The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-08
WOMEN WITH NERVES.
HOT WEATHER AND MYSTERIES
JUST NOW COINCIDE.

Lie Every Lay.
NEW YORK, July I'm the ladies' parlor
Of big dry goods establishment the ener-
GIGS of the attendant were taxed by three
women in nYStercs at one and the same
time a few afternoons ago. The sudden fall
of pair Of scissors mad proved too much
for the first victim, and the spectacle of her
writing and twisting figure, as half dozen
people fumbled at once for smelling salts,
had overcome the nerves Of the other
two. 1t was noticeable that these sympa-
thetic attacks were more violent and lasted
longer than the seizure which had occasioned
them
A slender young girl, with a skin that
suggested pallor in spite CT the flush of
heat, looked askance at tho tall glass with
its long handled spoon set down in front
of her on the confectoner's counter yester-
dav.
This is chocolate soda; it was hot choco-
late that asked for.n
we don't keep hot chocolate at this time
of year,
But have come three blocks to get it of
you"
There wns an odd thrill in her voice, but
Gus twitch1ng which seized her fingers and
then the muscle about her inotith, aRd
eyes. burst of something between
laugh and n scream followed and she
dropped back on revolving stool and
seemed about to slide, half-conscious, to the
floor.
1t is no Longtime since there was a scene
of utter confusion in a Brooklyn horse car
brought about by the mOmentGry peril of a
DASSenppT \ hn1 ri
| close to the side, knocking man from the
| platform and under the big horses heels
White with dust he scrambled to his feet
unhurt, in ample season to catch the car
again and look about in surprise and almost
| In amusement on the rows of women trem.
bling, unnerved, one slipping from her seat
| in IA faint and two more uttering historical
screams.
Let me relieve you of the child"
1t was one woman who addressed another
| on board a sound steamer one sultry night
fortnight ago, while the decks were
crowded with passengers ten minutes be-
fore the lines which held the boat to the
New York pier were cast off. The baby
was sick and fretful and the mother looked
tired.
1t was small woman in black who made
the offer and she held out the purple ribbon
with its silver cross which is becoming such
n familiar sign.
II am one Of the kings daughters, let me
help you with the baby in his name"
THANK YOU" said the mother, but the
child is better with me"
The infant turned away from the stranger
and chung closer to the face it knew. The
little woman i'll black had not expected re-
buff to the offer she meant in kindness,
that or the bleat or both unstrung her, and
there was quick cry for air as she gasped
in something Curiously like a historical
faint.
The spectacle of a child playing in fire
escape balcony and possibly in danger of
falling through the opening for the fire lad
der was responsible for a case OF screaming
and kicking Mysteries in Third avenue ele-
waited car this spring
A popular render, whose mission it is to
amuse society, droppcd poem from her re-
pertOry during the past season because there
was nearly always one woman, sometimes
several, in her audience whose nerves were
affected by the recital.
a chance mention of Mansfield's CDR.
JeCkyll and Mr.. Hyden at a ladies' lunch
brought to light the fact that of eight
women who had seen the play one did not
sleep at all and TWO were walked from sleep
byChe "hOrrOrSn after it.
A yacht owner whose boat was in com.
mission early had 70 put back at the outset
of an afternoons sail because his women
folk were unmauageable. They imagined he
was running down Il row boat and could not
be persuaded out of their excited mood for
half an hour after the small craft was safely
out of the way.
A woman physician tells me that one
fourth IF the patients on her list this spring
have been nervous, Historically inclined
women.
1t is high time for the summer vaca-
ton, for country air ought to be good for
the nerves
Not that nerves are more prominent now
than they used to be. Probably on the whole
they are retiring into the background But
under certain conditions the busy social sea-
son of the city develops nerves with hot
house luxuriance during the winter.
and with the first touch of summer heat
the rest of the woman willis, dropping away
| from the nerves and leaving them standing
| in picturesque outline.
| 1t is one indication of nerves that we heva
been petting our fads good, bad and in
| different, with a fOndneSs akin to mania for
| some little time. What were more or less
wholesome likes and disikes last fall grew
| into passions during the winter and became
sore spots that might not be touched in the
| spring 1t would be necessary, for instance.
| to reckon in high numbers to count the
| households in which it is literally unsafe TO
mention the mind cure, christian science.
| faith healing, or whatever may he voul'
particular brand. Monsieur and Madame
disagree. At first they did so peaceably. hut
one day Madame was ill aad Monsieur called
doctor. He forced medicine upon Madame
by the strong hand OF authority, and by the
help of or in spite of the doctor and the
medicine. Madame got we'll. Monsieur
knows 1t would be hinging his domestic
peace to the winds If he were TO venture an
alluSion 10 the circumstances nov. One
mast have small acquaintance who cannot
call to mind three orfour families in which
to his personal knowledge this armed truce
exists. Sea air may bring about a per
mnnent peace.
E5oterlc Buddhism, when it goes the
length of bauishing meat from tIe table
occasions much tho same condition of things
Even the charities IN which Il well regulated
woman delights become 20 the ill.regulated
woman source Of hyStcria, rs when n
woman who supports two beds in a hospital
for particularly painful disease burst INTO
"A madness of weeping somc days since be-
cause ono of thom WAS empty. Bible road
ingS IN parlors by one or two especially
tted women filled the rooms in winch thev
we're held for months 10 uverhowi l. Be.
fore they stopped "A tow weeks ago obSary-
erS had begun To say that thcy developed in
some IMP esNlonahio girls hyster,cal dress,
walls and dcmeanor.
The violent colorS which many women
wear this summer, reds, greens aud yeluws.
are enough in themselves to suggest some
emc uOuaD strain.
There are people who say that the woman