The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-26
DAUGHTERS OF THE GODS.
NEW YORK CITY CLAIMS THE
TALLEST AND PRETTIEST
WOMEN.


ed From old England Is Circulate
ing at a Lively Rate in Society.
"Up Jenkins Is the New Gambling
Game That Has Taken the Town
by Storm and Is Played for Big
Stakes.
New York, Feb. 24-How to be happy
though wealthy, handsome, admired and
young, is one Of the questions that a good
many young women in New York society
have pondered over and solved in various
ways. This is chiefly because it is essen
TALLY the pnode these days to have seri-
Gus side. You can be serious or, to be
more exact, earnest, about anything you
please. You must, however, yearn after
something vital and true, especially if
you are surrounded by every temptation
10 mere content and frivolity. Nothing
casts more of a halo about the head of a
charming and seemingly flppant little de
butante, nothing gives her a more agree
able notoriety and renders her more pleas
ingly conspicuous to credulous strangers,
than to be pointed out and talked over
as the girl who really hates society, sees
through all its snares and decisions, and
really is laboring before the shrine of art
science and philanthropy.
BY this means the younger women of
the smart set have contrved to find con-
siderable lofty misery. in spite of balls
and Paris gowns and opera boxes and
enthusiastic belleship, and in this Lenten
season an association has arisen among
these girls for the advancement of what
is nothing more nor less than their harm
less little fads Some of their faaS assume
really astonishing form. There is, for ex-
ample, Miss Frances Pell. Her serious
side is purely scientific and her study is
zoology. She is a student of no mean at
tainments, too, because, though there is
considerable vanity involved in these dam
sells oddities, they really put good deal
of vigor into what they do.
However, no girls fad is admitted as
the least important unless she is willing
to openly express her willingness to give
up society to pursue her ideal, and con-
stantly make large sacrifices for it, The
greater number of fashionable girls
naturally desire to become trained
nurses The two most expert and prom
inent in this branch are Miss Pierson
and Miss Hoffman, and in Lent they re-
cuperate from the seasons designations by
doing work in a hospital. MISS EdWlna
Post and Miss Stuyvesant Dudly are ready
at any time to betray society for art.
If the poorer classes attract the one
strongly the condition of the heather
makes no less appeal to the other. Miss
Sloan will give up a dance or must
Gale joyously TO spend an evening at Hart
ley house that she has founded IN the
West Side slums, and to carry CHRISTIAN
ity to the japanese is a mission MISS
Thorne is studying for earnestly. If the
one delights, to the distress Of her fam
lily, to prowl at night through darkest
New York. seeking whom she may aid,
the other burns the midnight oil over the
intrjcacies of the japanese language and
speaks solemnly of the time when the
cure of pagan souls will engage her at
tention in far Cathay.
Fair Six-FOOters.
A pretty woman, with a feminine love
| of statistics, gave out a jolly Lenten
luncheon the other day that she had facts
| to prove that New York was bound ulu-
| mately to possess the tallest race of wo-
men in the world. Just take as an eX-
ample the number of feet and inches some
| Of our dancing, frolicking fashionable
| debutantes measure" she declared, land
YOU will find that to rise to the slx-foot
| mark is becoming a common occurrence"
| Whether there is something in the air
| of New York city, in the food, or the
| way of life, l don't pretend to say but IN
| my own acquaintance are two women
| whose heads rise TO six feet when they
| stand in their stockings. OF course you
| know I refer to Mrs. George Vanderbilt
| and Miss Augusta de Peyster. l would
| add Miss Eleanor Crosby if any one could
! persuade her to be measured, but a wo-
man who reaches six feet is apt to feel
| shy about it, and there are those who
| insist that this pretty miss would tower
| above the six-foot mark. My next tall
est girls come In a stately group of FIVE
VINO all measure five feet nine inches
without their shoes and with their hair
| hanging. These are Miss Helen de Pey-
ster, Miss Adele Gardiner, Miss Eva Du-
pont Eve Barley and her sister, Rita.
Somewhat smaller than these are Miss
| Nellie Barnes and Miss Fiji Potter-the
| after is Mr.. James Brown Potter's daugh-
ter-and they rise to the five feet eight
| and three-quarters standard. Just an
| inch less than six feet Miss Frances de
Peyster measures, and every one of these
with the exception of Mrs. Vanderbilt and
her sisters, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Mer-
ril, are debutantes of this seasons bios
| soming.
Now, of course, there are score of
others equally lofty and imposing, but
| these will serve to brace my argument
that the tall girls are pushing into ma
| iority and that delightful to relate these
| young goddesses are quite as handsome
as they are tall. Furthermore, they have
set the fashion in favor of unusual hight
and dozens of devices are resorted to 10
compensate for a lack of inches Trains;
absurdly high heels. remarkable hair or
naments, reaching six inches into the air
are adopted, for there seems 90 be the
liveliest struggle on as to who can show
the most swanlike throat, the slimmest
waist and arouse most earnest surprised
attention on entering a drawing room.
The Newest Slang.
If anybody wants to pursue the newest
society slang used in New York to its
sources they will be apt to discover thar
most of It comes from England; like the
clothes of the smart men, it Is made in
London, and if there is one thing the
fashionable cotillon leader resents more
than another, 1t is to be described as q
swell or a dude. Those two long-suffer-
ing terms have been called in, so 70
speak, and the old-fashioned word maca-
| ronf substituted to expreSs a Young ma n