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l, : |.'si[ FASHION' FOLLIES.
■ THI GS THAT WILL
V "be seen to-day.
■ Easer Gowns, and the Big
■ to Match—Some Li'tie Anec-
I Which Indicate the Drift of the
I cf F‘ 9hionable Women
■ known but not altogether happy
H ,*vs Clara Belle in the Cinc.nnati
that a large company of New
women spend much more time in
V* [■■■ gcf their clothe* than of anything
H*- hls - , ne world. Some follow fashion as
Hf . is follow the scent of the deer, and
consent to be a moment behind the
H* t'st are current in Paris and London.
■ 'few ladies who have European
breach steamer from friends who
: tseni on the minutest change in fem-
W°^ eW „ sr . The latest “pointer" received
Hfsdevotee on Murray Hill is that Worth
H*‘introduced b th iu Paris and London a
st yj e of underwear, which is of the
Hf' and men and cambric, embroidered with
Hecate floral figures. This would
H U ke it appear that silk did not prove quite
K r r f , as its reign has been particularly
There is no denying that the new
Holder wear is visually beautiful Fancy a
Ht v robe embroidered with pale otuo vio-
K; ai ever, or wih buttercups. It is onlv
l iimv'fliwers as these that are used
Kthe decoration. No lace appears in the
Hfir-nents. the trimming consisting entirely
K; til -sembr ..dered line the b dy. Thel.idy
Hr viwng this information immediately gave
■lT order f r several suits of this fascinating
Hr ter wear, and is now thoroughly satisfied
Hr t she is once more running even with
He racers of tne European capitals.
I ‘if I should cheat at cards and anyone
Haueht me at it i would at once be banished
■from society, expelled from my clubs, and
■mimed at w th scorn by the worst cads in
■the world Ye: there are twenty women in
Hew York society, says a writer in the New
■vork Sun, who make a practice of cheat
lire at cards, and we quietly ignore the fact.
■ v , b y j 8 j t that the feminine sex is privi
leged in these little matters j”
I The speaker was a leader of the foshion
lable set. He had stated some interesting
| facts, and the men present declared that he
| was quite - orrect in them. No one attempt
led to answer his question.
I “I was at the house of one of our most
Ipopular and charming women on a recent
|evening, ' continued tne first speaker,"‘and
|wewere playing a quiet game of ec irte.
|lhe stakes were small and the game care
llessly played. We chatted along all through
lit and tnough I was a steady loser I did
|not mind, for it was only a few dollars at
|tbe most. Suddenly, I don’t know why, I
■foil wed the movement of my opponent’s
■fiDSers as she dealt, and I became aware
■that something was wrong. Withadeft
■ness that must have come from very long
■practice she dealt the king of hearts from
Htte bottom of th 6 pack. At first I was im-
Hrnensely shocked at my discovery, and yet I
■keytoii -railing and chatting with that lady.
■>’ w, you see, if she had been a man I might
Hbave thrown the cards in her faco aud
■would have told on her here in the
Hciub the very next day. As it
Hb I protect that lady by withholding her
■name, and to save me cannot feel greatly
■cfDndol with her. It is positively remark
■ abie how differently wo feel about women
■in this regard, now, isn’t it? Women are
■pt to lie, too; some of them tell regular
■ as a regular thing, and men, who
■ know they are lying, laugh at their tales
■ and never cut'em for twisting everything
■up so. You’ll find it true that women are
■ forgiven a wonderful lot in this way. The
■ most people ever say of doubtful women is:
■ ‘You bad better look out for her: she hasn’t
I much respect for the truth.’ If we have the
I best of the women on the more serious
I que-iions of morals, they undoubtedly have
I an advantage over us in the minor evils.
I 1 wonder what that Indy who cheated at
I ecarte would do if she detected me dealing
I from the bottom of the pack? Would she
I not brand me before the society. I fancy so.”
I The great b e hats that are coming to us
I from France deserve to get their old name
I of “the cart wheel,’’ which a good many of
I us believe originated iu this century, but
I the term belongs to the days of the eav-
I aliers, and it is remembered because soma-
I body is still in mind when the handsomest
lof the knights is forgotten, aud be is?
I Dryden. You see pretty Nelly Gwynne
I had been singing a wonderful song that
I Charles 1L and all his world liked and
I laughed at because it was so merry and co
I quettish, but fancy! some rival actress
started to sing the same song iu another
theater, and she sang it looking from under
a large-brimmed hat wreathed with
feathers, which made her eyes look brighter
and her figu e younger and more beautifully
curved than ever had been supposed.
But Dryden determined that Nelly should
have a more wonderful hat than this,
so he gave his order positively, “Make Mis
tress Nelly a hat the size of a hinder cart
wheel,’’ and when Charles was looking, and
all the world was interested, out upon the
stage slowly walked the pretty woman,
fairly hidden under the immense chapeau.
Boon the.laughing notes were heard, then,
pusoing the hat back a little, the bright
eyes and curling locks were seen, and with
thorn the rosy lips and lovely dimples,
lha cartwheel hat got more adherents
for the singer than all her wit and music
together had done, and for many nights all
London crowded i o hear the song and see
thobat! And the rival? Nobody knows
anything more about her. But never be
iiove for a moment that the flippant brother
who calls your hat a cartwheel had any
thing to do with the origin of the phrase,
it was a good Master Dryden who first said
it, and with it he did three things—gained
bis point, made a pretty woman look pre -
tier, and—raise your hats, you good royal
ists—pleased Charles 11., King of England.
