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The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
A REAL TEA HOUSE.

Japan will influence the Newport sea-
son and. says the New York World,
many novel Japanesque ideas will be
introduced at the fair city by the sea
by leaders of the society folk who
gather there for the gayeties of sum
mertide
The Japanese season will be led by
Mrs. William r. Travers of New York,
who will open early a novel Japanese
tea house on Ocean avenue where she
will entertain.
Everything, including the decora-
lions and costumes worn by hostess
and guests, will be Japanese.
Mrs. Travers' costumes, heretofore
very elaborate, will during the coming
season run along Japanese lines. The
eVer-pOpular kimono, so cool and de-
liShtful for summer, with slippers, fans
and parasol in harmony with the
kimOna, viii be a decided change from
the once popular lace robe and the de-
collete gown of paillettes and chiffon.
Not that Mrs. TraVers intends to
walk or drive along Bellevue avenue,
play tennis at the Casino, or prone
made the hot sands of Spouting Rock
Beach in any such costume. Nay, nay,
she simply intends to entertain her
friends at her Japanese tea-house in
a costume quite in keeping with the
surroundings.
Although maintaining modest cot
tage on Berkeley avenue known as the
Weaver cottage, Mrs. Travers will
spend a great deal of her time during
the coming season at her ea-house,
with many a midday luncheon, din
ners and still later evening suppers for
pleasant diversions.
Real Japanese will be in attendance
during the summer. and dainty little
Japs will cook and serve their dainty
little dishes to the guests, who on many
occasions will be asked TO appear in
Japanese costumes. C1op-Suey and
tea are to be excluded from the menus.
This unique little place is on Ocean
avenue, about two hundred feet south
of the landing place of the Gooseberry
Island Fishing Club. 1t is 60X40 feet,
is one story high, and with it's slanting,
matched roof looks to be very de-
sirable spot for a summer retreat. The
large room where the luncheons and
dinners will be served will accommo-
date twenty-five guests, and the de-
lightful little ante-roonIs will be
found very attractive. A veranda ten
feet wide stretches the entire length
of the front of the building. The place
is furnished throughout in Japanese
style.
Everything will be in readiness for
Mrs. Travers when she reaches New
port,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
FASHION FACTS
FROM ABROAD.

The couture is worn either very high
or quite low. The latest mode is to
take the hair straight up at the sides,
gathering it high on the top, with a
large black velvet bow, chou or f1ow-
er placed at the side
Fancy buckles, buttons and enamel
ornaments of every description are
worn, and bags worked in colored
beads of the renaissance period and
magnificently jeweled umbrella hand
les, tinted mother-of-pear ornaments,
attractively embroidered Wristbands
and waistcoats are among the new
things.
A return to the wearing of sequins
is noticed, but they are sequins of ex-
ceptional size and beauty, and moth
ing poor in the way of dress will he
tolerated nowadays. This is also the
case with paillettes. If you are going
to appear in spangles at all you must
be beautifully and plentifully be-
spangled-in fact. your dress must be
a shimmering, glittering mass, pre-
arabiy of jet. enhanced by the light
ness of chiffon of tulle or the beauty
of black chiffon velours. Black with
touch of color is seldom, if ever. TO
be tolerated. Black of the blacklist,
however with all it's delicious lights
and shades, is beautiful. Even
dull blacks have a chic all their
own.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
QUEER FACTS ABOUT
FINGER NAILS.

IT was feeling rather under the
weather when my manicure came this
morning" said the woman with an
indulgent husband, to the New York
Press. 1T seemed to me hard luck
that l must stay in town until the end
of August, when everybody else 1 know
is away in July. I exposed my crouch
to the manicure girl, and that cheer
full little body toned me up with lit
tie information about finger nails.
Il never before knew that the nails
grow more rapidly on the middle fin
gers than they do on the others, and
that the slowest growth is on the
thumbs. 1 was told, also, that the
nails grow considerably slower on the
right hand than they do on the left.
Manicures can tell at a glance wheth-
er a woman is in The habit of attend
ing to her own nails from her failure
to recognize this fact. The nails on
the right hand are invariably cut too
short.
mails grow as fast again in summer
as they do in winter, and they grow
much faster in children than they do
in adults. After women have passed
middle life their nails grow very slow
ly, and have a tendency to become
brittle. While the manicure girl told
me this, and more, my crouch chased
itself l was in a good humor for the
remainder of the day. All of which
goes to show that hot weather com
fort is mostly a matter of temperament
and .trif1es"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
THEIR PATHS IN LIFE.

