The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-01

Coronation stockings and such things
are described in a London letter in the
New York Mail and Express as fol-
lows:
All sorts of Coronation" articles of
attire are now being displayed in the
shops. You cannot ask for an ordinary
pair of silk or Isle thread stockings
without having atrocities displaying
imperial crowns worked on the instep
thrust a you. Lace neckties, hand
kerchiefs, embroidered underwear,
gloves, belts and all the endless odd
ments of feminine attire bear a ma
tional emblem of some kind.
Shoes with buckles shaped like
| crowns, gloves. the buttons of which
bear small miniature bas-reliefs of the
| King and Queen, note paper lace cur
| tains and even kitchen utensils all
seem to be sprinkled with the inev-
| liable presentment of royal counte-
| nances or imperial diadems. In fact,
| the whole thinsg. seems to be Just a
| little overdone, and what a few weeks
ago was looked forward to with some
pleasure, is now regarded with a good
deal of polite boredom.
/ am told that there is not that un-
disciplined rush on the part of wealthy
Americans to secure houses in London
for the season that had been fondly
hoped for by London householders. In
IdCl, HedTH on reildDfe autnOrlIy, lndI
the house agents are more or less in
despair over the number of residences
that they have been commissioned to
get rid of for the season, but which
apparently are to have no bidders
novelty has been started by an
organize ton in New Bond street, KIN own
as 1.-The Social Bureau" in connection
with a society paper called the con
locker" One of the departments in the
Social Bureau is in the care of three or
four reasonable young ladies. who are
well acquainted by sight with the
faces and names of celebrities in Lon
don society. Their mission is to be
engaged by wealthy seekers after
knowledge who desire to see those
interesting ladies and gentlemen con-
corning whose doings they read in the
columns of fashionable papers.
Two weeks ago to-day Mrs. b. F.
Boiler, who is filing the pulpit at the
Franklin Avenue Congrega tional
Church of Cleveland. until her husband
RECEIVERS from a fractured jaw. result
ing from an accident, preached a SER
mon on THE Young Man Who Goes
A-Wooing.'
Last Sunday she preached a sermon
on when the Young Lady Is
Wooed" to large congregation large
ly composed of young people. She said,
in part, addressing the men on their
duty to woman from infancy: 1.-The
years pass with women supplying that
made for your comfort and conceit
Your food. clothing and education We're
given you by a woman, and you are
going to try to pay off that great debt
which has been outstanding and COM
pounding interest for twenty or thirty
years by wooing one of the sex and be-
slowing yourself upon her for life. Yet
with all this burden of obligation
watch the men In the street cars who
have courtesy enough to give seats
to the pretty girls only, or to the fash
ionably dressed women, letting short
women cling to straps or tall women
with bundles sway and bend as the
car lurches in stopping or bumps in
starting.
The men, tired. too-paid for seat
Women only been shopping and not
tired Nonsense. Let a man do the
work the woman did before she started
from home, then clothe him as custom
has made her to clothe herself, or let
him shop a few hours with her limited
supply of money. and see if he is not
! tired afterward.
II believe that as a rule men who