‘Did you ever see a girl sit on her foot?”
asks an English writer. Did you ever see a
gu 1 that didn’t sit on her foot? would seem
to he a more sensible question. If a girl
wanls to enjoy the luxury of a good erv, or
wants to read a pack of old love letters, if
sue is trying to think out her new spring
wardrobe or make up her mind whether to
ay yes or no to the momentous question,
■be is sure to curl one leg nrou and in a
Pec lhar manner and sit down on one foot,
ni ikiug of theother a prop and a balance.
Sometimes the girl f irgets herself and u-es
‘; r root as a cu-hion in public, tucking it
.' under so quickly that no one is the wiser
ln.e-s as she rises the buttons of her shoe
ten m some of the frills of her voluminous
Fjrmenij,. Then there is a hitch and a pull
na sometimes an awkward tumble, unless
e ? , ls a pnysical culture disciple and
can balance on one foot.
Another attitude indulged in by girls
b n n thev are alone, talking it all • ver, is
1 ln (C with one knee varied to the level of
snuulders, a „(i the hands clasped tightly
oout it to bold it Securely. Now these
•ri' ms attitudes are -aid to he the reas >n
B y most girls are slightly deformed,
oiroly is a woman found the measure of
t," , se ] e S s i* exactly alike on both sides if
‘e hod}. One English phhysician ha- de
• ‘rtd that ninety out of every hund ed
omen are misshapen. If the physical
wug could tie cultured to maintain always
correct pose, and to be comfortable in no
t ,er * At would be Nell, but just at pre-ent
' teude cies are depraved, aud it would be
hoiu 83 ea . s y ®° Persuade a baby not to put
t- thumb in his mouth when he is grieved
. ’ c ->nviuce a girl that she could meditate
r mourn without sitting on her foot.
A young girl who writes home from Lon
t n ’ sa ys He.en Osborne, describes enter
ainiogly a few of the costumes. The
color, she says, was yeiiow, and
be dresses of such rich materials as have
rarely been seen, even within the walls of
uckingham palace. The jewels were
** c l°® s 'y together ns possible on the
odice and in the hair. High bodices were
orn for the most part only by elderly
women. The trains were in many cases
attached to the shoulders with a large
rosetie of the material and one or two came
in gathers from the top of the bodice as
Ijueen Anne wo s her manteau de cours.
Ihe tulle veils were clasped at the back
with diamond half hoops or fastened with
jeweled pins.
One magnificent toilet was of deep orange
velvet over a dress of orange satic, eui
broide ed up the seams in silver and caught
in front with two i irds of paradise. An
other bird fastened the train on one shoulder
and three were introduced on the left side
of the train. Pearls, diamonds aud sap
phires were tne wearer's orna nentt, aud
she carried white orchids tied with orange
ribbons.
One dress carried out the tints of the
nasturtium with its train of red-brown vel
vet, and its petticoat < f mandarin yellow,
brocaded with nasturtiums in many tones.
Brussels lace w .s used for garniture.
A debutante wore a deligutful dres3 of
simple muslin, of texture so fine it
could have been passed through a ring. It
was the veritable gown worn by her grand
mother on her wedding day. It was made
up over white satin, its train trimmed wita
chiffon and ribbon. About the waist were
ten rows of narrow ribbon, from which fell
a frill of musliu with a delicate edging of
very narrow Mechlin lace.
A young matron, presented on her mar
riage, wore a train of white satin trimmed
with tulle and ivy leaves. The petticoat
was of white satin embroidered with opals
and trimmed with orchids. On tue bodice
appeared old point lace and opals. .
One of the prettiest dresses had a train of
shimmering green brocade of the tone of
lettuce. Tne light green satiu pe’g.coat
was draped with inousseline de sole and
caught up with morning glories.
Tne most original train was quite trans
parent, made of gold and silver gauze and
lined with primrose. The finest brocade
had for pattern one large, stalkle-s, leafless,
conventionalized yeiiow rose, about the
edge of which peeped out a pink back
ground. The plumes worn were very much
larger than has been customary.
Azaleas are having t eir little day at a
tremendous rate. People who cannot afford
the great glowing roses find the azaleas
splendid substitutes In their flaming scarlet
and crimson hues. Deep red azaleas were
seen recently in a dark blue Severs bowl,
with an outer edge of mignonette for set
tings. Yellow tulips in a delicious semi
tone between orange and pink are popular.
One may get a bit of amusement in a
millinery parlor watchiug the procession of
"triers on,” as various in appearance as the
gauzy things tried, says a writer in the New
York Reorder. The prettiest picture
made on Saturday was presented when a
slim, dark girl, with a very clear, pale
complexion, essayed a hat of gray-green
and faint yellow straw, very flat as to its
crown, turned up slightly at the back and
coming well forward in front over her fore
head. A bunch of white lilac lay upon the
brim, close missed iu front and pulled down
below the edge to lie upon the hair. The
tender green of the lilac leaves was matched
exactly by the narrow green velvet ribbon
that was twisted about the crown and stood
erect iu bows behind. The girl was young
spring personified.
