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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07
A Specimen Luncheon

1t is always a matter of curiosity to
men to discover what women talk about
when they meet at any social function
where the company is wholly feminine.
The dear things themselves usually
come in for their share as to topic Of
conversation, and pretty big and al.
most always complimentary share it is.
Women never like their friends to think
they are in the least disappointed in
either husband or sweetheart. But
such was not the case at fashionable
luncheon last week. Each one OF the
invited guests brought some curio or
heirloom to exhibit and talk of. 1t was
a loan collection on a small scale and
the stories and anecdotes relating to
each article proved very interesting.
One lady brought her grandmother's
samples, another half dozen love let
tiers written to a great aunt by titled
foreigner, and another silver medal
received by far away cousin for brav-
cry on the battle field.-Philadelphia
Press
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HE WAS GENEROUS.
A shylock Who Was willing to Help u
Needy.

A shylock Who Was willing to Help tho
Needy.
He was hard up and wantrd money
so badly that he finally concluded to de-
post a handsome diamond ring in the
hock-shop.
Can borrow one hundred dollars
here on diamond worth two hundred
and fifty dollars?" he said to the pro.
pritor.
"Lemme see the stone," demanded
the money-lender
1t was handed over and examined.
Well?' inquired the applicant.
81 guess you can have it."
Thanks; what are your rates?"
''Ten per cent month, in advance.
That is, l take out the interest and give
you the balance"
81 don't care how you do it; all I
want is the money"
"You say you want one hundred dol
lars?"
"Yes."
GLOW long ?"
BLAMED if l know, but long while,
! should think"
For year ?"
mo, not that long; say about ten
months" and the applicant hummed.
81 want situation" in a low key as
the money lender was making his cal
culation on sheet of wrapping paper.
"That's all right" finally said the
money lender. you can get the ring
when you call with the money"
But where's my hundred?" asked the
astonished applicant
1.-THE interest has absorbed it." re.
sponded the money lender with placid
smile. "Ten months, you know, at ten
per cent. in advance. Didn't you say
you wanted hundred for ten monthsi
/ think you did. There's your ticket.
Thanks. Call again, please. We are
always glad to assist the needy"
The applicant was dazed for almost
seven minutes, then he walked ont and
hunted up a policeman.-petroit Fres
Press
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EDUCATION AND BEAUTY.


to be Feeble.
Sir James Crichton Browne is man
of decided courage. In an address to
the Medical society of London he at
tacks the abuse of the education OF the
girl. He claims that as the weight of
the female brain is smaller in proper
ton to the size of the body, and as the
specific gravity of gray matter is less in
the female brain than in the male
brain, therefore the woman should not
pursue her studies assiduously. This.
argument is not, however, of as serious
Importance as the grave charge brought
by Sir James against high schools for
girls "Some of their methods are,
capable of leading to great evils"
He saw lately a scene of graduates
from celebrated college. "Many Of
them had a STOPPING gait and withered
appearance, shrunk shanks and specta-.
cles on nose" And he then makes this
impassioned plea; LET us conserve the
beauty of our English girls very jeal-
ously. / would rather they remained
ignorant of logafithms than that they
lost iot of it." Sir James is evidently.
one Of those fine old conservatives who
believe that women were created solely
for the delectation of the eyes of man.
A glance at the girls of our high schools
and colleges would show him that his
experience was painful exception, for
education does not necessarily turn a
thing of beauty into an inspirer of hor'
ror.-Boston journal.
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one of the gate posts. 81 wish to good
ness Gubbins and that lisping idiot Pot
ter were here to watch my meeting
with Laura. | had better not call her
Laura at first, by the way. Things
that sound all right over a telephone
wire may be quite startling when one
is brought face to face" Here Charlie
opened the gate, and strobe up the
short gravel path. Everywhere in the
little Garden he noticed the traces OF a
woman's tender care. "And yet" he
murmured, '.they talk about telephone
c;rls only caring for chewing gum and
Irritation"
His ring brought pleasant-faced
matron to the door.
..Mrs. Mellerby, is it not? asked
Charlie, taking off his hat with his BEST
a;r He had a reputation for astnteness
and was much gratified when the LADY
rodded a smiling assent to his question.
and You are Mr.. Charles Dennison'
,,,,oseor she said. "We did not ex-
aoct Won quite so soon, but earliness is
an excellent fault Won't you come
in?"
on course Charlie went in, remarking
- h;r,self that Mrs. Mellerby seemed
oh better than the general run Oh
iris mothers. She could not DC more
e .han fort !, he thought, so that the falr
r"mra was probably not yet twenty.
Moreover. Mrs. Mellerby''s plump figure
iii "a d;st;nct traces of past beauty prom
; led well for Laura's appearance.
raey entered the pretty little ,s. pariOr
Id sat down. Then Mrs Meiiefoy
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SHORT CLIPPINGS.

