The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-08
|, GOTHAM TENDERFOOT.
l.s MCGOWAN DESCRIBES her
rs ATOMS IN The METROPOLIS

rsluaage ana bis WOrk-A aEAeS
2,da-A Lost Chance With the
Tonely Bunco Steerer.
W., YORK, March when was first
ned loose" here, dropped like a super
1 AN, kitten, felt sort Of bewildered; was
~. w.. snrs things would run over me and
III would lose myself past recovery.
T.. all that Is changed now. I'm as bold as
1 .s.sn-a Texas sheep-in the streets Of
New York.
,L,van,t any sense whatever about find
~ way around the city, but l have dis
s. ~ Ik.a-s5 that for this sort OF thing there is
C,Sodv equal to your thorough-going idiot.
~ iike drunken man, falls on his feet
- - a soft place, nothing ever hurts him
pa a svervbody lends him good-humorsd
- I never "take my bearings" don't
Nv east from west, nor up from down;
3 - 20 all over the three cities. IN all the
rsiiways. ferries, ETC., and the Lord looks
ST. me- l lust go out, shut the door be-
ai ip1 ne and with my little latch-key in
IL -,r1 Docket. commit my soul 60 heaven. my
n..yrsponel safety and the final achievement Of
Nv nurposs to the passersby and the police
u! an the corner-and so far I've come
-. smiling and triumphant every time.
. What ioy, what delight. TO go just where
h nlessedl TO gaze into pawnbrokers' win
Sdws at the curious and notwithstanding
q tsings. or linger over old volumes at the
zsscoSd hand book stores upon which dote,
rith no kind and watchful snob along as
guariian, who goes to places because they
me the places to go, and loves things be-
cause Of the price they cost.
CURIes.
II YOU will give me your.hand will take
- Il okosaAar1 Nhac or
siIver vinaigrette in pawnbroker's window
& On Sixth avenue that Will touch your heart.
sGThe Beeches, Devonshire, 1862, !" is cut on
4 n in large letters, and down in one corner
4 ~ s,oalisr ones. fKatie." Then there Is q
small volume at queer, mouldy old second
*bond bookstore. Presented to James
EDmOlass with long SIS by q select number
I N parsons of Aberdeen on the occasion of
his leaving this city for America, 1888" A
birthday book il is, with the quaintest,
3 Scotchiest names and their birth dates writ
ten all through it. And I've only made
4 beginninp-there are places and places and
8 risces oieer hooks and odd CORNERS, days
! and weeks of It'll And how wildly Bohe-
mian do feel, sitting in downtown lunch
room waiting for my chop and brown bread
4 and cocoa, reading a paper or my mail, or
writing.
ADA REHAN.
Ireyel in matinees, with chocolates IN my
3 muff if | hke-that was another cause Of
main gave 1.-The Snob.n ! went to see the
fSchool for Scandal" last week. Here's a
play as is q play. OF ali eplays there are.
& q high-class English comedy is the one for
me, A tragedy-a fine tragedy-ls magnifi-
cent Hamlet" "Othello," Macbeth, T"
"Romeo and Juliet"-I never tire of them.
But feel them too desply; 1t is as much as
my heart will allow my artistic appreciation
s TO read them. To see them well
#plaved is almost too much
Hi a strain. 1t makes me feel
older; it is an anguish of enjoyment. But
the grace, the wit and sparkle of a play like
this, or Gas You Like 1t, Two Dromios, y
or best of all, o, most best, "Much Ado
4 About Nothing" are delightful tonic, purely
diverting and pleasing. They lend an op-
S portuniJy for a temporary forgetting and
make no return demand upon the heart and
possibilities Ada Rehan is a charming
Lady Teazle, bewitching creature. Saint
& ANTHONY got safely through that little
nffair of his before those arch and lovely
Features were framed, or that piquant and
provoking grace set 10 work.
~ GREAT NAMES.
How nra the mighty fallen! Here in one
shop is Cervantes-cigars, think, on an
other street. Raphael-the tailor; Goethe is
3 running bakery. and am looking in all
the butcher shops and green groceries for
+ Michael Angelo. When find him am 90
ing to shed few preluding tears and say,
81 shake, Mike, Pm just as proud to know
you now as | would have been in the days
when you sculped, and painted, and archi-
tected and wrote heavenly sonnets to Wit
q toria Collonna. Lord, we know what we
are, but We know not what We may be.
a This catering to the amusement of a tickle
and fractions public is kittle work, and
dare not be arrogant who have no assurance
that l may not some day have to make
sausages and head>cheeSes myself.
TALMAGE.
| went of course on Sunday to hear DR.
4 Talmage. He is preaching in the Brooklyn
E Academy Of Music until the new tabernacle
4 Is completed, and the effect, to unaccus-
toned eyes, was an odd one. The big opera
house, parquet dress circle, galleries and
4 private boxes all full to OVERLOOKING; the
hymns for that service printed on a sheei
which fluttered in every hand. looking ex.
aetly like the programme Of play. Then.
when the great congregation poured oui
into the street after the services, there weri
vendors all about the square crying Dr.
Ialmage's picture fer sale-Sunday, MIND
you-'for 10 cents, only 10 cents, ons dimo
1t Is astonishing the amount of work ttil
wonderful man does I looked at him, 81
thin and frail-looking as to almost sugges
4 the unregenerate Jack Falstaff's "i1aI
made after supper of a cheese pa ring" anC
wondered how the mental machinery helC
out under the strain of lecturing in on'
week in two or three different cities, pre- hch
Ing twice on Sunday, lecturing informally
on Friday nights on the current events o
Inc day, presiding at all sorts of church anC
Sunday school meetings, not to mention
editing the Christian Herald and depart
ments in several other publications. H
seems TO be possessed of exhaustless spiri
aud vigor, animated by boundless enthu
slaSm.
A DARBY DUDE.
The very sweetest living thing have seel
IN New York was a negro-a darby W
would say down south-walking down Fiftl
avenue. Everything about him was ex
qulsltely but not obtrusively fine, and hi
clothes fitted his handsome figure with
sumptuous ease, careless perfection as IA
from the tailor block style of the would-b
article as the east is from the west, ant
there was in the poise of his head his whole
bearing an indsscribable cir of distinction
Inc negro strain was only just Ierceptibl
IN the dark olive skin and the impassiv
features with their expression of settles
indifference, while the long eastern eye
looked out from under the full, half-droppe'
lbs with lazy scorn upon life and its paltr,
pleasures; look of oriental enaui unat
talnable by the ordinary Ca ucasian eye
one altogether c-r-rushing, and whicl
would make you blush were you caugh
enjoying your dinner or laughing at
funny pay. 1t is by the depth of thi