The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-01

works surplus flesh from the ankle and
devolps the calf.
In the light of such revelation the
furniture dealers statement that the
rocking chair Is declining in favor in
dictates a direct flying in the face of a
beneficent Providence. There was a
time when Europeans scoffed at the
nervous Americans and their rocking
chair habit.
Even the Americans themselves grew
ashamed of their rocking, studied Del
Sarte, sawed the rockers from their
chairs, and went in for divine repose.
The verdict of science should change
all that revive a waning custom here,
encourage the adoption of the rocking
chair abroad, make it a feature of all
stage training and send the price of
sawdust below par.
Can it be possible that the professor,
visiting the Belle of New York" and
the Casino Girl in the interests of
science, allowed enthusiasm to color
his reason and rendered unto the rock
ing chair the things that of right were
the work of the makeup artist?
An infallible index to the woman of
refinement says the Philadelphia
North American, is her stationery.
Some women need to give the matter
more thought and attention. than they
do.
They would, too, if they stopped for
q moment to realize how far-reaching
in its influence is the sort of paper they
write a note on. The man or the wo-
man who receives it may never have
seen the writer or met her personally.
All the more. then, will that recipient
form an opinion of her from the sheet
of paper on which she has indicted her
message.
In stationery white is the standard
which it is always safe to abide by.
And this year it is a pure Dresden
white. No more creams are used.
But there are also two very dainty
tints which are much in vogue ana
bear the correct stamp of approval.
Nothing is selling better than the new
Madelane blue and the fashionable
grayette.
Hadelaine blue, as the pretty girls
who affect 1t will raptuously tell you,
is the sweetest thing you ever saw"
perfectly heavenly" "tooSIovely for
anything" etc. 1t is the new blue, and
you will have to see it to appreciate it,
but no words of commendation are too
high in it's favor. Then there is an
azure blue and, lastly, mazafine blue,
which is the color of the dark blue sky
just after a summer shower. The
wedgwood blue is on the wane.
The grayette, which is so high in
fashionable favor, is a simple, quiel
Quaker gray, with a French name. Be
sides this there is the French gray,
which has a little green in 1t, and a
cold steel gray. Scotch granite looks
like the stone for which it is named.
1t is also called Queen Margaret" be-
cause Margaret of Scotland had great
pile of that stone in front of one of her
castles as a means of defense. The
new art gray is a color that belongs
with the cheaper grades of papers.
For the woman who loves the violet
tints there is the purple aster paper.
1t is the purple aster shade, but very
faint, not nearly so deep in color as the
flower for which it is named. In Eng
land they call it the English violet pa
per, because it also approximates the
tint of that dainty blossom.
All of these, blues, grays and hello
trope. are very delicate and beautiful
soft toned papers. Something quite
startling and very out |, Il ordinary,
that which only the racing 'good-fel-
low" sort of an athletic girl for in
stance, might dare to adopt, is the
brilliant Persian-red paper On the flap
of the envelope is stamped black
devil, with the inscription in letters be-
low, who the ---- Is this fron?'
In texture the paper that is mos
popular is the beautiful French cam
| brio. There are delicate lines in 1T tina
make it look like the cloth for which !
is called. The liberty silk paper II
another pretty thing. IT has notified
effect. and looks like silk fiber. The
old style finished paper has a .watereo
effect The organdie is an imitation OF
the French cambria, as is also the liner
lawn.
All the queer happenings, says the
New York Times, do not occur in
Brooklyn. but they say such things
and do such things in the Borough Of
Churches that good Brooklynite is
sure to have a head full of funny
stories. Here is a blunder which
might have been worse-though not
every one would have cared to be the
caller who said the wrong thing in the
wrong place. The Brooklyn young wo-
man was making a wedding call upon
an old friend. The friendship was Of
such long standing that the CALL while
it was the first one made by the caller
upon the hostess after her marriage.
had nothing of the stiffness of the
formal call. and the usual formalities
of such an occasion were not observed.
III was merely d uIOpplHS III Ibi ID
familiar chat with the bride. This
young woman was making her second
venture in matrimony and not an I'M
due length of time had elapsed between
the death of her first partner and her
wedding to her present husband. Hence
it was that the caller was struck in
the midst of an interesting conversa-
ton. upon general topics by something
peculiar about her friends appearance
She stopped short with an exclamation
of surprise:
"Why, Helen" she said, you have
left off your mourning.
Yes" answered Helen, with a little
twinkle in her eye, II have"
Students at the Womans Medical
College. of Chicago. spend their time
between classes in discussing the East
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