The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-29

our granQmotherS would nave calleo
a consumptive family, and would have
resigned to an early grave. From the
time they were born, their mother be-
gun to build up a constitution for them.
They were reared on simple and nour-
ishing food, their muscles were train
ed, they were taught to breathe deeply,
and they grew up into splendid speci-
mems of vigorous and joyous young
man and womanhood.
"Show me a woman's children" went
on the professor of beauty, land win
tell you what sort of a woman she is.
II they are rosy, bright-eyed and
healthy she is a woman of intelligence
and industry. If they are pasty-faced
and sickly, nine times out of ten 1t is
the direct result of their mothers ig-
norance and laziness.
Being a mother" began.
Being a mother" interrupted the
professor, lis the greatest profession
on earth, and the one that requires the
widest knowledge, and it is this that
makes the unanswerable plea for the
higher education of women. 1t Is lg-
norance, and not intent to murder,
that makes a woman give her baby
cucumber pickle to cut its teeth upon
and with a race of educated mothers
we shall produce a race that will not
only be strong and healthy, but as
beautiful as the ancient Greeks"
The queerest party on record, says
the New York Times, is corset cover
or underwaist party. The girl VINO
gave 1t had a short time previous been
so unfortunate as to break her leg.
That necessitated a long stay indoors,
and to amuse herself when reading
grew tiresome, she sewed. Just before
before the accident there had been
sale of white goods, and the girl had
laid in stock that at some future time
she intended to make up. She was
not at all sure how much material
1t would take, it really does take but
very little, and her supply was gener-
Gus. In her invalid condition she
could do only such parts of the sewing
as could be done by hand, and, after
cutting out a waist. she would put in
tucks by hand sew on HamburgS and
lace, feather-stitch the bands, and
make the buttonholes. There was
much more done by hand than would
have been done under other circum-
stances, and still, as the girl was In
dustious, the number grew, and by
the time the leg was well enough to
allow machine stitching, there was an
array of seventeen corset covers, tuck
ed and shfrred and ruffled and made in
all the dainty ways a girls ingenuity
could invent. 1t became a standing
joke among the girls friends, and when
the seventeen were all complete, the
girl conceived a brilliant idea-she
would give a corset cover party. She
is q bachelor girl, and the party would
have to be given in her own room, but
that would be helf the fun. She sent
out her invitations, which were mys-
teriously worded and invited seven of
her most intimate friends to come to
the underwaist party. There was
general acceptance. The hostess did
not receive her guests, for it was nee
essary for her to be up stairs preparing
the feast, which was to be the first
thing on the order of exercises. When
everything was ready, she went down
to receive her guests, stood outside the
door and prinked a minute, and then
burst in upon them. Such a shout of
laughter as there was The girl was
arrayed in a white gown, with pea19s
around her throat, but the upper part
of the dress which the girls ree0g-
nized,. was nothing more or less than
one of the seventeen underwaists. The
laugh was not all on the hostess's eide,
for when she had time to take breath,
she discovered that her mysterious in
vitations had taken effect literally. and
not only she, but every one of her
guests was wearing little corset GOV .
err dress waist, which no one but the
initiated would have known except for
the narrow lingerie ribbons run into
IT.
An Atchison woman says the Globe
of that city, has a habit of eating too
much, and she invented a method of
knowing when she had enough, and
will have her discovery patented. An
ingeniously made little alarm bell Is
set in her corset, and when the pres
sure of the corset from eating amounts
to SO many pounds to the square inch
the alarm is set off and the woman
must quit. Sometimes she is in the
midst of a juicy steak, or she may Re
just tasting a delicious dish of ice
cream, or she may have just reached
her coffee, when the pressure sets the
alarm off, but she then quits. When
visitors are at the house the alarm
startles them a little at first, but they
soon get used to the gong. The in
ventor says the alarm has been of more
benefit to her than score of doctors.
Sets are provocative of a great
deal of feeling on the part OF society
people. AS every one knows, there is
a great difference between what is
termed general society and the differ
ent coteries that are formed within
it, and much heartburning and 1eal-
o1isy are evoked in consequence. For
this reason, says the New York Tribune
women who are really hospitable at
heart have considerable difficulty, and
are often misunderstood, in arrang-
I ing their entertainments. Not only
must they ask the crowd" Ito use
the vernacular of society that go with
each other TO content the very smart
ones. but the other sets decidedly OBJ
ject TO being classed together. and con-
slider IL distinctly uncomplimentary If
they are invited to the same function
with the people that they know the
best, thus betraying a recognition Of
the very difference that hay dispute.
MRS. A. gives smart dinners and
bad dinners" remarked an ungfateful
guest the other day, "and people resent
the distinction"
ITO which one were you invite a.
| queried her companion.
"Oh, to the bad one, natu ally" was
the perfectly frank answer. "Of course
II 7 had been asked TO the pther
W. uld have had no fault to find"
But who were at your luncheon?
asked the man TO whom she was talk
ink, curiously to see how she made out
! her case.
why, Mrs. s., and Mrs. X, and all
that set"
But / thought you knew them sc
well.'' persisted the other, with mas
culine density.
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