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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05
'WOWAN'S PAGE

a hairs breadth difference between the
two sides.
The foreman's eyes widened with aston
ishment as he ventured:
''Well, il did happen to strike just right
that ime, didn't it?"
Another and another went through until
the whole edition was printed without
blemish or variation, and Mrs. Van Vech-
tens reputation was forever established as
practical workman.
Only limited edition-from SO TO 3O0-are
issued from the Philosophers Press, and
Mrs. Van Vechten puts through each page
herself, carefully examining it as it comes
out to note the perfection of the type, the
spread of the ink, etc After which, en-
tirely unaided, she puts the book togeth-
er, and prepares it for the binder. She
also prints entire the monthly issue of the
Philosopher.
Mrs. Van Vechten has taken up this
work from pure love of good workmanship
and occasionally takes advantage of her
equipment to bestow upon friends gifts
of rare value, as when, for example, she
got out an exquisite edition of Sponsors
Epithalamium on Japanese yellum-lim-
tied TO five copies-for wedding gifts.
Brownng's Andrea Del Sarto, and Keats
Odes. for private distribution were also su-
perb works of art.
Notwithstanding her delightful home
Mrs. Van Vechten is rather given to re-
ceiving her intimate friends in her print
ing office, where, although nothing has
been done to modify its distinctive bust
ness character it is not without atmos-
phere-that atmosphere which a collection
of the best thoughts of the best minds
never fails to impart and here one has
but to put out his hand to let it rest upon
some "rare and treasured volume"
1t is indeed worth a long journey to find
in the very midst of our pine forests this
spot consecrated to the noble art of book
making and to sit with the philosophers
until the hours grow small talking of
those master minds whom to serve in any
capacity is, to the reverent mind, a royal
privilege. Della T. Davis.
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are significant then white cotton gowns,
especially embroidered ones, are sure to
he a dominant feature next summer Few
Of such toilets. bear IL in mind, Will be
made Of plain white nainsook, muslin, or
piuue more or less conserVativeiy trim
med. The truly pretty and admirable
white dress will instead be a maze of en-
broidery and tucks. Some years ago a
costume of that { ype represented
enormous hand labor and a huge dress
makers bill.
This spring bolts of white stuff, manu-
featured in alternate strpings of embroid-
cry insertion, fittings of lace and clusters
Of the delicatest little tucks, will lie on
counters at price any purse will be able
to compass, and it will require no great
amount of skill 10 put such a gown in
wearing shape, since tucked and lace edg-
ed and gathered fills are also sold, ready
for application in the shops.
Spring Hats.
The first fashion swallow, so to speak
always appears as a harbinger of spring
in women's hats, in the attractive form OF
flowers Feathers at this moment are de-
cidedly twisted by long battle with mid
winter dust and gales, and women are
glad enough to prolong the useful beauty
of a felt or velvet toque by replacing be-
draggled plumes with knots of fresh posses
A stalk of flowers is the momentary
preference. 1t stands up as high as six
inches where the plumes lately waved
and its body is wire, wrapped with rib
bon. and onto this small roses, violets
primroses, pancies, etc, climb in close sci
company. quite like holy hooks round theiI
garden stakes. The wire frame work is
then SO fastened to the hat that at every
nod Of the wearer's head and every pass.
ing breeze the stalk sways this way and
shat. Another sprineish idea in millinery
is that of having ornamental hat pin heads
united by a pretty chain punctuated with
small jewels or tiny enameled flower faces
Mary Dean
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there was too much work for the limited
force of the office, and Mrs. Van Vechten,
who had nothing to do, offered to take care
of the correspondence. In this way she
gradually became au courant of the bust
ness, and proved that her judgment upon
all commercial points was clear, sound and
far-seeing. Her taste, too, upon margins,
arrangement, the use of color, etc, was
invariably found to be fine and discrimna-
ting and thus came to be the deciding
voice. In short, by the mere process of
evolution, Mrs. Van Vechten became the
firm; not only speaking the final word in
all matters involving business discretion
and artistic judgment, but doing large
part of the manual labor herself
A sangle example serves TO illustrate
how a woman's intuition is frequently more
than match for years of manly expe-
rience. 1t seems that deckle-edged hand
made paper-used i'm expensive editions-is,
for some good and sufficient reason, not
cut exactly on the square. This makes
IL exceedingly difficult to so arrange that
the printing on one side the page shall be
exactly opposite that on the other; mat
ter of little import to the ordinary reader,
but defect which connoisseur is quick
to discover by holding the page up to the
light, and is especially noticeable in the
case of decorated margins. The new firm
were not long in running up against this
very difficulty. Try as they would, each
page upon being held to the light, reveal
ed that on the other. Upon advising with
same of the best publishing houses in the
country the universal verdict was receiv-
ed that the matter Of uneven register was
a difficulty that had never been obviated;
that it was one of those minor defects,
due 10 conditions which simply had 20
be accepted. This, however, failed to
satisfy Mrs. Van Vechten. She contin-
ued TO think measure plan, evolve, and
finally one day said TO her foreman:
Henry. just remove that peg that holds
the paper in place to the right, and let me
feed from the left"
'Why, madam that can't be done" said
the printer of fifteen years experience.
'No professional printer was ever known
to feed from the left"
well, let us try it," urged Mrs. Van
Vechten.
Impossible" replied the foreman.
What did you say2' asked Mrs Van
Vechten with a strong suggestion of COM
mand in her tone and the unwilling fore
man transferred the peg.
From the left SIDE went through one
sheet, which when held up 10 the light re-
vealed perfect and uniform register, not
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M0ZLEY'S LEMON ELIXIR.

