The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12

| ceptation of the term, and whose family
not only have no aspirations, but seem
| aggraVatingly unconscious that they are
| IN what she thinks is second-rate set.
| Hopeless of carrying her people with
| her, she climbs rung after rung of the
| social ladder alone. She is a good com
| paniOn, sympathetic when it is worth her
while, very good friend to those whose
friendship she thinks it is to her ad-
vantage to cultivate or retain. She is an
amusing talker. Her hOstesses find
her useful at their dinner par
ties, and she has the facility which is so
desirable in making things "go off well. )"
She is pleasant to look at, but has not
enough beauty to cause rivalry. AS she
gains experience, she becomes more and
more useful to her married friends; she
is invaluable at house parties her re-
sources are infinite, she is always to the
lore at yachting parties, at the races. at
plcnlcs, at jolly festivities Of every de-
scriptlon. She floats everywhere on the
froth of society, and yet not one-Quarter
OF the people with whom she is intimate
know her family. She possesses an indi-
vlduality all her own; she is popular she
is interesting, and the world does notask
or care for more.
But ''Vanitas vanitatum," saith the
preacher this striving is not worth
the candle! And yet with many the de-
sire for social prominence is such an all
absorbing passion that it becomes to them
the chief aim and end of existence. and
they would sacrifice anything for that.
WhIch, after all, is but the shadow of a
substance.
There is no use in girls complaining
that men don't marry, says London
Answers. The complaint is threadbare:
1t was the pet grievance of the moth
ers and the grandmothers of the present
generation, yet comfortable proportion
OF the fair compliments became wives
when their turn came
Almost every girl can marry if she
chooses-only she must not reckon on
SUafGng IN life where her mother left off.
If the daughter of a rich man proposes
TO enjoy, as married woman, the com
forts and luxuries she had in her maiden
nome she must take a middle-aged man
Tor her spouse, one who has drunk the
cup OF romance to the dregs and for
whom life has no Illusions Shewill have
ner carriage and her servants and her
luAQfleS, out OF such husband she NAV
1alfIy expect, some day, to be the widow.
II she wants partner in life with a
heafJ as fresh as her own and capacitv
Tor approaching the sweetness of Youth
Iul IoVe, she must take a youth whose
buttons she will have to sew on, whose
dinner she will have to oversee. if not
COOK, and whose narrow income she will
nave to exc out so as to make both ends
meet. In such case she may possibly
never wear a widows weeds.
Which alternative offers the fairest
prospect of happiness girls must decide
for themselves.
quite sensation, says the Argonaut
mas recently been made in Boston by the
successful application of wool-fat to the
SKIN tor the removal of wrinkles. When
applied with rubbing, it passes directly |
through the skin, and acts as a nutrient tn
Ihe fatty tissues beneath. An ancient
Dame has succeeded in removing nearly |
an The crow's-feet from around her tenn |
pies, and the remedy is fast becoming |
very popular.
some drawing rooms seem to have been
arranged for the special purpose of max |
ing conversation in them an absolute i'm !
posslolAJy. The chairs are primlv ar |
ranged, the tables have a set; look the |
very cushions on the lounges sit bolt m
right Inc woman who ventures Inon n
remark on any subject but the weather in |
such ROOM feels that she has committed
d improperly. Tete-a-tetes are impossi-
PIE. Groups are impossible. Whatever
IS salu must be shouted aloud to the whole |
There are other rooms where nothing