The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-12
ROMANCE IN THE AIR.
THESE ARE DAYS WHEN ROMANCE
IS IN ONES BONE.

And Thoughts Turn to Tender -hings.
: Bow Women People Tlei- own
Worlds-For a Young Chicago Au-
thor of a FlAy-The Baby With the
Bottle-A Southern Mammy's View
THE Best Baby in the World"
What Women Were Made 20 Love.
Things Which Can Make You and
Others Happy il These summer
Days.
New YORK, July lit is the time Of
year when romance is in ones bones, when
one wants to read romantic novel, swing
in a hammock under shady tree, think
that one Is Just commencing life again, that
one is 10, and that the gallant, gay cavalier
will soon ride up to claim his own true
love.
THESE DAYS OF ROMANCE,
when the sunshine is brig aud the flowers
are blooming, " en- every daisy is nodiIng
its chow do you d." when e-sy black
eyed Susan is tossing its head in a cJQlet-
ish sort of fashion, IS much as TO say oil
mankind loves dark eyes, when the sweet
Williams are at their hes. aud tsl.est and
most perjury, and look at you straight in
the face as If they were saving, II am the
typical lover: 1 am the r N 20 come 70 look
for his Juhet'-wuy woman would have
ink, ice water or shoe polish IN her veins,
instead Of blood If she didn't fall IN love
with something she may he 60 and she
may be IS. sac may fall in love with a
book, a play a baby, a boy, or a MAJ, but
she certainly falls in love with something.
Fer my part. | an thankful that there are
the books and the P avs, not to mention
the bsbisS They are SAFE.
YOU CAN HAVE A BEAUTIFUL TIME
crying your eyes out over love story. or
you can dream away an hour or two over
delightful play, filing i: in with your own
pictures Of the men and women. as well as
tie world in which they live. That is one
reason why ike plays, TO read. | mean
When the heroine says: IAN Paris will
mourn for me because no other woman is so
beautiful l SEE a direct descendant of
Venus dressed by Felix or Worth coming
forward 10 announce the fate Of Paris, aud
am not obliged, as am sometimes at the
theatre, to lpOk at al awkward, ungainly
woman, in a d1wdy gown, proclaiming to
the audience her great beauty aud chic
can make all the people IN the play as de-
lightful as | want them. and | can have the
villain such a cold hearted, blood-curdling
creature that the chills creep up and down
my bac5, and ! ab-or his wickedaess with
Il, 4
was going to say, unknown pleasure in read
ing plays Good plays, l mean. You make
your own world and put the people in 1t .
after you have gained few ideas from the
author, and from that time GA they do their
own talking.
BOOKS BOUND WITH BLUE RIBBONS.
Probably no plays we're ever as agreeable
70 read as those written by the younger
Dumas, but Of Dumas IL always has to be
k,. - . l,N. IL L..
a kernel in the giided nut, that must be
found aud CAREFUL dgested. As people.
we don't care much for plays with motives
In them. We are getting excessively tired
of Howells and JameS-like plays, aud we
want pretty story, story bound together
with the blue ribbon Of Lore, in which hu-
man passions are found, in which they are
truly depicted, and somebody reading or
seeing this play suddenly thinks, III Ia
been in his place, I'd have done Just the
same" We laugh at romaDce-we think
we are very cynical aud very clever. and
yet woman's brown eyes and a womans
selfish, arrogant, absorbing love will twist
us all around until We don't know whether
we're human teings at all, or whether we
are just something put on earth to adore
these descendants of Eve. That Is when
we are men. You and |, my friend, proba-
bly, love romantic pey-I always feel
better after seeing Ons-a proper one. |
moan, where tie villain is disposed Of, the
true lovers united and live happy ever
after
FOR YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHOR.
A sunshiny day not long ago read a play
written by g man who is himself, in appear
ance, as picturesque as the little one-act
drama that had It's birth for one of his
friends. he has youth, good looks and am
oltlon, and l believe. after reading that
play, he Is going t. succeed. What is itl
And who is hei Well, the play is a story,
in one act, Of love, uuhappiness, revenge
and repentance, with the scene laid in Italy,
and with all the people thinking and speak
ing as people would who lived, loved and
died. We talk about plays that are etch-
ings, plays that are canoes, but this little
play Fra DianO }" seems to me ike a great
red rose giving out the sweet perfume OF an
innocent love- aud having, deep down in its
heart, suffering that came when the days
we're cold and the glory of love and Joy had
departed. Enthusiastic Perhaps so
Would you give straw for the woman who
wasn't! The author is named Robert Dro-
ret, and comss, believe, from Chicago. |
have seen picture Of him, end my wom-
aus eyes told me several things: First,
that he was marvelously handsome; as a
man who looked at the picture said: ut is
the head that sculptors put on their Greek
goes" Then, secondly, my womanly in
stlncr told me that he was a sensitive man.
an ambitious man, and a man who could
get success, unless he permitted himself to
lose hope. am pot mind reader; don't
know how to tell fortunes, but I've truly
read all this in picture, and some
body who knew the man said | had
read Alright. And now l tell you who il To
play
THE LEADING PART IN TIE STORY
and for whom 1t was written-Joseph Ha-
worth. Aud when it comes near Won. II j.
should be SIX months or year from now
just think to yourself. "a friend of mine
Bah, told me to 60 AMI see how one of the
best emotional actors told the story Of the
life of a man who yearned for tue love of
his wife and child, who spent his DAYS in
prayer and good deeds and yet when he
met the one who hal wronged him. felt the
man rise supe Tor TO the moaa, aud killed
his enemy, and died himself afterwards
while the chimes we're ringing in a glorious
morning, aud the gentle pupil, who had
really been his daughter, was going out in a
new world where love reigned, and where
Cupid was king Now, just remember
what | have said.
TIE BABY WITH THE BOTTLE
Everybody is going on mission. It's
either to supply tue people in the Jail with
books or newspapers, flowers or fruits. or
else to make homes in the country for peo-
pie TO go to aud have good time. Th-se
are all very good missions, and sometimes
wish l we're in jail. and could get some Of
the books and papers, or else that 1 could be