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WOMEN’S AFFAIRS.
lßl orS MATTERS WHICH ARE OF |
T GENERAL INTEREST.
Fad in Fashions-A Few
Tories Which Hava a Flavor of
Truth-A Little Gossip That May
1 ; f . e the Feminine Fancy-What !
t t e World of Society is Doing and
Talking About.
W long ago somebody experimented
'n diwt gathered rrom various places to
* b for microbes. The dust from a city
* t that gathered from the sweeping of
K ’ ta i ward, some taken from a street
Vat the end of a trip—these accumula
more were examined, with start
le results. What struck terror to the
JVt of the house mother was the state
-1 ent ia connection with all this invediga
_ tliat a rug could not be shaken, a
curtain dusted oat, or a carpet brushed in
h€r dr main without raising a cloud of
organisms more or less injurious to the
* ly health. The innocent pastime of
oarior dancing was inveighed against as
heading out disease germs, and the final
weeping assertion made that it was im-
to make a carpet clean in a hygienic
sense.
The London Lancet, however, comes to
the rescue. That authority pronounces car
pet microbes not to be feared. The air of a
wholesome w ell-kept house is not on sweep
ing day toe poison-laden atmosphere which
u depicted. Dust is found in carpets and
microbes are found in dust, but all dust is
not so impregnated, and it is safe to assume
that most dust found in carpets is harmless.
The care“r of the millionaire society that
has bee i organized by Mrs. W. K. Vander
blt Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. Seward Webb
aid other men and women in sympathy
with these would-be leaders will be watched
with a great deal of interest, says the New
York World.
The qualifications of the women who are
conducting the movement have been made
the subject of endless discussion, and the
obstacles they will be called upon to meet
have been carefully estimated.
As I understand it the brilliant women
named propose to make personal wealth the
first and most important test of social eligi
k*xhe ability to maintain superb town and
country establishments and the willingness
to give costly entertainments must be dem
onstrated before these latest arbitors of
fashionable acceptability will consent to
c nsider the claim of any family or any in
dividuals to social recognition.
The men and women who have been
identified with the Patriarch and Assembly
balls for years, but who are not blessed
with immense personal fortunes, cannot
hope to gain admission to this newly drawn
circle, whose single and narrow gate is to
be worked in gold and studded with precious
stones.
Genealogical rec/ds, family trees, grand
fathers and even chemical testimony as to
the tint and color of the candidate’s blood
are of no account at ail unless accompanied
s>y tho musical clink of countless gold aid
the crisp rustle of uncut coupons.
Whether or not the standard of member
ship ran be kept up to the point indicated
remains to be seen.
It is to be feared that tbepeopla inside the
gate will become tired of each other and
grey very lonely.
At present, however, the qualifications
mentioned are severely required, and Mrs.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Seward
Webb have all put on queenly crowns, each
of them worth an ordinary fortune, so as to
give importance and weight to their decis
ions.
A young society woman of Washington
has recently confided to a man frieud in
this city a most remarkable state of things
in tho “hupper succles” of the national
capital, says the Now York Sun. Not long
ago this young lady gave a dancing party
for some guests—two young girls—from
another city. Among those bidden were
two well-known young men, who, when the
hostess asked to present them to her guests,
declined the honor, saying that their circle
of women friends was already so large that
they did not care to increase it. ‘ ’And they
made not the slightest attempt at any recog
nition of my guests, but danced with their
own particular friends and ate my supper
and wont away.”
“But,” said her friend, “the idea of your
allowing such rudeness in your own house!
Why did you not at once ask them to with
draw, if they couldn’t take the trouble to
be agreeable to your guests ?
“0,1 couldn’t do that," she replied plain
tively, “because they would be offended if
I did, you know, and never come back, and
there are so few young men in Washington
society that we could not afford to lose
them.”
At a pink dinner en costume given last
week to twelve ladies of social prominence,
sa . vs tho New York Times, one of the guests
wore the actual toilet in which she appeared
at a reception thirty years ago. It was the
hight of tho fashion at that time. The dress
8 . ma gnificent one of heavy old rose
silk, with trimmings of Honiton lace. It
was cut away in the neck with voluminous
sleeves, full gathered skirt, and immense
hoops. She wore a headdress to match,
hiitts, and carried a bag. Her pink
kid gaiters were long and slender and
laced on the inside. Another guest wore a
genuine gown of her great-great-great
grandmotber’s. This was a white silk with
clusters of brilliant flowera on a brocaded
ground, and was worn with a petticoat of
another shade, to which a large Gainsbo
rough hat corresponded in color. Old laces
and jewels completed the costume, and its
wearer, as did her ancestor, adorned her
lair face with numerous patches of court
\v- in star aDd other designs.
