The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-19


eaoiy Peru. Bolivia, Ecuador and rural
Mexico, where It is a matter of con-
science for ladies to go hatless to church.
Foreigners visiting those countries, who
are not careful 20 remove their hats or
comets before entering the sanctuaries
are hKely 10 be at once requested to re-
tire, or. falling to comprehend the idioma.
TO be taken by the arm and led out bv
some Jealous priest of layman. 1 have
several times seen it done. when the be-
wiidered foreigner had no idea wherein
ley her transgression. -
Since the social autocrat of Newport
mas set his seal upon the shirt-waist fad
II Is now bound to go despite few
conservatives in high places. The rich
young autocrat aforesaid appeared in his
au'ofnooiie upon the fashionable driveway
the other day, a the ultra-fa shiona be
hour, and astonished the little sisters
ana brothers of mammon by wearing "a
Whlte china-silk blouse and bow of
pdoy-Mue ribbon"-so say the chroni-
clers. AS no casualties are reported II
Is presumed that the articles enumerated
were not the entire extent of his toilette
l IS said by year-after-year residents
Oh Newport that nearly all the time
Honoi ca customs of that once-dignified and
-olilai resort are giving way to I'M
mlugated frivolity under the regime of
the New Man and Woman with their
plhes and automobiles. Bellevue ave-
nue. is no longer a stately pageant of
handsome equipages and mettlesore
steeos' every afternoon from 3 to 7 o'clock
INSTEAD the tribes go spinning and whiz-
Ains ABOUT, on their machines. big and
niue, away down the Ocean Road until
Iate IN the evening. Nobody wears a hat
ana few coat, everybody laughs ana
sings and halls everybody else in sight
Wnether friends or strangers, with the
utmost bon camaraderie.
queen Fashion seems to have been sue
eesslul at last in her search for an Edi-
son or Marconi to invent newer WAYS Of
entertaining her votaries than the sobor
pastlmes of "the good old DAYS " There
are few women in the gilded kingdom
Oh the -Four Hundred whose cleverness
shlhes out with the brilliant glare Of a
locomotive headlight-but many more IN
tne same told whose intellects are better
compared to the dim chickering's of a blue
headed match. The latter continue 10 ,ive
the same old dinners and dances and 70
cepuons-Just as the antediluvian ladies
ou TOT all we know to the contrary
ana Juss as their posterity will do to the
eno "a creation. To the former set belong
the genluses who now and then invent a
Starollhg change-such as the well-reme,n-
pered fashionable ball where the guests
masqueraded as vegetables, and the other
Wnere everybody wore his and her clothes
hlno side before" so that none could
veg VINO was coming or going. 1t is ru-
ihored that the cap-sheaf in this freakish
nQe viii be applied by Mrs. stuvvesant
flsh' at her Newport ball on Aug 81 II
Is to be vintage dance" thew CIV
wherein imported peasant girls in native
custom are 10 make wine exactly as thew
are IN the habit of doing in their far
81 sunny MONIES. 1t is whispered, how
W. Una, the so-called peasant maids are
not imported farther than from NJ,
hork ana Washington, but that certain
Wen-known society heiresses will dance
with pare feet upon dollhouse grapes
wnieh cost dollar the pound
notable figure just now at Newnort is
zen. Daniel Sickles who is VISITING bis
beautiful daughter, whose marria9e r.
the young Englishman, Mr.. Crackan-
thorpe was chronicled in these columns
TWO years ago. Mr.. Crackenthorre is now
a member of the British embassy in the
Ehiteo states; and so devoted father and
daughter, the last of the Sickles family
happy foreign maria ges-the Cantacuzenf
and Patenotre brides, whose brilliant
weddings were fully described in tbe
Morning News, are counting themselves
unusually blessed. Mrs. Patenotre fine
young Philadelphia schoolgirl who mar
ried a middle-aged French arnba ssador
three or four years ago, is lust now w.
joicing in the possession of her third child
she is spending the summer in this conn
try with her parents. at their seaside
home near Philadelphia Ambassado,
Patenoire, who has been stationed some
time at Madrid will join his family late,
on this side the ocean and accompany
them back 10 Spain. Mrs Fred Grant is
still in st, Petersburg. with her daughter
the Princess Cantacuzene, and the brand
new baby who may be prouder of the fact
mat his grandfather was Gen L. S
Grant. than OF the coronet which figures
so conspicuously on all his belongings.
4
The Admiral of the Navy and Mrs
Dewey are now at Beauvoir their coun.
try home near Washington, but will re-
turn to Narragansett in a few days. IL
view of the expected greatness about tc
be thrust upon him. the Admiral is more
than ever, If possible. a perfect example
of the doting husband Mr.. George w
sion which a grateful people presented tC
his father, is frisking about Long Branch
along with the Misses Hanna, as gaily as
though his nose were not soon to be ou
of joint
Ex-Secretary and Mrs. John G.. Carlisle
are making an extended visit with ex.
President and Mrs. Cleveland. at the lat
ter's summer home on Buzzard's Bay
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlisle are in mourning fol
tehir son. whose death occurred nearly two
years ago. Miss Rose Cleveland, sister
of the ex-President, has just purchased
a large and beautiful farm a. Dark I1ar
| bor. Islesboro-one of the finest propertie!
of that Northern resort. Miss Griggs
daughter of the Attorney General, is very
III with typhoid fever at her aunts home
in Hartford Conn. Senator Chauncey NJ
Depew. with his niece and son. who have
been in Europe the last six weeks, will
sail for home on Saturday. Mrs. L. S
Grant and her daughter, Mrs. Sartoris
headed the list of patronesses at kir
mess and summer festival given las
Wednesday night at Richfield Springs
On that occasion the cakewalk of Mr.
Richard Croker, Jr., was the hit of th'
evening. Senator Pugh and family arr
at Saratoga.
His Usual Trip.-"What is meant by {
Sabbath days Journey" asked the Sun
dav School teacher. From our house L
prandpap a's and back" replied Freddie
,,,bo Lnau where his family tool