The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-25
SOME UGLY HABITS.
~. peaky Ways of Men and Women

From the Baltimore Herald.
.nst book at that grill"
Us; it is Miss Blank. What about
rp
EDsr't you see her tonguem
nOhl yes. Isn't it perfectly dreadful9
onsav she always sticks it out like that
tG she's thinking about anything"
ITie Young woman i'll question was prone
hhg the east side of Charles street. early
morning, s,attired in bewitchlng cos
Il and a pensive expression, while the tip
tber little tongue protruded between two
IF the description known to novelists IS
Iii "Yes. said one of her feminine ac-
Intences. "she always does that when
Tghtful or worried. It's one of those
ERle habits which, when once contrac-
stick closer than a million brothers
l. blank began it when q child, and no
ever took the trouble to break her of it.
bw poor girl, it mortifies her terribly to
told about it, though, of course, she is
byious to cure herself. But then nearly
Fery one has some curious little habit
ibich he would be very glad to break if he
LnId. some trick more or less unpleasant,
loused in the first place probably by nerv-
f',sness We all know the man who tugs at
kiS n1oustache and the one who is perpetual
r. milling up his collar. Then there is the
y;rT who is always rubbing one eye as if
r. saarch of a stray eyelash, and the man
IEbo can't be quite happy without some
wore or less fragile article to twist and
end and turn about in his fingers. Any
limo and everything from your finest lace
hnkerchief TO your new and extremely
hlcate paper cutter Is sacrificed to the
bmon of nervousness which possesses him,
bd vet YOU can't find it in your heart to
r Lt~ y1Ja 10 ic
bnnv and at his ease so long as he is
hppEped to twirl and twist as much as he
ants TO. but bereft of the temporary
bjact of his affection he would be abjectly
Gserable. and you know it. Many man
sn talk fuently and well while winding
pmetbing- anything-about his finger,
Iho without it, would be constrained,
wkward, silent.
Zone of the most annoying forms of this
disease is the incessant tattoo which some
Ieople keep up on their knees or the table,
n whatever happens to be most convenient
Is a keyboard l have noticed that must
bians usually indulge this habit, and it is
Eerv irving one, though don't know that
# Is worse than twiddle your thumbs ;
Won don't know what this isl Why, clasp.
Inc your hands with the fingers interlaced
bnd then moving the thumbs slowly, very
slowly. round each other. Nearly all old
IEnglish people are addicted to this habit,
and look upon it as a refuge from ennlti
during times of enforced idleness,
INCH as that blind mans holiday when it
too dark to work or read, and yet not dark
nougb, according to English notions, to
ght the gas. At this time of day an old
hglish woman will sit and 'twiddle her
bumbs so many times from right to left,
H nd then so many times from left to right,
In ,ir,ly sI1o hoc
II lie secret of perpetual motion The habit
bins such a hold upon men that they are
liable to sit unoccupied for a moment
bthout Immediately beginning to 'twiddle ;
a t'Of course, every one knows people who
Ite their nails, and nearly all of us can
member some girl who has destroyed
II hat was intended for pretty mouth by a
useless fashion of biting, or rather gnaw-
IL, at her lip. This is one of the most
q IAicult habits to break, and at the same
4 me one of the commonest. If you want to
4 Ie how widespreadit is, Just go over to one
the Lexington street dry goods establish
ents about 10 o'clock on any
he morning. Monday morning is
pst, because Monday is the favorite
n hopping day. Didn't you know that?
Ihi yes, it's fact. Any floorwalker will
bll you that more business is done on Mon
n by morning than any other time during the
Teek-that is, in the big shops. OF course.
the cheap ones Saturday is the great day.
Why should Monday be popular? Oh! /
Il oppose it is the reaction after Sundays en-
prced idleneSs. On Sunday one can't shop,
4 nd when one wakes on Monday morning it
\ so delightful to feel that all restrictions
4 Re removed, and that there is nothing
prevent one from shopping all day if in
4 lined to.
4 81 always go myself on Monday, and, as
4 rule, meet nearly all my friends, and half
A tn M, notice, invariably bite their lips
then considering anything seriously.
NIL washY or DO you really believe this
be counter that she is afraid sixteen yards
\ Eon't be enough she nearly always bites
4 Ter lip, and a very ugly and injurious
ashton 1t is. If the lower lip is the one at
A acked, the pretty curve is in time destroyed
"a Ind the fullness fattened out, while if the
"A upper lip is illtreated the results
Ire almost worse, for it becomes
enlightened in very unbecom-
n ng manner Then some women bite the
inside of their lips, at the side, just at the
n gusSet' of the mouth, and this ends in a
n chronic pout. | am convinced that if the
n girls who indulge in this trick realized fully
Is lll-effects they would make more serious
efforts to stop it. 1t is comparatively easy
% 90 this when one is young, and it is quite
possible to break children of such habits
"a There are lots of other curious little
ways peculiar to individuals. | know q
man who when embarrassed, always taps
the sides Of his nose with his little finger
and girl who is so given to pushing her
halr behind her left ear that she has worn &
n bald SPOT there y