MRs. HoRATIo BROOKS is conducting
an extensive foundry and locomotive
building establishment at Dunkirk,
n. Y, which turns out locomotive
day. Mrs. Brooks is Maine woman.
WOMEN of Meriden Comm clubs, to
the number of eighty, recently met to-
gether for practice in the forms OF par
liamentary usage, and were carefully.
drilled in the methods of presiding, put
ting motions, voting and amending.
Miss ANNIE YOUNG WILSON SPENCE,
daughter of doctor of Linlithgow,
passed the examinations of the pharma-
ceutical society in Edinburgh recently,
and is now regularly registered as a
chemist and druggist. She is the second
woman in Scotland TO attain this honor
and position.
Miss CONSTANCE JENKINS, of Somer-
vile hall, Oxford, who is distinguished
as being the only woman who has taken
first class in classical moderations at
Oxford this year, had good part of her
education at hoIse. She is pretty,
piquant-looking young girl, with moth
ing of the typical scholarly air about
her.
A SWEDISH lady has for years been
the engraver of medals at the Royal
Mint at Stockholm, and many of her
countrywomen are celebrated engravers
on wood and glass. In wood-carving,
photography, modelling decorative paint
ing, designing of various descriptions
and art embroideries of the finest and
rarest kind, the women of Sweden can
not be excelled Several have also gained
fame as musical composers.
Mrs. JOIN WANAMAKER's maiden
name was Mary Erringer Brown, and
she was born, educated and married in
Philadelphia. The Wanamakers have
four homes: the residence in Washing
ton, one in Philadelphia, cottage at
Cape May Point, called the Lilemyn
Cottage, from the names of the two
daughters, and Lindenhurst, very fine
residence and estate, about fifteea miles
from Philadelphia. With all the cares
connected with the management OF the
numerous homes and numerous social
duties, Mrs. Wanamaker has found time
to do much benevolent work among the
worlSing-girls of her city, TO whom She
has proved real friend, and simply a
benefactor, and in the Bethany Sunday
school, where she has large Bibl'
class Of women.
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The Penitent Conductor.

Railway Official-Mr. Beetus, you
are the oldest conductor on the road
and am sorry to have to say that you are
more than suspected of knocking down
fares. The evidence against you is con-
elusive. After next Monday you will
be out of job and | trust this will be
q lesson to you as long as you live.
Conductor-Yes sir. You have always
been very kind to me, Mr.. Overus. May
ask one favor before l go-just one?
eyes"
"Then wish you'd tell me where I
can buy about a hundred shares of
stock in this blooming road. I've got a
heap of money that amt earning any.
thing. Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07
AN ATHLETES BOAST.
A Wager Made in London Forty Years
AgO,

A Wager Made In London Forty Years
Ago.
Richard Risley Carlisle, better known
as "Prof. Risley," made notable wager
in London some forty years ago. lie
was then at the height of his fame as
an athlete and marksman and had
Just returned from successful trip to
France and Russia. At dinner given
in his honor in the English metropolis
he made d bet that he was the best
shot, the toughest wrestler, the long
est jumper, the farthest thrower of the
hammer and the finest billiard
player in the city. This was
looked upon as idle boast, but
the challenge was accepted and the
very next day he was pitted against the
best fnarksmen in London. He hit the
bull's-eye oftener than any of them.
Then he vanquished the strongest
wrestler at that time in London, made
a standing jump of thirteen feet one
inch and beat the champion hammer
thrower of the town by fifteen inches,
though he allowed him ten feet. When
it came to the billiard match, however,
he found in Roberts player who was
more than his match and he lost his
wager just as it was nearly won. After
this time the professor had a change Of
fortune and he gradually went down
hill. Though he had made large
amount CT money in the early part Of
his career he lost it in unluclly betting
and disastrous, theatrical ventures He
died May, 25, 1874, in the insane depart
ment of Philadelphia almshouse.-
Chicago News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07
HABlfuAL HURRY.
The Nervous Tension That Is Killing on
AiahsiAahs,

