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SPRING joq?
OPENING
MILLINERY
The grandest, most superb
lines we ever had—three times
over what you could find
anywhere else in the city.
Opening Days, March 15 and If).
SILIvS.
Silks for Home Dress.
Silks for Full Dress.
Silks for Tea Gowns.
Silks for Street Wear.
Silks for Evening Wear.
Our collection is varied
and complete. Prices from
40 cents to $2 50 yard.
J3oys’ Spring Clothing.
Bovs’ School Suits, 1 to 13 years, $1 50.
Boys’ Flannel and Plaid Kilt Suits, 2hto 5 years, $1 25
to $lO.
50 Different Styles, New Novelties in Jersey, Sailor, Kilt
and Junior Suits.
Boys' Long Pants Suits, elegantly trimmed and shaped
in the most superior style, 14 to IS years, $4.
THE NEW PARASOLS.
CHIFFON, CHINA BROCADE AND LACE
COVERS.
ALL THE NEW HANDLES.
The New 1 Bullion and Gilt Belts
Enameled Buckles.
50 Hz. PORE LIBEB, Bait EiMimi Scallops! Edge Initial Ladies’ Baatectafs, To morrow Only, 10 cans, 35 cans ail 50 calls.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
A FEW BFIGHT THINGS FOB THE
FAIR SEX.
What is Being Talked About in the
Millinery Shops and Dressmaking
Establishments—A Few Gossipy Sto
ries That Are Worth Repeating
Other Matters cf General Interest.
Girls love to be called special names, no
matter how silly they may bo, says Clara
Belle in the Time s- Democrat and a man
delt at making them up, and with a good
memory, is far along In hi 9 chances of fas
cinating them all. ‘•Sweetheart” and ‘ ‘Lit
tle One,” and all those are too sentimental
to start on, though they never fail to
please later. ‘‘Miss Disdain” is a good one,
or “Duohoss Delight,” or “dime. Appomat
tox.” She will want to know what it
means, and you can tell her “never mind,"
and she will like it all the better. Even
“Chatterbox,” and “Sauce l’ate,” and
“Curlylocks,” and fool sort of pet names
like that make a girl feel that she is some
thing special and particular to you, but,
you see, how important a good memory is.
“Darling,” urged a young man, “do you
think you could lovo me a little.”
She blushed, and then in clear, ringing
tones said: “I don’t know."
“O, wili you uot try?" he cried.
“What do you expect me to do?"
“Only to try."
Then they sat still for a long time. At
last be asked: “Do you now?”
“Good gracious," she answered, “you
don’t expect me to do all the work, do
you?”
“All the work!” he gasped.
Theu she picked up a chair and said: “In
our part of the country, when a man wauls
a girl to love him, he does something to
make her; be doesn’t sit up and wait. If
you can't think of anything to start with
you might go home.”
There is another engagement broken and
another young heart sad.
A model bonnet has an open crowD, com
posed of transparent jet, set with clusters
of Parisian emeralds with brilliants. A fail
of lace or jet I ringe surrounds the bonnet
and rests on the hair, and the high trim
ming m trout, which takes the form of an
insect’s wings, is composed of fine jets j
strung on invisible wires. The antennas j
aud black pompon of heron’s plumes are
tipped with jewels and jet. A close little
cluster of violets is sometimes placed over
the forehead on these jeweled hats.
There is no such thing as fashion now, ac
cording to \Y orih the Second. “Formerly
we had a court, there were leaders in dress,
and what they woie other society won eu
wanted to wear,” he said to the inter
viewer of the London Gentlewoman.
•‘Now there are uo leaden, and fashions
are not set from an authoritative source.
The woman witn pretensions to dress does ;
not follow fashion: she wears wbat pleases
berseil, regardless of anybody else
“For the dressmaker the conditions are i
changed. His problem now is to dress his
cu-tomer, not after an arbitrary pattern,
but in such clothes as suit her; to study bet
as a subject, and to choose for her, with
her face, figure and complexion as the only
criterion.
