The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-02

never dream of criticising her tastes, or
pursuits:
Then, there is Mrs. s., another dear
friend. She, too, betrays snobbish pro-
pensities in another way. She talks
continually of smart people, as if she
knew them Intimately. Their names
are forever on her lips. Somehow on
her card basket Mrs. Tiptop's paste
board is always among those on top,
although 1 happen to know she only
had her footman leave her card once,
and that in theN natural order of
things. IT would have ben submerged
long ago. Evidences of high society,
too, are left as If casually in the draw
ing room, and annual dinner invitation
from a certain punctilious and very
gracious great lady, a framed photo
graph, with Love from Eva written
across the bottom. Who is Eva? Why,
Mrs. Midas, of course, but Mrs. c..
does not add that, the photo was TAX
en- years ago, long before Mrs. Midas
became a social leader. She has almost
entirely dropped Mrs, G. now, but the
latter still clings to- the proof of for
mer intimacy. OF course, Mrs. Midas
is snobbish, Also or she would not ig-
more her old friend In fact, when one
comes to think of t,anearly every one
we know is more or less of a snoh--
and how is it with ourselves? No. we
are certainly not snobbish. Like the
old Quaker lady, we protest All the
world is queer except thee and me,
John-and thee's a little queer!"
The bag habit, says the New York
Sun, used to be the special character
istic of Boston women and the ugly,
but serviceable, little device of cloth
and leather, that could stretch to- hold
all sorts of small belongings frem a
volume of Ibsen to a safety hairpin
was celebrated as the Boston bag from
Maine to CaliferniasSE To-day the bag
habit has seized, on 0Womapkind and
spread like an epidemic.
No shopper or caller or traveller
ventures beyond the shelter of her own
isome unless a bag Is hung TO her belt
or swings from her 6hgers,. and nine
tenths of the feminine population carry
two bags at a time and comfortably
boast of possessing half a dozen Others
at home. scft'
To enumerate few of the variousy
shaped reticules now considered essen
tial to womanly convenience is to mem
ton at least the side bag, carriage
bag. railway bag, wrist bag, handker-
chief bag, theater bag. and shopping
bag. These are made of everything
from alligator skin, with pewter
mounts, to the finest gold wire net
work, in the mesh of which dozens of
tiny diamonds or turquoise beads are
meshed.
These last are so very delicate and
so very costly, that they will only
carry the owners cobweb pocket hand
kerchief, while their price, If both
metal and stones are real, mounts JUS
tifiably into the thousands.
The bag in which the majority find
the greatest joy and convenience, is
the stout capacious safety shopping
bag of glazed baby alligator skin,
lined with suede fastened not only
with a snap lock, but satchel clips on
the side, and adjusted by strap and
buckle to one of its outer sides is an
ample purse with change and bill
pockets.
Within, the bag is divided, along its
leathern walls, into fiat compartments,
in which in gilt letters are stamped
samples" "hairpins, %cards," "foun-
tain pen," pencil" shopping list, .
mirror" comb and smelling salts,
The center of the bag is left free to
hold parcels, and as the bottom of the
bag pulls out like a bellows, "a most
amazing number of small things can
be put in without overtaxing it's ca
pacity. This sort of bag can be brought
all fitted, or the purchaser can put her
own things into its compartments,
though the manufacturer, with great
forethought. mounts the bag itself,
mirror, comb, pen, pencil and salts bot
tie in aluminium.
The leather travelling bag is equally
complete. though some women have
taken kindly to basket designed. in
France, and called the Bon Marehe, in
honor of the great Partisan shop Of
that name. French peasant women
weave these baskets, which are all
ways provided with pretty leather
straps and handles and are exceed
ingly fashionable as work bags at the
modish sewing classes and Dorcas cir
cles.
Silver and gold and gun metal side
bags have not had their popularity in
jured in the least by the appearance of
the exquisite brocaded satin and bead
ed silk side bags, mounted with metal
tops and chains; and the wrist bag Is
In as high favor as ever.
The exceedingly smart wrist bag Is
made no longer of suede, but of sweet
morocco, perfumed Russia leather, or
velvet calfskin. IL you want to pay
the top price for a wrist bag, ask for
an imported one of sea COW skin,
mounted in gun metal and powdered
with diamond SHARKS