“It makes me fairly shudder,” said a
clever little woman to the New York Tri
bune, the other day, “when 1 hear of the
prices paid for bonnets. I lunched with
Elsie the other day , and she and Mrs. ,
who was there, beg in talking about what
they had paid this winter. ‘Girls,’ I said, ‘I
think it is downright wicked even to men
tion S3O or S4O for a little concoction of lace,
velvet aud flowers that any one of you could
make yourselves, and the materials would
not cost you over $5 at the outside. If you
have uever made a bonnet begin now? now
and you will be astonished to find how easy
it is. You were both good enough to say
you liked this little toque which matches my
dress. Well, do you know how much it
cost? Exactly nothing. That is to say the
materials were left over from|| my
dress and would not have been used for
anything else, aud the aigrette and feathers
came from my last winter’s bonnet. I first
made a neat little skull cap of white cross
barred muslin, lined it, laid the fclds of my
cio h ovor it and around it, and knotted
them in front—for the flat arrangements
you are all wearing are very becoming to
me. The black aigrette and tuft of feathers
go well with the tan color, and when it was
all finished I stuck in a tiny bunch of violets
which I had, and here I am, dressed quite
as well as either of you and with nothing to
pay. I forgot to say that the gold braid
that just shows at the top of each fold was
also leftover from the dress.’ ”
Gray and pink is pretty if leas daring. It
is equally popu ar at weddings. One of the
fairest bridtsmaids of the season, says the
New- York Recorder, wore silver-gray cloth
with coral panel and gray Medici collar
lined with coral. Her sleeves with puff of
coral were covered with gray passementerie.
Her hat with its coral velvet crown bad a
band of gray velvet and a bunch of gray
tips behind.
The cuirass bodices produce startling
effects at receptions and in theater boxes
I A dress of the steely gray of armor, worn
with a bold crimson cui ass. was before my
eyes all that evening and sent me home to
dream of wars and rumors of wars. It
spoke loudly of drums and martial parades.
Beside it was a toilet that should have
proved quieting. It. too, was of gray, a
soft, greeni3h-whitish gray, over which
trailed and splashed sea w eeds. It was a
frock for the seaside piazza, with moonlight
to silver misty outlines.
Stars were not lacking, for at no great
distance was a du-ky brown-gray frock,
studded by way of border with jet lumina
ries. It would be makii g a metaphor go
on all feurs to compare its “Frenchy”
Louis XIV. casaqueto the mantle of night,
and yet assuredly it was sprinkled with
points that shone. On a bead of short,
straight dark hair rested a capote of jet
plates with a greenish gi ay feather.
The writer is tempted to tell a story at
the expense of a lovely and gifted young
lady who began a few years ago a career as
a society reporter, says a contributor to the
Baltimore American. Every week her
copy went to the editor beautiful y written
and fa llless, considered as copy from the
printer’s point of view; but any little sug
gestion she wanted to make she ran along
with the article in the f. flowing fashion:
“Mr. and Mrs. Brown-Smyth gave on Mon
day au elegant blue dinner of fourteen
covers. [For goodness sake, spell her name
Smy—last week it went Smi, and she wa3
as mad as hops ab rat it.] Mrs. Indigo Blue
blood has sent' rat cards for a ball, at which
she will iutr duco into society her lovely
daughter. [This is all right. This Mrs.
Blu blood has some sense, and doesn't in the
least mitid s eing her name iu print. It's
the other Mrs. Biueblood we had tne fu
with.] Mrs. Uptown gives a pink tea as
soon as Lent is over. [Don’t slick hard >wn
at the tail eua of the column, whatever you
do. Ie a tto please her, anyhow, because
last eek she just went iu as one of the
‘many others.’]'’
If it had not been for the diso iminating
editorial blue pencil that fashion and society
column would have been very delicious read
ing on Sunday morning—since a printer
follows copy, and a parenthesis on the para
graph’s brim a plain parenthesis is to him,
and it is nothing more.
“If there is one more utterly exasper
ating thing in tne world than another it is
to see people sere lely unconscious of Some
deficiency, and you know it, and they do
not know it, and you feel quite wiid because
you know they never will k raw.” This
rather inco erent but quite feminine speech
was delivered the other evening by a pretty
mondaine at her own perfectly appointed
dinner table to a correspondent of the New-
York Tribune. “Do you remember that
clever little bit in ine of Henry Janies’
novels,” she went on, “where the American
woman calls ou the English duche s
who is so badly got up,
and the despairing fecliDg that comes
over tor—the American—because she feels
that the contrast between her perfectly
gowned self and the duchess cannot be ap
preciated by the latter, and that the duchess
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1891—TWELVE TAGES.
will ‘never, i ever know how badly she is
dressed.’ 1 think this is so clever! How
could a man know just the wild, impotent
feeling that sort of thing gives to a woman ?
Sometimes in society I feel as if I would
simply give worlds to say to some people,
‘You are all wrong; you are not this, that,
or the other, as you think you areand to
know that they will always be complacent
and satisfied, and virtually as well off as if
t ;ey really were all right, is simply too
aggravating for anything!”
