The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-01

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Landscape when the sun breaks throG 81
the clouds She had found piace OF
refuge. The area gate of house near
F,igbth avenue. which she had now
reached, stood invitingly open, and there
was no gate al all 10 the recess under the
stoop on which the door opened. The
basement door, too. was open, and there
was no one, as it proved, IN the dark hall
beyond.
ii was Just the place to reclaim the re
fractorv underskirt, and the girl hurried
to the friendly shelter. Quickly as she
had passed under the stoop, she had been
seen by a big woman who was busting the
first floor hall. The big woman hurried
down the steps and asked aggressively OF
the Young woman, who was struggling
with her skirt in the basement hall:
'What are you doing thercF
''I'm tightening my skirt, which had
slipped down." answered the girl, COM
pleting the tightening process.
you've no business there. I'm not
keeping a dressing room. I'll teach you
/ to trespass on my premises. l arrest you
| Come along"
So saying, the big woman grabbed the
girl by the throat and dragged her into
! the street.
Let me go; I've done nothing wrong.
! Let me so TO work; it's time l should be
at the shop" demonstrated the girl as
well as she could while nearly strangled.
| The big woman only frightened her grip
on the girls throat.
I'm not let you go until a policeman
comes Making a dressing room of my
! house Too many have done it, and l
won't have it'll"
While speaking she continued to drag
the girl toward Eighth avenue, and looked
up and down that thoroughfare for po-
| iceman Apparently thinking she saw
one in the direction of Twenty-hfth street,
she started down the avenue with the
! girl.
Now the spectacle of one woman hav-
ing another by the throat is unusual in
| Eighth avenue, at any rate at 9 o'clock in
the morning, and crowd soon surrounded
the two women. BY the time they had
reached Twenty-hfth street the crowd
was SO great that their further progress
was barred. The crowd wanted an ex-
| PLANTATION, and when the big woman
loosened her hold on her prisoners throat,
while telling of the trespass which had
been committed, the younger woman took
| advantage of the opportunity to tell her
side of the story. The crowd believed
her and began to jostle and shove the big
woman. A sympathizing woman in the
crowd stuck pins into the big woman's
arm to make her give up the hold which
big woman let her prisoner go in order to
draw a rusty file from her pocket with
which she threatened the tostling crowd.
This proved the prisoners opportunity.
She plunged through the crowd which
opened to let her pass and then closed in
behind her, and, hailing q horse car, was
| a moment later being carried out of her
capJorS reach up the avenue. The crowd
prevented the big woman from following
md bn our int yvbt M
pins had been stuck, she returned to her
home in Twenty-sixth street.
If women sometimes convey their feel
ings too strongly in their letters it must
not be forgotten that men are guilty of
The same ofense, writes Edward w. Box
in the October Ladies' Home Journal.
There is no man living who would not
gladly call back some letter which, some
time in his life, he has written and re-
GREETED afterward. Men are as often
Swayed by their angry passions in their
letters uas women are by their emotions
The art of letter-writing has not been
conquered any more by men than by
women. In fact, glance over the lit
erature of the world shows that the tru-
est and best masters of letter-writing
| have been women. And | am inclined
| to believe this is true to-day as it ever
has been. a woman writes a far more
natural letter than does man. She may
require more space wherein to do it.,
where man would employ terseness
But what man ever yet begrudged a
woman an extra sheet, or that Inevitable
postscript which so often says more than
her whole letter. A man always writes
letter by a certain formula; woman
| ignores all formulas and writes as she
feels. True, woman's way may not al
ways be the safest, but it is the most de-
hghtful all the same. It's just the differ
ence between spontaneity and study.
Vassar students of '79 and 80 doubtless
remember the Japanese girls Stamatz and
Singh, who were sent over by the govern
ment along with half dozen more little
maids to be educated in America It was
at the time when japanese people were
beginning to be eager to acquire every
thing that was good in western thought
and western methods of life. The boys
were encouraged to visit Europe and
America and seek degrees in the schools
The girls, to the number of eight or ten,
were sent over at the expense of the
government. All of these girls were of
gentle birth, and several belonged to the
nobility. 1t is interesting to
ment from a lady who recently
visited these girls in their Japanese homes
and who writes about her visit TO the
Pail Mall Gazette. At Vassar, Stamatz
was brilliant and exclusive and very
beautiful. She took high honors in En-
glish literature. wrote charming essays,
and spoke English with slight accent
of course, but her vocabulary and her use
of it were nawless. She was presiden0 of
her class in her sophomore year, and was
a member of the Shakespeare, - a club
always confined to the girls who were
first intellectually. Stamatz played a
wonderful game Of chess and excelIed at
whist
Singh was never president of any,
thing, but every one loved her She was
invaluable at the fortnightly scandy
pulls, y" splendid on a sleigh ride, and she
spent hal Of her time in the infrmary
coddling sick girls. She got through her
examinations with eminent respecta oility,
spoke very broken English, and wrote it
stitfly but correctly. Singhi was plain,
dumpy, and near-sighted, with wee fiat
nose and in every feature broadly Japan
ese.
Stamatz on her return TO Japan made a
brilliant marriage Her husband was an
old man of high position, great power,
and immense wealth. His wife has be-
come noted hostess, and speaks French
and English huenJly as well as German
and Italian. She received an old-time
friend who called at her home with all
her oid-time graciousness, served tea and
cake from an English service, and talked