7 these gay toilets a perfect Quaker
costume admirably contrasted. The ex
quisite poarl-gray gown and poke bonnet
were made by a New York modiste, and
were worn by a very beautiful New Jersey
oinan. Lady Washington assisted at the
inner personated by a stately dame, and a
‘ parnsh senorita in corn color and black sat
(-v,fin, to ? Turkish lady of high degree.
in a white frock, long flaxen
ns, baby slippers, and wide-brimmed hat
v P reseil t. The feast was a famous
■ , * S| ° men were asked, and now the
i J,F “' ant tbe dinner repeated with cards
tor the husbands.
TwiV 8 ’ * rather boa car driver than a
ate co * on man in a swell family,” said a
ros T~f ac0 and young man on a Broad
in=t’ Car to a New York Sun man. “It’s
J st this way; I know my hours now, and I
,i us>t w hen I’ll be home with my
• 16 and babies, and when I won’t. When
( , as driving for the G.’s, up on Madison
IVh 't r:ever knew a minute’s peace.
.]® 0U 1 Lad nothing to do, I must be
. , ia .the stable, subject to
all ? * bad beautiful clothes and
i could eat, but the work came
die 1 &n me sometimes that I nearly
-i;” ben there were visitors I was going
g . i time; every night I was out till 2or
and i? j 'i* 6 morning at halls and parties,
shn * day I was first dovvn among the
a / S ’ an< * t * len ou " through the park. At
j, l .®y w oman said she’d run away from
tu• didn’t keep better hours. I spoke to
about it, and she said if I didn’t
emypiacel could leave. That night
d™ was a big ball at Delmonico’s and I
the' 1 home until 4’ o’clock in
™ orn *ng, after waiting nearly two
„ o “ rs ln the coldest wind that ever blow. I
° Wn 10 house just as the woman was
y hhg up to light the fire for breakfast. I
tir n 7°d a different kind of a warm recep
in o , the one I got There was no use
plaining about the ball. I had to take
•0 scolding, and it was that bad that I
- Ja U P mv mind to leave my place that
day. Idy eo , and got a job on the
toir here - Now I’m all right I ain’t
thr/’ an< * I car) ’t look down oa poor people
0 way I could from my high box, but I
can get home at night and not get my head
howled off me. Between you and me a car
company is pretty tough on its servants,
but it isn’t a marker to a swell old society
woman.”
Flat, straight skirts, with a suspicion of
drapery, opened on the sides, paneled in
front and set off by a Louis XVI. orna
ment at the bottom—such are the char
acteristics of elegant outdoor cosiumes,
while the corsage still remains the territory
for the display of elegance and richness in
the way of ornamentation, says the New
York Star. The straight waist and round
basque with insertion, collarette, etc., con
tinue in voque, while tie Henry 11. sleeve,
raised well up on the shoulders, draped
above the elbow and tight below, remains
the modish thing to affect.
I can see in it an inclination to get back
to the plaiu, tight sleeve; but who will not
be sorry to see it go—that charming bit of
fancy in feminine dress, so full of possibili
ties and so likely to add to the charm and
elegauos of the female figure? The plain
sleeve, while it goes very well with the
tailor-made, lacks entirely the coquettish
and dressy character of the Henry 11.
sleeve, which accentuates the width of tho
shoulders and the smallness of the hands
It looks very much as if the center of
American colonization in Europe, says the
New York World, were changing from
Paris to London. The American colony in
the former city, my correspondents write
me, was never at so low an ebb. In London,
on the contrary, it is steadily and rapidly
increasing.
There are two reasons for this. One is to
be found in the excessive rapacity of the
Parisian tradespeople toward the foreigner.
The other is simply that London, while still
European, is nearer home m the sense of
ease and comfort to American residents.
Moreover, greedy as the English trades
men are, they have still sense enough not to
kill the goose that lays them eggs of gold.
This is no small item to many Americans,
w ho go abroad to pull in their purse strings
rather than to loosen them.
One thing is positive. There will be weep
ing and wailing and gnashing of fashionable
teeth in London this coming season. By
actual count there are twice as many Amer
ican women there who expect to be pre
sented at court than can by any possibility
be presented, and every steamer from this
side adds to their number.
Hope will keep on telling the same flatter
ing tale, however, till hopelessness super
venes. If there is any ignis fatuus that
lures the American woman on more madly
than the glitter of a coronet it is the hope
to press her lips upon the flabby and fever
ish hand of the Empress of India, and to
catch pneumonia on her way home after the
crush has reduced her gown to rags.
Avery handsome reception dress, says the
Herald's Paris letter, is made of a redingote
skirt, with a long train of sea foam velvet,
mounted on big gathers behind aud trimmed
with ruches of gaze de soie of cream color,
bound with gold. This skirt is open at the
front aud brocaded with silk and gold, em
broidered with gold. It is deoollete Marie
Stuart style, and framed with cream gaze
de soie ruches, edged with gold. A corselet
belt of sea foam velvet, embroidered with
gold. The sleeves of brocade of white silk
aud gold, omliridered with gold, trimmed
and shculdered with ruches of cream gauze
edged with gold. Ruche* at the bottom of
tho sleeves. Gloves of wheat suede. Greek
coiffure, with a comb ornamented with
precious stones. A Byzantine necklace or
namented with precious stones.
