The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

The girl of the moment, says the New
York Herald, an athletic maid two short
months ago. has changed with the times
and become military. The men
she goes with hardly knows
her Even her clothes, her
skirts, her hats and her waists have the
spirit of the army-or the navy-in them
these days, and her walk is modelled upon
marching, and her vocabulary of slang and
topical expression has been revised until
two sentences out of three hang upon mar
tial terms.
In fact, to be army-Iike is the fad of the
moment, and the girl of the sets has taken
up this new idea with immense enthusi-
asm. She carries it out surprisingly well,
too. Very nearly everything she does has
military twist to it, and she has the
cleverness to put just a little Of her own
personality into each movement or speech
so that the effect is piquant, graceful and
odd.
Thus, with a bound the military girl has
sprung into fashion. One of her ways is
the temporary abolition of the kiss-so far
as other girls are concerned. Meeting her
dearest friend, she salutes in a true army
way. She does not grab her or remark
you dear thing!" The arms of both girls
are raised promptly to their hats, and
then showed out with a quick movement.
Then they are dropped to their sides and
stay there.
The walk of the military girl is marked
by firm step forward a rather longer
step than usual, and the shoulders are held
wei back, the head steadily up, with the
chest Is thrown well out. This new type
of girl, when she turns, swings around
cleanly on her heels, for all the world like
a genuine army man.
The new military conversation, or rather
the host of military phrases, heard these
days is exceedingly interesting. A girl re-
turns from some shopping expedition. Be
fore the war was started she would have
said very simply: "In go up and tell moth
er about it." Now her phrase is: "I'u go
and give the countersign to mother" Or.
telling sister TO say such and such to
her father, she will say: Report to head
quarters"
Advance into the other ROOM" is the
proper way 10 put it now, and, instead of
speaking of going up or down stairs. you
should say, If you would be really In form
nowadays, I'm going aloft," or I'm go
ing below"
BetalIlng ones self to ones downy couch
is expressed by the words, I'm going to
turn In" and on the street, when two
three or four girls are walking together
there are often to be heard these words
of command Right about FACET and
forward march,"
Such are a few of the military express
sions Of the hour among girls-those that
are, perhaps the most common. There
are scores of Others and with her visits
to the camps near New York and her con-
slant study Of war matters this military
vocabulary Of girldom Is being added to
at rapid rate weekly. The girl who has
naval associations adds to these a. bunch
of terms of the sea and the battleships
that give her conversation even more pic
turesqueness and novelty
Yet walk and talk la militaire are, af-
ter ALL but two sides of the new military
girl. All her costume this summer will
have flavor of the army and the navy.
The shops are selling now for the par
ticular benefit of this slrI, what is known
as army and navy" cloth. 1t is aljgh+-
er shade of blue than has hitherto been
the fashiOn-a thin material much like a
serge and supposed to be just the color Of
the army and navy uniforms. This
promises to be the dress material of dress
materials this summer, and is already
much sought after.
Officers caps and army service hats are
the head gear that IS held in greater az
lection than any other, and a girl who
really enters into the spirit of the day ana
the hour wears white cord about her necl,
with the accompanying whistle. This is
considered very smart and effective final
touch.
There are army and navy umbrellas for
these military girls as we'll These nm
brellas have handles made in precise imi
tation of small sword handle. An even
smarter thing is to have an umbrella han
die of real sword. Not many girls are
as fortunate as that however.
My doctor says that 1t isn't what we do
during the day, but the way we sleen nj
night, that makes us round shouldered a
New York Herald reporter heard tan
stunning looking girl say to her compan-
ION, as they rested after the dumbbeu driu
at the gymnasium. You know how dread
fully l stopped when I left school wear
ago" she went on. II just thought 7 wo11i5
go crazy with the home folks eevire
Maud, dear, sit up straight and Jack said
looked ABOUT as risky as grandpa Burke
who is nearly a hundred. I went r. ~.