The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05

lecture you simply are not allowed In the
rooms The lecturer is a man or wo-
man, as the case and subject may de-
mand. For the Dreyfus affair we'll
known legal light was persuaded to tell
the whole story of the great French army
scandal, a soldier and a war correspondent
was selected 10 explain the causes and
progress of the war with Spain, and an
able politician expounded the advantages
and drawbacks of Imperialism for the
United States.
At the end of every lecture a vote is ia
ken to test the effect of the argument set
forth, but Mrs. Vanderbilt's scheme has
not proven a bit more successful than that
of Mrs. Oerichs, who with 20 congenial
souls, drinks weekly drafts of knowledge
at the fount of science. One week all the
ambitious ladies turned up in Tesla's lab
oratory and saw stunning experiments
with electricity. Another week they trav-
eled to the studio of an up town scientist
and saw air compressed until 1t dripped
like liquid, and for all of the remaining
weeks in Lent excursions are arranged to
conclude with a talk-it-all-over luncheon
at smart restaurant.
The Great Mid-Lent Sale.
The mid-Lent fairs have wrung the
pockets of the generous quite dry, since
for once the lady patronnesses, including
MIS- ASiOI, MIS- 1dTSOnS, MIS-. Mills ana
a score of others, thought out a scheme
for bazaar that showed quite superior
| business talent. The great mid-Lent sale
held in the ground floor of a famous Fifth
| avenue caravansary, was no common or
garden affair, so to speak, with foolish
useless trihes cluttering the tables.
The visiting women might easily have
imagined themselves in a Partisan street
| with gay irresistible little shops on either
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| exquisite models in French hats displayed
but corps of expert trimmers, under a
well-known milliner. would copy any one
OF The models while you waited. At another
| booth skilled dngers wove ribbons, spang-
| les, tulle etc. into the most fetching top
nots for the head. At another counter
| neckwear. stocks and novelties In collars
were twisted into shape, and sewed or
| pinned right on to the customers gown
| If she wished. There was a hairdressinr
| booth, where you could go right in and
have trained hands crimp and comb your
| locks after the last mode, and in a charm
ing little motor basket pheaton a man
would, for a dime give you a ride on a
cleared circle round the hall, and for
another fee teach you how to work the
levers yourself.
Quite the most profitable booth in the
place, however, was a shoe parIor. pre-
'thNN CNtA ny a Hdil uOLtn OF the most
fashionable young men in society Every
stately salesman was provided with a
gorgeous spangled white satin slipper and
every woman who entered and asked for
shoes was obliged TO Aay a fee and sub
init to taking off her right shoe and at
tempting to put her stockinged foot into
the slipper the salesman carried. II in the
opinion of all the other statesmen the slim
per was an exact fit then she received
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pair of the smartest new black satin
dancing shoes, tied together with broad
blue ribbons. If her foot proved too big.
or too broad or too narrow to fit exactly.
then she was obliged to put a forfeit i'm
the head salesmans bank. In spite of the
well-known delicacy of the American wo-
mans foot, II was at this booth that the
greatest amount of merriment and money
was earned, and the men proved admira-
bly, conscientious sticklers for enforcine
the rules of their shoe shop.
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