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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
HOTEL FRIGHT.
Affection ola New Table Girl at "A Summer
House,


House.
A lady who was staying at u summer
hotel becloned impatiently to the
head-waitcr in the dining-room, and
said to him: What is the matter with
our waitress? She forgets half of my
orders, and dashes about so nervously
that | can't eat. ] wish you would
give us some one who knows how to
wait on table"
"Well, now, Mrs. Van Horn" said
the head-waiter, 81 should like to give
that girl chance. She is smart and
pleasant and good girl, and think
you will like her when she gets used to
the work Just now she's got what |
call hotel fright"
"IIotel fright
eyes, you know what stage fright is,
but / suppose it never occurred to YOU
that a table girl who is learning the
work is scared at first at the multitude
of things she has to remember and to
do and at being watched and criticised
by tableful of strange men and
women.
"Of course, if this new girl, Emma,
came to your house to see you about
something, and was so embarrassed
that she did not know what to say, You
would try to help her little and make
her more comfortable. When you come
to think of it, don't you sec that the
same thing, friendly word and sug-
gcstion now and then, will encourage
Emma, and presently she will have all
her wits about her again?
"Somc of our best Mattresses have
hotel fright at first so badly that they
are entire failures for a few days.
Then they get hold of their work and
we never have any more trouble with
them.
"And this isn't peculiar to the hotel
business. I've seen new clerks need
ing patient treatment for store fright,
and-but there's Emma, will go and
speak to her." and the philosophical
head-waiter hurried away, leaving Mrs.
Van Horn wiser and more patient
woman. Youth's Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
INVENTION OF THE WIG.
Origin of One of Last Century's Notable
Fashions. t,4'r


Origin of One of Last Century's Notable
Fashions. +'r
An old French journal gives the fol.
lowing information about the inven.
ton of the wig; Ia,
Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy
had lost nearly all his hair during
severe illness. Nothing could be more
affecting to him at the time, for he de-
sired to win the hand and heart of the
beautiful Isabella of Portugal To
cover up his badness Philip resolved to
wear a calotte of black velvet His
whole court made haste to initiate this
idea, and thus covered the whole com
pany, duke and courtiers, travelled to
Burgess The Belgians, seeing the
shaved heads and velvet caps
were greatly surprised, and the
Burgundians tried to make them
believe that this was new
attribute of their national costume
The festivities began, and Philip I'M
folded the full splendor of princely
luxury after the fashion of the fif-
teenth century, hoping thereby to at
tain what he could not through his
personal appearances; and he succeed
ell, for the day of the marriage was
soon appointed. On the evening before
the day chosen for the ceremony Philip
found an opportunity for tete-a-tete
with his bride. When he sank before
her on his knees to assert his love he
had the misfortune to brush his velvet
cap off his head by an impetuous mo-
ton of his hand. Seeing the venerable
head totally destitute of its natural
decoration, the princess could not help
breaking out in fit of laughter. The
laughing, and, deeply COMPOUNDED and
ashamed he left the room, the laughter
of the lady following him to the corri-
dor. The marriage took place, never
theless, the next day, but no trace of
JOY was visible on the face of the duke,
Finally Able Jaffredy volunteered to
say to the duke: 'Monseignor, every
one is distressed at the gravity of your
highness. Would it not be in our power
to stop your afflictions?"
Tmpossible; there is no remedy for
my troubles the princess does not love
me-"
but, monseignor, the princess must
be blind for
IF she did not see this calotte, this
Internal calotte-not a single hair under
it! My duchy for head full of hair!"
Jaffredy.could not see his master suf-
fer any longer. lie offered reward
for anyone who could manufacture an
artificial hair-covcring that would re-
Semblc nature In short time a man
requested an audience with the able,
and offered him calotte trimmed with
real hair Looking at this work of art,
the able broke out into an cxclama-
ton of joy. Your namc?" cried the
able, embracing the man.
"Pierre Larchant, barber of Dion"
The same evening Philip arranged a
splendid feast, at which he appeared
wearing a light-colorcd wig. The
whole nobility in the country initiated
the fashion; the barber of Dion was
soon a rich man and the custom of
wearing wigs was continued to the be-
ginning of the present century.
Whether the duke gained the love of
Isabella through the wig, history does
not Say.-Detroit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
One Dollar Per Year,

