The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-15
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and the Lowell News halls 1t with Joy mo
one has ever yet" it declares. been able to
discover any practical use for the appandage
with which the garment has long been bur-
dened. The tail does not make the shirt
The shirt will continue to be a shirt without
the tail, and practically speaking, the average
man does not know what he wants of shirt
tails any more than he knows what he wants
of buttons on the back of his coat The fact
Is man has grown up in the habit of wearing
those useless things aud they hang on. There
is no reason why they should not be cast off
and the shirt made more utilitariann
AT EATING, the negro, having always first
washed his hands and rinsed his mouth, sits
upon the ground, holds the larger pieces be-
tween his teeth while he cuts off bite with his
knife, but does not use both hands to hold food,
except in gnawing bones. With the usual dishes.
says the Popular Science Monthly, he lays his
rIxht arm over his knees, and reaching into the
pot, moulds the thick mess into Jumps about the
size OF walnut which he throws into his mouth
with jerk without scattering any of the food.
To take out vegetables or soup he presses
hollow into the Jumps and dips
with it, Politeness is shown to the host or the
housewife after eating by smacking loudly
enough to be heard. While the negro is oapa-
BILE OF eating meat in an unpleasant state of de-
composition, he Is very sensitive against some
tastes, and viii make evident manifestations of
his dislike OF them. He is careful about the
outer matters in drinking. He will always
rinse his mouth first, even when he is intensely
thirsty. Ii the cup is not too small, he takes il
III DOlu MINUS, ana 10 TO SlC down Win IL.
II the vessel is large and open, he draws in the
water from the surface with his lips, without
bringing them in contact with the dish.
sometimes negroes pour wster into
their mouths. When drinking at ponds
and rivers the water is carried to the
mouth with the hand For some mystic reason
1t Is considered bad to lie fiat down when drink
ing from rivers. The fear of being snapped I'D
by a crocodile may have something to do with
the matter Great attention is given in most of
the tribes to the care of the body. Ike teeth
are cleansed with a stick which has been
chewed into kind of brush. The hands are
washed frequently, not by turning and twisting
and rubbing them together, one within the
other, as with US, but by a straight up-aud-
down rubbing, such as is given to the other
limbs. This manner of washing is SO character
istc that an African might be distinguished by
It from European without reference to the
color The sun is their only towel.
THERE is one woman in the state of Washing
ton who proposes TO find out from the United
States supreme court whether or no the suffrage
can be granted by territory and then taken
away in the process of changing that territory
to state Mrs Nevada NJ. Bloomer had always
voted since she became eligible at Spokane until
the spring election of 1888, when the judges of
election refused her ballot and denied her rig hit
to the franchise. Mrs Bloomer Immediately
brought suit in the state courts for $500 damage
TO atone for this refusal and to establish her
right to vote; but the state courts
all decided against her on the ground
that under the state law women conld not
the territory to bind the state in advance in
such manner, and affirmed that rights and
privileges under territorial law expired with
that law. Mrs. Boomer admits that this rule
may apply quite generally, but denies that it
applies to suffrage, which is an naena BILE
right of which the individual is not to be de-
prlved except by some neglect OF otfense of her
own. To this the defense replies that Mrs.
Bloomer never had any right to vote in the
state Of Washington, and therefore the re-
fusal OF the judges deprives her of no
right, and Mrs BloOmer replies that she did
have the right of suffrage in the state and
exercisedit without hindrance until April, 1888
The supreme court will hear the arguments in
October. Some 1000 or more other women
who voted and tried to vote are interested, as
well as the judges of elections who have $3.50
each at stake. Gov. Ferry, too, it is said will be
glad to know the result of this suit, for he is in
doubt as to the effect the reversal
of the decision of the state courts
would have upon the state government. If
Mrs, Bloomer and her sisters were improperly
denied the privilege of voting the fear is that the
whole election would be vitiated and any one
could, by quo-warranto proceedings, turn the
occupants Of the state officers out at once. This
would mean also the illegaity of all the official
acts performe1 and the ihvalidity of all the laws
passed by the legislature chosen at such illegal
election, and so confusion worse COMPOUNDED
would rule.
NEARLY EVERYBODY has been to Coney
Island One large section is given over to cheap
variety and museum shows, to which admission
is free, says the Milwaukee Sentinel with the
exception that the visitor Will buy glass of
beer Each booth mas one or more 'tooters'' or
runners, who are as frantic and pressing as the
Baxter street runners. The tooters scream like
maniacs. The best show on the islandl' THE
biggest glass of beer on the island!" and with
fifty such cries going at once in the shrillest of
voices, and accompanied by the inSanest wav-
ing of arms, the visitor loses his head and fan
cies he is in the violent ward of lunatic asy-
lum. lie leaves the place dazed or
hysterical, as though he had been
through a dynamite explosion The
central idea of the new journalism of New
York, represented entirely by the new journals
vas stolen from Coney Island. 1t is there that
9ir Pulitzer got his inspiration. Mysteries
noise, blow, frenzy. I'm the Dandy Jim of
n new, T3r Hoorayl" Got another sub
real, live, whoop- er-up newspaper in the
world" Biggest headlines ever made-yah!
yah yam I'm the only brainy editor and the
only honest, fearless friend of the people-iook
al me. And when Mr.. Pulitzer said he had
some new subscribers, he had booms fired in
twelve different cities. The newspapers them
selves are Just as hysterical as the cries. The
headlines, grown too large for a single line
scream They are like the Shrek of
the nre tug, and seem to say: stop all bust
ness; quit your petty copcerns; put IF
dying unit you have read this most aStound-
ing, souE4arrowins, unparalleled piece OF
news Wnen 1t is read, it is found that an
Italian rag picker was kicked by sausage
peo 9 Tor making love to the female of his
Ahd. IL seems to pay, for the moment. 1t is
not surprising that as the originator shouted
from day TO day that he was driving all other
newspapers from the news stands, that another
hystercal journal now shouts from day to day
that II Is driving the original convulsion sheet
from the news stands. The nearest metropolitan
journal that has fits cultivates that immodesty
that is characteristic of the original organ of
delr1um tremens. Doubtless there are people
VINO are overload of pepper and other Spices
and who read only to have their emotions
powed and narrowed. but to have an
hysterical feast seven days in the
week is excessive. That sort of thing can't last