The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-24

sweeps to the right or to the left. the
position of her hands remain unchanged.
And her body is controlled and her mus
cles strained, in the performance of an
operation that would exercise these or
gans tremendously, if the hands were so
trained that they could be used at will
ana were changed as demanded by the
changes In the position of the sweeper
refer TO women sweeping merely TO in
luStrate my point The same can be sail
concerning the training of the hands id
numerous other branches of women's
work that it is unnecessary to mention /;
and, so far as the use of the left hand is
concerned, men are in no better Condition
than women. Men and women are in this
respect MANNED and handicapped alike
Why should such state of things eXist2
Why, III this age of manual training
should we overlook and neglect the edu-
cation OF the. left hand, and continue to
train the right hand at the expense of the
left. No physician or physiOlOgist has
ever given a sensible reason for so doing
and we seem to adhere to the custom
merely because it has been carried down
to US by our ancestors.
Fashion has decreed it, and so crawling
over the laces towards milady's throat is
diminutive snake. The snake is a costly
leweled affair. The foundation of its
bOhS 10 BOlu wire, uldue WIN q spring, so
that the slightest movement causes it to
move The body is studded with emer-
aids and fire opals, and the head is of dia-
mondS, with opal eyes. Snakes are also
in great popularity as clasps on the rib
bons from which the fashionable muff is
swinging.
Miss Matt Grim, the well-known young
Georgian writer, has many a smile over
the reference Of raviaxvpy,c 70 ttNf,. C,.;p,
She is girlish-looking blonde, with
simple and unafecting manners, and
modest opinion of her abilities She
makes II rule to write every day and, as
Mr.. Stedman says that she has genius,
she may be expected TO succeed.
The expressive phrase "the bitter end, !"
like many another equally as emphatic.
has nautical origin as follows: To pre-
vent ship dragging its anchors or part
ing its cables during a big blow, the ex
perienced seaman will ease the strain
little by little as the force of the elements
may render necessary. If this is CON
tlnued long enough he will come to the
end of the cable, which is fastened to a
secure bit" or stanchion, abaft the wind
lass, which prevents the cables from run
ming out all the way. He is now holding
on TO the 'bitter end !" Now, if the cables
Will not stand the strain they will part
and disaster will follow. 1t is easy to see
how the phrase should come to
have metaphorical meaning. We often
promise ourselves that we will fight TO
the bitter end" by which we mean that
we will pay OUT or exhaust all re-
sources, and then hold on with what hope
we may, depending upon the strength of
our cause. .-
''Many persons afflicted with peculiar
arrangement of the digestive organs are
seized with an almost uncomfortable ir-
rltability as soon as they sit down to eat
more particularly at the breakfast Ia
BILE" remarked an experienced Pniladel-
phia physician. This is caused by a
premature secretion of the gastric Juice,
due to a too vivid anticipation of food
To avoid possible insanity, such persons
require careful medical treatment.
once attended a young lady, profess
sionally, whose rather stern father
was so often obliged to send
her away from the table for unreasonable
bursts of temper that he grew suspicious
of her sanity and caused her to be
watched. 1t appeared that as soon as she
reached her room she seized a pair of
scissors, opened a. trunk, and, drawing
forth roll of ribbon, proceeded to snip it
into small bits. The trunk was nearly
full of sath snfppings aandsir was refnem-
bered that she was continually purchas-
ing ribbon. ! cured her of such manifes-
tations of wrath by treating her for
dyspepsia"