The morning news., 1899-12-31

aShlonaDle oVerSkirtS edged with fringe
are excs edingly graceful. If it has become
discolored by being put away, have IL
dyed, when it will look like new.
My Lady
My lady leaned from her cushioned seat,
And her eyes looked into mine.
Their depths were warm and their shall
lows sweet.
And thought her breath was wine.
The ruddy freight tinged her skin,
And DER her hair played out and in.
She smiled, and her smile was pieasanter
Than wind on little hill,
Where the wide steppe knows no friendly
FIR
And the sun has all his will.
Beneath her pale skirt hem, down hung,
Her slipper peeped like a FURNISHED
tongue.
She laughed as she sat, and her fingers
drew
My fingers to her cheek.
Oh, it was the call of the land, knew.
When the late ebb tide is weak
When the great deep turns and The moon $
desire
Blooms cut in trembling rose of fire!
Post Wheeler in New York Press
Mrs. Maxine Elliott Goodwin, says the
Saturday Evening Post. preserves In an
expensive frame, under a glass cover,
telegram from Mr.. Goodwin which cost
the actor many thousands of dollars, ana
incidentally LED to his marriage and his
subsequent settling down. IL was sent
just before Mr. Go0dwin's latest lip to
Australia, on which trip he became en-
gagged, matrimonially, to his wife. Mr..
Goodwin needed leading woman to ac-
company him to the antipodes and his
manager went to Miss Elliott, who hal
just left Daly's company ard prevailed
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decision was telegraphed at once 10
Goodwin, who answered with this query
IAN right; but isn't she too tall?"
When Miss Elliott saw this reply she
declined the offer with equal promptns S.
and Immediately left for San Francisco to
take the leading place in stock company
| But Mr. Goodwin, with the p.overbial
| changeability of genius, regretted his
query almost as soon as he had made it,
| and he followed Miss Elliott to San Fran
| cisco the next week. There he saw her
| play, and with impetuous eloquence he
| persuaded her to go with his company,
But is cost him 81, 500 10 the San Francisco
| manager, the privilege of producing Mr.
| Goodwin's plays on the coast at reduced
royalty. double the salary he had first
! promised Miss Elliott and a place in his
company for Miss Elliott's sister.
Miss Ethel Maud Soper, a student at the
/
/ lived there a long time She is the
daughter of Rev. julius Soper of the
| Methodist Church, says the Baltimore
! News, who has been a missionary in ia
pan. Miss Soper spoke as follows of the
| difference between a Japanses girl and an
1 American girl:
ITO begin with the babiess They are as
much petted and indulged as the most
spoiled darling in the United States. Ev-
! erything is done to make childhood a
happy time. Toys are lavished on them.
Scolding is almost unheard Of The pride
| of every woman is her children, and as a
! result the children rule the house. l once
knew of a case where there was a great
commotion during the night, and next
morning it was learned that the little
! girl of the household had walked up and
at oclock and had cried to be taken
for boat ride. Her wish was gratlfied.
Next to the babies, the old women
have the greatest number of privileges.
! Some one has said, The grandmother
rules the empire 1t is when she is a
grandmother that a woman gets honor in
! the household Age, of course, is greatly
/ reverenced. The first remark made after
the introduction is And what might be
your honorable age? And you may be
/ sure that if the answer be a japanese
she will give her full age-and even be
/ tempted TO add year or two. This is the
/ indispensable question in polite society,
There is even a special custom which
only women of over so may wear The
long, dull-cOlored garment can not be al
tered but the lining of the sleeves and
I neck piece are made of the most brilliant
scarlet. The sandals are laced with scar
let thongs. and a close scuh cap of the
same color completes the dress.
1.-The dress of a Japanese girl is made
of straight pieces sewed together. Japan
ese sewing is very different from ours
nh 1
folds, the fashions never change, and 6
girl may wear her mothers or grandmoth.
ers frock without a thought of fit oi
fashion. There are, however, prescribed
dresses for different classes of society. A
Japanese can tell at a glance but a Eu.
ropean will get hopelessly bewildered al
the class distinction indicated by a tiny
thread of color in the sleeves, a slight va.
ration in the way of wearing the hair.
THE upper class Japanese girl usually
has the loose upper garment of some dull
color lined with brighter tint. Our fash
ion of putting bright silk Innings in ouI
coats came from Japan. A ball dress
might be of a dove-cclored crepe, with a
pink lining, the skirt showing beneath this
might be hand-painted most elaborately
The neck piece showing above the loose
outer garment is often Of variegated silks
beautifully ornamented.
But the most interesting article of a
Japanese girl TOILET 10 herself Is neT DetI
First a width of crepe is wound arouni
the waist to hold the dress in right posi-
ton. over this comes the belt proper II
is often at least sixteen inches wide mad
of any substance, but always lined will
some heavy material like canton flannel
Some of these brocade belts with laces
which come from the shoulders TO the feet
cost as much as $500 or $500. II takes 2
good deal of skill to get the belts on jus
right, and a large part of a Japanes
girls education consists in learning exact
ly how to do it.
'I taught princess once who was very
close up to the throne. She would com
to my house with several attendants and
in the most costly robes, but if the wealth
er was warm she would be barefooted.
1.-THE hair is dressed very elaborately
and always by a hair-dresser. The fash
ion of putting the hair over cushions OF
rats as schoolgirls call them, is a Jap
anese importation. The past fashion. too
of wearing bangs comes from another
Japanese way Of wearing the hair. They
fix their hair once. or at mcst twice, a
week, and it stays fixed TIL the hair-dress-