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FADS AND FOLLIES.
gOMS OF TBE THINGS WHICH IN
TEREST THE FAIRS a X.
ifjie latest Faßh'onsin Dre?ses—3ome
Interesting Things About Hats—\ j
yew Gossipy St irles—The D!3CU3alon
ibout Short Sirirta and Long
giirta —Glasses for tb© Dressing
Table.
“Soft-shell Madge" is not the soubriquet
c f a Hester street belle,says Clara Belle iu the
Republic- The yo*ng lady rejoicing in this
gjmewbat startling title lives close to Cen
gal park, New York, and is one of the bold
beauties that have struggled for the past
seasons to retain for Narragansett Pier
Its old reputation as an elysium for the skirt
jess bather. Soft-shell Madge is lovely but
frivolous. She boasts that she has a record
for sit cotillions in one week, and fancies she
was irresistibly funny when she asked the
minister, who had called to discuss her
spiritual welfare, if he wouldn’t allow
jier to mix a brandy cocktail for him.
Her name is new, but it will doubtless
cling to her for years to come. It was
eained in a peculiar manner. Madge had
coolly assured a group of friends at one of
the Claremont teas that she could eat
more soft-shell crabs than any one she ever
•aw. A stout and lusty youth guaranteed
at once to eat a match with her and beat
her out of sight. Madge whipped out a
blank check, called for pen and ink, and
when it. was procured, filled in the check
*°“ Cover that,” she said to the youDg man
who bad questioned the capacity of her ap
netite, “a-.d I will meet you one week from
to-dav.”
The’ match was made without more ado.
jt ffas agreed that it should be eaten at a
hotel on the Jersey shore, where the crabs
were known to he the best, and the cooking
w s of a high order of excellence.
At the sot time a jolly party of young
people n et at a house on Fifth avenue, aud
tent in carriages to the Bandy Hook boat.
The hotel was reached in good time, and, as
t_e part.’ was expected, dinner was not
long in forthcoming. All but the two con
testants qto of a varied repast, but the lat
pr confined themselves exclusively to a
huge platter of the succulent crab. Now
th soft-shell type of the crab tribe is ex
ctfdmgly gratifying to the epicurean
pulate, but it cannot be devoured with the
freedom or confidence that beef or mutton
niav. It Is more delicate than the baked
hemi, but it is far more treacherous. Madge
did n >t realize this apparently, for she re
garded ihe large collation before her with
some contempt, and remarked that a great
many more crabs would have to be
cooked at once if it was intended
that she should have her fill,
her opponent said nothing. Madge
called for champagne, the stout young man
for a bottle of ale. Then the match began
in brisk fashion. There could be no doubt
that Madge was fond of oralis, for while she
a;e she smiled and smacked her lips, and
lerged that more should be ordered. After
fifteen minutes had elapsed, however, she
ee sedt-i smile, and asked for additional
vine. The young man, who had been eat
ing more slowly, had not yet finished a
tingle glass of ale, but his complexion was
better tuan the girl’s. She was a little pale.
Afresh dish of crabs arrived, and Madge
sighed beavilv. She helped herself to three
small ones and started in, but on the second
of them she began to cry. Immediately the
urais of her girl friends w ent about her, and
site was implored to say what the matter
*£S.
“Nothing,” she whispered; “only take me
away—any where —at once.”
She v. as quickly removed, while the stout
young man kept on eating.
"Leave the umpire here,” he called out,
as ali wore about to desert him.” I’m not
through > et, and I don’t want any dispute
about the match.”
The umpire remained, and when Madge,
w.. 0 was better soon, returned to the table,
she was informed that she had lost her
money, she having demolished but thirteen
ctabs t j her opponents seventeen.
“Why, Madge, you couldn’t beat me,”
said the young man. “I’ve been in train
ing ever since Sunday.”
“Well, haven't I tool” said Madge. “I’ve
eaten crabs every day and yesterday I put
away fours, eu. Something is wrong with
me this afternoon.”
And that is why ?he is called “Soft-shell
Madge.” Kvon .the youth that vanquished
ter ncl.nowledghs that she had a remark
able stomach, aud is ot the opinion that sho
might have won the match had her train
ing been conducted differently.
s uort ski its or long, says the New York
Becorder, is becoming a very interesting
(j-cstirm. It bangs in the balance; whicii
*av will the verdict incline? There are
those who say the sweeping we have done
for six mouths with our petticoats is
os nothing when weighed agai :ft the more
thorough-going sweeping we shall yet do.
There are al-o those who assert tnat frocks
to have circles cut from about them
until tuey show not only ankles but sotne
thing more. The first opinion seems based
to a jiossimism born of a knowledge of the
total depravity of fashion, and the second
so far as it has been investigated'
is nothing more than a deduction’
more or less intelligent, from the fact that
white stockings and strap shoes are to some
meat “coming in.” That it is impossible
11 Keep ligbt-colored stockings clean wuen
the petticoats drag on the pavement aud
flick the dust up over them, or wheu tho
>Kirts are held up aud flap against the legs
at every step, is evident enough to the
meanest, capacity; but why it should be
supposed that a sex which soils light
colored frocks and petticoats with perfect
equanimity every time it steps out of doors
will stick at so small a matter as stockings
bos yet to ha explained. •
A great deal of silk muslin is soon in the
wmim-r dress a, printed with tiny bouquets,
ehot silks have hoe 1 welcomed back with
tuthusiasm, and figured shot silks are re
ceived with open arms. A green and black
shot gronadine, arranged for afternoon
wear, was noted a few days ago. It had a
round shirt laid in folds at the sides, the
ia;tern producing a somewhat confus
effect of wave3. The sh .rt jacket
bdice opened over a vest of soft green silk,
with a black gauze fichu at the throat and
ong narrow black velvet ribbons hanging
early to the bottom of the skirt, but fiud
ug a more or less legitimate terminus in
jutterfly bows at the head of a black lace
ounce crossing the front breadth of the
kaperies. The costume had its appropri
lte accompaniments in a black lace bonnet
with foliage trimmings and narrow block
civet strings. It was an exoellont type of
rammer fashions in town.