IT often think" said an older woman
TO a New York Tribune representative,
when I see a group of girls together,
how widely different their lives will
probably be. and how unconsciously
they are going forward to meet the
fate which lies before them. In some
cases the intimate companions of a
few seasons are aware of the widely
divergent destinies that await them;
but, all the same, they give no thought
to the future, and are apparently en-
tirely engrossed with the trivial in
terests of thedr daily existence
Nearly three decades ago three
girls spent a happy summer together
at little seashore village. Two were
Americans, who afterwards married,
one in the East and another in the
West, and their lives i'm consequence
have drifted far asunder The other
was a tall, slim Japanese maiden of
rank whom her government at home
had placed under the care and chape-
ronage of cultured American woman
while she was receiving her education
Miss M had brought her young
charge to H for the sake of being
with her sister. and the latter's niece
and daughter soon made friends with
and became very intimate with the
the Far East, who spoke English
without an accent wore her pretty
summer frocks with as much style and
coquetry as the other girls; danced,
joked and perhaps flirted little with
the available young men of the place
with the same girlish gayety as the
rest: in short, was one of them in all
their fun. Yet what a vast difference!
Behind her lay a past and before her
stretched future so utterly and en-
tirely dissimilar to theirs that the girls
seemed to recognize the fact intui-
lively and seldom if ever alluded to
either They were all about eighteen.
and one afternoon they were t9lking
about their plans for the next winter.
The two young Americans were to
come out and were chattering about
balls, dinners, the opera, etc. "You
must come and stay with us, Stamat-
"a one of them said to their some
what preoccupied companion, who sat
on the floor playing with her pretty
many colored rice balls made of va
ried Chinese crepe and filled with
! grain, half a dozen of which she was
! keeping in the air at the same time,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
WOMEN IN THE
BUSINESS WORLD.

Fifty years ago, when a woman was
suddenly called upon to support her
self, says the Philadelphia Ledger
there seemed to be no field open to her
except to teach or to open a boarding
house. She might possibly go out by
the day to sew, but this was even more
arduous than either of the other two
employments, when there were no sew
ing machines to expedite the work. and
the weary worker had not only long
er hours. but less pay, than the seam
stress of to-day.
But now the world has awakened to
the fact that In a country like this
where fortunes are made and unmade
in a day. IL is as well to be prepared
for emergency. and the modern girl
no matter how wealthy, is made to NJ
herself in one branch or more, so that
if an evil day comes she may at least
be able to clothe herself, even IL not
entirely independent
There is no doubt that every man or
woman has some talent--it may lie
dormant until reused by opportunity
or necessity, but il is there. all the
same. BY talent is not necessarily
meant a great gift, such as a magnlh-
cent voice or artistic ability OF some
sort. No! An aptitude for any employ
ment, however humble, however pro-
sale. may be turned to account, and
must not. under any circumstances, be
despised.
There was a young woman not long
ago who was unexpectedly thrown on
her own resources, and who for a time
was almost in despair. She bitterly re-
GREETED her neglected opportunities for
education In some special line She
knew a little music. but the music mar
ket seemed to be overstocked. and she
had not sufficient knowledge to vie
with those teachers of higher quail
fications. and few Of her friends hap
pened to have children just at the age
to commence lessons.
But one day she was visiting an old
school chum. the oldest Of a large FAM
lily of boys and girls. This friend was
complaining Of huge basket OF fam
lily mending which usually fell to her
lot: IF only seamstresses We're will
ing to so out by the day to do darning
and repairing. ! would pay them for
that and make my own gowns. I hate
10 do repairing, but love to make new
things"
The remark gave a hint to the Wis
itor. and she grasped the opportunity.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17