“The great world of women who still de
sire to follow a leau, and make the term
•fashion’ still a reality, take their cues
often from tne merest accident. I remem
ber one year a manufacturer had a large
stock—lo,ooo yards—of moire silk on hand
which he could not sell. He bought in a
stock to use for 1 niugs anil petticoats because
It was cheap. Just as soou ns It got noised
abroad that we were using it people began
to buy: ‘Moire is fushionalile,’and by next
season everybody from Russia to Mexico
vns in a moire gown, and he had ceased to
Use it.
“bometimos a f .shion beginning from
SUCCESSOR TO A.: Ih ALTMAYER & CO.
FIRST OPENING OF THE SEASON.
Every Pattern Hat and Bonnet in line with the ruling fashion. The ladies that sell the millinery
are apt to be critical. They study the subject constantly. Their lives are spent with millinery. It
is interesting to notice the enthusiastic approval with wh'ch they welcome the incoming spring
stock. Just a proof of the wisdom that has controlled the collection.
The Latest designs, choice models of Bonnets, Round Hats and Toques. Dress and Suit Hats
from New York, Paris and London will be on exhibition next WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MARCH 15th and 16th.
mere nothing will grow and grow until it
forces itself upon us by mere accumulated
momentum. Some newspaper correspond
ent makes the random statement that green
is going to be fashionable. The statement
goes all over the globe, and we shall have
such demands for tnat color as oblige us to
use it, and so it finally does become fashion
able.
“Women with pretensions to dress want
to wear what is unique. They consult per
haps their taste, perhaps their style, per
haps only caprice, but it mu9t be something
new. As soon as it is known that an ex
clusive bouse has made a oertaln kind of
costume, or used a certain fabric, every
iody else wants it; and as soon as it has
become common the exclusive house ceases
to make or use it, aud the exclusive women
throw it aside,
"There are women eager to copy what
the original thinkers in dress wear nnd the
original woman as eager to drop their own
creations on seeing them imitated in cheap
material and worn by vulgar people, and
this is now the only distinction between
fashion leaders and the rest of the world.
“It is a division between those who want
to wear what everybody else wears and
those who want to wear what nobody else
wears, and their leaders are leaders against
their will.
“As to what is going to be worn, all that
I have Bald goes to show how indefinite the
answer must be. One great dressmaking
house says that one style will prevail; an
other claims a different mode. Tbe empire
is having some popularity. It was five
years ago that we made the first empire
gown. We sold four the first season, tbe
next season we made perhaps twenty; now
they are the rogo and —wears not making
them any more.
“We are going to make small waistoffects
and round skats just brushing the ground
in the buck and very wide at the bottom.
How wide the skirts are to be may be un
derstood when I tell you that we have just
made a gown that has sixty yards of silk in
it. As to crinolines, to the letters which
every post brings demanding ves or no on
that subject I say I hope not, 1 think not.
At tbe same time, it may well transpire
that tbe enormous fullness in the skins will
demand some sort of support, something to
keep it out and in place.”
It was raining—that is.it was uot exaotly
snowing. One girl I met, says Clara Belie
in the Times-Democrat, bad on an old, glazy
rain cloak, one of the first kind that came
out, with little bags to carry them in, and
that were to terribly ugly, although they
kept out tbe wet as tbe later thiugs of
beauty Jo uot. Hers was all bulgy, because
tbe had a lot of bundles under it. All of a
sudden, with a great clatter, a bottle fell to
the pavement. It was such a bottle as men
carry whisky in, and also the kind that art
students use for their turpeutiua. Of course,
people laugbid. She was embarrassed, but
quietly shut her umbrella aud recovered tbe
bottle. Then she hurried on, the shut um
brella under her arm. This was too much
for her other bundles. A package of draw
ings turn’led out into the dampness. Bhe
stooped quickly, and the umbrella ran into
the eyes of the man back of
tier. Bhe turned to apologize, and
the umbrella swept two children and their
mamma into the frozen gutter. Then the
wind caught one drawing. Bhe put tbe end
of the umbrella on the other and reached
fur the one that was starting down the
street. This made her fall over on the um
brella as she held it upright. She looked
awfully funny teetering that way, aud
screamed: “O, lam digging a hole in my
drawing!” Bhe must, als ~ have beeu dig
ging a hole in herself, but she seemed not to
think of that. The man behind and the
I man in front tried to restore her to her
feet, the oue by one pushing at her feet and
the other by pushing at her bead. Mean
while the umbrella began to craok and tbe
girl to scream.
i If I tell you that the umbrella broke, that
she had to be taken to the hospital, that
\ there she met tiie man whose eye she had
I put out, that they fell in love with each
| other—you won’t believe it; but as l went
out into the street around the crowd I made
i up my mind that a girl who oouid do all
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES.