Prepared from the fresh juice of lemons,
combined with other vegetable liver tones,
cathartics, aromatic stimulants. Sold by
druggists SOC and $1.00 bottles
For biliousness and constipation.
For indigestion and foul stomach.
For sick and nervous headaches
For palpitation and heart failure take
Lemon Elixir
For sleeplessness and nervous prostra-
ton.
For loss of appetite and debility.
For fevers, malaria and chills take Lem
on Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough organic
regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
Lemon Elixir will not fail you in any OF
the above named diseases, all of which
arise from az torpid or diseased liver, stom-
ach or kidn4ys.
SOC and 81 bottles at all druggists.
Prepared only by DR.. H. Motley, Atlanta
Ga
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silk matches the color of the coats cloth,
and the select coatings for this year are
gray covering instead of brown, ink blue
and iron rust brown military melton and
later we are going to have silk and popiin
and wool grenadne coats made over coli
ored silk Innings.
Women VINO know how to buy at the
remnant counters have exCeled their
shrewd genius by purchasing reduced
lengths Of crushed velvet, velours antique,
embossed satin, etc, and making them up
into coats bodies with cutaway tails and
hung with huge lace jabots in front \
gorgeous looking body is ineXpensively
compiled by the sewing woman who comes
10 the house, ana all sorts of Old skirts,
silk, satin, or wool are Worn out in the
row waning season by the aid of this coat
device.
Tunic Draperies Supreme.
The one message, warning or advice on
the tongue of every dressmaker is the
overskirt. Not to wear an overskirt is TO
argue yourself a hopeless Philistine of
fashion The light weight, light toned
Henriettas, Amazon cloths, wool ormu-
res the lovely white drap du Sudan and
the countless cotton weaves, are being rap
hlv converted into costumes with Greek
peplums, round apron effects, or tunic
draperies. We may disaPprove on The
score of comfort, but we can't help rel
lSnlnS lnc novelty tndt mas peSl ~ SoiSlS
needed for some time in the lower half of
the modsh toilet.
After all, so excessively airy are the
spring goods, without exception, and so
skilfully has all superfiuous widths been
eliminated from our draperies that we
will not carry in the overskirts an inch
Of actual extra material.
The placket hole is still a mystery, and
only the maker of a skirt and its Wearer
know how 1t is got into No riding hab-
its were ever made to fit with more of
well-put on wallpaper effect than the
skirt of the moment, and it is neither I'M
truthful nor ill-natured to say that wo-
men who are broad in the beam, heavy in
hip and show great abdominal fullness
commit hari-kari so far as their own
grace and good looks go, by adopting
this excessively Partisan fashion.
The. fastest extremity to which this fash
ion has gone is that of lacing the skirt
up in front. The skirt is slit open about
ten or twelve inches down from the waist
line and this opening, when the garment is
in place, is closed by silk lacings that are
up to the waist and there form a bowl<not
with gilt-tipped ends.
Taking the signals of spring as they APP
pear day by day one finds the foulards in
evidence with very few changes, in their
spots and dots and stripings, over last
summer. Silkalisse is a charming novelty
goods, half cotton, half silk, very soft,
washable and in changeable blues, cerise,
yellows and star greens. Don't be in the
least afraid of Bayedere strips. They are
a fashionable force 10 reckon with still in
grenadines, wool goods, Examines and gtng
hams
White Cotton Dresses.
If elaborate preparations for heavy sale
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Lnziness and Success.