and believe that they will eventually
get all their money back in due time.
1.-THE way my wife heard of the mat
ter was when our girl asked for per-
mission to so downtown one morning
last week to pay a visit to the bank.
My wife asked her what she was GO
ing to the bank for, and she confessed
that this family had asked her for the
loan of 500 as they were going abroad
in a few days. They would send it 10
her as soon as they reached the other
side, of course.
my wife proceeded to convince the
girl that she would be doing a very
foolish thing and finally prevailed on
her not to make the loan.
" I never heard of such a thing as
a mistress borrowing money that W4av
from her servants said She
" oh, that's nothing replied the
maid. I know lots of girls who are
owed so much money by their en-
ployerS that they can't leave their
places for fear they'd never get il
back. There's hardly girl in my ac-
quaintance who has not been asked
by the mistress more than once for a
loan, and manys the daughter of some
rich man who, having spent her AL
lowance. and is afraid to tell her father
gets enough from one of the servants
to tide over. Sometimes they repay
it, but often they don't. and it's a
shame.
/" "A little while ago the son of one
of the rich people in New York scan
dalized society by marrying maid of
his mothers Very few people knew
why he did this. but I did It was be-
cause he had borrowed so much money
of the girl that he could never repay
it, and when she demanded that he
either liquidate the debt or marry her
or take the consequences when she
should go and tell his father, he chose
the easiest way out and made her his
wife. 1t seems that he had been in
few gambling escapades and was
afraid to ask his father for money.
He had, in desperation. borrowed of
the servants. and this girl, being rather
INSCRIPTIONS, had managed to get
hold of a lot of money for him. till
the sum finally ran way up into the
thousands. When he had borrowed so
much that the only way he could ever
repay it was by asking his father for
it and telling him the whole story, she
made her demand on the young man
and he fell
I'm a different case a butler anlassed
quite pile by loaning money to mem
hers of the family at a high interest
and taking care that he had enough
Valuables under private key to protect
himself. But generally it's the other
way.
81 dare say" concluded McFingle
that there is a good deal of this sort
going on. if we only knew it, but
I hate to think such things are
possible"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
PACKING MADE EASY.

Packing time is here. Even those
who, through choice or necessity, have
to stay at home find themselves with
household and personal things to be
put away.
Nowadays, says the New York Sun,
one packs as carefully to stay at home
as 10 go away, and there is no gain
saying that packing, when properly
done, is a complex art. Trunks of all
sorts, shapes and sizes are to be had
at any and every price.
If one has a good bank account a
really fine trunk, no matter for what
purpose it is to be used, is an excel
lent investment.
Il bought one of those innovation
trunks in which gowns and waists are
hung up instead of folded and packed,
three years ago." said a young woman
who travels much, land it has been
the comfort of my life. I paid $65 for
it and [ thought the family would take
my head off, but they now unanimously
approve my trunk investment.
Lingerie is always easy to pack, so
it is only woman's waists and gowns
that make bother. Since I've had my
innovation trunk l would not ask more
than half an hour in which to pack
for tour around the world.
"In it I can easily hang sixteen elab-
crate gowns. and by crowding them
a little the trunk will hold twenty-one.
A trunk Of This kind will do much to-
ward helping a woman on her road to
heaven"
The newest dress suit case takes the
place of a handbag. 1t is not more
than eighteen inches in length and is
made of pigskin or elephants hide. 1t
holds twice as much as a handbag.
Sole leather kits seem to be running
the dress suit case out of business. as
far as the very swell man is concerned.
The kit is very English looking and
into its ample dimensions a deft pack
er can crowd almost as much as into
a small steamer trunk.
The economically, inclined are using
kits and dress suit cases of Japanese
straw, finished with leather straps and
handled. They are exceedingly light,
dura bile and elastic.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
BORROWING FROM SERVANTS.