A woman, says the B oston Home Journal,
is not usually supposed to be cruel. Still,
facts are against the assumption that she
is not. Her thumb was sure to be down when
the gladiator looked up to the tiers of the
Coliseum for the verdict of the people; her
shout was always fierce when the matador
and the bull plowed the earth together. It
is more sentimental to speak of her as
“gentle,” but, enduring in pain, wonder
fully resistant to trouble. it is woman and
not man who shows the lasting power after
all. History has proved her pitiless, has
proved her the originator of many crimes
at which men would shrink, and as able to
look on at sights at which the
stronger sex would crings, still
it has been said of man that he is
selfish and hard, and the verdict must
sta and. The case which brought this to my
mind was of a man who, on his deathbed,
was, in spite of the pleading of bis physi
cians, deprived of the s nothing influences of
an o; iato because his wife wished him to
have his full senses that he might recognize
her when he died. He had been ill for a
long time and was dying a lingering death
of terrible suffering. All hope that he
could be helped was gone. It was the ques
tion of a few hours, and the humane doc
tors were in favor of easing these last mo
ments of pain. His wife refused on the
selfish plea that he might die without recog
nizing her at the last.
For a slim blonde, says the New York
Recorder, there has been finished a toilet
that is eminently characteristic of the
Easter fashions. About the skirt of silver
gray cloth are looped festoons of rosebuds,
embroidered in gold, and tied apparently
with bow-knots and fluttering ribbo i ends.
The Louis XV. jacket opens on a waistcoat
of silver-gray silk, covered with the same
embroidery, thi3 time more lightly and
delicately done, merely in outline. A broad,
folded silk sash is highest under the left
arm. To crown the yellow hair and the
faint rossleaf tints of the smiling face is a
small caplike toque, whose substantial part
is a fillet of gold lace sit with pearls. This
fits closely ab rat the head, and a puff of
gray gauze fills in the crown and falls below
the wuist in long veil-line streamers.
While on the subject of iacW, says Clara
Belle In th s St. Louis Republic, let me give
you young girls a bit of advice: Have all
the lace-trimmed garments you ouoose in
your trousseau, but keep them out of your
husband’s sight for the first few mouths or
so. Whether true or not that every woman
is at heart ara te, I shall not pause to dis
cuss; but Ido affirm most positively that
every man is at heart a prude. He will
gallop through all the wickedness he cau
find and then go home and ask his wife if
the pew rent is paid or object to her lati
tudinarianism in the matter of decollete
gowns.
Therefore, O maiden, no lace in the begin
ning! Let the c. g., which you cost with a
catch of your breath upon the back of a
chair bo plainness itself—cold, metal-sur
faced, lily-white linen, full aud long, with
just a susp'oion of open work at the bottom,
and a bertha of the same material with
white satin bows. Avoid pink as you
would contagion! The worst roue about
town would give a start at sight of pink
bows. Pink may be the typical color of
the dawn, but to many men it is the symbol
of death; the tint that reminds them of
Mother Eve's fatal blunder when she set
her pink lips against that apple underneath
that pink sky many years ago.
Very few people understat'd how toi make
a nice cream toast. Melt two ounces of
butter in one quart of milk; add one table
spoonful of flour mixed with a little cold
milk and beaten first into half a cupful of
the hot milk before being added to the re
mainder. Finally stir into the mixture two
oggs, beating them into a little hot mila
first Strain the cream through a gravy
strainer. Return it to the stove and beat it
carefully while it comes again to the boil
ing point and thickens. Dip thin slices of
well-browned toast in this cream and ‘send
them to the table in a covered dish with the
remaining croam in a separate bowl. Put
a label of the cream from the bowl over
each slice of toast as it is served.
The Berlin nurse girl, says the New York
Sun, has inaugurated a novel custom and
converted the baby carriage into an ana
chronism. This Dicturesque young woman
in her short red frock, low shoes and white
stockings, snowy headdress and apron, wita
her ruddy cheeks and yellow hair, is a pict
ure and a poem at once seated on her new
baby velocipede with an umbrella-covered
cradle bed in front of her in which the
sleeping baby lies. The invention ought to
be transferred to America, the brilliant
kindermadchen deposed, aud the colorless
young mother should stay out in the open
air riding about the shady park walks with
her baby.
At one of the summer resorts along the
St. Lawrence an athletic young woman
used to cradle her little one in the bottom of
one of the little skiffs which form there the
universal means of navigation and rowing
out fr< msh re allowed too rippling waves
to rock to slumber the child, whose pink
cheeks grew pinker in the fresh, pure air.
But the velocipede has greater advantages,
and may it soon be imported. It resembles
the grocers’ carts seen in Berlin, with the
übiquit us and invariably freckled grocer
boy sitting on the box bearing the name of
the firm, and supplying the locomotive
power. Verily the world moves. Presently
someone will invent a cunning contrivance
by wh ch “pahpah” may stay out at his club
and walk the floor with the baby at the
same time, and the more unsteady and cir
cuitous his step oa the wi?y homo the more
delighted will the future baby be.
