The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-19
ticoat, she murmured, drearily What's
a body goin to dO!"

T SSNAg sum ~ eN-
/ The Princess of Wales. SAYS the New
/ York sun, Is back again in her English
/ home she never spent more enioya BILE
+ visit than this last to EredensbOrg. Much
of her time was spent in reading and
I water color painting, and in playing eight
handed duets with her sister, the En-
/ press of Russia. and her two daughters,
. the Princesses Victoria and Maude The
/ princess is never so happy as when quietly
occupied, and can turn her hand TO any
thing.
A friend visiting at a cottage on the
Sandringham estate last Christmas, there
/ found an old prOtege Of hers rejoicing in
the fact that the princess had just paid
her visit. The good dame was knitting
a stocking.
All" said the princess, ''yOu can't do
the heel as fast as / cam and taking the
stocking from the womans hands she
there ana then knitted her the nattiest
heel possible.
The stocking has since remained in
statU quo, and treasured in a drawer with
the needles just as the princess left them.
Besides her many other accomplish ments
! the Princess can cut out a gown to per-
lection, and can even give her Paris
dressmakers valuable hints.
There is one prejudice" says an
EnglishwOman now residing in this coun-
try, THAT have had TO overcome since
coming to America, which was my an
tipathy to sponge cake and lady fingers,
as so often served over here with ice
cream. My associations with them are of
the gloomiest sort. Lady fingers are
served in all parts of England, with light
refreshments, at funerals, and usually go
by the name of funeral biscuits
In the Yorkshire dales, if you are
asked to funeral, and are unable to at
tend, they usually send you, with a memo
rial card, piece of sponge cake with sew
eral lady fingers, folded in a sheet of
black bOrdered paper, and fastened with
big black seals. So American hOstesses,
when they know this, must not think it
bad taste on the part of their English
guests if they decline these cakes"
at is quite delightful" said one of the
have beenS' in a burst of confidence, to
a New York Tribune writer, Ito have all
ones friends talking poverty. Why, I
am just as much in the fashion this year
as l ever was in my palmiest days. Even
Mrs. Midas has dismissed one or two of
her foOtmen and sold pair of her horses,
and talks of hard times and retrench-
ments and there is hardly family that
one knows who will not feel the pinch
more or less. This is to be a cheap and
hungry winter every one says, and l must
admit that | am uncharitable enough to
be charmed with my friends misfor-
tunes, for it makes me feel really in the
swim again"
Several ladies who last summer organ
lied expensive entertainments and
classes for the coming winter find them
selves in an embarrassing situation, the
proposed contributors, owing to the strin-
gency of the times, backing out" and
asking to be released from their promi-
ses. 1t is a mOOted question as to who is
responsible in such case-the organizer
who, of course, engages the instructor, or
those who promise to belong to the class.
A case in point is that of a well-known
society woman who engaged a famous
foreign actor for series of recitations,
and who now finds herself without a sim
gle one of her promised contributors re-
naming on her list.
LAS for our Dances" says the society
girl, adding her comments on the situa-
ton, everything, they say, is to be given
for charity, and our conversations will be
like the one in 'Punch'-'Going to the
Throat and Ear ball, Miss Mp No;
we are engaged to the Incurable Idiots
Then perhaps NAV see you at the Epilep-
tic dance on Saturday. oh, yes, we are
sure to be there, the Epileptic managers
are so delightful
A writer IN the Decorator and Fur
full mother, whose large family of chill
dren made much laundrywork. For
breakfast and luncheon, instead of large
table cloths, she provided half-yard
squares made from a good quality of
butchers linen. These were hemmed,
and an initial worked in one corner
eight or ten squares for the use of each
child. These were laid diamond-wise
under each plate, and renewed as needed,
the laundress finding these small pieces
much easier to care for than the large
cloths.
The same writer offers the suggestion
that, if gOod-sized, milky-white glass
beads are sewed on table mats crocheted
in heavy cotton or made of corset cord,
their efficiency in protecting the table
from hot dishes is absolute. For general
use this is certainly good idea, though
these mats are not especially pretty for
company days.
eff it is true that mans inhumanity to
man makes countless thousands mourn -
said the wife of a New York business
man recently, to the New York Times,
Nt is equally true that kind act touches
a responsive chord in the human breast
and makes US all akin. And here is what
will prove it. My husband had just
reached his office one morning not very
long ago and had seated himself at his
desk to look over his mail. While open
ing a letter his eye fell upon paragraph
in the morning paper which lay open be-
fore him. 1t was to the effect that an
unknown man had been found dead in the
street, and on his arm, when the body
was examined, was found tattooed a
grave, with weeping willow dropping
over it. and an inscription: To my
mother The newspaper said nothing
could be learned of the mans identity,
and closed its account with the appeal:
Won't some good woman bury this man
for his mothers sakeH
Mr.. B. was touched, and, Selling his
pen, he wrote to the editor: Kindly
have this unknown dead man decently
buried and send the bill to me- (for his
mothers sake. lost my own mother in
infancy OF course, he had to give his
address, and i'll acknowledging the note
the editor printed this as well. We re-
regretted that this had been done, but il
brought to my husband many beautiful
and touching letters from all sorts and
conditions of men and women from all
parts of the country. Ministers, lawyers,
laborers, rich women, and poor working
women wrote thanking him for his kindly
deed and saying that it had frightened
their faith in human nature.
Why is il saws Clara Relle in tho I'm