The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-19

of the idle mornings in Manila is sit
ting on the floors of the corridors and
steps bargaining with the Chinese pack
men who are ready to supply every
need. From them one may buy satin
brocade or Chinese muslin at cents
a yard. Indeed we all had these Chi
nese muslins, a sheer fine barred ma
terial, ten yards for an peso-that
is to say for one dollar silver. The
Chinese grass linen of Manila is only
about eighteen inches wide, and one
may buy forty yards for IS, silver.
This is so lustrous that it looks like
silk.
But let me celebrate the stuffs of
Luzon. These are pre-eminently pima
and jusi-pronounced peny and hoosy,
Pima resembles silk boiling cloth. 1t
is made from the fibre of the pineap-
pie stalk 1t is ivory white in tint,
and the nuns and native women they
have taught will enrich it with en-
broidery equal to anything in France.
just is made of pine fibre and hemp,
and has stripes of silk called lista. 1t
is sometimes called Manila gauZe. AS
a fabric it surpasses grenadine in tex
ture and durability. The native dyes
have none of our tints. and their reds,
yellows, blues and puppies excel in
beauty and vitality; for like the Latin
went to Manila these could be bought
for eight and twelve dollars, silver,
for twenty barras, a little less than
our yard. But war and our demand
have brought these prices up to $18
and $25 a piece. / speak of Mexican
money, which, divided by two, be-
comes gold
Manila produces beautiful hats. The
finer sell from s1S. to $25. and rival the
1a,. Do t,o t1aar do
not wear hats, but we found the mems
hats adaptable. For 20 cents one could
afford a fresh hat every few weeks. L
still wear one of mine which exceeds
in comfort and lightness anything we
have except the crinolines. When the
duties permit we will doubtless have
these goods in this country. Sewing is
cheap in Manila, where one may have
a competent maid, who is a capable
seamstress, for 81 silver. a month.
1t is at Yokohama that the East be
gins to unfold it's treasures of silk and
and crepe. Now is the time to begin to
invest in silk petticoats and shirt
waists. 1t is the country also for re-
=, newing, matching, endulging ones ca
prices. Wanting some gray crepe of a
particular shade to make reverS for
black velvet coat, ] purchased, by ad-
vice, white crepe for so cents yard,
had it dyed the exact tint for 80 cents,
and gracefully embroidered with white
and black butterflies, according to the
required forms for one dollar In effect
it is a work of art, each butterfly being
1ndividualiaed and worthy of study
Thus one may have a robe embroidered
according to ones fancy, as did an ac-
quaintance who chose to have cherry
blossoms and branches bestrew her
gown.
The sewing is accomplished with
equal ease. There are swell Japanese
and Chinese tailors, but the joy of
| ones heart is the little Japanese sew
ing man who comes to your home to
take your measure and directions, re-
| turns to fit you, and brings home your
work when he promises it. Thus we
had shirt waists made for so cents a
piece, from silk which cost 81 cents a
yard. When silk is bought by the piece
one may indeed enjoy luxury We
bought a niece of white silk forty
yards. for ven 30-$15-and divided it
up between us. Thus white shirt
waists, skirts and lingerie, so to say
| which the neighbors clamored to hem
| stitch at a cent strip
| The Chinese tailors of Yokohama
| have a world wide reputation Who
| does not know Chang Chow on the
| Yokohama bund? In him doth the ma
val officer put his trust. The rousseau
/ of a budding naval officer is something
to see-blue cloth, white satin and gold
lace galore. 1t is the hope, of every
MILDLY to come into these on the Asiatic
Station for the reason that he may
get his wardrobe for more than one
half less than the price of it at home.
: For example, one that l know cost but
$500 in the East, against $780, which