The strength of the movement for. the
higher education Of women makes 1T
reasonably certain that the future
question will be, not whether women
shall study at the universities, but
whether they shall teach in them. In
the meantime they monopplize tech
meal skill in the lower departments,
and lieenly appreciate the desirability
of genuine education of the higher
type, They teach in the schools of the
United States to the number of 295, S02,
and sustain the burden of the work in
the institution which is 1.-THE most radi-
cal, essential and indestructible of the
foundations of republican government
and American society,"-Clara Camp
bell, in Detroit Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05

An Australian lady has resolved TO
commemorate the queens jubilee by
presenting peal of ten bells to the inn
pcrial institute at South Kensington.
The bells are to be named after various
members of the royal family, and the
whole peal is to be styled, by the per-
mission of the princess of Wales the
Alexandra. They will be eXcelled in
the metropolis only by the great peal
of St Paul's, and will be the highest in
the country, as they are to be swung in
a chamber 200 feet over the level of the
ground floor. The donors only condi-
ton is that the bells shall be rung on
the birth day and commemoration day
of the sovereign and the birthdays OF
the princess and prince of Wales. They
are to be fully completed and rung on
the occasion of the Inauguration OF the
institute by her majesty next year
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
IN WOMAN'S WAY.


OF three thousand teachers employed
in the public schools of Chicago, over
two thousand eight hundred are women,
SEVERAL women in New York are
succeeding in the real estate business,
and two are regular members of the
Exchange
AT Brussels the other day Mile. Mar
guerite Gombert was awarded her de.
gree as doctor of philosophy and letters
amid great applause. Mile. Gombert is
the first young girl who has obtained
this degree
THE Funeral Subscription society,
branch of the Kings Daughters, has
been organized in New York city for
the purpose of assisting the poor to give
their dead respectable funeral at the
lowest cost.
AMONG the women who have been
particularly successful in stock farm
ing is Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of
Cambridge City, Ind, who is the owner
and manager of one of the most extell.
sivc stock farms in her state.
Two English ladies have just opened
an afternoon tea" salon at 40 Boulc-
ward Haussman, Paris, close to the
opera, where every comfort will be
given those wishing to partallc Of this
essentially English meal. The little
salon is very prettily furnished.
The Brooklyn IN. W hospital for
women and children has a board of
sixty women managers. and a hospital
staff of twenty-five women physicians.
1t is the only hospital in Brooklyn
where women are permitted to prac-
tice. 1t has in connection training
school for nurses, which has been doing
excellent work.
THE French minister of public in
struction has decided to preserve the
home of Joan of Arc in Domremi as a
museum in which to illustrate her his
tory. 1t will contain models of the
various statues raised to her memory,
copies of the paintings showing various
scenes in her life and the pictures of her
which are in tine Pantheon.
Mrs. ANN SKALLY, of Fort Mckinney,
Wyo, beat the LEGAL postmaster two TO
one for justice of the peace at the re-
cent election. Another woman, Mrs
Esther Morris, has acted as justice of
the peace for South Pass, Wyo., for
several years, and sent her husband up
fer ten days for contempt of court
Wom2u. lovely woman, sees great pos
sibilities in life open before her out that
way,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
uNAPPREClATED WOMEN.
The Fart She Plays In the Conventional
FictiJu of the Day.