Straw Goods.
Our Hat Department in
cludes the largest assortment
of Fine Imported Novelties
ever brought to Savannah.
All kinds of Plateaux, Leg
horns, Chips and Fancy Straws.
SHOES.
300 Pairs of Ladies' Dongola Lace
and Button Shoes, $1 15; worth
$2 50 to $3 00.
250 Pairs Ladies' Glazed Dongola
Button Shoes, usual price $3 50;
$2 10.
she had done with only an umbrella oouid :
do almost anything.
The cabinet ladles of the Cleveland ad
ministration, says the Sun, will Include
three young aud ambitious women, about j
Mrs. Cleveland’s age, who will fill their new 1
roles with grace aud taot. Mrs. Wilson B. j
Bissell is a musician of talent, who has
studied both lu this country and abroad,
and has all tbe charms and graces so much
admired in social circles. Bhe is a fine
looking woman of the brunette type,
quite young enough to enjoy her
Washington honors and as this
promises to be an administra
tion of babies, she is well prepared with a
little daughter a few days younger than
Baby Ruth. Mrs. Smith is a young and
attractive woman, a devoted mother and a
gracious dispenser of charities. Mrs. La
mont has a hue repose and grace of man
ner, “that excellent thing in woman,” a sott,
low voice, and a quiet self-possession ami
serenity that will win whore a more am
bitious woman might conquer society.
There are three children in the Lamont
family, the youngest born during the Cleve
land administration, aud named by the
President's wife Frances Cleveland Lamont.
Mrs. Cleveland and tboss women of the
republican court are typioal American
women, owing their prominence in tbe
world to the successes of their consorts, and
illustrating the wonderful adaptability of
tbe American women to assume unfamiliar
honors with the grace which queens to the
manner born might envy. There is much
said of the Amerioan men who have left
the plow to take up tbe reins of govern
ment, but it is not less remarkable to see the
graclousness with which the American
school girl leaves her French exercises or the
American wife gives up the making of her
gowns and the care of her babies to take
bigbsocial places with grace and dignity.
Helen Bridgeman, says the New York
Sun, has analyzed the ‘ ’good dinner wora
au” as one who must be “neither too young
nor too old; she must not lie unpleasant to
look upon, neither must she be a beautiful
automaton; she must be quick, responsive,
interesting and vivacious, but she must Dot
monopolize tbe conversation and cause
others to fight tor their rights; she must
have iu her the spirit of tbe bonhommle,
yet she must be the epitome of good breed
ing ad refinement; in fine, she must
be the most fascinating flower of
a complex civilization.” One % could
spell all this with lour letters, tact, and
tact in its highest form amounts to genius.
It is probably the hardest grace to cultivate
in the catalogue of virtues, for it embraces
all tbe others. It is really the spirit aud
the letter of tbe golden rule, and its corner
stone is unselfishne-s. The popular woman
knows that every human being is happier
to tell a good story than to hear one. It
belongs to the general principle of being
more blessed to give thau to receive, and
tbe good dinner woman, if one may be par
doned for using tbe lumbering phrase again,
has this written as the first law in her deca
logue. One of ibe few really gifted women
in this particular said In n sudden burst of
confidence tbe other day:
“Nobody knows what downright hard
work Ido to earn my success. I keep a note
book at band, and every quaint expression,
every good story, every amusing thing I
see or read or bear, which I tbiuk will work
up into a telling sentence, down it goes m
classified ordsr. Then I just sit down and
cram for a dinner as a school girl does for
examination. Want to know who I learned
that from? Why, from the famous
Cbauncey. They say he has scrap books
galore, full of manner of jokes and good
things. But with a woman It is different.
You have to think of other people more
than yourself when the dinner begins. My
mind is just like my gown, after if it is once
ready 1 think no more about it. I try to
find out the people I am to meet, what they
are Interested iD, and then I lead up to ap
propriate topics. Introducing them as
adroitly as possible, fill in the gaps with my
nonsense, aud get people to talking. That
is the way to entertaiu them.
