The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24

~ clever notions have already been evolv-
ed and put into prosperous execution,
and Mrs Mckay Twomb.y leads win
her exquisite wild-foWer garden. This
has been made under her personal super
vision at her MOrristown place. The Wild
flowers have not been planted in ornate
beds nor subjected TO a course of cultiva
ton, but gathered up from every part Of
the state and set down in a rich soil to
flourish and blossom in an entirely rustic
environment. The whole season through
some groups of these wild plants are in
flower and because of the good soil and
abundant water and weed!ess freedom
rhey are given they have produced large,
gIoriously tinted blossoms that are never
picked for house adornmeut.
Up ON the Hudson Mrs Schuyler Crosby
is perfecting the most admirable example
in this country of an eighteenth century
garden fair copy in size and plan of the
renowned Italian gardens at Newman
Courtney on the Thames. Mrs. William
Rockefeller has nearly completed beau
tiful example of sunken gardens at her
Hudson pace and among the young wo-
men il is the fashion to not only preside
over but work in what are prettily called
Loves Acres. A Loves Acre is a modest
square of ground enclosed by high grey
stone wall. or thick close-clipped ever
green hedge, out of which on four sides
the square is tiny stone or white marble
temple supposedly dedicated to Love In
it are rugs and stone seats covered with
rugs and stone vases to hold cut or grow
ing flowers and stone table where books
lie and a breakfast or lunch, or tea can
be served.
The flowers in this charming encient
grow in d broad bed that runs at the bot
tom Of the wall running all about the
four sides and only the quaintest. most
sentimental, old-fashioned plants find a
footing there. Wall flowers, holly hooks
painted ladies, pretty maids ladys Slip
per blue-eyed Mary, loye-lies-a- bleeding
sweet sultan, sweet William. forget-me-
nots, etc. mingle their brightly colored
faces in the gay crowd that shows to ad-
vantage against the grey stone or green
cedar background and one romantic phass
of Loves Acre is that nobody save the
owner IS supposed to tend the wants of
these delicate pensioners.
Every mademoisele who sets up one of
these gardens has a box of pretty light
tools for her own use and in a vast pair
of gloves, a beribboned hat and a hugely
becoming apron on the warmest DAYS.
while a maid or man servant holds an
umbrella over her head she digs and pats
and prunes and sprinkles her flowers She
gathers them when she desires in a dear
little osier basket fastened on the ton Of
Il stan WIFI Il pointed REu IQdt runs INTO
the ground and holds the receptacle han
Oily and she gives teas in the temple to
celebrate the coming into bloom of each
species of flower.
Mrs. Potter Palmer's Diary.
Mrs. Potter Palmer who is a feminine
Edison for inventing new and captivating
ideas, has been the one to revive in
terest in diary writing. To her active and
original mind it became evident that if
something was not done the women of TO-
day would leave none of those Intimate
valuable and always amusing documents
of their lives and thoughts and emotions
10 the generations of the twentieth cen
tury. For is il not by means of their lei
ters and diaries we know so much Of our
ancestresses of the eighteenth cycle?
Acting on her own able initiative Mrs.
Palmer has for years kept diary of life
as she has known it. Great people she has
met and entertained, great events as thew
have touched her interests, comments on
the changing fashions in dress, scraps of
witty conversation, rejecting on manners
criticisms of the popular books-aU have
found places in her diary, which faith
fully reflects the days and THOUGHTS of
great lady of 1900 and which cannot fail
TO deeply interest posterity. Her exam
pie is now being generally followed in
society. and to keep up her diary is one
of the daily tasks of the fashionable wo
man, though not all of them exactly fol-
low Mrs. Palmer's plan.
For example, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
whose brilliant mots are repeated at din
ner tables, is recording her experience
in a set of letters dedicated to her great
at-granddeughter Mrs. Goelet < col.
lectng in a book all her most Interesting
correspondence from all parts of the world
copying down often her own clever newsv
replies to interesting epistles received. ana
Miss Hewett is preparing the autobiog-
raphy of a society woman from her own
varied and unfailngly interesting expert
ences in society. in the arts, in philan-
thropy, etc. Nobody but the authors of
these compilations know what is In them
and they are put together not to possibly
ever see the light in print nor come under
public gaze, but to delight and edify pos
terity in these ladies' families and 10 be
cherished as precious heirlooms as we To-
day hoard the diaries, letters and sampie.
Of our grandmothers. Emily Holt