Funny stories nnent the President’s re
ception to the diplomatic corps are still
going the rounds, says a VVashiugtoa letter
ia the New York Press. One of the most
amusing Is related by a lady who was herself
the heroine of the episode. She found herself
struggling in the midst of a terrible crowd
oomposed of everybody high and low. The
heat averaged 90°. Prespiration rolled
from tbe Drows of the weary and hapless
guests who tried in vain to approach the
President and Mrs. Harrison. The lady in
question, who is celebrated in Washington
for her ready wit and her fearless
method of expressing the same, stood
for an hour or more between a throe
hundred pound woman and a towering
gentloman in uniform whose right epaulet
with its stiff bullion fringe was exactly
on a level with madam’s nose aud scratched
her frightfully. By and by, when bedrag
gled, perspiring and utterly exhausted, she
reachd the presidential party she surveyed
Mr. Harrison with a quizzical look and ex
claimed loudly enough to be heard by ovary
one within twenty feet of her: “Well, Mr.
Pi esident, my gown is ruined and so is my
temper. Now hand out your turkey and
your punch!” The President stared for a
moment, then, unable to control himself,
burst into a laugh. Mr*. Harrison smiled,
then joined in the mirth. Mrs. McKee
shook with merriment, and pretty soon the
entire receiving party were in convulsions.
The whole of Washington has been laugh
ing ever since.
I dropped in to have a chat with a charm
ing little friend of mine, whom as child,
maiden and mother I’ve known for tea
years and more, says Clara Belle in the
Republic. She was Daisy D. before her
marriage. Now she is Mrs. Robert McG.,
and has teen so just three years. I found
her alone —woll, no, net exaotly alone, for
she was in company with a pretty little
family skeleton, no larger than one of those
Japanese playthings you see in curio stores,
but a skeleton all the same. She burst into
tears and, throwing her arms around my
neck, sobbed out:
“it will kill me! It will kill me!”
“O, no, it won’t” said I. “What is it!”
“Rob was at the French ball,” she sobbed
again. “Jack—you know Cousin Jack—
told me so. It’s Rob’s first false step, for
his mother assured me that he was as pure
minded as a girL”
“Cheer up,” said I; “why, he only went
as a looker-on. Very exemplary men go
there to look on, I’m told.”
“I know, I know,” came with another
sob; “but think cf his being there all alone.
Men are so easily led away. We sow ‘The
Cletner.ceau Case’ three times, and both of
us are very fond of the ballet, too, but it’s
terrible to think of his seeing such things
without having me at his side.”
Poor little child-wife! That first cry of
despair cut mo to the verv sonl. Here we
find a deep and earnest bit of philosophy
issuing from the lips of a woman barely out
of her teens. Man is good, meaos well,
makes fine resolves, but he is weak and goes
easily astray. He needs an angel by his
sido. Daisy was perfectly willing that he
should look npon all the respectable vice of
this city so long as she was by bis sido! But
now the dainty little white polished skele
ton lay in Daisy’s lap. Jack had told her
that he had seen Rob at the French ball.
Take care, Master Rob, Daisy is right!
A New York woman, visiting in Wash
ington recently, has this to say, says the
New York Times: “The day after my ar
rival I went with my hostess upon a round
of ‘at homes.’ It happened that at the
very first place I met a senator’s wife, who
told me in the course of the conversation
that Mrs. Harrison said So-and-so’s in Now
York was a remarkably cheap place to buy
shoes. There was nothing startling in the
remark, yet being a white house utterance
it remained in my mind. I soon discovered
it remained in the mind3 of other persons as
well. Three times that afternoon, in three
separate places a: dby three different per
sons, I was told of Mrs. Harrison’s discov
ery in the shoo line. When on the next
day a fourth woman began tho same tale I
almost laughed in her face. Then I began
to keep count. I staid m Washington one
week, and nine persons informed mo what
the President's wife’s opinion was of the
price of shoes at tni New York shop. It is
almost impossible Mrs. Harrison should
have made the remark to more than one
person it. iudeed, she ever made it/ at all.
From the pertinacity with which it was re
peated, however, I was forced to the con
clusion that oven in a court or republican
simplicity the utterances of the throne are
very higuiy regarded.”
. A pretty evening dross, says a Paris
writer in the Herald, is of emerald green
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1891--TWELVE PAGES.
velvet aud straw-colored satin. The trim
ming of gold open embroidery. The front
of the drees arranged as a straight apron of
satin, trimmed with three bands of velvet,
embroidered with gold and forming an
entre-deux. The front of the corsage of
s itin, drawn together in gathers, so as to
show the figure, by a band of embroidered
velvet. It is closed at the center, and is
placed over a tight lining with darts. The
fronts of velvet placed over the side* of tne
front of satin, opening and emoro dered in
the form of open work lace. The fronts
redingote, drawn close* to the fig re and
'opening over the apron. An embroidery of
passementerie ornamectinx the sides over
the redingote. A Medicis collar with open
work embroidery. Leg of mutton sleeve of
tbe same emoroide-y, velvet and gold. The
back of the dress princesse, aud sides of the
back furnishing fullness for the train.