She was a slight, delicate little woman
witu a determined, fear-nothing look ou her
youthful face, says the New York Sun. Her
jacket was unfastened, her bang tos ei back
in a careless manner, ad altogether there
was a brisk, breezy look of the advanced
woman about the slim little body, “i’ve
beeu a busi ess woman for three years.” she
said, decidedly, “and have invariably found
men iu every way c ravteous and polite to
me. The great mistake tue independent
woman wakes in her relations with men is
in letting them see that she is independent.
Now, when I am with men I am the most
helpless clinging creature on the footstool,
and they are always lovely to me. Men
dou’t like smart, clever women half
so w ell as gentle, timid creatures
that appeal to their sense of chivalry,
and the nineteenth century nrn i has as much
of it as a me Pascal knight it .you only know
how to find it. Now, when I was first mar
ried and my husband asked me if I was
afraid to stay alone in the evening, I almost
laughed, for I really thougat nothing at all
of going from Btaten Island to Yonkers
after dinner on business; but I managed to
keep my face very erious, while I told him
that I w as a perfect c iward, that the dread
ful shive s ran down my back every t.me I
heard a little noise when I was alo e. Re
sult: He stays in every evening, and there
isn’t a quae-J <ra the globe that has as nice a
time as Ido after the dinner is over. Don’t
oe too smart is my advice to women, or, if
you can’t help being clever and capable,
never let the man you love know you are
able to pick your otvn handkerchief uo
when you drop it if y u want to lie treated
like a princess royal all your life.”
A jolly Easier souvenir, says the New
York World, is a diminutive dude. Hi*
head is formed of a small egg with the in
side blown out, to make it very light. His
face is painted on the egg shell, aud as it is
not necessary to put much skill in painting
t e expre.sion, it cau b > done quite easily.
The young man’s costume is made of paper,
but in the very latest style, and around the
caue which accompanies him, is tied a rib-
bon, oa which is written, “A happy Easter,
you know.”
There are eggs this Easter whose main
thought ,1s “charity, sweet charity,” for
they have formed tbemselvss into mite
boxes and are at.ractive enough to make
the pennies very willing to go in the little
opening at the top. Many of them are made
of colored china, aud painted in gilt letters
are the words “Easter Treasury.”
The daintiest of bonbon b xes can be
made of eggs. Half an egg with a at:n bag
for a top, tilled with candy, makes an ac
ceptable Easter souvenir. Eggs made of
silver, rare china, or plain eggs covered
witn satin, make tbs fair recipient wish that
Easter day came cf.ener than once a year.
The caudy eggs are the delight of the
children, but as a lasting Easter remem
brance they won't do at all. because the
delicious compounds of w hic i they are com
posed make it impossible for them simply to
be gazed at from afar. The chocolate,
nuga and fruit glaoe-eggs have accom
plished to perfection the art of disappearing
when the children are near.
There are manv surprise Easter eggs this
year, aud all kinds of Japanese eggs of
bright colors tied with pretty ribbons. They
open in half aud i side some dainty gift is
fouud. An Easter gift well worth receiving
is a goldeu egg, which opens as t| by magic,
displaying the inside lined with satin, while
resting lovingly against its downy back
ground is a tiny Maltese cross made of dia
monds, spai kingly brilliant, aid yet sug
gestive of the Easter time.
Silver eggs are found to contain all sorts
of unique things. The pins which consist
of aa Easter lily, so perfect that their fra
grance seems almost discernible, are often
seen wheu the silver egg is opened, and so
are stick pins with a tiny enamelled chicken
or ra bit forming the top.
Easter novelties are quite comprehensive
in their range this year. There are Easter
sym'ols which aid in forming now gas
srroens. The butterfly gas screen still de
mand ace tain amount of popularity, but
the screen made of paper and representing
an Easter lily quite outrivals any hing else.
The framework is of silver, the lily being
made of thin white paper. A delicate shade
of green paper forms the leaves, which
spread out, making a very effectual screen
for the eyes. The whole is perfumed with a
faint fragrance of the real lily.
An Kaste gift which never fails to please
is an Easter lily picture frame. It is made
of celluloid or thick w ater-color paper. One
must be an artist to paint it. as it should be
painted. The celluloid or thick paper must
be cut in the exact shape of an Easter lily.
The oenter is moved and peeping out from
the snowy petals is a pictured face, inakiug
tbis imitation lily dearer to some one’s heart
than all the wealth of real flowers which the
Easter sun may shine upon.
A novel Easter souvenir ls a diminutive
choir boy, represented by a small Japanese
doll. His surprise is a model of nerfection,
while iu his hands he firmly holds a book of
Easier carols.
There are numerous Easter novelties dis
played this year whose only object ist >look
pretty. Tiny straw hats filled with colored
eggs and decorated with ribbons are given
as Easter souvenirs. Wheelbarrows drawn
by two little rabbits, who apparently do
not mind the heavy load of eggs they are
carrying, are seen in many of the shop
windows.
There are chickens in a great quantity
also; pi or little things, their beads always
come off, because they are used as bon bou
boxes.
Reefers are in great demand for children.
Dressing bags are now made of lizard
skin.
Short jackets are set aside as quite out of
date.
Very becoming fichus are made of lace
and silk combined.
Open Louis XV. coats made for spring
show a lace chemisette.
Organdies are likely to stand high iu
favor during the summer.