Among country costumes a pink and gray
jslsine is equally characteristic. In front
t opens over a gray silk petticoat trimmed
fith rows of half-inch pink ribbon. The
Cunt of the bodice is of gray surah, draped
nth cream-colored lace, which forms pan
?ra - The sleeves have gray surah cuffs,
rimmed with rows of narrow- pink ribbon,
i pale blue crepe de chine makes a second
lre tty example over its petticoat of mousse
wngaiine trimmed with gold and jewels.
Women are busy with more utilitarian
’reparations for quitting town for the sum-
Uer , says Clara Belle in her New York let
fir to the Republic. Just as I was going
to-day the lady in the rooms across the
’ailway of the apartment hotel begged to
fifi me. She looked dreadfully, aud see was
ulf cryiug.
‘A\ o'.’c you please lend me a dress, or—or
fiioak? 1 have got to catch a train,” sho
:ped.
’•u- te inai to need a dress, but I knew
fir only slightly, aud I made up my mind
tfi had gone mad.
"My trunks have all gone,” she wailed.
John is to met me at the wharf. IVe sail
fir Europe in au hour. I simply can’ miss
te boat. I have no one to turn to. I oaii
' f get a dress made—you can see that y our
f. If you have a human heart you will
help me out. Give me a cloak and—and a
pair of shoes, and a—a thick veil. O! nlease
be quiok.”
I told her tha" she needed rest and per
fect quiet, and that ii mild rub her bead
1 w “”ro she :: ■ r o dress she had on.
Itsan old thing . .as going to Lave” i
soesebbed, “and 1 dn.i’t want my head |
ruoli and. I want -om clothes. You see,
packing is such warm work. I deemed to
put on these old things and jus: slipper—
you must get me shoes, too—and—O I sha'l
miss the boat.”
“My dear madam— ’’
, “ u . don’t you understand?” she shrieked, j
‘I have packed everything—everything.
The clean clothes I laid out and mv travel
ing dresi und everything—they'are all
packed—and gone—gone. I forgot I had
these things on—and i packed everything—
everything, and John is at the wharf now,
with the children from grandmother’s, and
you will not help me.”
She went completely into hysterics right
in my hallway. Poor little woman. She
was a good deal smaller than I, but I fixed
her up. I wonder what John said when he
saw her.
A London correspondent of the New York
Press writes: Once more the Duchess of
Marlborough is to the fore. Her oft disputed
fortune is discussed between courses at din
ner parties. She married the Duke of Marl
borough, and by her marriage to an En
glishman became herself a British subject
If the point now at issue, as to whether as
a British subject she can legally inherit un -
der her American husband’s will, is declared
against her, what a terrible come
down it will be for the duke. I am
afraid . that a lot of people here
would like it to happen. It is certainly
curious how little headway Duchess * ‘Ham
meraley” has mado iu London society. She
is very handsome, very agreeable, ready
and anxious to please, clever, sweet-voiced
and interesting. As Miss Lilly Price, pen
niless and beautiful, she had “a hard row
to live,” notwithstanding her father’s posi
tion in the navy; as tho Duchess of Marl
borough she finds the fight against stream
equally arduous and disheartening, and a
less bold, intrepid woman would have
thrown up the sponge long ago.
A girl’s dressing table, says the New York
Sun , is the pride of her room. She may
have pretty pictures, a collection of photo
graphs of her best fellows far exceeding in
number that of ber envious girl friends, she
may have a gumboard of real rosewood,
five dozen sachet bags, and a nightgown
case of real Japanese silk; yet, with all
these glories to outshine it, the dressing
table is the pride and the piece de resistance,
so to speak, of the room. The sweetest
dressing table is all of glass, and is provided
with two shelves, an upper shelf and a lower
shelf. These are of beveled glass, and are
held in place by beautiful gold legs. An
other kind of a dressing table less expen
sive has simply a beveled glass cover on
top, aud is just a plain table elsewhere. On
top of the table go the silver manicuring
implements, the celluloid brush and comb,
and ivory-backed glasses and brushes. Be
sides this there must be the dozens of little
fancy boxes, powder and puffs, and bottles
of cologne and perfumery. To make these
bottles more ornamental, manufacturers
have supplied beautiful cut gloss pitchers
and odd shaped things filled with perfumery
of all colors. One can thus, if she be a
dainty miss, and particular as to the ap
point nent of her room, have her perfumery
to match the general color of the boudoir.
