The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30

times the simplest story will bring up the
most curious questions, and bring forth
the greatest amount OF knowledge. 1
heard a southern story read the other
day, and the people who had been listening
70 il began 10 talk about the curious Gus
toms of the negroes, Of the voodOo charms
of be bought NJ the French
market in New Orleans then they drifted
around TO the magic Of India, ana a man
who had been there went and got ms
curios for US all to look at; suddenly the
dinner-bell rang, and it was discovered
that that story had kept an entire party
of twenty out of mischief, away from
gossip, made them travel pretty much
over the world, and had used up
very successfully summer morning that
that began at half-past eight and ended at
quarter of two. You see girls and BOYS
only want to be given the cue in the
right direction and they will do what is
right, but starting wrong, starting out
with the idea that they don't care for
anybody, than what they do is right ana
IL is nobodys business, simply results in
heartaches, in bitterness, and too often
In very deep sorrow.
The gowns and costumes of royalty are
always interesting, says the New York
dress made for the Princess of Wales.
The material was white faille finely
striped with black, and on the skirt were
three fiounces of Chantilly lace shirred
over flounces of white chiffon. The waist,
cut low, had full elbow sleeves of silk
finished with 'sabotn ruffles of lace over
chiffon, and u Marie Antoinette t1chu OF
diaphanous material gracefully draped
back and front, and held in at the waist
hHr0 Of vi
ened at the side with a large rosette.
A garden party dress for the Queen of
Denmark was of buttercup silk en- crepon
scattered with satin dots, The skirt was
tight fitting to below the hips, whence a
deep fiOunce of crepon, headed By mar
row bouillonne of material to match, falls
to the feet, and is finished by narrow
tounce of Bruges lace. The waist is
simply shirred back and front, tied with
yellow satin ribbon at the waist and neck,
and adorned with belero jacket of lace
We have all read in our nursery clas-
sizes, says the New York Tribune, of the
grapes which Zeuxis painted so cleverly
that the birds came and pecked at them. A
funny paraphrase of the old tale occurred
at one of the well-known Long island wa
tering-places the other day The artist
in this case was Nine. --, of Paris, and
the masterpiece was "a perfect love" of
hat--a great shady leghorn most artist
ically twisted into a picturesque shape
and decorated with perfect summer bios
SONS They were so perfect that it was
no wonder that patient DObbin, Farmer
Hayseed's old horse, stretched out his
nose longingly toward the lovely clovers,
daisies and grasses that bobbed so tempt
ingly on the head of a pretty girl
just beyond his reach, where he stood
before the postoiice waiting for his
master Just at that moment a tall
youth with a tennis racket engaged the
attention of the pretty girl, and-O, JOY
the tempting bit of meadow
land came nearer and nearer
to the wistful, outstretched nostrils
of the longing brute, until with one final
reach of his long neck, he attained the
coveted morsel. Before the somewhat
absorbed young people realized the situa-
tion he had wrenched off the entire garni-
ture Of the beautiful French hat, and
amid the laughter of the spectators
backed out of reach to enjoy his feast,
leaving the poor girl with completely
denuded, misunderstanding pinned-up af-
fair, its erstwhile ''cachet" lost forever
1t is amusing, says the New York Tri-
bune, to see how thoroughly a French
woman is a natural matchmaker and
how she supposes that the search for a
''bon partin must be ever uppermost in
the mind of properly regulated young
woman. AT dinner IN Paris, given by
hostess noted for tact and elaborate en-
tertainments, the pretty woman, convoy
ing tall awkward youth, tiuttered up to
an American girl, saying, "Allow me to
present Monsieur N, Miss X, he is to
have the pleasure of taking you out to
dinner'--adding in quick little 'aside"
behind her fan, "He is worth TO- 600, 900
francs, my dear" At the table Miss K.
discovered her escort TO be decidedly I'M
interesting, while her other neighbor,
Monsieur IT, proved to be most amusing,
though a Iniddle-aged, plain little man.
To him she devoted herself throughout
the dinner, continuing the conversation
afterward in the drawing-room, where
the neglected Croesus promptly deserted
her
A short time after, when making her
dinner call, the American girl remarked
to her hostess that she had found Mon
sieur 7. such a clever man.
"Oh, yes, quite u clever little man; buS
what did you think of Monsieur M" in
quired madame.
He was rather young and there didn't
seem to be anything particularly interest
ing about him." replied Miss x, hoping
to excuse her evident neglect Of her es-
cort at the dinner.
'Ah," exclaimed her hostess, 81 felt
sure when I saw how little he interested
you that you did not hear me tell you
that he was worth 100000 francs"
The solution of this problem of excess
sive housekeeping is perfectly obvious,
writes Edward w. Box in thoughtful
article discussing the problem of mod
ern Housekeeping" and its effect upon
our women. in the August Ladies' Home
Journal. What we want in our homes is
q much simpler style of housekeeping,
and we shall have it when we learn the
great lesson-which is the only remedy
for this matter-to live more for comfort
than for ostentation to live less for
show and more for substance. There is
where the evil lies. We live too much
for others; too much for the world We
fix up our homes altogether too much
with the idea of either what the
outside world will say of them to Guido our
neighbors. When we reach that point
where we shall dismiss little of that os-
tentation that is now so prevalent In
many of our homes, we shall not only
reach a happier state for ourselves, but
we will remove One-half of the nervous
ailments from which our women are now
suffering 1t is all well enough to have q
pretty home, with rooms filled with dainty
bric-a-brac, mirrors cushions and orna-
ments of every sort. But some one must
take care of these things, and generally it is
mot the halp wa NAV bnD1OV So IN a c