Cat’s eyes and tiger’s eyes are added to
the imitation jewels with which trimmings
are studded.
Bouquets to be carried in the hand at
weddings and balls have trailing ends of
ferns and blossoms.
The “draughty” bonnets worn during the
season have caused many colds and much
neuralgia.
A light, fine cloth used for cloaks is
called “drab excelsior.” It has a soft
finish a id drapes beautifully.
There is a great demand for “cozy
corners” in London drawing rooms, and the
upholsterers are kept busy making new de
signs.
Flowers are the m st expressive offering
at Easter, but unfortunately they are more
expensive then than at nny other time.
Regular pockotbo iks are obsolete. Ladies
carry a handy affair which has a place for
money on one side and cards on the other.
Simplicity and lightness are more than
ever iu vogue for young ladies’ evening
gowns. Cloth, winch is being a good deal
used, is not considered appropriate for de
butantes.
A young girl does not presume to wear
jewels with the exception of tiny pearl
screws in the ears and i lexpeusive bangios.
As soon as she becomes engaged she is per
mitted rather more liberty.
CE.UTH CF C. F. C ICXERING.
Son of the “Father of the American
Pianoforte Industry.”
Charles Frank Chickering died Monday night
at No. 5 Fifth avenue, New York, of blight’s
disease. He was the senior member of the firm
of Chickering & Son, and the second son of
James Cbickerinp, who is known as the “father
of the American p anoforte industry," and who
was the founder of a family that"ha- become
famous in tile musical annals of the century
When the elder Chickering died in lns J Charles
F. and his two brothers took tne manage
ment of the firm. Jonas Chickering, when he
be„-an the mating of p.anos, foun 1 the best of
them a mere box with some strings,whose tones
were thin aud shrill, liy his genius he develoi ed
the piano by slow and steady improvements
into a inagnlflvnt instrument, w iic wmi uni
versal c mme-idatinn. Charles F. Obiekri.'ig
took up the ork where his fatt e - laid it down,
an l to him perhaps more than to nnv other one
man the lovers of inu ioare indebted for the de
gree of perfection that has hem attained in
these i'struments. in the division of inbor iu
th lirm he davot-d turns -If almost entirely 11
scale drawing, to making improvements in the
mechanism of t ie piano, the construction of the
case and tue development of the tent
Charles Frank Pickering was born in Boston
Jan. 27, 1827. His eldest brother, Thomas E.
Chickering. died in 1871, so that the third
bn ther, George FI. Chickering, is tbo only one
of the second rem-rntion o v in tne firm. After
receiving a goo t oducstio.i in the public sc raois
of Boston Mr, Chickering went into the laetory
to learn practical piano making under his
father s direction. His health became delicate
about 1*414, and he went to India on a pleasure
trip. It was not altogether pleasure, however,
for he took uith l.itn a numb rof pianos, which
lie sold in Ca cutta und other cities. He went
into the factory again on his return home, and,
after master.ngall the mysteries, f the busi
ness, went to London and represented the house
at the gre it international exhibition.
He was ex eeuioglv fond of music, and aide 1
in its advancement in every way possible. To
him belongs the distinction of having organized
the first musical test.val in this country. For
several y- ars he was the president of the Han
del ami Haydn Society of Boston, and he was a
life member of the Massachusetts Charitable
Mechanics' Association. In a s cial point of
view he was one of the most popular men in the
city. He belonged to the Unirn Club, the New
York Yacht Club and the Newport Reading
Club. Ax a business man his reputation v.as
most enviable. In a i uxine s full of the keen
est competition no one ever accused him of
taking an u fair advantage of another, or de
parting in the slightest degree from the strict
est code of high commercial honor.
A striking illustration of the confidence re
posed in him by those who knew him was given
bv the miser, Fame, some years ago. That ec
centric descendant of a famous family, a though
possessed of ample means to live comfortably,
denied himself alino t the necessaries of lire.
He distrust-d his own relatives an i pretended
that he really was what be seeme 1 to be in dress
and personal appearance- a wretched ioggar
and an outcast. One day he han ted r. Click
ering a bundle tied up in au oid handkerchief
and wrapped in brown pa er w th a request to
keep it for him. It contained 8309,<>30 in bonds
and stoc. s Paine asked tor no receipt, and
w. en be died there was not a sc an of writing
among hi papers to Indicate where it was. Mr.
Chickering surpri ed the heirs by handing it to
them. They were ignorant even of its exist
ence. The world generally had as ranch confi
dence in Mr. Chtckering as the descendants of
the signer of the declaration of independence.
ATHLETES 1 DERBY DAY.
PREPARING F E TH! GREAT NA
TIONAL. CROS-COUNTRY MEETd.
Famous Cracks to Compete in the
Vonster Handicap Kun, and the
Various Clubs Getting Their Picked
Teams in Trim for the Championship
Races-Champion illie Day, A. B.
George, Jack Lloyd. W. T. Young,
ex-Champion Conneff and Other
Great Runners Entered for the
Honors.
(Copyright.)
New York, March 28.—Just now there
is unusual activity among the athletic clubs
all over the union in anticipation of the
two important national event* toon to take
place under the auspices of the National
Cross Country Association.
