The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-13

ments of my lady's chamber.
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a greater mistake made, and, for my part.
! l am never more filed with wonder and
| awe at the merciful provisions of proVi-
| deuce says Dorothy Dix in New Orleans
| Picayune, than when / meet an ugly wo-
| man who is simply consumed with vanity.
! That this is a common enough state one
| has only to look about them to see. What,
/ pray, except the conviction that l am
/ young enough and pretty enough to wear
anything that prompts all the inappropri-
! ate hats and gowns we see? If
| only the women with lovely arms
| and necks went decolette would
! there be any need for the moralists to
/ start a crusade against low dresses? You
/ know there wouldn't. There aren't enough
pretty ones 10 be worth the attention of
! the preachers. Every one of us knows
some woman, homely and unattractive,
and toward whom no man ever directed
second glance, who believes herself fas-
cinator from way back Such women have
their own bhssful way of transmitting the
most commonplace speeches into yelled
compliments they take a bare civility as
an affection, and courtesy as an evidence
of a hopeless passion. Only this summer
/ was talking to a woman, no longer
! young and never anything else but plain
and DUH who said nothing on earth
would induce her to take even the short
est railway journey by herself But
! why?" l asked, innocenuy. "Oh," she
| said, with a conscious smirk and smile,
| "I-er-attract so much attention, you
| know. When I enter a train people al
ways stare so, and 1t is so unpleasant
to have men trying to firt with mel"
fairly gasped at the idea. The woman
was honest enough in what she said,
| and actually believed that men-busness
men, travelling men, drummers, the whole
! human family-dropped their occupations
and amusements to look at her when she
Travelled. Can you grasp the soothing
| Joy and balm such a conviction must be
to any feminine soul? Dearly as I like
to travel, and 1 love the smell Of bilge
water in a ship and the STIFFNESS and
chicken a la Marengo in Pullman,
would be willing never to set foot in either
/ again to feel that l was a $4,000 prize
beauty that glued all eyes upon me.
Ten thousand year, says the New York
Press is not enough to enter New York
| social life, and all on account of the pres
ent extravaganza in dress. From the same
cause matrimony has become unfashion-
| able. large families are out of style, and
conservative people are wondering where
/ it will all end.
bied to know what is to be done with their
marriageable daughters. for a proposal of
/ marriage is not often received. The sea-
sons go by with alarming rapidly, while
lane. Louisa Caroline and Dorothy re-
main in single blessedness, in spite of the
| fact that they are one and all handsome
and well turned out girls.
Young men, as an excuse for not marry
ing. say they cannot afford to support a
wife. The girls retaliate by openly stating
that, unless they have a fortune Of their
own they cannot afford the luxury of a
husband; for, be il understood, the men of
the present day spend on their dress alone
what would in the time of their grandpar-
onts have been considered a sufficient in
come TO support household.
To launch a girl into society means not
only the expense of reception, dance, din
ners. etc, but hundreds and thousands OF
dollars merely for clothes. The cost of a
school girls or school boys wardrobe is
incredible and 1t is small wonder sensible
young people object to undertaking matri-
mony and it's subsequent obligations with
| out well assured income.
In spite of last springs TRADE against
French dressmakers, the importation this
autumn of Partisan clothes has exceeded
anything of the sort for years. Not only
have all the select % dressmakers brought
over no end of gowns for their patrons bur
the large shops have imported costumes
galore and the same model is shown in ten
or fifteen different places, proudly exhib-
tied as having been sold exclusively to
one house
Time was, and not so many years ago.
when the woman who thought it necessary
to give $3.50 for a gown was considered just
| a bit extravagant. Now $3.50 is not con-
sidered TO much to pay for "a simple lit
tie frock." There is an evening gown
among this years models for which 500
is asked and at that price has been sold
70 many purchasers To the unlnitiated
there is little in this gown to warrant such
a price. True the materials are expen-
slve lace and jet velvet, but nothing that
would cost anything like 500. .
Wraps and capes are no less expensive
than gowns. The novelties cost anywhere
from 800 up. and, although extremely
handsome, are almost without exception so
eccentric in style that 1t would be impos-
sible to wear them again next season.
The funny man who writes clever ~,
Jokes about the Easter bonnet will fnd
fresh material IN this winters headgear
One hundred and twenty-five dollars for
a hat certainly seems expensive, but thar
price is not unusal Both fur and lace