1.-THE meanest people in all this big
city" said McFingle of the New York
World, "are those who live on their
servants"
Piscafilly looked an inquiry.
81 mean just what l say continued
McFingle. people who live on their
servants and borrow from their hard
earned wages I never knew till re-
Gently that there were such individuals,
but as the discovery of one case of a
kind often leads to other. so it was in
this instance.
MY wife and I are fortunate in the
possession of a maid who is faithful
and competent. We have had her some
time and are quite fond of her. On
several occasions she and Mrs. Nc
Fingle have chatted about the girls
life, and my wife has learned a good
deal about some of the other people
with whom the maid has lived. OF one
family in particular has she CLEANED
some interesting particulars. They
were once very comfortably off, but
in the past few years have lost their
money. But not their desire to shine,
for they still try to keep up their old
fashionable way of living, even though
they haven't the money.
"They still have three servants. live
in an expensive apartment and put on
all the old Jugs.
And how do they pay for it all ?
Out of the money they have borrowed
from their servants, for one thing
Each of the three they have now has
been with the family for years, and
accumulated a good little pile of saw
ings. A year ago the head of the
family approached one of the servants
and touched her for 500 for a few
days. He got the money but failed
to repay it in the time allotted. The
old servant. however made no COM
plant. A month later the family Dor
rowed another hundred. this time from
one of the other servants. A little
while afterward the third of the faith
full retainers was touched for a similar
amount, and, not content with this.
the family has held uD the young man
of one of the girls and got him for 5000.
Not penny of the money has been
repaid as yet. though the servants are
still true to their master and mistress.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
WEAR YOUR RINGS AT NIGHT.

Women are not wearing rings as
they did several years ago." said a
we'll known gem expert when asked
by the New York Sun, il rings ARE no
longer stylish. "They buy more rings
than ever before. but they use them
only for full dress.
Why. as recently as five years ago
the sex had a craze of making pawn
shop displays on their hands and wore
rings morning, noon and night, any
where and everywhere. Even women
in the deepest mourning did not dis
card their rings.
But ii is not so now. The matron
is content with wearing her wedding
ring, even putting aside her engage
ment ring, while her single sister, if
she wears even one ring, usually
adopts a plain dull gold seal ring
adorned with her coat of arms or some
body else's.
Rings are brought out with the
stars. but IL is now considered quite
vulgar to burden the hands with them
in the daylight"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17

while softly grooming a sort of monoto-
nous but musical chant This was
one of the very few habits of her
former life which she did not seem
shy of acknowledging, and it always
gave me an odd feeling of fascination
to watch the pretty, graceful Asiatic
i'm her up-to-date fashionable frock
playing the game of her childhood.
oh, as for me-. she answered, look
ing up with a smile, ] am going back
to Japan TO be married. Both girls
exclaimed and make a rush at her.
How could she leave America and all
her friends?' Why did she not stay
and MARRY that nice young DR.. Graves,
who was so much in love with her"
etc.
"Stamatza sat with an inscrutable
smile on her face, although she ans
wered their questions readily enough.
No, she did not know her fiance. In
fact, she had never seen him. her
father had arranged it all, and had
written to her to come home. A GER
tain constrait made itself felt. Stamat-
"a seemed suddenly to belong to diff
ferent world. She rose to her feet,
and, still keeping the balls in the air,
moved toward the door. 'Good-by.' she
said, with "A little laugh, as she closed
it after her. and a few minutes later
we heard a strange little tinkle in the
room above US 1T is her koto.' said
one of the girls, but she would never
play it before l saw it in her trunk
Miss NJ. who was clever, remarked:
Tt Is her race that call her: she must
have been deeply moved by her let
ters She has been in our world but
not of it. You can never assimifate
an Asiauc. A few weeks after that
Stamatza sailed for home. For a few
years she wrote to the girls OCCASION
ally, and sent lovely present at Christ
MAS, but after their marriage the cor
respondence gradually dropped. Ku-
mOrs of her rank fashion and influence
at court came to her quiet friends from
time to time. The present war has
brought her family largely to the fore,
and among the foremost names of the
day are mentioned those of her hus-
Band and brother, whose pictures are
all the current illustrated periodicals.
! wonder if she ever thinks of the old
days on the beach," said Mrs. Tom
Smith, as she reminisced about the
friend of her youth, who years ago
disappeared beyond her ken within the
Flowery Land"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
THE FLIGHT OF TIME.

