The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07

I'm never be economical again." said
the girl in the new gray gown. as she sat
down hard and emphatlcally on a chair
to the society editor of the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
i've been out buying a spring hat. and
I'm financial wreck. all through trying
TO be economical. / had some beautiful
ostrich tips on my winter hat, so / thought
l would just use them to trim a spring hat
and it would cost me scarcely a third of
what l usually pay. | felt so thrifty and
virtuous as ! Planned II. | went to a swell
millinery shop, and the sort of a hat
wanted had to he made for me
" That will be S. said the saleswoman.
" Very we'll, l replied; for l thought of
my TIPS and felt that very economy war
ranted a liitle extravaganza in the matter
of the making.
some of this exquisite lace would be
just the thing for it, said the shopwoman
suavely. It is only SO a yard and is so
rich 1t gives such a finish. Have a loop
or two Of it and a twist. yard and a
hnlf will do
" Ar right I said. with a bit of a pang;
but falling back on the Ups for comfort
You really need llttle black velvet
to PUT in with II for the contrast Cream
and black are so elegant together
is il eXpenslve2
No. indeed! The little you need win
nor cost more than $l.75-ail silk, you
know.
"'T-I-Tm afraid l can't afford It.,
oh, yes. you can; YOU are furnishing
The tips yourself. and that will make the
hat cost much less than 1t would other
wise"
Satan pur it into her head TO say that,
livery well; put in the velvet: but
that's all
Really, my dear just a little bunch of
those crushed roses to rest on the hair Will
make it 100 Frenchy for anything. IL is
too bad to spoil a handsome hat for the
sake Of $l5O-a mere trifle. II will be sim
ply stunning on you Your tins are so
handsome You can wear them this sum
mer and use them again next winter
Trim il 10 suit yourself l cried in des-
peration, its 1913 now, and II stay here
five minutes more il win be 500. Whatever
you do get It home to me by Wednesday,
and then / simply ran out"
1T is hard to bring the average Eng
lisbnan to a realization OF the fact that
our homes are quite up 20 The British
standard" said a society woman to the
New York Tribune the other day and
that a well kept New York establishment
is the equa. in every respect to similar
dwelling in London. The frank criticism
of Americans Dy EnSuSnIHeH is given
without reserve and without the 81 ghtest
idea that to US It seems somewhat brutal.
A friend of mine who has recently re-
turned from London tells the following
story;
al have never been in America said
a typical Briton, who had taken a New
York woman down to dinner at the Lon
don embassy, but l am told your houses
in Fifth avenue are immense.
Some are large, was the answer.
-" But il is queer, he continued, how
you can run such establishments with
only few mnids.'
- But we do not, she answered much
amused. An American house of this size
for instance, would have the same quota
of servants.
but not a butler, with footmen,' he
insisted. You have women with caps
to wait on the table
" But only where people live in small
way she tried 90 explain. What you call
an immense house has lot of footmen
and is altogether as well set up In every
respect as any house over here.
" Perhaps a few who have travelled and
who know how things should be, have
them right he said, but it Is not usual
Another thing he continued, Is that
New York people spend twice as much
as we do for traps-you call them car
riages-and yet these turnouts are not
smart