The India silks, says the New York
Times, are pretty everywhere. A pale blue,
with white tulips and green tulip leaves, is
mado w ith a deep flouDce upon the skirt,
another forming the bodice basque. The
graceful blonde who wears it passes through
the hot and dusty street like a cool breeze,
the soft swish, swish of the silk creating au
actual sense of lowered temperature. An
other blue and white India, that is worn
with a white hat, has an inset of plain blue
in the back of the bodice running to a point
at the waist. The plain blue makes vest
and sleeves, and a knife plaiting on the
front of skirt.
An ludia of delicate green has white
water lilies strewn upon it. The little lady
who has shown the taste to choose this has
brown eyes, in which the shadow and the
sunshine chase one another as on tne surface
of the rippling pond where the lilies grow.
Her hat is a white straw with a wisp of
green braided through it, and it has a hand
ful of large lilies and au unopened bud lying
carelessly upon tho brim.
As this vision floats by city sights and
sounds vanish, the fresh air sweeps down
from the hills, the leaves ou tall trees toss
and flutter, and the slender branches of the
saplings sway, the white clouds movo lazily
across tho great expanse of heavens, the
long stretch of eartn falls away in undu
lating billows, and the sea of grass rolls its
waves toward an unknown shore. There is
room to breathe! And how sweet the breath
of the lilies! He must be dull of senso wbo
cannot catch the lilies' fragrance even
through tho puffs of frosted tulle with
which the hat is veiled and on which tho
crystals sparkle like drops of suulit water
on the oar.
But now men lift their hats and mop
their brows and ray: “Phew! how hot it
is!” and no wonder, either, for the gown
that swings heavily against them in the
crowded way would warm a snow-clad
landscape—solid scarlet with great jet
cabochans. Here comes another scarlet
with “just gold enough to brighten it,”
That is what the modisto said who made it.
To “brighten” it, forsooth! Liberty’s lan
tern, lit to enlighten the whole world, can
not hold a candle to this dress.
The superintendent of a children’s charity
Institution in New York remarked: “Ah,
there is one lady of fashion in this city
whose goodness of heart is certainly without
parallel among her set. I can’t tell you her
name, because she objects strongly to hav
ing her kind deeds known. She is a true
Christian at work, even if sho does dance a
great many nights away and own a fort
une’s worth of diamonds.”
“Does the ladv give a lot of money to
the institution?” the superintendent was
asked
“O, no,” he replied: “she doesn’t give
money to us, but she labors for us. She
does indeed. She cooks for us continually.
Everv dav there are pies and cakes and
puddings ' sent into the children from her,
and I have proof that they are ail made by
the lady herself. How she ever finds time
for it all is more than I can explain. Only
a few moments ago I received here two
dozen custard pies, four suet puddings, and
iix sheets of sponge cake, with this note
saving that she had just baked them all
and hoped the children would enjoy them.”
“And they just will enjoy them, won’t
they?” said the listener.
“Well, no,” replied the superintendent.
"You see. they won’t oat them.”
“Won’t eat them?”
“No That’s the only trouble with
this good charitable iady. No one can eat
anything she cooks.”
The other day, says the New York Sun,
at one of the uptown stations of the Third
avenue elevated road there waited for a
tralu a very tull lad, who must have stood
some inches over six feet in his hose, a
little woman of middle age aud a very fat
.. . ... ..
It was evidently vacation time with thv
lad, who wore the blue r.r.d white colors of
Columbia. As he paced up and down the
platform one could but hear that he was
giving the little mamma an account o.
some of his college pranks, at which the
jolly baby on his other arm crowed and
chuckled approvingly. No French nurse
ever carried a baby with more ease and
grace than did this bie collegian.
"I should not have been a true dece dent
of Eve.” said a woman who tells the story,
“had not I purposely enter,-d the same car
with this interesting trio. All the way
down-town the fat baby sat perched on tuo
tall boy’s knee, now solemnly endeavoring
to poke his chubby fingers into his brother’s
eyes, now tugging at his watch chain or
trying to get one of his coat buttons into his
mouth. At 23rd street they got out and I
followed. They entered one of the large
dry-goods stores. I bethought me of a god
child for whoa X must make soma purchase
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JUNE 21,1801 --TWELVE PAGES.
and went in also. The men clerks smiled,
the young ladies cast shy glances at this lad
who was not ashamed to carry a baby.
“At the counter for infants’ outfits they
stopped, and this ‘tyrant who had forgolteu
his fair’ was fitted with a French cap. while
I industriously selected a christening dress
for my godchild. Then the fat baby began
to rub hi 9 sleepy eyes, and the little woman
said, with anas urancoot wliich I, with :ny
knowledge of young inen, marveled:
“ “lako him home now. Jack, please; h ’s
getting sleepy, l’il come as soon as I have
finished my shopping.’
“Exit Jack, carrying the baby.”
A flannel petticoat is no longer a matter
of simplicity. After having it trimmed
with lace a..d ribbons it has neon decided
that it U most effective when finished with
a Vandyke, embroidered in silk, while the
skirt portion is covered from the lower
edge :o tho waist with white silk stars em
broidered by hand. A traveling petticoat
is made of red and white striped alpaca,
finished with scant ruffles of red satin rib
bon about an eighth of a yard wide. There
are three of these, and, os the rutils is
on the straight, the cord finish forma the
edging and does away with a hem.
By waiting until the first rush of the
season is over, says the New York World,
one may often secure a very good bargain
in ha's and bonnets. In the milliners’
windows the capotes, toques and fancy hats,
which were marked at from $lO to S3O
early iu the season, arc now sold for from
$6 to sls.