FictiJu of the Day.
The cruelty of the scheme which Gus
tom applies to the talented woman, is
illustrated in every conventional
fiction. Our typical hero may be re-
lied on to be endowed with some
special gift Her soul is atire with am
bition, her life embodied in purpose.
We know the result; in the closing
pages we find her the hapless victim of
a conflict between love and ambition.
One must conquer to the total demoli-
ton of the other The novelist, il
adroit, will allow ambition head.
strong run, brief whirl, heavy
founder, to be reeled in by the love-
cord. The lover gives the ALTERNATIVES;
the heroine revolts at the sacrifice. 1t
is game fight. Human nature
can't help enjoying it. Every one
knows she will finally throw ambition
to the four winds and collapse into
waiting arms thereby evidencing her
supreme womanliness. The novelist
endows his heroine with mind, simply
to make her game Her gifts are not
intended for development He never
effects compromise by which she
may both marry and cling to her
art A minor character sometimes
refuses to make the sacrifice,
but she speedily becomes wrinkled and
loathes her success. The curtain of
course drops as the heroine renounces
talent The people forget that if real
istic, the struggle goes on and on
through long years after the honey
moon is over, in the open day when a
man or woman of talent must feel ac-
countabe for its possession. The world
is full of work, and full of women of
talent who are debarred from doing
their share of it, not by housekeeping
and domestic duties which science and
social progress have rendered compara-
lively light, but by convcntionality,
which obliges them to renounce their
talents, turn from their bent, and be-
come fractional existence divided be-
tween husband and children. If the
cost of this useless sacrifice made by
those women capable of being at the
same time good wives, mothers and
growing individuals, were known to
mankind, there are enough true women
to see an end speedily put to it.-Mar-
garet n. Wishard, in The Chautnuquan.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
In,cntIon Not Needcd.

Lady-Why don't the railroads nave
mechanical appliances for loading and
unloading trunks?
Depot Master-Well, you see, madam,
lifting the trunks in the cars doesn't
hurt anything but the men, and throw.
ing them out doesn't hurt anything but
the trunks NJ Y, Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
WHY Men Are Bald.

Barber-You are very bald. Do you
know what is the cause of it?''
Mr. Fewlocks-I don't know, but |
suspect that hair falling ont had some
thing to do with it.-Texas Siftings.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05

81 hear that your head-clerlS is to
marry your daughter
whats the adds? | had to support
him, ANYHOW Puck.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
When He Was Mt Home.

Milliner-You say must see your
husband, madam, to collect that bill of
mine. Pray when can | see him?
Mrs Bingo-Ch, any time after two
o'clock in the morning. Judge
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
Cruel.

Midas May-They say Cholly is i'm.
proving his mind.
Sayit Anyhowe-He ought to build
an addition to it.-Truth.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
WANTED-A STRONG CHAIR.
And the Old Lady Understood the Situatio

And the Old Lady Understood the Situation
Exactly.
A substantial looking country woman
went into Woodward avenue furniture
store the other day and asked to see
parlor chair.
Flows this one, madame inquired
the clerk. setting out weak wicker
affair.
She shook the chair and shook her
head.
GLOW do you like this heavier one?"
he asked, dragging up another style.
She shook it and shook her head.
Then he showed her lot each lit
tie heavier than the one rejected, and
all were pronounced too light.
Good heavens, madam" exclaimed
the exasperated clerk, "do you want an
iron-seated brick chair, with a stone
foundations"
eyes, that's it, that's it," she said
eagerly. "You see, my girl Susan has
got her clamps onto steady company
this fall, and he comes every night, and
between 'em they've broke down every
chair in the parlor; and now, before I'll
have my bran-new sofa smashed, or
the engagement busted, I'll get a
chair strong enough to carry two if
have to mortgage my house and farm.
was gal once myself, and know how
it is"
The clerk took her order for stone
foundation style. -Detroit Free Press
-Thackeray's broken nose was al
ways source of amusement to Thack-
cray himself; he caricatured it in his
drawings, he frequently alluded to it in
his speech and in his letters and he
was fond of repeating Douglas Jerrold's
remark to him when he was to stand as
godfather to friends son: Lord,
Thackeray, hope you won't present
the child with your own mug!'
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-05
-"Is this novel thoroughly orig

lis this novel thoroughly origi.
nal?" asked the publisher. Eyer, sir. y
'None of the old characters or situa-
tions?n Not one" well, sir, it can
not succeed. You must think the pub
lie doesn't know what it has been want
ing all these years. Washington Star.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-25
ANOTHER SAW IT.
John Landers an Eye Witness
to the Rogers Fa-
tality.
Bursted RUmor That the Body
Was Held for Re-
ward.