It was a physician, says the Sun, who
said: “My decreasing income lies in the
fact that even well-to-do people now take
advantage of hospital dispensaries intended
solely for poor folks. I’ve been amazed to
see ladies clothed m costly velyets and silks
awaiting their turn among poorly clad
visitors whose faces ware pinched with
hunger. As you may imagine the, doctors
in attendance are pushed for time and make
hurried examinations. But worse than this,
only the other day I had a case of ulcer of
au eye in a little girl of one of our well-to
do families.
“Why, this is astonishing,” said I to the
mother; “where has this child been! This
trouble Is the result of infection by actual
contact with some object which had been
in contact with an eye suffering from oph
thalmia.”
“The grand lady was dumfounded. She
was, she sa'.d, so particular as to what Flos
sie played with—so very particular.
“ ‘Mamma, I told you I would catch
something in that nasty place,’ cried the
little girl.
“The mother was the c lor of crimson,
and stammered out an explanation that she
had taken Flossie to one of tho dispensaries,
where she was acquainted with the doctor,
in order to have him prescribe for Flossie s
tendency to granulated eyelids.
“ ‘Yes, madam,’ I cried indignantly, ‘and
it was his careless touch that left this
ulcer.’ ’’
Still it should be said that, in most of the
dispensaries everything is done carefully.
A dinner dress, which is not at all amiss,
says the Herald, is made of turquoise vel
vet and salmon satin embroidered with gold
and turquoise. The side of the tablier of
embroidered satin and the front of draped
velvet furnishing a pleated summit to each
hip. This front is brought over a cuirasied
corsage with dart* at the bosom and sewn at
the center of the front. It is decollete and
square over an inset of satin taken from the
lining of the corsage. Sides of the skirt
full and pleated and mounted on a gathered
summit. The back princesse, laced at the
center, furnishing the fullness for tbe train.
The aleoves leg of mutton mounting to a
gathered summit. The collar high and em
broidered.
One of our fashionable ladies spent last
summer at her country seat on Long Island,
says Clara Belle in a New York letter to
the Inquirer, and contracted a persistent
type of chills and fever. All remedies failed,
and her physician in despair prescribed a
liver pad Now, liver pads are not pleasant
things, as possibly you may know, aud espe
cially is a liver pad not a pleasant thing to
take to an evening entertainment with you,
for the heated atmosphere makes it exhale
an odor which the inventor assures you is
aromatio, but others might not call it so.
The lady still takes delight in dancing au
occasional lanciers, and, being apprehensive
as to the liver pad, she hit upon a plan for
safety. She concealed under her bodice a
rubber vaporizer filled with the most de
licious perfume, and, as she has a man
nerism of pressing her hand against her
wishbone in a rather tragic style when
wishing to emphasize a point, she felt that
it would attract no attention if she contin
ued to do so. But, strange to say, after the
first lanciers, when'one of her admirer* ap
proached to enjoy a moment’s quiet conver
sation, and she gives the vaporizer a gentle
pressure, he suddenly remembered that he
had an engagement to waltz with somebody
else. Ditto with admirer number two, and
admirer number three. They harried away
unceremonieusly, and the more the lady
strove to be witty and entertaining and the
more she pressed her vaporizer the more
uigeut their engagements became. Her
vanity was deeply offended. She must be
losing her attractiveness.
Wishing to test the working order of her
vaporizer she pressed the locality Very vig
orously, and at thq same time held her
handkerchief to catch the spray. Great
Scott! The thiug was unquestionably loaded
with a solution of carbolic acid 1 Thon it
oocurred to her that her husband bad filled
it for her, and that a mixture for spraying
her throat stood upon her toilet table. The
mystery was solved. She had been spray
ing her three c&arming male friends with
carbolic acid, leaning forward so as to give
each of them an effectual application of it,
supposing all the time that she was sending
forth whiffs of perfumed air qualified to
soothe their very souls. That night there
was a break in the monotonous harmony of
one household, aud the husband felt as
though he had encountered a female suffrag
ist in a halt hour speech.
A dress for a young girl, says the fashion
writer in the Herald, which is very
pretty, is of black guaze, embroidered, over
a water green satin transparency. Tbe
skirt of satiu. with a small pleated volant
of the same material, and skirts fiat of em
broidered tulle. The corsage with points,
decollete V shape, closed at the center of
the back. The corsage terminates with a
tour de taille of embroidered ganze. At
the top of the corsage a drapery forming a
kind of scarf of gauge, terminated in a
volant of embroidered gauce. The sleeve
short and flounced, and trimmed with black
feathers, the same as the entire length.
