The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-18


rue. All We housekeepers got qul;e excitad
Wheh we heard that perfectly ne " potato
was promised US, and one, too. which had .
ueclded navor OF trutfies about H. We hsd
VISIONS OF visitors delighted with the nm
KNOWN dish we had set before them and M
husbands III a most benign and reneroos
frame or mind because they had been "a
pieaSed with the dinner. "Such change
from the everlasting boiled, mashed or
trleo potatoes. my dearm And now
the very announcement has called forth
numerous letters TO the fact that the bIact
potato Is oy no means a novelty: in fact. ite
very name, Cetewayo, shows that it dates
as lar oack as the Zulu war. One of those
VINO writes IN Its favor is the fasting man,
VINO, when he Is having an eating iuterlude.
enjoys MS black potato, and grows it in his
own garden. He reports that it is a good
cropper, and that it spreads all over the
place. Furthermore, it is not affected by
the potato diseases, which, while it siezes on
the white potatoes, spares the black ones.
during the winter we shall probably find
the blue black"-it sounds dreadfully like
lnk-a tavorlte vegetable on the menus of
tnose VINO, like the late natives OF Athens,
are fond OF something new.
just at the most impressive moment of a
serious play, which was having a first rep
Tesentation ct fashionable theater, SAYS a
New \ ork writer, young woman of strIk>
ing beauty OF countenance and elegance of
ureSs tainted away in one Of the orchestra
chairs and created a great commotion
among the people surrounding her. Her
companion, big, stout woman of middle
age, caught her in her arms, and turning to
gentleman sitting in the row behind her
asked if he would aid her in getting her
oh Is
man, who was alone, eagerly offered his
services, and, leaning forward, caught the
fainting girl about the waist, aud, the
crowd making way for him, half lifted and
half dragged her out of the aisle, where,
with the assistance of the ushers, he
carried her with very little trouble
quickly out of the theater. After
a moment the audience settled itself
into place again, and the play. which had
been proceeding in an uncertain way, oaca
more commanded attention. THAT girl has
got more nerve than any one in New York, u
sad man sitting with friend in one OF
the back rows. He was asked to explain
what he meant by this remark.
"Why, she works that fainting act every
six months. You saw the maU that took her
out, didn't you! Well, he's the vicsim.n
This was all very mysterious. The
statements.
THE old woman" said he, "is the girls
manager, or property mother. rs you might
call her. She has doze ! different WAYS of
attracting attention to the girl The beauty
trips sometimes when she steps from horse
car and sprains her ankle Whenever she
does it there is sure to be q fine looking man
close ut hand, and the property mother
turns and asks him if he will kindly assist
her daughter to hanson. Once the girl
pretended to be shot while dining at a
fashionable restaurant. and another time
she screamed on the street and gasped out
that her heart was sitting her aud she was
dying. The mother was there on both oc-
casions, and the beautiful girl wa
assisted to carriage by q good
looking stranger, whose services were
invited by the old cat. She tainted to-
night, and the good-loOking man behind her
is probably driving home with her now in d
cab. 1t Is possible to catch some choice
game by such methods as that. Beau il
distress, you know, and the emnently re-
spectacle mother quite distracted with ex'
cltementl A gentleman feels bound to see
the disabled pair home, and as he does so be
observes how wonderfully lovely the daugh,
ter is. be accepts the invitation 20 go III
The apartments into which be is usDereC
are luxurious. The girl has rec 0vered from
her fainting spell and is immensely inter
esting in nor wenk, clinging condition
What lovely little household it is. to b.
su re, and what goddess PAGES it.
THE chances are that that exceedingl,
humane and respectable stranger will fiGt
the experience extremely delightful Nov
is he rich. That is soon found out. OF
course, he calls again and again. The
daughter likes TO have MIN. You now see
I ~ D.,H 4 IL .
take cheek TO carry out? Think of brea K
ing up play and creating such scene in
that S vie. Now, wouldn't a woman that
would do that do anything3 Heavens, but
this New York is tough place."
There's a good story going the round
about Mrs. Marguerite Moore, the writer
aud lecturer.
At one of Mrs. Henrietta Russsll's recep-
lions Mrs. Moore was introduced to a Mr.
johnson, with whom she fell into tete a
tete. Someb 10Y near them interrupted il
by asking why Mrs. Croly had issued card
reading, ITO meet the editor Of Electric
Light and Mrs. johnson"
why said Mrs Moore, "the editor is
Mr.. johnson. IL would have been awkward
TO say: To meet Mr.. Johns IN, the editor,
and Mrs Johnson Il would have been
vague to put it mildly, had the cards read
simply: TO meet DIR. and Mrs. johnson,
for it is conspicuous fact that the mans
johnson is anything but celebrated. Mrs
Moore went on, In her piquant, pepper
sauce style, to expatiate on the obscurity o.
the great majority If Johns ms. IL tn,
middle of this eloquent flight she suddenly
paused and turned an appalled, gaze upon
her now acquaintance. 80, heavens" sh
gasped, ap -ealilglv, your name-er-is-
abs Johnson. isn'G it?'
johnson confessed his crime.