The humber Of sudden deaths which
occur every year as consequence Of
running to railway trains and ferry
boats is not inconsiderable The vic
Tins are mostly persons, middle-aged
or older, who, without, knowing it,
have SOME disease Of the heart.
This kind of oyer-eSertion, however,
does less harm than the common habit
of being continually in hurry. A
habit which keeps the nervous system
alta perpetual tension leads to, Excessive
yitnl waste; Undue susceptibility to
disease, and in extreme cases. to ner-
vous exhaustion. Under its influence
persons naturally amiable are trans
formed into petulant and toiss seoldsI
THE woman who is wife and mother
is peculiarly liable to this habit, she
has so much to do and so little time in
which to do it, in these days when so
many outside things crowd upon her
domestic duties Thefe Is lid doubt
that hurry claims ten victims where
hard work kills ofie:
The man Of business suffers iii iauch
the same manner The hurried break
fast and tile htrried slsimming of the
morning paper are but the beginning
Of d hurried day: Yet it is unsafe for
him to act in a hurry, or in the spirit
generated by it. The uncertainties of
Ris chilling mal,a entire self-eontrol of
prime Importance.
School children are victims of the
same evil. They must be at school ex-
actly on time. But in thousands of
cases the family arrangements are not
such as to favor punctuality The child
is allowed to sit DIP late, and so is
late at breakfast OF the breakfast
itself is late; aid the child must
hurry through it, and then hurry off,
half-fed and fully fretted, dreading
hardness and the teachers displeasure.
Robust children may work off the effect
amid the sports of the day, but many
others are injured for life.
Occasional hurry is hardly to be
avoided, society being what 1t Isl but
the habit of hurry should be guarded
against as one of the surest promoters
of ill-temper and ill-health.
If necessary, less work should be
done; but in many cases nothing Is
needed but a wiser economy of time.
Some of the worst victims of hurry are
men who daily with their work until
time pushes them, and then crowd
themselves into fever, plying them
selves meanwhile because they are SC
sadly driven Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07
THE CAMERA Glh ..


