The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-20
LENT AN IMPROVING Time.
Some SpeculatiOns About the Woman of
the Future.
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Aroused BY II n
Needs-other Points of speeiaI interest

to pay a guinea for pineapple, when
| oranges bring outrageous prices and are
sour, and even when fruit is to the fore
it costs an awful lot and you get goose
berry tart, stewed gooseberries and fresh
! gooseberries
You smile in your sleeve at the wife
| OF clerk on $1,000 year in America
offering visitor such fruit, which is the
best the woman with a great deal of
money can get in the land governed by
the Queen. In both France and England
the oysters are a greenish yellow In color
smell rather like ammonia, and taste, oh,
We gods! The taste must be cultivated
| and during the cultivation the agonies of
Dante's fifth hell would be endured.
Last week an Englishman who knows
| how l appreciate good things to eat sent
me delightful pair of pheasants, some
wonderfully good fish and three dozen
oysters from the river Mersey. Those oys-
| ters were put in a wash boiler and kept
alive for four days on a diet of cornmeal
| and water. The fifth day they were to
make their appearance at a dinner party.
On the morning of the fifth day it was
| noticed that they ate no breakfast Later
the went to the fishmonger to be opened,
and in less time than 1t takes to tell it
the fishmonger's assistant appeared on the
scene with sorrow on his face and no coat
like to have the oysters on the table, as
| they were not quite nice. He is a mod
est young man, and that was the way
he put it. l said to him: perhaps you
never met an English oyster before, and
Its natural appearance and odor, being
| strange to you, seem unnice Bring them
to me and~let me be the judge of their
condition.
In little while he appeared with a
| scarf IA nd fraxy in
his hands. He got just as far as the
| Kitchen door, when the united voice of the
family begged him to depart and take the
oysters with him. He went with rapidity
and presumably pleasure, and l gave my
guests good American oysters, for which
l always give thanks
We used to talk about Scotch mutton
Nowadays there is mutton browsing on
the Virginia hills that goes across the
water and comes back marked as from
the Scotch moors, and we, deluded souls
| pay higher price for 1t than If it were
stamped American, which it is
In London the best and most expensive
! beef is that labeled From America" and
English housekeepers, when they see the
amount of fruit and the variety of vege-
tables and the good things that are so
plentiful and so cheap in this land of free
dom, clasp their hands and say: What
easy time the American housekeeper
must haver' And yet the American wo-
man does not appreciate the condition of
affairs. Bad food has made more trouble
than anything else in this world 1t has
| driven men to drink and, worse than that,
to dyspepsia, while it has ruined the looks
| of many pretty woman. Overdone meat,
expressive butter, weighty bread and bad
ly set tables have made men murderers
mentally, if not in actually.
1t does not cost a cent more to have a
decent dinner than to have bad one. 1t
is true it may take little more time and
thought, but that time and that thought
are we'll expended. The average woman
belonging to the proper sort of society,
which is the one l suggest should be start
ed, would take proper pride in her dinner
table would get TO know the delights of
hospitality and would make her home the
greatest enemy to the bar-rooms and all
the undesirable and wicked haunts that at
tract men.
BY the bye, if you are feminine, and the
chances are ten to one that you are, you
will be interested in three dresses that are
absolutely new, of which inclose you the
pictures. The girl in the walking dress
has on a satin cloth of the new shade OF
gray, trimmed with black braid and black
silk Her parasol is gray chiffon and her
hat gray straw, trimmed with white gauze
and black wings. Isn't that white dress
|
entirely of lace insertion and dotted mus
lin. The other gown is dinner dress OF
beads, with accordion plated chiffon or
the shoulders. The hat, which makes i
certain that the dinner is al some fashion
able restaurant, is of cerise velvet en-
broidered in pearls, with a bunch of ce-
rise chiffon on one side and a white Ostrich
tip just behind 1t. How well those French
women pose! How careful they are tC
get the right sort of background! They
know how to have the harmonies in life
But there is nothing after all like being in
, harmony with your background, witt
yourself and with your fellow man. There
. are some things we are all in harmon!
} about
We are all in harmony about the snar'
J little French bow that looks so effective
under dimpled chin.
, We are all in harmony as to the valu'
of the typewriter. What would the ed
tor do with those who do not write care
: fully if it were not for her?
We are all in harmony about the beauty
of the close-ftting cloth suit of worn by
the right woman whose curves arr
caught on to even by the irreverent mes
/ senger boy.
We are all in harmony about the valut
: of the telegraph, Though We fail to SCI
why the ordinary operator cannot spell
correctly and if our name is Katherine
with X insists on spelling il with c
: We are all in harmony about the valu'
of the telephone, but sometimes we &c
: tired of saying hello a4Td long to revers
1t and say what would better be left un
! said.
We are all in harmony us to the beaut,
! of a new bonnet. even il its Walue as rates
by you and me be different from that a
2 rated by the milliner.
We are pretty harmonious Iot, take u
| all in all, for nobody is anxioSA' to go u
= war; but if war does come We viii NEE
the people who want to fight AID shov
= them just how valuable we are ina fight
= won't we? OF course, we Will You
= neighbor thinks SO, and so does her neigh
= bor who is next door neighbor toN
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