Untrimmed hats are even cheaper in pro
portion, for those which ara not sold already
are stacked in the showcases to be given
away for almost any price which the buyer
cboi ses to pay. By judiciously selecting a
hat of the correct shape, and one that is
nearest like the fashionable prevailing
modes, and then selecting one’s trimming
at the flower, feather or ribbon counters,
and taking all the purchases hack to the
milliner’s to be trimmed, one can get a very
good hat at a very reasonable price.
For example, suppose one goes into the
store and finds that a hat ready trimmed
cost sll. By inquiring further on it be
comes plain that the same bat minus the
trimmings can be bought for $1 25; that
the lace, velvet aud flowers can all be pur
chased for $4, and that tho cost of trim
ming is $1 25. This makes the cost of the
hat tnus obtained $6 50 with the very same
result that would have been secured had the
woman spent sll for the hat which she first
saw. From this a lesson may be obtained
for very many women who suppose that
they must either buy a Uat ready trimmed
or trim one for themselves, the idea of
buying all the materials and then taking
them to a milliner to be put together never
having occurred to them.
Sweet faced girls are particularly in
their element this summer, for the hats
seem designed especially for them, and,
moreover, these same hats are so very try
ing to all the woman who are not sweet
faced, that the pret.y girls have the
monoply of admiration.
The novel low-crowned sailor hat is going
to De the favorite for outing expeditions.
Clad in a stripped navy blue and white
flannel suit, with a big roiling Jack Tar
collar ana broad four-in-hand necktie, and
topped by one of these broad, low-crowned
sailor huts, Mrs. Jack Tar or Miss Gill Tar
is as pretty and refreshing a sight as Jack
wishos to take with with him upon his
yatching or sailing expedition.
The deadly bonbonntere. I call it such,
says Clara Belle In a New York letter in the
Cincinnati Enquirer, for it merits the title
—this pretty little silver box, with its
quaint oarvings or tracings, which the fash
ionable woman draws from her pocket be
tween acts, and from which she daintily
picks an apparently harmless bit of candy.
This pretty plaything, I say, is becoming
an ob. ect of dread to the married man and
tne watchful mother. It has long been an
open secret that the bonbonnieres often con
tain brandy drops; but who dared think
that untipyrine, chloral, arsenic, and even
morphine, would ever make their way into
it? Vot they have done so. Tno harmless
looking chooolates are filled with “pick-me
ups,” which the fashionable woman is thus
enabled to carry about with her to the mat
inee, the race course, the ball match and
tho theater party. ,
At Morris Park yesterday afternoon an
elegantly-dressed womau was seized with
hysterias, and was carried from the grand
stand to the parlors of the club house by her
husband, kindly aided by a male friend wbo
happened to be of the party. As the little
procession made its way along tbe possuge
a very pretty silver bonbonntere dropped
from the lady’s hand and rolled over toward
a group of sympathetic lookers on, one of
whom picked it up with the intention of re
turning it after tlie races were over. With
genuine feminine curiosity he examined tne
contents of the‘b. nbonniere. The socrot
was out: the cause of the supposed hysterics
was known, for, heboid! the harmless
brown-ceatcd chocolates were filled with
one of the most powerful intoxicants
known. The lady had takgn an overdose in
her anxiety to secure au instantaneous ef
fect, and thus be enabled to get rid of her
megrims and bet her money intelligently.
O, temporal O, mores! You will ex
claim, but I will not listen to one word
against my sex. Women are what men
make them. When nature made man she
filled him with wickedness, pressed down
and running over, and it was the overflow
that fell to woman’s share. I read the other
day that some miserable cynic has lately
said that a woman is a remnant in naturo’s
haberdashery, and has consequently been
“marked down” and thrown on the “bar
gain couoter.” I was indignant, and cried
out: “I’ll venture to say that that wretch
never had a sweetheart or a wife! Or, if he
bad a sweetheart, she was someone else’s
wife; or, if he had a wife she wa3 some
one else’s sweetheart!”
The summer girl’s parasol, says tbe New
York Sun, is meant incidentally to keep
off the sun, but more essentially it is to cast
becoming light on her face, to give a pretty
background to her head, and to protect her
young man from curious observation. It is
also intended for the summer girl’s young
man to run around after, and for him to
oarry, either shut or open, and for him to
dig holes In the sand with when it is shut,
and when she is not digging holes with it
herself. It is for him to steal tho ribbon off
and to lose that he may buy her another,
and to write his name on tho stick. Of
oourse a summer girl has more than one
young man, so she has a groat many
names cut or written on the
handle of her parasol, and
she has a lot of extra bows for It. Some
times the summer girl lets her young man
give his cane for a handle to put on her
parasol. She pretenls that he insisted, and
other girls are mad about it; and the young
man wonders why he was Buch a fool, and
how she ov*r wheedled him into it. Then
the summer girl can have the handle taken
off when she gets home, and can have it
put on a onne again to give to her winter
voung man. This is economic and some
times a cane handle goes around and around
in this way, aud finally gets back to tho
first young man.
Some girls get collections of soldier or
yachting suit buttons and tie them to their
parasol handle. There s a law io some regi
ments against cutting off buttons. Other
girls g“t neckties to tie on tho tops of their
parasol sticks. Fortunately, alll neckties
are not suitable for this use. One girl put
a moustache fringe around the edge of hex
parasol. But her father was a barber.