"Laziness," said Mr.. Chipperly. lis one
of our besettipg sins, and it is quite pos
sible that We may be very lazy even when
we are fully occupied. How many of us
pitch in for all we know how when we
work, and how many of us puttor around
the edges and pick out the easy things
and use up the time on them, ana nght
shy all the time of the tough proposition
that somebody's got to tackle? MATS the
question. There are more forms of lazi-
ness than one"
Not only is procrastination the thief OF
time" said Mr.. Graytop. 1T is the under
miner Of resolution. BY putting off We
not only lose time, but We get into a
spongy, no-account, irresulote state. which
may become a part of our habit IN lfe
With this way of doing things we NAV
scrape along from day to day. but nafs
all. To succeed we must get at it; and
as getting at Il is the opening wedge tc
success in life. so keeping al it Is the bee
lie that drives The wedge Rome
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Preserving Cut Flowers.

Ordinarily, cut flowers perish so rapidly
that during the cold weather they are out
of the reach of people with moderate
income.
The most delicate and fragile of bios
SONS, however, can be kept in good
healthy condition for month or six weeks
if systematic care and attention is given
10 them.
The first precaution must be taken when
the purchase is made. Satisfy yourself
that the flowers are very fresh. Remem-
her that there is a regular market price
for flowers, the same as for any other pro-
duct, and if your florist offers you roses
at 50 cents per dozen when the market
price is 81, you may depend upon it, they
have been cut for some days and will soon
fac There is no economy in buying
ches flowers. If they look limp, and
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them serve as perfect models for the
s'ay-at-homes.
All the youthful and slender women,
such as Mrs. Clarence Mackey, Mrs John
R. LivermoraA and Mus Almeric Paget
will wear in North Carolina, Florida and
Bermuda either very short or wonderfully
long jackets over their flannel and silk
shirt waists. The short coats are quite
bewitchng. for they are cut off exactly
at the waist line, but 90 not close in for
u tight at. Instead, they hang out rather
freely and are siOped open and gusseted
in three places on the bottom. In front
they close uB with al fly finish so high
that a necktie just peeps out at the top .
the sleeves are severe and narrow notch
ed collar faced with corded silk, folds
away about the neck.
With a soft slozy silk in dun pink, blue
green or red these coats are lined and
the one pocket i'm such garments is set
on the outside and rather high on the left
breast. Now, no woman with full hips and
bust should presume to assume one OF
these little garments, for manifestly the
jaunty cut OF it will only display her ro-
tund proportions to the most ludicrous dis
advantage
The plump, short rsSfson can in all safe
ty, though, claim as her own the coat
with the beetle tails; the coat that is a
swift cutaway over the hips and drops its
rear skirts TO the wearer's knee or even
60 her heels. There is only one great draw
! back TO this wrap; il does not lend itself
to successful make in the hands of any but
an expert tailor. Still, the beetle backs
are bound 10 have a season of great popu-
lar eXaltauon. though it requires no great
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-05

