The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18

there is little left for the correspond
ence which used to be done of the joys
of the old-fashioned girls life.
The feminine handwriting most
characteristic to-day is that of women
in the professions. These women write
their own letters as a rule and are
more accustomed to the pen than their
society sisters. The handwriting of the
women of the stage is especially inter-
esting as indicated in a collection OF
autographs.
Women write with much more self
consciousness than men as a rule. Few
men indulge in the space or the ink
that woman spuander on their names.
But women write very legibly nova
days, much more so than men. The
typewriting machine has saved most
men from the necessity of personal
letter writing and there is little of the
old-fashioned business handwriting
seen that used to be a part of a young
mans education in the old days.
At some of the country clubs
Complaint book" is kept, says the
New York Tribune, in which visitors
are at liberty to enter apy criticism
of the management or service. A So
cial book of grievances might give
many a useful hint to entertainers.
Some of the entries would run as fol-
lows: II have been asked to Mrs. rs
bridge whist afternoons several times
this season. Apparently she puts peo-
pie at her tables In different grades.
The first very good, the second so so,
the third decidedly bad. Is this tact
full? Now, although / think l play as
well as Mrs. A, who always sits at
the first table, and have beaten Mrs.
X, who sits at the second, Mrs. z
if1ly Inn lrT1C ma xrynIl q
puts me invariably with the beginners,
while she herself plays at the table of
honor. Should take this as a compli-
ment or the reverse? For l am really
sort of sop to Cerberus-namely, the
poor players at the third table"
Mrs. s. asked me orally to dine,
and accepted her invitation. After
ward I received two other desirable
invitations, which I declined, as 1 was
already engaged. On arriving at Mrs.
SIS house on the evening appoint
ed found her alone with her family,
evidently having quite forgotten that
she had asked me, although she pre-
tended she expected me-"
my cousin, Mrs. V, is a social
luminary, and takes very little notice
of poor me, who am not nearly so
smart. Whenever I meet people they
do nothing but talk Of my cousin, Mrs
abroad? Will she open her villa at
Newport this summer etc.; raving
about her beauty, and evidently pleas
ed to exhibit their acquaintance with
such smart person. 1t is all very an
moving to me, but what am 1 to dor"
81 am visiting the Ms, whom I
do not know very well,'' writes a deb
utante. 1.-THE other members of the
house party are all intimate, including
fha
jokes together which I do not under
stand. They continually talk of people
whom do not know. Mrs. M asks
me every now and then why I am so
quiet, and I heard yesterday that she
said to some one that I was a stupid
little thing. Now. do not think the
Ms show good breeding"
A seasons grievances might be quite
amusing reading, and prove very in
structive to unconscious offenders.
What pity it is that such book can
not be kept!
There is nothing, hardly, that a wo-
man will not do when she is getting
ready to go away on her vacation The
queer costumes that are worn for a
week before the start would fill a fash
ion book. A mixture of odds and
ends of things too much frayed for
purpose and leave everything fresh and
clean to be packed. The most conserv-
alive little woman in town, says the
New York Times, broke a record the
other day in going down town without
dress, and the worst of it is that she
found the experience delightful and
boasts of 1T. She was in the usual con-
dition of having all of her clothes not
spick and spandy fresh, clean, and
St9rnhad dU 70 he ID
so. 1t was absolutely necessary for
her to go down town shopping, it was
raining hard, and at the same time was
too warm to wear thick dress and
waterproof. The woman took an in
ventory of her wardrobe, and the first
thing she came across was thick silk
skirt quite long enough to answer for a
dress skirt, and looking quite enough
like one to answer the purpose. She
put it on with a sigh of satisfaction
and went on with her inventory. The
next thing was a thin cambria waist of
white, with long sleeves, whose purpose
upon ordinary occasions was to wear
under thin dress when little extra
warmth was needed. That went on
next, the sleeves answered every pur-
pose of dress sleeves, and that was so
far all right, but there was no collar.
and the little pearl buttons had an ap-
pearance of being, as they were lingerie
buttons. But-yes, it was the very
thing, there was a little white vest with
n stock which would cover the whole
front of the waist and finish the neck
That was put on, and. with a water
proof, the little woman was ready for
start, and no one who saw her would
have suspected that she was not prop
erly dressed and in her right mind. It
was only she herself who doubted the
latter, when she thought of the hetero-
geniousness of her costumes. It was de-
lightfully cool and comfortable, and In
the shop she threw open her water
proof at the neck, showing the only le-
Ultimate part of her costume, the vest.
and came home in an eminently self
satisfied condition of mind