The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-19

cannot be condemned as an extravaganza.
but often gladly hailed as a means Of
circulating hard cash and giving occupa-
ton to many working folk. That Is thu
way you should regard the almost alb
sorbing passion the well-to-do New York.
ers show for supplying themselves with
unheard-of luxuries from their own coun.
try places.
The luxuries, to specify, are chiefly flow
ers and fruits and ,vegetab les out of sea.
son. While the January SHOWS Law deem
on the ground and turnips froze in their
cellars, Mrs. Samuel Thorne, Mrs God
dard and scores of other women were
serving strawberries as big as plover eggs
for desert and artichokes for salad and
they had not ransacked the city markets
for these dainties. The best food on the
rich mans table now comes from his
own farm and at a Lenton luncheon your
conscience is rather overwhelmed when
you realize that one course of fresh green
peas, or string beans has cost your host
ess at the rate of 81 per pea pod and
about so cents per bean.
However. farming is the fashion, and
every one who goes into it is expected
to study a speciality. Mrs. William AS
tors specially is the pink vioet a
marvellous flower; the recent secret of
it's production is known only to the gar
few of them at 10 cents apiece ever find
their way into the market. Mrs Robert
Millbank stands unrivaled with her
peaches, that she offers for eating in
Lent, and that are produced under glass
at the rate of one peach to a tree, just as
in Mrs. Constable huge greenhouses only
one rose is ever asked of a bush
To display flower or serve a dish at
the table that your neighbors cannot rival
and that is the product of your country
place is the keenest excitement in society
during Lent This is what has inspired
the cultivation of specialties and the hir-
ing of gardeners at fabulous prices.
Mrs. Elliot Shepherd of Scarborough
pays in salaries something near $4,000 a
year to her head gardeners and laborers
under them. In return they produce for
her bigger gooseberries than you can fnf
in English gardens and remarkable little
golden tomatoes, absolute spheres in
shape and that are served at her table
as relishes with meat. Pierpont Morgan
gladly pours out thousands year az
Highland Falls, on the Hudson, in order
to raise more gigantic chrysanthemums
than any professional or amateur garden-
er in the United States, while Mrs Ern-
est Crosby cultivates with her own hands
and an expert Frenchman's aid a green
grape the punches of which must weigh
twelve pounds each.
The miniature painters have a rival In
the oval portrait painted on glass. Alma
Tadema demonstrated the beauty and eff
fectiveness of the glass portrait by paint
ing one for the Princess of Wales, another
for the beautiful Lady NayIor LayIand.
ana now all the rich American women
who go to London pay Tadema 5000 10
catch their likenesses on polished crystal
ovals. Lady Terence Blackwood and Miss
Emily Hoffman were the first of the New
Workers to sit for glass portraits, and to
set the fashion on this side of the water
of every woman's wearing her own pic
ture
One of these novelty Ikenesses Is done
on an oval of faultless crystal about
fourth of an inch thick, about four or five
inches long and three inches to three
and a half inches wide. The crystal is
slightly convex, and the painting is done
on the concave side so artfully that the
face looks at you through the lawless
glass
The crystal has a back of gold and
frame work. of gold beads, pearls or brit
liants BY a ring in the top of the picture
an inch-wide ribbon or a beautiful cham
is run, and the work of art is allowed TO
hang free nearly 10 the knees, or can 1T
into little satin bag at the waist. How
ever you select TO wear one of these poI-
traits, swinging from ribbon or chain OF
pinned as a pendant on the front OF your
gown, you always make a point of carry
ing none but your own likeness.