When girls carry plain silk parasols they
like to gst devices of men’s yachting caps
and fasten them on the tops of the parasols.
One g rl had the ends of the bow of ribbon
all weighted down with badges, society
pins and decorations, but she had to work
awfully hard and steal a good deal to get
them, and all the fellows ran when they
saw her.
It is nice, too, to send your young man
out to pick daisies or golden rod for you,
and then you can pin a big bunch on your
parasol. You let your young man walk
with you and wear some of the same flow
ers in "his Coat so all the girls can see. Red
parasols are pretty, aad other girls are
likely to have them. This is an advantage,
because thoy can’t be sure whether it is yon
or one of the other girls out on the rock
with Albert.
GAY CARRIE CARELESS
TB-; SHOW TLE YOUNG MEN CAN
BECYME POPULAR.
H vr 'us Horseback Woman Beets
-c! —' r . t rugar in a Horse Car.
.1 eld v 51 rtjan, tbe Cattle Edl
- .ust We Discard Our Staya?
ty Mrs. Balfingrton Booth.
iCopyright, 1891.1
New York, June 20.—Wbat ara you go
ing to do this summer, you young men of
the town, during the weeks that must elapse
before you go away for your long vacation,
to which you have been looking forward
since last summer?
You can, of course, snatch a day now and
thon from your arduous labors, and on suoh
occasions it will be your pleasure to sart
for a drive or a ride "o’er moss and fell” or
along whatever country road or through
whatever woods it may be your privilege to
have adjacent to the town in which you
live.
If you are a rather selfish sort of a young
man, something on the blase order, tired of
the world of women aud girls, and glad to
enjoy yourself without their companion
ship,'you will select the best horse at your
disposal, whistle to faithful dog Tray, and,
mounted upon Dobbin wiih Tray at your
side, you will go dancing, prancing, jump
ing, bowling, galoping, racing aud tearing
off to the woods—to the woods away—to
make holiday all by yourself.
But if you are a sensible young man—the
kind of a man that the women love and the
kind that they may trust and reward with
their confidences—you will make it your
business to anticipate your holiday, and will
gather about you a choice pai ty of con
genial spirits, who will make merry with
you and bring you homo wiser, happier,
merrier and healthier for your day's outing.
Women love to riJe horseback, but alas!
custom has givon them such a very uncom
fortable seat in the Baddle that only a few
of the sturdiest women can continue to en
joy the sport of horseback riding for a sea
son or two without becoming cramped, neu
ralgic, back-uchy, and even lop-sided. You
know what the position is. A woman’s
knee is propped up almost under her chin,
anil her back, in this position, is tempted to
lake a curve against which she must strug
gle every moment, lest Bhe will appear un
graceful.
Now, you know, you and I, being women
who believe in corsets, petticoats and bangs,
would not advise or in any way advocate
the adoption of the divided skirt for riding
purposes, but there is a way that is a very
good one for those who have tried it, and it
is this. Let a woman procure two Buddies, u
right side saddle and a left one and then let
her ride alternately upon each. If she is a
horseback fiend and rides both morning and
afternoon, then let her ride on (he right
saddle in the morning and tho left one in the
afternoon. This rests tbe legs, both tbe
right leg and the off leg, and she doesn’t
get so cramped that she feels uncomfortable
when her right leg is stretched out straight,
or when the left leg is doubled up.
If she intends to ride only once a day, let
her acoustom herself to riding both ways,
and if she is going on a long riding tour
through the country with a party of men
like the kind previously alluded to os unsel
fish, kind and generous, let her send or have
sent one of tbe saddles ahead, to await her
at some objective point in the trip, when
she can continue on her way rejoicing at the
opportunity for a change in position. Those
who have tried it say that this is a very
satisfactory way.
Every woman who rides in a horse car
gets accustomed to being sandwiched be
tween men whom sho has never seen and,
too often, whom she hopes she will never
see again. Ladies who have driven in
their own oarriagos profess to be terribly
shocked when fate or fortune drives them
to the exigency of entering a horse car, and
they lament openly that some way cannot
be devised by which proper seclusion is
maintained.
It is related that Mrs. Van Rennsalaer
Cruger, known to tho novel readers as Julian
Gordon, tbe most prominent literary woman
of America, was surrounded and sur
mounted by a chain of circumstances which
compelled her, just a few days ago, to enter
a Broadway . horse-car. Cbauncey M.
Depew entered the oar shortly after aujX
took his stand opposite Mrs. Cruger.
“Why, Mrs. Cruger,” said he, “do you
ride iu the horse cars ?”
“No, indeed, I do not,” replied Mrs.
Cruger. “I assure you Ido not. To provo
it I can tell yon that I do uot know how
much the ear fare is. Will you kindly ask
tbe conductor for me if I owe him 10 cents
or only 8? I have really forgotten, or I
might say that I never know how much the
car companies do charge persons who travel
in this way.”
Mrs. Cruger’s new home on Htaten Island
is to be a very elegant one, but not a large
one. It is designed specially for comfort
and is to be so arranged that all the needs
of its literary owner shall be gratified. It
is Mrs. Cruger’s proud boast that the house
is being built entirely from the proceeds of
her own novels.
