The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23


together a costume that must be put to
severely practical uses, and it has been
modelled, mind you. after a creation de-
signed to figure only at elaborate func-
tions
The fussy original, very stunning toilet,
appears at a swell luncheon, a fashionable
reception or in some place freQIented by
exclusives; the copy switches its way
through the shops and along crowded
thoroughfares. stamping the wearer with
every swirl of its draperies are unreined.
No use to beat about the bush. We
women judge each other by the way we
clothe ourselves. Often the judgment is
UNFAIR, indeed, downright cruel, and
should not be allowed a leg to stand upon.
But stand it does, and often to our COM
plete undoing.
There is, says the Philadelphia Times, a
new thing Just come over" called the
Swiss Beauty" and that just describes
II. The fabric is a trihe more sheer than
Swiss, and is, too, more durable. 1t has
the correct lines that cross and break into
squares and is singular for its embroidered
flowers. Masses of wistera or locust clus-
ter here and there over it, all embroidered.
not stamped upon the goods, and it is on
this account a coed investment for il will
WASH and wash, and still look new.
That brings me to the subject of the
care of all these dainty clothes. They
cannot and will not stand the damp or any
crushing. Only when fresh are they pref
ty, and how can they be kept fresh?
There is a very sure way of doing it, but
1t Is trouble. You must have a c,ean sheet
sponge and gum arabic; also that miracle
cleaner, gasoline.
Length by length stretch out the soiled
breadths and sponge clean with gasoline;
let them dry and then sponge with weak
done with lace curtains, during all the
processes of cleaning, and when they are
dry 1t is chip dry white You will find the
stun crisp, glossy and fresh.
"Trouble?'
Wen, after all, not more so than to wash,
dry starch and iron, only different that is
| all, and requiring strict cleanliness
| throughout.
We were sitting around the samovar,
says writer in the New Orleans Times
Democrat, and one woman spoke.
Il have just met that lovely Nine. X,
she said enthusiastically, and we all set
tied more comfortably to listen.
The semi-invalid grunted. ooh, don't
rave It's so much more amusing to roast
people"
but l have been awaiting an opportuni-
ty for year, to really get acquainted with
| young Nine. X ." returned the spontane-
| phasize ones impressions of her. She is
| a dream. She dresses so we'll; she is ami
| ability itself; she speaks adoringly of her
husband and her babies, and she doesn't
| pretend to be a deep womau--in fact. she
| is simply perfect. / never feel honored
with an acquaintance but l confess that
l now experience an analogous sensation
| at the proffer of hers"
| l glanced over at the sincerest of wo-
men, who seemed to be flushed and who
was 90 mute that she looked sphinxy.
| Knowing her to be a neighbor of young
Nine. X, l wondered that she did not join
in the conversation. After the others had
DISAPPEARED, all save the sem-invalid, the
sincere woman and myself she the first
designated grunted again. Come now"
she whispered settling herself on the di-
van, "let us roast Nine. X, since We are
, each others bosom intimates and are
ready to swear to eternal secrecy
zone half of the world knows nothing
about the other half she began, (which
is a true platitude Emma is such a dear
simpleton, taking everybody at face value.
| How is she to know that Nine. Y. is a
| cheat and an impostor in every relation
| of life? That sounds dreadful, doesn t II?
| She treats her husband worse than she
| would dare to treat her cook l have
seen him clap his hat on with a sort of
! reckless desperation and have heard her
| voice haranguing him till he was out of
| SiSHt-SHe RACES 50 lHdL she IOFSetS, OH
| times, that she is girt by a neighborhood.
| Her children have not been bathed in a
| year. Oh, don't exclaim, it is every word
| true. | have been i'm her house when the
poor tots would straggle in without her
| knowing IL, and as late as you like in the
day the sleep has not been washed out of
| their eyes. | have observed one pair of
green plaid stockings on the little boy for
ten days at time-not the same pair? Oh,
| yes, my dear with the self-same hoe
| growing larger day by day, just under the
| left knee Week in and week out those
! children are kept indoors without the sun
| shine or pure air or the light that even
the little human flowers require for
| growth. Sometimes a siatternly servant
| will take them to the grocery store in the
! neghborhood, their poor little heads mat
ted, their sweet faces streaked with dirt.
| their guinea-blue smocks absolutely chang
| ing color from grease and filth won't
| Vouch for my servants statement that
these children are put to bed and taken
| up in the morning in those dresses and
with those uuclean hands and faces-and
as | said. when they go to the grocery,
even the little dago girl on the corner holds
| her little print dress aside lest Il be de-
flied by contact as they pass her. The
| little Xses are really pretty children, al
| though it takes I've and pumice-stone to
| find it out And such pretty little forms
they have, too; but their petllcoats are
] 100 IorDluulnS lot one 10 enjoy the Obser-
| walton Of their we,l-shap&d limbs
| Il know Mrs. Y, to be idle, because
whenever l have looked from nay window
have seen a movement behind her shut
tiers; l sit always awaiting ny husband
with some fancy work with a the win
dows wide open when the weatESA allows.
She wears her loose, untidy wHsi1Ssrs al
ways, even when her husband Is q home
| of an evening; but oh, WHEN she expects
company or goes to anything! Such a
transformation of her yellow parchment
| to a roseate eomplexonl Such change
in her figure, in her bearing, ia her ami
ability, even In her voice! That is the
woman, then, that our friend enthuses
! about. And l will not be the woman TO
! tell her what decayed self-respect dies in
| that whited sepulchre."
! 1t Is a disagreeable, but almost statisti-
| cal fact that there are more lazy moth
| ers and degenerate housekeepers in New
| Orleans than in most other Southern cit
| les; yet there was time when in every
! department of the home Southern woman
| hood ranked foremost.
| Where are the mothers of a score of
! years since?
Il know what l am talking about" re-
| marked member of Congress TO a Wash