“I once went down to dinner with a
famous man talker, and when we were
WASH DRESS GOODS.
New Lace Ginghams, 15 cents yard; entirely new effects.
New Dotted Muslins, White Grounds, Corded Stripes and Dots, 39 cents yard.
Black and Colored Lace Sateens, 25 cents yard.
Novelty Silk Stripe Ginghams, 49 cents yard.
Irish Lawns, 38 inches wide. 15 cents vard.
FLOWERS, FEATHERS.
French Flowers in choice
montures and natural effects.
Fine Ostrich goods.
Tips, Plumes and Fancy
Novelties.
NEW STYLES.
NEW IDEAS,
TO BE SEEN HERE DAEV.
FRENCH GINGHAMS.
SCOTCH GINGHAMS.
MADRAS GINGHAM&
FRENCH ORGANDIES.
CHALLIES.
seated a horrible faintness came over me
from the closeness of the room, the perfume
of the flowers. I felt that I must keep that
man talking to keep people from noticing
my silenoe and illness, and I did. The next
day he told everybody I was the brightest
woman he ever saw. That was my cue. I
have never forgotten It. I don't think,” she
added wistfully, “that the machinery ever
shows. But I usually go home from a din
ner as weary as a ballet girl after tbe per
formance. It is much easier to say the
bright thing than to make someone else say
it, but a smart woman is the worst kind of
a mistake. If she isn’t married, married
men all think that is the reason why—she is
too smart. If she has a busbaud every one
feels 6orry for him.”
A oup of black coffee taken after a Span
ish omelette, potato salad, cutlets ala
soubise, or any other dish prepared with
onion, or its cousin, garlic, will destroy the
abhorrent fumes that cling to tbe bronchial
tubes. A couple of wintergreeu creams, or
clove candles, eaten before leaving thetuble
will remove the taste of food from the
mouth and neutralize tbe smell of wiue. A
few drops of camphor and myrrh in a glass
of water is excellent for a gargle and a
tooth wash when there is tbe suspicion of a
tainted breath. A bad taste in the mouth
and a white tongue will always warrant the
use of an antidote for a bad breath. Cin
namon, giuger, cloves and orris root sweeten
the mouth and will disguise unpleasant
odors for the tune being. Bpruce and mastic
gum are used for the same reason.
The Ban Francisco Argonaut says that
“very few men are equal to the task of
knooking a woman downstairs. But there
is no doubt that the ‘equality of the sexes,’
which some women claim, is not favorable
to connubial happiness. There is no getting
away from the proverb that power goes
with the beard. If a girl cannot submit,
let her stay single. Where a husband and
wife differ in opinion one must yield, aud
cases may occur in whicn the woman is
right aud the man wrong. But unless the
latter is a fool his superior age and experi
ence and his masouliue mind are likely, in
an aveifege of cases, to lead him to sounder
conclusions than bis wife can reach. In a
well-regulated household Darby is boss, and
Joan would not have it otherwise.”
To be a leader of the fashion, says the
New York Tribune, is no sinecure. There
is absolutely no rest tor those who would be
in the advance-guard of the modes; and
there is an unwritten law that compels them
to "move ou” as relentless as if they were
like poor “Joe” of “Tom All-Alone’e,” In
stead cf tbe admired and courted belDgs
that they are. T.ielr world is simply In
satiable in its constant craving for “some
thing new.” A want which they must an
swer or lose their prestige. Just as soon as
tbe crowd takes up a novelty it must be
abandoned by those who originated it, and
their inventive powers taxed to provide
another excitement for their spoiled aud
clamorous followers. It is much more satis
factory to follow than to lead in most things,
on the whole, and fashionable life is no ex
ception to the rule.
It is certainly not tbe fashion to grow old
in these fln-de-siecle days, says the New
York Sun, and society is quite willing to
ignore the disagreeable fact in any of its
votaries, if they, on their part, show a fair
amount of pluck and determination to keep
young, to drees and aot youthfully, and to
show a keen zest in tbs pursuit of tbe vari
ous pleasures and exoitements which happen
to be upon the tapis. A woman may be a
grandmother nowadays and dance tbe ger
man and wear youthful bats, and squeeze
her waist if she likes, and the world accepts
her as a perfectly natural development of
sooiety; whereas a genuine old-fashioned
old lady would be as much out of plaoe in a
modern ball room as her fashionable con
temporary would be In the “ingle neuk.”
