, while the evolution of the negro
house-servant under English influences
has reached a high degree of perfection.
American housekeepers confess weakness
and lncompetency by fleeing to hote!s and
by careless and tyrannical hirelings. I
The Jamaican servant, trained accord
ing to old-fashioned English methods, is
steadfast, honest, and thoroughly disciplin-
ed. She is early taught self-respect of mind
and body, and that she is born to work.
Her mother sends her to day school and
church. 1t is required that she be church
member, or at least a regular attendant.
She is nogged well as a little girl for dis
honesty, and learns all about the severity
of the colonial law. She is early given her
part of the, homework to be done each
day. Speed is not attempted, but quality
and finish she must acquire.
Many mothers apprentice their young
daughters to relatives in service. For in
stance, a girl of eight years Is sent to an
aunt housemaid. The child is put through
her PAGES in actual service, after receiving
no wages other than her home, clothes and
the occasional tips falling to the handy
child about the pen.
A charm much lacked in servants of this
country is the personal cleanliness of these
Jamaica girls. They carry no body odors.
They are scrupplqusly neat in habits and
dress. Particularly about their under
clothes. Their petticoats are as crisp and
snow white as soap, elbow grease and
sunshine can make them, and always as
stiff as boards, Their stockings are darn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

waist, long life to 1t, was never In finer
1ettle than just now.
Flannels and goods, especially woven
for blouses, now fill a counter all to them
selves, and each specimen is the gayest
of the gay. Nobody who knows Old style
from new will think of purchasing a goods
for a blouse in any but a dazzling tone
or a dariue eOnfiguration Tyrian pur-
pie, Hungarian blue, nasturtium bro wn
and baize green are a few of the one toned
fiannels, so decided of tone that they
would almost make old Sol wink to look
on them; but for that these colors are
becoming, and you can buy them modu
lated by close set embroidered dots in
black silk.
Much more popular than the above men
toned are the striped and speckled fan
nels made up, as in fact nearly all these
wooden blouses now are, with great art
and elaboration. Last season we were
very content TO revel in blouses of purl-
tan simplicity of design we are far more
exacting now ana the blouse that wTiugs
admiration from the most unenthusiasuc
goes in for character of its own. 1t has
an ear-lipping collar or none at all,
a fancy front or is brave with braiding.
Some there are that are made with yokes
and some with vests and in all these mazes
of variation the velveteen and corduroy
shirt waist is its flannel sisters faith
1ul follower
At last the tragedy, always more OF less
imminent concerning the placket hole, Is
disposed Of and every woman who cannot
remember TO hook this opening in her
skirt should have her petticoats cut on
the new tailor mode; that is TO say, with
the placket hole buttened securely up. Ac-
cording 10 the highest authority in skirt
topography, the opening in that garment
should be made in front and a little TO
the right side, just where the seam of the
front width runs W. This leaves the
back of the skirt to be shaped fashiona-
bly, PLAIN or pleated in little and innocent
OF any IEar opening AT all.
This change of base for the placket has
come about by reason of the new mode
OF glove-fittng The tops of all skirts and
the packets location in front Is neatly
concealed by short row of small or
namental buttons or careful adjustment
of braid lines Probably never before in
the history of dressmaking have skirts
been so scant as this year. They simply
have no fulness at all, save slight
spreading effect in the rear and below the
knees. Such result is obtained by art
ful sloping and goring, and thus ample
freedom in walking is allowed, though a
skirt that boasts circumference OF
three yards is very, very wide one in
dee-
Candor compels the admission that
Frenchy and striking as this mode may
be, Il does not enlarge the reputation of
the feminine sex for beauty Of form.
just about ope woman in three hundred
can wear this new skirt and rejoice the
eyes of the onlooker; the other two hum
dred and ninety-nine will be a sore trial
20 their friends, for she who is the least
bit too broad in the beam and she who
has been given by Providence what are
known as japanese hips. cannot profit by
th's novel and severe cut
continue. if you desire 70 be in the van
=. .ne styio, TO leave your rear widths q
N'Ae lonS' that is, at a fan-llkc spread
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

