The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28

down and it Is only in a case of life or
death and by the aid of a policeman that
4 clerk can be reused and the purchase OF
a precious commodity made after o clock
in the evening.
Comfortable Feet.
When the exposition visitor has given
the most particular attention to her med
icine case her next care must be to equip
her feet properly for the unusual task
before them. The pavements in Paris are
not unduly hard but because of the poor
facilities for transportation visitor is
obliged to walk them with greater indus
try than she is ever forced 10 in an Amer
lean town. Then. too, on clear summer
days they grow so hot that any shoe
trimmed with patent leather is scarcely
less torturing than the boot" of mediae-
val memory.
Paris itself is not, moreover, the place
in which to purchase regular pedestrian
gear, while here at home one can lay IN
a stock of travellers shoes that cannot be
surpassed for comfort. The stock should
include at least one pair of laced dongola
walking shoes with medium sole, low
heels, fitted with rubber caps and toes
rounded like those of golfers boots. Add
TO this a pair of oxford ties of the same
shape, with a pair of fiat old lady's slip
pers, and the exposition tripper won't
sigh for the good Offices of a chirOpodist or
the ease Oh a CAP DIT COMMAND. these
cool soft shoes will not rub a corn, provid-
ed the same pair is never worn many days
in success; also, provided the slippers are
adopted for the resting hours at home,
and the travellers stockings don't require
many darns.
After a long day of tramping through
exhibit halls and the fascinating French
streets it is a good plan and preventive
of foot WEAKNESS to sit a half hour porting
over home letters and papers with the
tired eXtremities in an ankle-deep bath of
cold salt and water If, after this, they
are tried gently and propped in clean
hose and slippers, on a chair, they will
be ready for any calls made upon their
strength day by day.
Good Care of the Eyes.
Should the exposition be visited after
June, when Paris can produce from her
asphalted streets as finely penetrating a
dust and intense a heat as we know in
any city of our own, it is the better part
of wisdom for the busy feminine visitor
TO take every precaution against over
straining her eyes. The sun on the white
stone of the Partisan buildings results in
glare like that on water, and if shady
chiffon veil, with a wide brimmed hat is
not adopted, then smoked glasses will go
long way toward mitigating the intense
light and on many days can be worn
with the greatest comfort. Another inVal-
liable adjunct to happiness is an eyeglass
and bottle of solution of boric acid that
can be put up by the home druggist and
used to sooth over-tired eyes or to wash
out an irritating particle of dust or coal
Paris is the haunt of the laundress. who
washes clothes to snowy whiteness and at
small expense, but the hard water sup
piled to the city and the number of soda
! filled compounds used by the clever blan-
| chisseuse will in the long run play the
mischief with handsome underwear. 1t is
| In consequence a good place and oppor-
/ tunity for finishing the use of old gar
| ments in which rents and the crumbling
of trimming will bring no heart break
| 1t IS also the place where water for drink
| ing purposes must be abandoned Wine
| that the French substitute and light beer
| are not, as a rule, satisfactory to the
| American woman, who should make up her
mind to invest a certain small amount of
| her allowance every week in bottled wa
| ter that is slight effervescent and quite
! imperative for the good health of the for
eigner.
Shopping in Paris.
1t does not come easily to every foreign
| woman to shop in Paris. Too many
| Americans who have a little money to
| spend in clothes complain that Paris is
as costly and twice as inconvenient as
| any American city. Now, az a matter OF
fact Paris Is not the place in which ia
| handsome, inexpensive shoes and the doz-
en- and one species of attractive ready
| made suits, silk waists, coats ETC. that
the merchant in the United States pro
Vides so cleVerly.
If an exposition tripper has made VI
her mind to ,ay out to the limit set by
| the customs rules, then let her devote
| her energies to the small things of the
toilet that do cost very little in France
and which are admirably made. that is
| to say, handkerchiefs, gloves, hats, neck
ties. etc. These are to be got easily and
at the smallest prices by finding at the
| superintendent office of one of the big
department stores what days are devoted
| 10 "occa sions." An occa sion is nothing
less than a bargain, and a bargain is
really and honestly a bargain in one OF
the great Partisan shops. The daintiest
little muchoirs are to be bought for Is and
| 20 cents apiece, gloves that "A duchess
| would not hesitate to wear 80 for 40 and
! 50 cents per pair, and a bewitching the
| alter bonnet for 81 is no uncommon thing.
Bargain days are as regular as fete
days in the big magazines, and the wo-
man who speaks English only, stands as
| good a chance of getting the desirable
thing as any daughter of France. Apro-
| pos of bargains and Partisan shopping II
| does not come amiss to let the American
woman into the secret of the faultless sys-
tem Of transfers that obtains in the big
J department stores over tHe water ana tnat
| eXpediies purchasing immensely. At the
door of one of the great dry goods houses
the shopper asks for a transfer card that
is punched by the saleswoman with the
amount of her purchase at every counter,
and al the same door by which she en-
tered the sum total of her expenditures
is quickly calculated and the transaction
completed In much less time than our own
system of transfers requires.
| Now on the other hand, IL a shipper
proposes to 90 in rather extensively for
gowns, hats underwear etc, and both
her time ana strength are limited 1t is
| perfectly possible for her to shop luxuri-
ously in che morning In bed or late in the
| afternoon on the sofa. The Partisan mo-
destes ana milHners are thoroughly ac-
customed 10 ne ways Of ease loving wo-
men, and do not hesitate to send to a
hotel or pension bedroom big baskets fun
of purple and fine linen, oil under the