The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24
bands. Wives


AStNSNli % ana OU years
or the remaining nine men and five
women the marriages will be between 90
ana 80 years. II viii be noted that after
the age of 30, in both sexes, the desire 40
well as the opportunity for marriage fans
of rapidly 1t is estimated that in anv
of our older settled states the number Of
manageable but unmarried women be-
tween the ages OF 16 and IS is about 20
per cent. of the women living between
those ages. If this estimate he correct
the number OF unmarried but marriage
able women now living In New York citv
is about 165.O0O, while the number of un.
married men between the ages Of 81 ana
so Is 172.OO0
Every woman living in this country who
Is between the ages of 10 and As has four
chances to one of getting married: a5 out
or every 100 must go through life husband
less In the United States at this time
the number of spinsters between the ages
OF 40 and 60 outnumbers the bachelors or
the same age as to l. A brief survey or
any community in the Northern or South
ern states will demonstrate the truth az
This statement. The civil war is resnon
sible for this state.of affairs. OF the nearly
6OOO0 soldiers who died on both sides co
per cent. were young unmarried men. Had
there been no war a large majority OF
these men would have been married
There was a time when the fashionable
woman selected her perfume with a view
TO individuality of fragrance Such Is no
longer the case There are three nor
fumes, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean
which nine out of every ten fasnionabIe
women are using. The majority of them.
selecting one of the three scents, uses liz on
both her dressing table and in the num-
erous sachets of her wardrobe while others
Select ar al fy,1f ~
According to a well-known dealer. the
most popular Of the favorite perfumes is
an extract of violet, which can scarcely he
distinguished from the fresh flower itself.
The next in popularity is crushed rose
which does not smell the least bit like
the ordinary extract of that flower but
like the old-fashioned rose Jar. A tinv
drop of the double extract on wornan's
Handkerchief will give a room the subtle.
spicy perfume for which the rose lar was
so much desired, while the same perfume
used as a sachet makes ones clothes
( smell as though fresh rose petals had been
strewn among them. The third claimant
for popularity is wild clover This. II Is
said. is the most lasting of the three, and
few drops on ones Handkerchief win last
as long as the handkerchief itself.
The latest use of saohets Is for scented
clothes hooks. The ordinary wire ex-
tender for bodice or skirt is padded with
cotton batting, thickly sprnkled with
sachet powder. over them is drawn a
silk or muslin bag shirred fun around
the shank of the extender. or tied with
ribbons. so that they may be easily re-
moved when there As a necessity for re-
newing the powder. Another method em-
ployed by dressmakers In place of the
dainty bags of saehet formerly stitched
about in the bosom and sleeves of bod
ice Is the new cotton or wool-perfumed
padding. It can be bought with any scent
and is much more enduring.
A book might be written about the things
the girl says when she says things" She
does. not recover from the habit. either.
when she ceases 20 be girl, though her
expressions Of disapproyal Of many things
at large and her special present trouble in
particular are apt TO be sobered by time.
But woman or girl, says the New York
| Times. the vocabulary Of things that may
be said without a very great disturbance
Of the feminine conscience In times OF mem
tai disturbance ~ cOmDre henslve. IL Is sad
10 relate that darn" Is not an unkuown
oppression among refined femlnlnity. al
though IA Is modified by never being used
with an ~ following. which would give
o. an imDiOus ana 1nladylike sound. A
BOstonese II responsible for the state
neDt that this Is o favOrite exDletlve OF
the Boston eirl ~ home. u b. slso a Bos-
Ton gin who Ia times Of very great NEED
remarks ~ eEciied tones, my gracious
dumb an expression for which no derlya-
ives are given. = Rhode Island maH0n,