The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22
Copyright. 1898.

| might as well be out of the world. Skirts
are rutfled up 10 an 1S-inch waist, some
| times up to a 4S-inch one, and then the
| effect is that OF a pillow with a string
| lied around it, But the woman who has
not a sufficient number of ducats have a
rufied skirt turns up her piquant little
| rose, declares that ruffled skirts are COM
mon and rutiles her sash. This can be
| done more cheaply, but it is equally effect
| i've For long. time sashes were in disre>
| pute. They We're given over. as it We're
TO babes and sueklings, but just now the
trimmed sash, with its innocent looking
&itte belt huggins the place that you
! would like to put your arm around, is
the thing" Lots of pretty belongings
are che thing" with the tiny little ar
tcIe slurred over. but when IL comes 10
emphasizing the aforesaid article then, If
you are feminine, you have il or from a
social standpoint you die.
Years ago. when you and I were inno-
cent little tots and knew nothing of the
troubles of this world, we wriggled ono
twisted while our fond mothers tied US
up as'far as our healthily big waists per-
mitted in broad blue sashes with two loops
and two ends. Such a sash is not recog-
nized nowadays.
The fashionable sash, when it is not
rufHed, ana everybody knows what ruff
fled sash is, has its end trimmed with
! fringe or lace. and its bow must be made
(belng feminine you know there Is a diff
ference between a made bow and a tied
bow after one Of four fashions. The first
is a gauze ribbon, with stiff, double
looped bow and a kpotted silk fringe at
each end. Tho second is lovely brocade
ribbon, with two loops backed by short
forked ends with a strass buckle in the
center and long ends that are forkod and
tipped with pearl fringe. The third one
has two loops up and two loops down and
a knot across the middle, with a fanciful
fringe having a heading as its finish. The
other one received in polite society has a
rosette such as your mother used to make,
/ with sloping ends finished with heavy
kuotted silk fringe Those sashes are the
| kind that the Astors aud Vanderbilts who
| are not affected by the rise and fall of
coffee, wear, and they are shown by a
| French dressmaker who is small and
saucy, who can make wonderfully chic
frock and can charge, o, We gods and little
fishes!
l cannot understand why, since we are
fighting the Spanish, or at least playing
with them and giving them a little taste
of what our new navy can do, that Scotch
plaids should be in fashion, and yet-and
yet the gentleman who rides that ungrace-
full machine known as the bike" whose
legs lack curve, but are strong in muscle
wear hose of the plaid of some specia
clan to which he has no personal right
while the delivery wagons of a well known
shop are glorious in the plaid OF another
clan because the second member of the
firm happens to bear the name that be
longs TO the oh, what do the Scotch cal
the head of a clan? Is it duke or laird oil
master or what?
/ never think of The Scotch without re-
Numbering that rather unpleasant story
of the time when all Scotland was attack
ed with the hives and great dukes, hav
ing put many posts to uphold the iror
fence around his private grounds, used tC
hear the ordinary folks saying, God bless
the Duke of Argyll as they rubbed then
much troubled backs against these gran
lite posts. There is something attractive
about the Scotch, but ! must say l do
not approve of plaid stockings, and l mus
add that I cannot imagine any woman
who has sense of the beautiful incasna
what the rigidly proper call her '1owsl
limbs" In them Nothing suits a woman
in the stocking line 50 well as those Of
black silk, for they succeed in bringing
out every curve and making the ankle
and foot look smaller and the mister
higher. OF course, there are times wher
, to match certain slippers one has TO as
sumo colored silk stockings, and then CT.
Give me heliotrope or give me death,
, and. up to date death has not appeared.
, BY the bye, l must be growing very old
for ] am dropping into my anecdotage
. DO you remember the story Of the Frencf
girl whose life had been fun Of joy, bu
who was told by a fortune teller that sh'
would die within three months and whC
had been worried by dreaming, first o
p all, of a black cat, next Of wedding ana
, thirdly, of two white doves. all proof
that death was near her? Although JOY
( Gus, this young woman was inclined TO b.
e careful. SO she thought 10 herself: "A
5 present ] am wealthy. That is for me
And how unpleasant il would be 10 hav'
my body, which has Been so greatly ad
mred. for / am a good figure, thrown int
e a pauper's grave? That shall not be. Hay
+. ing wealth, I will go at once 70 an under
] taker and make all arrangements to pa,
p in advance for my funeral So she trot
ted off to the most fashionable undertake
: in Paris, saw the htad OF tilc eSNd Jlish
p, ment and said 10 him after inquiring abou
{ the carriages. hearses and all the NOR
e ordinary particulars of a funeral ''Wha
e is most IA shonable in shrouds2' With IN
e1 usual good manners Of an undertaken, VIII
a always washes his hands IN impalDabl
n water with invisible soap, he bowed an
i entered into an explanation: For youn
s ladies', those who are unmarried, we max
a pure whue resting robe. For widows
for married ladies or for those ladie
g whose lives have been fun of gayety "
q make an eternal dress OF delicate mauv'
while for elderly ladies, elderly widow
and spinsters who have passed 80. we al
range gown Of black velvet"
Mademoiselc hestated for a long tim
" Then She said Make me a white shrou
trimmed with the finest lace. l win pa
= for il in advance" The gentleman VIII
undertook" was subservient He seldoi
- had such customers. After giving her O.
10 change he babe his fair client good NOR
j. ing and she walked slowly 20 the dos
q | with her finger on her lip. Looking bac
4 At him from under the rim Of her big ha