The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-15
CAhRIE CA ELESS
Becomes Puzzled on the Threshold OF
the Now Year.

Becomes Eu22led on the IpreGnoIo OF
the Now Year.
Copyright. 1893,
New YoRx, Jan. I4.-WelI, the old year
was game to the last He was rather dis
sipated, battered and shattered old boy to-
ward the end, to be sure but he died game,
none the less. Like mallard duck and the
mariners albatross. his death wrought Bit
ter deeds and his memory Is evil. But
was glad he didn't slink eway-a despised
old dotard-without revenging himself. as
be has done, for my unholy treatment OF
him, ''off and on"
Not that l care especially how treated
him, gave him as much as took. am
sure. But il pleases me to be picked up
and shaker after having made fool OF
man. 1t prevents me from becoming AFRO
gaut, and 1t makes me like the man.
That IL why I'm sorry 1892 is dead.
owe him one, and 1898, through the cloud
of gloom around me now, doesn't appear TO
be promising much.
But IL l don't uur1vel my thread, this
will have to be. az our beloved compatriot
Klpling would say, another story.
The holidays were soul-satisfying. There
never were such holidays in New York be-
fore-at least, III Upper Bohemia, where
live.
We went to the towns along the Hudson
and danced at the inns all night; we went
in swarms to country houses and ate En~
glish dinners in English fashion; we gave a
Twelfth Night" party and Toasted like
FalstaH and his friends on Gadsbill.
THE young man who gave the theater
party aud the "Ag You Like IT. dinner OF
boars' heads and flaming ale TO Winnie
| Davis, at Sherry's, borrowed the idea from
u.s. He might have said, "By your leave, a"
"A str E,o~ -ts.lN
| ideas 20 brilliant execution, and we made
the welkin ring. THE king is dying
Long live the kingw
And after final supper Saturday night
we went to see HIM die TO the chimes OF
| Trinity. We went In cabs-two in cab.
The boys wouldn't hear of any other
arrangements, but believe there was
abe came, but in a cab with Ned bearing.
Well, Ned needs chaperoning as badly az
the others OF US.
How the cops stared at the long, dismal
line OF carriages creeping along Broadway
at funeral pAc4! The COPS stared, the cab
bies smiled lueve you noticed that cabb!es
look almost 6miable when q man aud
woman are fsideD and the brszen
trumpets ceased from troubling as we
wound by and stopped ar the
sub-treasurY. But We couldn't hear the
chimes for the other racket, and we were
nearly amothered in the crowd. So we
reached home the morning OF the first day,
tattered and torn after a week ct the wake
of 1892 Sunday afternoon Some Of the
crowd dropped In upon me, worn out, hol-
low eyed, lugubrious. They were in all
stages OF impaired digestion, when man
feels that he must oonteas his stuE or die
I hey were all con cience laden. and moral
derelicts tempted from vhe course by that
sly old year.
/ sat by the Ere in the half-light trying to
believe in the goodness Of my fellow Beings.
1t was not easy, for plum pudding and
chianti bad powerful negative arguments
to offer. Ny faith in myself was struggling
with me, too, as / fancied a number OF
little meannesses should enjoy committing.
pride myself upon being able to shock
society in a large, generous ADD forRiving
spirit. don't mind what people say about
my doings. and when am snubbed by carp
ing critics smile ia sweet silence.
And yet 10 would do my heart good to cut
the school girl sup from Nine. Reeds,
who said the other day: There goes that
Miss Careless. She seems to me the repre-
sentative OF q certain class OF so-called
society in New York which is deplorabiy
on the increase. We must draw the line
against the conditions which make such as
she possibility"
o, TO cut her dead as she deserves to give
her a glance that would shrlvel her in her
boots! to throw her into an uncomfortable
position after she comes into that great and
original society OF hersl
People do occasionally ind such positions
there believe.
Thus pondered, weak and weary, when
my old tutor. who coached me in German
years ago, came to the fire. He had not
been in our Christmas or, tchets--not he.
He was mild ard modest and his imagina-
tton was as lead within him. He was also
famous, for be knew q beetle through aud
through.
He had been on terms Of familiarity with
nobody else, though, and so wos amazed
at the desperate tale Of daring which no
told me.
One evening, after particularly trying
day, when the bestle lad fiuped his wings,
tue tutor was towed u the thester by a
musical friend. The latter was a gay, gay
boy, who knew q soubrstte IN tho piece.
After the curtain fell the gay boy led my
lamb behind the scenes And there, lean
ing against the fly, stood o vision ia pink
tights and nebulous gave, whose tiny fees
have chased the beetle from my friends
dusty heart. He says It is beyond con-
ception, this state OF being.
~ can bear it no LONGER. Miss Carrie !"
be cried. ''Whsn shut my ewes leo me
strangely feverish, and | see myself bowling
20 her knee ing before her. throwing nv
arms about hor and teling her cannot live
without her longer. I atm quite mad. l
shall become !ndiscreet. | fsat. Ibave gone
60 pieces, but shall pursue her"
Would that 1t were scientific trsmor
which causes my sober tutors cyash CT
worlds
hAi no time 10 brood upon this al aaie.-
ing event before Kit threw herself beside
tue on the rug.
katherine, this everlasting grind cannot
last through 1923 I've tried to make both
o dis meet long enough. Even 10 summer
have 70 scramble 70 get enough together 70