There is no finer track in the east for
cross country running than that of the New
York Jockey Club at Morris Park, where
the monster handicap run of the national
association comes off on April 4 noxt.
The course will be laid over a distance of
eight miles and will be inters’iersed hero
and there with artificial obs.aeles that will
try the agility and endurance of the con
testants. There will be water jumps, some
seven or eight feet wide, hurdles, fences and
hedges, which will tie taken by the runners
in full view of the grand stand. Thousands
of spectators will be drawn there to witnoss
the splendid work of ex-Ctiampion T. P.
Conneff, Champion Willie Day, A. B.
George, Jack Lloyd, the famous crack of
the Prospect Harriers, who uever finishes
worse than seoorid, Ernest Hjertsborg of the
New Jersey Atliletio Club, W. T.
Young, an English long-distance wonder,
who came over with A. B. George, and, also,
in all probability, the cracks of Harvard
and Princeton at the long distance. The
entries thus far received by Secretary
Frank of the Cross Country Association in
dicate a field of starters never before
equalled since cross country running came
into v. gue. and probably even stronger nu
merically than last year’s tournament,when
over 200 were entered. The prizes will be
silver cups and medals which have been
given by several of the leading clubs, the
championship cup being a su[>erb affair vul
ued at $250.
The second great event of the season will
be the regular championship team races of
the National Cross Country Association,
which will bo contested over the same
course on April 25. This will probably
attract aueveu larger number of entries, as
any athletic club in the United States or
Canada tym enter as many teams as it
pleases. Among the clubs likely to furnish
strong teams to try for championship
honors are the New York Athletic club,
Manhattan, Staton Island, Boston, Schuyl
kill Navy Athletio Club, Detroit, Louis
ville, Palma, Jersey City, Columbia,
Berkeley, New Jersey, Buffalo Athletic
Cluo, Southern of New Orleans and Mont
real Athletic Club. These organizations,
each finely equipped with improved training
facilities and memberships varying from
500 to 2,530 (the larger number lepresenting
the strength of the New York Athletic
Club, the strongest in the world), are all
intensely Interested in fostoring the sport of
cross-country running and will send picked
men to compete. team will have
from six to twelve meu. 'Thus far twenty
three teams are entered on the secretary’s
list, and the number will probably reach
thirty.
All the talk is of records and record
breaking and ninny predictions are in
dulged in that the present season at the
long cross country distances will be as full
of surprises os that of 1889, when eight
distinct records were broken iu field ath
letics. Export long distance men, how
ever, smile at this and point out that it re
quites phenomenal pluck aud endurance to
stay out the run, as many a fine looking
team which has gone to pieces on the field
has demonstrated. It is a sport in which
hard training gives more than half the bat
tle.
At the team meeting there w ill be a very
lively struggle for honors in tho different
grades. The runners will be divided into
twoclassos —seniors and juniors—the latter
being thoss who have not previously com
peted in any championship contest. In the
first class the Manhattan Athletic Club of
New York will have a team which, from
the number of its famous runners, should be
qualified to carry off some of the prices, at
least. The team will include ex-Champion
T. P. Conneff, one of the most graceful run
ners ever seen in the country; A. B. George,
the brother of the famous English runuer;
and J. H. Roddy, T. H. Turner aud W. W. W.
Woodbridge, three of the speediest men in
Prince ton [College. This will be supple
mented by F. F. Carr, H. L. Damon, W. A.
DePoaesta, W. M. Ja k, E. D. Lnnre. W.
L>. McCarthy, A. P. Roth, C. M. Raymo and,
M. J. Tracer. F. A. Ware, G. A. 8. Wein
ers, W. T. Young, W. M. Christie, James
Hendrink, Mortimer Remington, C. De-
Casauova, D. J' Tompkins, W. H. Strusn,
J. W. Rich and H. Fredericks. Even
Willie Day, the almost girlish New Jersey
boy, may have enough to do to keep to the
front with such a team. Day has been en
tered by the New Jersey Athletio Club and
Dubm, the swift-heeled Princstonian, i' ex
pected to come with his college team. In
vitatio s have been sent to all the amateur
organizations, colleges included, and the ra
sp nses are coming in freely.
No mere sprinter need think of entering
a cross coumryraee to win, unless he is
pi-ovod to possess the endurance and grit
necessary to puli himself through the miles
before him. Willie day, although only 20
years Id, iR a thorough trained atbelete. Ho
canits himself with a smooth tireless
stride that, never relaxes till the goal is in
sight. George, the English runner, is
m restockily built than Day. hut far h-ss
graceful. Ho has a longer stride and leans
forward a good deal as ho runs. T. P. Oon
noff runs lightly a;.d apparently w ith litt!o
effort, while his burst of speed when a
spurt is tailed for are astonishing. I) hm,
the Princetonian. and Downes of Harvard,
are both marvelously speedy, and the latier
is known t> be a runner of wonderful en
durance. These two men are about evenly
matched, and both can cover a half mile iu
a little over fifty seconds. Downes is the
crack runner of Harvard for distance.
Roddy, Turner and Woodbridge of Prince
ton, who are entered iu the Manha tan
club 6esiior team, are also fairly good men
at long dis auces; but it i3 doubtful if any
of the colleges cau furnish men who can last
well over a cross country course alongside
of runners who have made the sport a
specialty. Harvard has not cultivated long
distance runni g to any great extent.
