The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06

enoSe took tue least Ike the footprints
OF a bear. Bears have claws. and there are
no marks Of claws here.n
w hoover heard of a bear without
ciawsF said the other girl graduates, with
Witherlng glance at the hunter.
nat klnd Of tracks be they, then,
mlssT asked the hunter.
Indeed don't know,n returned one of
t .il sweet girl graduates, superciliously.
Ihey certainly are not the tracks Of a
bsar.
Besides" added the other swee. girl
graduate, who ever heard of bears walk
ing along roadsF
The hunters stock of arguments as we'll
as words was limited. and he said nothing
Inc sweet girl graduates went on their
way.
They had not gone far when bear sprang
upon tnem and ate taeH up. The only
parts OF their anatomy not ma:ticatei be-
yond identity were their tongues. which,
finding tough, the bear had swallowed
whole. Before the process of digestion
fairly began these found time for few
words:
They were bear tracks, after ALL" said
one
"And suppose they were,n replied the
other, how were we TO know"
Living beyond our mans, says Mari on
haSland In the Herald, Is the sore, the gall,
the cancer In our body social. Consumed
oy the desire to seem what we are not. TO
vie in show with those who were born in
the purple, or who have made enoue h
money TO purchase an expensive imitation
OF genuine Tyriaa, we let % the meat aud
snap at the shadow.
Il don't entertain" says a letter before
me from an eminent literary woman. "But
we are always glad to see friends who care
70 know us as we are. II you can come to
US on the 18th and remain until the Both YOU
viii make us very happy"
The very aroma of hospitality turks in
the folds Of the sheet In reading the few
and sincere lines that convey a request
winch Is In itself exquisite fiattery, | sign
Tor the coming of the day when perfunctory
receptions will be suspe lded by voluntary
bestowal, aad individual hospitality dis
place the job work of general entertaining. ~
In defiance of precedent l contend that l.
who live In another sort of house from nv
opposite neighbor, and have furnished it in
different style, whose tastes coincide with
hers as little as do our incomes, who am so
years of age while she Is but 25, have a
right. born Of these radical dissimilarities, TO
decide how aud whoa | shall receive nv
friends within my doors, without reference
to what she or her clique say in the mstter.
Who that has read Mary Cowden Clarke's
"heoolleotions of Authors" can forget the
address with which Mary Lamb extricated
herself from a dilemma that would have
covered an ambitious hos ess with coafu-
sion aud the consciousness of social dis
graoel
Once when some visitors CHANGED to drop
In unexpectedly upon her and her brother
just as they were about to sit down to their
plain dinner of a bit of roast mutton, with
her usual frank hospitality she pressed
them TO stay and partal5e, cutting up the
small joint into five equal portions, and
saying, in her simple, easy way:
There's chop apiece for us, and we can
make up with bread and che csc If we want
moro.n
with such a woman to carve for you
and eat with you" says the biographer,
truly, meek of mutton was better than
venison, while bread and cheese more than
replaced various courses of richest or da int
lest dishes"
Breeding and tack like this would have
gracsd Paris SOIon Of the finest period.
When they are engrafted upon the rank
young stock of American society we shall
have the best flower and fruit of hospitality
offered without grudgng, and by a. II classes
and conditions of men,
The conditions of modern life, says Mrs.
Reed in ScribTer for October, in this great
and growing country are such that the
average American girl of more favored cir
cumstances may step from the school room,
generally before she is 20 years old, into a
station where the demands of domestic,
social, charitable and practical affairs leave
her little time for further systematic study
and yet tax every resource of her store Of
knowledge and requirement IL, then, she
is confronted with subjects of which
she is ignorant, but with which she should
have acquired at least a speaking acquaint-
ance while at school, she may Justly
reproach her teachers that they have
adopted the mistaken policy of educating
a girl who was to leave school at 90 on the
plan requiring continuance at school till
at least %. Though many have doubted
the possibility to provide for this active and
proper demand, without compromise which
is un air TO thoroughness, and which will
not result In supericiality, | am justified in
havi adopted and for many years de-
tended such plan, by the highest authority
among the educators of modern times.
Girls who have been the recipients of
numerous attentions from their men friends,
says the New York Sun, are no longer
called upon to suffer the uucertaint lies that
formerly beset them when the tins comes
to testify appreciation with small souvenirs
presented at Christmas or on birthdays. 1t
used to be- serious matter to think up suit
able gifts for man. If one happened to
achieve popularity with the fair sex his
ingenuity was severely taxed to
know what disposition to make
of the scores of shaving sets
slippers, mouchoir cases, and pen wipers
that threatened to deluge him. Some years
ago. after the death of famous physician,
his wife, in looking over his effects, counted
thirty odd embroidered smoking caps sent
by his feminine admirers, together with IN
limited useless needlework her husband had
never even removed from their original
wrappings. With much tact the lady gave
the entire lot to a fancy charity bazar going
on in the town at the time.
But men have changed, and their neces-
stiles are tenfold more complex than of old.
For instance, the bachelors, those who live
in apartments, they are grateful for almost
any little trifie that adds to the luxury of
their menage. Nearly all of them do
bit of perfunctory housekeeping, and give
afternoon teas in their chambers during the
season. In the glass corner cupboards fitted
into the wall they are. therefore, happy to
add dainty teacups and decorated plates to
their carefully selected stock Of china. Silk
tea cosies, embroidered doylies, divan pillows,
and prettily outlined tray cloths are among
the inexpensive presents a young woma IN
may give with propriety. II the friend
ship is OF long standing or the obligations
Il