The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-05

are to be relegated to oblivion. That
could never be; they have won for
themselves an established plaee. But
that place this year is in the back
ground, and the new dances have pre-
cedence.
Their chief features are picturesque
poses and graceful movements. One
which is bound to be very much the
vogue is the Unique Dance. The
movements made by the "Florodora"
sextette in their famous turn suggest
ed it. 1t is a combination of these
movements with the two-step. The
first position is that of the sextette
when leaving the stage. Each man
offers his arm to his partner, and they
take a few steps, after the fashion of
the sextette.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the wives of the
cabinet members, who meet every
Tuesday morning in solemn conclave,
are discussing a plan to revolutionize
the dinner costume now in vogue.
Heretofore Washington's society wo-
men without distinction of position
have appeared at dinner in the regula-
tion decollete gown. Quips and sneers
at this full dress have been unavail-
ing to compel them to make their
gowns an inch higher at the neck. Mrs.
Roosevelt and her associates propose
that. while the gown itself shall not
be tampered WITH a jacket or dinner
coat shall become proper and fash
ionable mode of keeping the shoulders
warm. The late Mrs. Gage was
champion of this reform and some as
sert that her death is attributable to
a cold which attacked her at a dinner
party.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her friends in
tend, therefore, to introduce a gar
ment modelled on that of the consort
of Charles II, Queen Catherine of Bra
ganza. This garment can be dropped
from the shoulders with ease and again
readily adjusted. 1t is close-fitting at
the back, with loose sleeves and of
general dolman shape.
When in France the Empress Eu-
genie often spends a week or two in
Paris, where 1.-The Man in the Street"
seldom knows that the fragile looking,
white-haired woman going about so
quietly dressed. always in mourning,
and so gentle and unassuming in man
ner, is one and the same personality
as the beautiful Empress Regent on
whom the red mob of Paris endeavored
to lay violent hands some thirty years
ago, and who, at the very moment that
the Communards were bowling round
the Tuileries (before the arrival of the
Versailles troops), was flying for her
life to the coast to the safety of an
English yacht. Her slight figure is
somewhat bent now, and her poor
hands are so crippled with rheumatism
that she has some difficulty in putting
on her gloves; but for all that she is
still her own fascinating self-an EN-
press always-and in her manner to
all what the expressive language of
her adopted country describes as 'gra-
cieuse."
Paper flowers are finding favor for
decorations: for afternoon teas they
do contribute a very pretty Japanese
effect.
You can buy Them, says the Phila-
delDhia North American, at the shops,
or, better still, you can make them
yourself at home and you will find it
novel and interesting fancy-work
pastime.
Branches of japonica are particu-
larly effective in giving a room a bright
and gay appearance. The materials
required for making them will be some
small twigged tree branches, cotton
wool. green red and yellow paper, fine
wire and an egg. That last seems a
strange contribution, but it is needed
all the same.
To begin with, you gently wash the
branches to free them from dirt. When
they are thoroughly dry the white Of
the egg is used to paint them all over,
and it gives them a bright and glossy
look.
pattern of a japonica petal will be
needed. A woman at all clever with a
lead pencil can draw one on thin card
board. Cut 1t out and use it for
pattern. Fold the red tissue paper
into several thicknesses and then place
the pattern ON 1t, and cut a number
OF petals at a time. Before separating
them pinch them up around the edges,
so that the petals of the flowers. when
completed. shall have the natural in
ward curve.
Next cut long strips of yellow
crinkled paper about three quarters of
an inch wide. fold them several times.
and with the scissors snip into fine
fringe about three parts down. Lastly
cut from the green paper several long
strips half an inch wide, to be used
for binding flowers to the stalks, and
oblong pieces an inch by an inch and
half wide. to be used for the backs
of the flowers.
Now select a small piece of cotton
wool, to be used as the flower founda-
ton. wind it about with three inches
of the prepared yellow paper, wire it,
and you have the center of your flower.
Arrange around it the petals, wire
them also, cover the ends and the wad-
ding with the oblong piece of green
paper, having padded the wadding
little here to make the thick back of
the flower. Brush over the paper with
little white of egg. to cover imperfec-
tons. and make the edges stick to-
gether. Then you have your flower
completed.
Buds may be made by covering a
piece of cotton wool with red paper. to
make the scarlet center. and then wind
ing the green about It. Wire the bud
and pinch it into shape.
When you have a good supply of
both flowers and buds you may pro-
ceed to trim the branches. The flow
ers and the buds together should be
wired on in punches, just as you would
find them growing on the natural
shrub. Afterward the branches should
be wound with green paper to cover
the wires and ends. AS a finishing
touch, this paper should be painted
over with the white of egg, which,
when dry. will turn a brownish green
and give the flowers the appearance OF
growing directly out of the stalk.
Who does not know some young
preacher, or leader in the Y. M. G. A..
or some other altruistic alphabetic So
ciety, whom we all speak OF. a victim
to his worldly wife? Probably we are
right enough. Probably they are both
miserable. He. because she has no SYM
pathy with his exalted spiritual aims.
She, because she is denied the gayety.
the brightness, the light that her pIeas