Yesterday noon John Landers, living
at 255 South Western avenue. reported
to the police that he was an eye witness
to the suicide of Charles S. Rogers on
Friday last. Landers, who is teamster
in the employe of Pat Thornton, the
contractor, was driving across the bridge
with load of lumber. He puts the
time at about 2:15, and says the first
thing he noticed was man climbing
over the rail of the bridge. At this
time he was on the first span of the
bridge from the east end. He thought
the act queer one, but as there seemed
to be another person very near did not
think much about it. A few moments
later he saw the man jump or fall from
the bridge, and jumping from his wagon
he ran to the rail in time to see the body
strike the water. LanderS also claims
there was another man who was walk
ing from the west end of the bridge at
the time Rogers jumped. The mans
name he said was Griffin, but he did not
know where he lived or was employed.
LanderS says ne had no idea there was
any doubt as to the fact that Rogers
jumped from the bridge, or he would
have reported the circumstances to the
police.
The search for the body was kept up
yesterday, the divers putting in the day
farther down the river. Last evening IA
rumor was curreut that the body had
been found by party of searcherS who.
instead of notifying the coroner, had
anchored the remains, and were waiting
until larger reward was offered by the
family before turning it over. The po-
lice made an investigation and pro-
nounced the story without any founda-
tiOu
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-25

Bank Examiner KENYON met JOHN
II. BURKE near the capitol the other
day aud knocked him down, or slapped
his face. or in some way expended
good deal Of energy Oh him. QueS-
toned as to the reason for his pugIlisuc
effort, Mr.. KENYON said that BURKE
had been slandering him.
Mir. BURKE, with what motive Is i'm
material. has waged war on the Guar
anty Loan company, OF Minneapolis.
He attacked it in pamphlets. In the
press and by circulars. He alleged that
it was msmanaged, and was bound to
become insolvent unless the manage
ment and methods of business were
changed. His charges attracted little
attention, but he is persistent man,
and finally in January, 1892, Gov. MER-
RIAM directed Bank Examiner KENYON
to investigate the company and report.
1t is said that he reported the COM
pany as perfectly solvent, and its man
agement prudent and safe. A little
more than year later the company
passes into the hands of receiver.
The GLOBE suggests to Bank EX-
aminer KENYON that, instead OF vast
ing his energy in slapping Mr..
BURKE's face, he would serve himself
much better by spending it in trying to
ascertain how the concern which he
pronounced a solvent and well-managed
business in January, 1892, is in re-
ceiver's hands in May, 1898. In what
manner have those sound methods been
changed since his examination, and
those adopted which produced bank
ruptcy? If there was no change OF
methods, and they have resulted Ill
insolvency, Mr.. KENYON can utilize his
energy to good advantage i'll explaining
why he reported them as safe and
conservative then. If Mr.. BURKE's
SANDERS, for which Mr.. KENYON re-
buked him in Sullivanes que manner,
were only reflections on the rapidity
with which the Guaranty Loan went to
smash so soon after MIR. kENYoN re-
ported it sound, solvent and well man-
aged, then the GLOBE has serious
doubts whether they were slanderous.
Anyway, it is willing to take the risk OF
saying that they were not.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-25
GIRLS ON A STRIKE,
But the Clifton Hotel People Ar
bitrated 1t.

