The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-08

VI ner guests arrival, and, as the train was
little late, she hurried her off TO her ova
room at once TO fuss up" while they Wis
! tied
Dicks brother takes you," began Dicks
wife. He is awfully nice and / do hope
you will like each her. I'll tell you every
thing he likes and doesn't like. You're JUST
bis style In appearance-dark and petite
and your voice will captivate him, for ne
/ adores music; but. Nell. seriously, there is
one thing you mustn't do while you're here,
and that is, eat onions in any FORM
AT this Nell groaued and sank back with
an exclamation Of horror. I've done that
very thing tonight she cried theatrically:
Il dined on the train, you know, and the
soup had onions i'll it; l ate some potato
salad Favored with onion, and, worse than
all, there were some delicious mixed pickles
as relish, which ate much of by picking
out the tender, crisp little onions!n
| Then both women looked very lemn.
It's dreadful, Nell" finally SAID Mrs
Dick. Arthur is a perfect crank
on the subject; says he thinks
nobody should go abroad at all who
VIII eat onions at the risk of making him
self disagreeable to all with whom he comes
ten your
But Miss Nell has risen to the emergency.
Don't worry" she said, confidently; 81 see
a way out Let me have bit of parsley to
CubW ana III manage the rest.
A little later the four were seated In the
theater, Arthur and Nell on the best Of
terms. and nobody but Dicks wife noticing
how constantly Nell kept her handkerchief
over her mouth. Presently the young
diplomat leaned forward. asking her hostess
II she mad vinaigrette with her. NO"
vas the reply, and then everybody asked if
she felt faint
Pm not i'll, :" said Nell, iemurely. but
| haf 70 aDaak IF hOj " ma bo.
been eating onions. and their flavor is
| peculiarly disagreeable to me-"
Arthur swallowed the bait way up to the
| noat Let me change places with you,
b" he said earnestly. 81 haven't noticed
onions in my vicinity, and / shan't mind it
as you do, though understand and symp4-
thize with your dislike. Iii atroclous that
people have SO little regard for the actual
rights OF other people. There should be all
| ordinance preventing onion eaters from
| coming to public places
Nell prettiy deprecated, but finally re-
luctantly changed places, and, having thus
completely and literally thrown him
increase the favorable impression
she had evidently made.
| 20, you clever girl" said Mrs. Dick
when at the end of the evening she went in
| to say goodnight "Arthur is completely
hood 1inked; he told Dick downstairs Just
now that you we're delightful, and he liked
| you better than ever when he found you
were with him on the onion question" and
Nell smiled wickedy, but said her prayers
and slept the sleep Of the just without a
tinge of reuorse.
A curiosity which a woman brought
back with her from an African trip is q
piece Of gum copal in which tiny lizard is
imbedded. A drop of water In its stomach
is clearly seen through the transparent
caSket of the dead reptile, and moves as the
curio is handled. "It was given to me by
an Arab" tells the woman. "beacuse l
noticed and was attracted by its unique
| interest. The next day | received it, and
my husband told me l must be extremely
careful how looked at or admired any
thing when l was accepting Arabian hos =
pitality. The cure of envy by bestowing
the thing envied is a part of their creed
which they carry to the last degree"
With every season, ys the New York
| Tribune comes the ever recurring question
as to providing ball room partners for girls
| without all the fuss and anxiety which seem
| TO be the usual concomitants OF the winter g
round of gayeties for nearly every mother
| and daughter in the social swim. "You do
not know what it is ~ said the mother of a
| very attractive girl to one of her friends
who walked gayly and comfortably into
Sherry's ballroom accompanied only by her
big, handsome son, and whose daughter
lay wrapped asleep in her nursery at
home, quite unconscious of her woes to
come. Your time has not come vet,
but there is more anxiety than pleas
ure in taking girl out under the existing
| conditions OF society. Unless she happens
to be provided beforehand with partner
for the cotillon and supper, she is simply
frightened TO death. " hat should be de-
liEhtful anticipation becomes veritable
trial and dread, and on arriving at the ball
her one thought is 70 secure an invitation
for the german; all ether sensations are
merged III this all-absorbing anxiety. If
she by any chance happens to be left out.
she and every other unhappy damsel
in like predicament fly eff to the dressing
room for all the world like @ covey OF
frightened partridges, as some man
SAID in describing the situatioD and
there they wait until their car
riages come to fetch them home. OF
course, you will say this is all ridiculous,
and so 1t is, but what is girl to dos Gus
tom has decreed that she must have part
uers or be out of IT. that she must wait for
the man to ask her and that she cannot
have a good time with her own self at an
evening entertainment. 1t is all wrong, of
course, and the worst OF it all is that it
makes he boys and men SO ridiculously
concerted and seft-importaDt. They do not
at all realize, poor things, that it gives
them no individual importance whatever.
and that in ball room, under the present
regime, one man is just as good as another"
Since it is now fashionable to fssten the
back of evening dresses with a diamond
4 brooch says the New York Tribune. let a
word of warning be given that will not be
out of place! The best pin in the world is
not proof against the rubhlngs of ones
cloak the back of a theater seat or the en-
tanglements of lace. Therefore, all brooches
worn out of sight of their owner should be
stitched to the dress for the time being.
There s, of course, n particular knack
needed in stitching on jewels; it Is one that
every good maid should comprehend. Clasps
on the back Of The bodice ara so pretty and
quaint that to allow one to wear them with
safety pains may justly be taken.
It Is time to give up talking about the bad
physical development of the girls OF the
-Four Hundred, says Clara Belle in the
Times Democrat. Any one who attended
the big pageant dance that was such very
carefully guarded social affair last week
must have noted that the girls Of the blues
of our Four Hundreds blue blood were the
girls with delicate feet, well poised figures
and good backs. These girls have an air
and manner, too They may not be pretty,
but if they are not they have Il
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