The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-01-04
AMMAN SKIN KNICKKNACKS.
cpFwSOME FAD OF SAN FRAN
CISCO SOCIETY WOMEN.

p,+ Made for a Bride From a WO-
mans Back. Tan COlOred Leather
Made From the covering of CadaY.
ors Into Purses, Card Cases and
other Articles for Fair Feminity,
strange InfatuatiOn for Relies That
suggest the Dissecting Table.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.-It was, as ev-
evbody who was there remarked, very
swell Wedding, but the bride looked best
in her travelling dress. Her rough, red
English serge was cut zauye, open over
linen shirt, and this was tightly belted
with narrow leather belt. Her little
travelling purse dangling from this belt
was made of the same leather. So was
the dress suit case she carried in her
hand
As the bride came down stairs the
maid of honor whispered:
"How do you like it?"
"Very smart" l said, wondering what
the mystery was about.
"TDe belt, you know, and all that, 1
mean"
"Ob, as leather belts go, very much.
Don't yCu?"
The maid of honor shuddered.
That's the awful part of it," she
said. tits lovely for belts. She showed
ito you before it was made up, didn't
she?
"NO," l said, "she didn't"
"0b, well, she was going to. You
know she had the case all fitted up with
\ it inside, too; straps, you know, and
flaps, and things. saw her packing it,
and it gave me creeps Think of strapp-
Ing down your clothes With a piece of
gOmebOdyS skin"
Hasn't she any feeling about it?" l
asked
T0b, you know herr said the maid of
honor, laughing. shed wear anything
HhNsSSwell, and of course it is the
Felest thing. I'm dying to have my
piece made up, but'-and she closed
beT eyes atfectedly.
"have you got a large pieceP'
sked,
"A whole back" said the maid of
OnoT, opening her eyes again. sit was
Woman'S, and l think it's even
mother than"--and she looked at
Pc brides dress suit case critically.
les, It's smoother and it's a better
OlOr' darker tan. Maybe" she added,
Nghug, maybe she was a brunette. "
controlled desire to shut my own
Ees and faint. Ihad to pinch myself t.
FOld this casualty.
iHe maid OF honor went on to say that
was harder to get women's skin than
en'S.
al LeaSt suppose it ISL she added,
'''"uSe mine is the only piece l ever
A8' don't know why it should be,
'Der, Just as many women die as
nsn don't tbey2"
uon' KNOW l said, family.
Ana 1t must be just as easy to skin
A'n-ugh'" and she buried her little
OSo IN her bridesmaids roses and
H''0u up over them. "Irs a sort of
a0ad9ry fad, isn't it?"
1u0 bride was in her mothers arms.
W. mother kissed and cried over her
Ivy, her mothers hand-white,
ueI'cate' sensitive, tapering-rest-
\. VI 'ne tan belt. l wondered If the
W. was made of woman's skin. And
~ ~ = wondered if the woman had been
Pn belt. "0"o I"
,u'O wondered what would be the
Nv. VI all these fine fashionable folk.
I'd , ,. and we'll mannered, gath.
No 70 KISS and wish the giM bride hap.
bon,a W nei Wedding day, if some one
Bsd a,u - snfiek out suddenly, "Her belt is
r me- Of dead mans skinn'
No., I'u l wondered if everybody was
NJ 'A'ept myself, and l remembered
j, Vac the first sign of insanity. and
s,ad 'u Ut go mad on the spot |, too,
Ind ~ ~, 'nS bride, but with my hands be.
inv NC aud got away out into the sun
i, p p"'e'' To leaye my horrors behind
atb. pd h., every other girl [ met wore a
or W., Oel'' and Providence alone kn,ws
aDsd @uy persons were skinned and
'u 10 make them.
\, 'solS slept with me through the