There was Mary and Maggie and
MoIie and Flora, all talking about
something in an excited voice. Up
through the open court at the Clifton
hotel could be heard their voices and
the excited intonation of their words,
the violent gestures, together with the
unusual spectacle of seeing the four
chambermaids gathered together, made
the guests wonder what was the matter.
'We're on strike" said Maggie.
I'VE have all quit" said Mary.
II won't work If you girls won't
work." said Molie.
"Then won't either" said Flora.
The guests looked out of their win
doWs into the court and saw gathered
together four of the prettiest maids in
st. Paul. They poised their brushes
and broOmS i'll the air, waved theiI dust
pans and then started assisting eacn
other to make up the rooms.
1t was the result of the spring strike
fever. They had decided that certain
concessions must be made them or they
would not work for Mr.. Capehart auy
longer They thought it was shame
to be compelled to stay up from Z
O'Clock in the morning until IL O'Clock
III the evening, and they had expressed
this opinion with the result that they
had banded together for mutual protec-
ton.
A new rule was made yesterday that
one of the girls should remain in the
hotel from the early morning until with
III an hour of midnight, and it was this
announcement which precipitated the
trouble. They marched i'll a body down
the stairs, confronting Mr.. Capehart
with a vigor which almost caused his
glasses to drop off. and explained that
they had decided To leave.
He was seized with sudden cOnSter-
nation, and at the same time an inSpira-
ton struck him. He would be polite.
So he told the girls that he would allow
the housekeeper to arbitrate the matter,
and they returned to the upper regions.
When reporter for the GLOBE en-
deavored to get at the exact facts i'll the
case they told him that it was settled
some way or another. They hardly
knew how themselves. But they re-
turned to work with the intense salts
faction OF having been the cause of a
little furry i'll the maid market.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-25
HELD UP A TRAIN.
Six Masked Robbers Hold Up
Missouri Pacific Express
Train.
Over $4,000 in Money Secured by
the Men, Who Make Good
Their Escape.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 24.-The west
bound Missouri Pacific passenger train
was held up and robbed thirty miles
west of st. Louis tonight by six
men. Over $1,000 was secured,
the express and railway officials
say. The amount obtained was probably
in excess of their estimate. The train,
which left St Louis for Kansas City at
$40, reached Pacific Station, twenty
i've miles west, on time, and
without accident. Here, as it was
afterwards learned, man boarded the
train in front of the express car and
Immediately behind the tender of the
engine. A short distance the other
side Of Pacific-abOut mile-this
person climbed over the tender
and, holding revolver to the engineers
head said: 'Twill be id healthy
for you to stop her right now" The
engineer stopped the train. Five con-
federates OF the robber now ap-
peared, some getting off the train,
the others coming towards the
track out of the darkness from the adj.
joining fields. Without any preliminary
services the door of the express car was
blown open with dynamite. The men,
who were unmasked, entered the
car, and, going to the express
safe, secured about 81, 500 in cash aud
package valued at 5000 by the Pacific
Express company. The engineer was
then told to ''go ahead like HI and
make up his lost time" None of tho
passenger ears were entered. Gov,
Stone and State Treasurer Stephens
were aboard the train. and the former
~ nff -.
viction of each of the bandits. Posses
are securing the country for them, and
it is thought they will shortly be cap
tured,
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-25
MAD DOGS,

Tuesday two mad dogs ran amuck in
Chicago, and more than twenty people
were bitten. But this will be looked
upon as only an incident of life, and the
dog nuisance will continue. The snas-
modic dogregistering season in St. Paul
is near. A lew hundred dollars will he
collected, hundred or so homeless ours
drowned, and at the end of six weeks
several thousand CANNES which were
kept concealed from the tax collectors
and dog catchers will be turned loose to
range the city at will, Stealing from back
yards and kitchens and making general
nuisances of themselves.
The craze for dogs resembles insan-
ity. Almost tine average man who owns
worthless yellow cur will curse the
nelghbor who kicks it out of his house.
and fight to rescue it from the dog
catcher. 1t may bite children on the
street. and still he will protect it from
harm. If it chances to go mad and bite
several people, he will shed tears. not
for the unfortunate people, but for his
poor, dead doggie, and refer affection
ately to his cunning capers.
In about every city the increase of the
dog population is proportionately great
er than the human. The streets are
overrun with the beasts. not one-bun-
dredth part of which are of any prac-
tlcai account. There are not probably
200 men in ST. Paul who have any use
for dogs, yet there must he at least
10000 of them in the CITY. Some citiac
nave ordinances requiring that dogs at
large must be muzzled, but the provls-
ions are never enforced.
Cattle, horses, hogs and other useful
animals are not permitted to run at
large IN cities, and it is strange policy
which permits dogs, the most of which