The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-12

seated a horrible faintuess came over me
from the closeness of the room, the perfume
of the flowers. l felt that l must keep that
man talking to keep people from noticing
my silence and Illness and did. The next
day he told everybody was the brightest
woman he ever saw. That was my cue. |
have never forgotten 1t. l don't think, u she
added wisttully, that the machinery ever
shows. But l usually go home from a din
ner as weary as a ballet girl after the per-
Torrance. 1t is much easier to say the
bright thing than TO make some one else say
it, but a smart woman is the worst kind Of
mistake. If she isn't married, married
men all think that is the reason why-she is
too smart. II she has husband every one
feels sorry for him"
A cup of black coffee taken after a Span.
lsh omelette, potato salad, outlets a la
soubise, or any other dish prepared with
onion, or its cousin, garlic, will destroy the
abhorrent fumes that cling to the bronchial
tubes. A couple of winterRreen creams, or
Glove candles, eaten before leaving the table
will remove the taste of food from the
mouth and neutralize the smell of wine. A
few drops OF camphor and myrrh in a glass
OF water is excellent for a gargle and
tooth wash when there is the suspicion Of
tainted breath. A bad taste in the mouth
and white tongue will always warrant the
namon, ginger cloves ana Crris root sweeten
the mouth and will disguise unpleasant
odors for the time being. Spruce and mastic
gum are used for the same reason.
The San Francisco ArgonaUt says that
very few men are equal to the task of
knocking a woman downstairs. But there
is no doubt that the equality Of the sexes, )
which some women claim, is not favorable
ia
away from the proverb that power goes
with the beard. If q girl cannot submit,
let her stay single. Where husband and
wife differ in opinion one must yield, and
cases may occur in which the woman is
right and the man wrong. But unless the
latter is fool his superior age and expert
ence and his masculine mind are likely, in
an average Of cases, to lead him to sounder
conclusions than his wife can reach. In a
well-regulated household Darby is boss, and
Joan woul1 not have it otherwise"
To be leader Of the fashion, says the
New York Tribune, is no sinecure. There
is absolutely no rest for those who would be
In the advance guard of the modes; and
there is an unwrltten law that compels them
to move on" as relentless as II they we're
like poor "JUe" Of "Tom All-Alone's," In
stead Of the admired and courted beings
that they are. Their world is simply In
sasiable in its constant craving for "some-
thing new" A want which they must an
swer or lose their prestige. just as soon as
the crowd takes up q novelty it must be
abandoned by those who originated it, and
their inventive powers taxed to provide
another eXcitement for their spoiled and
clamorous followers 1t is much more salts
factory to follow than TO lead in most things,
on the whole. and fashionable life is no ex-
ceptlon to the rule.
1t is certainly not the fashion TO grow old
in these tn-de~siecle days, says the New
York Sun, and society is quite willing to
| ignore the disagreeable fact in any of its
votaries, If they, on their part show a fair
amount OF pluck and determination to keep
| young, to dress and act youthfully, and to
show keen zest in the pursuit Of the vari-
! Gus pleasures and exoitements which happen
to be upon the taps. A woman may be a
grandmother nowadays and dance the ger
man and wear youthful hats, and squeeze
her waist If she likes, and the world accepts
her as a perfectly natural development of
! society; whereas a genuine old-fashioned
old lady would be as much out Of place in a
modern ball room as her fashionable con-
temporary would be In the Jingle neuk. 4"
| In fact, it is considered quite bad form to
be old, and il the pace is too killing and
| ever and anon some one drops out of the
ranks, the gaps are quickly filed, and the
gay crowd never stops to count the m ssing.
"a woman may be any age she chooses to