The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-15

Dumas own life there has been much of
tragedy; women have brought TO him sor-
row rather than happiness, but that is not
the reason for his morbid temperament
Go back years ago. You see in Paris a
young man Of brilliant mind, of marvellous
industry. He has worked In the public Ii
braries to make his novels historically cor,
rect. No publisher will take them. He has
written long plays and short plays. No
manager " i'll produce them. He Is hungry
and cold. The future looks black and dss-
olate. He is friendless. AT last he SINKS
there is nothing Of worth except death.
he goes TO his miserable home, climbs
the dirty stairway and stands by his
attic door. He puts his hands in his pocket
TO find match. He has none. He gives a
little laugh, for that seems the last straw.
just then a womAn's voice calls from the
opposite side: What do you wautP A
light is the answer Il will bring it to
you And this woman OF the people car
ried the light to the writer. who at that
time believed that everything was black,
and that there was no hope for any one.
That was Alexandra Dumas, pere, and the
mother of Alexandra Dumas, fills. Do you
wonder that he is a pessimistF"
EVER FASCINATING CAMILLE"
There, T" said the blonde, after have
studied heredity for two weeks, you, with
out studying il at all, have got a better
story than any Of mine. But speaking Of
Dumas the younger, makes one think of
his plays. and forces one to feel heartily
Disguised with all the English speaking peo-
pie for understanding them so little. ga
mile" is usually played In English, as II
Camille" herself, had been next door to an
angel, and everybody goes away after see
ing her beautiful death-bed, hoping that
they may live just such lives and die just
such deaths. A woman absolutely told me
that she didn't consider that Bernhardt's
Camille" was as spirituelle as Modjeska'sl
And l am sure she thought | was crazy,
because | greeted this with q wild laugh.
When Dumas wrote Camille" he drew
the picture of woman perfectly
well-known in Paris-a woman named AL
phonsine Duplessis. A woman who was by
no means spirituelle, but who showed in
her character a certain cross that was inter-
esting. That is TO say, she was capable OF a
good, pure love for q short time, but the
physical side OF her was so strong that with
the kiss of an honest man, still wet on her
lips, she would seek for an impure love He
told this story TO point a moral, and that's
the way Sarah Bernhardt shows 1t. Ho
never intended that Camille" should be-
anything except just what she was"
Eyes, know" interrupted the brunette,
"a demi-mondaine."
There you are again, sighed the blonde,
twisting around words from their oriSi-
nal meanings" The demi -mondaine a.
Dumas meant her, for he, believe. created
the word, was not the woman like Camille"
She was in society, and yet her Carvings
on, so to say, were such that she was at any
minute likely to fall out OF il. She Bnew
people she had no business TO know, because
she was attracted to them by O lack Of
conventionslity. or some special talent they
possessed. She rlsked great deal that she
might be amused, but still abe had post
ton. And she only lost 1t when she did
something too outrageous, for even her
husband to approve OF.
PEACHES AND WOMEN.
The demi-mondaine is best described by
Dumas peach story. Monsieur goes into a
fruit shop where there are some beautiful
peaches. He asks the price. Each will
cost francs. They are too expensive. As
he starts to GO away the shopman calls him
back, aud points to some peaches, Just be-
side the others, and tells he can have them
at 6 sous apiece. But" said the buyer,
''why should these peaches be cheaper than
the others: there are just as large, the skin
is Just as velvety, and with the same pink
| flush upon it, and they have evidently come
| from the same tree" "Yes," said the shop
keeper, "all that you say is true. but way
down in the heart of this peach-the one at
6 eons-is a tiny speck that will gradually
grow and grow and grow until the whole
peach is spoiled" The demi-mondaine is
the peach at 6 sous-only the expert
| knows the ference between the fruit.
Dear, dear" said the brunette, "what q
delightfully."- sensible talk we have had"
Yes" answered the blonde. ''even to
| ones most intimate friend one likes to show
once and while that one isn't the fool one
looks"
And after that they talked about the best
way to subdue the rising generation.
is ADVICE REALLY DEsIREDl
Personally, thought that the switch
which was recommended for the rising gen.
Grafton, wouldn't be bad thing IL given In
! proper doses to that which, presumably
has already arisen; but didn't like to say
so. Advice OF this kind is never taken
| kindly. By-the-by, whoever does care for
advice? We ask for it, knowing just al
we possibly can, that we are going to please
| ourselves-we intend 10 as a sort of compli
ment TO the people TO whom we are talkii &
and yet in a way it's great impertinence,
Why should you or waste our gray matter
considering a situation giving advice to the
| people who are in 1t, realizing all the Time
that they don't want advice; that the just
want gossip over their affairs, aud hear
what you have TO say about lt2 1t is a bill
| impairment to conclude that everybody Il
| interested, and always think, the man OF
| woman who goes about seeking advice II
pulled up with vanity.
b, The only advice worth having we have &c
J pay for.
| pay the butcher to give bis advice about
a leg Of mutton.
pay the doctor to give his advice about
my digestion.
pay the jeweler to give me advice about
my watch.
pay the gas company to give me advice
about the meter.
pay a clergyman for his advice about
the right road to a pleasant climate.
pay my taxes to get advice about the
| weather.
In fact, take 1t for all 10 all, any advlc,
worth having IL worth paying for, and thai
which is given for nothing usually amounts
20 nothing. As those women said, every
body must have a fad. / think I'll start
school TO give advice TO men. not too young
on the desirability of understanding woman
and all the funny little ways she's rot.
should charge very high for my advice;
should insist on being paid in advance, anC
no man could be advised who hadn't his bill
receiptsd by BAR.
AZ n nUrtAn