The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04


The best teloved bird shouts "Hurrah for
the red. white and bluep' for the benefit of
the grandchildren of war hero.
RUSSIAN COUNTESS
The Countess Norraikow has been telling
us things about Siberia this spring that are
vastly more interesting than the tales of the
st. Petersburg court told us by Russian
princess last season. Tho countess is not
herself a Russian. She was a Canadian
girl and she married Russian noble whose
experience in exile more than bears out all
that KEENAN, has been saying. The Count
Norraikow was lad of II or is, uncon-
nected with plots and guiltless of any
revolutionary knowledge when one
night he was dining with a Polish
countess, a friend of the family.
Suddenly there came a voice at the
door, "Upen in thu name of the car" 1t
was gen6armes and their leader laid his
hand on the shoulder of the young man. In
vain he asked his offense. $50 quietly, my
boy" said the countess, ''your friends will
not forget you" He went to the Petropav-
losky fortress and in a few months to Sibe-
ria. There he remained over five years,
aud never knew for what he had been ar
rested. Influence at courts released him,
and then be took the oath of the nihilists,
anxious to know something of body, for a
SupDOSSQ VI WUOSG SeCT6IS ne Dau
suffered, A second time he was exiled
without having committed an overt act.
and after two more years as a
political in Siberia powerful friends a Sec
ond time obtained his pardon. Applying
for six months leave of absence TO travel he
failed to return to Russia, and is in conse-
quence prescribed. Shaken in health, his
fortune confiscated, he and his wife are
still in constant communication, by means
of the underground railroad, with the lib
eral element in Russia, and he supplies her
with information, which she is using in an
epdeavor TO increase the interest felt in this
country in the exile system.
The countess was reading some letters
just received from Paris, to which city they
had been forwarded from Petersburg, to a
group of listeners the other evening. The
letters were full of forebodiugs of calamities
to come Friends had been arrested and
neighbors. Perhaps. said one writer, before
this reaches you l, too, shall be on my way
across the border. The impression received
was that of general apprehension, unrest, a
looking forward to tloublous times. The
countess who is doing good deal of writing
on Russian subjects, is very prepossessing
woman, with fine eyes and short curly dark
hair. She entertains well. and usually has
good takers at her receptions.
WOKhlNG G1hLo SUMMER HOLIDAYS.
There is great sewing of sheets and stitch
ing Of pillow-csses going on at every odd
minute among the toilers in factories and
behind counters, for the bedrooms of the
holiday houses owned by the working girls
societies are being put in summer trim.
There Is nothing pleasanter or more promis-
ing in the city than this busy, happy
cooperation aud the success OF the CO.
operators in having together what they
could not have separately. The tact and
Judgment which Miss Grace Dodge has dis
played in thus showing the working girls
how to help themselves is worthy
There are number of "homes" at
the seaside and among the mountains now
set mp for people who cannot afford to
spend much for summer vacations, but for
the most part they give point to the sigh
Mr.. Howells puts in the mouth of Annie
Kilburn, that only the poor seem to know
how to help the poor" Some of the houses
opened for the benefit of the Girls Friendly
societies had empty rooms all last summer
and do not know of o3e of those for teach
ers and professional women whica was not
stunned The board is usually as much as
81 a week which will secure woman board
on terms of perfect equality in plenty of
farmhouses. Why then should she be a
beneficiary at 'hDme"
The Seidl Society has common sense
about such matters. This big organization.
whose head is Laura c. Holloway, proposes
to take a great many poor women to
Brighton Beach this summer. But instead
of having committee and getting up big
excursions labelled CHARITY" it will SIM
ply distribute tickets to its members, who
will use them when they invite women in
need of days outing to go to the beach
with them as their guests, IN all privacy
and with due honor.
Mrs Robert Hoe had a graceful way of
vacation giving last year. She had cot
tage at Sea Cliff and invited now teacher,
now an invalid to come and visit her. For
work in the city have heard of nothing
which has touched me more than the devo-
ton of a little womal, without much
money, who moved from comfortable quar-
tiers aud gave up bread winning occupa-
ton to be among the tenement people and
open for neglected urchins free kindergar-
ten. She has a boy of her own, lovely
child, and it is picture for painter TO
sea him rise from his supper in the. plainly
furnished. bare-look'ng room, bread and
molasses in hand, but with the air OF a
proud gentleman, to point out to visitor
the dra wings of little blackboard as made
nv 'sthe - street children" One has TO
give ones self to give anything. This wo-
man has also given her child.
THE DEcADENCE OF THE EARRINGS.
There is a certain pleasure in watching
the decline and fall of the earring. If |
had written Looking Backwad" | should
have inserted somewhere "reminiscences OF
the last woman who bored holes IN her
aash to hermit the fastening of an orna-
ment. The attempt to revive the creole,
or hanging earrings has utterly failed. The
falntesJ suggestion Of weight attached to
the ear now displeases most well-bred
woman. Occasionally you see face Of
such shape that hanging ear
rings are temptingly becoming. Net
tie Hooper. the pretty daughter Of Lucy
Hooper, the Paris correspondent; wore
large Creole earrings set with small pearls
90 a. racant reception, and they accented
bar nionancy. but the hanging earring, as
a rnIe is an abomination. Even the stud
. 80 is lesC worn. Fine jewels are less