Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-01
A Merry FEMALE.

A Merry FEMALE.
came across literary woman whose
sin of plagial ism was committed through
no desire for fame, but was merely Incl
dental to a more tangible form of sWind-
ling. She advertised that, in order that
she might educate her two boys, she
wished a little help in publishing vol
ume Of original poems. The work was
open to the inspection of any person who
desired to look at it; and she artfully in
timated that she, too, was an object of
admiring contemplation. Wondering If
there was anything new in her trickery,
| went to learn. She was handsome and a
glib liar as to remarkable ancestry. But
the curious point was that she showed a
manuscript volume of poetry, made up of
pieces so familiar in current popularity
that the beautiful Snow" somewhat
translated and broken up, but all there,
was included in her claims. ~ am n
daughter of Bret Harte and -, l don't
mind tell you, if you can keep secret"
and she cOolly named lady well known
as an authOress, "and rhymlng is to me in
stinctiVe."
Her surroundings indicated that fool
fish do get caught in so wide-meshed a
net as that. There are various views of
ancestry, by the way, in that happily
small circle of our society where inactivi-
ty is deemed ennObling. | overhead a TO-
year-Old dandy say to still younger belle ::
II am glad that my family got out of
trade 80 years ago. My father was new
er in business, but devoted himself to
science as a hobby. He made several dis
coveries, you know, that have got a per-
manent place in the books" Then he
looked Into the girls face for admiring
wOnder,,but saw only gentle commits
Grafton. $50 your poor papa had employ
ment?' she said, and then a weak tine
ture Of proud disdain became visible as
she added: "My father never, never did
ANYTHING at ALL"
Nor was the further conversation of
this dainty bud of exotic culture less in
teresting. She dwelt upon the artistic
laws Of harmony in cOlOrs, and she
deemed them obeyed or violated in the
| hangings of the drawing-room. Anything
inharmOmous made her positively i'll.
The sight of nl-cOntrasted Lues sent a
sharp pain through her eyes. She really
| didn't know how her sense of prOpTie-
tv in color had become so abnOrmally de-
YeIcped, but she suspected that it was
partly through the inheritance of SEN
| sitive nature. She was sure that the pc
/ culiarity went out from her and peryaded
| all of her belongings.
..NVhy. do you know" she murmured,
E'my horse SHE'D so dreadfully at bonnet
in Central Park yesterday that l was
nearly thrown from the saddle. He saw
bonnet with blue and green in it,
Do you know that women are him
ORANGES to official duty? The new Dis
trict Attorney tells me that he encOun-
| tiers none so great. No criminal can be
so undeserving of sympathy, SO complete
" an Outcast, that he hasn't a mother,
wife, or sister to plead for him. These
are the most pitible lobbyists on earth, he
declared; the most unreasonable, and yet
the hardest to Withstand.
They lie in wait for the prosecutor of
their loved ones; their audacity would
make the adamantine cteek of Wash
ington claim-brOker seem a sufusiOn OF
modest bushes; they meet arguments
with tears, and denials with means, and
he thinks that, on the whole, justice is
oftener defeated by them than all other
causes combined.