The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04

those of Cleopatra s, or women with faces
that conceal secrets, like those belonging
to the sphinx. Isn't it a little queer that
while we hear of the sacred bird and the
sacred flower being worn on the heads of
the Egyptian women, we never have any
mention of hats? Did they 20 out in the
burning sun bareheaded, risking freckles
and sunstroke, or did they stay at home
all the time? And will you please to tell
me what earthly pleasure there was in
life for Cleopatra, unless she collected the
whole family about her, and then, with
great mystery and much slowness. open
the box that contained the delight of the
year-the Easter bonnet? AS things are
now, the bonnets are so tiny that Cleo
patra could have taken O. locust flower,
Topped a diamond necklace around it,
and tied it on her head with Tyrian pur-
pie strings. l always believe Eve had a
bonnet; I think she made one out of VI
Diets, and tied it on with ribbon grass
But to return to TyTian purple. which we
all have, how many people know that it
is the crimson that is being SO. much worn,
and which is so generally unbecomming?
But that is the real Tyrian purple AT
least as far as can be proven, and as
none of the people who wore it then are
living now, why should it be denied?
havn't yet recovered from having to
to meet woman the other evening That
sounds rather queer, but what I mean is
blltlb SllG AOl ecu lGISGll upon me. she WAS
so amiable! She couldn't let any woman
with whom she was acquainted pass with
in yard of her without stopping her to
tell her how well she looked how lovely
her bOnet was, and how delighted she WAS
to see her. Now, if there is a woman on
the face of the earth to be despised with
seVenteenth-century -Borgia hatred il
is the one known as affable. All the time
she is talking to you she is convincing
you that she is so nice and so amfab bic
land these virtues are in italics), that Won
wish there was can of dynamite in the
neighborhoOd that you might blow her
up. The affable woman is as many miles
distant from the agreeable woman as
are the people who go to seek the North
Pole from it. She impresses you so with
her falsity that you feel yourself freeZ-
ing slowly but surely, and you don't know
whether you are
A LAMP-POST OR A WOMAN.
The affable woman thinks she is agree
able. She is not The agreeab bic woman
is simply a. woman as nature has made
her, with the special virtue Of tact added.
The atfable woman is not natural nor
has she tact, but she wants to impress
you all the time with her affabilitv She
/ is the sort OF woman who drags other
people about introducing them to Deopla
they don't want to know. claiming MAJ
/ friends of hers must be friends You feel
IKE telling her you are not her friend.
you feel like reminding her Of the wrinkles
on her face, of the mistakes of her drese-
maker of all the horrible things that can
possibly be told OF a woman / once saw
an aHable woman shake hands over a
dead mans coffin, she was so glad IN
see another woman. That she is n bur.
den on the face Of the earth never dav,ns
upon this type OF woman and she goes
through life being offensive. pushing ana
inquisltive, and people endure her no.
cause they are to lazy to do anything
else. '' ''''''a
No end Of Objectionable people might bo
done away with If the agreeable half OF
the world would only exert itself once In
a while and put them down. but. because
they are agreeable they endure them and
everybody else has 10. II Is like the man
VINO was acquainted with your mother
when she was young girl. He doesn't
hesitate 70 tell family secrets before a
room tull OF people, asks you questions
ABOUT your private affairs. n YOU bnvo
mnde a good marriage, and what I'm Tho
World nave you had such "a large fauiIv
or chlldren Tor and thou 10 can tho oli-
max gives You mouthy sort of "a ktse
an win the same weak claim. what yot,
can understand DIS why in eHrly no
your mother didn't cent him. or why. 10 be
continued ihD Acquaintance. your fatbsr
aiah shoot him. Usually, though. he