the leaves dry, scared and gray, they have
either been cut for some time or else they
have not been properly cared for and are
scarcely worth carrying home, as no
amount of nursing will preserve them for
any length of time.
The bright color the full, juicI stem,
vigorous leaves and firm bearing, all be-
speak nature in her prime.
A florist who knows his business will
pack cut flowers so that they will receive
no injury from the elements during trans
portation, but if one has to attend to this
ones self, it is well to know that paraffin
paper is the best protection in either win
ter or summer. Flowers wrapped in par
ATTN paper and covered over with two
sheets of brown wrapping paper are well
fortified against Jack Frost. It is well to
carry them in a box to prevent accidents
but if they have long stems and are to be
carried in the hand, the blossoms should
hang downwards.
Before placing them in vases cut from
the end of each stem one-sixteenth of an
inch with a sharp NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. nip
the pores together, and prevent them alb
sOrbing nourishment.
The vases should be carefully scalded
and then filed three-quarters fun of wa
ter, into which should he dropped five or
six drops of eulphate of ammonia This
can De obtained from any chemist and
five cents worth will outlast MANY
punches Of flowers. During the day the
vases containing flowers should be placed
in the light away from the heat ana gas
At night the stems should be sponged
off in clear cold water, so as to remove
any decayed matter which may have ac-
cumulated during the day, and all the
withered leaves and faded petals should
be removed with a sharp pair of scissors
Take care not TO get any water on the
flowers themselves, as IL will destroy their
bloom. During the night they should be
put into vase containing a solution of
soap and water and set in a cool place. In
the morning cut the end of the stems
again and leave in clear, cold water for
two hours before returning them to the
vases containing the sulphate of ammo
mia.
Niolets, roses and delicate ferns will last
best If they are laid each night on a piece
of damp flannel and covered over with a
large bowl.
Rosebuds will fatten into large, fun
blown roses If placed In the ice box for
twenty-four hours. White carnations can
be tinted 10 almost any shade by putting
dye in the water into which they are
placed J.. B.
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parties, filling up the floors at balls orna-
menting the fronts of the opera boxes and
quietly assuming the attentions of all the
amusing, good looking eligible men. Why.
Mrs. Clews, Mrs. Sloane, Mrs. Burden
Mrs. de Forrest, Mrs. Fish, Mrs. Whitney
and scores of other matrons who are still
beautiful, still engaging but none the less
are they at that time of life when the
mother, fifty years ago. wore a cap, car
ried her knitting and watched with pride
her young daughters having their limo
cent fling.
Daughters, indeed, most of these we'll
preserved ladies have, but, bless you, they
don't get a showing beside this mother
trust. The modern New York girl STAYS
in the nursery till she is turned IS. and
when she does come out her mother so
thoroughly overshadows and heavily cha
perons her that she has not the smallest
chance at the harmless frivolity, freedom
and hlrtations that used to make the
American girls life an enViable thing
If you want to see this seasons crop
of debutantes, you will find them holding
up the wall at dances, while thew watch
their fSht-footed mothers leading ger
mans. You will see the poor little thing
an plain white frock sitting meeklv in
the back OF mama's box, and talking be-
tween the opera acts to some good. deaf
old gentleman. She humbly pours tea on
mama's day at home, and keeps elderly
lady callers In good humor, and nobody
asks girls anyway, to dinners any longer.
Why should one, for the New York de-
butante has either gone in for dead lam
guages and literature, like pretty Miss FL
sic Clews, or athletics and charity, az
Miss Hoyt and Miss Golet; else she is too
shy to make conversation, and, therefore,
is not invited. The child is shy or solemn
and pedagogic because under the mother
trust she has had no chance to blossom
OFT.
Of course this condition of things will
eventually bring about a revolt of the
daughters but the mothers meanwhile are
making heaps of hay while the SUNSHINE
and their latest maneuver has been tc
shut down entirely on the title mother.
The complaint Is that mama or mother is
very ageing term, to be constantly ring
ing In ones ears, and girls are taught to
use the gay and more familiar French and
English diminutives for mother-mimsy,
mimi, chere, mignonne and bien-ame-are
all popular substitutes for the beautiful
word, mother, and, aside from the tragedy
of 1t, there is an infinitely comic side in
hearing pretty girl quite affectionately
address a portly dowager, who would tip
the scales at 1856, as mopsie, ma petite, or
douXdonce. Emily Holt
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PIP. p, wonderful medicine; it gives
an appetite; it invigorates and strength
ems. P. p. p. cures rheumatism and vi
nains in the side, back and shoulders
iynees hips, wrists and joints. P. p. P.
cures syphilis in all its various stages
ga ulcers, sores and kidney complaints.
p p. p. cures catarrah, eczema, eryspe-
las all skin diseases and mercurial poison
ing. p. p. p. cures dyspepsia, chronic
female complaints and broken down con-
stitution and loss of manhood. p. 2. r.
the best blood purifier of the age, mas
made more permanent cures than all otnef
blood remedies. Lippman Bros, sole pro
prietors, Savannah. Ga.-ad
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man bookmaker in this or any other coun-
try sOf women writers there are many,
of women bookbinders not a few, while
hero and there women decorators are be
ginning to dot the literary horizon; but it
remained for Mrs. Van Vechten TO fall in
love with the art of printing. and one has
but 10 look through some of her limited
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STOUT WOMEN WEAR BEETLE.
PRETTY BOR-TAILED, GUssETTED
JACKETS FOR SLENDER GIRLS.

