The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23

| knowledge THAI her aDproac hing domestic
| happiness is at ali attributable to so COM
monplace proposition as mess of beef
steak and onions but facts are facts, and
these are those
| Oddly enough, says the New York Tri-
| pune, IL is not the grandest DANES who
| import their smart gowns from the best
french ateliers. who generally adopt and
asslmillate, so to speak, the latest fash
! IONS. Ihey may wear the gowns, but they
! have not the air distingue" that with a
| FrenchWoman is generally so pronounced.
! A well known Partisan dressmaker is keen
! ly alive to this disadvantage TO his crea-
tons, and Frequently complains of It.
Let me show you some gowns I am
sending to London for the season" he said
recently 10 a customer You will doubtless
see them later on. But. gracious! How
viii they look when they are once on the
backs of their ownersr'
This was not very complimentary. but
| one can pardon the irritation of the artist
under such Circumst ances.
American women in the great world are
certainly not unbecoming to new fash
ions as their English prototypes. but even
| they do not altogether wear novelty with
the style of a Frenchwoman. In spite
however, of the fact that the elite are
backward in this respect, there are women
in New York who wear their clothes with
!
one knows. To see them you will have TO
20 to the best known and most expensive
shops, TO the matinees. and to the most
popular restaurants. Just now these ex-
ponents Of fashion might be called "the
women with the new figure" Later on,
when they have become used to the new
styles, milady and her daughters viii have
the new figure but just now it is too ad-
vanced and TOO conspicuous.
These women with the new figure are as
YET so few and far between that they are
easily distinguished from the other well
dressed wcmen.
What the iuexplicable something is that
distinguishes the woman with the new
figure is hard to define. but she certainly
can be picked out from crowd at a
glance
"There are just two things that make
her" exclaimed young woman who had
been trying TO analyze her style; 1T is the
way she holds herself and the stays she
wears"
"she"-From the London Globe
Inspired by Miss Octavia Bates. B. A..
Ii. b, and DR.. Mile. Marie Popelin at the
WOmens Council
O woman once content to be
pleasant pourer-Out of tea,
To sit and sew an cook and see
That children learnt their A B c.
Who knew what foods with men agree
And studied nome economy.
And always vast content that we
Were masters of the family.
Now. O what change has come to thee,
Since thou hast taken the degree
AS bold B. A. and IL b!
Thou hop'st to pouch the lawyers fee,
To don the silks of the Q. c.
To doctor thy divinity
Who sits at home and mourns that he
Hath lost his dear 'unlettered" She
plainly dressed, ordinary looking wo-
man left a street car the other day at the
same time that a younger woman did so.
The older woman, says the New York
Times. had an anxious, rather worried
look on her face, and 1t was apparent
that either she was at the wrong place
or that she was not sure in what direction
to turn to reach her destination. There
was something certainly that for the time
being troubled her
"Will you tell me-" she said, approach
ing the younger woman, who, compre
bending what was wanted, was just ready
to give her the desired Information. will
you tell me" she repeated, the anxious
look still upon her face, ''if my bonnet is
on straight?'
The young woman a little surprised |
.sWeH." she said, the troubled express
sion vanishing Il have been sitting so
long in that windy car that I was almost
sure that it wasn't.
4 surprise awaited a minister VINO made |
his appearance-perhaps a first one-in |
New York the other day, says the New |
York Times He lad evidently come in |
by train for he had boarded the Madison |
avenue car at Forty-second street. There |
were two women sitting at the end of the |
seat where he decided to find a place, |
and he thought, as undoubtedly many peo- |
pie have thought before, that if the two |
women would move along it would be |
much easier for him to get In than if he |
crowded past them. So, standing on the |
step of the car, with a little bend of the |
head and wave Of the hand, he indicated |
to the woman who occupied the extreme |
end of the seat that Il would please him
If she should move.
what a strange man." thought the |
woman to herself 1T is very evident
that he does not understand New York
street car etiquette.
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