The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-27

and medicine.
pie and lightly banded with black along
| the edge Women in society do not write
| long letters, but they make up in guam
| utY for quality. Between good friends
notes are exchanged at least once a day.
| Women of Mrs Phelps Stokes and Mrs.
| william Sloan's position receive as many
| as twenty letters every morning; very,
very few of them are over page in
| length, and one private secretary to n
| fashionable woman says that her en-
! ployers stamping expenses average dol
| lar and half day the year around.
| WIN you walk with me tomorrow If il
| rains?' That is what the smart girls at
| the summer resorts ask each other this
| season when they meet at the casinos and
| on the golf links. 1t sounds quite mex
| picable. but II is nothing more than a re-
| alzation of the ancient superstition In
| advocacy of the excellence Of rain water.
| Even Cleopatra knew that water fresh
| from the skies possessed mysterious Vir-
| tues, but the modern girl believes she can
| prove that round rosy cheeks and conn
| tenance without a wrinkle will unto the
| fifth and sixth decade of her age be the
| property of whoever takes her face bath
| direct from the clouds.
| In consequence of this faith every smart
| resort and country house colony turns out
| a troupe OF young women every rainy day.
i over in fashionable Bernardsvile, up
| along the Hudson at Rhneback and in the
| Narragansette cottage settlement the
| rainy season can be seen when the down.
pour comes troupng over hills and fields
| with countenances held conscientiously
| skywards The rule is that you must take
| the cold shower directly on your face and
| let the moisture dry off, as 1t does from
| the flower petals, partly by absorption and
| partly by evaporation, and if you have
either a dry or greasy skin there is no
tl7iT IL, lvy~,r
| the surface as this Maybe it does and
| maybe it doesn't, but the point beyond dis
pute or contradiction Is that the rain walk
ers derive infinite pleasure and satisfaction
and solid physical benefit from the quaint
| exercise.
The cool moist air is all for their good
and under their gossamer coats they wear
short-skirted flannel suits, such as are
| used in sea bathing, with these golf shoes
and wooden hose and all protection is Civ
en- their heads by means of oiled silk
caps upon which gay silk handkerchiefs
| are tied. The heavier the downDour Is the
| better they all like 1t and with wet rosy
| faces they tramp to some point of interest,
| enjoy light rejection, tramp home again
| take maps and appear in especially fine
condition of health and spirits as a re-
suit, they say of washing their faces as
| the flowers do.
Find the Daughter.
Whether it is the result of the fashiona-
BILE love of outdoor sports or not certain
II is that our social leaders in New York
city have seemingly discovered the secret
of perpetual youth A critical English
man. who has been making a tour of the
| states, has actually listed a number of the
women who, as he expresses It, aptly look
| quite as If they might be the elder sisters
of their grandchildren, and who, unlike
| the European women, resort to no artful
aids for the preservation or stimulation of
their exquisite freshness.
on his list Of girlish matrons Mrs VIII
lam Sloan stands a the headN Though
she has had the life of an average busy,
conscientious wife, mother, capable house
keeper and ardent lover of social pleas
ures; though she has married off two tan
daughters, she retains the appearance OF
woman well under thirty Her richly
abundant red gold hair shines with all the
glory of great youthfulness and with
elm, erect figure and a complexion as
smoothly pink as that of a Dresden china
shepherdeSs il Is quite impossible 10 realize
that she is in middle life.
Perhaps her nearest rivals in retention
of youthfulness are Mrs. Belle Wilson and
Mrs. Fred Grant. When Mrs. Wilson stands
beside her daughter, Mrs. George Remp
there il not a line, a hair, tint of skin
or curve of figure to indicate that there
is nearly twenty-five years difference I'm
their ages. Almost as striking a likeness
exists between the future Princess Gotta
cuzene and her mother In point of true
| beauty, Mrs Grant is the fairer woman Of
| the two, and stranger at Newport was
not even laughed at when seeing the moth
er and daughter together he asked which
was the betrothed of the Russian Prince
Mrs. Henry Clews and Mrs Van Rens-
selear Cruger both came In for first places
and exclamation points in the amazed En-
glishmau's list. Mrs. CleWs is the mother
OF daughter who has been four years in
society, and women who were Mrs. Cru
| gers contemporaries as debutants are the
proud grandparents of 10-year-old boys
and girls. For all that Mrs Cruser shows
a complexion that an 1S-year-Old girl might
envy and pair of shoulders a Greek We
nus would regard with approval. Though
| a younger woman, Mrs Clews is likely to
retain her fine colring, her beautiful brown
hair and her svet figure as long as Mrs
Cruger has. quite as remarkable as either
Of these ladies are Mrs. Henry Poor. Mrs,
John Wlmerding and Mrs StuyVes ant
Fish. The last mentioned lady is bringing
into society a young daughter this season
and AT first the Engiishman haty refused
10 believe that grown-up daughter couIl
call the slight Vivacious little lady mother
and when he asked for an explanation OF
cheese remarkably preserved beauties his
informant made clear TO him that bv cx-
Quisite care temperance and good sense
our women have learned 20 keep their love-
illness long after mere youth has some
OF an the women mentioned NOT ono
but takes care never 20 len her appetite
get the better OF her, 20 invariably
catch nine hours sleep out Of the twenty
four 10 spend three hours daily 81 tho
/ open ole and 10 rely on massage. cold wa
/ Ger baths and physical exercise Zoe the
rOst Mrs Crueor. for example dd NOT
in ten years Dee 80 much as a morsel of
| cake. ore bonhou. or spoonful Of sweet
dessert pass her lips Rain or shine.
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