riley Earn Good Wages Ia Very Flcas'
ant Way.
Truly IL Is OF no use 10 attempt to
chronicle the ingenious devices adopted
by clever girls toearn living and leave
the girl with the camera out OF account.
Her latest happy thought is picturing
the doings Of children. She-the par
ticular girl with camera to whom this
paragraph refers-makcs of herself a
peripatetic baby-taker. She spends an
hour, half day, whole day with q
child, and by dint of successive shots at
propitious moments with the handy
little detective, looking for all the
world like lady's shopping bag, which
she uses, she secures one picture, two
pictures, twenty pictures Of the urchin
in unconstrained attitudes about its
play. The doting mother sends the
small boy and the girl with the camera
to the park. The girl enjoys morn
ing's outing and returns glimpses or
master boy riding in the goat wagon,
skipping stones, rolling heels over head
on the grass, smiling up at you over a
handful OF daisies, peeping through the
bars of the monkeys cage. The mother
engages the girl with the camera to
preserve for her chronicle from sun
rise 90 shutdown of baby's day. The
girl comes to the nursery, watches
the baby, catches baby splash
ing in her bath, catches her again roll
ing in plump infantile nakedness on the
floor, chewing her toes, laughing SO as
to show her first tooth, clutching at the
rattle shaken in her face, screaming in
collie pangs, dressed for a turn in the
perambulator, and laid away asleep In
her crib The doting mother sends
post haste for the girl with the camera
the day boys long curls are to come off.
The girl photographs baby in her first
short dress and boy in his first knee
trousers. She photographs baby and
boy together baby riding about the
nursery on boys back. 1t is profitable
work, for the girl--she is the only one
know who does it-charges from 50 to
S4 day for her time, besides the price
of the finished photographs. She is
seldom without engagements, usually
having her time occupied for week or
more ahead. The pocketbooks OF wom-
en- are at her mercy, for her pictures,
showing urchins in ordinary dress and
about their ordinary roguery, are sspir-
lifted and lifelike, and mothers like to
make souvenir albums OF them, as rec
ords of growth to preserve for other
days.-N. Y. Advertiser.
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iaugheu gayly and said: "Well, Charlie,
which shall we talk about first. the
weather or your dog cartq" Charlie
laughed likewise, although he thought
the use of his Christian name a little
odd.
Let us talk about the dog cart" he
said.
Very WE'LL" replied Mrs Mellerby.
Under those circumstances | fear |
shall have to begin with disappoint.
ment The fact is, dear boy, the girl
who was to have taken my place is sick
and am obliged to go to the office this
afternoon. am very sorry TO break
off our engagement, but you see II is
impossible for me to 10 out driving to-
day."
To say that Charlie Denniseh Jumped
fully a foot from his chair at this speech
would be no exaggeration.
III beg your pardon" he exclaimed.
II Mrs. Mellerby noticed his startled
expression of tountenance she mistools
or pretended to mistake its cause,
! NhOW ~ = SildtIe, she knlOi Qep-
recatingly, "but what can do? They
are very strict at the central office and
l am obliged to go. When you called
me up yesterday, Charlie, felt sure OF
getting off this afternoon. Now am
compelled to answer 'hellos' from all
parts of the city for six weary hours.
After all, it is just as hard on rae as OF,
you"
BY this time Charlie Dennison had
managed to collect his thoughts. But
what thoughtsl So this old woman was
the Laura" of his dreams, the fair tel.
ephone ingenue whose firtatiohs
seemed buoyant with breezy girlish.
ness. How the boys would laugh il
they knew, but they must never know.
It was a kindly fate which had saved
him from this af1iction, 10 mis- heart
he blessed that other woman who had
fallen sick at such propitious time.
| "Please don't be mad about Il,
Charlie" said Mrs. Mellerby,
Charlie was Obliged tos say something.
"a man c'can't help being little dis.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07

An angler who went to Sebago
Lake, Me-, after trout the other day
fshed four hours without single
catch, but his companion finally land
ed a beauty. at will weigh eight
pounds if it weighs an ounce!" ex-
claimed the lucky fisherman, to which
the other responded: 81 haven't caught
any fish, but I have box of good
cigars here, and I'll give them to you if
that fish weighs eight pounds if you'll
give me the fish if it doesn't" The
trout weighed two pounds and half,
and so the man who caught no fish got
the only one that was caught and saved
bis cigars besides,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07
AN ALABAMA HERO.


His Fight with seven indians In Canoe.
Samuel Dale, or big Sam," as he
was Familiarity called, a Georgia pioneer
who died May "a, 1871, was the hero of
one Of the most remarkable hand-to-
hand fights with the Indians on record.
This took place in 1918, at Randoms
landing, on the Alabama river, and all
the details were subsequently verified
before the Alabama legislature. Dale
had enlisted some fifteen or sixteen
years before as a scout in the army and
had gained wide reputation as an In
dian fighter. On the occasion referred
to he had struggle In canoe with
seven savages, all of whom he killed.
In telling the story of the encounter
Mr.. Dale described the death of the
last of the Indians, Tar-cha-chee, an
athlete Of great repute in his tribe, as
follows: "He paused moment in ex-
pectation of my attack, but finding me
motionless he stepped backward to the
bow of the canoe, shook himself, gave
the war-whoop of his tribe and cried
out in his own language: "Big Sam, l
am a man; l am coming, come on!''' As
he said this, with terrific yell, he
bounded over the dead body of his com.
rade and directed blow at my head
with his rife, which dislocated my left
shoulder. l dashed the bayonet into
him. 1t glanced around his ribs and
the point hitching to his backbone l
pressed HIM down. AS / pulled the
weapon out he put his hands upon the
sides of the canoe and endeavored to
rise, crying out: 'Tar-cha-chee is a man;
he is not afraid to die!' l drove my
bayonet through his heart" Dale was
after lapse of a few years made a
brigadier-general by the Alabama leg
islature and given life pension.-Chi
cago News
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Quite a Difference.