Rose Coghlan may and may not be an
aspiraut for social Honors, but, at all
events, society is seeking her. Her unfort
unate marriage has enlisted sympathy
rather than criticism from people who
know all the circumstances, and her very
clever actiDg, charming manners and unas
suming ways win for her scores of friends
among people who do not usually seek the
stage boards for friends. Miss Coghlan has
had many social honors extended to her
sinceshe has been iti New York, and is seen
frequently at the homes of very nice peo
ple. It Is on Miss Coghlan’s account that
the Stevens family, who own Hoboken, en
tertained recently the large theatrical com
pady which assisted at their out-of-door
matinee.
A prominent figuro of down-town New
York —Miss Middy Morgan, the cattle edi
tor of two big New York papers, is break
ing down under the strain of hard work and
out of door exposure. For twenty-eight
years Middy Morgan has gone back and
forth to the cattle yard, writing up her re
ports and doing her work iu such a way
that the press has lost no chance of giving
her a paragraph. Now she is wear
ing out, and with a fortune of
nearly SIOO,OOO, all earned by hersolf, she
can retire at any time to her homo on Lging
Island. The little basket which she always
carries and into wbioh the market men slip
the finest catch of trout and tbe first fruits
of the season will be missed when the old
lady is no longer able to go about on the
streets that have known her for so long,
and editors and cattlemen say that up to
the very moment when "Middy” leaves the
yard, her ideas and works shall receive from
them respectful consideration.
Women wbo lead the styles and set the
fads are trying to go without corsets. It is
said, though nobody dares to say it loudly
or openly, that since Mrs. Whitney took up
the Delsarte fad that she has discarded her
stays, and now people are wondering if the
snug, tidy Mrs. Cleveland will do likewise.
Mrs. Whitney is specially devoted to Del
sartism and is going to dress, walk, talk
and ride in a way that would cause the
late lamented Delsarte to rise right up and
clap his hands were he privileged to do go.
That pretty Mrs. Ballington Booth, who
is the leading spirit in the cal vat ion Army,
never loses an opportunity to speak the
word and give the whoop of salvation to
thoso about her—wherever she may be. Bhe
was sick in a hospital in New York last
summer, and, wbiie she was in bed with a
painful illness, she would ask the white
capped nurse for her banjo, and then, sup
ported upon the arm of her attendant, she
would sing and play Salvation A rmy songs
with all the strength that was in her. It
was in vain to remonstrate with her. Sho
would sing and sing until they feared tor
ber life. She had work to do, she said. and
she was in the world to do it, and
while there was strength in her
body she would do that work with that
strength. As she got better she devoited
herself more and m n r> to her work laying
out plans and ma[ ping tie Cimpaign for
tbe coming season, ocarcely had she ,left
the hospital when she was lecturing again
to audiences, and the liar Cry, the organ
of the Salvationists, printed columns of her
glorious deeds and achievements The Sal
vation Army may or may uot win admir
ers, but Mrs. Balliugtou Booth is loved
always and forever.
Rose Gertrude Fowler—sister Rose Ger
trude of leprosy fame —found that she had
no snap when sne went to the Hawaiian
Islands to do the work which Father Da
mien had been carrying on. She found that
there was an autocratic health board down
among those heathens, and that, from the
very beginning, she would have to fight
them. They were terribly opposed to Father
Damien, aud consequently they hated Sister
Rose Gertrude, who appeared to them a- a
new-comer ready to follow in Father Da
mien’s footsteps. Sister Rose is now doing
literary work, and her plans for tbe future
are somewhat unsettled. Asa literary as
pirant she has a fine stock of experience
from which to draw for her writing, and
ber name gives her a recognized place among
publio workers.
Here is a hint for some inventive genius.
Let tbe man who will make a fortune think
of some kind of undergarments that will
adapt themselves to all tbe changes in the
weather. Let him devise a kind that will
be thiu on hot days and thick ou cold days,
aud medium when the weather is half way
between hot and cold. Perhaps ho
can make them of rubber und have tho
rubber so sensitive that it will harden in tho
wintry blasts and soften and become porous
when the August sun shines aud tho breezes
do not blow. If he cun do this and can
make them pretty, and will have tho rubber
in all colors to match the girl’s complexion
and will make it possible to run a nice,
pretty ribbon around the neck, he will have
the grateful thanks of all womankind, in
cluding Carrie Carklsbs.
A WORD ABOUT CHARITY.
Suggestions ns to How the Most Ef
fective Work is Done.
Brooklyn, N. Y., June 20.—The young
lady who is possessed of unlimited means, ’
ample time, perfect health, and a desire to
be practically useful, is certainly au excep
tional individual, but such an one has really
written me u letter. “I core nothing for
fashionable life,” she gays, “and although
iu it, am not of it. My parents are perfectly
willing that I shall devote us much time
and money as 1 please to charitable work,
but here is the rub, and this is my
excuse for appealing to you. I do not
wish to be connected with organized chari
ties, but on the contrary to do my work
with individuals. Up to date, notwith
standing I have used all tho common sense
I could bring to tiear upon the subject, my
record has been most disappointing. My
confidence has been generally misplaced,
my time wastod, my money squ undered.
Truly I have had enough discouragement
aud suffered enough imposition to make me
feel that it is of no sort of use to try and
help anybody, and yet I oannot quite give
up.”
My correspondent has been relying too
much an the power of money to accomplish
her purpose. And those who have been en
gaged in charitable work to any extent
understand that money oannot be too care
fully disbured. In the majority of cases it
docs more barm tbau guooL To the very ‘
poor, who are conscientious and prudent,
this statement may >avor somewhat of
heartlessness. Tboy will know how to spend
money, but such knowledge is extremely
rare, and philanthropists do not know
where to find these prudent and apprecia
tive needy ones.