I beyond the heels, and do not make the
base of the skirt too crisp with hair cloth.
A three-inch interlining viii do.
Among the so-called novelties are silks
of divers weaves and colors, displaying
every possible arrangement in Bayadere
stripes. The novelty really consists in the
stripes themselves, that are of velvet and
wide, or narrow, or running In groups.
spaced generously and always in bright
contrast to the silk above which they are
raised
A deep olive green silk, for example,
will be barred with one wide ruby red
velvet stripe between two very narrow
ones Of pale green. A cream white peau
de sole shows stripes of turquoise blue and
coral pink velvet, and a pale grey armure
displays stripes of finely figured velvet
in gray and pale blue. II does not require
great strength of Imagination TO picture
the beauty of these fabrics when worked
up into handsome evening toilets. Most
chaste OF all, in their splendor, are the
materials for brides-cream and lily white
moires, satins and grain silks, each and
every one striped the width of the goods
with fine grouped lines, or broad spaces
of white velvet. Most choice and rich in
effect is the Bayadere stripping on black
silk and satin, andit is no surprise to see
a deal of this handsome material used in
hat trimming.
Evidently the slaughter, two years ago
of the songsters was as thorOugh-going
in its way as the massacre of ST. Barthol-
omew, for now that wings and tails,
breasts and stuffed heads are once more
the mode there seems no market TO draw
upon. There Is surely no doubt that plum
age is the most desired hat garnishment.
but the milliners show a sorry array of
all save ostrich feathers.
The honest barnyard fowl Is rushing
into the breach gailantry, but only the
wings are really worth while, and there
is in consequence the greatest quantity
of ugly, clumsy manufactured plumage,
cooked up from wire frames, lace jute
chenille and epangles, that serves as a
POOR substitute indeed. The only pretty
things in a feathered way are the white
ostrich plumes and down tufts touched
with grey. and black that seem prepared
for a season of Y. sll-earned usage Most
charming are the tufts of small snowy
plumes, powdered in very small black
polka dots, dyed in the white
Another plan is to dye only the quill
and spine of the plume black else to dash
the white feather with ficks of grey.
White duck wings are similarly spotted,
greatly to their enhancement in decorative
quality, but for all this black and white
is not the ruling combination in hat arch
itecture. 1t is difficult to say just yet
what is
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
THE FLANNEL BLOUSE.
Autumn Efforts to sound the KneIf
of the Shirt Waist.


New York, Sept. 2s.-Fashion Is like his
tory, guilty of repetition. voyage of
discovery through the shopping district
is not notable for revelations and sur
prises. Under the very naif assumption
that they are strictly autumn novelties,
many dear familiar objects appear; silks,
velvets and wooden goods. They are none
the less welcome, however, because they
have often been tried in the wearing and
not found wanting.
A rigid inspection of the new suitings
proves that the nearest thing TO a genuine
novelty is a broache cloth running the
gamut of good colors usually in combina-
ton with black If you can believe what
the fashion prophets say the broche or
figured effect in wool goods is going 10 be
emphasized as the season wakes. A rough
dark blue winter serge or one of black,
picked out in small oxblood figures, of a
geometric shape, gives you the keynote,
for the tailor and dressmakers both extol
its artistic worth. Next in modish value
to this is a perfectly smooth goods with
q melton finish, in mushroom brown dot
ted DER by neat wrlggling pattern in
warm green or black, or sometimes the
two together.
If you take a dispassionate birds eye
view of dress materials as they are
daily opened for inspection and sale, you
can't but come to the conclusion that we
are in for a season of color, broken color
at that. Just little less smart than the
broched cloths are those in checks while
much lower down in the scale of feminine
estimation is the plain solid colored fab
ric. She who buys a one tone boxcloth
for instance, braids it freely and very
likely with frisky looking braid woven
or twisted In a couple or trio of season.
able colors.
This demonstration in favor of mixing
the sober tones of autumn and thereby
lighting the somewhat oppressive. gloom
OF the winter wardrobe. was never so no
ticeablo as in the new blouse hannels
Every season somebody hardly attempts
10 sound the tocsin of the shirt waist
end every season that passing bell is turn
ed into a welcoming chime for the shirt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
LADY ALICE MONTAGUE.

