The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-02


/ These threads through lovely curve and bolIou,
And muse Lifetime how they got
/ Into that Wild, mysterious knot
/ O, first of woman who hast laid
Magnetic glory a braid
! In others tresses we may mark
/ II they be sikan, blon e. or dark.
But thine we praise
| And dare not feel them;
| Not Hermes. god of theft, dare steal then.
/ IL is enough for aye to gaze
| Upon their vivtfying maze
The academy
am aware of the fact, saws Clara Belle
in the Enquirer, that many careful and
anxious mothers, who are in haste 60 see
| their daughters well settled in life. point to
the scriptures and say: Look at Ruth.
Did she wait for Boaz 10 pop the question -
| Nota bit OF II, but, dear girls, you must
! bearln mind that Naomi was a widow, full
OF Wlles and wariness, and to my thinking.
| she gave her daughter very poor advice
when she said: Nv ash thyself, anoint thee,
put thy ralment upon thee, and get thee
down TO the floor, but make not thyself
known unto the man until he shall have
done eating and drinking"
Shameful, say !, TO advise young girl to
/ put herself In the way of a man whose i'm
| agInatlon has been inflamed with wine, Yet
| that Is exactly what q certain New York
mother did few months ago, aud thereby
hangs tale The young girl was instructed
! by her mother TO deooy u rich young fellow
out upon the lawn after considerable wine
had been drank. Very naturally the bow
made love to the girl, violent love to her
| but It 80 happened that in his sober senses he
was like many OF his sex, a prude with
| very strict notions as to the conduct Of mar
riageble girls, and he fairly turned pale the
next day when he still felt her kisses burn
| ing upon his lips. He was disguised with
himself when the revulsion of feeling came
upon HIM, but he excused himself some-
| what. All his ire fell upon the Door girl
for OF course he knew nothing of the in
structions that had been given to her nv
this modern Naomi. Imagine, therefore
the coy young bachelors mental condition
the next morning to find the following note
thrust under his room door:
"MY DARLING-Your sweet confession of
love for me has rung In my ears all night
like an enhancing strain of music How
happy we shall be, my darling; only Won
and l. No other voice to jar upon our
bliss. No other hand to stay our cominQs
and goings. Seek me out as soon as posi-
BILE, my darling, for l await you with a
longing soul"
The man was wildly indignant. A deep
and indescribable loathiug came over him.
He made ready to fly from the house. This
was not the sort of girl be had dreamed
| about all his lfe-modest, coy, retiring,
timid bashful. at nowhere had she learned
to heaye her soul into her mouth
in this way. 1t was astonishing.
But worse than all where had she
learned to make so free with that
dreadful word, my darling? All, il she
could only know how that wretched term is
banded from lip to lip, how saturated it is
with the counterfeit distilatioa Of love;
how it reeks with falsehood; how it make,
the terrible echoes Of misspent lives; how it
perishes on the honest lip like dead sea fruit.
crumbllng to dust at the touch
| was really astounded " ben | was told
how some men loathe this word ''darliu9:n
it was all a revelation to me. "Weu, vel,
said /, I'VE live and learn" and the very
ext day, when couple of young girl
friends burst into my apartments, l sprAng
up and cried out:
20. girls. I've learned something new,
You mustn't call your intendeds datliugs.
Don't do it. It's common. it's ord mary, it's
vile! Call them Dear jack Dear ICm,'
and let it go at that. Men hate this word
darling on yonr lips. I've just been told 81.
can't explain to you, dears, but take my
word for /, never use IL again. At least,
not until after you've been married for a
week or so. You mustn't think that be-
cause a young man is a man of the world he
doesn't dream of maidens in white muslins
and sky blue sashes. He does, and the
wilder he is the more he dreams of them.
He loathes the world. the wicked, wicked
world, and his dream is some day TO have a
pretty little wiley with lips that must be
taught how to kissl Q, girls, do assume
shyness if you have it not, and never
monkey with that horrid word ag4inm
A clever western woman, says the New
York Tribune, whose husband occupied a
high place several Administrations ago. has
IN raj of har G,.gt
introduction to the fashionable life which
she after ward adorned with the greatest
grace and tact. You know how plain
everything is In the little western towns
she said In her charmingly frank way.
my entire life before l went abroad had
been on the nest primitive line. AT home
before 1 was ma ried we lived
in the simplest fashion, keeping only
one maid, my sister and l
taking care Of our rooms and doing a good
deal OF The actual Homework. Then | was
sent east to school, and was married im-
mediataly after l graduated. For many
years after that life was very full one,
with my children and household care, so |
seldom if ever, accompanied Mr. - TO
Washington, and l may really say that
until arrived IN London my only knowl-
edge OF the outside world was derived from
books Naturally, my mistakes at first
were many and ludicrous. However
made up my mind that my only
safety was perfec5 frankness aud no
pretense of any kind, so l got
on very we'll, and think on the whole t0a5
people rather liked me TO be different from
themselves, at least they said so,
and they were very kind. On
our way to where my HUSBAND had
been appointed to an official position, we
stopped a short time in London, and we're
at once asked TO dine by various membe S
of the government. We made our frs ap-
pearanCe at Lord IS Now to tell the
truth, this was the very first dinner party
had ever attended, aud as l was parton
larry anxious not to commit any so eoism,
| went to the wife Of our mericau minis
ter and frankly told her that | had not the
least idea of the social etiquette Of a dinner,
begging her to enlighten my ignorance.
Sne was very kind aud told me everything
she thought would be use ul, winding up
her advice in the sweetest way by saying:
"Ony be quite yourself, dear Mrs. -, and
you are sure to be q success"
$50 | went to my dinner feeling that |
vas armed cap-a- pie for all emergencies.
Lord - took me in, putting me as the
guest Of honor on his right; and as he was
most Kind and simple l soon felt completely
at my ease. The first course was whitehall,
which | had uey er seen or heard of, and az
the dish was passed to me first ] helped
myself very gin9erly to two or three OF the
little fish. Let me help you more llber-
ally said Lord -; 'this is one of our