The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04

temporaries to make themselves agree
able to the eye, and consequently more
youthful, mothers are doubly such debt
ors They owe it to the next generation
as we'll"
Practically it is not hard for a woman
to be prettily and brightly dressed at
home, - said the woman, who seemed to
have considered the subject IF she
thinks it right to wear Grape and weeds
as sign and expression of her grief
| everywhere else, she ought to beautify her
person, and look bright and pleasing in
! the house, and especially in the nursery.
Pretty house dresses and tea gowns, are
| so inexpensive and so easy TO concOct that
no one can hardly be excused on that score.
1t has always been one of my cardinal
| doctrines that if a child has a right to
any one thing more than another, he has
a right to pleasant memories of his child
! hood He has right TO have pretty,
| gracious mother TO remember, and a
mOurnful black-draped one does not fit
that demand at all.
The mother makes the children's
weather. All the love and care she can
| give won't reconcile them to perpetual
thunder clouds and darkness, dashes of
rain from her eyes, and cold chills from
| her voice tones. Children admire and are
| proud of pretty mothers more than any
| one would believe. They like to see and
! touch bright, pleasant colors. They like
| to bear them. 1t is part of their educa-
! ton, and an easy and pleasant part, if we
would only think So No matter what
| violence Mrs. NJ does to her feelings
in the process, l think it is her duty to
wear blue gown and a smile for her
! baby to see, instead of black one and a
sigh"
Her companion laughed. "Mrs. NJ
would call you heretical, my dear. e"
perhaps she would. But no matter-I
am telling the truth"
There is a certain flower, SAYS the New
| York Tribune, with which no hostess
| likes to adorn her house, and vet, despite
| the utmost care, few bali rooms are with
| out it. The SelfShness and egotism of the
| young men of the day encourage it's
| growth and did not the blight of its own
mortified pride often withdraw it from
| public view the wall flower would flourish
| as never before. Perhaps this is not all
| due to the seltishness of the society youth
though much might be said as to the du-
ties guest owes to his hostess-duties of
which great many young men do not
! seem even dimly conscious. Unfortu-
| nately with US there has been
an abuse of the manly virtue of gallan-
try, which has resulted in bringing about
a serious lack of gallantry. Across the
| E'htNA a man ttSho q JOuilS WOlldil IOI u
dance, and when the dance is finished he
returns her to her chaperon: or, in case
he is an Englishman, he may desert her
in the middle of the ball room-an act
| hardly to be recommended. Here, when
when a dance is over, instead of leaving
his partner with a chaperon or some
young friend, the man is expected not to
abandon her until some successor comes
to take her place. In consequence, if the
girl is not popular, he may, to use col
lege boys expression, get stuck for half
an evening.
Thereafter he will be sure to leave this
| same young woman serenely alone; others
beholding his experience will follow his
example, and another wall flower buds
and blooms. It would be far better did
custom allow him 10 withdraw at the end
of the dance, it being understood that no
idea of intended discourtesy should be at
tached to fuch an act. This would do
much TO thin the ranks of wall-fowers
and if each masculine guest would con-
sent to sacrifice ono or two dances an
evening for the sake of his hostess or on
the altar Of kindness, TO the unpopular
girls these undesirable mural decorations
would cease to exist. OF course there
are young women who are so afraid of be-
: ing seen without a man that thew hold
| with desperation 10 any one who NAV fall
within their grasp; but there are para
sites among flowers, and they are not to