The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22
OWNS THE LIGHT OF ASIA.
POssEssOR OF THE ONLY REGIS
TERED DIAMOND IN THIS
COUNTRY.

Fashion at NewpOrt-Mrs. Elisha
Dyer Raises and Breaks Her own
Magnificent Steeds-COssack Ser
wants Are Big Fierce Russian Men,
who Are Employed by Smart New
YOrkers-Mrs. oliver BeImOnt's
Own Valet and Major DOmO Is a
stately East Indian From the vice
Regal Household.
New York. Jan. 2O.-Mrs. James Loril-
Stevens is gone, furnishes the New York
smart set with its IDEAS. Like Mrs. Ste
vens, Mrs. Kernochan, who was Miss Lo-
rillard before her marriage, and who is
one of the wealthiest dowagers, has a can
did and witty tongue and the stupid con-
ventionalities in no wise disturb or re-
press her original genius Next after
Mrs. Astor, she gives the most sumptu-
Gus dinners of the season. Her ban
quets are conducted on the English plan
with a liveried footman to nearly every
chair, and show of massive gold plate
that can not be rivaled in any other house
in America.
Unlike Mrs. Astor, though, this hostess
originates dinner fashions of her own, and
if novelty in table appointments is seen
anywhere in society, il is safe to conclude
that Mrs. Kernochan made 1t popular. 1t
was she who this winter first served small
perfumed napkins with different courses,
who adopted tabourets in place of the US
ual high backed chairs and inaugurated
the custom of sweeping away finger bowls
and passing in their place a large silver
"a Ct nj int rxrhf 11,
invited to dip their fingers and dry them
on a small bunch of lemon verbena laid
beside each dessert plate. Her enter
prises in search of novelties do not end
here, for when motor cabs appeared in
New York, Mrs. kernochan was the first
fashionable woman who rode about the
town constantly in one, went a-caling to
church and to the opera in it, and there
by inspired the rather timid conservative
society folk to adopt this mode of con-
veyance also
If you see Mrs. Kernochan at the opera,
however-and she is fond of gay scenes and
music-you will not find her in appearance
by any means a likeness of her predeces-
sor, Mrs. Stevens. She is a large hand
some woman, whose abundant gray hair
is always rolled up to a lofty pompadour
whose evening gowns are as splendid as
those of an eighteenth century French
apt TO be strung the Kohinoor of Ameri-
can diamonds This is a big white stone
nearly as large as a hickory nut, and
registered in all the capitals of the world
as the famous Light of Asia. So unusual
gem was an inheritance from Miss Kath-
arine Wolf, and it easily outshines sny
special stone that has been yet showed on
either side the water by a private individ-
! uai.
AS brilliant a figure as she is in New
York during the winter, Mrs. Kernochan
is in her best element at Newport in the
season. There she takes the lead and
/ teaches the bored fashionables how to find
amusement in novelties. She it was who
| made Bellevue avenue open it's blase eyes
at the sight of her splendid victoria drawn
! by four horses and driven, not by the CON
| ventional coachman or the box, but by a
liveried position while two fiunkeys stood
| on the stage behind her. Not only did
| Bellevue avenue open it's eyes, but num-
| Der of wealthy women instantly followed
in Mrs. Kernochan's lead just as they all
! got page boys into turbans and Turkish
slippers when she did, and learned to
keep a man in livery TO deliver their notes
! and letters and invitations because this
| lady, with the eccentric and inventive
| mind, insisted that it was a rudeness
| to use the mails for other than business
! communica lions.
| The latest contribution Mrs. Kernochan
| has made TO the entertainment of her So
| 0al equals is to be inaugugated at New
! port next spring, when a whole drove Of
Egyptian donkeys are to be brought ovel
for a novel purpose
| During a recent sojourn in Egypt, Mrs
Kernochan rode about sightseeing by the
shores of the Nile on tourist donkey, and
so well did that means of locomotior
please her and so fond did she grow of the
small, sturdy grey beast that she bought
donkey and trappings and brought hel
| purchase to America. With characteristic
fearlessness of other folks opinions, she
| announced her intention of daily riding Il
and from the bathing beach on the bach
of her grateful, gaily caprsoned pet. The
donkey fulfilled his part of the bargain
and Mrs. Kernochan hers, and now theil
imitators are eager to get back to New
port and open a season of donkey riding
a la Egyptienne on Bellevue avenue anC
the ocean drive.
Debutante Slang.
There is mo longer any blinking III,
fact that out of the rosebud mouths of de
butantes and fair matrons in New Yorl
comes a species of slang that used TO b.
confined to the sancuty of the smoking
room and served as familiar and usefu
quotation only TO dray drivers and saio
men, The old-fashioned belle never faile'
20 blush and hang her sensitive head a
bare reference to his majesty the devil
she hurriedly left the room at mention o
his lordship's residence, and she graceful.
tainted when some rude and thoughtles
male used the word damnation in forcefu
and earnest cussing repartee.
Whether golf or long trains have com