The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-05


twice as well as the stout one" COM
planned a customer of a department store
whom the saleswoman had just diagnosed
as 40-incher around the bust land
never envy thin women so much as when
l come to buy a ready-made garment.
Everything is made for the thin woman.
To the minds of the designers no woman
exists who measures more than thirty
Tour inches around the bust. The rest of
US are quietly told that the beautiful
waist i'm the window marked down to an
unusually low figure does not come in
our size. OF course it doesn't Nothing
cheap, and smart at the same time ever
does come in our sizes, and we're fools 10
ask the saleswoman about it and merely
give them the opportunity 40 tell us that
we cannot get them. The impression
seems TO be that anything will do for the
stout woman, and that if she's seeking
anything out of the ordinary she should
be compelled TO pay for it as a penalty
for getting fat. That Is always the ex-
perience of the fat woman, and il always
seemed very difficult for me to under
stand. because most of the women know
are way beyond the limit Yet the cheap
things and the smart ones are still made
only for the thin women
NOVICE. F. Hodges, in the watchman.)
Kind words in ears whose earthly powers
are spent,
Like sunshine on the tree by lightning
rent,
Can give no balm;
It's better far to give them while those
ears can hear;
For life has much of woe and much of
fear,
And love brings calm.
1t is too late when life's lamp burnett
low,
When hand once warm are chill as win
ter's snow,
To do kind deeds;
'Tis better here where feet are prone to
slide,
It's better now than wait till eventide,
To help their needs.
All. friends! dear friends-if any such
there be
Keep not your loving thoughts away from
me
Till I am gone;
want them now to help me on my way.
AS lonely watchers want the light of day
Ere Il is morn.
And though sometimes my heart, DER
some sore wrong
Long brooding, weaves some bitterness
in song.
s'Tis but shade
Within life's textures where the best are
poor.
Oh, close not up to many faults loves
door!
need your aid.
pTvt,a <o1Iou-;pc An Ill o,tr.
toms OF New York society people are
found in the New York Tribune: so you
are really coming out next winter. little
Dorothy?" said he godmother. 'Why,
child, it seems only yesterday that your
mother and l were preparing for our de-
but! What fun it was, and how different
society is now to what it was then Not
half as gay 1t seems to me. Why, you
girls do not know what it is to have the
good times we had in those old daysi
Take Sunday, for i-stance; what a dreary
holiday it is in town row in the winter
and how delightful 1t used to be! Country
clubs and Sunday out of town parties
were unknown in those days. The men We
knew all went to church. or at least came
to the door at the end of service to walk
h7me with Us All society turned into
Fifth avenue. for an hours walk then,
and you saw literally every one you knew.
It was most amusing! Now you all have
abandoned the avenue to strangers and
the dressed up crowd from the East SIDE
and West Side, and return directly home
without any attendant cavalier You miss
good deal by that, I can tell you.
How queer our customs would seem
to you now! Girls when they were en-
gagged walked arm in arm on the street
with their frances, and in that way en-
ga cement were announced. Generally
they came out on Sunday, and the walk
on the avenue proclaimed il TO the world.
Girls rather liked to surprise their friends
and I remember what a state of excite
ment we were all in when on that sunny
Sunday long ago your mother walked out
of Grace Church and took the arm of
Jack Brown, who was waiting fer her
at the door. 1t was great surprise TO
all of us, as they had kept their secret
wonderfully well. She was so pretty, and
he so good lookingl can see her now
blushing and smiling and not daring to
lock at any of us. I can remember Just
what she wore and how she looked How
was she dressed? How you would laugh
If you could see her now, and yet I re-
collect thought her looking very smart.
She had on a bonnet with a high. sharp
roke in front, the sides were tight and it
was MADE soft of colored velvet, with
roses filing up the front. 1t was tied
under The chin with a neat little bow,
with strings to match the color of the
hat. She had on a turned down lace col
lar. and a cloth 'ragIan'-a sort of loose
coat with bell shaped sleeves. 1t was
about as long as mans covert coat but
fared so as to set over the crinoined
skirt below, which was looped up in fes-
toons over velvet petticoat
THE summer. too, was quite different
then. New you girls all go out of town by
June l. and stay at dull country places:
but then we seldom left the city before
July, and in June evenings we sat on
he front steps and entertained our men
friends, who came much oftener in that
infoi NAL fashion than IL they had TO make
a regular visit in the drawing room. No
wonder that engagements were twice as
freque mt in our day as they are nowl For
July and August we went to Sharon, to
Richfieid Springs, TO Saratoga, Newport
being then the one we'll known watering
place where people lived in their own cot
tages. Hotel life was the usual solution
of the summer question, and the incest
people stayed at hotels and boarding
houses all summer, custom that had
decided advantages as far as gayety was
concerned, although certainly home life
seems more refined. Still, young people
we're thrown more together. and there
was more love-making. Dear me! that
was thirty years ago, and now your sis
tors are married and settled, and you,
the baby of the family, have become a
woman. AS old DR.. /. used 10 say at