The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-04
[TO BE CONTINUED.
GAY CARRIE CARELESS
Gives Away Her Plan for Christmas
Gifts.

| o.,
pecuniarily speaking. are either the New
York clearing house or millionaire hus-
band with incipient idiocy. need some
thing, you see, that won't ask discriminating
questions about accounts. but I'm afraid /
won't discover it before Xmas.
Now, know I've walked straight into
your confidence with this damaging admis-
sion. You know what it means to be
wrecked in desert isle in the midst of
huge town just before Xmas yourself, and
you're wondering how I'm going to get off
| it. Well, I'll swim. Just put on bold
face ANY one who went into the surf this
summer can't help knowing how to do it,
and make for land, too.
This is how / intend to do it But first
dears, a few words OF warning. If you are
going to give Xmas presents without spend
ing any money you must act on the princi-
pie Of the stock exchange men-bank on
thin air chiefly. You must be as feminine
as Mother Eve herself. You must be ut
terly, openly, sweetly ingenuous-all for a
purpose naturally. We never are ingenious
| without purpose, are WEI Now, having
assumed this attitude. IL you will follow me,
who knows the ways Of men, will promise
you merrier Xmas than you be 70 passed
| for years.
What is your first best boys ideala your
second best boy'sl and SO on down the line
as far as you would care to go with
Xmas presents If your purse were burst
ing with WEALTH. He has told you fifty
times; if he hasn't, ask him.
Each and every one Will say she is a do
mestio angel, who looketh well to the ways
of her household, and il wise. Press him q
little further, and you'll find he entertains a
! vague notion OF her as a dainty creature
| stitching away for dear hfe or q dowery
goddess, relgning in kitchen; or, II he Is q
| bit literary, he will tell you she can read
Latin; or, il she can't, her mind will be re-
ceptive for his teaching.
Then materialize his ideal" for Christ
mas and you will be the most popular girl
in town.
This is the way did It last week. Ny
dear old boy sent a note saying he would
drop in" during the afternoon. Lately, do
you know, I've suspected that the poor in
Hocent ccntemplates proposing; he is trying
| TO find out whether really and truly do
know anything, or whether 1 am only an
interesting Ounce. and that's proof conclus-
| i've. l determined to show him and was
sitting in the kitchen stirring fearful
mixture when the dear man was announced.
| Downstairs he marched according to pro-
grAmme.
How do, Charlie. SIT right here. and
don't talk until break these eggs. Pm
learning to cook. It's high time / knew
l
Emphatic deuials Of the impeachment
from Charlie, which l graoiously waive
"Ah, what do you want for Xmas. to 90
with this small tributes" ask 1, bsseIy.
mot one thing," warmly.
"Make me a good old Xmas pudding"
goes on the would-be suicide, land win
value your remembrance more than any
| thing you could buy me. 1t will show me
what sweet, thoughtful heart you have,
Carrie"
"And what villainous cook am, too :"
Is my inmost conviction.
"All right. you shall have it," I promise
oheerfully, and Charlie thinks no one ever
was 50 charming as Carrie Careless.
Well l dare say Biddy will make the pud-
ding for me.
Now, girls I'm not downright wicked,
though l came awfully near it when l made
my Christmas gift to the swell Harvard
TUTOR.
He thinks girls ought to know dead Inn
guages, so rummaged among Toms books
and found Ovid with the pony alongside.
The tutors night found me transiHting
with the pony as all the fellows do.
Old Ovid was shocking man, think. I
had almost determined not to translate any
more Of him, and was reading along bit
in tbs pony to see If | ought 90 go on with
the text when in came my tutor. Such
queer look, as he glanced at the title, but
he was awfully hattered any how, and put
him down on my list paid" Pm getting
on beautifully, and my Xmas will be a
tremendous coup for me, But / advise all
my friends-are you still among them after
this long chatter2-to become as hardened
little sinner as l am, else they will be dis
covered in this fraudulent enterprise.
My friend Kit, poor girl, won't have a
Jolly day giving Jack a present this year,
I'm afraid.
Such ridiculous row they INDUCED in
| hat I kaa
my judicial cast OF countenance when they
tell me about it twice a day.
| For the time being they were engaged, 80
| Kit stayed at home one evening to receive
Jack, while the rest of the family went to
the horse show. Tell Kit the horse show is
responsible for the quarrel, and that puts
her right in style, because little bout over
the favorites among the horses. or some
thing else equally sensible. was very correct
in New York among the horse show swells.
But Kit will not be comforted.
Jack went straight to the library and
found his small t1ance awaiting him. By
and by Kit whispered: Jack, oh, Jack, l
hear some one coming"
Impossible, n dear. I'll take the risk
any how. Kit, don't be boisterous."
"Unhand me, villain" says Kit, spring.
ing to her feet "This is vile duress."
"You mountain of deceit" responds the
wretch, in loudly cheerful tones, holding
Kits hands and drawing her well toward
him, you like this. Don't deny you pre-
fer 1t TO any other pleasure in life"
Except greeting Prof. Bernheimer,"
finishes Kit very sweetly, as she wrenchss
herself loose and turns to that estimable
person, who stands behind the maid in the
door like craven image.
JACK glared at him like Marius amid the
ruins of Carthage but Kit was simply an
gelic-toward the professor, aud colder than
Lieut.. Peary's expedition toward Jack.
Kit tells me Jack knew the professor was
In the doorway, and that he was brutally
trying TO display his power
Jack VOWS he never saw the old idiot at
all, and that he thought that Kit was
merely making it pleasant for MIN in her
usual fashion OF fibbing. Kit answers
through me-that Jack is trying TO crawl
out of it as he realizes the horribly embar-
RAISING position he has put her in.
And Jack looks so shamefaced when he
hears this, that myself believe him the
guilty one. l suppose they are still en-
gagged, because they are both too furious to
break 1t. Kit never sees Jack now on the
street, and he is thoroughly nbominable.
Still wish somebody would tell me how to
make 1t up between them.
CARRIE CARELESS.
No flowery rhetoric can tell the merit of