The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-17
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SOME OF THE THINGS THAT IN
TEREsT THE FAIR Sax.

terest TO Every One-An Item From
the Journal of an English Clergy
man-The Knowledge the Young
Men of the Present Day Have.
Dresses OF Easter Brides-southern
Women in Businees-Other Matters
OF General Interest.
A short story of reparation, which con-
tains material for a romance, is told in the
| journal Of an English clergyman. A bache.
lor, residing in lodgings, undressed one night
| by the sitting room fire, wound up his
watch, deposited it with his chain, two seals
and ring attached to it, on the chimney.
In the morning. on going to the chimney
piece for his watch, he discovered that the
ring which he valued was gone.
No one had entered the room except the
maid servant, who had swept it early in the
morning and laid the table for breakfast
She was so pretty, neat, gentle and well-be-
| haved that the gentleman was loath to tell
| her his suspicious, but the moral certainty
he entertained of her guilt and the value he
set on the ring overcome his scrupes
On hearing herself charged with the
theft the maid started, indignantly denied
the charge aud burst into tears. The land
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language was used; the gentleman's blood
was reused and he brought the matter be-
| fore the bench of magistrates. Though they
were prepossessed by the girls looks aud
manners the circumstantial evidence obliged
them to commit her to gaol for trial at the
| next assiZes.
A few weeks after the gentleman went
into u confectioner's for an ice cream. While
he was pausing after each spoonful he saw
something glistenng in the sunlight be-
| tween the joints OF the flooring He in
serted the point of his penknife between the
boards and to his amszement hshed up his
lost ring.
He ran back to his lodgings, referred to
his diary aud found that on the evening he
had left his watch and its appendages on
the chimney piece he had been at the same
confectionors. He thought the matter over
and concluded that the ring must have
| become detached and fallen on the floor
where it had been wedged in between the
boards of the flooring.
Stung to the quick by selfreproach for
furnishing the good name of an innocent
girl. he drove off to the gaol where she was
| confined, explained matters, procured her
release, had an interview with the girl,
offered her his hand and in due time mar
ried her.
A careful uptown mother upon whom l
| was calling, says Clara Belle in a New
York letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
held up her hands in horror at what she
termed the utter disappearance Of the good
young man OF former days-the young man
who hadn't the slightest knowledge If fe-
male ATTIRE and couldn't for his life tell
whether a woman wore one or two coIsets,
or how she kept her stockings tight over her
instep and ankle; what there was under the
material of which her dress was made; how
she got into or how she got out OF her
clothes; what a woman meant when she
said that she was losing one Of her skirts; in
what manner woman kept warm in cold
weather, or why young girl would some
times furtlvely make a downward plunge
and clutch at something to which she would
seem TO give an upward hitch, and then as
sumo an expression of manifest relief. He
kne " nothing OF all these things.
| "No, my DEAR continued this careful up
town mother, such young men don't exist
any more, Pm sorry, very sorry to say. The
young man OF to-day knows it all. He
studies fashions, he studies female toggery,
he knows every wrinkle, every new trick
and device of our sex to beautify itself It's
terrible, my dear. Why, would you believe
it, when married Spikins he was as pure
as young girl. l was complete surprise
to him; my dresses, my laces, my furbe-
lows, my pugs, my thousand and one little
secrets of the female toilet charmed and
delighted him. He neglected business tc
watch me- | opened up another world to
him. / was revelation to HIM. l never
saw anything like it, my dear. 1t was the
happiest period of my life. But, o, what
| q change The young wOoer of to-day
is an Indifferent, blase. club man, who
acts as if he had been married for ten
years. He makes suggestions in cold
blood concerning his sweetheart's figure, her
| headgea= and foot wear tells her how we'll
she would look in an eel skin princess, or
coolly advises her to wear pulled corsage
to improve her bust, or to line her dress
skirts 30 as to get along with fewer under
clothes, and thus reduce the size of her hips
o, my dear, is it not depressing to think that
we careful mothers must surrender our
| children to such husbands! Is there any
wonder that marriage threatens to prove a
failure? How can d young woman respect
a man who thus brazenly betrays his knowl-
| edge Of the world-thus makes virtue Of
| what he should never mention! Not until
the first night of our married life did Spill
kins learn that my skirts went over my head
and were not put on trousers stYle.n
A new parlor game, says the Comm ercidl
| Advertiser, is dignified by the name OF
Book Reviews" 1t is upon the same plan
as the old game OF Consequences, and is
more interesting by way of change than
Sheets Of paper and pencil are passed
around to each member of the party. Each
one is told to write the title Of book at the
head of the page. The paper is then doubled
over and is passed on to the next person,
who writes a subtitle. The paper is then
doubled over and passed along to the next
one, who adds line descriptive Of the book.
The fourth person writes down the name OF
an author. The fifth one gives brief re-
view of the book. The sixth one adds an
other review, the seventh gives the names
Of two characters in the book, etc.
When the whole is read aloud the combi-
nations are often very inappropriate and
very funny. For example, paper when
unfolded and read will run as follows:
Daniel Deronda or, "A Story Of the Wild
Wild West" A Tale Calculated to Keeu
Man Away from His Dinner. By Mark
Twain. Thrilling, stirring and Deep
Touches upon the sunny side of life" Prin.
cipal characters, Mr.. Pickwick, Ophelia,
ETC., etc.
The bonnets seen on the streets nowadays
are worthy the pen of a poet Many OF
them are very pretty, but there are some
that are fearful and wonderful to behold.
One marvels at the sense of color of q
woman who will select brilliant yellow
straw hat and load it with grass, green
leaves and orange colored blossoms, so that
it looks like a mess of spinach and eggs, and
at the taste of another who covers her head
with what resembles a sweeping cap of pink,
silk edged, with frills of lace On a horse
car the other day there was a woman who
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