The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-09
GIR[SIN GREAT GOTHAM
.oc,sTY AND STAGE GOSSIP ar
THE METROPOLIS.

How trainer Belasco Develops Ac-
tresses-
From the ST. Louis Republic
Fashionable people do not use the Brook
-, bridge as an evening promenade. yet
,sboever views Brooklyn bridge by day
l;,bt only. or considers it merely as a mar
al If engineering skill and highway for
;.,,,,,n,,table traffic, has seen it in neither
i.s ,,aatest beauty nor its highest uses. To
Nv the great bridge you must cross 1t on
g.. nv moonlight The wonder OF its
mighty cables. the strength and symmetry
If is proportions. its airy hight, all strike
tbe beholder with weird sense OF some
thing mightier and grander than hu-
man skill and everyday commerce.
Then as the pedestrian passes
ON through mingled light and shadow, en-
;o,yincy the soft influence of time and place.
he meets, not the hurrying, scurrying
thropg of few hours ago, eager 60 get
nome to dinner, or away from home TO some
| aIsca Of amusement, but lelsurely prone
SaJin, oroups. He notices that the groups
10 ssId7m more than two in number; that
,bev wear an absorbed air, and that no one
-cy,n seams at all conscious OF the other
sroups. On the beaches, too, especially
nose in the shadows, he sees more absorbed.
sDttIv whispering persons. Then, at
| isst he catches the meaning OF the
Whole-the witching influence OF the hour
and place. The vast bridge Is doing the
ssrvice of a quiet country lane, or whisper
nc grove. and is loves own trystirg place.
The harvest moon, like Barkls. is perfectly
agillin'n that the public thoroIghfare
honld be thus transformed, and smiles on
the voupg folk. while the hazy atmosphere,
me serene stars, the echoes from two cities,
he swish and sweep of something passing
far below. glide into that sense OF unurlt-
no poetry, music in the air and that sort of
hing. which make up the symptoms of
macy. for which there is but one remedy.
The bridge knows what that is, and leads
m 10 i. as surely as it leads to either side
4 East river. Doesn't the bridge unite two
Eg cities? Well, doesn't uniting mean
nstrimony? That is the way the harvest
moon and the young folks understand 1t.
WOMEN DO MARRY.
A bundle of letters, responsive to my
raragraph of last week on the question,
sWby Women Don't Marry" compels ne
torecur to the subject. Is II true that wo-
men don't marry2 My opinion. drawn from
observation, is that they do marry, and do
imore and more every year. Look at your
\ own circle of friends, and ask yourself how
4 IL Is. lDluh OIL your CONVERSATION Will
friends and what you hear other people
\ talk about Aren't engagements, fiirtations
and love-making the burden of the songs
AREN'T YOUR friends and friends friends
always being married! Don't your own
servants often and often leave You for
homes of their owns Your clerks, your
\ dressmakers, the assistants in the store you
4 deal at-dont they get married as soon as
they have enough money to furnish two or
s ~ I.,..fe
indeed | wish there were some good rea-
/ son Why so many shouldn't. Then, at all
4 events, one wouldn't so often bs reduced to
the verge of ruin by giving many wedding
presents.
Now that the good old times when every
4 Gill had her Jack are past and gona, doesn't
it seem very unfair that the distribution of
4 lovers should be as unequal as it iss One
/ girl has perhaps dozen s@eethearts, who
sigh around and worry her till she is truly
| grateful to any one VINO relieves her of their
attentions Though some girls find 1.-THE more
the rnerrier" applies to lovers as TO other
things) while other maidens have literally
not one sweetheart to bless themselves with.
/ The STAINLESS damsel, too, is not infre-
quenty worth dozen of the besleged, pos
Sessing all the good qualities, save one,
that her more favored sister lacks. Young
men, young menl Why will you pluck the
poppies, leaving the sweet little violets to
| bloom alones Why don't you look beneath
the surface, remembering that 'he who
| would find rich pearls must dive belowp
But twas ever thus, and young mems love
still lies mot in their hearts, but in their
eyes" SO 1t is that many girls who would
make the sweetest and best of wives remain
Il unmarried.
Many women don't marry because they
can't forget an old lover from whom fate or
adverse circumstances have parted them.
To him they have given their whole heart
and once out of their keeping they couldn't
get 1t back CT carry out the French pro-
verb, which bids us love what we can get If
we can't get what we love. Alb, well
Marriage at best is lottery, and
Some weep because they part.
And languish broken hearted
And others OF, my heart! =
Because they hover parted
Far better sweet recollections of what was
and tender thoughts of what might have
been than reality that dissipates the early
dream. In any case
81 tbs better to have loved and lost
III Than never to have loved at all
II and these women are perbaps bannie,
though, OF course, they don't think SOY in
the love they gain as sympathetic friends
and delicious maiden aunts than thew would
nave been had they married their lost
4 love. -'''
LIVED IN GLASS HOUSE
a young and lovely girl "in societyn was
guilty. OF an improperly this summer
~nlcn was most reprehenslble, regarded
from high ground of morality, but which.
compared with much of the wrong-doine
OF more experienced and conscienceless
women In her own sat, was scarcely worth
considering The young woman regretted
%hat she did and suffered intensely from
lie lear OF being made the center of =
scandal. 1t SO happened that her ill-con-
o.4eEed ac1on became known to a certain
s'aOely and PROUD lady who makes a bust
ness OF posing as an example of all that is
utrlght and wise, and this lady, like many
tVuelS OF the superior class she represents.
i tLuA occasion to insinuate here and
.IeLe that some young women were not
a. they should be. and really ought to be
Gesafred from self-respecting people. The
INuIscreet girl heard of this gossip going
.ouhd and learned of its source. After q
1lAe she determined to go to the superla.
Iveiy good woman who SO pitilessly siurred
nel and appeal TO her to refrain from re-
peatl9g ner lnsinuations, relying upon the
paouG ones feminine nature to sympathize
. Ii.I her In her regret at what she had I'M
s~rainlihlhgly done. 1t happened that the lady
TT ss was staying that week at a hotel on
i iVa avenue, and to this hotel the trem-
OIlng girl went.
"ord was sent to her from the office that
coT aqy she sought was not there The
~ IRE ooy bringing the message grinned