The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-22
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A FEW THINGS OF INTEREST TO
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some New Gowns That Are Attract
ing Attention-GCss by Stories Thst
! Are Worth Moments Attention.
ether Matters Suitable for an Idle
| Moment.
| 1T seems to me-" said woman to the
New York Times lately, one whose sons and
| daughters are grown and out In the world,
that if had my children to bring up over
again l would give up everything and de-
vote myself to each till be was five years
old. What l did was to employ nurses
what travosty of the tenderly significant
wor1-from infancy to about that time,
when l looked after them myself. Oae of
my children-he is a married man now
cherishes still most unreasonable fear of
the dark, even Of passing an open door of
an unlighted apartment. because forsooth
! years ago in his babyhood nurse urged
him to sleep lest a wolf should come out Of
the dark and get him.
IA second son will carry to his grave a
nervous dread of laughing, born of prac-
tice by another nurse of showing her large,
white, glittering teeth in a mirthless grin
when, as an infant, he fretted. / caught
her at it one day and instantly sent her
away, but the mischief was done, and
have been helpless to combat it. And my
| nurses we're no worse than my neighbors'.
| "A child's caretaker should be child
| lover. and who loves a child like his mother I?
| | long TO say to every young mother l
| know, Stay it'll your babies if you posi-
bly, can until they are big enough to know
| what is going on about them; let maids
wait upon and assist you In supplying their
| needs, but let no nurse % have a chance to
| nn than nd lffa-laGkinrr ~
! The passive style Of girl, the very girl
about whom other girls can see no attrac-
ton, says Clara Belle in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, Is the kind that is the most dam
| gerous. She has a way of Just folding her
hands, standing still, aud looking at a fell
| low out of half closed eyes that makes him
feel awfully queer. Somehow she can do
more just standing still than the jumpy girl
can do getting all over the place. don't
mean she can do more, but she can make
| you do more. There is something about
her passiveness that is sort Of infiammatory,
as 1t were. A man gets q crazy desire to
see what she will be like when "roused, :"
and then. instead of "rousing" her, he gets
| ''roused" himself, and there is the devil to
pay, and it is the man that paws and not
the placid girl. She is as placid when you
quit as she was at first.
And you never are real sure whether she
| knows what you tried to do or not. 1t Is
this doubt that makes it so likely that you
take one or two moro plunges at the same
girl. That is why these placid girls are 80
dangerous and expensive. But it's never
| any good. She 10 ks at you with those
sleepy, quiet eyes, ana you are as for off as
ever. There is another kind of placid girl
| She is not likely to be such a dangerous one
as the Kind that looks at you. This other
one has way OF not seeming to know that
you are around at all. She will stand and
| look out of window and seem as absent
minded and oblivious of you as il You we're
| her maid, and no matter how hard you try
to get yourself attracted to the girl whu is
breaking her neck to fascinate you, that
| quiet figure over there Keeps a-drewing and
a-drawlng, and you might as we'll give up
first as last.
This sort Of girl is often not as placid as
she seems-at least, she keeps leading you
| on to think she isn't. She never says an =
thing but she has u way Of looking around
suddenly, and you feel as If she had been
| thlbking about you all the time you have
been thinking about her. And you get a
notion she is ever there trying to "inhu>
encs" you to come to her. Tea to one you
| 20, and there are several kinds of q big fool
that you are likely to make of yourself
| And the worst is she can always sort of all
| OF sudden seem to tecome aware Of you,
and actually put you in the position of hav-
ing done the whole fool business all by
| yourself. and without bit Of provocation
| from her.
The reason the average woman cannot
! see the attraction of this sort of women is
not because the average woman does not
| understand this kind of woman, but because
she doesn't understand men. And the
reason these women are 30 fascinating and
| dangerous and all that, is not because they
| do anything in particular-but just because
they don't-and somehow at the same time
ma SO you do all sorts Of fool things. Look
out for the placid girl, sonny!
The question of English vs. French in the
dinner menu will always be vexing one
says the New York Tribune. Sir Henry
Thompson condemns all attempt TO use En-
| glish in the makeup of bills of fare for the
reason that the introduction OF certain in
dispensable French words would result 10 q
| sort of "mongrel patols ;" but this reasoning
| is hardly logical. French Is the language OF
| cookery, as Italian ia that Of music, yet no
| one expects our concert programmes to be
translated bodily into Italian. Let us,
rather regard the indispensable foneign
words as children by adoption of our
| mother tongue, and treat them as il our
own. 1t would be boon to many people
whose knowledge of French is of "a limited
| kind to have the menu written chiefly in
English, especially when the writing is indis-
tinot aud when gilt lettering is used. The
| Individual who sees "rZ-de-veau" on his
menu card, and allows the dish 20 pass, not
| knowing that it is sweetbreads, feels dis
| gusted when>discovers that interesting fact
! too late. The only French words that must
absolutely remain in use on our bills Of fare
are those for which there is no English
| equivalent, such as ''entree," "puree,"
''chaud froid," and the like.
Nevertheless, it must be confessed that a
menu never sounds we'll in any language
but French, and when the Emperor of Ger
many, actuated by an over weening access
of patriotism, gave orders to tue effect that
all court menus should be written in Ger
man, be found to his cost that his plan did
not work very we'll. This idea of his sent
all aristocratic Europe into fi5s OF uncon-
troliable laughter, for the menu did look
very silly when translated into Teuton, and
the young monarch seeing the error OF bis
ways, repealed his edict, with the gratify-
ing result that the menus OF the Berlin
court have ceased to be Europe's laughing
stock.
A story, said never to have been printed,
says the New York Times, is of q certain
BROOKLYN woman who finds peculiar Gig.
nificance now in the words of the Psalmist:
pride goeth before destruction and naughty
spirit before a fall" Her husband is a man
Of prejudices, and one of them is against
,vaoripor mn OvarNOQf that nnats mora than