The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-07

well, 1 can't see below my belt in that
mirror you just give a glance and say,
20, bother" And when a woman says
20, bother!" that way she means it.
TRULY PASTORAL HERE.
Then we went to another place. We
went off to a farm house in the really,
rightly country where I helped to wipe
up the tea cups, the dogs chased the mice
In the barn, and the rest of the family
taught the girls the new stitch in needle
work, or cut patterns for their skirts for
their benefit. And vet, although we were
fed on the fat of the land, there was a
little pig killed for us-my heart yearned
for that place where ] didn't get much TO
eat because our landlady was too occupied
IN reading novels, but where | heard the
soft speech of the south, and where gossip
was counted vulgar and personalities de
cidedly bad form
say / did not get much to eat-I mean
in the house where paid my board My
relations and friends fed me as if they
thought had been starved the rest of my
life. like those queer old places, where
everybody knows everybody and doesn' t
say the hurtful word, but is considerate
of her neighbOr. Even the undertaken
had an interest in me- He was a gentle,
genial man, and once when he had to
come and fix my window shutter, for he
did other things besides undertake. he
wouldn't look at me as | lay in bed, for
he said there might be something sug
gestive in his attitude He little knew
how slight the impression was that he
made on me, in the funereal line, for
| belong to the funny people, and when
l am dead want to be put in a plain
pine box, have nobody look at me- be
taken on 10 my grave in a wagon, and have
only one or two of the men of my family
at the funeral. l wonder if you have
ever seen as | have, how the genteel poor
suffer in giving what they call a proper
funeral to their dead that is, in spend
ing money on expensive caskets, in hav
ing trlghtful looking hearse, and long
line of carriages to express their grief.
Why should you or /, my friend, have
strangers stare at US, and comment on us.
when we can no longer protest? Why
should any but loving hands touch us,
and why should the living be made to
suffer by giving to the dead the money
which they need2 | tell you it is all
wrong. But there this has got nothing
TO do with going away for the summer.
ALL READY FOR THE COUNTRY NOW
OF course, we are all going to the fair at
one time or another, but in the meantime
there are other months to be filled up.
There are so many that have to be con
sidered in my establishment. When we
start out we are a procession. There are
all the books that | want to read; there
IS all the fancy needle work that some
body that is more industrious than | an
Is going to do; there are the dogs bowling
with delight, because they are going to
ride in the baggage car, and will be made
much of, and because when they get TO
the place they are going to every darby
IN town will make life Joy to them.
Then there is the canary bird who is sing
ing as chirpy as possible, because he
knows he is going where the sun shines
all day long, where the mocking bird
sings, and where he can smell the mag
nOlias as they bloom. Then there are sew
eral adiuncts, twO-legged ones, who look
after the rest of us, and who are either
going to do great things in the way of
rowing, or sketching, or writing plays.
HOW TO HAVE GOOD TINE.
But we will have a good time, you can
be sure of that. 1t is just possible we
may not get enough to eat in the boarding
house, but our friends will look after us
and we will get little here and there
from the outside world Do you know
why we are going to have good time?
Because we are going to start out with
that determination, and | tell YOU il is
that that makes all the good times in the
world.
You can't have good time if you make
up your mind not to.
You can't have good time if you find
everything a trouble.
You can't have good time unless you
are going to find everybody pleasant
You can't have good time unless frocks
are to be secondary, or fourthly or some
thing of that sort
You can't have good time unless you
are going to wake up with a smile in the
morning and wear that smile all day
long.
You can't have good time unless you
are going to look out for good things
You can't have good time unless YOU
are going to find the funny bone of human
lty and treat it gently.
You can't have good time at all, any
where, with anybody, or under any cir
cumstances, unless you have got a little
book, on the most important page of
which is written, Make the best of
everything" That is the secret of hay
ing good time. have tried it, and it is
a success-it is-on the honor of BAB.
THE WOMAN OF FASHION.