In fact; it is considered quite bad form to
be old, and if the pace Is too killing and
ever and anon someone drops out of the
ranks, the gaps are quickly filled, and the
gay crowd never stops to count tbe m sslng.
“A woman may be any age she chooses to
Millinery Novelties.
We are showing a
complete assortment
of Fine French Nov
elties and Trimmings,
the greater portion of
which cannot be dup
licated in Savannah.
LADIES’ - UNDERWEAR,
Night Dresses, Drawers, Walking Skirts,
Corset Covers Trimmed with Torchon,
Point de Esprit or Valenciennes Lace,Tucks
and Flounces, 50 cents; and the average
value of any of them is 95 cents.
be,” asserted a man of the world the other
day.” “I know several charming young
women of 50—it is simply a mat e.' of tern
perament.”
A young student at Andover, says the
New York limes, relates a pleasant ad
venture. He was makiug a pencil drawing
of an old bouse in the town, as he saw it
through the leafless trees, when a lady
came along the walk and paused behind
him. “Ah! you are sketching the Phelps
house,” she said. "I never knew any one to
try that before.” He inquired eagerly
whether phe were sure that it was the
Phelps homestead. “1 was not quite satis
fied with my information,” he added, “but
that is why lam doing it.” “1 can satisfy
you on that point," was the reply. “ Why
do you ask*” Whereupon he broke into
boyishly-expressed praise of Miss Phelps,
all of whose books he said he had read with
his mother at home. The lady smiled and
made him a little bow. “I am much
obliged to your mother,” she said, amus
edly. “Will you toll her so from Elizabeth
Phelps Ward*”
Salted almonds are best and quickest pre
pared by frying them in olive oil. Have a
saucepan of good oil heated very hot;
blanch the almonds, put them in a basket,
and immerse in the hot oil. Ten seconds
will do them a beautiful brown; take them
out, dust with salt and set away iu a 000 l
place.
‘•fashionable expressions,” says the New
York Herald , are now the style of English
which every well-mannered woman affects.
The most of these expressions have come
to ug from the other side, along with “to
brew tea,” instead of to make tea, and to
"do a commissioninstead of "to accom
modate you.”
Of course, really swell women talk about
“lifts” instead of elevations.
It’s all very English, and now and again
quite sensible. We are still unused to the
word “skin,” however. Philadelphia, so 1
read, has not yet heard of it. It’s a trifle
bald, PU admit.
A lady calls on another.
“Please remove your skin, dear,” says
the hostess.
Well, all she means is that her caller will
take off her sealskin cloak. Of course
women all wear sealskin cloaks nowadays,
or make believe to.
It’s quite right, and yet it is rather
startling.
Spring fashions are on view at Felix’s,
says a Paris special to the New York Press.
The first spring gown has a skirt of cheviot,
pale gray and white, in small checks
broken like shepherd’s plaid or the old-fash
ioned blanket shawls. It is mode with a
pointed yoke, and this is its novelty. For
this yoke must not be mistaken for an or
dinary belt; it is fitted to the figure, curv
ing outward as it descends, and the skirt Is
cut down to receive it and it is sewed Into
the skirt. At the same time its upper edge
is high and straight round and takes the
place of a belt.
The bodice is a blouse of canary-colored
silk foulard that puffs a little over the wide
belt with au effect to which I called
attentiou here two weeks ago. This short
full effect gives the waist below a small
look without drawing in the corset strings.
The blouse has uarrow galloon edges of black
and red. Very ohio; very simple and ele
gant.
Made after the same model another gown
hat a skirt of a broken plaid in the same
color, and the blouse of red foulard cut
down pointed in front over an inner skirt
effect, strapped horizontally with black
galloon.
Still another has the blouse of the same
material as the skirt. It, however, falls
off in character; the blouse needs to be of
more decorative material. All these skirts
have only a narrow border of three over
lapping cords on a tiny cluster of folds.
