The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-15


prairie lands that yield US such good
crops. 1t would be too long a story to tell
of our various turns of good and bad for
tune of my dreadful loneliness and fears
at first when Harry was away at work;
and all the other hard trials of a settlers
wife. But little by little, with the help
of a good providence, we conquered for
tune, and we are still young enough to en-
JOY life with our children, while we bless
the day when we made up our minds to
marry on nothing"
kissing is doomed.
The best women of New York and
Brooklyn, says the New York World, are
making firm stand against it.
If they persevere, as they have determ-
ined to do, the practice will fall into in
nocuous desuetude during this administra-
tion.
Kissing began to go out of fashion
when physical culture came in. 1t was
the athletic girls who helped to bring
about the change in salutation. DR.. Sar-
gent, DR.. Savage and other eminent but
less prominent professors of physical de-
velopment have ANONYMOUSLY done more
to solve the woman question than any
other profession.
The well-bred American girl is essen
TALLY wholesome. To be anything else is
not good form. The belle of 1880 was not
bothered by the appearance of a pimple
on her face; she covered the blemish with
a fantastic patch of court plaster and
went to the ball in glory. There is a diff
ferent standard now, and it is based on
physical perfection. The society girl of
to-day is only seen at her best. A cold
sore on her upper lip is enough to put her
in retirement for week on a surgical
diet. Kissing, not being wholesome, is
not good from, and that is why the fash
ionables have determined not to kiss.
The last important case of kissing that
society can remember occurred at the
Marlborough Hamersley wedding. 1t
was civil service for obvious reasons.
Mayor Hewitt oficiated. He was per
sonal friend of the late duke and an ar
dent admirer and intimate friend of the
beautiful Mrs. Hamersley. 1t was the
brldegrOOm's intention to present him
with a purse for the purchase of a SOuve-
mir, but his honor wouldn't have it. His
fee was kiss from the bride, and she
paid it. In describing it afterward the
Duchess of Marlborough said that she Of
fered her cheek, but he chose her lips
and everybody accused his honor of having
taken a mean advantage of his position.
Have you ever been hypnotized in a
dry-goods storel' asked a clever dame of
piazza coterie. Il mean have you ever
been waited on by clerks who absolutely
force you TO buy what you do not want.
Let me tell you what happened to me the
other morning, says the New York Times.
Il went into the city to buy a new
gown, and in certain store one of these
horrible hypnotic clerks fixed me with
his glittering eye and positively controlled
my purchase. He mesmeriLed me into
letting him cut off gown-pattern that l
did not want. 1t did not suit me in color,
design, or texture, yet there stood, spell
bound, and allowed the scissors to seal
my doom. A cash boy was then called TO
carry the purchase TO the lining counter.
On the way over there l emerged from
my hypnoJized condition. and mad my re-
venge. What do you think l did? l
turned a corner, scurried through crowds
of other victims, got out It side door,
and went about my business. No one in
the store knew me, and have felt better
ever since. If the hypnotic clerk had
trouble with the proprietor about that
gown, so much the better. II will teach
him not to exercise his mesmeric powers
over helpless women.
The new training school for domestic
nurses recently started in England.
says the New York Times, is a step in
the right direction, and one which can be
advantageously followed in many parts
and places. No mother would THINK or
letting her young daughter of IA or Is
look after the baby of the family. yet she
often intrusts ii to young girl OF no
greater age, and, presumably, far less
Judgment When a tightly, careless, I'M
trained girl from the tenement house be-
gins to think she would like TO earn some
thing she confidently advertises for a
place to care for young infant,'' and,
sad to relate, she quickly gets it. Her
qualifications for such a post are, as a
rule, only one-the wish to have it, and
the injuries, often only minor ones, per-
haps, that she iunlcts on her young
charge through ignorance and incapacity
are nnumerable.
A housekeeper takes pains to train her
cook and her waitress, but she "gets
along" for the most part, with the nurse,
trusting to her own watchfulness TO be
on hand in moments Of emergency Yet
IL is being demonstrated that of all per-
sons admitted to the household the nurse
should be most vigorously inspected.
Cleanliness of person, freedom from
chronic ailments like strabismus or any
species of eye trouble, or skin affections
or nervous habits. quickly copied by
growing child, neatness in the care OF her
charae-these are only the A G Of the
nurses requirements, but they are often
wholly overlooked. Physicians 90 as far
now as 70 claim that very plain person