The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

a good color. am completely cured of
irregularity."
A pretty and stylish couture for the
summer girl who spends most of her time
golhing, wheeling, boating, or INDUCING in
other sports, Is made by parting the hair
and waving it on both sides close to the
head. 1t puffs down from the parting well
over the ears and reinfOrces the black
hair, which is tied low on the neck braid
ed, doubled over, not under and tied with
a bow of black silk or velvet ribbon which
should always be perfectly fresh. The hair
dressed in this fashion is not only becom-
ing and girlish-looking, but also stays in
place and looks neat after several hours
of hard exercise.
All sorts of ornaments are used in the
hair nowadays and the bigger and more
fanciful they are the better Immense
plain shell and amber combs are worn, not
at the top of the couture, but at the
bottom TO hold the back puff in place.
Pompadour and side combs are jewelled
with mock and real gems, and since wo-
man has become beligerent even in dress
she is wearing gold and silver daggers ana
swords thrust through her hair Escap-
Ing curls, at the nape of the neck are pin
ned up with fancy brooch. For evening
wear the aigrette still holds its own as
the faVorHe ornament. Ii is frequently
combined with "a spider bow of tulle or a
fluffy rosette. COlored plumes and aig-
rettes are considered very bad form Nat
ural flowers are really the most appro-
pirate ornaments for the hair in summer
even If they do fade quickly, and nothing
looks so fascinating in very dark hair
as a single crimson rose. Women with
blonde hair generally make the mistake of
wearing light-colored pins and ornaments.
Ihose who have made q study of artistic
mar dressing say that they should by all
means wear ornaments of a dark color.
so as to accentuate the gold tint White
aigrettes should always be fastened in
blonde hair with a few loops of balck vel
vet ribbon, and in black hair with white
ribbon Contrasts in this matter are effec-
tive. Very dark hair can stand little
curling and waving. The curling irons
have tendency to make it look kinky.
which Is state not to be desired, as every
woman knows.
The eagerness of women to be of real
use at such a time as the present one
in the country's history, says the New
York Tribune. and their difficulty IN find
ing anything that it is possible for them
to do are almost pathetic
Il would give worlds to go to the front
as soldier" exclaimed a high-spirited
young woman, land as the next best thing
l Joined an auxiliary and what do YOU
think was the work they gave me to do.
Making ridiculous little bags they called
Jll02Sl
mother has often told me how even
when their hearts ached, they used to
scrape lint and knit impossibly shaped
stockings for the soldiers in her day, and
the only difference now seems to De that
we have learned that lint is unhealthy
for wounds, and that woven stockings
are more comfortable than knit ones But
as far as women are concerned they are
as unnecessary as ever. 1t takes war TO
show us what Supernumeraries We really
are In any really great movement. our
day can only come when brute force
becomes an extinct factor in national dis
| putes, and all questions are settled bv
arbitration. If there is any talking to
be done we can hold our own with any
| one. 1t was the United States Sanitary
| Commission in mothers day, and it is the
Red Cross now, that offers the only cutie
for our energies. Pray Heaven that the
| innumerable societies that are being or
gained all over the country may not
! have the training that developed the crude
| beginnings of 81 into O blessing to the
country!
"'You may laugh at your housewife.
/ my dear said an old lady to me the other
! day when ! made fun Of the work we
! were doing. but thank God on your knees
| II Il is all you are given 10 dor"
The latest opening for a woman in con-
| nection with the war is a mother" to n
| regiment. but as the Incumbent Of the no
/ sttion must be old, ugly, and able to stand
any amount of fatigue, It is not likely that
| there will be many applicants for the post
The mother will wash. mend. nurse
! If need be, and look after her hundreds az
| boys with as much Individual attention
| as possible. II viii easily be seen what
a comfort such an addition to a regiment
would be, and there win doubtless be num-
| berless openings In this direction for pa
| triotic women.
| at wish I could help" said a small child
wistfully, as she listened to a discussion
| between her mother and some of her
! friends about needs and supplies In the
| early sixties The mother understood the
| childish longing, and that evening she
| rugged up for the delighted little maid a
toy express wagon. with white tent COW
! er, on which she printed the once farni-
| liar letters-U. 8. =. C.-U'nited States
! Sanitary Commission-and sent the child
| out the next morning on an expedition
| TO succor manned or suffering creatures
| 1t was wonderful, with her senses aroused
| 20 observation, how many things the lit
tie one found, and how the good work
spread among her playmates. until the
| United States Sanitary Commission war.
| ons multiplied into goodly number An
| the children who played this real NAV
! pledged themselves to rescue and nurse
| suffering life, from the tiny Insects to mis-
| used cats and dogs. and who knows
| whether It was not from just such small
| beginnings that the societies which uro-
tect our animals started in the fret place?
| Somehow It is the idea of the hour n
= 42ke especial note Of children Not ,,,l,,