The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-06
SOCIETY MEN AND FLOWERS.
CORRECT COAT BLOSSOMS FOR
WEAR MORNING. NOON, NIGHT.

| with Cigarettes One of the MOdish
| and Acceptable Gifts Presented to
Girls NOwadays-The Rage for
! Exchanging Neckties and Eli
quette Governing This Passing
FashiOn-The Whip Cane Now Car
ried by All WeII-Dressed Men Is "a
Direct Importation From France,
and the Heavy English stick Is
| Utterly Out of Date-The Well
GIOved Man and What He Wears
for Various Toilets.
New York Aug. 4.-The relation of men
and flowers is very close in our modern
! society, and by the posey in the button
! hole you can tell the fashionable fellow
as far as YOU can see him or catch
Whit OF the blossoms perfume In July
and August the warmly fragrant, purely
| white sweet pea is the choice of the gilded
bachelor and benedict. A goodly cluster
of these and white as they can be pro-
cured is what the mode for man deems
proper for afternoon and evening wear.
| In the morning cornfowers are essentially
| smart, no matter whether their blossoms
are blue as indigo or pale as a northern
sky. Occasionally the cornhower Is va
ried, OF, in its lack, is replaced by a tuft
of small pink roses, but if you would be
| esteemed a man of fashion, don't leave
your bouquet buttonhole empty or allow
the flowers in it to grow faint or with
| cred
1t is a part of every mans education
| these days 10 know what flowers or COM
| binations of them are in high esteem with
| womankind. If you know your business
| as a dancing. dining man, willing TO be
| entertained at fine houses, you will send
| your hostess or her daughter cut bios
SONS in box
Keep true all the year round to the box
| of flowers, and just now, if there Is any
woman in whose good graces you wish
| to establish yourself on very firm foun-
| dalton, send her a box of odorous white
| sweet peas with cluster of pale lavender
| orchids in the center of the snowy bed
| Three orchids are enough, and their short
stems must be tied with lavender-ti tinted
| ribbon.
| If you grow roses yourself and wish to
| contribute some of your choice blossoms
| to the happiness of a fair neighbor in the
country, have the flowers cut early in the
morning, lay them cool with dew in a fiat
| basket or on a silver tray, spread waxed
| paper over the whole, and let your servant
present the treasures at her door and wait
for the return of the tray or basket
Make an effort to remember that a box
of cut flowers is not now the proper thing
| to send to a funeral. A wreath of white
| flowers, with ferns, a sickle of white peas
| with a tuft of French heiotrope on the
| handle, a crown of small white roses are
among the choicest pieces the florist can
make up and green, white and lavender
| are the tones always wrought into the
most tasteful funeral pieces.
Gift TO Give Woman.
Flowers will always undoubtedly remain
| the approved gifts for a man to send a
woman, though there is in politely exclu-
| sive society schedule of possible offerings
| a masculine admirer can always venture
| in safety to make az his fair ones shrine.
| Books and bon-bons have been invaria-
| bly, first on the list, but now cigarettes
| are openly admitted, and a thoughtful
man who sends them offers never less
| than 100 of the little Princess of Wales
| favorites, done up in a box of metal heav-
| lily overlaid with French gilt and prettily
| painted TO represent enameling. A hun
| dred cigarettes in such enclosure means
| an outlay of not less than Sl5, for the to-
| bacco-flled cylinders of paper alone with
their cork mouthpieces, cost SO to So.
man admittedly in a wOman's good
| graces can confidently venture the gift fur
| thermore of a cigarette case. Between
men and women all summer there has been
| a curious interchange of neckties, and the
man whose butterfly bow, or four-in-hand.
or soft scarf is admired even casually by
| a feminine friend feels curiously in dury
bound to whip it off and send il to her the
| following day On the other hand. if a
man admires a woman's stock or bingham
! scarf she runs at once up to town and tries
| to match the admired trifle in a mans
| size and sends it to the lucky dog with her
| compliments
The Flexible Cane.
| Some years ago the dude with a bludgeon
was the popular comic representation of
| the man OF fashion, and his walking stick
| Since then the stick has been slowly dwind-
ling in girth, until this summer the smart
| man carries the highest and most flexible
cane his money can buy. Many of the
canes carried are no greater in girth than
| wom6n's index finger. but for exceeding
| iexibility they are chiefly priced. The comic
papers should no longer represent the dude
| trying to get the huge knob of mighty
| staff in his mouth, but his heroic efforts to
tie a slender rod in bow knots about his
waist. Little mere than heavy switches
are most of :he canes, and their surfaces
are as highly vanished as possible, while
| heavy buckhOrn handles supply the proper
| grip at the tor.
The rise of the whip-lke walking stick
dates from France, where the bicycling
men carried slender hook handled canes
for opening gales, removing impedimenta
! before the wheel and for steadying them
selves when they might wish to stop with
out necessarily dismounung.
The WeII-GIoved Man.
The hand that holds the fashionable cane
| is gloved. Men have in no summer season
worn their hands so carefully covered as
| now. They quite put the horuy-palmed
brown-hngered women to the blush. At
ANHH MHHuHM IN mwuu