A girl with sparkling brown eyes, says
the New York Sun, and a rosy mouth,
crept close to a bashful young man at a re
ception tbe other day, and said:
“If you'll never let on I’ll tell you some
thing.”
The young man blushed aud promised
never to break the confidence reposed in
him.
“ Well, it’s just this,” said the girl. “When
anything goes very wrong with me I swear
real hard.”
The young man attempted to observe that
swearing in a pretty young lady was
naughty, but be mado a failure of it, and
his companion went on talking.
“More girls swear than you think. I
just know any quantity of tnem that are
postively shocking when the got provoked.
My chum, Mignon, is really terrible some
times. I told her the other day that I would
have to stop going with her if she didn’t re
frain from saying bad words. She wouldn’t
miss a car, stub her toe or burs* a button
off hsr glove, but she expressed herself
most frightfully right before every
body. Now, it ' isn’t nice, is it, for
a girl to use swear words? And it
really will get to be a regular thing with ub
if wo don’t stop. lam already addicted to
the habit. Why, I broke the punt off my
thumb nail to-day, and when I did it I just
let out good.”
“What did you say?” the bashful young
man managed to ask.
"I said, ‘O, devil.’ ”
The young roan blushed a livelier red and
asked tbe poor, forsaken girl If he might get
a cup of chocolate for her.
Orncz or J. S. Rosamond & Cos., I
Durant, Miss., Dec. 12, 1890. )
Messrs. Lippman Bros.. Savannah, Oa.:
Gentlemxx: —While In San Antonio. Tex.,
last spring, I saw your advertisement r. P. P.
(Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) in the
paper for the euro cf rheumatism, aud thought
4 would try a bottle. Finding such great re
lief from it. on my return home I had my drug
gist. Mr. John McLelLan, to order me a supply.
After taking I think ten bottles I have not nad
a pain or ache since. Previous to that 1 suffered
for twenty-five (25) years and could not get the
least benefit until I tried P. P. P., and, there
fore, take pleasure in recommending it to those
suffering—Ad. J. S, Rosamond.
BRIGHT GOTHAM GOSSIP.
FADS AND FOOLISH FASHIONABLE
FOIBLES.
How Our Women Walk-Wtat Women
Are the Best Walkers?—A Man’s
Present of Diamonded Slippers-They
Were Beautiful, But No. 1, and She
Couldn’t Get in No. 31—Small Fortunes
in Slippers—A New York Woman's
Ancestors-Bernhardt’s “Cleopatra”
Said to Bea Failure—A Coming New
Actress—The Newest Styles of Femi
nine Stationery—Character Told in
Writing Papers.
( Copyright , 1891.1
New York, Jan. 31.—1 t is not exactly
the proper quotation, but it is true that “all
things come to her who knoweth how to
walk,” and by knowing how to walk, I
mean to go out iu all sorts and conditions of
weather, and keep your eyes open wide, so
that you see everything, from the shop
windows to the pretty girls, from the sun
shine to the clear blue sky, anil you can get
absolutely intoxicated with the fresh air.
Now the material side of knowing how to
walk is uuknown to the New York woman.
When she goes In for being stately she takes
two long steps and three short ones, and
when she is in a hurrv she trots. A woman
trotting, especially if sbs is wiving a muff
to stop a street car, is much more ridiculous
than the woman who U doing an amateur
tobagganing down a high stoop, aud she
ought to realize this aud eea-e her frantic
rush. A French woman can hasten, and
you are never conscious of anything ridicu
lous in her walk.
THX BEST WALKERS IN THIS COUNTRY
are the southern women, who from natural
indolence put the foot down with ease, and
are taught early in file that they must land
first on their toes and not on their heels.
The western woman walks with emphasis,
as if she meant to get there, and, usually, I
think she docs. The Philadelphia woman
has a little bit of an inclination to mince,
and an occasional startled air about her, as
if she were afraid of being quick in her
movements. To walk well, have a com
fortable shoe that fits the foot, with a
medium high heel, and always put the toes
down first; this gives a good carriage,
throws the hips iu their proper position, in
tinsifies tbe springy movemeut, and makes
the man passing by you very conscious of
tbe fact that you are well shard about the
shoulders, and have a graceful curve from
the waist down. A woman who walks well
is a pleasure to look at, and every man who
knows her feels himself honored by being
ssen with her.
DIAMOND SLIPPERS, BUT THEY WERE NO. 1.
