The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-28
SOME ADVICE FOR LENT.
Carrie Careless Self-Denia's of Society
Girls.


Girls.
(CopgriGht)
NEW York, Feb. go, girls have
just discovered the loveliest scheme i'm
aginsble for winning back ones best fellow
After / tell it you, ten to one you have
spat with Charlie just for the sake of trying
it on. Here's the secret: After the dear boy
has been sulking two or three days or more,
and you haven't heard a word from him,
take large square card and tie with rib
bon four different colored lovers knots
red. blue, pink and yellow-and fasten one
at each corner of the card and In your neat
est style write the following lines:
If of me you sometimes think
Send me back my bow Of pink.
II you are jealous of some other fellow,
Send me back my bow OF yellow.
If for me your love proves true,
send me back my bow of blue.
II for me your love is dead.
Send me back my bow of red.
Now. IL he Is the right kind of fellow, and
il he isn't it is high time you know ig, the
blue or yellow ribbon or both will reach you
III QOuOio uUlCh biLlO ny u SPcriut IlcoctukbT.
No man, unless he is a perfect brute would
return the red ribbon to his best girl after
her pretty little ruse for bringing back the
heart she pineth for.
Are you getting ready to save for Easter,
you little girl who have enjoyed yourself for
a whole year, and who must now put aside
the plum pudding and the party for Lent
and lecturess
Have you stopped until now to consider
what good time you have been haYing,
ana how hard and how thoroughly you
have enjoyed yourself for eleven whole
months!
1t is almost time now, is it not. to call a
halt upon the pleasures and settle down for
the quiet, pensive season which precedes
Easter and the spring gayetiess
Do not begrudge the church these forty
days of quiet and seclusion. Do not pout
because you cannot go TO the theater during
all Of that time, ana do covet the sw eets
that are forbidden to you for this short
period, because you know that you have
been surfeited with them for a whole year,
and that they must be taken away from
you for little while or you will not ap-
preciate them at all.
Try, dear little girl, to do without some
things this Lent that you really want and
make up your mind that you will know
what IL is TO exercise little self-denial and
O little self-sacrifice. You have no idea,
unless you are one OF the girls who try It
every year, how much pleasure there is in
going without something which is entirely
useless, just for the sake of feeling that you
are not going to allow yourself unnecessary
Injuries while the church is In mourning.
So, dear little girl, give up bon bons and
ices and confine yourself 70 just three good
plain meals day.
Give up the theater and the evening
parties and go to bed early.
Give up afternoon receptions and try in
stead few Lenten lectures
Give up follies and indulge in few real
sensible things just for forty days. and see
If you do not feel repaid fer your trouble
or course, as soon as Lent is over, you
can plunge back into all the good times and
all the parties and all the gayeties that you
have ever known. But give them up for
while and you will find that when you re-
turn co the frivolous world you will be
rested from your long seclusion and will be
able 70 enjoy everything. as you could not
have done II you had not taken--not q
single day-but forty whole days or.