After the grip, when you are weak and
“played out,” Hood’s Sarsaparilla will re
store your health and strength.—ad.
SOME GOOD THINGS
IN ADLER’S BASEMENT.
French China Egg Cups. 2 cents each.
Another lot of those Wooden Flour Buckets, 29 cents 30
cents and 49 cents.
Real FRENCH CHINA Cuspidors, 44 cents.
SPECIAL —56 pieces Real French Handsomely Decorated Tea
Sets, $6 98.
China Fruit Plates, gold and fruit centers, special, 10 cents
each.
DRY GOODS.
H 1 ~°"
Your new Spring Dress will not be the latest without trim
ming of some kind. We have this season the handsomest assort
ment of Laces, Jet and Colored Galoons you have ever seen;
also Silk, Jet and Colored Eton Jackets to match the trim
mings.
Light Ground Colored Figured China Silks this week only
59 Cents REGULAR PRICE $1 00.
Our entire stock of Parasols has arrived; come and make
your selection and have the first pick; white will be very styl
ish and we have some beauties.
Don’t liss Onr Kill Glove Sals Ttis M !
LEATHER GOODS.
CONCORD WOOL COLLARS.
These are the only Collars made in the United States that
will do the work claimed tor them. They are the exact shape
of a horse or mule's neck and are intended especially for heavy
work.
We carry an immense stock of Rubber and Leather Belting,
Timber Harness, Hames and Traces.
NEIDLINGER &, RABUN,
St. Julian, 153 Bryan Streets.
machinery.
Stilwell-Bieree & Sraith-VaileCo
Dayton, Ohio,
ENGINEERS, FOUNDERS k MACHINISTS.
Our Duplex Steam Pumps and
Upright Boilers are especially
adapted to use among Turpen
tine Distilleries, Lumber Mills,
Brick Yards, Phosphate Mines,
Irrigating Plants, etc.
We respectfully call the at
tention of Turpentine Manu
facturers to our Pumps and
Boilers, and would be glad to
have them correspond with our
Southern Agent, J. W. Taylor,
Atlanta, Q-a., who will give com
plete estimates on whatever is
wanted.
PRINTING^
If KROH A WTB, nuMoiwn. meretianleb
.11 corporation*, nod all other* In need of
printing. UthoxraphlmK. and blank book* aaa
ifyt gfasaisy a^-vaag
SUMMER inn?
OPENING lOjJ
MILLINERY
oim STOCK
THIS SEASON
HAS NO EQUAL.
You Must Consult It.
Opening Days, March 15 and lfr
Spring Dress Goods
PERSIAN NOVELTIES.
POPLIN NOVELTIES.
CHEVIOT NOVELTIES
CREPE NOVELTIES.
IRIDESCENT NOVELTIES
VELOUR NOVELTIES.
Luces am Eiroiriiss.
Naw Designs In Valenciennes and “Point
de Paris” Laces suitable for trimming silk
and muslin underwear, 2}-j to 5 inches wide,
go on sale to-morrow at 19 cents a yard.
Cambric, Nainsook and Swiss Embroid
ery, Edgings and Insertings worth 20 cents;
10 cents yard.
FOR LEASE.
Hotel Tv bee for Lease.
The magnificent now Hotel Tybee, situa
ted on the south end of Tybee Island, facing
one of the most beautiful strands on the
Atlantic oo&st, together with all its appur
tenances, consisting of standing furniture,
billiard room, laundry, bath rooms and
open-air pavilions, together with sixteen
acres of laud, more or less, upon which the
buildings aro located, is offered for lease tor
one year, with privilege of a three or a live
year lease.
This hotel contains 120 rooms and is fur*
Dished throughout with artesian water, ana
gas and sanitation Is perfect. Ths dining
rooms having oapaoity to seat 300 guest*.
It is in direct railway communication who
the great trunk lines leading into Savannan.
The property Is in good condition and resay
for oooupanoy. Address for particulars,
JAMES R. SHELDON,
Chairman Committee.
FEED.
COW FEED-
Combination Steam Cooked Cow and
Horse Feed.
CEREAL FEED.
Mansfield’s Magic Food.
CHICKEN FEED.
W. D. SIMKINS.