The real fin de siecle is for the man of
your heart to give you not gloves, not
flowers, not sweets, though these may all
come iu due season, but slippers. Slippers
such as Cinderella wore; slippers that glit
ter with buckles of gold or silver, sometimes
precious stones, and that have the highest
of heels and the narrowest ana most pointed
of toes. With them always comes a wish
that your feet may go in pleasant places, or
the slippers come with a hope that you may
walk through life beside him who loves you
with all the intensity of his heart. It’s very
touching. But I think the most
touched giri in New York was one
who got a pair of white satin
slippers, and on the tos of each,
instead of a buckle, was a beautiful dia
mond butterfly, that might might be used
as a brooch or a hair ornament when it was
not doing duty on the slipper. I consider
those slippers the first excuse I have ever
seen tor anybody putting their feet on tbe
mantel-shelf; but the funny part of it is
that the young man believed bis own dar
ling wore a No. 1, whereas she found it dif
ficult to got into a No. 3. She couldn’t
chsinge the sllppors, for she couldn’t find out
where they came from, but she bought her
self a pair exactly like them, removed the
butterflies, and dances around and over
that young man’s heart with perfect uncon
cern.
SMALL FORTUNES IN SMALL SLIPPERS.
Another pretty pair of slippers sent to a
fiancee were of gold brocade, with buckles
glittering with topaz. These were to be
worn at a dinner where the engagement
was announced, and the gown with them
was one of deep yellow chiffon. Tbe man
who sent these slippers will certainly make
a good husband, for with them came u
lovely yellow guuze fan on tortoise shell
sticks, with a monogram wrought out in
topaz, a pair of pale yellow gloves that
reached far up over the arm, while very
far down in the toe of each slipper was a
pale yellow silk stocking. These all came
together with the note from him, and later
in the day, without any card, presumably
not from him, arrived a box in whicu were
encased a pair of garters, one black, the
other yellow, the buckles set with topaz,
and on one was the monogram of the wearer
—that was on tbe black garter—while on
the yellow was engraven “Luck comos
through me.” The girl was so happy she
couldn’t tell whether it came from the
garter or the man who sent it, but of course
she knew be did, and she intends to thank
him in the prettiest way possible—aftor her
marriage.
A NEW YORK WOMAN’S ANCESTORS.
Everybody can’t have ancestors—that is,
of course, everybody does have ancestors,
but they are not always particularly vain
of them, nor anxious to introduce thorn to
the public at large. Several times million
aires may not object to having thieves, and
liars, and forgers, and men who die on the
wrong end of the rope amoug their pro
genitors, but plain, ordinary, every-day
people have an idea that they would rather
their “parents” far back should be more or
less respectable, presumably more. A
bright woman, with no blue blood
to speak of. bos solved the ancestral picture
fashion in a very amusing way. She herself
is a very beautiful woman, and she
earned her living by her needle and her
brush; that is, doing very fine embroidery
for various decorative societies, and by
painting menus and cards for the large
shops. A man whose riches aro great aud
whose blood is most cerulean fell in love
with her, and made her his wife. This
family had a slight inclination to scoff, not
becauso she had earned her own living—
thank God that is a credit to a woman
nowadays—but because she hadn’t come of
gentle folk. She never seemed to know
this —had the tact to ignore it in a most
beautiful manner. At her first afternoon
tea the members of the family and her in
timate friends were invited into her own
special room to see the picture of, as she
funnily put it, “the women who have pre
ceded me,” and there she had, either in
colors or photographs, the picture of almost
every woman who bad triumphed through
her beauty. She had Cleopatra, Catherine
of Russia, Lady Hamilton, the three beau
tiful Gunnings. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Neil
Gwynne, Adelaide Neilson, Lady Lonsdale,
Lady Dulley, Mrs. Langtry, and as the
latest, the variety actress Belle Hilton—
Lady Dunlo. Everbody was delighted,
everbody confessed to her wit, and I don’t
think even from lhe old frumps in the fam
ily she will ever hear another word about
who her ancestor* were.
BERNHARDT’B “CLEOPATRA” A FAILURE.
Apropos of beautiful women, the “Cleo
patra” of Mma. Bernhardt has been de
scribed to mo by a man who is a good critic,
and who is an ardent admirer of Sarah. He
says it is a failure, aud a most dire one, and
what do you think ho ascribes tbe failure
to? That Sarah is too fat. It’s a little
curious, but I don’t doubt it, for tbe 'last
time she was over here she had increased
in flesh, and everybody knows that the
women of her race have a decided tendency
to fat as tbey grow old. The “Cleopatra”
of Mrs. Langtry is said to be a beautiful
one, although it is an English one; the
stage-sotting is said to be better than that
in Paris, although that shown by Fanny
Davenport here far surpassed both of the
others.
EVERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAJ*
seems to have a desire to play “Cleopatra,’
and as nobody believes that Cleopatra
gained her sway solely by her beauty, it is
odd that they do not realize w„at au enor
mous task they are undertaking. To depict
the woman who was as subtie as the first
serpent, who c uld use each charm to its
best ad vantage, and who was as cruel as the
coldest steel, while as loving as the hottest
fire, does not seem difficult to them. The
rage for representing “Juliet” seems to
have subsided, and every amateur wants to
Sicture the woman who had Caesar's and
tare Antony’s lore as well a* the adoration
of the Egyptian populace T hey had better
remain content with “Juliet,” for, after all,
most of us have endured such agonies iu
s-eing the sweet maid done by amateurs
that wo no longer mind the dose.
