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

ment and sat down in their new house to
wait for the tapestries to come. The
house was finished and no tapestries were
there. They had been living in it for
months, and still no tapestries. Nearly
two years had elapsed since their visit to
London and the tapestries were not forth
coming. But they had faith in Morris.
and never said n word. At last the
precious things came, and were hung in
the panels for which they had been de-
signed, some panels in a circular hall lit
by a loaded glass dome. There they now
hang, and they are said to be so passing
fair that the WEAKNESS of waiting for
them has been swallowed up in aesthetic
joy,
Five o'clock teas are to be as popular as
ever this season, says Clara Bell in the
Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t is such a COM
Portable way of exchanging social cOurte-
sizes. You can drop into friends tea
now that / have said it, that has sort of
an ''in the soup" slangy suggestion-and
not be bothered to talk to her after all.
Now, at plain call, you would have to
talk to her some anyhow, and you can go
as soon as you like. Besides you have
chance to meet people and show your
gown, instead of wasting all your time on
Just your hostess The hostess can de-
pend on her tea and her cups and decora-
tiOus and things to do ner entertaining,
and people take care of themselves, which
is the one thing the true hostess of to-day
desires her friends to do. A pretty fad
is now added to the mere pour
ing. 1t is the proper thing to let some
grounds go into the cup, and some one in
the ROOM possibly the hostess herself if
she inst too tired, tells fortunes in the
leaves You don't need to know anything
about the art to do it, Just make up"
and it is an easy task to say mean things
about people, and so start conversation.
At one of these functions Van Doodle was
sitting without the ring of men who sur
rounded Miss Repartee. Said he:
"Reigning, as usual, l see, Miss Re
partee.'
''Oh, no, " she retorted, mot reigning,
but pouring. Have some tea2o
The great family life of America does
not represent Opulence, writes Edward
w. Box in the December Ladies Home
Journal If it stands for anything it
stands for comfort, but not for plenty.
We can all afford to recognize the Christ
like spirit of Christmas, which teaches us
to remember by some loving token those
nearest and dearest to US. But only the
few can afford to follow the present
method of extravagant and senseless Civ
ing. Generosity is a synonym the world
over for the American; but true gen
crosby is of the heart and of the heart
alone If one has been more fortunate
than the other in the requirement Of
means, and the will is present, then, |
say, by all means give largely and widely
But let such giving be meas
ured only by true feeling and
that spirit manifested as it can be, so
that others, less fortunate of means,
shall not feel that they are obliged to do
what really they cannot afford to do. 1t
will not harm US if, in this respect, we go
back little to the times that are past.
No one then heard all this talk about the
duty of giving at holiday time. People
gave because it was pleasure to give
they liked to give, and they gave what
they could. A Christmas present then
meant more than it does now, in that its
only association was the day and the spirit
of the giver Times were simpler, it is
true, and wants were fewer. But if we
have progressed, and presents are posi-
BILE to-day which were out of the reach of
our forefathsrs, the spirit can at least
remain the same, We need not depart
from principles as we grow.
Sir James Browne says the Baltimore
Herald, has been talking about the brains
OF men anu WOillGu again. IlG lakes SOulC
of the old ounce view of intellect, dear
to the conservative members of his sex
and he expresses the old gloomy, fore
holdings about the deterioration of
women's looks with the improvement of
their minds that have been shouted aloud
ever since women undertook TO learn
enough mathematics to keep their trades
mems bills in order. Here are few of
his statistical statements:
''All available evidence points to the
conclusion that the male brain exceeds
the female brain in weight in this coun-
try to an even greater degree than has
hitherto been believed, and l contend that
the smaller size of the female brain is a
sexual distinction, and is not to be ac-
counted for on the ground of environ
ment, education or habits of life. "
He then goes on to point out that the brain
of unfortunate woman is not only small
Ter than that Of fortunate man. but differ
ent in shape-thc difference being entirely
to the advantage of man, of course. Then
he shows that the wOman's brain has not
so many conVolutiOns in proportion to its
size, nor so much gray matter, and that
even in the matter of blood supply the
brain Of man is far superior to that of
woman.
And then Sir James Cricnton Browne
lamenting the tendency on the part of
modern woman TO oppose nature and his
theories, goes on to say what may happen
if she persists IN her unnatural course.
What woman gains intellectually by
the higher education now in vogue" says
he, ''she will lose in beauty and grace, and
often in health, too. 1t looks to me like
straining her faculties against nature"
And with that horrid threat of uglincss.
Sir John Crichton Browne leaves modern
woman to her fate
In the old time, says Notes and Queries
men and women who were mere acquaint-
ances exchanged kisses in public, and