The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-10


the style to appear just as natural and
stable as nature has made US, and when
that vague and beautiful sometime" comes
it will be the millennium wherein all women
will rejoice. for they will have the unspeak-
able luxury OF travelling about feeling like
human beings, with lungs and other physio-
logical belongings, rather than creatures Of
whalebone, sleel, hooks and tape.
The girl of nerve mas found a way which
she declares is most efficacious for securing
q seat in horse car. | had heard of the
little plan which she is said to WORK, but it
was reserved for me to see it only yesterday
1t was in a Broadway car and the men
seated along each side of it were evidently
gentlemen, for they were well dressed, and
what | am about to tell will show that they
were of sensitive temperament, The car
was full. There was not seat TO spare
when, at the next crossing, young woman
entered. She was a slim girl, rather pale,
but, like her own teeth, small and white,
yet with plenty Of nerve.
As she boarded the car and came in she
glanced up and down the two rows Of men.
No one noticed her. All the faces wore a
+ stolid, preoccupied look, and those Of the
men who had papers or note books handy
began to study them. Not man budged
from his place. And now, what do you
think that girl did? Walking slo WY along
the car she looked carefully at the faces of
the men until she selected her victim. TAX
ing up her stand in front of him she
grasped the strap by hitching her umbrella
handle III it, and then, lesning slightly
forward, she gazed iutently at the mans
feet.
He stood the scrutiny for q moment. then
he looked down TO see If there was anything
unusual about his boots; but no, they we're
nicely BACKED and in as good trim as a new
"sh1nen could make them. He looked up
again at the girl. She was still staring hard
at his feet. There must be something wrong.
Uneasily he hitched about little in the
seat, crossed one leg over another and tried
to look sideways out of the window. But
the scheme wouldn't work, for there in
front of him stood that small bit of a girl
staring with two wide open eyes directly
down at that pair OF boots. Again he
moved. this time recrossing his legs and
selecting new position, where he hoped
that his feet would appear less prominent
and conspicuous. But no, there they were
| looming up as aggressive as ever, and there
| in front Of them stood the mite Of q girl
absorbed in studying them. The man had
| big feet and the girl knew this when she
selected him, and being a woman she had
! judged where to hit him in just the place
that would strike his seusibilites.
| 1t was becoming too much for him. He
could not stand it much longer. He must
move his seat or get out upon the platform.
| This was really becoming too awful when
the size of his feet could attract attention
from woman in a street car. More and
more uneasily he hitched about, more and
more intently the girl stared, aud ere two
blocks had been traversed he got no, made
| a lurch toward the door, and got out upon
| the platform, where it was two blocks more
| before he recovered his eQuanmity and got
over feeling that all the world was wonder
ing at the size of his extremities.
The little cheat of girl meanwhile. with
the sweetest possible smile, ard half-whis-
pered THANK you," sank blissfully and
gracefully into the seat aud enjoyed her
ride home. In telling about it afterward,
she said she had worked her little game at
| least three times daily for the past month,
and had always succeeded. How the man
! liked it or what he thought Of the unscru-
pulous nature of the proceeding as 1t re-
vealed itself to him in his calmer moments.
history tells not.
| A Kentuckian, speaking OF the northern
fashion of letting woman hustle for her.
self in public places, says that this is en-
tirely due to the demeanor Of the northern
woman herself. When he is south he always
resigns his seat in a public vehicle to a
| woman, and makes it his business to secure
| her comfort whenever possible, regarding
| the welfare OF every woman as the special
| care of every man. In the south the women
are dependent, oonfiding and helpless.
In the north they know what they want,
and they go and ge5 it with O raPidity that
startles the average man. The northern
woman buys her own car tickets, checks
her baggage, gets aboard buys q news
paper, looks around for seat and waits
her turn for one with all the independence
and courage of any man that can be pro-
| duced. She wants no favors, and she asks
| for none This is so plainly apparent that
| as the Kentuckian says, he is half afraid TO
offer her any favors for fear she may resent
his interference; and even when he is sure
that she will not, and when she looks at him
longingly, he himself is half provoked al
the general swing of the sex here in the
north and would not offer her a seat any
way.
When she is north she must hustle as
northern women hustle. And when he il
north he will do as northern men do. Not
the slightest grain of softness is found in
his makeup for the northern woman I'M
accompanied by her eacort. Not the slight
est grain Of sternness is felt for the Southern
WON IN when be sees her alone. The for
mer may do the best she can. The latter
may revel in all tie luxury which the
chance man may he able to provide for her
All the girls are going in for health and
athletics. They must not-they simply
must not appear sick. They must have &
fine color bright eyes, glossy hair, round
elbows, and a long swinging gait that il
half q dog-trot, or some one may be- led tt
think that they are not maryels of strength
and robustness.
docs this yellow dress make me lool
pale or sickP asked one girl of another il
the street last week; ''when the sun shines
upon me fancy that the yellow Of my
dress makes my complexion appear bad
Now notice particularly when we come X
the next open space between the houses, anC
tell me honestly if you think look the least
bit sallow."
"What shall you do with the dress, if it is
unbecoming"
"Why, throw it away, or put it away, or
give it away, or do something else with it,
Of course. | couldn't afford, for the sake OF
my position in society, to wear anything
that makes me appear in delicate health. |
shouldn't be invited anywhere. IJ wouldn't
do at all, you know; it really wouldn't do.
1t is so out Of style to DO sick or delicate or
even fraIl in appearance
Aud 80 the girls, to ensure tho health
which is now SO necessary to their social
standing, have provided themselves with
chatelaines, upon which hang half a dozen
boxes of gold or silver, set with jewels. and
IN which is a collection Of medicine, tonics
and more or less stimulating drugs.
gold chatelaine, with six or seven gold bot.
Ties or boxes hanging therefrom, containing
ouinine capsules. warranted TO hold tbs
pangs OF la grippe at bay. digestion tab
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