The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-20
Bah ON A YACHT.
Om TirelGSS ChatteTeT is Out on the
Ocean Sailing.

Bab Make a Lively Water Party
and Discuss Life's Sunshine and
Shadow - Her Education Starts
While Weeping Over Her Broken
Doll.
Copyright 1881
IN hoard the yacht ''Love Letter" be-
vond Sandy Hook, Aug. 19-He called it
The II owe letter. because, while it was
freshly painted every season, it had the
came Old foundation. According to the
newspapers-I mean the advertisements
in them-I had what was called tina
,tired feeliug;'' according to one doctor,
If was nervous prostration, and according
10 another it had something to do with
the BRAIN but he declined to say exactly
what. But knew better than any of
them the medicine that needed--it was
a Whit of salt air and bit of life on the
ocean wave. There is nothing equal to it /;
to 90 sailing over the beautiful blue sea
with the heavens above you, and only
those bits of humanity near you whom
YOU like and understand. Talk about
steam Yachts! Well, l can only i'm
agine a man who has great deal of
money and no brains choosing one, for
there is nothing that compares with a
beautiful boat that sails like swan over
the water-like an idealized swan pos
sessing the mind of man.
MANY YACHT OILERS.
We were very comfortable, the five of
us The captain of the Glove Letter. a
charming bachelor with a heart big
enough to love all wOmankind, and whose
marriage would have meant great grief
to all except the one lucky woman; an in
teresting painter, who had seen life as it
is all over the world, who had painted in
Egypt and in Greenwich village, and
adored the beauties of Chile, of India, of
Paris and Of London, but who always
came back to an American woman; then
a man who is a bit cynical because ne
has seen so much of the shadow
and so little of the sunshine of
life, being d doctor; the other wo-
man, excepting Bah, who can't classify
herself, a deliciously healthy girl, who
sees nothing wrong in the world, because
her heart is as magnificently healthy as
her body. The Love Letter" is not a
jewel casket or a fashionable woman's
boudOir but it is an essentially comfort
able boat, and tonight we are stretched
out on the deck, the men in easy chairs,
the Handsome Girl on the lounge and l,
because by my semi-invalid condition, on a
huge pile of cushions. And we are Just
talking, The Captain says: Didn't we
have fun the night we stayed over in New
York, and went TO see "The Prodigal
Daughter And we all said ayes, +" in
chorus
Then the cynic thought out loud: az
do believe that in that melodrama there
appears every character that Jerome in
tIoduced into his 'Stageland'; there's the
heroine who weeps through all the
scenes, the comic lovers, the severe faith
er the villain, the honorable stable boy
whose conscience troubles him, the vii
lain's tool, who eventually turns Queens
Evidence and the last act of all, where
all the good people are married to all the
other good people, and everything is for
given and presumably forgotten"
Yes, answered the artist, "they are
all in it, but how we do love them! The
charm of a melodrama is that it is like
hte-the society drama is the drawing
room; the melodrama takes in all sorts
anu conditions of men; the melodrama is
an lmpressiOnist picture-the society play
Is a meissonier. The man who is edu-
Gated to art takes up the glass and looks
at the last, admiring every fine point it
possesses, but the great mass of human
lty hang around the other, do not need a
GUIDE book to tell them what it all
means and are awed to silence. The
pLayWrlghts are greatly given just now
10 putting too fine point on their pencil
IN white sheet of paper they can only
make light gray lines, and while gray
ana white are cool looking and attractive
TO Jhe educated eye, they are neither i'm
pressive nor truthful, for life is sketched
OUT IN mOrdant strokes, and if the gray
comes IN at all it is between the black
ana white, and the picture of life is never
gray and white"
CLEVER TAKERS ON DECK.
That's all very we'll" responded the
handsome Girl, "bUt return to the play
GselL Why did it make the tears run
u!o"n the checks of the Cynic2 Why did
~ make Bah sit quiet in the back of the
goA. And why did my heart beat so,
thought it would break my shirt front?
III tell you. Because it is the old, old
9f.?Iy Of love and forgiveness, of honesty
tiluupnlng over vice, and because it tells
.udl IN this cynical world of ours, it is
oll1e we remembered that love and good
te9S' gratitude and honor are not confined
70 inc drawing-room, but may be found in
for 'i'0S 81 : iO1'O 40OA0O
o Inen began the cynic: cit was the
SS-,oIlonal side that fetched you women.
Wv IT'S beautiful mounting, and the
eV'U ufeSSlng of the men appealed to meo
Gr les, answered the Handsome Girl
jtLey amounted to good deal; but say
o mo. we will, it's the heartbeat that
ne, us all, no matter how hard we
WIZ, lIy 10 prove we have no hearts,
~ On inns she gave a scOrnful look at the
my my VINO, taking his cigarette from his
i--el5Sn ~ threw it into the water, and said
No,5,. +Iu!Asly; There goes my cynicism.
Wv IL agree that we have hearts; but
mint "al'y somebody to tell me what she
"g yT by the heartbeat"
tba Odptam looked interested, and gave
-l!sO answer TITS the-well, you
fao y" IL the something that makes you
and yuaJ humanity has been touched,
fTs..t.N ay each time your heart throbs
No another one to answer it."
co., 1he reality, said the artist. ''You
w, ~ i III one picture and not in another;
h. nov mat one man painted because
closo III 10, and because the subject was
bar5 W MN while another did it for the
Nofa doIlars.n
,l -'- well, " said the Handsome Girl,
s' IA. leeL it; but / don't know how to
fara4a'' No. except to say it is like the diff
01-.r.- 15V"een staring at your face in a
braag lass. and seeing it in a clear
NAV t me glass, no matter how true it
brlo,C represents you as it prefers; the
show ives you natures pictures, and
made sou your face, as God Almighty
Fro-,,, auu as you have marked it."
ton 4 ny cushions came this explana-
Cause VA. ~ $ understanding suffering be
love- ou nave suffered it's appreciatinJQ
QuisfTal-a use you have loved it is the ex-
thar ~ mpathT between human beings
ma 9C,les from mutual understanding.
Men n.y. CSulc SAID mo, you are al wrong.