The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-29


Mr.. Thuma works is expression of the
soul through the mind by the motions
of the body. He argues that the grace
of body must come through grace of
mind and soul. In explanation of his
theory he said;
The three elements of grace are
gravity, fiexibility and force. Physical
culture should educate each muscle
of the body and when the body is UNI
| der the complete control of the will, IL
the mind have high ideals and ennob-
ling thoughts. the man will be grace
full. From this flows the wonderful
! quality of personal magnetism.
The carnation pink has been called
the flower of destiny. Within the last
| few years it has risen from compare
tive obscurity to a position among the
most highly cultivated blossoms of the
| conservatory.
And now the carnation is expected to
be the coronation flower. King Ed
ward has chosen IL to wear as bou-
tonniere in preference to the more
| fashionable gardenia, hyacinth and lily
| of the valley.
AS there is always a scarcity of flow
| ers in summer with the exception of
| the carnetion, which, says the New
| York Sun, seems to flourish all the year
round. 1t is bound to take its place in
| fashionable bouquets carried on the day
| OF the coronation and as a corsage
| flower. That this will give the bios
som a boom among florists is likely.
There has been a decided boom in
carnations in the last year" said
Broadway florist. Men ordering now
ers for their ushers and best men at
| weddings choose the carnation fire.
| quently and we have made up many
bouquets for brides and maids of honor
of the white variety.
THE flower has of course increased
| in beauty. The carnation you buy to-
day is a different affair from that of
five years ago. 1t has a great deal Of
character in it's style.
1T does not droop or even bend. 1t
has an erect poise on its stalk, the
separate petals of the flower sustain
| themselves crisply from the center.
AT this time of the year flowers be-
gin to- get very scarce in market. 1t is
| all that we can do to supply decorative
flowers for dinners at the fashionable
summer resorts. Private conserva-
tories must be robbed to help out the
florists at all Newport functions.
1--WE are using the daisy quite freely
now for decoration. For children's
parties it is in favor. We have deco
rated churches entirely with daisies for
some of the out-of-town weddings in
country places. Then there have been
| functions at which wild-fiowers were
used exclusively.
1.-THE carnation, If it becomes fash
iona BILE, will always be more of a mans
flower than a woman's favorite. While
it makes an admirable bouquet for car
| rying, ii is not a graceful corsage flow
er, although it seems made for mans
coat.
1T may seem surprising. but my OBJ
servation of several years in business
In New York makes me believe that
men are fonder of flowers than women.
That is, they regard them with more
sentimental interest
Men will order flowers and will
leave standing orders for certain fiow-
ers that may not be decorative at all.
| For instance, one man well known In
the world of finance has a PASSION for
mignonette.
"A box of selected stalks of the giant
variety of this old-fashioned flower
goes TO his home each day and while
other flowers go also, this special bunch
is for him, and the finer 1t is the better
he is pleased.
"Ie will take the trouble to stop in to
compliment us on the excellence Of the
supply, its fragrance, and will boast Of
it's lasting qualities and praise 1t above
all flowers. His fondness for this bios
som is something like a craze.
lone Western sporting man comes In
and buys up all the California violets in
| the place when he sees them in the
window. 1t doesn't matter how much
or how little we have he must have
| them all.
Men never skinp in buying flowers.
| They always want something very fine
and plenty of it, especially when they
| are sending flowers as a gift to q Wo-
| man."
The chaperon, says the Brooklyn Ea-
gle, is not so much of am institution in
the breezy West as she is in the East,
| and in some quarters there are rather
hazy ideas as to her duties and re-
| sponsiblities. One Western girl, the
| freedom of whose life had made her
| exceptionally independent and self-re-
liant, gave an excellent illustration Of
this at an Eastern summer resort.
She was under the protecting wing Of
| an Eastern patron with very strict
ideas of propriety. The matron found
her charge one day sitting on the no
| tel veranda with strange man, and
naturally she was perturbed. She took
| a chair reasonably near them, to give
the girl a chance to present the young
man, but the girl ignored her. Final
| w. in desperation, the matron tried to
do, but the latter only smiled and
shook her head.
When the young man left, the ma
iron asked who he was.
"Oh, he's from Denver" answered
the girl.
ut is a chaperon's duty to decide
who are proper acquaintance for a
young girl" explained the matron.
You should have presented him to
me-"
Il suppose So" answered the girl.
nonchalantly. but, you see, he hasn't
very good reputation, and so I
thought II better you shouldn't meet
him"
/ thought a her duty TO protect the
chaperon was present when an inter-
national marriage was under discus
sion.
We'll" she announced. decisively.
| I'D never buy a husband. anyway"
"Oh. this wasn't that kind Of mar
rage explained one OF the other
/ girls "Of course. she's rich. but she
/ didn't have 10 settle any part 81 her
fortune on him. lie IL merely % have
80 much n year"
Perhaps that's safer" sdGgitted the
Westsrner. without any effort 20 con-
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