STYLES set by Mrs. Clarence Mackey,
Mrs. AImeric PnEct and other
Southern TOurists-The Spring
Garment Approved of for Older
Women Cuts swiftly Away Over
the Hips rnd Drops Its Rear Skirts
10 the Wearer's Knees or Heels in
the Rear-BeetIe Backs Are Bound
10 Have a season of Great POpu-
Iarity.
New York. Feb. 3.-The tailors have
their. needles threaded and their shears
sharpened for the cuttng and basting of
pring Goats. The women whose clothes
are guides and beacon lights to their sis
ters, are setting out for the South just
row, and the light coats they take with
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editions" TO realize the far cry between
books man con amore, and books made to
sell.
Merely as an incidental, Mrs. Van
Vechten's husband became a partner of
William II. Ellis, who had just begun to
issue the Philosopher, and who had I'M
der consideration various plans for pub
fishing books. 1t soon became evident that
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At the Capitol.

have just taken the last of two bottles
of DR. Monkeys Lemon Elixir for nervous
headache, indigestion, with diseased i've,
and kidneys. The elixir cured me. foVnd
Il the greatest medicine ever used
j. Fl. Mennich Attorney
1925 F. Street, Washington, D. C.
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MozLEY,s LEMON HOT DROPS.

cures all Coughs, Colds. Hoarseness Sore
Throat. Bronchitis, Hemorrhage and al
throat and lung diseases. Elegant, reha-
BILE. -
Csc at druggist. Prepared only by Dr. H.
Motley, Atlanta, Ga.
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MozIey's Lemon Elixir.

W. A. James, Bell Station, Ala, writes
/ have suffered greatly from indigestion OF
dyspepsia. One bottle of Lemon Elk.
done me more good than all the medicine
l have ever taken.
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A PINE WOODS PUBLISHER.
Only Limited Editions Are Issued
From Her Press.

Milwaukee, Feb. 2.-The pine woods of
Northern Wisconsin is about the last place
In the world that one would look to FOR
the production of exquisite handmade
books; and that such should be the work
Of a woman from start to finish. does not
lessen the anomaly. Indeed, Mrs
Helen Bruneau Van Vechten of wausau
Wis, is, in all probability, the only wo-
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acumen to decide that one season will
round ont their existence. The style of
garment ike the prevailing cut of skirts
is too exaggerated 80 mold feminine favor
over long.
Cheap and Effective Wraps.
Dandyish short wraps are piped with silk
instead OF strapped in their seams. The
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ed me terribly. could not sleep for
the pain. Plasters would help for
while, but as soon as taken off, the pain
would be just as bad as ever. Doctors
prescribed medicine, but it gave me no
relief.
Now 1 feel so well and strong,
have no more headaches, and no
pain in side, and it is all owing to
your Compound. cannot praise it
enough. 1t is wonderful medicine.
1 recommend it to every woman
know
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TO MRS. PINKHAM
From Mrs. Walter E. Budd, of Pat
chogue, New York.

Mrs. BUDD, in the following Letter
tells familiar story of weakness and
suffering, and thanks Mrs. Pinkbam
for complete relief:
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I thinIr :.
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If elaborate preparations for heavy sale