A COMING NEW ACTRESS.
It is announced that Miss Elsie de Wolfs
is going on the stage—professionally, I
mean. What courage some women have!
She is a tolerably good amateur, she is not
good-looking and she is not young, and yet
she is brave enough to face an audience who
are expected to pay for fnelr appreciation,
or lack of it, of her attempt to try it on
them. Certainly the American woman has
a leautiful belief in the patience of the
American people, but we have had a little
bit too much of this, and even a worm will
turn at last, and the down-trodden Ameri
can, when it does turn, iu a body, turns for
good.
THE NEW KIND OF FEMININE STATIONERY.
What kind of paper da you use? The
verv latest is card-like iu shape, being tbe
ordinary note sics, but cot doubled. It is
tolerably stiff, and a pale gray, and your
cipher must be wrought in gold at the top of
it, while your address is in gold at the foot
of the sheet. This is written on with ink,
and in tne largest handwriting imaginable.
The sheet goes into the envelope without
folding, and when the letter cornea to you it
looks like an official document. A messen
ger bov can’t get it into hi* pocket, eo
he usually marks it with hand deco
rations. The postman can’t strap it in with
his other letters, so he carries it by itself,
and considers you a great swell to got it,
and the person who wrote it somsbody with
more money than he has. Nobody ever
makes a mistake in writing on plain white
paper that folds once. For myself 1 tiave a
liking for large.sized sheets, but the little
billets to day are sent on very small ones.
CHARACTER TOLD IN STATIONERY.
It isn’t much, after all, what the paper fs
as what the envelope contains, though you
almost know before you open it.
That old-fash loned-looking envelope,
directed in a running Italian hand such as
was taught in tho schools forty years ago,
comes from somebody’s mother; you can
almost see the signature, which is only
"your devoted mother.”
That pale gray letter, redolent of violet,
closely sealed with white wax, and having
“immediate” written far up in one corner,
is from somebody’s sweetheart, and lssigued
“Ever faithfully thine own true lovs.”
That business envelope with the name and
address of “John Brown, Lawyer,” crossed
over with ink, is from a wife to her hus
band ; she is using one of his business envel
opes, and the letter ends, “Always your af
fectionate wife,” and below that is a post
script which tells that baby has put a
kiss in the corner.
That severe-looking envelope, with the
name of a collection agenoy on it, is some
young man’s tailor bill; poor chap, proba
bly his worst fault was vanity, but he will
have to pay the piper now.
That legal-looking envelope is from a
lawyer to his client, announcing that a case
was lost.
That square little thing, with its gold
cipher and its pointed handwriting, is the
acceptance that a pretty girl has given to a
dance.
That black-bordered onvelops is from
somebody who has written a letter of thanks
for a word of condolence that came iu a
time of trouble. And that square white en
velope, with a cipher in gold aud the motto
“Litera scrijita manet," that announce
ment that “what I write Inman,” is from
Bab.
HOW BNAKES GST MSALS.
Tbey Strike the Fishes, Poison Them
and Then Swallow Them.
From Nature's Realm.
Having repeatedly been interested in
watching how water snakes feed, 1 was
careful in noting how one particular snake
maneuvered to get a meal in Crum brook,
one of the trout streams preserved by the
Uuaspeake Club of Rockland county, New
York, of which I am warden.
The snake darted from under the bank
and seized a chub about three inches long,
half of its body being in tbe mouth of the
snake. I struck the reptile smartly with
my cane, when it darted away, and tbe fish
wriggled off slowly for a few feet and then
lost all power of motion, although it did not
seem to bo even slightly bruised. Upon
taking it out of the water 1 oliserved a
thick slime or mucus covering the whole
body, which I scraped off, and returned
the fish to the water. At first it was
very active, swimming around lively,
but in a few moments seemed once more to
lose tho power of motion. I again took it
out of the water, aud found tbe coating cf
slime thicker upon its body than before. 1
scraped it off again, with tho sums result,
but finally tho fish turned on its side dead,
and iu about five minutes, spent in perfect
quietude on my part, the snake came from
under a submerged stump, seized the snake
anil disappeared. This incident led me to
believe that tho snake poisoned the fish by
coating it with tho thick secretion I found
upon its body.
LEMON ELIXIR.
Its Wonderful Effect on tbe Liver,
Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and Blood.
Dr. Mozisy’s Lemon Elixir is a pleasant
lomon drink that positively cures all Bilious
ness, Constipation, Indigestion, Headache,
Malaria, Kidney Disease, Dizziness, Colds,
Loss of Appetite, Fevers, Chills, Blotches,
Pimples, Pain in back, Palpitation of Heart,
and all other diseases caused by disordered
liver, stomach and kidneys, tbe first great
cause of all fatal diseases. SO cts. and SI
per bottle. Sold by druggists. Prepared
only by H. Mozley.M. D., Atlanta, Ga.
