The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-11

place, and when the industrious woman sits
down to mend her gloves nothing is lacking
there is the needle, thread for If the tinv
mending egg that exposes the rip or tea
ana the scissors that carefully clip the thread
when the work is all over. II 1t were pre-
Tered, blue, pink, green, or, indeed. any
Color IlKed, might be used for such chAte-
ialnei Out the yellow, especially when a
DrlgnG color Is chosen, is to be preferred to
all Others.
never wash old lace and fine lace; nothing
could excuse such an act Of sacrilege. Benz
zine IS the thing to effect the cleansing, says
the Holsekeepers' Weekly, aud this will
neither harm nor discolor the fabric. and if
there be an antique yellow hue, richly priced
py lts owner, it will not depart therefrom
oy the use OF benZine.
0houlo you wish to whiten your lace,
cover board with whits linen or muslin,
sew the lace on, wet with soapsuds (not too
strong quite frequently aud expose to the
SUI. A couple Of days of this treatmea at
VIII render it or any like fabric white as
the driven saow. A still better way, though
taxing more time to accomplish, is to put
the lace upon the board in the same mans
ner, place where it will catch each morn
lngs dew, then lay it in the sun until quite
dry. A week of this treatment will suffice
10 clean your cobweb of lace put it in
glass, earthen ware, or china never TIM ,
pour over it plenty of beuzine, twirl and
shake about in it. Squeeze out gently, and
repeat the process till clean. Every particle
OF dirt will fall out. II too delicate for
such handling, pin or sew uoon board
covered with flannel. then squeeze upon it
the benzlne with sponge. Let it dry on
the board, hang it for day in the sun and
air to remove the odor.
The first prize, $l0in gold. was the sub
Ject of an animated contest, says the ROckV
Mountain NeaUS, and it looked for while
as though war would be precipitated upon
the excited young misses engaged in the
Olympian struggle, and that their many
friends would be involved in the strife.
The sixteen young ladies presented very
pretty picture as they stood in line waiting
for the word to start. When the signal
was given they all ran as though their lives
depended on the result.
There was a wild, mad rush over the
course of seventy-five yards, and at the fin
ish the judges we're unable to decide whether
Miss Pearl Witter or Miss Annie HUH had
won. The crowd now took part. and each
faction declared for its favorite with We
hemence, and insisted that the award should
be made to its choice. 1t was decided to
award the third prize, a bottle of perfume,
to Emma Topper, and have the contest for
first and second places run for by the two
favorites, This was done, and Annie HUH
came under the wire first, with Miss Witter
good second, the latter winning a box of
satin-lined stationery.
In the married ladies' race (all ages fifty
yards, there was an endless amount of fun.
Those engaging in the contest gathered up
their skirts and, as a small boy expressed it,
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that another had pushed her to one side,
and sit wasn't fair" The scene was, to tell
the truth, ludicrous one, as the matrous
we're so thoroughly in earnest about it,
One of the participants insisted that the
event should be run over again. The
judges had sense enough to know that it
was the part of wisdom to make a ruling
speedily and announced without comment
that the first prize-a lady's cloak, S25-was
awarded to Mrs. Anna Sillick; second
prize. a parlor lamp, to Mrs Ida King,
third prize, pair Of lace curtains, to Mrs
Emma Francis.
Don't undertake to convince me that
women are incapable of reasoning acutely
and correctly. Here is proof to the con-
trary, writes Clara Belle in the st. Louis
Republic. A pretty girl came to this city
to study music, and being OF an independent
cast of mind attending to her own business
and leaving other peoples strictly alone, it
had never occurred to her that she might
experience difficulty in finding room in a
drst-class clearinghouse. She had money
enough to pay for it, and she did not i'm
agiue that she would not be received as a
boarder and no questions asked. She had
not even provided herself with a letter of
introduction, trusting entirely to her
own honest face aud to the sincerity
of her intentions. Judge of her surprise
upon being almost rudelv repulsed from
the doors of half dozen boarding houses.
The landladies could not. they said tartly
and coldly, receive an unknown young
woman travelling alone without even
reference. The girls blood was gradually
warming up under this ignominious treat
ment, and she had pretty firmly made up
her mind that if number seven attempted
to put on any airs there would be trouble.
So she rang the bell, walked into the
long, dark, unfriendly parlor with tightly
set teeth and very emphatic manner.
The usual colloquy took place, with
the usual result. Very sorry, but the GUS
tom was to exact references, particularly in
the case of an unmarried woman. Ia an
instant the back-eyed child OF the yankees
was on her feet, and in vigorous and we'll
chosen words she emptied the too-fuli vlals
of the mild-maunered and inoffensive lady
who presided over boarding-ho No. Z.
Then the tired girl let herself drop into an
easy chair and began to cry. AS she pumped
down in the deep upholstery being short
of limb her skirts were drawn up. dis
playing two very shapely little feet shod in
suuare-toed kid shoes. Suddenly she felt
hand laid softly on her shoulder. She looked
up 1t was the landlady. A faint smile
illumined that pale, wrinkled, anxious face,
for the rent was unpaid and the butcher was
unpaid and the servants were unpaid, and
hundred other things were unpaid, as is
always the case in fashionable New York
boarding house.
"Don't cry, my dear child" almost whis-
pered the woman; 1" I'll take you, I'll give
YOU a room, pll look after you. Well say
you are distant relative Of mine"
but, madame" stammered the girl,
why this sudden change of mind! What
has Influenced you to open your doors to
mem
Your square-toed shoes, my dear" re-
piled the landlady, with as distinct laugh
as one of her kind ventured to indulge in.
mo evil-minded young prison. who knows
the weaknesses and vanities of this world,
and particularly of this big, wicked city.
would ever think of wearing square-toed
shoes in this day and generation. You must
be good girl and genuine stranger in our
city," and she led the girl upstairs to one of
the neatest and most comfortable rooms in
the house.
A writer in the Indianapolis Sun ex-
presses some surprise that so positively and
aggressively homely man as Joel Chandler
Harris ever succeeded in captivating so
beautiful a woman as that little brunette
wife of his, says the Young. Ladies