Even in such instances tho best way to
he p is to make it possible for people to help
themselves.
Such charity requires the nicest discrimi
nation. It is much easier for one with a
plothorio pocket nook to pull out a few
bills and hand them over to those who need
than to find out wbut is necessary to keep
body and soul together, and then to buy It,
aud afterward to devise some plan by which
bread and butter can be earned. But the
former is a hindering process for many
reasons, and is uot in any sense a ohanty.
It is utterly impossible to give any spe
cific advice in such matters, and the young
and enthusiastic are very apt to be impa
tient of generalizations.
It would be a real charity to send a few
invalided working girls to tbe country for
a vacation, or those who are not invalids,
but who cannot stretch their earnings to
cover such un expense. This is a work very
dear to my heart, and if my correspondent,
or any one else, feels a thrill of desire to be
useful in such a way I can make this work
very easy, for I know just where the sub
jects are to be found. T hink of girls 18 and
20 yoars old, intelligent and lady-like, who
have never seen the outside of New York
city, and who have worked sinoe childhood
every day of their starved and miserable
lives. Ten sqcli girls were taken by a prac
tical philanthropist to a New Jersey
farm last summer and kept there
for Borne weeks. The woman who
was able to do this told me that
it was the most satisfactory work of her
life, and she was sure she know a little of
how she should feel when Bho got to heaven
by the astonishment and delight of the stran
gers at their unusual surroundings. Biuce
this glorious visit iny friend has had these
girls as it were under her eye. She calls
upon them, thoy call upon her, and in every
possible way their welfare is promoted. If
trouble comes in any shape they know that
t .ey will be helped to bear it. This summer
the original ten, with five more added to
the number—the latter sick girls, to be
nursed and cared for by the well ones—will
take up tbeir quarters at the farm. Could
there be a more blessed charity than this?
1 am happy to be able to assure the in
?uiring readers wbo have signified a desire
or sensible summer costumes that moun
tain and seashore'dresses are to be worn
short, and with gaiters made of the same
material, if possible. This style is in the
nature of a fad, but it is very pretty, and
gives a wonderful finish to the whole cos
tume. Cheap cheviots in mottled greys
and browns, Mrs. Jen ness Miller tells us,
are the proper materials. For cool weather
jackets containing many pockets are added.
The gown skirt should also be amply sup
plied with these conveniences. The sleeves
should be made fairly long in order to pro
tect the wrists from tan and sunburn.
Gloves cannot always be relied upon to per
form this office.
Pulmonary diseases can be mitigated and
in tnaDy rases cured by proper physical ex
ercises. I have endeavored to make this
fact as plain as possible, and to give all tbe
necessary directions in a booklet I have
just published called “The Woman’s Way
to Health aud Beauty.” The reason for this
vdlume is the number of letters which have
poured in upon me for the last year which I
could not answer by public or private cor
respondence. The interest is so great and
so wide-spread that this seemed the only
solution of the difficulty.
Pbysioal exercise and massage treatment
are not understood to any practical extent.
People with narrow chests and hacking
coughs are very apt to think there is too
much labor required in such modes of deal
ing with consumptive tendencies, but they
are mistaken, and this fact it has been my
ambition to elaborate. There ore many
other physical ills beside those that come
under the head of pulmonary, which ran
be reached by moans of physical culture,
may nerve troubles and mental anguishes
which nothing else will ever cure.
“If you will show me how to be beauti
ful, the health can take care of itself,”
“Passed By” informs me in a highly scented,
dissatisfied, illegible and incoherent com
munication. I did not need the psycho
metric gift to Inform me what this letter
contained, for I had sensed it spiritually
before the seal was broken, and when I
glanced at the signature I (lid not wonder
that the author was “Passed By.” No man
with an ordinary nose and average stom
aoh could po.sibly linger long enough to
maze love to such a woman. May she con
tinue to be passed by until she has sense
enough to understand that beauty without
health is an impossibility, and that any
thing more than a suggestion of perfumery
betrays vulgarity. Eleanor Kirk.
Dunlap’s floe hats and the Hopatcoag sun
hats at LaFar’s.— Ad.
BUMMER RESORTS,
OCONEE WHITE SULPHUR
Hall Oocntt, Georgia,
Will bk Openrd June Ist.
These famous springs are located in the moun
tains of North Georgia. A pleasant drive of
two mile* from White Sulphur Station, Rich
mond and Danville Air Line railroad Six miles
from Gainesville High and dry comfort
able cottages. Fine driving roues, beautiful
mountain scenery. Fishing and hunting un
surpassed. Delightful baths of sulphur and
freestone water. Fine music. Electrics call
bells iu every cottage. Good and polite service
guaranteed. The table will always be supplied
from the very best that can be had from city
markets. Flue milk and butter from our Jersey
farm. Two hours ride from Atlanta. Eight
daily trains to and from Atlanta. Special ar
rangements have boen made for connection at
Atlanta with all outgoing trains. Circulars
giving rates in full ou application to
J. A. DeWITT, Proprietor,
White Suphur Springs,
Bowdre Postoffloe. Hall County.
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND,
THE QUEEN OF SEABIDE REBORTR
The Ocean House.