There will also be excellent chances Tor
the boarding house keeper, for the sewing
machine operator, for the actress, 1or inc
woman advertising agent and for the Wo-
man canvasser. who can introduce nour
or canned goods
Such will be the chances for the woman
who must work for others. Opportunities
will be even more numerous and more
promising for the woman who is proficient
in some profession or occupation in wh'ch
she can work for herself The chances
for any woman with fair equipment IN
the way of brains are better than Tor an
other whose chief usefulness lies IN heF
figure or her hands; the woman physician
the trained nurse and the woman JouIhd-
list wall do better in Cuba than the shop
girl, the salesgirl or the laundress.
But the woman bound for Cuba mas
other things than her occupation or proIes-
sion, to consider The right woman IN
that land of promise will not be she VINO
thinks to find there a fortune or a nus
band. For even now the island has TWEEN
ty women to one dollar and twenty more
20 every bachelor. Nor will the right wo-
man be the too ambitious one, who expects
to meet instant success In manana Iano'
where tomorrow Is as good as to-day
The right woman will be she who hopes
modestly to make better living TOT nel
self, and perhaps for others dependent
upon her, than she Is making at home
who has the physique to Withstand the
change of climate who can speak span
ish, or who feels that she can acquire thaI
language quickly, and who when she puts
her foot on Cuban soil, has a capital Oh az
least $50. She who has not these essentials
will be the wrong woman In Cuba.
Assuming that the right woman mas ar
rived in Havana, which will be the scene
of at least her first trial on the islaho,
what then? She has her $50 in that sacred
pocket, her bosom; but she must thlnA
twice before spending one penny. 80 III
stead of hiring a cab and driving TO d 10.
tel, she walks up to the Praedo, a snole
half mile. She is in search OF looslns'
Along the -Praedo, near the principal no-
tells and hence in the heart Of the to"n'
there are a dozen lodging houses "iei0
rooms, airy and clean, and Infinitely Oe
ter than her hall bedroom In New fo.n'
Boston or Chicago, can be had for sur
prisingly small sum. The cost of lodglusS
is high or low, according to its locatlom
up or down that broad, beautiful aVenIe
She can get as good room for $40 as sue
cares for, and, on taking 1t, pays hei
landlord the months rent. -.
She now has roof and bed. VIA S
about board? Morning coffee goes WIN
Continued on Page IS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

down over the wearer's ears like delicate
protectors against frost bite and third
pretty creation is like as not to be jew
eled Juliet cap with a fountain of long
white osprey springing high on one side
Thus by contrares the small hats seem
TO be designed.
Hats for morning street wear are stin
going through the process of evolution
and some of their phases are decidedly
commendable. The favorites in this class
are rough surfaced felts, that is. the
crown As rough and the brim smooth, and
if one is light brown the other is a much
darker tone. a felt band is passed about
the crown, and a couple of quilts are
fastened on one side by the means Of
their sharp pointed ends being thrust once
or twice through the felt. One can either
mash in the soft top, being sure to give
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
A BRITISH BELLE.
Lady Alice Montague Is Promised a
Season In New York Society.

Season In New York Society.
New York, Sept. 2S.-International mar
riages have been, in nearly every instance
productive of beauty in the children that
spring from these alliances. most espe-
cially when our fair Americans wed their
British cousins. Lady Randolph Church
ills boys are sturdy youths of wonder
full manly perfection of feature and limb,
the Curzon and Marlborough babies are,
on the best authority, said to be Won
derful specimens of health and infantile
loneliness, and if additional proof is need
ed there is the newest Of the new Lon
don beauties, Alice Lady Montagu, whose
unique fairness would excite admiring
comment at any time or place. This
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

body OF shirred blue chiffon. The sleeves
and sash are of the same color, while a
black osprey stands up from blue bow in
the hair.
The second figure shows pretty house
gown in broched cashmere and trimmed
with broad bullion braid, edged with quill
Kings OF narrow green ribbon to harmon
ize with the green figure in the black
goods. Mary Dean.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

There is In millinery as in dressmaking
no modesty in color, and some of the del
icate capotes for theater wear are gray
to the point of frivoity. A round turban
of black tulle will have a half dozen
wings, bright cerise in tone, springing up
from and bending down against the hair
audaciously; a violet toque of little cor
poral shape may have its points finished
by knot of white ostrich tips that fit
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
oWOMAN'S PAGE q


it a circular dent. or leave IL stiff and
smooth. The point to be emphasized is
that you are not wearing an Alpine.
All these new felts are quite round
and some of them are so arranged that
the wearer can change the cock of the
brim at will For autumnal golfng the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
PERIODS OF PAIN.

Menstruation, the balance wheel of
woman's life, is also the bane of exist
ence to many because it means time of
great suffering. =
While no woman is entirely free from
periodical pain, it does not seem to have
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

proper wrinkle is to buy a soft olive
brown or grease tumbler, as 1t is called.
This has no stiffening or binding to the
brim. The pliable crown is given a round
dent and girdled by a red silk handker-
chief picked out with black polka dots.
Tied around so that the knot comes in
front, a pretty small silver pin is thrust
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