Lemon Hot Dropa
For coughs and colds, tako Lemon Hot
Drops.
For sore throat and Bronchitis, take
Lemon Hot Drops.
For Pneumonia and Laryngitis, tak
Lemon Hot Drops.
For consumption and catarrh, take Lomon
Hot Drops.
For all throat and lung diseases, take
Lemon Hot Drops.
An elegant and reliable preparation.
Bold by druggists. 25 cents per bottle.
Prepared by H. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta,
Oa.
President National Bank,
McMinvlUe, Tenn., writes: From experi
ence in my family, Dr. H. Mozley's Lemon
Elixir has few, if any, equals, and no supe
riors in medicine for the regulation of the
liver, stomach and bowels. Dr. H. Mozley’s
Lemon Hot Drops are superior to any reme
dies we have ever been able to get for throat
and lung diseases. W. H. MAGNESS.
Tbe Sunday Morning News
Will be found regularly on sale at the fol
lowing piacos:
Kstill’s News Depot.
Conner’s News Stand.
E. J. Kieffer’s Drug Store, corner West
Broad and Stewart streets.
T. A. Mullryne & Co.’s Drug Store, West
Broad and Waldburg streets.
St. J. K. Yonge’s Drug Store, corner
Whitaker and Duffy streets.
McCauley & Co.’s Drug Store, corner
New Houston and Drayton streets.
W. A. Bishop’s Drug Store, corner Hall
and Price streets.—Ada.
Pictures in great variety and all prices.
M. T. Taylor, 135 York street.— Ad.
MEDICAL.
FOR FIFTY YEARS.
Swifts Specific S. S. S. has a record enjoyed by no other
medicine.
For over
fifty years,
it has been
curing all
6orts of blood
trouble from
a ordinary
pimple to the worse types of sorofula and blood poison.
BOOKS OH BLOOD 4HO SKIH DISEASES fjEE. THE SWIfJ SPECIFIC CO.. 4U4/IT4, S4.
FURNITURE. ETC.
Nowhere in This City,
AND
Nowhere in This State
Can economical purchasers get better, more, and even aa
much value for their money as at our house. We care not
what article you may want to buy in the Furniture or
Carpet line, we guarantee to save money for you on the
purchase at our house.
Furniture and Carpets
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Don’t spend money for Furniture or Carpets until you
have seen our eight floors filled with the newest, hand
somest and best goods ever shown in this city.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ,
TALK ABOUT BARGAINS!
It will pay you to see our Goods and # obtain our prices
before purchasing your
FURNITURE, CARPETS AND MATTINGSL
We Are Offering Real Bargains.
M. BOLEY & SON,
186,188,190 Broughton street.
K\ GOODS.
SOMETHING FOR THE LADIES!
KRO USKOFF’B
Annual Announcement for Spring and Summer
1891.
We are making preparations
for our immense spring and
summer business, and in conse
quence of same we are receiving
as usual the only fine and rare
millinery novelties from Euro-,
pean and northern markets.
PATTERN HATS.
A word with the ladies regarding rounds
Hats and Bonnets. Having made arrange-,
ments to produce the only imported Pattern
Hats that will be brought to this city, it wilK
enable ladies to get the correct styles, ass;
usual, only from KROUSKOPP’S .
MAMMOTH MILLINERY HOUSE"
Notice of Spring Opening will appeal,
later. - i*
MORNING NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE.
B-T-E-A - Mf. ;!
• IT* dissiD!V
Steal Pita House of lie In? 11l
J in thia
fee-fond jour orders where they can be filled expeditiously ahl economically by eteiaro ag^U
MORNING NEWS BUILDING, SAVANNA and thoy
g to t
niro that:
Considered Wonderful.
Mr. Henry V. Smith, of Belmont,
West Va.. says: "he considers his
cure of Scrofula by S. S. S., one of
the moat wonderful on record. He
had the disease of the worst type
all his life until he was 22 years of
age, ard his whole youth was em
bittered by It. Of course he had
all sorts of treatment, but nothing
benefited him permanently until
he took S. S. S. which cleansed the
poison from his system, and cured
him sound and well."
(TEAM PRINTING PRESSES.
STEAM LITHOGRAPHING PKESS3%
b'IEAM RULING MACHINES,
STEAM SCORING MACHINES
STKA M BACK FORMING MACIIINESI
STEAM STAMPING PRESSES,
STEAM NUMBERING MACHINES
STEAM CUTTING MACHINES,
STEAM SEWING MACHINES,
STEAM BOOK BAWING MACHINES.
STEAM STEREOTYPING MACHINES,
STEAM PAPER DAMPING MACHINE!
AT THE—
11
S. S. S.
IS
PURELY
VEGE
TABLE.
AND
IS HARM
LESS
TO 1 HE
MOST
DELICATE
CHILD.