Charlie-Oh, Jack, you said bad
word just now.
Jack (who has just hit his hand with
a hammer)-I don't care if l did. 1t
hurt awfully.
Charlie-But you said cuss word.
blackwell, grandpa does, often.
Charlie-Oh, Jack, he doesn't; but il
wouldn't matter if he did, because he's
deaf and can't hear himself. Brooklyn
Life
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07

appointed, you know" he stammered,
hypocritically.' II really c-counted OH
taking you out driving. Now | shall
have to drive all alone"
Here, with something of his pristine
spirit, he contrived to make wry face
suitable to the occasion.
Mrs. Mellerby laughed. SUPPOSE
she said, that l was to provide sub
stitute.. 1t is curious that in all ON
long telephone talks | never remem
bered to tell you that l am a widow
But / am, and have the dearest little
girl imaginable. was going to ask
you, if it would not bore you too much,
to take her out for short drive ia my
place. She is just wild to drive in some.
thing else besides street car"
Poor Charles heart, which had al.
most resumed its normal condition, fell
rapidly at this suggestion. 1t was GER
tainly a case of ''out of the frying-pan,
etc" He had only escaped the horror
of being obliged to squire Mrs. Mel.
lerby through the city to find himself
confronted with the even more obnox-
ious alternative of playing dry nurse to
that lady's ''dear little girl" eff you
are not afraid of my mare" he said,
with painful effort at looking uncon-
cerned, 81 should be most happy. But
fear the brute is decidedly restive-"
"You are an excellent driver, I'm
sure" replied Mrs. Mellerby, sweetly.
"Yes, think can trust my Gertie to
your care. Excuse me for moment
and will call her."
When Mrs. Mellerby left the room.
Charla Dennison covered his face with
his hands. This, then, was the punish
ment of his indiscretion. He could yet
escape, but escape would be cowardly;
and, besides, Mrs. Mellerby might tell
the story to the other fellows over the
telephone. On the whole, it was better
to remain and see the thing out.
His thoughts were interrupted by the
mellifluous voice of Mrs. Mellerby.
"Charlie," murmured that lady, per.
init me to introduce you to my daugh.
ter, Gcrtie."
Charlie Dennison almost shouted
when he beheld the dear little girl
who stood in the door. For the dear
little girl was as fair IA specimen of
eighteen-year-old beauty as ever his
eyes had rested on. She was not so
very ''little" either, being quite as tall
as her mother, and looking, with her
wevy brown hair and great gray eyes,
like vivified portrait of that comely
parsonage taken many years before.
Charities system felt by this time as
if it had undergone succession of
electric shocks, so that Miss Gertie's
first impressions of him were hardly
favorable. 1t is needless to say that
Charlie at once foreswore any idea of
fight. lie took his Laura's" daughter
out driving with the Gghtest heart in
the world, and drove twice beneath the
windows of Lastwill & Testament to
the unspeakable chagrin of both Cub
bins and Simpkinson Potter.
Mrs. Mel,erby no longer occupies her
seat in the central telephone Office; yet
when she wishes to send word to the
bows in Lastwill & Testament's she tells
her son-in-law, Charlie Dennison, about
it at the breakfast table.-John Gerald
Brennan, in N. Y. Press.
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A Long List,

Miss De Thumpp-What shall playf
Hostess-Play your tavorite.
Miss De Thumpp-Every piece know
is favorite.
Hostess - Then-er-play something
elSo.--N. Y. Weekly,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07

A rattle of poker chips sounded in
the collectors ears as he opened the
door of the office. SIS Mr.. Brinkins
IMP" he inquired. mo, sir" replied
the office boy, "he is out about seven
dollars, n--Cineinnati Commercial Ca
zette,