The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-09

me for a long time, and then she reached
out and took a magnolia and a spray of
citron aloes she crushed the last in her
hand, and, inhaling its perfume, she said:
CTS swEETER WHEN IT'S BEATEN"
'sDo YOU think that's what | ought to
be2 How do you know came from the
south2 Let me tell you how | came and
what am, and then go away and don't
look at NE. After the war was over our
money was all gone. | was goOd-loOkinyr,
so they said, and ] came on here to make
a fortune for the family-to show the
world the Juliet Shakespeare knew. Por-
tia as she really was, aud the proud and
beautiful Lady of Lyons as Claude Mel
nottc himself dreamed of her. / thought
what / considered my genius, combined
with my beauty, woa4u get me great
place; | found the genius was only talent,
and nobody wanted that. They wanted
beauty OH yes and ! stood in u row Of
half-dressed wOmend displaying that for the
sake of gcttingmy bread and butter, Then
| fell in love with a man-we southern
women do that call him a mau; /
don t know why. ] thought him a god.
q lie took my love; he took myself with bat
, one obiect-he thought he could make
| money out of me: and when | found this
out, do YOU think he did it! No! l left
him, and I've gone down, down, down,
until the only thing that you can say of
me is that | am what the world calls
good; and what use has it been TO ne, l
have grown ugly and old before my
| time; | am miserable, and mover say but
one prayer. and that is, My, love, oh, my
lover. come back But he wont because
he is dead Died after ne had loved an
other woman / used to hope he was
burning cternally but now / want him
back. e
Here she broke down with a Wild sob
bing, while Charlie and ] looked at her
and realized how helpless we We're. !
| have seen all the great actresses in my
| time and no woman ever spoke, Bern
hardt or Duse, as did this woman. We
| could offer no cOn3ola ton but we waited,
| and then. after a whisper from me, Char
! lie Went up to her and told her that !
| was coming down again to see them dur
| ing the summer, and could be bring me 10
see her! She didn't answer but I took
/ for consent the fact that she pressed close
| to her heart the magnolia blossoms Dld
/ this make an excitement on the roof gar
! den of the other side2 Nobody heard il
except Charlie and ne Little children
were lying naked and asleep; bigger ones
were playing hide and-Seek behind the
chimney tops, Just rs your boys and girls,
madam, are playing behind the trees on
| She velvety lawn.
RooF-ToP CARD PARTIES.
We walked along quietly, and then, sud
| denly Charlie touched my shoulder.
| looked up, and ! saw seated together four
| typical toughs playing cards. The little
/ pile of pennies told me they were amateur
| gamblers. / went behind the one with
/ the worst face, and asked: I'm inter
| ested may look in your handle He an
swcred grudly: Its damn bad luck but
l suppose you can" / watched, and |
/ saw the keen desire, not so much - get
! the money as to play a good game. Char
| lie happily, helped me- He asked ques-
tion about the highest hand, and my own
| especial tough began to explain it.
He said: "YOu see, the udder feller
| had straight-dats de numbers runnin'
| in dere order-an' l. well. | had q full
| house. and that's three of one kind and
| two O. de odder. De udder blokes2 Ohl
! dcre hans didn't amount to nuthin' an 1
swiped de Doodle, see2'
! meditated. and asked: Don't that
game depend very much upon what you
| draw"
He laughed. ''What damn ignorance
! course it does; if you amt DRAWN to
| luck, you might jest as well give The I'D
| der chaps your plunks at de fust.
! Then" said Charlie, there's no sci
! ence in it, Dear little Charlie; he had
| learned the value of science in anything
| from his jew playmate, the little scholar
/ Isa3ore.
Nav, " replied the tough, ''it's jest in
| the draw
A thought came to me, and acted on
/ it, If you boys will let me play with
| you, III teach you a game in which there
/ is some science. You are ali bright fell
| lows. and why don't you snow your wits
/ in playing game that calls for brains
| where you won't lose any money. rather
| than one where you lose your money, and
nothing really depends on yourself" My
/ proposal was accepted at once. One of
| the boys dropped out and stood by Char
/ lie, while, with an awkard thanksgiving
| to my grandmother for teaching me to
| play whist, | took his place and began to
/ teach them the game of gentlemen We
| played for two hours, and they were so
| much interested that when MIR Connolly
came up, hopping his forehead
and said: 'Mrs. Connolly thinks
| you'd better be goin' home, -
! MY EXTREMELY TOUGH FRIEND
| slapped him on the back and asked, Con
molly, when de lady feels dat she's wild
| dose dat are in harmony wild her, why do
| YOU interrupt de see-anCePn Connolly
| was too tender-hearted to make trouble,
/ so ne watched another round, and then
my gentlemen friends wished to rush the
/ growler and treat me. Pm going to tell
/ YOU the truth let them do it. ] drank
/ q grass Oh cool DGGE WIFI buCIi. AUtliOllN
/ had one. and 80 did Charlie, and when l
| got up to go they all stood up to bid me
/ goodbye, and what do YOU think we dido
/ We formed whist club that is to meet
! once a week on the roof, and Charlie and
my own special tough are to come after
me next week | agreed to joining it
! with one provisO, and that was that l
| was so control the growler money. My
| tough friend looked at ME for moment
/ or two and then for the first time since
I had been there, he took OF his hat and
/ he said Gwen, wimmen is mighty
| queer, an ! s'pose even lady has her
4 crankies, but If we want yer down here
( we've got to Civ i'm foyer"
] nodded goodnight, and went away
I with MIR Connolly. Mr.. Connolly said to
me: beg your pardon, miss, but OK
ceptin' TO see Mrs. Connolly and Charlie,
/ what do you come down here forn
| He was looking at me with his clear,
I blue eyes-the eyes of an honest and a
good man-and / answered "Mr. Con-
molly, / don't know. When I was little
/ girl and went to Quaker meetings, my
grandfather used to tell me when there
was silent meeting that the Spirit
hadn't moved anybody to speak Now,
the Spirit moved me to come down here.
| can't do any harm, and | can always see
Charlie and Isadore, and maybe the
Spirit may move me to do the right thing
TO some unfortunate SOUL
Connolly looked at me and said: 1--WE
got favor TO ask, miss. The next time
/ Won cpr0a fvop' Won lot mo falra vpf1 m