young lady Is only 10 years of age, and
she is the twin sister of an equally lovely
daughter of the Duchess of Manchester,
who died four years ago in Rome.
The Lady Alice resembles her handsome
mother, who was Consuelo YZnaga, only
in her blonde coloring, her features, so
say her friends, are a delicate counter
part of the almost classically perfect out
lines of her grandmother, now the Ouch
ess of Devonsllire. That is to say, her
face is oval her nose admirably straight,
her eyes a faultlessly almond shape, and
her brow low and broad. Her gray eyes
are of a tone traditional in the Man
chester race, and her hair the rich abun-
dant gold, such as her mothers once was.
She is a slender, delicate little person,
is the Lady Alice, and though her beauty
Is one Of her strong, attractions, her great
and chieftest charm is her amiable, low
able disposition Only last spring she
made her debut and even at the most
splendid functions she wears no more
costly gown than a white muslin, with
tulle for great occasions. This type of
costumes Is not the ecentric preference of
the young lady, but the result of her mod
est circumstances. Her mother, the duch-
ess, is far from rich, and Lady Alice Isl
surely no bait for young men who wish
TO marry for money The muslin gowns,
are however worn with so much dignity
and sweetness, and the loneliness of their
wearer is so potent, that there seems to
be small doubt but that this young girl
will have her choice of the best in the
matrimonial market.
During the season in London, Lady
Alice lives in a small pretty house with
her mother, and one of the accomplish
ments for which she is almost famous
is skating an exercise that she has de-
veloDed into the most exquisite art. On
her very small feet she wears Dutch skates
with points that curl up over the toe,
and at St Mority, where she first learned
and where many Of the best skaters in
Europe gather in the winter, she Is easily
admitted to surpass them all. Added to
this. Lady Alice. is a capable horsewo-
man and an accomplished linguist, and her
mother has promised that she shall have
one season in New York society before
matrimony can fix her future.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25

There is some analogy between the
American campaign in Cuba and the An
glo-Egyptian campaign in Nubia," re-
marked the snake editor to the horse ed
itor glow so?" you know that we had
10 issue rations to the Cubans" yes -
well, Gen. Kitchener gave the dervishes
a roast. "-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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Continued on Page 10.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-29
Over -ExertiOn of Brain or Body.
Take HOrsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.

1t is a wholesome tonic for body,
brain and nerves. Wonderfully quicl,
in its action.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-29
C00NS DECLARED INSANE.
He Will BE Sent TO the Hillside
Home.

king Of the Hoboes," Fred. Coons,
arrested Sunday by Special officer John
Ccslott for burning timberlands owned
by the Lackawanna Iron and Coal
company, was declared insane by med
ical examiners yesterday and will be
sent to the Hillside Home. He was
examined by Doctors P. +. Gunster and
Albert Kolb.
The king" was adjudged harmless,
as far as doing physical injury to an
Other person is concerned, but q men,
ace to property fastened or loose and
so confinement was considered best for
him and the public. He told the police
that. secret organizations were keep
ing things down." that 1t was hard on
that account "for feller to make an
easy living nowadays" When asked
to explain this statement he said secret
organizations had fixed things so that
only very little work is done now as
compared with former times; conse-
quently, men, like himself who wanted
to work, couldn't find any work to do.
When asked by the physicians to
close his eyes tight and walk straight
ahead, he amhled off at an angle of 80
degrees; an evidence that his brain
was as crooked and uncertain as the
paths he had for months been trying
to follow while roaming the woods.
"Jus' s sun be there IS anywhere" the
king" said when asked il he would
like to go to the Home.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-03-29
SAME PRINCIPLE AFFIRMED.

The same principle is also affirmed in
commonwealth vs. the German society,
l5 Pa. 251, and I'm Diligcnt Fire company
VS.. commonwealth, IS Pa. pol Our at
tention has been called by defendants
counsel to the case of Phillips VS.. Aid
society, reported in G Pa. Superior court
49, and decided recently. We have cx-
amincd this case carefully and without
our views as expressed In this opinion
In the Phillips case the srovision in the
policy reads thus ANY member in ar
rears for more than three weeks dues
shall not be entitled to benefits, but such
members can be reinstated by paying
such arrears, and passing an examina-
tion, though they will not be entitled to
benefits should sickness, accident or
death occur within five weeks from date
OF reinstatement" Mrs. Phillips died
within the period of five weeks following
her reinstatement. The beneficiary was
therefore not entitled to recover. The
insured was in default according to the
terms OF her contract. The provision re-
ferred to is self-executing and by the
most liberal construction required no ac-
tion on the part of the defendant COM
pany. Herein, in our opinion, rosts the
distinguishing feature of the case at bar
and the other eases cited, viz, that
where It is provided that member shall
be expelled or suspended. or that he shall
be dropped from membership under GER
tain circumstances, the forfeiture must be
declared by legal and affirmative action
on the part of the society.
The binding instructions given to the
jury are justified by the facts of the
case. The material facts are undispLte1.
The verdict Is n Just one. The rule for
new trial Is therefore discharged and a
new trial refused