The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-25
LIES MELODRAMA.
"Bab" Tells Us Why All the Worlds
Stage.


italian Maid Maggie's Early Expert
ence-Theatrieal Aunt Louisa's Bene-
fcent Life-The Unfortunate Man in
the Hospital w ard-Wo uld-be Novel
lists Imperfect Work-observing
Only the Mask, but not the Human
Face Divine.
New YoRK, June 24.-People talk about
'seeing life'' /; generally they don't know
anything about it. Seeing life doesn't
mean Just the picking out of certain sets
it doesn't mean having wild days and
nights; 1t doesn't mean painting the town
lively vermilion but it does mean see
ing all sorts and conditions of people as
they come along, and reading them like
books. There is nothing so interesting as
humanity. The books we love are dear
to us because they are good life pictures;
the plays that interest Us hold us because
they suggest what might happen every
day, and no melodrama was ever so exag-
Grated that it possessed moro horrors and
more joys than life itself OF course, if
one walks through life with ones eyes
shut, then one remains-well, it may as
well be put in plain terms-a fool; but if
you just watch the people as they come
and go, you win see life in its finest and
noblest, as well as in its lowest and mean
est aspects.
THE DAYS QUEER VISITORS.
1t is s o'clock in the morning; your
maid has Just brought you in a cup of
coffee, and she says, There's a woman in
the kitchen waiting to see you. In q very
sleepy way you ask, "Who2" And then
you are told it is "the Eyetalian who
brings the rosaries and scapulars, and
she is crying" BY this time you are
wide awake, and have brought her in
Poor little wdmanl her dark eyes are all
tear-stained, her face is flushed, and her
usually smooth hair is rumpled: but with
these defects you see that She has perfect
features, and that those brown eyes look
as if they were the hearts Of the yellow
daisies. The basket is put on the floor
and she stands waiting You offer to buy
rosary, but she waves away this Offer
and tells you that she is in trouble, and
can you help her.
After many inquiries you find out the
story Last night her husband, who is
insanely Jealous of her, was told by one of
his friends-Iago never dies-thatshe has
been accepting the loving attentions of
the young shoemaker around the corner
The husband had rushed TO the shop
took out his knife, and just managed to
slash the arm of the shoemaker when the
police interfered. Now he is in Jail and
Annunciata wants him brought out. She
never spoke to the shoemaker; she never
loved anybody but her husband, and
"Ohl dear lady, / will say thousand
prayers for you, and bless you all my life
if YOU will give me a letter to the good
ga.a
nunciata goes away happy, and you think
My friends, Annunciata is IA years old,
and she is a wife and q mother, and this
in New York. not in Italy. Think over
her case.
ODD LETTERS IN THE MAILS.
You have had your bath, and you are
dressed and you are thinking with long
ing eyes of a delightful book, when you
get a note which says:
Plees Dere Miss cum up to Sister irens and
1 am goin to get married at Ten.
Respectfully,
MAGGIE
First you laugh and then you cry at
this note, and then you put your head on
your desk and you say: ''God bless Sister
Irene" and then the rest of the house
hold come in to help you get ready to go
to Maggie's wedding Maggie came over
v
was parlor-maid in clearinghouse,
with a pretty face and soft speech A
boarding house, especially where there
are many men was the very worst place
of all for her After a while, voting
man, who had a tiny room on the top
floor, and who wore most beautiful neck
ties, and who sold ribbons in a big shop,
won Maggie's affections. There was no
body to say word of warning: everybody
was too much interested in his own affairs,
and Maggie did like many another girl
before her loved not wisely but too well.
1t was then you saw her; heart-broken
ashamed, longing to drown herself you
took her up to sister lrene's, and that
cheerful disciple that loving sister,
quickly told her how she could come to
her. help nurse some of the little babies In
the maternity and when her own was born
she would be taken care of. so that to her
sins would not be added that OF killing
her unborn child. Maggie stayed, and
WHEN THE BOY WAS BORN
you went up to see it. and when Maggie
got well, Sister Irene got her good place,
and told her she would expect her every
Thursday to come and see the baby
Now, when the baby was getting cum
ming and cute, and would crow and laugh
and was big and bony looking, Sister Irene
said to Maggie, "Why don't you bring its
father TO see 10 And Maggie blushed
and said something about "as they weren't
married, - and blushed again; and then
Sister Irene said: 'Never you mind,
bring him up to see his boy" and he came
the next time. And dear, dear Sitter Irene
came to see him herself, and told him
how handsome the boy was and how fond
they were of him, and how many friends
Maggie had; and when he went home
that night and thought of the good friends
Maggie had made and of that beautiful
baby, he looked around the misera-
BILE, bare room at the boarding
house and wondered If it weren't
possible even on SO a week to get married.
He went the next week to see the baby,
and you remember the last time you saw
sister Irene she said, II think we will
soon have a wedding; paternal pride has
awakened love, and the combination
means desire 30 do right And now
you have got Maggie's letter, and you 90
up and they are married In the chapel of
the Maternity. with Sister Irene beam
ing at them, and the little procession con
sisting of Maggie and her husband and
their baby, start off to try and be happy
in little box of a fat uptown, which
Maggie's employer and Sister Irene and
some other people you know have helped
furnish. That's bit of life; it didn't
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