W hits and Dnvenport are among her best
men at a mile.
The officers of this association are B. C.
Williams f the New York Athletic club,
president; C. C. Hughes, Manhattan Ath
letic Club, vice pre ident; J. H Meflor,
Prospect Harriers, treasurer, and William
Frank, secretary. Final arrangements for
the handicap uro about completed and those
for th • team contests are well under way.
In the latter, the prizes for the senior teams
will be gold, silver and bronze menals for
be first, second aud third teams, and a cup
for tho personal winner of the first team.
Be-ides these, other prizes will be given by
the New York Jockey Club and t y private
persons. In the junior team contests which
will be decided on the same day, gold, silver
and bronze medals and individual prizes
will also be given. The Jockey club gives
four silver cups of rio.i design, and a;ipro
: riatoly inscribed, to the championship
winners in both series.
George H. Sandison.
Are You Engrugel ?
And did your ring come from Stornberg’s?
Sternberg is headquarters for fine Wed
ding Pressnts .—Ad.
A fact worth knowing is that blood diseases
which all other medicines fail to cure yield
slowiy but surely to the blood cleansing proper
ties of P P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and
Potassium.)—Ad.
("t,
Rapidity of movement is apt to be ac
companied by a sacrifice of dignity, es
pecially it you hap}jen to have a vicious
dog at your heels. It would be stretch
ing a point to say that our spring suits
have any dignity, because the term is
not usually applied to inanimate object*,
but if they have no dignity of their
own, they at least impart dignity to
the wearer, who, in turn, may be said
to invest them with with a sort of per
sonal animation. If there U anything
in this life that is positively depressing,
it is the unfortunate who is condemned
to wear an unbecoming suit of clothes.
He may try to appear unconscious of
the attention he attracts, but he is a vic
tim of inward embarrassment, even
though he gives no outward evidence of
it. You will have no cause for embar
rassment if you buy your Spring Suit
for yourself or your boys of “THE
FAMOUS,” where you will find just
what you want to suit your person ns
well ns your pocket. Straw Hats, Ele
gant Neckwear, Etc.
“II MlS’’
CLOTHING HOUSE,
148 Broughton St.
BENNETT HYMES, Proprietor.
-TUBE isms a GOODS.
Easter Hats.
Nmelfc in Scarl
BEAUTIFUL ICKm
ALL STYLES AT
LaFAR’S,
THE MEN’S FURNISHER.
Dunlap’s Fine Light Weight Hats, Nas
cimento's Flexible Hats, I'almetto
Hats, Boys’ S raws in Flack and
Whito Mackinaw.
Men’s Gloves, Dress Shirts, Un
derwear and Suspenders,
All the Newest Things
in Men’s Wear, at
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s: HU H HAN RAILWAYS.
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CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA,
(Savannah and Atlantic Division.)
to tank effect feb i4ru, isai.
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day, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday 2:80 p. in., 6:10 p. in.
LEAVE TV BEE —standard lime —Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday 6:00 a. m., 5:00 p. in.
SUNDAY ONLY.
LEAVE S AVANNAH— btnndard Time
-9:30 a. in., 2:30 p. m., 6:10 p. ra.
LEAVE TYBEE —Standard Time
-6:i>oa. in., 12:01 p. m., r,:00 p. m.
Family excurse in* on Tuesdays and Friday*.
Whole tlcset* 85 cents, half ticket* 20 rants.
T e company reserve# the right to withdraw tho
sale of these tickot* without notification when
ever such day* are required for special excur
sions or otherwise.
Psaseugers are required to purohaas ticksta
who wish the benefit of excursion rates.
E. T. CHARLTON,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
T. 8. MOISE. Superintendent.
UOTBio.
THE
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SAVANNAH, GA
One of the moat elegantly appointed hotel*
In tho world.
Accomodations for 500
Gruests.
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WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FULL LINE
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Eye-Glasses,”
From the Celebrated English Manufactory of
Eliott & Cos.
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LIGHT
WEIGHTS.
We are daily adding to our
splendid Spring Stol’k new de
signs in the most fashionable
fabrics, such as
FRENCH SATEENS.
One lot at 25c., selling here
tofore at 35c.
One lot beautiful
FRENCH CHALLIES
At 50c., reduced from 65c.
One lot
CAMELS* IIAIR
Dress Goods
At 40c., formerly 50c.
One lot French
ORGANDY
MUSLINS
At 35 and 50c., former price 45
and 60c.
CIIINA~SILKS.
SILK GRENADINES
Seasonable
DRESS GOODS
Of every description.
SPRING
PARASOLS.
DRESS LACES.
ETC. ETC. ETC.
D. HOGAN.
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SAVANNAH PLUMBING COMPANY?
PRACTICAL SANITARIANS.
HOT WATER, GAS AND
STEAM FITTING EN
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Will test your Soil Pipes and Sewers
by tlieir new method; insuring per
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Advice in arranging apparatus for
Public and Private Buildings Asylums,
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Largest line of Porclain, Enameled
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Washstands and Water Closets of
the most approved design,
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Pipe, Brass and Iron Steam hit
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