FIKSTn.ANH is all ITS APPOINTMENTS.
Open krom Ji'Nß to October.
JOHN G. WEAVER. Proprietor.
The Everett House, New York.
Overlooking beautiful Union Square,
Offers to visitors a cool, pleasant summer home
at reduced rates.
For I lost rat ol Pamphlet, etc , address
JOHN G. WEAVER, JR , & CO.,
Everett House, New York.
MOUNTAIN PARK HOTEL,
Hot Springs, North Carolina.
UNDER ENTIRE NEW MANAGEMENT.
This charmim? resort in the mountains lias
beon leased for a term of years. Modern in all
appointments. Table and service unexcelled.
Rooms tfood size and well fundshed. Natural
hot water baths in marble pools are luxurious.
Amusement for the pleasure seeker; rest for
the overworked; health for tho invalid. For
circulars ana rates address
W K ROSS. Proprietor.
ASUMMKU HOTEL among the A
GREEN MOUNTAINS OF VERMONT
Th© Maplewood Hotel is situated upon tb©
summit of Mount Randolph, 1,500 feet above the
sea level; 600 feet above the railroad; a perfect
panorama of views; children’s paradise; ele
k r ant house, with largo rooms, all newly fur
n is he and, papered and painted; pure spring water,
balconies 400 feet iu lonjjth; bowling alleys;
billiard hall; hardwood dancing hall; lawn ten
nis and aroquet lawns; laree livery at low rates;
drives unsurpassed; rich Jersey milk and but
ter; fresh vegetables, etc., etc.; ever flowing
sulphur springs; new four-horse burg© for par
ties who wish to rove the country; reasonable
rates for board- $7 to sl2 per week; special
rates for June and September; descriptive cir
cular. Address THATCHER STONE, proprie
tor, Randolph, Vt.
Battery Park I otel,
ASHEVILLE. TNT. O.
Open throughout the year. Elevation 2,600
feet; average summer temperature, 74°; mag
nificent mountain scenery; hydraulic elevator;
electric lights aud bells; music hall, tennis court,
ladies'billiard parlor and bowling alley; beau
tlful drives and flrst-claas livery; no mosquitoes.
For descriptive printed matter apply to
♦I ■ Bt LB, M C|n •r.
NOW OPEN.
THE Bedford Alum, iron ami lodine Springs
of Virginia, and receiving visitors daily.
Best health and pleasoie resort combined In
the state, showing a record of testimonials and
certificates of cures for the past forty years un
surpassed by any other mineral water in this
country.
AncomodatloDs first-class. Terms reasonable.
Patronage sollcted. Descriptive pamphlets
mailed on application. Address BEDFORD
SPRINGS I’. 0., Va.
J R MABEN, Trustee, Proprietor.
MR. R. WINK TAYLOR,
PROPRIETOR OF
THE ARLINGTON, GAINESVILLE, GA.,
Has leased tho famous New Holland Hprlngs,
about two miles distant, and will conduct both
houses this season. Now Holland will open
June 15. The accommodations will be better
than ever before. Wurm’s orchestra will fur
nish delightful muHic. and table first class
LOOKOUT IWT. HOUSE
Lookout Mountain, I liatfanonga, To mi.
Finest view of situation on mountain Excel
lent table; homelike, refined; aecon j mod Aten 2WO
tfuaaU. Kates per day, sl2 60 per week, SSO
per monili. Take broad railroad at
Georgia avenue depot, get off at Rose avenue.
P. H. WEILBACHKK, Manager.
“THE SWANN AM) A,”
Asheville, IST. C.
A GOOD, MEDIUM-PRICED HOTEL.
Under new management 1 Thoroughly over
hauled. refitted and refurnished. Modern con
veniences. Delightfully cool rooms and superb
views. Rates and reading matter upon appli
cation HOWELL COBB.
STATEN ISLAND, now open,
the new HOTEL CASTLETON.
Brighton Heights, St. George, overlooking tbe
Bay. Only twenty minutes from Battery.
Decorated and elegantly furnished. FJevator
and all modern improvements.
JAMES H. RODGERS, Proprietor.
Late Kensington, Saratoga and Coleman
House, N Y
LONG BRANCH, N. J.
UNITED STATES HOTEL.
Select family and transient hotel. Directly
on the ocean, 800 feet frontage. $3 to $3 50 per
day. Reduced weekly rates to families
J. C. VAN CLEAF, Proprietor,
Mansion House, Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., Di
rectly Opposite Wall'Street Ferry.
CAI’K MAY,
HOTEL LAFAYETTE, Cape May, N. J.,
Open May 30.
JOHN TRACY 1 * CO., Owners* Proprietors.
Directly on the beach. Complete In every de
partment. Thoroughly renovated and supplied
with the latest improved passenger elevator.
Address John Traoy, Proprietor.
Washington Hotel. Philadelphia.orto Cape May.
the Bristol:
13 to 19 East Eleventh street, near Fifth avenue.
New York city; on tbe American and European
plan; family house; rooms; very moderate.
GREEN PARK HOTEL, Blowing Rock, NT
This elegant new hotel, on top of the Blue
Ridge. 4,300 feet above sea, open for guestß
June 20 Magnificent scenery, beautiful level
drives, bracing atmosphere. Hotel first-class,
supplied with modern conveniences; heated
throughout; hot and cold baths, etc. Send for
beautifully Illustrated guide book.
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