Men and women who remain single,
says the New York Tribune, are apt
to lose all sense of the passage of time.
They are conscious of no perceptible
difference in their own feelings-they
grow older so gradually that they do
not notice any particular difference in
their appearance, so it is no wonder
that every now and then they are
brought up as it were with a disa gree
able shock.
Where have you come from?" said
a man to A college chum whom he met
at the Grand Central Station, and
whom he had not seen for what SEEM
ed to him only few years.
1--WE just been seeing Tom off to
school, said the other.
ITO school" repeated the friend,
looking puzzled. "Why, surely, he
must be at college by this time -
The second man gave a great laugh.
"Why, wake up, Rip Van WinkIe!" he
cried. my brother Tom, if you are
thinking of him, has been through col
lege long ago, and is married. 1 am
talking of my son, who is IL years old,
and is going up to C. for his first
term"
''Great Scott" exclaimed the first
man, feeling somehow as if the years
had shrivelled up and blown away.
"Iow did you do it all so fast?"
ut is very difficult to keep track of
people that you do not see all the time"
remarked a suburban woman. 'The
other day went off my own route and
took the ferry to Staten Island to Wis
it a friend. On the boat I saw wom-
an with whom I used to be quite in
innate. You know Nelly has been so
very i'll, she said, but now we are so
happy, for the doctors have pro-
nounced her out of danger.
" I am so glad, I exclaimed cordial
ly. How relieved you must be-! The
truth of the matter being that l did
not have the slightest idea who Nelly
was"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
THE TIME TO MARRY.

Love and marriage have naturally
deep and abiding influence over the
thought of woman. says the Philadel-
phia Ledger. When the last century
was young early marriages were very
common, and a young girl was fire.
quently a wife and mother several
years before reaching the age of 20
Now 1t is an unusual occurrence for a
girl to assume such responsibilities
until we'll on in her twenties. or per-
haps thirties. and a wise change 1t IS,
for upon considering girls of Is and
16 at the present day 1t would be an
open question as to whether they would
be willing to forego all the JOY and
happiness which comes at no other Pc
riod of life and settle down into the
house another.
No let the girls play golf and tennis,
let them row and dance. let them read
and study, and fit themselves for the
greater work which comes with later
years. Let their judgment mature, ana
there will be fewer mistakes made III
choosing a life partner and less cause
for divorce.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17
THE TOO ATTRACTIVE TRAP.

There are maids and maids: some
are intelligent, other are-well, maids"
the st. Louis Globe Democrat says.
"A few days ago a friend of mine
employed one of the others-one of the
maids.
1.-THE night before the arrival of the
maid i'm question my friends wife dis
covered some unmistakable signs of
mice in her Kitchen so she bought and
set a trap for them. The next after
noon-the girl had been in the house
some hours then-she bethought her
self of the trap and went to look for it.
It wasn't where she had placed it.
she couldn't find it. in fact. anywhere,
so she asked the girl what had become
of it. oh, that dirty thing I threw
1t out was the astonishing answer,
for l found it was attracting all the
mice in the house to it,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17

-Maurizio Camerino, an artist from
Venice. has begun work on several
more elaborate mosaic designs on me
interior OF the Stanford MemorlaI
Church at Stanford University can
fornia. The new mosaics will repre-
sent biblical scenes and will be placed
over the entire side walls Of the OF
gan loft and the east and west tran
sept wings. At present those waHs5
are surfaced with smooth-taceu
stone, ornamented with artistlcalls
carved designs, but these will be new
out and the mosaic work substtu
When the proposed work is completed
the entire interior wall surface OF w
edfice will be covered with mosstt'
The work will require eight moh'i'
for completion.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-17

pliabIe al the parts, and
assists nature in its sublime
work. BY its aid thousands
of women have passed this
great crisis in perfect safety