The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-21

yields up its finest violets for her corsaea
| Dououet.
Mrs. John Harmon, who was very re-
| Gently Miss Emily Vanderbilt Sloan is
! a devotee to blue from deepest navy to The
| palest ciel tint, and because pretty wear
| able blue flowers are hard TO find she
| employs turquoise as her ornaments
Among her wedding gifts was a superb
| collar of turquoise that she wears inva-
riably with her evening costumes. Mrs.
| Theodore Havemeyer, now that her
| mourning is over, has chosen deep, rich
| shades of red by artistic advice Her Grim
son velvet evening dresses are hardly
| matched by another matron in wealthy So
ciety, and Mrs. Twombly, whose dia-
monds, though not the most numerous are
| the most faultlessly white stones OF any
American collection, wears severely sim
pie black, oftenest black tulle, which, as
a background, gives the diamonds an I'M
rivalled chance for effective ghttering
In sharp contrast to Mrs. Twombly
is Mrs. Levi P. Morton, who has adopted
cream white of late years for her favor
lite costumes. Mrs. Harry Whitney, with
her lovely auburn hair and brilliant com
plexion, was advised by Medrazo, the ar
fist, to wear green and in green she is
sure to appear at balls and dinners, while
her cousin, Miss Lila Sloan, tiny blonde
Adll ANLlCSuGS 1SI WaIuIOD6 every year
with gowns, hats, parasols, silken hose
and even the fine handkerchiefs, in a tone
of the most delicate pink.
For the nrst time an honest, earnest en-
deavor is being made by fashionable wo-
men to learn to dance. BY this the waltz
and polka, ETC., is not implied, for Ameri-
can women are born with light foot IN
the ballroom, but recently a body of lead
ing young matrons realized that Column
10 u ~
in the world
Self-criticism. first before a mirror and
then examination of the sole Of ones shoe
will be brought 20 convince the average
woman that she walks yilely, and these
new close-cut skirts clinch the argument
shiver of dismay grew into a positive
thrill of horror when one obserVant lady
found that, in spite of her small, slim feet,
the American girl has a shockingly clum-
sy, thick ankle, and between knee and an
kle symmetry is quite lost, for she is al
most without development of the calf Of
the leg.
Mrs Frederick Pierson, a handsome
graceful social light, has undertaken 10
help her womenkind TO regain their lost
grace and symmetry, and to this end she
has engaged the services of a French pre-
miere danseuse, who is now too old TO
dance herself, but who is a wonderful
SNiSAANASt III EOASALS the DOOy. rose Is the
corrective for all the faults in carriage
and form. she says, and though this able
old lady will take but three In class Of
classes she has scores, and in them all
poise is studied with an astonishing en-
thusiasm by the very cream of feminin-
lty.
Now. as the old lady Is Spanish by birth.
and as al her advanced age she trips about
like girl. the classes listen, with faith
ord l. IL,
Spanish women, who wear the worst shoes
in the world and who grows fat with age.
never has thick ankles, never loses the
wonderful arch of her instep, and can
carry about 100 pounds of solid flesh with
the football of a child.
Well, it's an owing to poise to a racial
instinct for casting the weight of the
body on the ball of the foot, not on hip,
nor heels, nor ankles, and thereby giving
to the toes strength and usefulness our
Western feet all lack. Well, stout women
and thin ones, tall and short having got
wind of this promise of physical regener-
alton, offered by the ex-danseuse. are f10tk
ing to her standard, and in heelless ballet
shoes, with silk boomers and skirts 10
the knee, under madame's eagle eye they
learn first TO stand, then to stand on one
foot and then to hop, hop, hop.
After the hop comes the skip, and finally
the stupendous task of standing on one
foot and describing a hemi-circle In the
air with the other foot, all of which
sounds as easy as thinking, but which re-
Quires as much muscular labor and good
viii as the cutting of cord wood. The wo-
men who are learning poise also confess
that there is nothing like ID for pulling 100
solid bulk off fat hips and actually plac-
ing the flesh on the scant calf, and that
walking, which was true drudgery before
has now become an exhilaratlng pleasure
From New York the danseuse will follow
her classes to Newport, and IL in the course
of few months our fashionable women
don't learn to walk Spanish, lightly ana
graciously as Dryades, it won't be pc
cause they have not tried and believed III
the cure for their present Shortcomings
Emily Holt